Baltic Analog Lab in collaboration with Suspaustas Laikas festival in Vilnus, Lithuania presents expanded cinema program at MO Museum with two performances - ORDERED FRAME CHAOS by Marek Pluciennik (FI) and Başak Günak (TR/DE) and EYE ARDENTIA by Miguel Puertas (ES)

ORDERED FRAME CHAOS, 35mm live projection, live Processed sound, 30 min by Marek Pluciennik (FI) and Başak Günak (TR/DE)

The performance was created during Marek’s and Başak’s artist residency in Baltic Analog Lab in Riga during autumn 2023.

In his 35mm film performance Marek pays hommage to the dawn of cinema whilst stepping away from cinema's industrial consistent mechanical reproduction of film frames. Exploring the 35mm projection with the dissonance of hand crank filming and projecting. What happens between the frames without industrial consistency?

Work is accompanied with analog sounds coming from film projector and other sound devices used by Başak Günak.

Marek Pluciennik is film artist based in Helsinki. His work focuses on the materiality of film medium. He hacks projectors to explore visual motion perception in the frame-based medium. Aside from films, his work is site specific, focusing on expanded cinema projection performances and installations.

Berlin-based, Istanbul born Başak Günak is a sound artist,performer and composer, also internationally known as AH! KOSMOS in the field of electronic music.

Günak pursues her sound experimentations as a sound artist, composing soundscapes for film, theater, contemporary dance and visual art projects, and realising site-specific performances. Her works have been featured worldwide in several festivals and institutions.

EYE ARDENTIA. 3x 16mm film projectors, sound, 45 min by Miguel Puertas (ES)

Ardentía is a word used by spanish seamen to refer to noctiluca in biology, a luminescent plankton that reproduce on the sea surface and is seen at night. It glares on darkness like burning water or stardust. Here acts as an allegory to hypnagogic vision, a free interpretation of pulsating phosphenes in our closed eyes.

An immersive experience of live cinema that highlights what are called fleeting defects of vision. A study where sound variations dance alongside light waves in a stream of electrifying and poetic visions.

Performer

Miguel Ángel Puertas was born in Almería, Spain in 1980. He develops his cinematographic work in a self-taught way from studies in Artistic Photography and Advertising Graphics, paying main attention to the autonomy of the creative process, both of the discourse and of the material means with which it is created and displayed. His work spreads from working in the lab to the screening room. Initiated in video art, he has worked and collaborated as an editor in production companies such as Neon Rouge, MoonWorld Records or Rtbf and the independent laboratory LABO Bxl. He co-founds the Gui ColleC collective, a nexus of audiovisual experimentation focused on film practices and live music.

SPECTRAL project is Creative Europe's funded project uniting six artist-run film labs from Europe WORM.Filmwerkplaats (Rotterdam, NL), Mire (Nantes, FR), Baltic Analog Lab (Riga, LV), LaborBerlin (Berlin, DE) Crater Lab (Barcelona, ES), Laia (Porto,PT). Starting from year 2022 the project has an emphasis on expanded analogue film art and focuses on the creation, presentation, and circulation of expanded cinematic art projects. Over 4 year period (until 2025) there are various events organized by SPECTRAL team members bringing up the discourse of expanded cinematic art practice and its place in contemporary film art.

Financed by Creative Europe, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Riga City Council, and Baltic Analog Lab