events.
Artist talk
Heidi Piiroinen
19.10.2023 kl(o) 18 @ Filmverkstaden
Welcome to Filmverkstaden for an artist talk by photographer and filmmaker Heidi Piiroinen.
Heidi has been the current artist-in-residence at Filmverkstaden in our Analogue Adventure programme. She has been working on filmmaterial for her project Vapaita huoneita / Available Rooms, which will be shown at Raumo Taidemuseo in 2024. She will present her work and research done during the residency and the project as a whole.
Kindly supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, Gesellius Fond, Nygréns Stiftelse, William Thurings Stiftelse and Svenska Kulturfonden.Heidi Piiroinen is a photographer and a filmmaker. She worked as a press photographer for the Finnish daily paper Helsingin Sanomat until February 2022. She graduated from the Turku Arts Academy in 2002 and studied photojournalism at the Lahti Institute of Design in 2002-2004. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Berkeley, where she studied documentary film 2015-2016. Her debut film Black Hole Mama premiered at DocPoint in 2017. Recent solo exhibitions: Galleria Uusi Kipinä, Lahti (2020), The Invisibles -story of a beggar family, Finnish Museum of Photography (2018). Recent group exhibitions and festivals: Drift, Museum of Impossible Forms (2021), Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa (2021), Photographic centre Nykyaika, Tampere (2022).
Filmscreening + live cinema
Charles-André Coderre
23.9.2023 kl(o) 19 @ Draama-Sali, Vaasa City Library
Filmverkstaden is honoured to host an evening of films by Charles-André Coderre (CAN). The filmmaker is present!
The event is free and co-hosted by Elokuvakeskus Botnia.
H2T
2014 | 5′ 39
45
2013 | 3′ 14
Gazelles In Flight
2015 | 5′ 15
Granular Film- Beirut
2016 | 6′ 51
Reminiscences of 15 musicians in Beirut attempting a re-imagination of the Egyptian classic Ya Garat Al Wadi
2021 | 13′
Particles
2020 | 6′ 53
L’ocelle mare ‘Sans Chemin’
2021 | 3′ 31
Montréal/Sutton
2020 | 3′
Work in progress
2023 | 10′
La noirceur souterraine des racines
2023 | 10’
Kindly supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, Gesellius Fond, Nygréns Stiftelse, William Thurings Stiftelse and Svenska Kulturfonden.
Charles-André Coderre lives and works in Montreal. Dedicated to analog cinema techniques, he is a member of the Montreal collective Double Négatif. He has directed several experimental short films (H2T, Granular Film - Beirut, La noirceur souterraine des racines). He also works on 16mm live projections for several performances and music concerts such as Fractures Chimiques, Jerusalem In My Heart (2014-2019), Jessica Moss. Since 2017, he co-organizes the OK LÀ! music & expanded cinema series in Verdun (Canada).
Presentation
Julia Widgrén
6.9.2023 @ Venny space, 2. floor, Library of Vaasa
Filmverkstaden is happy to host an evening on the photographer Julia Widgrén (1842-1917) from Vaasa and will hold an open public event in the Venny room of Vaasa Library on Wednesday 6 September 2023, 17:00-19:00.
Photographer Hanna Koikkalainen, journalist Anne Puumala and art historian Heta Kaisto will give a short presentation on Julia's life, work and significance. There will also be a free discussion and information gathering about Julia's life. Our team is collecting all kinds of material and information related to Julia's life. Even small pieces of information will help us to move forward. The project will result in a book and an exhibition combining contemporary art and historical research.
At the event, it will be possible to scan old photographs that the project is collecting for background research.
We welcome you to view old photographs and tell stories about Julia, the history of
photography in Vaasa and to map the history of a successful photographer from Vaasa together!Kindly supported by Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, Gesellius Fond, Nygréns Stiftelse, William Thurings Stiftelse and Svenska Kulturfonden.
