This workshop will explore alternative (eco/kitchen-sink) processing techniques on black and white film. There are a variety of recipes that yield excellent results. Film developing is never completely environmentally friendly, but you can minimize the risk to yourself and the environment significantly by processing your film with the recipes that we will teach in this class. We will teach both negative and reversal processing with chemicals easily accessible to the average person. 

This single six-hour workshop, geared toward individuals with little or no experience shooting film, will focus on 16mm production basics using Bolex H16 Reflex cameras.

Karel Doing will teach the phytography technique he invented that makes it possible to create detailed chemical traces of plants directly on photographic emulsion. Participants will create their own images and see the results projected.

Participants will be taught shared darkroom procedures, mixing photochemistry from scratch and be given a hands-on course in processing a roll of 16mm B&W reversal film that they provide. This workshop will feature bucket processing. 

This single six-hour workshop, geared toward individuals with little or no experience shooting film, will focus on 16mm production basics using Bolex H16 Reflex cameras.

This member-only skillshare will focus on 16mm contact printing using a sync block and flashlight. 

Learn how to make cyanotype prints with AgX member Kyle Petty. One of the simplest alternative printing processes, cyanotypes use a combination of two inexpensive chemicals and the sun’s UV rays to create a vivid, Prussian blue print. The process is safe and easy enough to reproduce at home in the kitchen sink.

In this member skillshare led by Stefan Grabowski, participants will learn about various eco-processing methods for black and white film using red wine, green tea, or coffee.

This members-only skillshare will focus on how to keep the 16mm Bolex film camera in working condition, including steps for disassembly and re-lubrication.

This members only skillshare is an introduction to flatbed editing with the Steenbeck Six Plate and the Moviola Six Plate film editors.

This members-only skillshare led by Kathryn Ramey will cover different methods of hand processing 16mm film: Lomo tank, Morse tank, or bucket (jam-it-in-the-can) method. Participants will practice loading 100ft of film into the Lomo tank under daylight using a dummy roll, before loading their exposed film in darkness within the darkroom. Each participant will get hands-on instruction developing Tri-X Reversal film using pre-mixed chemistry.

This members-only skillshare will cover the basics of shooting 16mm film on a Bolex. After hands-on instruction regarding loading and making exposures, participants will practice shooting a roll of B&W Tri-X reversal film around the city of Waltham.

This members-only skillshare will explore different approaches to experimenting with contact printing, particularly a self-taught process for contact printing using a light table, as well as a method using a flashlight with or without a sync block. We’ll discuss processes for combining these exposures with in-camera exposures. We’ll also discus layering, “bracketing,” working with sound exposures, and combining contact printing with in-camera exposures.

This skillshare will explore different approaches to experimenting with contact printing, particularly a self-taught process for contact printing using a light table, as well as a method using a flashlight with or without a sync block. We’ll discus layering, “bracketing,” working with sound exposures, and combining contact printing with in-camera exposures.

Open to Agx members only. Limited to 7 participants.

This workshop requires no previous experience with film. We won’t be using cameras, so there aren’t any machines to learn or any lenses to focus. We’ll first work with unexposed film with the lights on using developer and fixer to paint on the film and create abstract positive and negative film loops.

At this workshop, we will discuss storyboard styles, staging the action, finding story beats, creating sequences and more…

This workshop will cover both the science of how images are captured on and brought out of silver-based film emulsions, as well as practical techniques for hand-processing movie film.

This single six-hour workshop, geared toward individuals with little or no experience shooting film, will focus on 16mm production basics using Bolex H16 Reflex cameras.

The idea of this workshop is to explore alternative (eco/kitchen-sink) processing techniques on black and white film.

Workshop participants can expect to leave with a deeper understanding of how a projector works functionally and in concert with our brains to produce the illusion of movement from a collection of still images.

AgX members will learn to make black and white prints (from negative or positive) using the Bell & Howell Model C contact printer. 

Join AgX for an introduction to direct animation, where participants will learn techniques for making cameraless 16mm films by painting, drawing, or scratching directly onto film. 

Visitors will learn the basics of film animation with 35mm film using simple lines and shapes.