The Color of Salt – Tinting & Toning Motion Picture Film
From the Daguerreotype to today’s modern film emulsions, this toning workshop will cover everything concerning hand-coloring motion picture film

From the Daguerreotype to today’s modern film emulsions, this toning workshop will cover everything concerning hand-coloring motion picture film
In this workshop, we will be taking you through a hands-on exploration of the history and theories behind tinting and toning motion picture film.
Do you ever wake up in the night from dreams of floating through salt prints?
From highly formulated chemistry through to “that unknown bottle under the sink,” we will explore as many techniques possible for destroying emulsion.
In this four day workshop with Klubvizija SC, participants will be given the space and resources to experiment and create black & white films on 16mm.
In this workshop, we will be exploring a process of faith whereby the film maker and the film strip become an allegory of one another - the reversal process.
From mordancage to mirror toning, we will be exploring the possibilities of physical & chemical alteration to the film's emulsion as a means of expression.
Abstract: "The diverse operations of developing, fixing and washing films can be carried out conveniently with the help of simple buckets with a capacity of about ten litres. The film is unwound very quickly and plunged in such a way that it unwinds in the developer. When all the film is unwound you move it, […]
The Mirror: Reshaping and Lighting Film Emulsion - An Abstract: In this two day workshop, we will be exploring the anatomy of a film strip through a variety of physical and chemical phenomenons that will reshape, destroy and sculpt the film emulsion. Techniques such as reticulation, bleach etching and mirror toning will all be covered […]
Abstract: Frenkel Defects, Edition I is a short program of 16mm film works from the Process Reversal Collective and other artist-run film groups including l'Abominable (Paris, France), The Double Negative Collective (Montreal, PQ), The Handmade Film Institute (Boulder, CO) and LIFT (Toronto, ON). Filmmakers including Sarah Biagini, Andrew Busti, Taylor Dunne, Nicolas Rey, Kevin Rice, Robert […]