Caméra-Stylo: Shooting 16mm Motion Picture film!

Date: October 10-11, 2026
Workshop: 10am – 5pm
Location: 215 N. Limestone

Participation is limited to 6 participants and pre-registration is required.

Registration fee: $120 

Shoot your own 16mm films!

This workshop invites participants to engage with the practice of shooting and hand-developing 16mm motion picture film through questions of intimacy, privacy, and personal expression.

Working with 16mm film as a tactile, time-based medium, the workshop emphasizes precision and a heightened sensitivity to light, gesture, and duration. The camera becomes an intimate companion, attentive to subtle shifts in presence and perception. In turn, the act of photochemical hand-developing film deepens this relationship, allowing images to emerge through processes shaped by touch, care, and chance.

Through guided exercises, technical instruction, and reflective discussion, participants are invited to cultivate a personal language of filmmaking rooted in attentiveness to their immediate surroundings and inner life. By the end of the workshop, each participant, working in groups of two, will have created their own black and white 16mm film, gaining practical experience alongside a deeper sense of analog film as a medium for poetic and personal inquiry.

This course is designed as an introduction to analog filmmaking and is intended for artists of all ages.