Workshop Registration

Editing on Film

NOTE: It is recommended that participants wear a mask for all in-person workshops.

Learn the operations and edit your next (or first) motion picture film with LIFT's 2020 manufactured Steenbeck film editorial machine. This workshop is geared towards those interested in the traditional analogue art of filmmaking and is intended to build the foundational knowledge of working with celluloid. Participants will have an overview of film editing, discuss the tools and expendables for prepping a print, explore operations and setup for traditional 16mm, S16mm and 35mm formats. 

In addition, participants will learn to use Steenbeck's digital film-to-video transfer component working with digital interface (720p for 16/S16mm and 576i for 35mm) and gain hand-on practice on the system.

Topics will include: Image projection, sound sync, splicing, cutting, sorting, creating a workprint, preparing for neg cutting, and creating final prints.

Participants are welcome to bring their own film footage to practice for this combination lecture and hands-on class.

The Camera Theory workshop is recommended as a prerequisite. This workshop is recommended as a companion to the Cinematography Fundamentals, Super 8 Filmmaking Intensive​, Bolex, Arri SRII 16mm and Aaton XTR Prod Super 16mm Cameras, Darkroom Play with 16mm Colour Film and Hand Processing Colour Film workshops.

Sat 13 December 2025, 11 am - 3 pm   
(Registration deadline is Fri 12 December 5:00 pm)

Instructor: Christine Lucy Latimer

Christine Lucy Latimer is a lens-and-time-based media artist from Toronto, on Treaty 13. Latimer's moving image work excavates the influence of capitalism and planned obsolescence on 20th-century moving image technologies. Repairing and resuscitating discarded film and tape elements in hybrid gestures, she orchestrates freak anachronistic dialogues between the photochemical, photoelectric and digital. Her work has been featured in hundreds of film festivals and gallery exhibitions across five continents. A career-spanning Blu-ray survey of her work will be released on Canadian experimental film imprint BLACK ZERO in June 2025. https://vimeo.com/christinelucylatimer



Location: 1137 Dupont Street, Toronto, Ontario M6H 2A3
Category: Post-Production and Digital Tools
Maximum Capacity: 4
4 hours of instruction $75 /member$100 /nonmember