Dandelion Film Collective

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Founded in 2020 by Derek Jenkins, a filmmaker and lab technician with several years experience running industrial motion picture processes and teaching hand-processing workshops, Dandelion Film Collective is a loose consolidation of artists committed to working with analog film as a medium of expression and a format for exhibition. Following in the footsteps of film cooperatives like LIFT in Toronto, Cineworks in Vancouver, and the Atlantic Film Cooperative in Halifax, as well as collectives like Double Negative and Iris Film Collective, Dandelion Film Collective seeks to provide regional support to filmmakers with a commitment to analog film production. By providing educational and technological support to emerging artists and previously underrepresented groups, particularly artists steeped in Hamilton’s working class milieu, we hope to establish a strong infrastructure for such work in Hamilton and the region at large.

In the ensuing years, Dandelion Film Collective has hosted numerous workshops, events, and screenings, partnering with multiple local organizations in the process. In addition to private workshops in camera operation and creating organic developers, the collective has visited classrooms in the Hamilton-Wentworth School Board district to teach direct animation and facilitated a month-long experimental film practice workshop with Keeping Six Arts Collective. Additionally, the collective has presented an analog film screening by Governor General’s award-winning filmmaker Barbara Sternberg (funded by Hamilton Arts Council) and facilitated projection for a series of Michael Snow screenings at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Partnering with Factory Media Centre, Dandelion Film Collective has organized performances by touring international analog film artists Floris Van Hoof and Roger Beebe, as well as Canadian filmmakers Kyle Whitehead, John Price, and Zephyr (Sylvain Chausée and Adrian Gordon Cook). In fall of 2023, an exhibition of work by filmmaker Franci Duran, curated by Dandelion Film Collective, was mounted at Centre3 for Social and Artistic Practice. The exhibition was supplemented by a screening and filmmaking workshop.

If you would like to know more about the project please email us at <em>info [at] dandelionfilm [dot] ca</em> or follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dandelion_film_collective/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Instagram</em></a>.

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