• when the light hits just right

    analogue film & photography

    festival

     

    May 29th - August 8th 2021

  • when the light hits just right

    When light particles come in contact with light-sensitive emulsion, an image of that light is recorded. After processing, what was at first a latent image, becomes visible. The festival 'when the light hits just right' shows where the magic of this alchemic process is coming from. The festival is spread out over a three month period, and filled with an exhibition, workshops, online conversations, a conference, film screenings and live cinema performances. A publication shares the thoughts of all the participants.

     

    The invited artists have either been a guest of Filmverkstaden in the past ten years or are active members of the association. The works on display all have their origin in the analogue media of photography or film. They show that analogue film and photography are beautiful, robust and physical media that keep the light within their fabric and hold in their emulsion the imprint of time.

     

    At the same time, these works expand our notion of what film and photography is or can be and provide us with a new way of experiencing them.

  • timetable.

    May 29th -

    August 8th

    exhibition

    @ Vaasa City Art Gallery +

    Photo Gallery Ibis, Vaasa

    June 19-20th

     

    Compost and the Magic of FIlm -

    workshop with

    Dagie Brundert (DE) on eco-developing

    July

     

    conversation

    Analogue Fidelity

    with Paul Kuimet and Malena Szlam

    July

     

    conversation

    Screening Analogue in an Online Age

    with Ieva Balode, Lasma Bertule and Mark Toscano

    July 18-19th

     

    Contact Printing on a Steenbeck! - workshop with

    Dianna Barrie &

    Richard Tuohy (AUS)

    on contact printing

    August 6th

    10:30am-4:30pm

    conference @ Kino Ritz

    August 6th

    5pm-6:30pm

    Creating doesn't stop

    film program curated by Kari Yli-Annala

    @ Kino Ritz

    August 7th

    3pm-4pm

    live cinema performance

    Conception - Sami van Ingen

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 7th

    4pm-4:30pm

    cinema performance

    Cyclone Tracery - Dianna Barrie & Richard Tuohy

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 7th

    5pm-6:30pm

    film program I

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 7th

    7pm-8:30pm

    film screening

    Tectonic Plate - Mika Taanila

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 7th

    9pm-10pm

    live cinema performance

    Quelques minutes de soleil apres minuit - Xavier Quérel

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 8th

    3pm-3:30pm

    live cinema performance

    KARVAT- Natalia Koziel & Petteri Kalliomäki

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 8th

    4pm-5pm

    live cinema performance

    Pocket Cinema - kinoMANUAL

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 8th

    5pm-6:30pm

    film program II

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 8th

    8pm-9pm

    live cinema performance

    It Goes Without Saying - Greg Pope

    @ Draama Sali, Vaasa Library

    August 10th

    10am-5pm

    Flat Print - workshop with Xavier Quérel

     

  • festival.

    Stunning live cinema performances and beautiful films

    showing all weekend

    Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th of August

    in Draama-sali at the Vaasa City Library

     

    Full program can be found here

    Double Exposure
    KARVAT
    rock/hard place
    Remnant echo from light...
    Tectonic Plate
    Last Train
    Material Aspects
    Hus
    Cyclone Tracery
    Quelques minutes de soleil...
    Yksi, Kaksi, Kolme
    Tåke
    Lunar Almanac
    Victory Song
    Optical Sound
    Notes from the underground
    Conception
    Pocket Cinema
    It Goes Without Saying
    Valpi
    The desert remembers...
    Flame
    Tectonic Plate
    Lang
  • As a prelude, Mike Sperlinger has moderated conversations connecting analogue practitioners in the Baltic/Nordic region with those elsewhere, taking place in advance of the conference for When the Light Hits Just Right.
     
    Mike Sperlinger speaks to two artists with long-standing engagements with analogue photography and film: Paul Kuimet (based in Tallinn, Estonia) and Malena Szlam (based in Montreal, Canada). They discuss how they began working with celluloid, the blurry boundaries between analogue and digital, editing in your head, the economies of distribution, and what keeps them committed to these formats despite all their practical challenges.
     
     
    Mike Sperlinger speaks to three filmmakers involved in organizing screenings and public events based around analogue film: Ieva Balode and Lāsma Bērtule (both members of the Baltic Analogue Lab and organisers of the Process Festival in Riga, Latvia) and Mark Toscano (archivist at the Academy Film Archive, Los Angeles, U.S. and host of ‘Remains To Be Streamed’ on Instagram). They discuss the conditions for screening analogue work in the age of covid-19 and (hopefully) beyond, their formative encounters with analogue, their communities and audiences, the performative aspects of projection, the importance of imperfection, and possible hybrid digital-analogue futures.
     

  • Come and join our conference on ANALOGUE FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY Friday August 6th 10:30-18:30h

    Keynote talk, discussion panels and film program

    The topics of the conference will span the past, present and future. An overview of the history of experimental analogue film in Finland will show us where and how things began, where things originated from. In the panel about Distribution of experimental film and expanded cinema, the status quo is discussed and evaluated. In the last panel Analogue Futures, we will direct our view to the times to come to see what is needed to sustain these art forms in the future.

     

    more info...

  • filmprogram Creating Doesn't stop

    RESISTFILM
    BOUQUETS ÉCOLOGIQUES 21–30
    When we are nothing left
    HAMMU
    Phytography
    Stadt in Flammen
    Sleeping
    Statue
    Govadas
    Creation

  • workshops.

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    Compost and the Magic of Film

    with Dagie Brundert (DE)

    19-20th of June 2021

    Developing in environmentally friendly eco soups!

     

    An alternative process for developing super 8 black and white negative film / photo negatives using food waste!

     

    more info

    broken image

    Contact printing on a Steenbeck!

    with Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie (AUS)

    18-19th of July 2021

    Contact printing 16mm is a pretty powerful thing to be able to do!

    It's very handy to be able to make duplicates. But furthermore contact printing can also be part of the creative process in making films. In this workshop we will explain how to use a Steenbeck editing table as a contact printer.

     

    more info

    broken image

    Flat Print

    with Xavier Quérel (FR)

    10th of August 2021

    You love 16mm film but don’t have any camera and you’re fed up with scratching black film or drawing on clear leader?

    This workshop is for you.

    Let’s follow the foot prints of Man Ray…

     

    more info

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