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Opportunities >>>>>>>>>>> 

100ft of Deep Time: opportunity for filmmakers
Deadline 6th May 2018

As part of Mayes Cretive's Deep Space project, we are inviting expressions of interest from 16/8 mm filmmakers to make a short film about Deep Time.

Our film call panel (Ben Cook of LUX, Kayla Parker of Plymouth University, Jacqui Knight of Cinestar and Joanna Mayes of Mayes Creative) will choose 9 artists to make their short film; we provide 100ft of film (black and white or colour) and high quality telecine.
FIlms will be shared in traditional screening environments, but also as part of Mayes Creative;s sculptural film pod, where film screenings will be controlled by cosmic ray data! The pod will travel around festivals in Cornwall.

Timescales are tight - this is a chance to take a more spontaneous approach to filmmaking, with only one week for making and one for digital editing.

We hope you enjoy the challenge! Click here for more details
Funded by Arts Council England, Feast & Cornwall Industrial Trust with support from LUX, Cinestar and Plymouth University

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Special handmade emulsion session, Saturday 5th May, Cornwall

Available as part of our Film Weekender, or book in for day/afternoon on Saturday 5th May (£60/£40). See below.
The day begins with an off-site filming session, returning in the afternoon for a technical session at Lands End YHA (or join the hand processing session outlined below).

In the afternoon, Robert will be sharing his experience and leading a session of experimentation with handmade emulsion techniques (Robert has been part of a European team working to develop a workable handmade emulsion). Images emerge from a handmade background, providing a tactile blurring between subject and surface.
Click here for more information and to book...


Land and Sea, Cornwall Film weekend May 5-7 2018
Early Bird tickets - 20% off!

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Our partners Mayes Creative are offering a unique three day creative filmmaking workshop with visiting artist Robert Schaller, responding to the dark skies, bright stars, neolithic sites and landscape of Penwith. A unique creative opportunity, not to be missed!

May 5-7 2018 inclusive
Lands End YHA in the beautiful Cot Valley, Cornwall and on Penwith Moors
EARLY BIRD: £145 individual; £215 company/institution registration (limited no.)
£180 individual; £270 company/institution registration

Immediate booking available with a 50% deposit
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Join us to learn more about ways or working spontaneously with physical film: Visiting artist Robert Schaller is an expert in leading Wilderness filmmaking courses, so you will experience working out on the Moors, with a portable darkroom and plenty of opportunity to learn/extend your 16/8mm filmmaking, including eco-processing both negative and reversal (using peracetic acid)! A chance to reinvigorate your filmmaking/make a step change in your ways of working and share our experiences of working with physical film. Techniques also transferrable to home/DIY processing.

To encourage you to get booking, we are offering a limited number of Early Bird discounted tickets at 20% off (individual/institution).

Limited shared accomodation is also available at Cott Valley YHA - this needs to be booked with us ASAP as we can only hold these places for a short time (please email us on bookings@ for details).


This workshop offers a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in an amazing landscape - Tregeseal Stone Circle is 15 minutes' walk from our workshop base in the beautiful Cot Valley, Cornwall – using it as inspiration for your creative practice.

This workshop is offered by Mayes Creative, with support from Cinestar, as part of their Creative Dark Skies: Bright Stars programme, kindly supported by Heritage Lottery Fund, Feast and Arts Council England.


Click here for more information and to book...

Current projects >>>>>>>>>>> 

How to make a film about the stars?

Cinestar are partnering with Mayes Creative as part of the Dark Skies: Bright Stars project, inspired by he Dark Skies bid for Bodmin Moor, working with young filmmakers at Liskeard school. The students are thinking about and experimenting with ways of making films about the history of astronomy....how do you show time, stars, our relationships to planets without telescopes? Students saw examples of films from artists Derek Jarman and SemiConductor to help them find creative inspiration... Students filmed glitter in water and food dye in the air to represent the stars, alongside filming light in unusual ways to help think about our relationship to time, waves and particles. Next week they are off to The Hurlers to try some outdoor filming to add to their experiments. 
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Recent events >>>>>>>>>>> 

16mm projection + sound performances from OJOBOCA and Matt Davies (Bristol)

OjobocaNMOM - Ojoboca
Visiting from the LaborBerlin artist-run moving image lab in Berlin, international collaborative film and performance project OJOBOCA will share their aesthetic of horrorism in two new projection performances, Pigs & Stones and New Museum of Mankind: A traumatoscopic presentation. 
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http://www.ojoboca.com/

Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film (BEEF) member Matt Davies will start the evening with My Tape Archive, a phantasmagorical expanded projection of multiple 16mm film loops and field recordings. MTA incorporates playful acoustics created from recording the transformers inside film projectors, these are interwoven with an alchemical mirage of found footage that is reimagined through a process of contact printing and abstraction through light play and lens trickery.

http://www.audiblefields.com/

Free (donations encouraged for travelling filmmakers)

​Friday 10 March 2017, 6-8 pm
Union Corner, 96-98 Union Street, Plymouth PL1 3EZ

Free entrance (donations encouraged)
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Produced in association with Marcy Saude



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Camera-less filmmaking workshop: experiments with sound and image making and perception 

​Roland Levinsky Building (RLB304)
Plymouth University 
Friday 21/OCT 2017 6pm to 9pm
free registration is required at: 
otlip16-drawing-day2.eventbrite.co.uk
for more information about all workshops:cognovo.eu/events/otlip16manufactory.php 
​What happens when what we draw is transformed by a machine to become a fleeting image – is this still our mark? When we understand what changes in projection can we develop a skill so that we have some control over the experience of the viewer? We will also explore what happens when we introduce sound with the hand drawn moving image, noticing how we instinctively will sound and image to fall into sync through our innate propensity to entrain our perception. We will consider sound/image making and sound/image perception as an integrated, embodied and interactive process.
At the end of this workshop we hope that we will have isolated some of the things that we do when we draw – process, perception and reflection - in a way that liberates the idea of drawing from making something that looks like something else.
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Drawing on film is lead by artist Jacqui Knight and cognitive psychologist Sue Denham, with technical support by Guy Edmonds and Rupert Allen

Call for interest in Cinestar Film Lab

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​We're putting out a call for people who are interested in supporting our Cinestar artist film lab in Cornwall. We currently have a Steenbeck (generously donated by David Wilkinson at GenevaStopFilms) and are currently working out what to do with it/where to house it etc. If you would like to make use of this facility and help us get it ready to use, please get in touch and we will make a Cinestar sub-list so that we can take this collective resource further. We will start with a meeting in the lab space to work out what we need to do to get things going. Once the space is working, we are keen to offer opportunities for everyone to make the most of it.

Please send an email to us at contactus@cinestar.org.uk to join our lab list.

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BAINS ARGENTIQUES – International Film Labs Meeting / Rencontre Internationale des labos cinématographiques
Nantes, France
04.07.16 - 09.07.2016
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Cinestar contributed to the delivery of workshops at the International film labs meeting in Nantes, France in July.  With Jo leading a successful research session in eco-reversal processing. This event brought together almost 50 artists film labs, from five continents, for a week of exchange and discussions about the state of the art of film.

We were overwhelmed by seven incredible screenings curated by international programmers from the network, an evening of project presentations and an open barbecue, a « Bac à sable afternoon with public workshops. With two evenings of performances and concerts on the banks of the Loire river in collaboration with Cable#, and a party.

Details of the Bains Argentiques workshops, screening events and photos here
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Bains Argentique Artists Film Lab Meeting July 2016

CineStar artists film: Cinestar is a not-for-profit artist run organisation
dedicated to supporting creative work with analogue film through 
education and technical support
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