Experimental Filmmaking Deep dive

8-session workshop (bi-weekly Jan. 28 - May 5)

15 spots available.

In this 8-session workshop over 4 months, participants will explore and practice experimental filmmaking strategies as a way to self-reflect and connect. You will learn technical aspects of making a film including scripting, shooting, and editing. And also, we will reframe each phase to embrace magic, ritual, expression, experimentation, and self-discovery. Over our time together, you may develop a project. Or make a film. Or uncover a truth. Or play. This is a deep dive – an in-depth offering with abundant resources, prompts, and opportunities. We will go on this journey together and build creative community with one another along the way.

No film experience required.

What to expect:

Each meeting will include a demo/tutorial of a filmmaking technique, strategy, or tool, practice time, prompts for reframing and reflection, and space for sharing and connecting.

In between meetings, creative prompts, resources, and accountability support will be offered.

At the end of our time together, we will gather for a mini film festival to share our films and experiences.

Your project may be a video poem, a collage film, a personal essay, an object study, a mini documentary or fiction, a meditation, or something else entirely. This is for you if you want to go on the journey of  making a film, with your own exploration and transformation at the center of your process.

Possible schedule:

Week 1: Hello + Welcome! Containers for Creativity

Week 2: Camera Channeling, Ritualizing the Record Button

Week 3: Mining Your Personal Archive + Intuitive Editing

Week 4: Writing + Scripting + Poetry

Week 5: Prop as Memory, Memory as Prop, Spatial Sensing

Week 6: Sound + Silence, Listening + Asking Questions

Week 7: Body as Material, Seeing + Being Seen

Week 8: Mini Film Festival + Celebration

DAYS + TIMES

Every other Sunday

3:00 - 5:00pm Pacific Time / 4:00 - 6:00pm Mountain Time / 4:00 - 7:00pm Central Time / 6:00 - 8:00pm Eastern Time

(2 hours w/ a break)

January 28th, February 11th and 25th, March 10th and 24th, April 7th and 21st, May 5th 2024

Please plan to attend all sessions as they will build on each other and as a way to honor the trust and space we will co-create together.

One 30-minute 1-on-1 support session with Amanda will be available for each participant to talk through an idea, work through a technical sticking point, or receive direct feedback.

Tech Specs + Access info

Tech Specs:

It may be helpful to have a pen and paper for notes.

You will need a phone with audio and video recording capabilities. You are also welcome to use a camera if you have access to one.

You will need a phone, tablet, or computer for editing.

Free and paid app and software recommendations for shooting, recording, and editing will be offered.

You do not need any specific film or technical experience. Tools, strategies, demos, and tutorials will be offered for working with video.

Access Info:

We will be meeting via Zoom. Join the workshop by computer if you are able.

Zoom sessions may include breakout rooms and will include use of the chat function.

Please have your camera on if possible. You are welcome to turn it off at anytime if that is supportive to you.

You are always welcome to eat, stretch, and care for your body during sessions.

In any session over 1 hour, we will take breaks.

You will receive communication via email before, in between, and after sessions with zoom link, details, and materials.

Pricing

For 16 hours of facilitated meeting time, resources, tutorials, and communication before, in between sessions, and after, and one 30-minute 1-on-1 support session per participant.

Please use this sliding scale to choose an appropriate amount.

AT COST: $350

Please consider paying this amount if doing so would be an investment but not create hardship, if you are able to regularly meet your basic needs, can travel every couple years without burden, have some expendable income, and have some debt but are able to pay it regularly. This is the rate I need most folks to contribute for this offering to be sustainable.

A LITTLE MORE: $450

Please consider paying this amount if you are comfortably able to meet your basic needs, own the home you live in, have paid or pay for private education, travel recreationally, have access to financial savings and/or investments, have reliable work or do not have to work to meet your needs, have inherited wealth, and/or have increased earning privilege due to your race, gender, or education. This rate makes it possible for me to work with more folks who need a lower rate.

A LITTLE LESS: $250

Please consider paying this amount if you have limited expendable income, have little or no access to financial support from family, have significant debt, and little or no access to savings. This is a discounted rate. 3-4 available per workshop.

PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT:

1-2 spots per workshop available for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Please reach out if this is right for you.