RIO TAPE-SLIDE PROJECT

The Rio, in conjunction with Hackney Community College, runs a popular Tape-Slide course in the basement studio, on Fridays 10am - 3pm.

• Are you interested in photography, film video or installation?
• Do you have ideas you would like to visually explore, and have screened at the Rio?
• With or without previous experience, this is the course for you.

Tape-Slide can be compared to film, but has its own elegance and power. It combines projected images with a programmed or live soundtrack. Tape-Slide shows are regularly seen at exhibitions, clubs, conferences, and in theatre/ dance performances.

The RIO TAPE-SLIDE COURSE will develop your understanding of images, storytelling, storyboarding, sound mixing, and the relationship between image and soundtrack. It also provides an opportunity to have your work screened publicly in 2005.

You will be offered professional technical and critical guidance, and be encouraged to develop and express your own ideas.

Graduates have used the experience gained at the Rio to develop/ further their careers, or gain places in higher education. Past work has been selected for the London Film Festival.

• All  facilities are available on site
• Course accredited by the London Open College Network (LOCN)
• The Rio Tape-Slide Project is jointly run by the Rio Cinema and Hackney Community College. (Concessionary fee £7.00 per term)

For further information call 020 7241 9415, drop in during class hours on Fridays or email to: tapeslide@th3village.org

SPRING INTO FILM

February and March sees the start of an exciting programme of special activities, courtesy of funding support from the London Borough of Hackney's Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and Cultural Forum.

Amongst the activities on offer are:

1) Schools screenings for local Primary and Secondary Schools.

2) A Shadow Puppets Filmmaking workshop for children during the half term holiday.

3) Short Film Course for Turkish-speaking adults

4) Video Production course for Kurdish young people.

5) Evening workshops on Black Visual Artists and Film Makers

6) In-school media workshops.

Many of these activities will be free for Hackney residents.

FURTHER INFORMATION

1) SCHOOLS SCREENINGS

The Rio is offering all Hackney schools free morning screenings for schools in February and March 2005. Any teachers discussing ideas and options are encouraged to contact the Rio (Charles on 7241 9415 or charles@riocinema.org.uk).

Some options include:

• A programme of short films as an aid to Literacy teaching supported by a session leader and with teaching packs available for subsequent classroom use.

• Films relating to the school syllabus as requested by teachers.

• An introduction to arthouse cinema for secondary schools featuring screenings of Ken Loach’s KES and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s THE PROMISE (La Promesse).

• Recent popular children’s films as end of term treats or as rewards for good attendance records.

• Any other films requested by schools.

To encourage an interactive experience, the Rio will wherever possible provide session leaders to introduce the films and chair short discussions afterwards.

2) SHADOW PUPPETS FILMMAKING WORKSHOP

Where did the first storytelling come from?

Shadow puppetry could be imagined to come from the days of caveman paintings and the paintings themselves were just what was left behind from the Storytelling shadows they cast against the walls of the cave.

Filmmaking itself incorporates all of the arts and stories which came before.

So how better to learn the craft of filmmaking than through using shadow puppetry.

The workshop is for children from 9 to 16 years of age and will provide an introduction to the filmmaking process – from finding the story, making the puppets, structuring the ideas, shooting the film, making the soundtrack, editing and finally watching the finished film on the big screen.

The course will be run by Damian Barnecutt, a recent National Film & Television School graduate, and other industry professionals will be there to help.

The workshops will take place from Tuesday 15 to Friday 18 February in the Rio basement from 10am to 5pm daily.

The whole course costs just £5. Priority will be given to Hackney residents. Residents of other boroughs are welcome to apply and will be offered any remaining places. The Rio basement is fully accessible.

Entry to the course is by a simple application on the reverse of this form and must be received by the Rio Cinema no later than 12 noon on 7 February. We will contact successful applicants no later than the 9 February and the course fee of £5 will be payable on the first day of the workshop.

A do it yourself step-by-step filmmaking shadow puppetry workshop pack, will also be available on the Rio web site to download at the beginning of the scheduled shadow puppets filmmaking workshop.

Click here to download a leaflet/application form (pdf). For more information, please contact workshop@riocinema.org.uk or telephone the Rio on 020 7241 9410.

3) Short Film Course for Turkish-speaking adults

The Rio Cinema and Balik Arts are organising a short video film course for Turkish speaking adults, starting in February. Participation in the course is free and is only open to Hackney residents.

The course will run until the end of March with 3-hour sessions on Sundays at the Rio Cinema.

The course will provide participants with an introduction to:

• Basic cinema theory
• Scriptwriting
• Digital camera, Light and Sound techniques
• Editing

The course participants will shoot and direct a short film which will be shown in the 13th London Turkish Film Festival.

To join the course, please either phone Balik Arts on 020 7254 7897 and leave your name and contact numbers or e-mail your details to balikarts@btconnect.com.

4) Video Production course for Kurdish young people.

The course will be run by the Kurdish Film Festival Organising Committee.

Details to be announced shortly.

5) Workshops on Black Visual Artists

Wednesdays 9, 16, 23 and 30 March 2005
7pm - 9pm in the Rio basement meeting room

A series of four workshops, led by freelance lecturer Peter Ashan, looking at the work of painters, sculptors, photographers and filmmakers. An opportunity to explore and uncover the hidden contribution, Britain's diverse communities have made and are making in arts and culture.

Wed 9 Mar - The Pioneers
Black Visual Artists in Britain 1920 - 1940.
The Black American experience in the Harlem Renaissance.

Wed 16 Mar - The Empire Strikes Back
The Caribbean Artists Movement.
Filmmakers: Lionel Ngakane, Lloyd Reckord.

Wed 23 Mar - Radical Campaigners I
The Black Arts Movement

Wed 30 Mar - Radical Campaigners II
Black Independent Filmmakers

To attend the workshops, please email workshops@riocinema.org.uk, or telephone Charles on 020 7241 9415 or just come along on Wednesday 9 March.

Course fee: £6/£4 Concs

6) In-school media workshops

These will be provided by the Rio/Community College tape Slide tutor, Rob Rainbow and aim to provide simple activities that take place in lesson time. The sessions are for KS3 children and will involve multi disciplinary creative activities that aim to engage students and help them to create cinematic elements relevant to their experience. Techniques used will involve accessible time based activities such as flick books, spoken and sampled audio recordings, mini disc, and rostrum dv stop frame, and will draw on students’ existing schoolwork, hobbies and interests. These approaches will challenge students expectations and produce sympathetic material quickly. Gathered elements will inform and feature in production of a short film showing the animated results. Opportunities will also be explored for developing work generated in the classroom in subsequent in depth sessions at the Rio with a view to creating a piece to be screened in the cinema at the end of the programme.

For more information, please telephone Rob at the Rio on Friday between 10am and 3pm or email: tapeslide@th3village.org