**THIS IS A 2-DAY WORKSHOP, taking place Sat-Sun 6/14-15 ---- Register once for both days**

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Join us and TAPE LA for a weekend with Tetsuya Maruyama and this fun and experimental 16mm matchbox pinhole camera workshop.

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"Stenopeic camera does not have a lens. We have a lens in our eyes, and without it we would be blind. Pinhole camera is blind because it does not have a lens.” Paolo Gioli, on pinhole exposures

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In this workshop, participants will experiment with some of the most archaic photography techniques: pinhole camera and contact printing, with the use of old Japanese matchboxes. Pan-cinema raw material; time and space. From images captured on 16mm film frame by frame, participants will create negative and positive copies with film print stock. This technique allows the freedom to work directly with the surface of the film with light, in the same way as a painter leaves his/her gesture on a canvas.

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Learn the entire step by step process of creating your own pinhole camera and shooting all the way into the sound area of 16mm! Examples of works made with these techniques will be screened and discussed, including work by Paolo Gioli, Dianna Barrie, Philipp Fleischmann.

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Saturday June 14 - 15th

2-day Workshop

10 am - 3 pm (both days)

@ Whammy! 2514 Sunset Blvd (enter through alley)

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Tetsuya Maruyama (Yokohama, 1983) is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes film, text, performance, sound, idea, installation, etc(not necessarily in this order). His work departs from re-contextualization of found banal matters and textures, as a liminal record of quotidian observations. As an independent programmer and researcher, he has presented programs on Brazilian experimental cinema in US, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, and Canada. He is a founder of Megalab, an artist-run film lab in Rio de Janeiro.

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Presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.

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