TORONTO LAUNCH: Process Cinema

TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King Street West, 4th Floor, Toronto, ON
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Join editors Scott MacKenzie and Janine Marchessault for the launch of Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age. The event will be held in the Film Reference Library at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Mapping the genealogy of handmade film, and uncovering confluences, influences, and interstices between various international movements, sites, and practices, Process Cinema positions the resurgence of handmade and process cinema as a counter-practice to the rise of digital filmmaking. This volume brings together a range of renowned academics and artists to examine contemporary artisanal films, DIY labs, and filmmakers typically left out of the avant-garde canon, addressing the convergence between the analog and the digital in contemporary process cinema. Contributors investigate the history of process cinema - unscripted, improvisatory manipulation of the physicality of film - with chapters on pioneering filmmakers such as Len Lye and Marie Menken, while others discuss an international array of collectives devoted to processing films in artist-run labs from South Korea to Finland, Australia to Austria, and Greenland to Morocco, along with historical and contemporary practices in Canada and the United States.