Workshop
Cécile Fontaine
Date: Sat 30–31 May, 2026
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: Acud Rooftop
Participation is limited to 15 participants
and pre-registration is required.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This workshop proposes a direct engagement with film as material rather than image. Starting from a selection of found footage across different formats and origins, participants will produce a short piece through hands-on experimentation.
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Working with uncinematic tools and unconventional procedures, the process moves away from established techniques toward an open field of trial and accident. Central to the workshop is the physical alteration of the film strip itself: emulsion is removed, displaced, and reworked, allowing the image to break down and re-form through gesture.
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Rather than following predefined methods, participants are invited to suspend rules and work through exploration, testing how far the material can be pushed. The focus is not on producing a finished film in a conventional sense, but on engaging with film as a mutable surface—one that can be handled, interrupted, and reconfigured.
FILL UP AND REGISTER
Cécile Fontaine
Date: Sat 30–31 May, 2026
Time: 10am – 5pm
Location: Acud Rooftop
Participation is limited to 15 participants
and pre-registration is required.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This workshop proposes a direct engagement with film as material rather than image. Starting from a selection of found footage across different formats and origins, participants will produce a short piece through hands-on experimentation.
Working with uncinematic tools and unconventional procedures, the process moves away from established techniques toward an open field of trial and accident. Central to the workshop is the physical alteration of the film strip itself: emulsion is removed, displaced, and reworked, allowing the image to break down and re-form through gesture.
Rather than following predefined methods, participants are invited to suspend rules and work through exploration, testing how far the material can be pushed. The focus is not on producing a finished film in a conventional sense, but on engaging with film as a mutable surface—one that can be handled, interrupted, and reconfigured.
FILL UP AND REGISTER
* 16mm film prints from the Cécile Fontaine collection, courtesy of Light Cone
Sat 30 – Sun 31 May
10:00 - 17:00 / ACUD ROOFTOPPractical Information
- Duration: 2 days (30–31 May, 10:00–17:00)
- Location: Rooftop, ACUD Kunsthaus, 3rd Floor, Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin
- Materials: provided (film strips, found footage, tools)
- Participants: max. 15
- info: fractofilm@gmail.com
SCHEDULE 2026
Wed 27
19.00 / ACUD KINO
Selection #1
Spacing Time
21:30 / ACUD KINO
Experimental
Film Treasures
– Pt.1
Thu 28
16:00 / ACUD KINO
Experimental
Film Treasures
– Pt.2
18.00 / ACUD KINO
Selection #2
Souvenirs
21:30 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Peter Todd
– Pt.1
Fri 29
16.30 / ACUD KINO
Selection #3
Living Skin
19:00 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Peter Todd
– Pt.2
21:30 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Moucle Blackout
Sat 30
10.00 / ACUD ROOFTOP
Workshop
Cécile Fontaine
18.30 / ACUD KINO
Selection #4
Sensuous Light
21.00 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Cécile Fontaine
– Pt.1
Sun 31
10.00 / ACUD ROOFTOP
Workshop
Cécile Fontaine
17.00 / ACUD KINO
Selection #5
Grayscale
19.00 / ACUD KINO
Focus
Cécile Fontaine
– Pt.2
21.30 / ACUD CLUB
Expanded Cinema
Jan Kulka