Hanna Koikkalainen
Hanna Koikkalainen is a photographer who deals with collective memory, memories, landscape change, relationship with nature, folklore and stories. She has a MA and graduated from Aalto University's School of Art and Technology in 2010, majoring in photography, and she has also studied documentary film, photojournalism and cultural history. She has published two photo books: "Lakkauttu kylä" and "Raja". The photo book "Border" about the border regions of Finland and Russia was chosen as the most beautiful book of the year 2016. Koikkalainen works and lives in Uusimaa and South Karelia.
http://www.hannakoikkalainen.com/
Hanna is artist-in-residence of the Analogue Adventure program. During her residency, she will work on a project about photographer JuliWidgrén, in collaboration with the prison of Vaasa.
Exhibition
Oleksii Karpovych & Mariia Dovhan
21-31-7.2023 @ Makers Gallery Vaasa
Opening + Artist Discussion Friday July 21st at 19:00h
Filmverkstaden is happy to present an exhibition by our current artists-in-residence Mariia Dovhan and Oleksii Kaprovych.
More info coming soon
This exhibition is kindly supported by Artists at Risk, Perpetuum Mobile, and The Ministry of Education and Culture
Filmscreening
Presence Dispersing into Ground
14.4.2023 kl(o) 19:00-20:30 @ Draama-Sali, Vaasa City Library
A talk and a film screening on process, landscape and hapticity, curated by Maria Ångerman.
Presenting works by Ana Pérez Bravo, Inger Lise Hansen, Niap, Tatiana Philippova and Maria Ångerman.
A collaboration between Filmverkstaden and Elokuvakeskus Botnia at Draama-sali Friday 14.4 at 7 pm.
Sweet Live Cinema
H&M and Riojim
1.4.2023 kl(o) 18:00-19:30 @ Draama-Sali, Vaasa City Library
Come and enjoy an evening of live cinema and analogue film screening, organised in collaboration with Filmcentrum Botnia.
H&M
(Mariangela Pluchino & Helena Aleksandrova)
‘Cake Discharge’
A stream of solarised sugar, industrial nostalgia, clouds of nicotine, miel de amor and the blurred line between craving and desire. Starring Etienne Caire aka Riojim.
This performance is the result of the Analogue Adventure Residency of Helena Aleksandrova and Mariangela Pluchino.
Photo taken, processed and developed by Gunnar Bäckman
Riojim
'Deep Flatness'
Performance for a 16mm projector Duration : 30 min.
The screen is flat. Film is flat. How do we get in ?In the black beating of shutters things penetrate, ghostly, as islands which have not received their name yet.
A 30 minutes performance in which RIojim plays with his 16mm projector in an instrumentist gesture, creating deep breath out of a frenzy chromatic flush of celluloid, the projector singing it's uncanny, sometimes funny, 50 hertz lullaby.
This performance is the result of the Spectral Residency of Etienne Caire., organised within the framework of SPECTRAL project, in collaboration with Baltic Analog Lab.
Live Cinema
with
OJOBOCA and Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki
4.3.2023 kl(o) 20:00-21:30 @ Draama-Sali, Vaasa City Library
Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki
"Pieces that matter"
What is hidden in simple figures and shapes? What space opens up at the junction of the abstract image and concrete depiction? What is hidden in the trivial mechanism of folding and unfolding? What kind of quantity can be drifted by a small scrap of paper that suddenly gets noticed?
By using 16mm film and analogue projecting power I want to reveal the physical nature of these small pieces in order to tell about themselves.
OJOBOCA
DISTANT FEELER
Goliatus & Carábida (1977-1997)
The Distant Feeler was a contraption created by the artist duo Goliatus & Carabida. It
was the result of their attempt at creating a telepathic cinema; a project they worked
on from 1977 to 1997. What is left of their project are the remnants of a device they
called “Distant Feeler” and a manifesto with the title “Distant Feelings or signs of a
perfect lover”. From these remnants, which we were fortunate to find, we’ve created
our own version of the device. However, we cannot claim that it is a true replica of the
original. We tried to reconstruct the machine but much of what we found was broken
or had no discernible use. Luckily, the slides were in reasonably good shape.
