Artists-run film collective Baltic Analog Lab from Riga Latvia in collaboration with AVANT event and Fylkingen presents expanded cinema performance evening “SPECTRAL Expanded” with three international artists presenting three audio-visual works using analog projectors and sound.

No šī gada 7. septembra līdz 27. oktobrim izstāžu zāle “Rīgas Laikmetīgās mākslas telpa” aicina apmeklēt Baltic Analog Lab kolektīva izstādi “Kā (pie)rakstīt gaismu”.

Within the framework of the SPECTRAL* project, Baltic Analog Lab is offering a paid month-long residency during October 2024 for artists working with photochemical film to develop a live expanded cinema performance piece.

Biedrība “Baltic Analog Lab” aicina uz kino performanču vakaru 11. augustā plkst. 22:00 Līču skolā, Ramantas pagastā aiz Mazsalacas, kur ar analogā kino performancēm uzstāsies vairāk nekā 30 starptautiski mākslinieki.

Saturday, August 20, Baltic Analog Lab invites you to our annual Yard Celebration in the yard of the association, Lienes street 19a, to celebrate the finale of the international BAL film school with a film screening and a performance "Nausea" by our guest from Sweden - Oona Libens.

Baltic Analog Lab invites to an artist talk with our current artist-in residence - Jacob Kessler from Unied States. Jacob’s artist talk will discuss his practice involving collaborative docufictions and representing experience through the material of celluloid.

Performance evening & artist talk with Darn Thorn (IE) and Teemu Kiiskilä (FI)

25 April, 2024, 19:00, BAL

Baltic Analog Lab invites you to an expanded cinema performance evening with our current art residency particiapnt Jordan James Kaye from Australia, who will present his film work, created during the residency.

Artists-run film collective Baltic Analog Lab (Riga,LV) in collaboration with Filmwerkstaden (Vaasa/FI) and WHS Theater presents second expanded cinema performance evening “SPECTRAL Expanded” with four artists presenting four audio-visual works using 16mm film projectors and live sound.

Baltic Analog Lab invites for an expanded cinema evening with our special guest from Canada – Alex MacKenzie who will present expaned cinema program “Experiments For a Single Projector” using 16mm film projector for six expanded cinema performances.

Baltic Analog Lab invites you to a performance evening with our two resident artists of the SPECTRAL/Expanding North project - Marek Waldemar Pluciennik from Finland and Başak Günak from Turkey, who are participating in our residency this October.

Baltic Analog Lab announces a new artist-in residence program for artists and researchers working with photochemical film – both photographers and filmmakers with experience in working in a darkroom and with analog devices. 

Baltic Analog Lab invites to meet our artist-in residence – Jan Kulka (Czech Republic) who takes part in our SPECTRAL/Expanding North project residency this October.

Baltic Analog Lab in collaboration with AVANT festival and artist-run space Glada Sprutan presents “SPECTRAL/Expanding North performances” – two audio-visual expanded cinema performance events taking place in Stockholm and Karlstad in Sweden September 2023.

BAL founder Ieva Balode will be presenting a film program of the latest experimental films made by authors from Latvia who not only choose to work with photochemical film but also create experimental narratives and engage with film's materiality and structure. The program showcases works by members of Baltic Analog Lab and authors who are somehow connected to it.

Within the framework of the SPECTRAL* and Expanding North* projects, Baltic Analog Lab is offering a month-long residency for two artists - one international and one from one of the Nordic countries* working with photochemical film, expanded cinema practice as well as sound and multidisciplinary works.

Baltic Analog Lab invites you to our annual Yard celebration in our yard at Lienes street 19a to celebrate the closing of the BAL Film School with a film screening, in which both local and international members of the BAL Film School will participate with their films.

Suspaustas Laikas in collaboration with Baltic Analog Lab presents “SPECTRAL Expanded” – audio-visual expanded cinema performance evening with an artists duo Adriana Vila Guevara and Adriano Galante from Spain and an artist from France – Riojim who will present their works using analog projectors as live, performative tools that allows artist to engage with a machine and their artistic material – analogue film.

An audio-visual expanded cinema performance evening with an artists duo Ojoboca from Germany and an artist from France – Riojim who will present their works using analog projectors as live, performative tools that allows artist to engage with a machine and their artistic material – analogue film.

