About a month ago, on 28 April, it was World Pinhole Day, and although I submitted my entry to the WPPD website I forgot to make a post to remind me of my little sojourn in the fields behind our house.  I happen to have the worst pinhole lens ever created, perhaps the worst lens ever created, the Thingyfy Pinhole Pro S. The Thingyfy is an 11mm focal length pinhole lens with a 120° wide-angle…

HAPPY WORLD PINHOLE DAY!

Though we can’t show you our new films at the Fieldhouse right now, we can give you some insights and stills showing what we have been working on.

For her new film, Amanda Thomson spaced 4 pinholes according to 16mm film sprockets and attached them to a super 8 cartridge. The super 8 was hand cranked to expose the roll, processed at the field house, then bi-packed with 16mm print stock and contact-printed in her Bolex. She shot mostly Kodak Tri-X (black and white film stock) with a bit of 7213 (colour negative) and printed to 7363 (black and white high contrast titling stock) and Kodak 3383 (colour release print stock). This is eye popping stuff.

Alex MacKenzie constructed a 59-frame pinhole camera out of a large 35mm film can which was then loaded with a loop of very low ISO raw 35mm film stock (fine grain Kodak 5234 panchromatic black and white), exposed for between 30 and 60 seconds all-at-once to create an outward looking panorama. Some of the loops were shot upright, and some horizontally, then all processed by hand at the Fieldhouse. Frenetic!

We look forward to showing you these films in person when the time is right.

HAPPY WORLD PINHOLE DAY!

Though we can’t show you our new films at the Fieldhouse right now, we can give you some insights and stills showing what we have been working on.

For her new film, Amanda Thomson spaced 4 pinholes according to 16mm film sprockets and attached them to a super 8 cartridge. The super 8 was hand cranked to expose the roll, processed at the field house, then bi-packed with 16mm print stock and contact-printed in her Bolex. She shot mostly Kodak Tri-X (black and white film stock) with a bit of 7213 (colour negative) and printed to 7363 (black and white high contrast titling stock) and Kodak 3383 (colour release print stock). This is eye popping stuff.

Alex MacKenzie constructed a 59-frame pinhole camera out of a large 35mm film can which was then loaded with a loop of very low ISO raw 35mm film stock (fine grain Kodak 5234 panchromatic black and white), exposed for between 30 and 60 seconds all-at-once to create an outward looking panorama. Some of the loops were shot upright, and some horizontally, then all processed by hand at the Fieldhouse. Frenetic!

We look forward to showing you these films in person when the time is right.

NOTE: We are disappointed to be postponing this event out of an abundance of caution given the current gathering restrictions in place in Vancouver. We want to bring a crowd together for this, but now is unfortunately not the time. Thank you for your enthusiasm and until we meet again! In the meantime, stay tuned for other non-gathering things we are getting up to. Thanks all!

INFINITE DEPTH OF FIELD: PINHOLE CINEMA AT BURRARD VIEW PARK

New Works by Amanda Thomson & Alex MacKenzie Sunday April 25, 9pm 545 N Slocan St. and on Instagram @theirisfilmers

(Outdoors, masks on, 2 metres apart)

World Pinhole Photography Day is this Sunday April 25th and we are excited to be presenting two new films by Iris Film Collective members Alex MacKenzie and Amanda Thomson created exclusively using pinhole techniques. Both films are site specific, using the collective’s Burrard View Fieldhouse park as inspiration and jumping off point. And while pinhole is most known as a still photo technique given the long exposures required, we ramped it up and are pulling out all the stops with a variety of techniques using 16mm and 35mm cine-film to create some stunning abstracted pinhole magic.

Outdoors, masks on, 2 metres apart, thank you!

NOTE: We are disappointed to be postponing this event out of an abundance of caution given the current gathering restrictions in place in Vancouver. We want to bring a crowd together for this, but now is unfortunately not the time. Thank you for your enthusiasm and until we meet again! In the meantime, stay tuned for other non-gathering things we are getting up to. Thanks all!

INFINITE DEPTH OF FIELD: PINHOLE CINEMA AT BURRARD VIEW PARK

New Works by Amanda Thomson & Alex MacKenzie Sunday April 25, 9pm 545 N Slocan St. and on Instagram @theirisfilmers

(Outdoors, masks on, 2 metres apart) 

World Pinhole Photography Day is this Sunday April 25th and we are excited to be presenting two new films by Iris Film Collective members Alex MacKenzie and Amanda Thomson created exclusively using pinhole techniques. Both films are site specific, using the collective’s Burrard View Fieldhouse park as inspiration and jumping off point. And while pinhole is most known as a still photo technique given the long exposures required, we ramped it up and are pulling out all the stops with a variety of techniques using 16mm and 35mm cine-film to create some stunning abstracted pinhole magic.

Outdoors, masks on, 2 metres apart, thank you!

Iris Film Collective are pleased to announce that today, April 26, 2020—Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day—we are initiating a collective project entitled INFINITE DEPTH OF FIELD: PINHOLE CINEMA AT BURRARD VIEW PARK.

This project will result in a series of works that focus in on various aspects of the Burrard View Park area—industry, history, community—all shot with some version of moving image pinhole camera using cine-film. These may be altered motion picture cameras, variations on homemade hand-cranked versions, or brand new gimcrack inventions of our own.

We’re excited to explore this medium and rise to an interesting challenge most of us have only played with in the past (and never to completion).

The finished film materials will exist in many forms - as loops, single channel works, and performances.

We will be digging into our Fieldhouse Fridge to scrape together remnant stocks from past projects and use up stock we have in our own freezers at home.

The challenge begins today.

Iris Film Collective are pleased to announce that today, April 26, 2020—Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day—we are initiating a collective project entitled INFINITE DEPTH OF FIELD: PINHOLE CINEMA AT BURRARD VIEW PARK. 

This project will result in a series of works that focus in on various aspects of the Burrard View Park area—industry, history, community—all shot with some version of moving image pinhole camera using cine-film. These may be altered motion picture cameras, variations on homemade hand-cranked versions, or brand new gimcrack inventions of our own. 

We’re excited to explore this medium and rise to an interesting challenge most of us have only played with in the past (and never to completion). 

The finished film materials will exist in many forms - as loops, single channel works, and performances. 

We will be digging into our Fieldhouse Fridge to scrape together remnant stocks from past projects and use up stock we have in our own freezers at home. 

The challenge begins today.