Plant Cinema Workshop at Silo City with Kathryn Ramey

Wednesday, August 21, 6–8 pm
@ Silo City (85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY 14203)
$10 general | $7 members
Open to ages 16+
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In this one-time workshop by visiting filmmaker and Workspace Resident Kathryn Ramey at Silo City, the filmmaker will show participants how to expose and process 16mm film with plants. Participants will use plant materials from Silo City’s environment, that they will develop and expose with a sodium carbonate and vitamin C mixture. Ramey will then show participants how to fix their films, upon which they’ll let them dry and project them on site.

The event will take place at Silo City; please gather promptly at Duende (85 Silo City Row, Buffalo, NY 14203) at 6 pm. Squeaky Wheel members can email ekrem@squeaky.org for their discount code ahead of checking out. Special thank you to Olivia McCarthy and Silo City.

About the artist and our partner

Kathryn Ramey (1967), Vancouver, WA / USA. A Guggenheim and Creative Capital fellow with an MFA in film and a PhD in anthropology who has made over a dozen films and installations, contributed numerous articles to anthologies and journals and written the essential text Experimental Filmmaking: BREAK THE MACHINE (2015). Her films operate at the intersection of experimental analogue processes and ethnographic research and are characterized by hand-processing, optical printing, and animation. She has screened at several festivals such as Toronto, Ann Arbor, TriBeca, Ji.hlava, and 25fps, among others.

Silo City is a unique post-industrial landscape comprised of the world’s largest collection of historical grain elevators. We create and host happenings on site through our 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization that operates under the legal name Friends of Silo City. Click here to learn more.

This workshop is presented as part of the Workspace Residency program. Learn more here.

Banner image provided by Kathryn Ramey. Sage leaves from a volunteer plant in the artists garden are harvested, soaked in vitamin C and sodium carbonate, placed on undeveloped black and white film and left in the sun. The leaves print themselves onto the film which is revealed when the film is run through a weak fixer.