Process / Film Programme

Wednesday, 21 May, 18:00, Vagonu Hall

BAL FILM SCHOOL

with BAL Film school students

Experimental film festival Process kicks off its program with a special free screening featuring 15 works, created as part of this year’s BAL Film School.

BAL Film School is a five-month international course in experimental filmmaking, organized annually by Baltic Analog Lab. This year, the course brought together over 50 participants from around the world who, on a weekly basis, met with renowned experimental filmmakers and academics. In addition, they engaged in hands-on creative film practices using 16mm film, exploring various development and processing techniques.

At the screening, together with the attending filmmakers, audiences will see 15 films shot and developed by the BAL Film School participants themselves — both at the BAL lab and in other locations across Europe.

Film program:

1.Bohdi. Austė Urbanavičiūtė

Lithuania / 2025 / 5’ / digital sound / 16mm

2.Asteroide 1555. Guadalupe Fanelli

Argentina/USA / 2025 / 3’ / digital sound / 16mm

3.Cave. Rebecka Xyz

Sweden / 2025 / 6’ / digital sound / 16mm

4.A House with a View. Raquel Vermunt

Netherlands / 2025 / 5’ / digital sound / 16mm

5.Certain Magical Acts. Yoann Breton

France / 2025 / 1'30” / silent / 16mm to digital

6.Spectre. Isaac Magner

France / 2025 / 4’ / sound / Super 8mm to digital

7.inside, Out. Marta Bērziņa

Latvia / 2025 / digital sound / 16mm to digital

8.Bentwaters Frequency Test. Lewis Heriz

UK / 2025 / variable / optical sound / 2 channel 16mm

9.Iron Ashes. Gareth Byrne

Ireland / 2025 / 3’ / digital sound / 16mm

10.Da Spring. Maira Dobele

Finland/Latvia / 2025 / 3’ / silent / 16mm

11.(<)•(>) (More or less). Elīne Buka

Latvia / 2025 / digital sound / 16mm

12.Gut. Lotta Hurnanen

Finland / 2025 / 3’ / silent / 16mm

13.The Elusiveness of Today. Dominika Kováčová

Slovakia / 2025 / 7’ / digital sound / 16mm

14.Thoughtographs. Tõnis Jürgens

Estonia / 2025 / 5’/ silent or digital sound / 16mm

15.Ursula von der Leyen’s Pony, Dolly. George Finlay Ramsay

Scotland / 2025 / 10’ / 16mm loops + performance

Free entry.

Thursday, 22 May, 18:00, Vagonu Hall

Baltic Experimental

Curator: Ieva Balode (LV)

As part of the festival's tradition, we are proud to present a selection of the latest experimental film works from the Baltics. These films were created in artist-run film laboratories – Baltic Analog Lab (Latvia) and Sponge Lab (Lithuania) – where each piece was hand-processed using analog techniques. This year, apart from films, the programme also features three expanded cinema performances by members of Baltic Analog Lab and their collaborators.

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Film program:

1. Dienasgrāmatas ieraksts - jūlijs 2024 / Diary Entry - July 2024. Emīls Alps

Latvia / 2024 / sound / 4’ / 16mm to digital

2. Meklējot / Searching. Ieva Ozoliņa

Latvia / 2024 / digital sound / 3’ / 16mm

3. Bišķi just / To Feel A Little. Reičela Paula Zapevālova

Latvia / 2024 / digital sound / 5’ / 16mm

4. Letter to a Football Friend. Rūta Grùma

Lithuania / 2024 / sound / 3’ / 16mm to digital

5. Ar jūra turi širdį?/ Does the Sea Have a Heart? Miglė Križinauskaitė

Lithuania / 2025 / sound / 7′ / Super 8mm to digital

6. Holding, Not Measuring. Miki Ambrózy

Lithuania / 2023 / 7’ / digital sound / double 16mm projection

Performances:

7. Apķērīgie līķi / Smart Corpses. Ieva Balode, Artūrs Punte (Latvia)

2021 / Horror show with 35mm and 16mm projections, sound and voice

8. Vārtrūmes dziļākajā ēnā / Deep Within the Gateway's Shadow. Sintija Andersone, Dita Andersone, Kristaps Šteinbergs, Mārtiņš Dūka ( Latvia)

