Fairy Clocks: 16mm Film Workshop

XINEMA [zin-em-a] is an artist-run experimental film series founded and based on on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and the Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver, BC). They began operation in VIFF Centre's 41 seat Studio Theatre, with a focus on BC-based and connected media artists, stringing emerging and established artists together into monthly thematic programs.

They now operate between spaces and regions, facilitating screenings, workshops and related events, with a focus on local wherever that may be. Their main priorities are to remain low-barrier, accepting free ongoing and unlimited submissions of any year or premiere status; prioritize underrepresented artists and media forms; and connect filmmakers and film-lovers of various backgrounds, disciplines and career levels.

Fairy Clocks: 16mm Film Workshop

Workshop / 2024
July 20th + 21st, 2024
The Garden - UNIT/PITT

"Fairy clocks" is another name for dandelions: the fuzzy, many-petaled flowers with lion toothed leaves often considered to be merely garden weeds. Participants in this workshop learned Bolex H-16 camera basics while making a collective 16mm film poem. Through collective learning, each participant was guided to shoot a section of black and white negative film in the garden, which was daisy-chained into a six minute in-camera edited film. Following the shoot, participants foraged Fairy Clocks in the surrounding area and prepared a plant-extraction that was be used to process the collective film.