Cherry Kino is the forum for wondermental cinema at the festival – films that fill you with, and make you, wonder. The first weekend focuses on contemporary Australian film as Cherry Kino and East Street Arts partner up to welcome Brisbanite Sally Golding to perform three expanded cinema pieces and to hold a photo-sonic 16mm workshop, and we welcome Nanolab’s Richard Tuohy who will present his films and run a 16mm workshop on selectively applying film processing chemistry by hand along with Nanolab partner and filmmaker Diana Barrie at the Cherry Kino Lab at Patrick Studios, East Street Arts. This focus on hands-on filmmaking practises continues into the second weekend with two Super8 workshops on how to make crazy coloured film, and processing black and white film in an environmentally responsible and quirky way, using coffee (!) and Pip Chodorov’s excellent documentary Free Radicals provides a brilliantly accessible introduction to the history of experimental cinema. The final weekend will take place in a temporary Microcinema space by the waterfront in Granary Wharf, thanks to the generosity of ISIS. This year’s programme is packed with an array of exciting new wondermental cinema including a conceptual programme of Destructural Video, selections of work inspired by the notion of obscurity, the prismatic vision of the Camera Lucida, language as a form of possession, and a screening of the newly restored and subtitled 1967 surreal Japanese film Galaxy by political film activist Masao Adachi. Complete with in-house cafe, the Cherry Kino Microcinema offers audiences the chance to dip their toes into the programme or to dive right in, with the informal, relaxed and welcoming atmosphere helping to make experiencing wondermental cinema a free, social and artistic activity.
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A dynamic introduction to black and white 16mm filmmaking at its most accessible! We will lay small objects on the raw 16mm film stock and expose it to light, creating ‘rayograms’ on the filmstrip and then processing it in a bucket using highcontrast developer. We will then examine the film to see what we have [...]
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A 16mm filmmaking session on how to create a colour film without a camera, using the DIY ‘flat printing’ method – colour filmmaking in a nutshell! By laying filmstrips, objects, and colour gels over the raw 16mm stock, using glass to press them down and then flashing it with light, we will create a collaborative [...]
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A very popular hands-on Super 8 workshop where you’ll learn how to shoot and hand-process your very own colour Super 8 film! As well as adding colour to the films with inks and pens we will consider alternative image-making techniques such as burying and bleaching film, which film stocks are available, and how to cross-process [...]
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Millions enjoy coffee every morning, but did you know that you can actually develop cine film in it? Coffee, washing soda and vitamin C are the ingredients of ‘Caffenol’ – it works an absolute treat and is about as eco as film processing gets! After shooting one film between two with a Super 8 camera, [...]
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