Alive again: Explore DIY filmmaking through artists’ moving image and creating your own films with Jennifer Lauren Martin

This session provides introductory practical skills for making moving image work, with attention to framing (science) fictional worlds within a single frame or setting. Exploring techniques like the long take and the loop, and aspects of the visual structure of film, you’ll be given an introduction with reference to artist filmmakers like Steve McQueen and Stuart Croft.

Experiment with peers and share ideas; working together, you’ll create a scene and film short video portraits.

The workshop takes its name from a line in Octavia E Butler’s ‘Dawn’, part one of the trilogy ‘Xenogenesis’. In ‘Dawn’, Lilith Iyapo awakens into an unexplained captivity; Butler describes these many awakenings in silo and the repetition in a single setting of encountering that, alas, you are, ‘Alive! Still alive. Alive…again.’

No prior experience needed, just bring yourself! Spaces are limited in this workshop, arrive early to sign-up for a slot in the workshop. Workshop sign-ups will take place at the door to the workshop space (G16)

Jennifer Lauren Martin is an artist, writer/director and writer based in London whose work grapples with questions of interpersonal belonging. Their UK solo exhibitions have been held at Kingsgate Workshops, Primary, and Turf Projects. Lauren Martin's works have been exhibited and programmed across the UK and internationally, including at Tate Britain, ICA London, LUX Moving Image, Somerset House, South London Gallery, The Showroom, The Douglas Hyde Gallery (IRE) and Olympia Arts (USA). Lauren Martin was awarded as a Film London Lodestar Artist Filmmaker in 2021. They are a resident of Somerset House Studios and co-director of not not/nowhere, a black and POC-led analogue film co-op. Part of Upgrade Yourself Takeover: Jenkin van Zyl.