Led by Cineworks 2011 LAIR (Local Artist in Residence), this workshop explores 16 mm and S8 materials and apparatus repurposing, as it relates specifically to gallery or expanded cinema methodologies - how projection devices and emulsion permit an expansion of potential and re-purposing of function.  This could include overriding motor systems, using dimmers to  reduce bulb and motor speeds, multiple projection and ganging of motor systems, realignment of framing devices, etc. This is approached with a derelict projector or two in hand which are picked apart as a group in order to understand the mechanisms involved and their potential alterations. 

WORKSHOP NAME: EXPANDED CINEMA

DATE AND TIME: Saturday, May 21, 10 am -4 pm

PLACE: Cineworks Annex, 235 Alexander St. 

COST:  $100 for Members before May 7

$120 for Members after May 7

$160 Non-Members

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 19, 2011

Instructor: Alex MacKenzie is an experimental film artist working primarily with analogue equipment and hand-processed imagery. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance.  His work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the EXiS Experimental Film Festival in Seoul, Lightcone in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin and others.  MacKenzie was the founder and curator of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, the Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival. http://www.alexmackenzie.ca