Techniques for Interactive Cinema

TECHNIQUES FOR INTERACTIVE CINEMA
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP FOR INDEPENDENT MEDIA ARTISTS

Technological advances are now enabling approaches to cinema previously unimaginable. Interactive movies, video mixing and even video games are forcing filmmakers and audiences alike to redefine the ways in which they engage in cinema. This workshop will investigate various techniques and theories that might be employed in the creation of an interactive cinema, be that narrative, experimental or something in between.

In conjunction with Cineworks’s presentation of The Soft Revolution, an interactive cinematic installation, this workshop offers an opportunity for those interested in interactive techniques to engage with artists Brian Johnson and Anthony Roberts in an intimate environment of exchange.

Techniques for Interactive Cinema
24 January 2009
Interurban Gallery [1 East Hastings]
Cost is $35 for members/$50 for non-members

Registration: Please call 604.685.3841 or send an electronic message to Leanne at [email protected].

Registration Deadline: 21 January 2009

Instructors: Brian Johnson’s current field of work challenges the traditional parameters of filmmaking by inviting immediacy and improvisation into the cinematic experience. He is a member of the Truth Channel-an ongoing collective of artists working in the emerging forms of multimedia and performed cinema.

Anthony Roberts is a writer/director, composer and teacher. He has worked on a number of groundbreaking film and multimedia projects whose concerns range from interactivity to improvisation to surrealist collage. In 1990 he formed The Truth Channel with filmmaker Bill Mullan-an experimental multimedia group that has co-produced over two-dozen installations/performances.