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  EVENTS

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Workshop

Expanded Cinema: Working with the Materiality of Film and Image

CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012

October 21, 2026
6:30-9:30pm ET
In-Person
$60

Through historical examples, film excerpts, photographs, live demonstrations, and hands-on experimentation using analog projection equipment, artist Lívia Sá will lead participants in a workshop that challenges the conventional relationship between film, projector, screen, space, and audience.

Moving beyond the idea of film as an image contained within a flat screen and experienced within the traditional movie theater, the workshop will examine cinema as a physical and spatial experience, incorporating light, materials, architecture, performance, and the projector itself. We will look at artists who have experimented beyond conventional cinematic forms through direct manipulation of film, multiple projections, expanded projection, installation, and the use of light as a material.

Working with transparent materials, images, and light, participants will explore different ways of transforming and presenting images through projection, considering how interventions in material, surface, scale, movement, and light can alter the cinematic experience.

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Lívia Sá is a Brazilian artist, filmmaker, photographer, and documentarian whose practice operates at the intersection of documentary, experimental and expanded cinema, photography, and analog media. Originally from São Paulo, Brazil, she has lived and worked between the United States and Brazil for nearly two decades and holds an MA in Media Studies from The New School in New York City.

Working primarily with Super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, and 120 film, Lívia explores the material and temporal qualities of photochemical media through manual processing, analog projection, direct interventions on film, double exposures, photograms, and live projection. Her work engages with memory, migration, identity, human rights, and political resistance, often using the physicality of film to create connections between personal and collective histories.

Lívia’s work has been screened and exhibited at venues and festivals including the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Anthology Film Archives, Munich International Film Festival, Microscope Gallery, Prismatic Ground Film Festival, Strangloscope Festival, Analog Art Festival and Mono No Aware, among others in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Europe, and Japan. Alongside her artistic practice, she works as a filmmaker, cinematographer, and photographer and is currently developing her first feature-length documentary. She has photographed for CultureHub for 8 years.

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Image courtesy of Lívia Sá