Phillip Gentile, filmmaker and teacher, will conduct a camera-less workshop. After an introductory presentation with examples of experimental camera-less film, participants will create an animated film on 16mm leader. Participants' films will be screened with music at the end of the workshop.

Phillip Gentile is an independent filmmaker who also teaches film studies in the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi. His areas of teaching expertise include film history and theory, film production and animation. His areas of scholarly interest include documentary film, postwar American avant-garde film and cinematic representations of masculinity. His film Cursive was awarded Best Experimental Film at the 6th Annual Crossroads Film Festival. His most recent work, Words and Pictures From the Book of Wonders premiered at the Mississippi Film & Video Alliance Emerging Filmmakers Showcase in 2007.