Color Club Workshop at Beirut Art Center

Color Club is a workshop for ten participants to learn how to operate Super 8 cameras and hand process color reversal films. The workshop will last five days, in addition to one day to screen the films shot and developed during the workshop. The workshop is part of Beirut Art Center’s educational and outreach program, organized by Siska in conjunction with Eric Baudelaire’s exhibition, Now Here Then Elsewhere. Film Processing will take place in The Mansion where the lab is installed.



The theme of the Color Club Workshop is Fukeiron, a theory conceived of by Masao Adachi, a Japanese filmmaker and scriptwriter who first came to Lebanon in the early 1970s and was active with the Red Army Faction during the war. It is a ‘theory of landscape’, a way of reading landscape’s many facets, from a site of fiction to a space for political engagement. 



As an introduction, together with Eric Baudelaire, who has collaborated with Adachi since 2010, Siska will screen some of Adachi’s films on the first day of the workshop. The participants will then conceive of a synopsis for a scene that they would like to shoot over the next four days, adapting the cinema of landscape and anticipating the final edit of their film. They will be working with Kodak Ektachrome 100D film, a format that is no longer being produced as of December 2012. Each participant will work with three minutes of film, devising, scripting, shooting and then developing a scene. Edited together, the scenes will form of a 30 minute film that will be screened to the public at Beirut Art Center and The Mansion.

Participation fee: 30,000 LL

Participants must register in advance. 
Anyone interested in participating must come to a meeting in Beirut Art Center on February 15 at 12:00 p.m. for selection.