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      • FESTIVAL OVERVIEW 08–12 AUGUST

        THURSDAY 08

        09:00–15:00 Workshop Moving Stills with Luis Macias

        18:00 Opening exhibition Places of Unrest and Restoration

         

        FRIDAY 09

        09:00–15:00 Workshop Moving Stills with Luis Macias 

        17:00 Welcome in Draama-sali

        17:15 Performance Moving Stills by participants of the workshop with Luis Macias

        18:00 Performance Nanacatepec by Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo

        20:00 Film Programme I

         

        SATURDAY 10

        09:00–15:00 Workshop Camera Obscura with Brendan Barry

        09:00–15:00 Workshop Organic Film Development and Tinting with Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo

        17:00 Performance Hypnos Theatre: Offering to the Spirits of Juniper by Ellen Vikström and Henrik Sørlid

        18:00 Performance I Can’t See the Sixth Sun by Luis Macias

        20:00 Presentation Martin Grennberger, Stefan Ramstedt, Julia Mettenleiter Film Programme II

         

         

        SUNDAY 11

        09:00–15:00 Workshop Camera Obscura with Brendan Barry

        09:00–15:00 Workshop Organic Film Development and Tinting with Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo

        17:00 Performance Pulsos Subterraneos by Elena Pardo

        18:00 Performance Ebb and Flow by Lichun Tseng and Robert Kroos

        20:00 Film Programme III

         

         

        MONDAY 12

        09:00–15:00 Workshop Camera Obscura with Brendan Barry

        09:00–15:00 Workshop Cyanotype with Anders Bigum and Gry Björge

         

         

        Workshops

        Exhibition  

        8-9.8 Moving Stills with Luis Macias

        The 2-day workshop is mainly practical and the participants will learn how to create, intervene and develop color 35mm slides and explore creative ways of live projection with multiple carousel slide projectors. It regards the projector as a tool and the slide as a non-static image.The workshop ends with a collective improvised expanded cinema exercise at the opening night of the festival.

         

        10-12.8 Camera Obscura with Brendan Barry

        This 3-day workshop guides participants through the transformation of a camera obscura which will then be used to capture ultra large scale paper negatives of the view from the space. The prints will be exposed directly onto giant sheets cut from rolls of photo sensitive paper and processed using a pop up darkroom constructed inside the camera itself.

         

        10-11.8 Organic Film Development and Tinting with Elena Pardo & Azucena Losana

        In recent years, there has been a growing concern to find photographic development methods that are less harmful to the environment. The active ingredients necessary to develop film have also been found in many plants. In this 2-day workshop, you will shoot on 16mm black and white negative film, prepare organic developer and tint, develop the film and tint found/existing footage.

         

        12.8 Cyanotype with Anders Bigum & Gry Björge

        The possibility of printing photographic negatives on an inkjet printer has caused a renaissance for historical processes like cyanotype, salt print, palladium and carbon prints.

        The classic cyanotype process is usually used to contact print flowers and shapes. In this one-day workshop we will introduce a hybrid workflow to print photorealistic print with the cyanotype process from digital negatives and enhance the final look with herbal toning.

         

        Exhibition Places of Unrest and Restoration

        Opening 8.8 at 18. Open 9-11.8 from 12-16.

         

        The pop-up exhibition “Places of unrest and restoration” features projects that explore various intersections of ecology and feminism, ranging from personal experiences to site-specific investigations. The exhibition was initiated during an artist book workshop facilitated by paula roush, which Filmverkstaden organised a year ago.

         

        By experimenting with analog and alternative image-making techniques, the artists Janika Herlevi, Tatiyas Filippova, Patricia Rodas and Maria Ångerman, alongside paula roush, contribute to the discourse of The Silver Record, a project that delves into resource extraction and silver-based filmmaking, enriching it with their diverse viewpoints and approaches.

         

        Expanded Cinema Performances

        Film Programs

        Moving Stills

        A collective improvised performance by the participants of the workshop by Luis Macias.

         

        Nanacatepec - Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo

        Inspired by Nanacatepec—a rock permeated by a mycelium network without a defined shape—its mushrooms are portrayed as agents of creation and transformation of everything in the world.

         

        HYPNOS TEATER: offering to the spirits of Juniper - Ellen Vikström and Henrik Sørlid

        Plant flesh slowly and purposefully penetrating mineral flesh, drawing out of it subterranean babies 3 years in the making - maturing and ripening with the revolving seasons - cycles of yellow, green and blue-black elixirs.

