On Friday, May 30 from 11 AM – 4 PM, Block Cinema will host a free Cameraless Filmmaking Workshop at the Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum in Evanston, led by filmmakers Lindsay McIntyre and Adam Piron of COUSIN Collective. The workshop will be open to 8 participants; we will have a waiting list for 4 additional prospective attendees.

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Join COUSIN Co-Founder Adam Piron and artist Lindsay McIntyre for a cameraless filmmaking workshop that will explore what it means to make a truly place-based film. Participants will discuss and exercise handmade methods of creating collage films using real-world elements on 16mm film leader and will be provided supplies. Attendees will work with instructors and be encouraged to source materials, such as leaves, grass, dirt, natural substances, or anything that can be made into a collage from a specific location to realize a film made by and of the land itself.

All experience levels welcome.

To register, please fill out the required information by Sunday, May 25. Accepted applicants will be confirmed via email Monday, the 26th. Thanks for your interest!

About the workshop leads:

Lindsay McIntyre (she/her) is a filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist of Inuk and settler descent working primarily with analogue film. Her multiple award-wining short documentaries, experimental films and expanded cinema performances are often process-based and for some she also makes her own 16mm film with handmade silver gelatin emulsion. Using experimental and handmade techniques, her short films circle themes of portraiture, place, form and personal histories. Interested simultaneously in the apparatus of cinema and representation, she bridges gaps in collective experience and remains dedicated to integrating theory and practice, form and content.

She was named the 2021 Women in the Director’s Chair Feature Film Award winner, the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton recipient for Excellence in Media Arts by the Canada Council (2013), was honoured with the REVEAL Indigenous Art Award (Hnatyshyn Foundation, 2017) and her personal documentary Her Silent Life won Best Experimental Film at imagineNATIVE (2012). She has been a member of several artist-run film labs including the Double Negative Collective, EMO Collective, Iris Collective, and an international consortium of emulsioneers.

Her short documentaries, experimental films, and expanded cinema performances have been seen around the world including at Ann Arbor, Anthology Film Archives, Pleasure Dome, Mono No Aware, and Rotterdam, and can be found in several permanent collections. She has an MFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Alberta. She is an Associate Professor of Film + Screen Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design on unceded Coast Salish territories and she teaches film anywhere else that people will listen.

Adam Piron (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma and Mohawk) is a Southern California-based filmmaker, writer, and curator. He is a co-founder of COUSIN: a film collective dedicated to supporting Indigenous artists experimenting with, and pushing the boundaries, of the moving image. As a film programmer, he has served as a member of the Sundance Film Festival’s Film Programming Team since 2013 and was also previously the Film Curator for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and he has guest-curated film programs for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, TIFF Lightbox, the Autry Museum of the American West, Metrograph, and various other film festivals and venues. His films have screened at the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMA Doc Fortnight, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, and various other festivals and programs. His writings have appeared in The Criterion Collection’s Current, MUBI Notebook, Cinema Scope Magazine, the Metrograph Journal, and CNN.

Additional information:

Free workshop with limited space. All materials included for participants. Lunch will be provided.

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