2025 / 16mm performance with sound, dance and shadowplay

9. Es jūtos labi / I Feel Fine. Andris Fedotovs, Lāsma Bērtule (Latvia)

2023 / 35mm slide and 16mm film projection with sound

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Friday, 23 May, Vagonu Hall, 18:00

Altered Landscapes

Curator: Martin Grennberger (SE)

This programme encompasses works in which rhythm, structure and subtle patterning could be seen as constructive matrixes. Spanning structural investigations, fractured storytelling, portraiture and diaristic leanings, these films also enforce attention to the play and textures of light, its luminescence and voluminous alternations. The prominent presence of landscapes (historical, personal, proximate) infuses these works – some more elusively, some more directly – with questions of memory and its phantasms, intimacy and dispersion, imprint and disruptive representations.

1. Chang Gyeong. Jangwook Lee

South Korea / 2024 / 17’ / optical sound / 16mm

2. Album. Larissa Krampert, Björn Schmitt

Germany / 2025 / 19’ / digital sound / 16mm

3. To Be a Day. Eva Claus

Belgium / 2025 / 8’ / optical sound / 16mm

4. The Visible Material. Ryan Marino

US / 2024 / 8’ / optical sound / 16mm

5. Buseok. Park Kyujae

South Korea / 2024 / 18’ / silent / 16mm to digital

6. Al mirar a lo lejos / Looking into the distance. Marta Lara

Spain / 2024 / 8’ / silent / 16mm

Thursday, 22 May, 21:00, Vagonu Hall

Cracking the (in)visible

Curator: Elja Kovačević (HR)

Seven surprising experiments in form and narrative linger in the unseen fissures of history, nature, image, and human experience.

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Film program:

1. Marking the Ends. Mireille Tawfik

Canada / 2024 / 18’30” / sound / 16mm to digital

2. Nude, Descending. Dianna Barrie, Richard Tuohy

Australia / 2025 / 10’ / digital sound / 16mm

3. Fioritura. Elena Butica, Raluca Croitoru

Romania / 2023 / 5’ / sound / 16mm to digital

4. Terre rouge, terre noire / Red Earth, Black Earth. Agnès Perrais

France / 2024 / 7’ / optical sound / 16mm

5. Risky Bodies. Emily Beaney, Cherrie Beaney

UK / 2021 / 8’ / digital sound / 16mm

6. Río rojo / Red River. Fabiana Gallegos

Argentina / 2024 / 4’ / sound / Super 8mm to digital

7. Underdog. Marjo Levlin

Finland / 2024 / 30’ / sound / Super 8mm to digital

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Sunday, May 25, 19:30, Vagonu Hall

Retrospective: Kenneth Anger

Curator: Jānis Putniņš

The programme includes several important films by Kenneth Anger (1927-2023), American filmmaker, occultist, luminary of the 1960s alternative culture and author of sensational books on Hollywood history.

1. Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.

US / 1954 / 38’ / sound / 16mm to digital

2. Scorpio Rising. Kenneth Anger

US / 1963 / 29’ / optical sound / 16mm

3. Lucifer Rising. Kenneth Anger

US / 1972 / 30’ / optical sound / 16mm

Sunday, 25 May, Vagonu Hall, 17:00

Situations of Persistence

Curator: Lāsma Bērtule (LV)

The films in the programme deal with things that won’t leave, or will leave a mark behind themselves, stubbornly insisting on their gentle, indifferent, hypnotic or menacing proximity. From an enigmatic ethnographic documentary to a minimalist monster movie, with different collages and experiments in ways of creating moving images in between, these films invite us to spend some time with a varied crowd of beings.

1. The Departing Images / La Partida de las Imágenes. Ana Edwards

Chile / 2023 / 11’ / sound / 16mm to digital

2. It Has Me by the Throat and I Am the Fingerprint. Jordan James Kaye

Australia / 2024 / 19’ / silent / 16mm

3. 1014. Deborah S. Phillips

Germany / 2023 / 8’30” / optical sound / 16mm

4. Wetland Impulse. Jimmy Schaus

US / 2024 / 2’ / silent / 16mm

5. Tooborac. Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie

Australia / 2025 / 9’ / digital sound / 16mm

6. Matters of Bioluminescence. Robbie Land

US / 2015 / 8’ / silent / 16mm