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 film and projection equipment, artist Lívia Sá will introduce participants to experimental approaches to manipulating, transforming, and reimagining the moving image.
The workshop will cover artists and filmmakers who have challenged conventional approaches to image-making through techniques such as direct manipulation of film, scratching and painting on film, photograms, abstraction, multiple exposures, and the use of light and chemical processes as creative tools for image-making, presentation, and projection. We will look at artists including Stan Brakhage, Paul Sharits, Barbara Hammer, and Stan VanDerBeek, among others, considering how experimentation with the film material itself can transform the way an image is created and experienced.
The workshop will conclude with a hands-on experimentation session using 35mm film, a slide projector, and an overhead projector. Working with transparent materials, images, light, and colorful elements, participants will experiment with layering, transparency, projection, and direct interventions on photographic material, exploring how small changes to an image can produce unexpected visual results.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own 35mm positive film or slides to work with. For those unable to bring materials, a limited number of 35mm Ektachrome frames will be provided for participants to manipulate and transform into their own slides
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