Scratching the Surface: cameraless filmmaking with found footage, a workshop by Esmé Haddrill Selman

Scratching the Surface: cameraless filmmaking with found footage, a workshop by Esmé Haddrill Selman

Working with found super 8 footage, this workshop provides participants with the chance to play with celluloid film and respond to found images in a tactile capacity, introducing those involved to the possibilities of cameraless filmmaking in the process. Using direct animation techniques, we will animate directly onto physical found footage using a range of materials and methods to alter the film’s surface with our hands. The workshop will encourage those involved to also consider what it means to work with found footage and images which aren’t our own. This is an opportunity to engage with celluloid film in a low stakes, collaborative context, with the chance to learn new techniques and see firsthand the different effects these can achieve. The session will end with a screening of the finished film, offering participants the chance to see their work in motion.

‘Scratching the Surface’ is part of a series of workshops running alongside Biscuit Tin, our annual artists moving image festival. We are still accepting submissions for the screenings on December 13 & 14, all the information is on our website.

Esmé Haddrill Selman is a Glasgow based artist filmmaker working with the moving image as the central point of her creative practice. Her work broadly explores the affective nature of the moving image and how it can capture our embodied experience, and has included experiments with interactive media, film installation and sculpture, alongside ongoing moving image work using analogue formats, found film, and cameraless filmmaking amongst other methods.