Saturday, 14. 12. 2024 Public screening
On the evening of 14 December 2024, at 8 pm, there will be a public screening of the films produced by the ANALOG FILM LAB NRW 2024 and the resulting Expanded Cinema Performance will be presented to the audience.
Admission for all those not showing their own film for a donation!
Saturday, 14 December 2024 | Leeratelier Hawerkamp | 8:00 pm
Saturday, 14.12. 2024 Open Workshop – Expanded Cinema
with Maja Pilati & Jana Nestler
In the workshop, the performative project that has been started can be developed further. We work with the experience of the audience and the performers. In the evening there will be a screening of the films created by the ANALOG FILM LAB NRW and the resulting Expanded Cinema Performance will be presented to the audience.
Date: Sat, 14.12.2024 + screening in the evening
Time: 10.00- 17.00
Registration deadline: Sun, 30.11.2024
Target group: Beginners
Saturday, 7 & Sunday, 8 December 2024 Seminar with Anja Kreysing & Maja Milich
This workshop explores the many facets of Expanded Cinema – a form of film that goes beyond the screen to include the entire room. The medium of film is reinterpreted and staged as a sensual experience by combining it with other media and art forms. The use of performative elements and interactive installations creates a unique film experience that appeals to all the senses, and digitalisation has largely replaced analogue film and photography in recent years. However, there are good reasons for using analogue techniques and, since the beginning of the year, the Filmwerkstatt Münster has been offering the opportunity to learn and rediscover skills and abilities relating to analogue film with the “Analog Film Lab NRW”.
Date: Sat, 07.12. – Sun, 08.12.2024
Time: 10.00 – 17.00 hrs
Registration deadline: Sun, 24.11.2024
Target group: Beginners
Jana Nestler and Maja Pilati are in charge of the “Analog Film Lab NRW”, a combination of seminar and open workshop. Changing specialists come in and provide information on various aspects of analogue film in practice-oriented seminars. The two lecturers then experiment with the participants in open workshops. Both have studied at art academies in Milan and Münster and have been working for years as filmmakers as well as in art education and film education.
For both of them, analogue film is not at all outdated or even superfluous. In fact, it is increasingly being used again in film production, as they believe it offers many advantages. “With digital film, resolutions of up to 12K are available today and that’s still not as deep and colourful as analogue film, which is quite surprising!” emphasises Maja Pilati. The image and, in particular, colour quality of analogue film is one of the reasons why even major productions are currently shooting analogue on 16 mm film material again, which is then digitised for cinema screenings.
“Understanding how film actually works is only possible with analogue film. How are images created in the first place? What does the light do to the film material, what happens when the images are developed? It’s also a bit magical,” says Maja Pilati. “We originally started with a workshop for 10-14-year-olds who had grown up with mobile phones. For them, the possibilities of working with old film material were an exciting new discovery,” says Jana Nestler “… and for us too,” adds Maja Pilati.
At the beginning of this year they shot super eight films in the “Lab”, in May they experimented with bio-developer made from garden plants – cheaper, more environmentally friendly and with excellent results for black and white film – and in September they want to discover together with the participants how something completely new can be created from existing film material.
“In the next Analogue Film Lab on 6 & 13 September, we will get to know different available film archives, one will be presented by Vincenzo Macuso in the online seminar, then we will use material from the LWL media archive and from the Filmwerkstatt Münster”. The focus will be on analogue films that can be used as digital copies. And we will also experiment with “found footage” material, old films on the reel: Edited and reassembled, amazing things can be created in the open workshop on 7 and 8 September.
Another “Analog Film Lab NRW” event on 7/8 December, with an open workshop on 14 December, will focus on the performative character of film screenings.
“Maja Milich from Berlin will perform with several projectors at the same time and Anja Kreysing from Münster will take on the sound art part,” says Maja Pilati. Initially, two groups will work together to bring their results together, leading to a public performance on 14 December.
Maja Pilati and Jana Nestler would like to continue the “Analog Film Lab NRW” in 2025. They are hoping for further donations of material and technology, as analogue treasures are probably still gathering dust in some cellars. Their enthusiasm is infectious. Previous participants are happy to come to the follow-up workshops, but new faces “are always welcome, whether at the seminars or the open workshops”.
More information is available at www.filmwerkstatt-muenster.de/seminare
Maja Pilati is a filmmaker based in Münster and Barcelona. After completing her Master’s degree in Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she came to Spain to work with analogue film in the CraterLab laboratory. Maja Pilati worked for the analogue film festival Analogica in Bolzano for a long time and has been a freelance filmmaker in Spain for many years and has also been working as a filmmaker and lighting technician in Germany for two years.
Jana Nestler is an intermedia artist and art mediator in Münster. She has been studying at the Kunstakademie Münster since 2017 and has been studying in Keren Cytter’s class since 2022. In addition to her own artistic work, she also works in art education and film educationPhoto credits: All photos were taken at the “Analog Film Lab NRW 2024”, Photos: Maja Pilati