Within the framework of the SPECTRAL* project, Baltic Analog Lab in collaboration with Filmverkstaden in Finland is offering a month-long residency for artists working with photochemical film to develop an expanded cinema work - live performance, installation work or sculpture incorporating analog film medium.

Trešdien, 16.novembrī plkst. 19:00 biedrība un mākslinieku kolektīvs Baltic Analog Lab aicina nosvinēt savu piecu gadu jubileju BAL telpās Lienes ielā 19a.

Vēl nebijis kino seanss Veļu laika noskaņās, kurās tiks rādītas BAL arhīvā atrastās vēsturiskās nezināmo autoru filmas. To noslēpumu plīvuru atsegs pieaicināts ekstrasenss, interpretējot filmā redzamos personāžus un notikumus.

We are pleased to announce the 2022 edition of AVANT event in Karlstad and Kristinehamn, Sweden which this and the coming years happens in collaboration with Baltic Analog Lab and SPECTRAL project co-funded by Creative Europe.

The festival Suspaustas laikas'22 will be opened by a program compiled by Baltic Analog Lab in the cultural complex SODAS 2123 in Vilnius.

SPECTRAL Vasaras Skolas performatīvu audiovizuālus darbus prezentācija notiks 13. augustā Cīrulīšu dabas takā pie Spoguļu klintīm.

Ceturtdienas pasākumā SPECTRAL vasaras skolas ietvaros gaidāmas piecas performances, kurās tiks izmantoti analogie kino un slaidu projektori, mijiedarbībā ar audiālām kompozīcijām, kā arī analogo lāzeru šovu.

Baltic Analog Lab announces an open call for a week-long Summer school and a film-labs meeting for filmmakers and artists working with extended cinematic art.

Baltic Analog Lab aicina pievienoties SPECTRAL/ BAL Vasaras skolas atklāšanas pasākumam “Atmiņas un analoģijas” pirmdien, 8.augustā plkst. 21:00 Mākslas telpā MALA.

Baltic Analog Lab meklē jauku un precīzu lietvedi nepilna laika darbam ar biedrības lietvedības dokumentu kārtošanu.

Baltic Analog Lab atklāj savu filmu pasākumu sezonu BAL telpā Lienes ielā ar filmu programmu "Roka un mašīna"- ar rokām veidotas 16mm filmas no Austrālijas ar autoru - Ričarda Tūija un Diānas Berijas (Richard Tuohy,Dianna Barrie) klātbūtni.

The programme includes works by established experimental filmmakers who shoot their films on 16mm and 8mm film formats, as well as an ever-growing numbers of new authors. 

Biedrība “Baltic Analog Lab” aicina uz projekta “Eksperimentālā kino pirmsākumi Latvijā” prezentāciju un filmu skati 29. decembrī plkst. 19:00 k/t K.Suns kopā ar filmu autoriem.

Baltic Analog Lab invites to our second public event this year – this time an online lecture on November 12 at 7pm (GMT+2) with a film researcher Inese Strupule who will read a lecture in English about amateur film movement in Soviet Latvia. 

Ieva Balode is bringing a film programme of Baltic Experimental films to Contemporary art centre and a lovely cinema U-jazdowski Kino in Warsaw, Poland.

Eksperimentālā kino festivāls “Process” notiks Rīgā no 18. līdz 22. augustam, ceturto reizi piedāvājot daudzveidīgu avangarda kino programmu ar filmu skatēm, lekcijām, diskusijām un audiovizuālām paplašinātā kino (expanded cinema) performancēm.

Svētdien, 9. augustā, plkst 16.00 Ruckas muižā un tās parkā notiks dalībnieku radītu darbu – filmu, fotogrāfiju sēriju un instalāciju – prezentācija.

We are excited to announce that the United ISSP and Baltic Analog Lab Summer School will take place from 2 to 9 August at Rucka Art Residency Centre in Cēsis!

Turpinot pērnā gada tradīcijas, Baltic Analog Lab biedri aicina uz šīs vasaras saviesīgo draudzēšanās kino vakaru 29. jūlijā pulksten 19:00 ar grilla ballīti un mūziku vakara turpinājumā.