         

        I Can’t See the Sixth Sun - Luis Macias

        Nature, man's cosmovision and the need of living meaning of the world to understand how it was created and thereby control it... and destroy it. Then...is the sixth sun coming?

         

        Pulsos Subterraneos / Underground Pulses- Elena Pardo

        An expanded cinema performance that observes and listens to visible and underground territories, both physical and intangible, in two regions of Mexico that currently experience or resist mining activities: Zacatecas and Oaxaca.

         

        Ebb and Flow - Lichun Tseng and Robert Kroos

        ‘Ebb and flow’ is inspired by the I-Ching, the book of change, Yi (Increase). Yi is a message about expansion and fullness. It is simply another cycle of life as it flowers, decays, and achieves rebirth. Ebb and flow, darkness and light, life and death…

         

        Filmprogramme I

        The films in this program explore the possibility of thinking about and with other than humans, through micro and macro worlds that exist beyond the scope of our human eyes. Curated by Britt Al-Busultan

         

        Filmprogramme II

        This program collects some of the filmmakers and artists that have been part of our broader curatorial and publishing endeavors throughout the last ten years.

        Curated and presented by Martin Grennberger, Julia Mettenleiter and Stefan Ramstedt

         

        Filmprogramme III

        The eco processes involved in making these films do not only show us the possibility of a sustainable future, they show that that future is already here. Curated by Britt Al-Busultan

         

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        ASSEMBLING IMAGINATION

        film screening

         

        Michael Fleming

         

        6.4.2024 kl(o) 19 @ Filmverkstaden, Opistotalo, Vaasa

         

        Filmverkstaden is happy to present an evening with works by Michael Fleming.

         

         

        !Content and Trigger Warning (violence, mature and Photosensitive epilepsy content)!

         

         

         

        SHOWT!ME (2022, 14 min)

        Music: Aaron Michael Smith

        Our consumer society is dominated by show, the "outside world" passes us by as a long stream of images without much meaning. We have become passive spectators of pictures from popular culture, the media and advertising, we are swallowed up by them and experience less and less difference between image and reality, yearning for sovereignty, wanting to be transcendent, for liberation and looking for cohesion, justice, reason, coherence and like-mindedness. In short; control versus loss.

        Entangled in this dichotomy, the intertwining, the intermingling of waste and utility brings us into a supplementary tension; drowning in this void in search for an eternal present!

         

        TIK-TAK (2000, 12:06)

        Music: Aaron Michael Smith

         

        “What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? It means to know that one is food for worms.
        We emerge from nothing, we have a name, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die.
        Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever. It is a terrifying dilemma to be in and to have to live with. ....Tik-Tak.

         

        Never Never Land (2018, 09:15)
        Music: Aaron Michael Smith

         

        Never Never Land is about our obsession with physical perfection, our domination and wanting to control everything. Not only being the perfect human being but also creating him. Chance is replaced by choice.
        This idea that all is possible and engineerable arises the belief that even our fantasy is realizable. ‘Shaping my life’ this becomes our individual main goal; our life as a project.
        In our greedy 'me-itis' we want to fully explore ourselves, create our ultimate dream. Our demand to be 'Homo Perfectus', being Superman, the DIY-made Uber-God 3.0!

         

        The Garden of Delight (2017, 11:36)
        Music: Aaron Michael Smith
        Musicians:
        Timothy Paek – Cello
        Yeji Oh - Piccolo
        Elisabeth Shafer - Trombone
        John Demartino - Double Bass
        Shanon Rubin - Clarinet & Bass Clarinet
        Janny Joo - Violin
        Sean Gill - Percussion

         

        Three scenes reflecting on paradise, lust and hell.
        In ‘the Garden of delight’ beauty and evil go together like in a dream. We
        dive into a world of erotic derangement, inhabited by dancing lovers,
        lustful mutated baboons, tropical birds, deformed pin-ups, butterflies and body-builders.
        This hand-manipulated collage film, made entirely out of 35 and 8mm found-footage, explores the marriage between heaven and hell, our irresolvable endless conflict that goes with human nature.
        Inspired on the triptych ‘the Garden of Delight by Jheronimus Bosch.

         

        Over&Over (2016, 08:01)
        Music: Aaron Michael Smith

         

        A 35mm found-footage hand-manipulated collage film focusing on the depiction of fear and revenge seen in commercial cinema. Manipulating our fear of mortality, it suggests we decimate what threatens us. The surface of the film material has been treated in the same way: peeling, scalping, cutting, and burning the image.

