In this fun and supportive 7-session online workshop, participants will create short digital documentary films that explore and celebrate notions of home past present and future. Workshop limited to 8 participants....International participants welcome!
New to Premiere Pro? This Basics class will help you learn how to professionally edit video. Instructor Will O'Loughlen will breaks down the entire import-to-output process—ideal as an overview for new editors, and a good crash course for editors migrating from other platforms. This class is offered online via Zoom; participants are welcome to work along with Will on their own computers equipped with Premiere, or simply observe.
SUNDAY, APRIL 18: 10 AM - 1 PM Pacific Daylight Time...Online via Zoom! Using the classic home-movie camera, participants will explore the history, application and tender sophistication of small format filmmaking. This one-day workshop includes basic camera operation, shooting techniques and hand-processing. No previous filmmaking experience necessary. Participants are welcome to process along (we'll send out a list of everything you'll need for your home lab a week before the workshop!) or simply observe. No experience necessary! Participants from around the world welcome!
Join Andrei Jay on an introductory exploration into the intersections of video synthesis and chaos theory using their Video_Waaaves software suite! At the end of this workshop you will have learned the fundamentals of working with real time video feedback, video mixing, and video synthesis systems in general, along with gaining an intuitional knowledge of nonlinear dynamical systems without having to even glance at a single differential equation! No technical experience in mathematics, coding, or video worlds is necessary, just a desire to learn and some kind of a computer built in the last 12 or so years (osx and windows only for this workshop, chromebooks, ipads, and linux are beyond the scope of this course).
SUNDAY, APRIL 25: 10 AM - 1 PM... ONLINE VIA ZOOM! An introduction to 16mm film mechanics using Bolex reflex cameras. In this one-day workshop, participants will learn basic camera operation and hand-processing technique. No previous filmmaking experience necessary. Participants are welcome to process along at home (an info sheet with directions on how to set up your own at-home lab will be provided one week prior to workshop) or simply observe. No prior filmmaking experience necessary! Participants from around the world welcome!
Are you an Elder with stories to share about the healing power of plants or magnificent meals? Join us online for some casual conversation and collaborative animation as we celebrate culture, health, gardens, food and storytelling. Free Workshop! No prior filmmaking experience necessary!
In this workshop for poets and new poets, filmmakers and new filmmakers, we’ll use the natural wonders of the season as our inspiration to write and share haikus and then turn them into a collaborative short film. Free event! Everyone welcome!
The organizing principle behind the "Unix philosophy" is to take small, singularly-focused applications and use them in concert to create complex, powerful problem-solving tools. In this workshop we will explore FFMPEG and other free, open-source applications as building blocks for making and manipulating video art. Through demonstrations with practical examples participants can try at home we will explore FFMPEG's features for transcoding, resizing, editing, applying effects and more. Using it in conjunction with ImageMagick, Processing, Youtube-dl and more, we demonstrate how this powerful application can be a part of your personal art practice whether you are an animator, editor, programmer or just having fun on the computer.
Thursday, May 13 at 4 pm! Online via Zoom! Want to explore fun filmmaking techniques and technologies? Share works-in-progress? Check out and chat about cool movies? Create collaborative media arts project with your peers around the world? Join us online for CineKids on the second Thursday of each month, 4 - 5 pm Los Angeles time. Free! No filmmaking experience necessary! All kids and teens ages 8 to 18 welcome!