Unravel 5/6 November 2010: Sheffield Docfest and BFI!

Unravel's busiest week yet....! As Maria and Chris caught the train back to London from their Scotland dates, OKO ran an Unravel session for Sheffield DocFest in the beautiful Town Hall.

Back in London, everyone involved in Unravel got together for the first time since AND Manchester to get hands-on with film at the BFI Southbank.

Screen Kiss [North by Northwest] @ Light Night

Screen Kiss (North by Northwest) 2010: photo courtesy Rick Harrison Photography

And back once again to the old TK Maxx space (our second home?)

For Light Night, Jo was invited to exhibit an expanded projector piece as part of Chris Bloor and Graham Hibbert's show - ‘Lecimy’ and other works.  Abstract film and video works created using both analogue and digital processes and minimalist sound composition were screened throughout the venue.

Screen Kiss (North by Northwest) transformed a minimal, hand-manipulated flicker loop into a fractured and pulsating expanded film through a suspended, spinning prism lens.

Thanks to Rick Harrison and Jon Davies for the photos. More to follow...

Screen Kiss (North by Northwest) 2010: photo courtesy Jon Davies

UNRAVEL at Abandon Normal Devices

It seems like we only just got back off the plane from NYC, but this autumn so far has turned out to be a busy one!

We've just joined Chris, Maria and Kelvin for our first workshop date(s) as part of UNRAVEL - an epic project that will create a hand painted film that correlates in length with the 874 miles between John O'Groats and Land's End - taking each metre between these two edges of mainland Britain as a ratio to equal one frame of 16mm film.


In collaboration with over twenty national and international film festivals across England, Scotland and Wales, this touring workshop aims to amass an epic sixteen hour film that will be created and manipulated by hand, by a diverse demographic of the people of Britain.

Abandon Normal Devices hosted UNRAVEL for a whole weekend of workshops at NoiseLab, a guerilla arts pop-up store in Manchester. 

Here's a video of the workshop, uploaded by AND:



For more info on how it went, photos and a list of future UK workshop dates, click here!

oko direct film workshop at Impressions Gallery [11 July 2010]

For the second day in our workshop weekend we facilitated a 16mm direct filmmaking workshop for Impressions Gallery, Bradford, as part of their Lazy Sunday programme.

It was great to run this alongside the Ben Rivers exhibition, which is on at the gallery until 5th September - if you have a chance, do check it out.

Everyone brought something different to the film - it was great to see so many different styles and techniques.  See below for some photos of the day...

oko super 8 workshop [10 July 2010]

We ran a super 8 workshop on Saturday at Red Eric studios.  A really good space, very relaxed - we definitely recommend!

See below for photos of the day...



And here's a link to one of the collaborative films made - telecined and uploaded  by Joe!


Super 8 workshop film. 10/7/2010 from joseph pratt on Vimeo.

OKO/Lazy Sunday Direct Film Workshop! 11th July 2010

Lazy Sunday: Camera-less Film Making Workshop

 

@Impressions Gallery, Bradford
Sunday 11 July 2010, 12.00pm to 4.00pm

Join us at this practical introduction to 16mm camera-less filmmaking and create a handmade film and soundtrack.

This leisurely afternoon workshop led by experimental film collective OKO, will show that film can be immediate, accessible and fun! As well as experimenting with camera-less film techniques including drawing, scratching and painting on film, you’ll have the chance to collaborate on a collaged soundtrack over the course of the afternoon.

The workshop will finish with a screening of the film and soundtrack.
 at 3.30pm

This session is free and suitable for all ages and abilities. 
Feel free to drop by for half an hour, or stay for the whole afternoon.

Here's a link to the info on the workshop!

OKO Introduction to Super 8 Workshops - now booking!

OKO Introduction to Super 8 Workshops



@ Red Eric Studios, Leeds

10am-5pm

Saturday 10th July
Saturday 14th August

6 places available on each workshop.

£40 full price/£35 concessions [NUS/unwaged/pensioner]

Book now for a place on OKO’s one-day practical introduction to super 8 filmmaking. This intensive workshop will demonstrate the accessibility and relative low cost of super 8 as a creative medium for artists and filmmakers.

As well as shooting on super 8 you’ll find out about the history of the format and how super 8 works, learn how to hand-process film and experiment with projectors.


The workshop will run from 10am-5pm, and will finish with a collective screening of the films made over the course of the day.


To provisionally reserve your place please email us at oko_lab@ymail.com

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If you’d like to be added to our mailing list for future workshops and events:
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Cinema Povera 16mm found footage workshop

Wow! Here's what everyone did at the 16mm found footage workshop at the weekend...

Video courtesy of Conor O'Grady - Thanks!

Cinema Povera weekend: photos!

We're just starting to get some photos through from the weekend!

See our Flickr page for a few,



plus the Art in Unusual Spaces' photostream.... [Thanks to Yvonne for these...]

OKO Introduction to 16mm workshop @ PSL

 Thursday 15th April we facilitated an introduction to 16mm filmmaking workshop at Project Space Leeds!

The workshop covered all aspects of D.I.Y. filmmaking processes - shooting, hand-processing and projecting. 

See below for an edited version of the film shot by the 6 participants and photos from the day.

Thanks to all at Lumen and Project Space Leeds.

Thanks to Rob [Lumen] and Mark Jaffe for the photos!