         

        The Rapture (2014, 05:03)
        Music: C. Marclay, A Finely Tailored Jitbag

         

        A pulsating bombardment of images about our insatiable pursuit of perpetual happiness and freedom from fear. A frame by frame hand manipulated 35mm celluloid collage film, the found footage is augmented by stills that were taken from various magazines, then distorted and deformed.

        AVALANCHE (2013, 10:57)

        An experimental, found-footage, hand manipulated, cameraless 35mm celluloid film.This collage film is about the perpetual image flood we receive daily. Loaded with iconographic images of consumerism and amusement . The film releases an overflow of our own popular culture to the viewer.

         

        Free entrance

         

        Made possible with support of Nordic Culture Point ,Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, Gesellius Fond, Nygréns Stiftelse, William Thurings Stiftelse, Svenska Kulturfonden and Filmcentrum Botnia

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        Michael Fleming is an Amsterdam based visual artist.
        In essence his work appropriates iconic cultural images, altering them to highlight underlying issues.
        His ‘moving paintings’ are primarily made out of found footage, using feature films, advertising and pop-cultural scenes completed into a mesmerising montage of images.
        Flemings work has been featured in exhibitions and film festivals internationally.

         

         

        https://www.michaelfleming.com/

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        EXPERIMENTS FOR A SINGLE PROJECTOR

        Live cinema

         

        Alex MacKenzie

         

        9.3.2024 kl(o) 19 @ Draama-Sali, Vaasa City Library

         

        Filmverkstaden is delighted to host an expanded cinema evening with our special guest from Canada – Alex MacKenzie who will present “Experiments For a Single Projector” using a 16mm film projector for six expanded cinema performances.

         

        “Experiments For A Single Projector” explores the potential of the 16mm film projection apparatus. Amplifying the possibilities of this refined and precise tool, this suite of expanded and performed works uses the mechanism to its fullest potential; manipulating, modifying and enhancing various aspects of its functionality. Found footage, painted filmstrips and light are transformed with beam interference, bipacked looping, focus, lens and shutter alterations to create radically transformed and dreamlike spaces—epic, immersive, and abstracted. The results shimmer across the screen, uniting “the cosmic with the microscopic...in an ecstatic splendour of light” (Marilyn Brakhage).

         

        Our days are numbered (6 mins )
        Black and white leader pulses inside and outside of the projector, snaking across the screen and counting down to its own reappearance.

         

        Phosphene (12 mins)
        A single painted film loop in tandem with carefully orchestrated lens interference induces a variation on closed-eye vision and non-light hallucination: a subtly immersive and sublime sculpting of light.

         

        Mall Emotions (13 mins)
        Two magenta loops from a vintage french film promoting early shopping mall culture are bi-packed and manipulated beyond the lens, creating a dreamlike dimensional space whose shadowed figure tries to find a way out of the delusion of capital. Audio by Clare Kenny (Eyelickers, Giantess, Skiimask, What’s Hot, Electrosonics).

         

        Inogon Light (6 mins)
        Inogon lights are shoreside beacons, wherein a moiré effect creates arrows that point towards an imaginary line marking a hazard or line of safe passage; as navigators pass over the line, the arrows on the beacon appear to become vertical bands before changing back to arrows pointing in the reverse direction.

         

        One in Five (10 mins)
        A repurposing of the opening moments of an NFB classic addressing poverty in Canada: faces explode, melt, blur and flash; dreams and nightmares unravel, eyes look but can’t see, lives are ruptured.

         

        Granular Flight (15 mins)
        A short 16mm found film is radically transformed live using an analog variation on pixel stretching to build washes of colour and depth in tandem with a kindred technique (granular synthesis) supplying the soundtrack to this new way of seeing. An epic, immersive, and abstracted colourfield film performance. Audio by Stephen Wood (Multiplex Grand, Kensington Gore, The Battles, Destroyer)

         

        Free entrance

         

        Made possible with support by Nordic Culture Point and the city of Vaasa

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        Inogon Light (6 mins)Inogon lights are shoreside beacons, wherein a moiré effect creates arrows that point towards an imaginary line marking a hazard or line of safe passage; as navigators pass over the line, the arrows on the beacon appear to become vertical bands before changing back to arrows pointing in the reverse direction.

         

        One in Five (10 mins)A repurposing of the opening moments of an NFB classic addressing poverty in Canada: faces explode, melt, blur and flash; dreams and nightmares unravel, eyes look but can’t see, lives are ruptured.

