How to Make a Film Quilt

“film becomes a textile; a quilt composed of photographic material embedded with history” — Sabrina Gschwandtner

This workshop invites participants to create their own celluloid quilt by reusing found film — cutting, inking, dying, scratching, arranging and sewing it into a personal assemblage inspired by quilt or weave patterns. Drawn from the works of Richard Kerr, Sabrina Gschwandtner and Jennifer West, these techniques see film as material, encouraging playful reconstructions of size, color, and narrative. At the end, participants will go home with their very own film quilt to exhibit on a lightbox or a window.

𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙁𝙞𝙡𝙢 𝙌𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩

Thursday, August 14, 2-5pm

5050 Wales Street, Norquay Park

The workshop will be held outdoors. In the case of inclement weather, the workshop will take place inside XINEMA’s Fieldhouse.

Workshop slots are $30 suggested donation, NOTAFLOF, (no one turned away for lack of funds). All workshop materials provided!

Number of participants: 10 (maximum), ages 14 and up.

Accessibility notes: XINEMA’s Fieldhouse and darkroom space have 29” doorways, which are slightly smaller than the minimum door width for wheelchair access. The space is small but flexible in layout for working stations. Masks are recommended. We will have some available for those who wish to use them. We’ll have red lights going indoors, and if it’s warm we’ll spill out into the evening air between batches. Accessible public bathrooms are open until 9pm; afterwards, indoor bathrooms will be available inside our Fieldhouse via a short ramp.

These are mask recommended events! Please do not come if you are sick.

If you require further financial or physical accommodation, please email [email protected].

This workshop is presented in correspondence with 𝙏𝙖𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨, a fabric-based contact printing workshop, held on August 14 from 6:30-9:30pm, led by Héloïse Auvray and Niloufar Samadi and 𝙏𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣, an experimental film program about fabric and film held on August 23 at 8pm.

Header image: Sabrina Gschwandtner, Camouflage, 2012. 16 mm film, polyamide thread, lithography ink. 69.5 × 45 inches (detail). Photo by Matt Suib, Greenhouse Media. Courtesy of the artist, LMAKprojects and Philadelphia Art Alliance.

Host or Publisher XINEMA