• Fri 8:30am–11:20am — MAIN C1262
• Fri 8:30am–11:20am — MAIN D1375
• Fri 8:30am–11:20am — MAIN D1387

Analogue film technologies such as 8, Super-8, and 16 mm film production, analogue audio and VHS have enjoyed a renaissance amongst artist-practitioners in a worldwide movement often called Handmade Cinema, Conceptual Cinema and the old monikers of Avant-garde, Visionary, Experimental Film, Para- or Expanded Cinema. Often employing hand-processing and chemistry, making one's own filmstock, performance and live presentations, collectives and co-creational strategies, and even digital interventions, film and analogue audio are are utilized and celebrated in concert with performance and other retro technologies for their luscious materialities and rich historical legacies, both locally and internationally. This course offers a critical overview of the practice regarding both historical and contemporary work, and a space to seek the integration of theory and practice. Safety procedures/ best practices/ sustainability issues will be explored and dealt with in this course. The optical printer, analogue titling, interfaces with the digital, and DIY maker culture will be explored. Topics explored will include the personal film, found footage and archival film, ecological approaches, mattes and composite image creation, analogue special effects and alternative processing techniques.