“If you can work without any system of regulation or control, then you can increasingly utilize and develop a fresh mode of cinema.”
Masao Adachi
Super 8 film cartridges are 3 minutes long at 24 frames per second, so at the end of the workshop we aim to have 10 films of 3 minutes each. Participants are allowed to use up to two cartridges depending on the nature of their film and are allowed to potentially work together. All the films produced during this workshop have to be shot, processed and ready to screen before the sixth day where the participants will host a public screening in Beirut Art Center’s auditorium.
held for a year-and-a-half he was convicted and released based on the time he had already served. Since his release, he has resumed making films after a 30-year absence.