Fluid Blue [Direct Animation Workshop on 16mm film]

Fluid Blue [Direct Animation on 16mm Film]

Instructor:  Yue Hua
Organization: Cambridge Art association

Date/Time
Tuesday April 14 from 1-4:30pm

Location
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, 25 Lowell St. Cambridge MA

Admission
$75 CAA Members
$90 General Admission
Maximum enrollment: 16

Workshop Description
Join us for a hands-on, beginner-friendly Direct Animation Workshop at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery. In just 3 hours, you’ll hand-paint, scratch, collage, and experiment directly on 16mm film—no camera needed—to bring your own animation to life.

Materials: No strict requirements. Feel free to bring any ink, paint, blue tape, or other painting tools you’d like to use. The instructor will provide both blank and vintage used film for students to choose from.

Screening: At the end of the class, students will exhibit their “art films” on a 16mm projector.

Instructor
Yue Hua (she/her) is a (Chinese-American) filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who uses analog film, expanded cinema, and digital media to explore cross-cultural identity , language, and the female experience from a personal lens. Her work, often incorporating personal narrative and cultural background, dismantles traditional roles and empowers women through visual storytelling. She is drawn to film as both material and metaphor: luminous yet vulnerable, recording light and time while bearing the marks of decay. Through analog processes such as scratching, hand-coloring, eco-printing, and weaving discarded 16mm strips, she allows natural forces such as weather, plants, and sunlight to shape outcomes.

Her films and performances have been featured internationally at film festivals and galleries, including Revolution Per Minute Film Festivals, Mono No Aware Film Festival, Millennium Film Workshop Channel, Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Brooklyn Film Festival, and AVIFF le festival du film d’artiste. Yue holds a BFA from the China Academy of Art, majoring in film and television production, and an MFA in Film and Media Arts at Emerson College. She is a recipient of the UFVA Carole Fielding Grant, Emerging Artist Award from RPM Festival, New England Local Filmmaker Award, and I-Park Residency at CT, and has served as a teaching fellow at Emerson College and RISD.

Parking & Public Transportation
We are closest to the Harvard Square T stop on the Red line. We are then a 15-minute walk, or we are on the 71 and 73 bus routes.

There is a small parking lot to the left of 25 Lowell Street; Cambridge Permit parking is available on Lowell Street, as well as neighboring streets. There is also metered parking on Mount Auburn Street, and paid public parking at the Mount Auburn Hospital for $8. Please note that there are road closures on Mount Auburn.