LECTURE SIX
REGENERATING OUTDATED FILM MATERIALS
Lecturer: Adrian Cousins
LECTURE SIX
In his lecture Adrian Cousins will show his hands-on processes and try-outs to revive expired and obsolete film stocks, like his latest research on Kodachrome processing with colour couplers.

Almost every mainstream film production ends-up with raw film material waste. Mostly in the form of short-ends (film left over from a shoot, short-ends from a roll too short for a next scene), sometimes full rolls of raw film stock that ends up in a fridge (or a shelf), to be kept and/or forgotten for years. Just becoming waste at some point, as being expired or outdated, too unreliable to shoot with, but hard to throw away by its owner knowing its original (economical) value. Many such rolls of film have found their way to our film lab. In a variety of types and sensitivities. Expired or outdated (raw/unexposed) film materials, we should not see this as waste but an artistic practice challenge!

Adrian Cousins, aka the custom chemistry anorak, is based in London. He mainly works with expired and obsolete film that he develops by hand at home in custom-made, often organic material based, chemistry. His Super8 and 16mm films are an account of his life and the small world around him. Suffering from a chronic illness that brings him good days and bad days, the footage and processes he uses reflect his well-being at that particular point in his life.

From Adrian: I work in the spirit of Mekas’ statement “I make home movies – therefore I live. I live – therefore I make home movies.”
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LECTURE SERIES
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LECTURE 4
LECTURE 5
LECTURE 6
LECTURE 1
LECTURE ONE
26 June 2021
Alternative image-making processes
Lecturer: Hannah Fletcher
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LECTURE TWO
17 July 2021
Silver-gelatin (light sensitive) emulsion making
Lecturer: Esther Urlus
LECTURE THREE
28 August 2021
Developing with plants
Lecturer: Ricardo Leite
LECTURE FOUR
18 September 2021
tinting & toning with plants
Lecturer: Joanna Mayes
LECTURE FIVE
16 October 2021
Pioneering to capture an image with light
Lecturer: Mark Osterman
LECTURE SIX
13 November 2021
regenerating outdated film materials
Lecturer: Adrian Cousins