SPECTRAL
SPECTRAL unites six artist-run film labs from Europe - WORM.Filmwerkplaats (Rotterdam, NL), Mire (Nantes, FR), Baltic Analog Lab (Riga, LV), LaborBerlin (Berlin, DE) Crater Lab (Barcelona, ES), Laia (Porto,PT). The project will have an emphasis on expanded analogue film art and focuses on the creation, presentation and circulation of extended cinematic art projects (E.C.A.). Over the next 4 years there will be various events organized by SPECTRAL team members bringing up the discourse of E.C.A. practice and its place in contemporary film art. In order to respond to the lack of creation facilities for E.C.A., SPECTRAL will offer the conditions for transnational exchange through numerous artist residencies that will be offered in each of the six cooperation partners’ countries, generating spaces for the creation of new pieces; touring programs of the created showcases will be organized with numerous associated partners, as well as workshops teaching new skills of working with photochemical film and its devices. SPECTRAL will also develop new technical devices, through a contemporary dialogue between arts, science and technology.
SPECTRAL is co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Commission.
1-4 August
Meeting in Vilnius
16mm portraits
10-13 October
On October 10-13 we had our third meeting at STPLN (SWE) with their analog media department All Hans on Deck where we were holding a 16mm film workshop by Vytautas Juozenas and Justas Žekonis (Spnge lab) as well as Polaroid emulsion lift workshop by Philip Evans (All Hands on Deck) which was part of Nostalgia festival.
Later on the evening we were holding a film screening at Hypnos Theatre showing only analog films from members of our network.
Meeting in Malmö
16-20 January
On January 16-20 we had our fourth meeting at Filmverkstaden (FI) locted in the Ostrobothnia coast of Finland. There we had a two day workshop organised by Filmverkstaden by their great master Gunnar Bäckman who was teaching collodian process photography. We made some beautiful portraits of each other (find below).
On 18th January we were also holding a public screening at Filmverkstaden showing films of our network to the local audience.
Meeting in Vaasa
Collodion workshop
16-20 January
On January 16-20 we had our fourth meeting at Filmverkstaden (FI) locted in the Ostrobothnia coast of Finland. There we had a two day workshop organised by Filmverkstaden by their great master Gunnar Bäckman who was teaching collodian process photography. We made some beautiful portraits of each other (find below).
On 18th January we were also holding a public screening at Filmverkstaden showing films of our network to the local audience.
Meeting in Vaasa
Telecine Workshop
