Baltic Analog Lab and the Skaņu Mežs festival invite you to an expanded cinema performance and film screening featuring the June artists-in-residence at BAL: Carlos Yarza (MX), Daniela Zeilinger (AT), Amanda Thomson (CAN), Richard Tuohy & Dianna Barrie (AU).

Carlos Yarza is a Berlin-based Mexican multidisciplinary artist whose work explores identity, diaspora, Mexican death cult and indigenous traditions. He has studied scriptwriting and sound technology in Barcelona, which led him to experimental cinema. During the event you will have a chance to experience an immersive expanded cinema performance exploring the hidden rhythms of nature through light and sound: pulsing light patterns drive a modular synthesizer (thanks to Erica Synths!), whose frequencies shape real-time laser visuals, forming a feedback loop where light becomes sound and sound becomes light.

Daniela Zeilinger is a visual artist based in Vienna. Her work challenges the medium of photography and opens up a dialogue with other artistic disciplines, such as painting. Similar to dancers interpreting the score of a choreography, the different media become collaborators in the composition of photographic constructs. At the residency she is working on series of works, which are based on spatial arrangements of LEE colour filter foils, usually used in studio photography and on film sets. Here, they become content of the image themselves - in their dematerialised form as coloured shadows.

Amanda Thomson is a film maker, presenter and facilitator who was born, raised and currently lives as a settler on the Coast Salish territory commonly known as Vancouver, BC. She is drawn to film by its tactile qualities and by its shifting nature in grain and cultural significance. When talking about the ideas she is capturing in her work in progress, Amanda describes: “A camera operates like our eyes, allowing a small amount of light through its lens. The inverse of the field of vision is projected onto a surface. Our brain is so adept at flipping the image that we don’t even notice, but what if we can’t keep up anymore and it starts to feel like the world has turned upside down.”

Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie have been working with analog film since the 1990’s. They run a commercial film lab - Nanolab - and founded Artist Film Workshop, an artist-run film lab in Melbourne. With their works and creative workshops, they travel all over the world, screening their films and performances, and sharing knowledge about DIY film practice in general. They feel very at home in the film labs movement!

BAL has invited them to take part in SPECTRAL residency with the aim to interact with our newly acquired optical printer.

In their residency at BAL, Richard and Dianna are manipulating footage they recently filmed in Beijing. The optical printer is a wonderful way to transform material into the unexpected! At the event on the 28th we will only see glimpses of this work, but the pair will share their process as well as present two recent films - The Land at Night and Fear of Floating.

The event will take place in the Baltic Analog Lab 2nd-floor residence rooms, Lienes iela 19a.

Event language: English.
Free admission, drinks for donation.

Baltic Analog Lab Residency is supported by the Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation in collaboration with SPECTRAL project supported by Creative Europe.