It’s the final day of Film Farm ’13. After a week of learning, looking, listening, experiencing, experimenting and falling ever more deeply in love with the power and possibility of analog film processes to transform the world and create community, it’s time to gather it all together and present our films to the group. The work is breathtaking, beautiful, fearless, open, inspiring, and humbling. It has been a truly transformative seven days for all of us gathered here.

Thank you Phil for creating this place and inviting us to be a part of it.

Thank you Janine and Scott for the nourishment.

Thank you Rob, Deirdre, Scott, Chris and Marcel for your teaching, your time, your generosity and your clarity.

Thank you Monika, Kathleen, Terra, Yuval, Maria, Caroline, Eitan, Sirah, Madi, Stephen and Clint for your camraderie and your joyful collaboration in this shared experience.

Thank you all… for everything….

The Film Farm is buzzing with activity as we reach the half-way point in the Independent Imaging Retreat. Shooting, processing, solarizing, matte box experiments, light boxes, tinting & toning, bleaching, time lapse, cutting, splicing, contact printing, animation, hand painting and projecting AND discussions on film manifestos, Expo 67, archiving and the non-necessity of fixing reversal films AND getting interviewed by the great-granddaughter of Jacques Bolsey for a documentary she’s making about the beautiful Bolex AND groundhog, baby rabbit and wild turkey sightings!

Today we get our Film Farm nicknames. I am now officially known as Boss Lady D-Luxe.

The 2013 Independent Imaging Retreat at Phil Hoffman’s Film Farm has begun… and it’s pure cinematic magic.

One day in Toronto…