With Ruth Somalo, Andrés Senra, Raisa Maudit, Tiffany Hopkins, Theo Cuthand & Bradley Eros

How can we define ritual? How are artists using ritual in their work to affect emotional states and physical processes? Can we think about conscious and unconscious processes being expressed in ritualized actions while embedded and represented through video and cinema?

In this 3 day workshop, we will explore the potential for moving-image to create, portray and document new ways of enacting and understanding rituals and magical practices.

Through screenings, conversations and exercises with artists and practitioners we will be guided through creating a ritual process involving the moving image in order to help us transform, memorialize, and document aspects of our lives.

Learn more and sign up on the Union Docs website.

Schedule

Friday, Oct 27: 10:00AM - 4:30PM

10:00am – 10:30am Welcome & intros – Workshop presentation with Ruth Somalo
10:30am – 12:30pm Intro session with Ruth Somalo and Andrés Senra
12:30am – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm – 4:00pm Session with Bradley Eros
4:00pm – 4:30pm Wrap Up Discussion with Lead additional exercises / discussion (tarot card reading asking: “what should I consider while making my ritual piece?”

8:00pm – PUBLIC SCREENING in collaboration with Storm and Drunk:

Films:
-THE VAMPIRE MANIFESTO, Raisa Maudit, 20min (2021)
-OPEN SESAME, Bradley Eros, 7min (1989)
-RITUALES QUEER, Andrés Senra, 22 min (2020)
-MEDICINE BUNDLE, Theo Cuthand, 10min (2020)
-GRAVITY (WIP), Ruth Somalo, 10 min (2023)

Saturday, Oct 28: 10:00AM - 4:30PM

10:00am – 10:30am Warm up, inspiring references, case studies with Ruth Somalo
10:30am – 12:30pm Session with Theo Cutland (Via Zoom)
12:30am – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm – 4:00pm Session with Raisa Maudit
4:00pm – 4:30pm Wrap Up Discussion with Lead, additional exercises / discussion

Sunday, Oct 29: 10:00AM - 4:30PM

10:00am – 10:30am Warm up, inspiring references, case study, eye training with Ruth Somalo
10:30am – 12:30pm Session with Tiffany Hopkins Mediumship and creativity
12:30am – 2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm – 4:00pm Work-in-progress with Ruth & Andrés
4:00pm – 4:30pm Wrap Up Discussion with Lead, additional exercises / discussion