Corona Cork Film Festival is delighted to welcome Vancouver-based filmmaker and media artist Alex MacKenzie to present his work at this year’s festival. MacKenzie’s work with light projection and expanded cinema is a shining example of the possibilities of self-sufficent filmmaking. He has worked with a variety of independent film organizations over the past 15 years including Mainfilm, Pacific Cinematheque, Cinemworks and Doxa. He was the founder and curator of the Edison Electric Gallery of Moving Images, The Blinding Light!! Cinema and the Vancouver Underground Film Festival.

• Alex MacKenzie - Workshop

  

  Wednesday 4th Nov, 5:00pm, St.John’s College

  Flashes of Light: 16mm Rayogram, Contact Printing and Hand Processing Workshop with Alex Mackenzie hosted by St. John’s Central College.

  Turn the lights off and experiment. This workshop explores the potential of moving image rayograms – the technique whereby a variety of objects are placed on the surface of the film, exposed to light, and processed to negative. Contact printing will also be incorporated into this process, where images of pre-existing found footage are used as source material, manipulated on the surface of the raw film stock, and exposed to create stunning new images.

  Spaces are limited.

• The Wooden Lightbox / The Secret Art of Seeing

  

  | 50mins | 16mm

  Thursday 5th Nov, 7.00pm, The Half Moon Theatre

  It has been said that with the wooden lightbox, his most recent exploration and reconfiguration of cinematic apparatus and emulsion, Alex MacKenzie has perfected the art of film projection. At the core of his approach is the use of a homebuilt, hand-cranked 16mm projector in an expanded cinema format to present a striking array of handmade and processed emulsion.

  Using the early development of cinema as a marker for cultural, technological and economic change, these film cycles (10 “chapters” presented over the course of 4 reels) draw from turn-of-thecentury cinematic prototypes and long forgotten ideas surrrounding the moving image and its early promise. Hypnosis, panorama, motion studies, expectation, magic, the dreamworld and sleight of eye conspire in this intimate and immersive framework.

  MacKenzie throws us back to a time when audience expectation was open, inviting us to sit with him as he performs live in a space where both screen and projection are part of the spectacle.

  Film performance will be followed by a questions and answers session conducted by the National Sculpture Factory who have kindly supported this programme.