As part of the exhibition “Collective Memory is Everything I Don’t Remember: Moments We Share”, we invite everyone interested to an experimental analog film workshop with artist Ieva Balode.
📅 Sunday, 25 November, 12:00-17:00, Zuzeum Ear
🗣️ The workshop will be held in Latvian; the task can also be explained in English.
🎟️ Participation fee:
Full price: €15
Reduced (students, schoolchildren, seniors): €12
1 adult and 1 child (up to 12 years old): €25
1 adult and 2 children (up to 12 years old): €30
Advance registration is required here.
All materials are provided on site, but participants are welcome to bring their own teas, small leaves, grasses, brown sugar, spices, and various tapes and stickers.
This workshop introduces the art of experimental filmmaking on 16 mm black-and-white film, using a cameraless technique. We will work with chemigrams, which allow us to handle light-sensitive 16 mm film in daylight, using photo chemistry to create abstract, animated film loops. The loops are made with a variety of organic and inorganic materials that you bring along, placed on the surface of the film and developed with photo chemistry. You can bring different teas, small leaves, grasses, brown sugar, spices, and various tapes and stickers. We will dry the films on site and watch them on a 16 mm film projector.
The workshop runs throughout the day in several separate sessions. Making your film takes about 40 minutes. Places are limited, so we invite you to choose the time that suits you best:
12:00-13:00
13:00-14:00
14:00-15:00
15:00-16:00
16:00-17:00
Ieva Balode (Latvia) is an artist and film activist working with photochemical film. Her work is shown at international exhibitions and festivals, as installations, in cinemas, and in live audiovisual performances with musicians. She is the head of the association “Baltic Analog Lab”, an artist collective in Riga that provides a space and platform for the production, research, and education of photochemical film. Since 2017, she has also been the director of “Process”, the experimental film festival held in Riga.
*By attending the event, you agree to photo and video documentation and the use of these materials for publicity purposes. You have the right to object to being photographed or filmed, or to your child being photographed or filmed, by informing the photographer or videographer during the event.