Sculpting Cinema: The Projected Image as Sculpture is a one-day mentored workshop led by Canadian filmmakers Solomon Nagler and Alexandre Larose presented as part of the 5th Emami Art Experimental Film Festival (EAEFF 2026).
23, September, 2026
11 AM – 5 PM
Ground floor, Gallery 2, Emami Art
The workshop asks a single question: what happens when a moving-image work stops being something you watch on a screen and becomes something you move through? Participants explore how their own films and videos can expand into the contexts of sculpture, performance, and installation. Nagler and Larose guide the group through the conceptual territory of expanded cinema before a group critique in which each participant presents a work-in-progress or a past sculptural-cinema work and receives feedback directed at their future practice.
The workshop draws on Sculpting Cinema (Pleasure Dome, 2017), co-edited by Nagler, which gathers writing on the moving image as it migrates out of the cinema and into the gallery, the street, and the body of the viewer. A reading list will be shared with selected participants ahead of the sessions.
Who this is for. Practising artists and advanced students working in film, video, installation, or intermedia. Places are limited to 10 participants and are allocated by application, not first-come booking, because the critique depends on the work each participant brings. Applicants must submit a short work sample (a moving-image work or documentation of a past installation) with their application.
Solomon Nagler is a filmmaker based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and associate professor of Media Art at NSCAD University. His 16mm celluloid installations engage experimental architecture in galleries and public space and have been exhibited internationally, including at the Toronto International Film Festival. He is co-founder of WNDX Festival of the Moving Image in Winnipeg and co-editor of Sculpting Cinema.
Alexandre Larose is a Quebec-based artist and filmmaker and Nagler's long-standing collaborator on the Situated Cinema projects. His work reworks the material of the film image through in-camera and optical-printing processes, foregrounding grain, duration, and the physicality of celluloid.
Expanded cinema has never been one thing. It is as elusive as a ghostly haunting, with as many configurations as there are artists who practise it. Across two days, this workshop offers a space to find your own.
