Workshop
Caméra-Stylo:
Shooting, Developing and Projecting 16mm Motion Picture Film
Date: March 28–30th, 2026
Workshop: 10am – 5pm
Location: Acud Macht Neu
Participation is limited to 21 participants
and pre-registration is required.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Shoot your own 16mm films!
This workshop invites participants to engage with the practice of shooting and hand-developing 16mm motion picture film through questions of intimacy, privacy, and personal expression.
Working with 16mm film as a tactile, time-based medium, the workshop emphasizes precision and a heightened sensitivity to light, gesture, and duration. The camera becomes an intimate companion, attentive to subtle shifts in presence and perception. In turn, the act of photochemical hand-developing film deepens this relationship, allowing images to emerge through processes shaped by touch, care, and chance.
Through guided exercises, technical instruction, and reflective discussion, participants are invited to cultivate a personal language of filmmaking rooted in attentiveness to their immediate surroundings and inner life. By the end of the workshop, each participant, working in groups of three, will have created their own black and white 16mm film, gaining practical experience alongside a deeper sense of analog film as a medium for poetic and personal inquiry.
This course is designed as an introduction to analog filmmaking and is intended for artists of all ages.
FILMMAKER BIOS
Christin Turner (b. 1985, USA) is a Berlin-based filmmaker whose work seeks to change our ideas of the past with a new and more modern outlook. For her, video and audio are malleable forms enabling a multi-layered sedimentary approach to image-making. She is a member of Labor Berlin, and her 16mm films and videos have played at festivals and galleries worldwide.
Christian Flemm is a personal filmmaker, curator and laboratory technician who lives and works in Berlin. He practices Medium Intimacy, a devotional approach to filmmaking that resists the accelerations of digital through narrow-gauge images made for bedroom walls.
info : fractofilm@gmail.com
FILL UP AND REGISTER
Caméra-Stylo:
Shooting, Developing and Projecting 16mm Motion Picture Film
Date: March 28–30th, 2026
Workshop: 10am – 5pm
Location: Acud Macht Neu
Participation is limited to 21 participants
and pre-registration is required.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Shoot your own 16mm films!
This workshop invites participants to engage with the practice of shooting and hand-developing 16mm motion picture film through questions of intimacy, privacy, and personal expression.
Working with 16mm film as a tactile, time-based medium, the workshop emphasizes precision and a heightened sensitivity to light, gesture, and duration. The camera becomes an intimate companion, attentive to subtle shifts in presence and perception. In turn, the act of photochemical hand-developing film deepens this relationship, allowing images to emerge through processes shaped by touch, care, and chance.
Through guided exercises, technical instruction, and reflective discussion, participants are invited to cultivate a personal language of filmmaking rooted in attentiveness to their immediate surroundings and inner life. By the end of the workshop, each participant, working in groups of three, will have created their own black and white 16mm film, gaining practical experience alongside a deeper sense of analog film as a medium for poetic and personal inquiry.
This course is designed as an introduction to analog filmmaking and is intended for artists of all ages.
FILMMAKER BIOS
Christin Turner (b. 1985, USA) is a Berlin-based filmmaker whose work seeks to change our ideas of the past with a new and more modern outlook. For her, video and audio are malleable forms enabling a multi-layered sedimentary approach to image-making. She is a member of Labor Berlin, and her 16mm films and videos have played at festivals and galleries worldwide.
Christian Flemm is a personal filmmaker, curator and laboratory technician who lives and works in Berlin. He practices Medium Intimacy, a devotional approach to filmmaking that resists the accelerations of digital through narrow-gauge images made for bedroom walls.
info : fractofilm@gmail.com
FILL UP AND REGISTER
Day 1
Introduction to analog motion picture filmmaking
On Day 1, instructors will introduce workshop participants to analog image-making processes, emphasizing historically-specific approaches to personal filmmaking with a screening of Larry Gottheim’s Fog Line, Esther Shatavsky’s Bedtime Story (Shatavsky, 1983), and Nicholas Christensen’s Sightreading (Christensen, 2022) towards an understanding of analog movie-making practices in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Following the introductory screening, participants will divide into their groups. With instructors, participants will learn how to handle film, describe the difference between the base and emulsion side of the film strip, understand proper loading and projection orientation, and leave with a basic understanding of camera optics and the mechanical filmmaking apparatus. Following this conversation-heavy morning period, participants will break for lunch.
In the afternoon, participants will remain in their groups, where instructors will introduce participants to their 16mm camera (a variety of cameras, including Bolexes, Beaulieus and Krasnogorsks will be available). In teams, participants will learn how to handle, load, run, clean and operate their cameras. Instructors will discuss film stock options, exposure, lenses, filters, tripods, camera-specific accessories, and more.
The afternoon session will end with a screening of Will Hindle’s Later That Same Night. Following this, workshop participants are free to begin shooting their films.
Day 2
Supervised shooting on-location
Under the supervision of instructors, participants will shoot their films. Cameras to be returned to instructors by sunset.
Day 3
Screening of Participant Work
In the morning, instructors will meet with groups to demonstrate how to chemically process, dry and project a roll of motion picture film.
In the evening, participants will screen their films as part of a Screening Salon program at Christian’s microcinema in the presence of other filmmakers. A home-cooked meal will be provided.