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. We will end the night with a performance by our special guests – Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barry from Australia. In the course of the evening, there will also be a small photo flea market, providing you to buy various analog junks for donations.

This year BAL film school was held for the third year with 50 participants from Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Sweden, Hungary, Spain, Singapore, the Netherlands, the USA, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Portugal, Ireland, Ukraine, Australia, China, Georgia, Germany took part. , France, Poland, Mexico, Canada, Austria, Taiwan, Iceland, etc. The school runs for six months from January to June, with weekly online meetings with filmmakers from around the world, as well as face-to-face workshops in Latvia and Berlin. 

At the end of the school, the students made their own films, which were developed at the Baltic Analog Lab, as well as at the LaborBerlin laboratory in Berlin. In the screening films will be shown both in their original formats on 16mm and 8mm film projectors, as well as digitized. There will also be some student-made performances, which also include interactions with film projectors and DIY live sounds.

At the end of the evening, our special guests Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barry from Australia will perform their expanded cinema performance, presenting their piece “Cyclone Tracery" for two 16mm film projectors. The two authors will be visiting Latvia for the third time, giving film workshop, where this time the participants will learn the skills of printing and dupilcating 16mm film.

In the course of the evening, there will also be a small photo flea market, where it will be possible to buy various analog junks for donations, so we invite you to bring some cash with you!

We also encourage you to bring snacks and drinks for common table, as well as vegetables for a common grill!

Free entrance