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
June 19-20th
Compost and the Magic of FIlm -
workshop with
Dagie Brundert (DE) on eco-developing
July
July
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
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.
filmprogram Creating Doesn't stop
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!
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.
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…
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