         

        Granular Flight (15 mins)A short 16mm found film is radically transformed live using an analog variation on pixel stretching to build washes of colour and depth in tandem with a kindred technique (granular synthesis) supplying the soundtrack to this new way of seeing. An epic, immersive, and abstracted colourfield film performance. Audio by Stephen Wood (Multiplex Grand, Kensington Gore, The Battles, Destroyer)

         

        Free entrance

         

        Made possible with support by Nordic Culture Point and the city of Vaasa

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        Alex MacKenzie is a Canadian west-coast based media artist, designer, teacher, curator and writer, primarily focused on analog film and the hand-processed image. He creates works of expanded cinema, light projection installation, and projector performance. His films and performances have been presented at festivals, art galleries and underground spaces worldwide including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, EXiS (Seoul), Lightcone (Paris), Kino Arsenal (Berlin), LA Film Forum, San Francisco Exploratorium, Shapeshifters (Oakland),

        Microscope Gallery (New York), Centro de Cultura CDMX, Western Front Vancouver, Winnipeg Cinematheque, Pleasuredome Toronto, Cinematheque Quebecois, and many others.

      • poster design by Padraig Croke

        17.2.2024 12-16 and 18-20

        Open House

         

        Welcome to the opening of Filmverkstadens new headquarters!

         

        Drop by anytime and enjoy some analogue film and photography with us in our new space that we share with Filmcentre Botnia.

         

        12:00-16:00

        Exhibition by Janika Herlevi, Daniel Beijar, Gunnar Bäckman

         

        Drop in workshops

        Cameraless film with Janika

        Cyanotype workshop with Maria & Natalia

         

        Demonstrations

        Portrait photography by Gunnar

        Flatbed print by Leena

         

        18:00-18:30

        Filmscreening

         

        Delight on Robert St. - Milja Viita

        The King - Milja Viita

        Taiga - Leena Lehti

        Last Breath of Snow - Maria Ångerman

         

        18:45-19:15

        Paola Guzman & Theo af Enehielm

        Live cinema performance

         

        19:30-20:00

        Warm Data by Natalia Koziel-Kalliomäki

        Live cinema performance

         

        Free entrance to all activities!

        Family friendly!

        No prior knowledge necessary!

         

        Made possible by talko power!
        Poster design by Padraig Croke

         

        Kindly supported by Svensk-Österbottniska Samfundet, Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse, Oskar Mellbergs Fond and the city of Vaasa

         

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        Film screening + artist talk

         

        Lesia Diak

         

        27.12.2023 kl(o) 19 @ Filmverkstaden

        At Filmverkstaden's NEW LOCATION –Opistotalo, Opistokatu 1, Vaasa

         

        Filmverkstaden is pleased to welcome our current residency artist, documentary filmmaker Lesia Diak from Ukraine, to show some of her short films and engage in a conversation about her work and the film in development, which reflects on the anxiety of parenthood. This will be her first analogue film. This will also be our first event in our new space that we share together with Film Center Botnia in Opistotalo.

         

        The residency is a collaboration together with Artists at Risk and is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Svenska Kulturfonden and the city of Vaasa.

        The screening is made in collaboration with Film Center Botnia.

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        Lesia Diak is a film director and producer. She graduated from the Serhiy Bukovsky Film Program in Kyiv and DocNomads, an international documentary film directing Master's program in Belgium, Portugal and Hungary. She is an author of short documentaries selected for international film festivals such as HotDocs, Tirana international film festival, CineDocTbilisi, Odessa international film festival, Docudays, Rome international documentary film festival. She is currently finishing a feature-length documentary debut called "Dad's Lullaby" that won several work-in-progress awards on the stage of post-production.

        Lesia’s films are primarily dedicated to trauma and healing. She frequently centers on the theme of war impact on human relationships. Lesia founded DramaFree film & design production company focused on author driven films.

        In “Under The Wing Of A Night” (18:57) 11 year old Olesia is growing up in Brussels, anxiously waiting for her Dad to call from Ukraine every evening.
        “Dancing Out” (10:26), follows two women creating a dance performance on the traumatic experience of giving birth. In both films the author explores how the main protagonists struggle with mentally tough circumstances but preserve glimpses of hope in themselves.

         

         

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        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).

         

        https://www.heidipiiroinen.com/

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        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.

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        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).

         

         

        https://charlesandrecoderre.com/

      • Museovirasto Historian kuvakokoelma

        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.

         

         

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        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.

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        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

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        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.

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        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

         

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        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.

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        Live Cinema

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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 20min

        The 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 15min

        For 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.

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

         

         

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        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

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        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.

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        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

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        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.

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        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

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        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.

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        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

         

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