• 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

    • conversations.

      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.
       
       

      analogue fidelity.

      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.
       

      screening analogue in a digital age.

    • conference.

      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.

      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

      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

      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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