June 7th, 2018
In the drawing on film project students produce a short animated 16mm film in a day, working in ways both familiar and unfamiliar, using, however, a medium that most will not have encountered before, the thin strip of celluloid that carries the images. Although the project is called Drawing on Film, drawing skills as such aren’t essential: images can be made using printing, stenciling, perforating, rubbing and a range of other methods. It’s an excellent way of learning to work with time in a measured and calculated manner, and the processes lead to fundamental insights into the principles of how moving images are generated.
Nicky Hamlyn is a film and video maker and writer on artists’ moving image. He studied Fine Art at Reading University and is Professor of Experimental Film at UCA, Canterbury. He is currently working, with Vicky Smith, on a collection of essays on experimental animation to be published by the BFI later this year. Nicky is a tutor on Visual Communication.
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