One-Day / Weekend Workshops

Northwest Film Forum classes and workshops are designed to instruct filmmakers on both the mechanical skills required in current filmmaking technology and the artistic application of tools to explore the critical and emotional range of the cinematic experience. Classes and workshops are taught by working artists: filmmakers, writers, producers and editors.

Explore filmmaking by doing it. We do not want you to make a commitment you are uncomfortable with; we offer a wide range of classes and workshops that can be taken at whatever pace you prefer. Whether you are new to the art and plan to plunge into filmmaking as a career or you have purchased your own equipment and wish to drop in on a few certifications to learn more, our classes are for you. The Film Forum's curriculum offers a complete education in nearly all aspects of filmmaking. Multi-session classes meet weekly and offer in-depth, hands-on experience with filmmaking tools, while one-day workshops offer both insightful lectures and practical techniques on current filmmaking topics.

 

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Fearless Filmmaking with Bradley Beesley

Monday, Feb 27, 6–9pm

Instructor: Bradley Beesley
Tuition: $12/member, $15/general
Max Attendance: 25
 
Bradley Beesley must have a million stories. His films are wide and varied, with topics ranging from penitentiary rodeos to bare-handed catfishing to Christmas on a Mars space station. Most of his films have earned the credential to hold long lasting cult status, but when considered altogether, his body of work reveals the mind of a director who simply has a keen interest in action-packed stories and oddball characters. Beesley will be showing clips from his documentaries Fearless Freaks (an intimate portrait of the Flaming Lips) and Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo while sharing some of the engrossing stories about the making of the films.
 
 
 

Disruptive Media: A Workshop in Tactical Media Art and Activism

 Disruptive Media A Workshop in Tactical Media Art and Activism

Wednesday, Feb 8, 6:30–9:30pm
Instructor: Tyler Jacobsen 
Tuition: $25/members, $30/general 
Max Attendance: 15
 
Through a series of technology-based case studies and video work, attendees will explore innovative techniques used to reverse engineer and manipulate the mainstream media as a means to question the status quo of the information exchange. This workshop can be seen as guide to the creative forms of activism used as a response to the continued consolidation of mass media and the marginalizing effect this has had on alternative perspectives. Following the tradition of the Computer Hacker, workshop participants will learn how to artists, activists and practitioners of this tactical form of media have achieved maximum media penetration. We will look at interventionism that utilizes everything from primitive technologies, collaboration and performance, to highly tactical, electronic and net-based approaches.  By the end of the workshop attendees will learn how they too can work as cultural producers to further their own activist causes.