For this talk we will recount the history of this contraption, along with a demonstration
of its effect, as we imagine it might have functioned. We will also show you its
constitutive elements separately so that you may understand the nature of its illusion.
Finally, we will read the artists’ manifesto.
OJOBOCA
Instant Life
The three films you will see are shot-for-shot reproductions of the compilation film Instant Life (1981). Each film in Instant Life (1981) was a remake of an earlier film also called Instant Life (1941). The earlier Instant Life (1941) was a single film, not a compilation.
In 2017, we decided to recreate Instant Life (1981). We did not attempt to recreate Instant Life (1941) because that Instant Life is lost. Instant Life (1941) was a silent film presented with live musical accompaniment. After the show, audience members received a printed riddle. Instant Life (1981) is a sound film. The riddle is part of the film. No answer to the riddle exists.
Co-directed with Andrew Kim.
Live Cinema Performances
Gaëlle Rouard
3.2.2023 kl(o) 20:00-21:30 @ Draama-Sali, Vaasa City Library
Come and enjoy live cinema performances by french filmmaker, alchemist and performance artist Gaëlle Rouard.
Unter
2011 B/W 16mm 20minThe sea foams and bubbles. Gray white bleak everywhere.
Chasms and mountains. Water... only water! And nothing to absorb it all!
Other shattering shock. Brief look round of the chief. The needle progresses unperturbed.
First the sonar!
Water Diving and silver in the depths, lift up to the light and ice. Gaëlle Rouard is at the helm of the ship. Followed her gaze.Zooscopie
2012 color 16mm 15minFor the cold winter, the pouring rain, the short wavy, the violent storm, the early frost or something like that, if the fall of the leaves is late, if the smoke rises straight, if it falls, if the leaves swirling or if the dust makes the vortex, if the frogs repeated to the swamps their monotonous complaint, and when the prevailing winds become favorable.
M…H
2016, 16mm b/w&color 36min
Inspired by O.W. himself being by W.S.Knok Knok Knok
Awake Awake
Ring the alarum bell
Up, up and see.Knok Knok Knok
Shake of this downy sleep : confusion now hath made his masterpiece,
and damned be him that first cries 'hold, enough'
Knok Knok
Who's there in the name of Beelzebub ?
Ring the bell !
-such a hideous trumpet-Knok Knok - never at quiet
what are you ? Who's there in the other devil's name ?
Arm Arm and out !
As from your graves rise up
-and look on death itself-FREE
Filmverkstaden organises this event in collaboration with Filmcentrum Botnia, with generous support of Taike, Svenska Kulturfonden and Vaasa City.
Gaëlle ROUARD (1971, France) is a filmmaker, alchemist and performance artist. Since the early 1990s, Rouard has been making handmade films, specialising in film processing. She is a longtime member of Le 102, rue d’Alembert, a venue dedicated to diffusion and creation of experimental music and film. Rouard also facilitates workshops in different contexts, from art schools to individual teaching. She develops and explores various methods of chemical processing of film. With performances around the world, she experiments with the possibilities of live multi-projection, both in collaboration with various people and in solo acts. Rouard led the do-it-yourself film lab Atelier MTK in Grenoble for 12 years, until 2006. Her work as been shown in various screen all over the world.
Artist talk
Dima Starusev and Azar Saiyar
31.1.23 kl(o) 18 @ Filmverkstaden
Filmverkstaden invites to a back to back artist talk, presenting our 2 artists-in-residence, Dima Starusev and Azar Saiyar.
Dima will introduce us to his artistic practice. The residency is part of our program inviting Ukrainian artists to Vaasa.
Azar will talk about her journey into analogue film and show the results of her residency which is part of our Analogue Adventure program.
