One-day workshop with Labo K (Rennes)

9.03.2025

How to contact print using the Bolex camera ("bipacking")

Fill the form to join the workshop or send us an email for questions: polarfilmlab(at)gmail.com

Good to know: Come wearing old clothes that can get stained and chemicals on.

The iconic Bolex camera is a multifunctional tool in analogue filmmaking, loved for its swiss-army-knife capacity to do everything you could want ‘in-camera’. For this one-day workshop, the artists from Labo K introduce participants to using the Bolex as a printer, not as a camera!
This technique makes it possible to contact print in the camera (‘bipacking’), looping with positive and negative film, and also allows for positive and negative in one image. There are exciting experimental possibilities for making copies and manipulating the image making process.

Labo K is a collective lab of filmmakers based in Rennes, France, since 2014. Labo K’s artists create films, performances, installations and set up training workshops around the use of super8 and 16mm. Their lab is akin to a playground.


We ask for a limited fee of 150kr to cover some of the costs of materials, but if you are unwaged/low-waged get in touch as we have some free spaces. We aim to make Polar Film Lab as accessible as possible, for as broad a group as possible, and aim to offer as much free or on a ‘Pay what you can’ framework as possible - if you receive project funding or have an income, we ask that you help us keep doing what we are doing by paying a small fee.

As part of the workshop we will provide: Film stock, equipment, chemicals, our time and some different experience working with different analogue equipment/formats, lunch and coffee :)
What you provide: Cooperation, any knowledge that you have, and a (loose) idea of something you would like to film.