We are thrilled to announce the 14 residency participants: Esther Urlus, Ana Bravo Pérez, Merve Kılıçer, Malaz Usta, Nan Wang,
Raluca Croitoru, Cinzia Nistico, Wang-Yun Yen, Lichun Tseng, Pat Janeiro, Fransisca Angela, Agata Sznurkowska,
Daria Kiseleva, Zuqiang Peng.
The proposed projects will be showcased between September and December 2024 in WORM.

This summer the Filmwerkplaats opened up her lab for local member residencies within the framework of the SPECTRAL project. The outcome of each residency had to be the creation of a performative analog motion picture piece. All was allowed as long as the main research was analogue, i.e. photochemistry, image making and/or optical (light image) sound.
12 new “Expanded Cinema” works were created in this context and will have its first work-in-progress presentations in UBIK this fall. During several Sunday matinee presentations we invite you to our performative playground. Free entrance

Dates:
29 September 21.00-23.00
Nan Wang

24 November 14.00-16.00
Esther Urlus, Wang-Yun Yen

1 December 14.00-17.00
Lichun Tseng, Raluca Croitoru (in collaboration with Dan Fogarty and Tracy Hanna), Cinzia Nistico, Fransisca Angela

15 December 14.00-17.00
Peng Zuqiang, Malaz Usta, Merve Kılıçer, Pat Janeiro, Daria Kiseleva

FWP Members Residency
spring and summer 2024

On the 29th of September you are all in invited for a work-in-progress film installation by Nan Wang at WORM, a new work produced during the Member Residency Program, and presented during a special night at WORM for its 25th birthday celebration.
The film footage was filmed using Nan’s DIY 16mm motion camera and will be projected on a 16mm Motion Picture Panorama. This unique panoramic projection device, featuring multiple synchronized 16mm projectors, is a long-realized dream of film technician Nico Komen. Each year, Erwin van 't Hart and Filmwerkplaats members set it up once or twice for maintenance, and Nan is seizing this rare opportunity to learn more about its mechanics and explore new visual possibilities.

29th September — Showcase #1
Nan Wang

24th November — Showcase #2
Esther Urlus and Wang-Yun Yen

After the first showcase by Nan Wang in September, we come back with the work-in-progress presentations of the performative analogue pieces by our members in residence.
The coming one will be on the 24th of November by Esther Urlus and Wang-Yun Yen from 14.00 to 16.00. Free entrance!

'Until the darkness goes' by Esther Urlus
In a ‘tonal’ coloured 16mm film performance, a sonorous poem of twilight, indistinctness and suggestiveness, I’m trying to make visible the darkness of a depressed mind. The suffering of an adolescent, my daughter. Colours and mood inspired by the famous and unique photograph ‘The Pond – Moonlight’ by Steichen(1904) and the Nocturne paintings by Whistler (1870).

'Blue Sun' by Wang-Yun Yen
Blue Sun is a performance with 16mm film projection, sound, and live painting. It proposes an allegory weaving together several threads: an impossible capture of landscape around the mining areas where disasters had taken place 40 years ago in Northern Taipei, the gesture of painting that speaks to the legendary miner-painter Hong Rui-Lin, and the literary metaphor of the “blue sun” in a short story about the mountain village, from which a chain of association surfaces in the acts of fabricating the past

1st December — Showcase #3
Lichun Tseng, Raluca Croitoru (in collaboration with Dan Fogarty and Tracy Hanna), Cinzia Nistico, Fransisca Angela

15th December — Showcase #4
Peng Zuqiang, Malaz Usta, Merve Kılıçer, Pat Janeiro, Daria Kiseleva

On the 1st of December we are going to present try-outs of the performative analogue pieces by our members in residence Cinzia Nistico, Fransisca Angela, Lichun Tseng and Raluca Croitoru (in collaboration with Dan Fogarty and Tracy Hanna). From 14.00 to 17.00, free entrance, do not miss!

