Workshop Registration

Super 8 Filmmaking Intensive (Shooting and Processing)

This hands-on workshop is a kick starter to get you going on experimenting with Super 8 filmmaking. Learn the various aspects of operating a Super 8 film camera, hand processing then projecting; taking advantage of the unique features of this format and all analog creation.

With the guidance of your instructor, participants will learn the specifics of the Super 8 format and some camera techniques. Exposing using the various capabilities of the camera, we'll explore and shoot a group cartridge in both black and white and colour. Next steps will include and introduction to negative and reversal processing techniques, and the group will have an opportunity practive processing wtih the black and white and colour cartridges of film. The day will be completed with a group screening and discussion. Beginners and experienced filmmakers alike will find this workshop informative and inspiring.

Super 8 Filmmaking Intensive includes access to:
- Super 8 camera introduction and shooting
- Super 8 introduction to film processing and developing
- Super 8 introduction to film projection
- Super 8 Film Stocks: KODAK TRI-X 7266 Black and White Reversal Flim and KODAK EKTACHROME 7294 Colour Reversal Film

This workshop includes all film, darkroom chemistry, and supplies for use during the workshop. There is an opportunity to receive a digital copy of the film that was shot and processed following the workshop (must be communicated to LIFT on registration via email at workshops@lift.ca).
 
LIFT’s Camera Theory workshop is a prerequisite for the Super 8 Filmmaking Intensive. This workshop is recommended as a companion to the Experimenting with Super 8​, Animating Analogue​, Bolex 16mm Cameras, Arri SRII 16mm and Aaton XTR Prod Super 16mm Cameras, Darkroom Play with 16mm Colour Film, Hand Processing Black and White Film and Hand Processing Colour Film workshops.

Sat 28 February 2026, 10 am - 6 pm   
(Registration deadline is Sat 28 February 9:00 am)

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: Filmmaking Intensive
Maximum Capacity: 5
8 hours of instruction $185 /member$210 /nonmember
Registration opens
Tue 13 Jan at 10am