Process / Special Events

Wednesday, 21 May, 21:00, Vagonu Hall

Festival Opening

Experimental Film Festival Process invites you to the festival opening on May 21 at Vagonu Hall. The festival will open with a live cinema performance by this year's BAL Film School participants together with musicians Dūmu Zārka Zēni (LV) who will accompany the projections with experimental shamanistic drumming and voice.

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In the performance, 16mm film loops will be used that were made during the BAL school in Riga at Baltic Analog Lab and in Barcelona at the artist run film lab Crater Lab. Introducing this year's festival theme “Gathering of Ghosts”, the audience will also have the opportunity to experience one of the oldest forms of projected moving image – the magic lantern projection – which the students will learn together with moving image artist Melissa Ferrari (USA) and photographer Armands Andže (Latvia) shortly before the festival.

Dūmu Zārka Zēni (LV) is a radical improvisation orchestra conceived by Latvian musician Dāvis Burmeisters, known for his work with Tesa, Elkupe and Pamirt. This innovative ensemble brings together a lineup of talents from the Latvian music scene, delivering vivid performances that immerse audiences in expansive soundscapes. DZZ's concerts are renowned for their dynamic and unpredictable nature, creating a unique auditory experience with each performance.

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Starting from 22.30 we invite you to a DJ set by Oskars Upenieks at Nurmes Taproom Bar. He will play recordings from 1/4" tapes covering the period from the 1960s to the present day.

Free entry.

Saturday, 24 May, 12:00, Baltic Analog Lab

Magic Lantern Workshop

with Melissa Ferrari (USA)

On the fourth day of the Experimental Film Festival Process we invite you to the magic lantern workshop of Melissa Ferrari (USA). She will introduce this pre-cinematic moving image practice, its history and techniques. Participants will have the opportunity to try their hand at making magic lantern slides, and to make images move by projecting them.

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Melissa Ferrari is an experimental nonfiction animator, magic lanternist and educator who seeks to acquaint folklores of the past with contemporary culture. In exposing peripheral histories, she aims to unveil the wonder that lies in the shadow of nonfiction, rather than fiction. Her practice engages with the mythification of science and pseudoscience, the preternatural, and histories of phantasmagoria and documentary.

Melissa is based in Los Angeles where she received an Experimental Animation MFA at CalArts. Her films and magic lantern performances have been shown internationally in venues such as Hot Docs, The Exploratorium, UnionDocs, Hauser & Wirth, Ottawa International Animation Festival, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Her commissioned documentary animations have appeared on PBS, the BBC & CNN.

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Free entry by registration: https://forms.gle/JYis5QnKv9xouRug9

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Sunday, 25 May, 14:00, Baltic Analog Lab

Light, spectres, and the hauntology of the present

Panel discussion with Process Expanded guests, moderated by Martin Grennberger (SE)

Expanded cinema, can be many things, apparently. Or, apparitionally, one might say. And with a long, winding prehistory: just think of the whole arsenal of procedures set in motion in early phantasmagorial instalments; amalgamations of magic and ritual, metamorphosis and permutations. And then there is the ghosts.

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What are some of the concerns of current practitioners of Expanded Cinema? We have seen multifarious re-uses of earlier devices and modes of presentation returning in updated forms and configurations, encompassing both analog and digital dispositifs. What does all this teach us about the current state of expanded practices?

Free entry.