Experimental Analog Cinema Workshop

As part of the exhibition “Collective Memory Is Everything I Do Not Remember: Moments Experienced Together,” we invite everyone interested to an experimental analog cinema workshop with artist Ieva Balode.

• 📅Sunday, November 22, 12.00–17.00, Zuzeum Auss

🗣️ Latvian, the task can also be explained in English

• 🎟️Participation fee:

Full price: 15 EUR

Discounted price (schoolchildren, students, seniors): 12 EUR

1 adult and 1 child (up to 12 years old): 25 EUR

1 adult and 2 children (up to 12 years old): 30 EUR

Registration in advance is required here.

This workshop will introduce the art of experimental filmmaking on 16 mm black-and-white film, using a camera-less filmmaking technique. We will work with the chemigram technique, which makes it possible to work with photosensitive 16 mm film in the light, using photo chemistry and creating abstract animated film loops made with various organic and inorganic materials brought along by participants, which will be placed on the film surface and developed using photo chemistry.

All materials will be provided on site, but you are welcome to bring various teas, small plant leaves, grasses, brown sugar, spices, different kinds of tape, and stickers.

We will dry the films on site and watch them on a 16 mm film projector.

The workshop will take place throughout the day in several separate sessions. It takes about 40 minutes to create your film. Places are limited, so we invite you to choose the time that suits you best:

• 12.00–13.00
• 13.00–14.00
• 14.00–15.00
• 15.00–16.00
• 16.00–17.00

Ieva Balode (Latvia) is an artist and film activist who works with photochemical film. Her works have been shown at international exhibitions and festivals, where she presents them both in installation form and in cinema theaters, as well as in various audiovisual live performances together with musicians. In her daily work, she is the head of Baltic Analog Lab, an artist collective in Riga that provides a space and platform for photochemical film production, research, and education. Since 2017, she has also been the director of the experimental film festival Process, held in Riga.

*By attending the event, you agree to photo and video recording and their use for publicity purposes. You have the right to object to yourself or your child being photographed or filmed by notifying the photographers and videographers during the photo and video recording.