Dima Starusev
Dima Starusev was born in Makiivka, Ukraine, in 1984. In 2012, he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (majoring in film direction), and in 2018 from the Rodchenko School for Photography and Multimedia in Moscow.
In his artistic practice, Dima engages with analogue and hybrid photographic processes, their sense of unpredictability, tactility and handmade character that allow the viewer to perceive each work as a unique physical object. The emotional dimension of reality expressed in abstract compositions and through the medium of photography, is of primary importance in his work.
Filmverkstaden came into contact with Dima through the non-profit organisation ARTIST at RISK (AR).
The residency is generously supported by the Finnish Ministery of Education and Culture.
Azar Saiyar
Azar has been experimenting with finding various ways to make images.
In a workshop conducted by Melissa Dullius, she experimented with developing colour print stock with the E-6 colour positive process.
She has also included experiments with phytograms, photograms, contact printing and eco processing.
Azar's residency was generously supported by TTaike, Eteläpohjanmaan Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Harry Schaumans Stiftelse and the City of Vaasa
Artist talk and pop up exhibition
Paola Guzmán
3.11.2022 kl(o) 18:00 @ Makers' Gallery, Vaasa
Welcome to join us at Maker's Gallery for the artist talk and pop-up exhibition of Paola Fernanda Guzmán Figueroa, a Colombian and Finnish visual artist based in Helsinki since 2013. She works with film, installations, and time-based arts. Her works reflect and deal with issues around mobility, family relationships, and aging. Paola has a BA and MA in time and space from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki.
During the Analogue Adventure residency at Filmverkstaden, Paola created various experimentations with 16mm film. She used elements including hair, water and aquariums to explore different techniques such as photograms, phytograms, contact print, bi-pack and tri-pack techniques. In addition, Paola learned two new techniques from the guest artist Lindsay McIntyre (CAN) who taught monoflex and mordançage techniques. These techniques have enriched Paola's artistic research and work and she will continue developing them in the near future.
Paola's residency was generously supported by TTaike, Eteläpohjanmaan Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Harry Schaumans Stiftelse and the City of Vaasa
Artist Talk Surabhi Nadig
30.09.2022 kl(o) 18:00 @ Filmverkstaden
Welcome to join us at Filmverkstaden for the artist talk of Surabhi Nadig, who has been our first artist in residence within the Analogue Adventure-program where Finland-based artists have the possibility to experiment with analog processes during a month.
Surabhi Nadig is an Indian writer and visual artist based in Helsinki. She has an MA in Creative Sustainability (design) from Aalto University. Her practice concerns with interconnectedness of ecology and society. The medium of photography functions as a tool for self-reflection, self-expression, and connecting to surrounding landscape and society.
During the residency she worked on an ongoing project related to the Kvarken archipelago and the fishing community with different methods of image making such as analogue photography and cyanotype. Discovering print making in the dark room and playing with different analogue cameras has been the highlight of the residency.
The program has been generously supported by
Taike, Eteläpohjanmaan Kulttuurirahasto, KulturÖsterbotten, Harry Schaumans Stiftelse and the City of Vaasa
Hand and Machine
Hand made 16 mm films by Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie
20.5.2022 20-21:30h @Draama-sali, Vaasa City Library
The filmmakers are present.
Free entrance.
Cinema was the first inescapably mechanical art. But in this post-mechanical age, the traditional apparatus of cinema has all too rapidly been deemed obsolete and primitive. Yet the handing over of industrial machinery to anti-industrial users represents one of the prime creative opportunities for re-appraising and re interpreting the nature of ourselves as
transformed by the age of machines.
Post mechanical age, the humanness of the machine can be made evident. Post mechanical age, machine craft is the new hand craft. This program presents seven recent film works from Australian diy cine experimentalists Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie exploring the primitive apparatus of cinema and the relation between hand and machine.Organised in collaboration with Elokuvakeskus Botnia
Supported by
Taike
Svenska Kulturfonden
City of Vaasa
