On the 23rd March at 8pm in Kaņepes Kultūras Centre the programme “Process Expanded” of Experimental Film Festival “Process” will take place. This analog expanded cinema event will be purely dedicated to Baltic artists as part of the festival’s Baltic Day.
Three works will be presented that, while previously part of the audiovisual event “Parnassius Mnemosyne”, have now been re-arranged. Through these works the artists will reflect on memory as a personal, social, inevitable and evasive phenomenon.
20:00 "Observer"
Justas Žekonis (16mm film projection), Vytautas Juozėnas (audio)
„Observer” is a film shot in the streets of block districts in Vilnius. It is made in „spy style” with the cameraman as an observer, looking with certain suspicion at the world’s occurences. Film will be accompanied by Vytautas’s live audio performance on selfmade modular synthesizer.
Justas Žekonis (LT) and Vytautas Juozėnas (LT) are Vilnius-based artists who have been deeply enganged in analog photography and cinema for several years now – both working with celluloid in the lab and running workshops on analog techniques. Their works have been shown in festivals and art exhibitions in Lithuania and elsewhere in Europe. Vytautas is also a member of former Lithuanian film collective „Tree Lab”.
20:40 "Victory Song"
Ieva Balode (16mm film, 35mm slide un overhead transparencies projection), Jeļena Glazova (audio, poetry)
There will be presented manipulations with an image by various analog projectors: a 16mm film composed of found wartime documentary „The Soviet Home Front Forges the Victory” and archive materials about the KGB victims in 1941. The audial part of the performance will be made by Jelena speaking her own Russian poetry which together with sound manipulations will create a sonic adventure in noise aesthetic.
Ieva Balode (LV) is an analog media artist working with film and photography. Ieva is a co-founder of „Baltic Analog Lab” and the director of Eksperimental film festival „Process”. She participates in exhibitions in Latvia and Europe since 2006.
Jeļena Glazova (LV) is a poet, multimedia artist who combines image, experimental sound, installation and poetic text n her work. She has released two poetry books and has made several solo exhibitions. Her works have been presented in the Baltics, Ukraine, UK, Russia, USA, South Korea and elsewhere.
21:30 "Cell Obelisks"
Signe Birkova (8mm film projection), VSKB (audio), Toms Treibergs (poetry)
„Cell Obelisks” is an audiovisual performance where 8mm film projections cooperate with loops of poetry and cassette tape. Body cells are the depositories of hidden memories. In their invisible reservoirs memory images are preserved: the cell obelisks. They are invisible yet they travel along everywhere where the body goes.The monuments of past memories are sleeping like museum exhibits in the dark. The knocks of presence sometimes create cell memory flashes. Cell obelisks then become tangible as part of the present.
Signe Birkova (LV) is one of the most exciting experimental filmmakers in Latvia. Her film „I Shall Return as a Flaming Rose” was awarded FIPRESCI Special Award in the 2014 National film festival „Lielais Kristaps”. Last year her newest experimental film „Take-off” was released, combining 16mm stop-motion animation and other techniques.
Toms Treibergs (LV) is a poet, writer, actor and director in sketch theatre „Nerten”. Toms has released two poetry books.
VSKB (LV) is a collaborative project between few Latvian underground post-industrial artists, which has formed in 2008 in Pārdaugava. Inspired by 80s underground new wave, analog syhtn and NSRD performances, band's music varies between minimal syth to dark wave
22:30 DJ set- Intervilnis
“Process” is the first film festival in the Baltics dedicated to experimental, analog filmmaking. Taking place on the 22nd to 25th of March in Riga, Latvia, the festival will provide a four day programme which will include film screenings, lectures, a photo exhibition and audiovisual performances. During the festival the following film programs will be presented: Essay Films, Found Footage, Structural Film, Film Diaries and Baltic Films, these will introduce different forms of experimental analog cinema and films by interesting contemporary authors.
Analog film will be widely represented in the programs and shown in its original 16mm and Super 8mm format. Meanwhile, in the audiovisual performance program “Process Expanded”, there will be the chance to experience expanded cinema, where film is being carried out as a live audiovisual performance. The artists will perform their cinematic works using multiple analog film projections, plus utilizing various other analog audio techniques.
The festival is organized by Baltic Analog Lab in collaboration with Kino Bize cinema and supported by the State Cultural Capital Foundation.
First 15 tickets - 3 EUR, after these are sold out the ticket price will be – 4 EUR.
For students, pensioners and disabled people – 3 EUR.
The ticket price may rise on the days of the event.
Ticket numbers are limited.
www.process-fest.lv