16mm Experimental Filmmaking Workshop
with Luis Macías
May 02 - 03, 2025
This workshop is designed for filmmakers, photographers, and artists looking to integrate 16mm filmmaking into their creative practice. It explores the artistic possibilities of analogue filmmaking through hands-on, experimental techniques.
Unlike traditional color film development, which is outsourced, this workshop embraces “film alchemy”—a tactile, DIY approach that enhances the filmmaker’s connection to the medium. Participants will collaboratively create a collective film using a 16mm camera, experimenting with various development techniques such as negative processing, positive inversion, and solarization.
The workshop includes both theoretical and practical sessions, beginning with an introduction to analogue and experimental film, followed by hands-on shooting and processing. Participants will explore techniques such as fades, superimpositions, sequences, and variable filming speeds, culminating in a finished film ready for projection.
Dates: May 2 - 3, 2025 (16 hours)
Group size: 8
Program fees: 45.000 ISK (Includes materials and lunches.)
Additional Information
Out-of-town participants are encouraged to arrive on Thursday, May 1, and depart on Sunday, May 4. There will be free screenings and events as part of Ljósmyndadagar á Seyðisfirði on the evenings of May 1 & May 3.
Participants may take advantage of the preferred accommodation rate on private rooms at Hafaldan Harbour Hostel. Rooms at the preferred rate are available for participants wishing to extend their stay for the duration of the festival (until May 10.)
LUIS MACÍAS is a filmmaker and moving-image artist from Barcelona, Spain. His work explores the formal and spectral properties of the moving image through an investigation of the cinematographic apparatus and the photochemical nature of film.
Specializing in experimental and process-based analogue techniques, Macías creates works in Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm, designed for projection, performance, and installation. His films and expanded cinema pieces have been showcased at renowned film festivals, art centers, museums, and alternative spaces worldwide.
Macias is also the co-founder and active member of CRATER-Lab, an independent artist-run film lab dedicated to analogue cinema.
Luis will be presenting an expanded cinema performance at Herdubío on May 1, 2025 at 8pm.