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SUPER 8 MM FILMMAKING 101 Instructor – Lucas Millard

Learn the art and craft of 18 frames per second filmmaking.

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16 MM FILMMAKING 101

In this class students will learn 16 mm filmmaking techniques from start to finish.

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PINHOLE CAMERA FILMMAKING Instructor – Steve Cossman

Lenses? We don’t need no stinking lenses!

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HAND PROCESSING 16 MM B/W REVERSAL FILM Instructor – Joshua Lewis

In this class you will learn to develop your own film right at home.

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16 MM HAND-PAINTING ON FILM DIRECT FILMMAKING WORKSHOP Instructor – Steve Cossman

In this workshop students will learn to manipulate the surface of the film using a variety of direct film-making techniques; painting, scratching, collage, and masking in order to create an experimental film on 16mm.

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Lucas Millard is a filmmaker & camera professional currently living in New York City. His work in film and camera has been screened at festivals nationally – including SXSW, Cinematexas, Olympia Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Urbanworld Festival, Los Angeles International Shorts – and internationally – including the Venice International (Biennale) , Thessaliniki Int’l Film Fest (Greece), Tokyo Int’l Film Fest, Oldenberg Film Festival (Germany), American Film Festival (Wroclaw, Poland), and Cannes. Lucas was a recipient of the 2006 Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund award for his short 35mm project, Western. He received an MFA in film production with a concentration in cinematography from the University of Texas at Austin in late 2007 and has subsequently led filmmaking workshops and courses in Austin and NYC. He picked up his first camera in 1998 and hasn’t put it down yet.

Katherine Bauer is an artist who works primarily with 16mm film. She often uses film in a way that incorporates sculpture, photography and installation.  Much of her work uses mythologies and narratives adapted from her travels across the United States and Southeastern Asia. The materiality of celluloid is important to her work which often deals with decay, sex and horror. Katherine received a BA from Bard College where she majored in Film and Electronic Arts. She is currently working on a MFA from NYU in Studio Art where she is also an adjunct teaching 16mm filmmaking. Her work has been shown across the United States in a variety of venues and galleries. Recently she has performed or shown work at the Knitting Factory, NYU Rosenburg Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Kimmerich Gallery, St. Cecilias Convent, Work Gallery, The Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Unsmoke Systems Gallery in Braddock, New York Underground Film Festival, Television Access Gallery in San Francisco, Mono No Aware 2010 among others. Her films are available for rent from The Film-Makers Cooperative in New York City.

Joshua Lewis is a filmmaker and a seasoned lab technician at a small-format film processing lab.   He most recently completed the film DOUBLE HAPPINESS, an imagined mid-season episode of a long-running, non-existent daytime soap series that focuses on the pleasures and problems of a family from Northern New Jersey.

Sean Hanley received a BFA in film production from Emerson College.  His thesis film is currently touring in the Black Maria Film + Video Festival and NextFrame International Student Film Festival.  This past summer, he was a teacher’s assistant at the Maine Media Workshops.

Steve Cossman received his BFA in Sculpture & Painting then, went on to study Cinema with a focus on Animation in the Czech Republic at FAMU. Currently he works as a curator, filmmaker and is founder/director of Mono No Aware, an ‘annual exhibition of expanded cinema’ showcasing contemporary artists who incorporate live projections as part of their work. Cossman believes that ‘time is constantly moving within a framework of units and that this irrepressible motion is the nexus of human experience’. His recent direct animation film TUSSLEMUSCLE recently earned him Kodak’s Continued Excellence in Filmmaking award and has screened at many festivals internationally; VideoEx – Zurich, Byron Bay – Australia, LA Film Forum, Angelica Film Center –Dallas+.  The work on film will be shown this summer at the European Media Arts Festival in Germany, Animator Festival in Poland, Berks Filmmakers – Reading US, and is presently traveling as part of Ann Arbor Film Festival’s touring program.  His work can be found in the collections of the University of Seattle, WA, University of Hartford Art School, and The Len Lye Foundation, New Zealand.

Workshop Policies:

Registration & Cancellation – To register for a workshop, students must pay in full via PayPal. In the event a student must withdraw from a class, he or she may do so any time before the registration deadline of the class, and will receive a 75% refund of class costs. After the registration deadline, course fees are not refundable or transferable and any withdrawals or deadlines will result in the full cost of the class being forfeit. There will be no exceptions. To withdraw from a course please email info-at-uniondocs.org.

In the event that a workshop does not receive sufficient enrollment, it may be canceled. Students will be notified at least 48 hours prior to the start of a cancelled workshop and will be refunded within 5 business days. If we reschedule a workshop to another date, students are also entitled to a full refund. UnionDocs reserves the right to change instructors without prior notification, and to change class location and meeting times by up to an hour with 48 hours prior notice.