LIVE SLIDE
12-13.4.2025 kl(o) 10-17
Create a modern magic lantern show with Greg Pope
Greg Pope teaches a two day workshop exploring the live performance potential of slide projector technology.
Working with image, sound and text we will examine slide machines equipped with external shutters which combine with each other to create a modern magik lantern show; a proto-cinematic experience which takes influence from both ancient and modern apparatus and techniques.
We will look at image making, shadow, reflection, voice, movement, collage, scale, sound and the effects of darkened rooms.
The workshop will conclude with performances by participants and the workshop organiser.
Day 1:
Demonstration of the slide projectors with external shutters.
How to put it together and control shutter speed, how to introduce direct and pre-recorded sound elements to the performance.
Making and preparing the slides.
Sequencing with text etc
Day 2:
Refining the image content and how to plan the timeline of the live performance .Experiment with sound possiblilities, pre-recorded / live / voice / effects etc. Contact printing on litho.
Setting up the space, choreographing the transitions between performances.
Performances
No prior experience is necessary.
The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 'pay what you can', suggested fee is 80€, all materials and chemistry included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
Greg Pope (NO/UK) is an artist and filmmaker based in Oslo, Norway. After dabbling in punk rock bands and absurdist performance, he founded film collective ‘Situation Cinema’ (Brighton 1986) and ‘Loophole Cinema’ (London, 1989). Working collaboratively and individually, Pope has made video installations, live art and single-screen film works since 1996.
The workshop is organised as part of the Analogue Adventure North Residency Program and is generously funded by Nordic Culture Point, Konstsamfundet, Svenska Kulturfonden, Taike and the city of Vaasa.
Energies of Earth
12-13.3.2025 kl(o) 10-17
Explore the captivating medium of cyanotype in this workshop with Ellen Barratt
A two-day workshop taking a new and experimental approach to the historic photographic process of cyanotypes. We will explore the captivating medium of cyanotype printing combined with experimental drawing techniques, allowing you to manipulate your designs directly on the surface of the cyanotype while it's exposed to light. Through various approaches, we’ll play with different materials and exposure times to discover unique effects and prints that evoke fleeting moments, movement and fluidity. We will explore how subtle adjustments to the surface can dramatically transform your compositions.
No prior experience is necessary.
The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 'pay what you can', suggested fee is 80€, all materials and chemistry included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
Ellen Barratt is an artist whose practice explores the intricate relationship between light, space, and perception through both photographic processes and immersive installations. Her work invites viewers to reconsider their understanding of reality by engaging with the interplay of visible and invisible forces—light, shadow, and their delicate transition between.
Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach, she integrates traditional and contemporary mediums, including graphite, ink, photography, glass, and reflective materials, to create installation and photographic works which disrupt the boundaries between the visible and the unknown. In her installations, light becomes both a material and a medium, offering a multi-sensory experience that challenges the viewer’s spatial and perceptual awareness. She is drawn to the moments where light fractures, bends, and disappears, reflecting on how these transitions alter our sense of time, space, and self.
Ellen’s practice exists in the convergence of analog and digital realms. She combines digital light with traditional analog processes, creating an intriguing dialogue between the material and immaterial. In a world increasingly shaped by technology, her work offers a quiet meditation on the subtle, ever-present forces of light that shape our experience of the world.
Ellen’s practice reveals the hidden structures beneath the surface, offering a profound reflection on the delicate balance between destruction and transformation.
Ellen Barratt is a Manchester-based artist who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Art in 2018, following a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art. Her work explores the relationship between light, space, and perception through a variety of mediums, including photography and immersive installations. Barratt’s practice has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including "Repetition" at Burton & South Derbyshire College (2024), "Now & Then" at the Dark Peak Photo Festival (2024), and "In Nihilum" at The Swiss Church, London (2020). Her work has also been showcased internationally, with exhibitions in Paris and across the UK.
The workshop is organised as part of the Analogue Adventure Ukraine Residency Program and is generously funded by Nordic Culture Point, Taike and the city of Vaasa. The residency is supported by Artists at Risk.
Damn Superimpositions
15-16.2.2025 kl(o) 10-17
Explore different ways to do superimpositions in this workshop with Gaëlle Rouard
In this workshop we’ll try to explore different ways to do superimpositions on 16mm film.
With the Bolex or the contact printer we’ll experience the multiple exposures.
How to mix different sources in order to create some impossible images :
Can a mountain on top of the sea make a submarine ?
And then we’ll play with a few projectors for an ultimate mixing.
No prior experience is necessary. Optionally you can bring your own B/W 16mm film.
The workshop language is English. Workshop fee is 'pay what you can', suggested fee is 80€, all materials and chemistry included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
Gaëlle ROUARD (1971, France) is a filmmaker, alchemist and performance artist. Since the early 1990s, Rouard has been making handmade films, specialising in film processing. She is a longtime member of Le 102, rue d’Alembert, a venue dedicated to diffusion and creation of experimental music and film. Rouard also facilitates workshops in different contexts, from art schools to individual teaching. She develops and explores various methods of chemical processing of film. With performances around the world, she experiments with the possibilities of live multi-projection, both in collaboration with various people and in solo acts. Rouard led the do-it-yourself film lab Atelier MTK in Grenoble for 12 years, until 2006. Her work as been shown in various screens all over the world.
The workshop is organised as part of the Analogue Adventure North Residency Program and is generously funded by Nordic Culture Point, Konstsamfundet, Taike and the city of Vaasa.