'DIsINCARNATE' by Cinzia Nistico
A cinematic audio/visual performance which is also a guided experience on the coexistence of life and death in a latency state of being. Using two 16mm film projectors at different frame rate, optical sounds imitating human voice, slides with human micro-parts projected on a human prototype, trumpet and stylophones, Nistico further explores ways to use film as a living entity on stage. DIsINCARNATE shifts from the biological truth of our being to its quantum reality, proposing a pulsating modality of existing/not-existing.

'The magnolia grows at night' by Fransisca Angela
Looking at trees inside a convent garden as a starting point, abstract imagery from dried petals were exposed as loops, alongside fragments from the space, and short text. Together they weave a fleeting narrative that bears witness to life cycles, and transitions.

'Liminal light' by Lichun Tseng
In darkness, light, scents, visuals, and sound create a sensorial realm. Elements transition subtly, as imagery appears and fades into darkness, into whiteness. Formless and spaceless, a space between spaces emerges. An undefined presence, wandering without leaving, merges with the field of light.

'Poems from the unknown' by Raluca Croitoru
FWP member Raluca Croitoru collaborates with Dan Fogarty and Tracy Hanna on an expanded cinema performance featuring an array of mediums and materials: 16mm film-loops and 35mm slides, spoken-word and vocal distortions, synthesisers and wind instruments. This performance thinks through how time exists within a body. The work also expands on how we connect to lives lived before us through media recorded and our interaction with it today. Nostalgia digs into a soupy interior and helps form every now we live and every memory we inhabit.

And our last showcase of work-in-progress presentation of the performative analogue pieces that our members in residence have been working on in the last month.
This time with works by Peng Zuqiang, Malaz Usta, Merve Kılıçer, Pat Janeiro, Daria Kiseleva.
On the 15th of Decembre from 14.00 to 17.00, come! Free entrance.

'Understories (part 1)' by Peng Zuqiang
The performance zooms onto the site of a taoist temple, which was once a film printing factory in China. Two distinct narrations on the temple/film factory are transformed into sound on film: one running linearly, and another fragmented onto film loops. The stories interweave into each other during the live performance, while shot and archival films printed on to 16mm film are shown from two different projectors.

'The queue is the room, is the city' by Malaz Usta
What does it mean to be displaced? How can alienation be experienced through the audiovisual language? And how can that create a deeper understanding of the subject matter? I offer a suggestion to explore these questions through an experimental performance film where I experiment with image, poetry, and sound to achieve a new perspective on displacement.

'When The Gods Have Been Done' by Merve Kılıçe
A story telling session that accompanies the recent film installation ‘When The Gods Have Been Done’: the 6 minute looping film shares views from field research in Western Anatolia and the Aegean coast of Türkiye, the route follows active mining sites for coal, gold and granite as well as the remains of shrines built for Cybele, the archaic goddess of Anatolia. The story which takes inspiration from traditional folk fables of Anatolia will invite the viewers to learn more about this goddess figure who was once considered the protector of mountains and wildlife in Anatolia. While Merve Kılıçe will perform the telling of the story, Lili Huston-Herterich will accompany her with interventions by conducting the analogue projector.

'No one’s at fault, not really' by Pat Janeiro
No one’s at fault, not really is an audiovisual performance that includes 16mm film, sound loops, music, and spoken word, created with Mariette Groot. The soundscape includes karaoke, breathing exercises, synths, samples, and acoustic instruments. Inspired by themes of death, transformation, and gothic fiction, the film captures everyday life actions with mystery and sudden phone-linked deaths. The images were co-created with friends allowing for spontaneous decision-making on set.

'Ghostly remnants' by Daria Kiseleva
In collaboration with the sound artist Qihang Li, the performance is based on the visual and sonic explorations on the topic of circadian rhythms and dreams as pre-linguistic stories, as a space where the line between past memories and new experiences is blurred, as a fluid and fragile space where the ‘collective unconscious’ finds its direct or metaphorical expression.