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16mm Oxberry Animation Stand
Learn the basics of how to operate LIFT’s 16mm Oxberry animation camera. The versatile rostrum camera is a creative tool that can be used not only to shoot animation, but also for filming photographs and artwork, titles for 16mm films, etc. In this fun, hands-on workshop, participants learn how to load the film magazine and thread the camera, how to light the animation stand, how to execute in-camera fades and dissolves, how the peg bars can be used to register artwork, and how the various movements of the rostrum camera work, including the zoom, lateral and vertical movements and rotations. The 16mm Oxberry animation stand is an excellent tool for beginning animators or filmmakers using graphic arts materials in their work. It allows a high degree of control of materials and camera or background movement, but is simple to use and easy to learn.
The Camera Theory workshop is strongly recommended as a prerequisite. Free work time credit must be used before Friday April 27, 2012. Non-members must use their included rental time during LIFT office hours (Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm).
Instructor:
Chris Gehman is an animator, curator and critic based in Toronto. His most recent film, Refraction Series, premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, and won an award at the 2009 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Other films include Rostrum Press: Materials Testing (2008), First Dispatch from Atlantis (1993) and the award-winning Contrafacta (co-directed with Roberto Ariganello, 2000). Chris was Artistic Director of the Images Festival from 2000 to 2004, and has also worked as a programmer for Cinematheque Ontario, TIFF, and Pleasure Dome. He has written extensively on independent animation, and is the co-editor (with Steve Reinke) of the critical anthology The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema (yyz Books, 2005).
