As part of the Münster Film Festival and Kulturrucksack NRW, the Filmwerkstatt Münster organised a workshop for children and young people aged 10 to 14 during the summer holidays from 10.07. to 14.07.2023 entitled “Manipulated Film”.
The aim of the film week was to create a short film by creatively exploring analogue film. The group asked themselves what can be done with analogue and digital film and how manipulation works with the medium of film. Classic film processes were played through and tested – writing texts collectively, working on analogue film, working in the darkroom on 16mm flat print film with flat print technology and collecting sounds. The result was a creative journey into analogue film production.
The films premiered on 11 September 2023 at the Münster Film Festival in the Schloßtheater Münster. The young filmmakers were there to present the films they had made on the big screen and answer questions from the audience.
Manipulate (8 min)
A film by: Janne Büscher, Johanna Huck, Paul Caplan, Elisa Kalu, Jonathan Drautz, Juli Aepkers, Daniela Loffe, Linnéa Brormann, Lars Pätzold, Maja Pilati and Jana Nestler
This film contains scenes that could trigger epileptic seizures in viewers with epilepsy.
Are the days of analogue film over? Eight film-makers aged between 10 and 14 show that this is not the case. The group has rediscovered the romance of analogue film. The fragile 16mm projector with its unmistakable light-sound, touching the material and working directly on the film, the magic of the analogue medium. They used various objects and materials to manipulate, expose, develop and alter films.
This is because the manipulation of videos is both highly topical and part of our everyday lives. In the film, the children and young people tell us what they personally associate with manipulated images and where they come into contact with manipulation in their everyday lives.
The hybrid film format with digital sound collages and analogue, experimental images by the young filmmakers invites us to reflect on the topicality and magic of the analogue and at the same time to critically question today’s possibilities of manipulation.
This project is funded by the state of NRW, Kulturrucksack NRW and the Münster Department of Culture.
