Workshop and Screening: floppy disk filmmaking – workshop and screening installations by Florian Cramer 
Saturday, November 2
1 pm – 5 pm

Workshop (limited to 6 participants): With its tiny capacity, slow speed and glitchiness, the 3.5″ floppy disk is a difficult medium for moving images. However, its constraints can be embraced as a creative challenge, and as a learning tool for understanding data compression and the messy analog hardware underlying digital technology. In this workshop, participants will learn how to make their own moving images on floppy disks using Open Source software. No previous technical knowledge is required. Participation is limited to 6 people. Please bring your own laptop, if you have one.

Installation (open to general public): Parallel to the workshop, visual poetry Super 8 film loops (based on texts by Ernst Jandl and Moor Mother/Camae Ayewa) and select floppy disk films will be screened.

Join us Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, October 27 for Cinematic Oktoberfest, a weekend of FREE screenings by two terrific visiting German artists-in-residence: Florian Cramer and Dagie Brundert! There will be German-themed refreshments!

Saturday: filmmaking as zinemaking: diy moving images from rotterdam, netherlands by fcr

Sunday: Dagie Delights: New Films From A Recent Residency

These events are made possible by Wunderbar Together: Germany and the US,  an initiative funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by Goethe Institut and supported by BDI The Voice of Germany Industry.