REGULAR 8MM FILM FESTIVAL
Stop stalling and start rolling! Secure your spot in the
No-Excuses Film Festival

Schedule:
Sunday, March 21st, 1pm - 5pm
+ work time listed below

Cost:
Members $160
Non-members $175

Enrollment is limited to 10

LIFT's No-Excuses Regular 8mm Film Festival is a recovery program for filmmakers prone to procrastination, a pep rally for the cinephile with fatigue, a balm for the anxious auteur, and a shot in the arm for celluloid ennui. Regular or double 8MM film - first released by Kodak in 1932 - has become an underutilized format with constant rumours of its unavailability (LIFT has new stock available in the store). This underutilization belies the many possibilities offered like in camera effects, full film rewinding capabilities and the option to present as a four-image split screen as 16mm. In addition to exploring regular 8MM you're completed film will also screen at LIFT's summer picnic with artist-fees paid for work finished on film.

Participants will receive:
- Instruction on LIFT's Regular 8mm Cameras Regular 8mm camera rental for 1 day or weekend
- 2 rolls of 25ft Colour Reversal or Black and White film
- 5 hours on Pro Tools (to work on your sound-track)
- 3 hours in the darkroom (to process your film, if you choose to)
- Processing of the two 25ft rolls provided (if you choose not to hand process)
- 6 hours with the JK Optical Printer (to create optical effects)
- 6 hours on the Flatbed (to edit your film)

Screening of all projects will be held at LIFT's Summer Picnic.
An artist fee (IMMA rate) will be paid to projects completed on film.

Instructor:
John Kneller was born in the land of the Bolex, in Chene-Bougeries, Switzerland. Thus the clockwork mechanism of the movie camera was ingrained from an early age and yet lay dormant until his teenage years in Montreal, Quebec, when he set about making his first film, a crime epic with a group of neighbourhood kids. By day, John Kneller is a mild-mannered college film professor, but by night he transforms into a mad scientist with an optical printer. Working entirely with traditional film techniques including animation and time lapse cinematography, the original footage is combined and recombined using optical mattes, creating a veritable techno-frenzy. Studies have included a Bachelor of Arts, Cinema Studies at Innis College, University of Toronto in the 1980's hotbed and more recently a completion of a MFA at York University in Film Production.