As part of this year’s 2025 edition (May 23–25, Berlin), Fracto will be hosting a hands-on workshop on 16mm film and analog experimental practices. Participants will learn to make motion pictures and looping sound with a very economical tool: simple adhesive tape! Unfolding over the course of three mornings, students - armed with film leader, simple adhesive tape and a bucket of water - will learn to “paste” printed matter onto 16mm film frames, each ultimately producing a short loop (approximately ten seconds in length). We will then segue into making our own cassette tape loops, splicing by hand and re-recording onto them.

Participants will leave with their very own 16mm collage and reusable audio cassette tape loop.

Dates: May 23–25, 2025, 10 am – 2pm. Location: ACUD Studio

Participation is limited to 20 participants and pre-registration is required. Workshop fee: 70 €

FILMMAKER BIOS
Christin Turner (b. 1985, USA) is a Berlin-based filmmaker whose work seeks to change our ideas of the past with a new and more modern outlook. For her, video and audio are malleable forms enabling a multi-layered sedimentary approach to image-making. She is a member of Labor Berlin, and her 16mm films and videos have played at festivals and galleries worldwide.

Christian Flemm is a personal filmmaker, curator and laboratory technician who lives and works in Berlin. He practices Medium Intimacy, a devotional approach to filmmaking that resists the accelerations of digital through narrow-gauge images made for bedroom walls.

This course is designed as an introduction to direct animation techniques, and is intended for artists of all ages.