Please email production@emmedia.ca to register.

“Jawa: Those scavengers of modern myth, stealing and salvaging technology and remodelling it for their own purposes. Nomadic pirates of the alien wasteland. Jawa began (1996) as a violent reaction to the misuse of video as a literal, narrative, identity focussed, and time-based medium. Fast, rhythmic edits of sex and violence, both catered to and encouraged the dissipation of the attention span of its audience. Today, jawa video seeks to transform and re-contextualise mainstream media. It has evolved into audio-visual musical and composited layers in which the clips are the source of both what is seen and heard. The sound track is now and always will be the image track.”


Excerpt from the Jawa Manifesto, revised 2008. Written by Tasman Richardson, edited by Elenore Chesnutt.

Tired of using video as a poor substitute for film?
Think the tired parade of derivative cinema should be tossed on the fire? 
Want to attack the spectacle with it’s own arsenal?

BRING YOUR: laptop, any timeline video editing software i.e. Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, disdain for conventional narrative, passion for juxtaposition, lust for immediacy.

Together we will observe, practice, and understand the Jawa Method as founded in 1996 by Tasman Richardson, taught by Tasman Richardson in person.

Date: Friday, June 24, 2016
Time: 1-5PM
Location: EMMEDIA Screening Room – 351 11 Ave. SW, 2nd Floor
FREE (Limited seats, registration required)