Baltic Analog Lab takes part in experimental film festival "Suspaustas laikas" in Nida, Lithuania. Film programme of BAL female members: Ieva Balode, Signe Birkova and Lāsma Bērtule.

On 24th July experimental film festival Process is organising a pre-party to warm up the audience for the upcoming festival in August (18-22), and meet each other face-to-face after a long time of not seeing each other.

Biedrība "Baltic Analog Lab" meklē uzticamu un kārtīgu cilvēku BAL kino arhīva veidošanā, kārtošanā un arhivēšanā. BAL krājumā ir ap simts 16mm un 8mm Latvijas dažādu laiku amatieru kino filmas, kuras projekta "Kultūrelpa" ietvaros ir paredzēts saarhivēt un digitalizēt.

Vieglas formas pasākums ar mākslinieku sarunām un muzikālo noformējumu no Lietuviešu drauga - Škicas.

Screening of films from the Baltic-Nordic Analogue Film Lab Network, hosted by Polar Film Lab.

22.02.2020.Baltic Analog Lab viesosies Kultūras nams Wiktorija Liepājā ar filmu programmu un radošo 16mm bezkameras kino darbnīcu Ieva Balode vadībā.

Baltic Analog Lab joins a programme that consists of experimental films from analog film collectives in Sweden – STPLN and the Baltic States – Spongé Lab and Baltic Analog Lab – a collective of artists and filmmakers who chose analog film as a material to explore the cinematic essence of artistic filmmaking.

Baltic Analog Lab aicina draugus un kolēģus uz kopīgu pirmssvētku ballīti šo piektdien, 20. decembrī plkst. 19:00. 

Baltic Analog Lab will present a special female filmmakers programme at second edition of Luminous Void Experimental film festival in Cork, Ireland this December 6-7, 2019 organised by Experimenal Film Society.

Baltic Analog Lab invites to a film programme curated by Canadian born Latvian curator and writer from Londond Erik Martinson who brings three films by three filmmakers - Lydia Nsiah, Sarah Forrest, and Sky Hopinka dealing with the subject of memory and remembering through cinematic perspective. 

Baltic Analog Lab invites you to an analog slide photography screening. Through the eyes of three photographers, we will visit the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

A celebration of analog techniques to create visual and audible media and art. This program is a collaborative effort featuring workshops, intro courses, a screening program, live cinema performance and photo exhibition. 

Baltic Analog Lab invites to a film screening with Melissa Dullius from artist duo Distruktur who will present their films which has been made using analog film. 

We are taking part in this years AVANT festival with a film programme of Baltic Analog Lab members as well as expanded cinema performance

Baltic Analog Lab invites to a film screening with researcher and curator Almudena Escobar López from USA accompanied with two filmmakers - Amber Bemak and D'Angelo Madsen Minax. The films presented in “The division of Love” unearth the artificial relationship between social and economic powers. 

Baltic Analog Lab members are taking part in Baltic-Nordic Labs meeting with a film programme and performance in Vilnius this week.

Baltic Analog Lab takes part in a festival "Suspaustas Laikas" on 28th July in Nida,Lithuania

Baltic Analog Lab invites you to an artist talk with two of our current artists in residence - Megumi Ohguri (Japan) and Manon VanScoder (USA) who are currently working on their photography based projects and will talk about their current work as well as artistic practice.

We are happy to welcome our long-term friend Karel Doing who is coming back to Riga for Open Fields conference at RIXC festival. Alongside his participation in festival, he will also give us a day long eco processing workshop on 7th July and a lecture about Expanded Cinema (1957 – 1978) on 6th July.

Baltic Analog Lab presents a film screening with our current Canadian resident - Erin Weisgerber. Erin will present her own films as well as films by the Double Negative Collective (Monstreal, Canada).

On 15 May at 19:00 we are hosting a program of recent 16mm single screen and expanded cinema work by Australian filmmakers Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie from NANOLAB.

Baltic Analog Lab invites to a special screening with our guest from Academy Film Archive of USA - film preservationist Mark Toscano bringing us a special film programme consisting of 16mm films he has been restoring as a preservationist.