Hand-Cranked Movie Machine Workshop

Hand-Cranked Movie Machine Workshop

With Wendy Marvel and Mark Rosen

Saturday, January 27 (Noon - 2pm)  at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery

$60+$25 materials fee= $85 CAA Members

$75+$25 materials fee= $100 General Admission

Maximum number of attendees: 20

Registration closes Monday, January 22 at 5pm

Required: 

Please come prepared with a few of your own short videos. Format should be LANDSCAPE mode on your phone at approx. 5-10 seconds each. Your video will loop with each crank of the machine. Tips for your video: Capture broad gestures, with good contrast and not too complex or intricate. Laptop is helpful but not required. 

Dive into an afternoon of DIY magic as art duo Marvel & Rosen guide you through creating your very own hand-cranked movie machine. The workshop includes constructing your Fliposcope (kit supplied), and applying your imagery onto the Blank Cards with Labels. They will mentor you through the process of transforming your personal video into a 24-frame flipbook animation using image editing software and their own online tool. By the end of the workshop you will see your flip-scene flutter to life!

Please join us and create your very own time-based narrative — crafted into a nostalgic mechanical keepsake.

This workshop is presented in conjuction with the CAA exhibition on view in January:

{a}temporal | Through diverse mediums, artists share their unique narratives and invite viewers on a storytelling journey. Each artwork – whether lived or imagined, occurring in the past, present, or future – serves as a reflection on the multifaceted ways that individuals communicate stories. In {a}temporal, time-based painting, photography, sculpture, video, graphic design, and mixed-media artwork articulate individual narratives and encourage contemplation.

Included with this workshop:  Fliposcope Maker

Wendy Marvel and Mark Rosen are the creative duo behind FlipBooKit (https://www.flipbookit.com/) and Mechanical FlipBook (https://www.mechanicalflipbook.com/).

They’ve been inventing artful kinetic devices for over a decade, transforming obsolete technologies into modern machines. Their dedication to the vanishing art of handcrafting has led them on a surprising journey that’s included scavenger hunts in aerospace junkyards, competing on a Discovery Channel show for Myth Busters, the development of an award winning toy, and international collaborations with Leica, Tim Burton, Ringo Starr, and many others.

Their home and workshop is currently in Ithaca, NY.