Many of our members projects are created through the Labor.
SPECTRAL
SPECTRAL is a four-year collaboration between six artist-run film labs with a DIY philosophy and a focus on analog film. The project includes artist residencies, workshops, the creation of hybrid film equipment, and expanded events.
RE:MI
RE:MI was a two-year European cooperation project run by Mire (Nantes, FR), WORM.Filmwerkplaats (Rotterdam, NL) and LaborBerlin (Berlin, DE), focused on the creation, preservation and circulation of technical knowledge of analogue film in order to support its use as a creative medium.
‘Film In The Present Tense’ Book
This book brings together contributions from participants and guests of Film in the Present Tense – International Symposium on Current Developments in Analog Film Culture, held in Berlin. It reflects a contemporary discussion around the use, value and purpose of analogue film from a multiplicity of perspectives: artists, filmmakers, scholars, archivists, curators, technicians and manufacturers. Film in the Present Tense intends to provide a documentation of the collective momentum that characterized the symposium and it responds to the persistent desire to keep talking about analogue film.
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Film in the Present Tense
International Symposium 20.–22. Oct 2017 In spite of claims of its obsolescence, analog film is still alive. It continues to exist as an inimitable artistic medium, put to use in myriad forms around the world. Nonetheless, in the context of our ever-expanding digital landscape, analog film faces new challenges that have forced it into a…
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Book – Film in the Present Tense
This book brings together contributions from participants and guests of Film in the Present Tense – International Symposium on Current Developments in Analog Film Culture, held in Berlin. It reflects a contemporary discussion around the use, value and purpose of analogue film from a multiplicity of perspectives: artists, filmmakers, scholars, archivists, curators, technician s and…
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Film in the Present Tense – Photos
A big thank you to everyone that attended, organized and participated in FILM IN THE PRESENT TENSE! It was a wonderful event. We’re happy to see so much interest in the well being of analog film. We’re eager to continue the discussion. Thanks for making our community stronger!
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Pilot Residency Report – Andrew Kim
Report by Andrew Kim As the LaborBerlin Pilot Artist in Residence (July 2016), I was asked to work with the lab’s newly acquired Crass Animation Stand and Optical Printer System. This was an opportunity to advance past work involving interference patterns, or the “Moiré effect”. Prior to the residency, I finished a film titled, Temples…
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Pilot Residency – Andrew Kim
LaborBerlin welcomes Andrew Kim as our first Artist-in-residence. Within the residency, Andrew will take advantage of our Crass Animation Stand and create a new work exploring the machine’s artistic possibilities. As a compliment to his production work, Andrew will also lead a workshop (tba) and present two screenings which will feature his own films and…
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The Projector As Instrument – PHOTOS
Floris Vanhoof spent two days this week with us teaching his workshop The Projector as Instrument. The group used contact printing and high contrast film to make loops which they subsequently altered through projection. This workshop was part of the RE MI. Photos by Laurence Favre.
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Campaign FILM AIN’T DEAD ends
Dearest LaborBerlin 2.0 Supporters! YOU ARE OUR ANALOGUE FILM WARRIORS! Last night the impossible happened! Overnight we reached an unbelievable 101% of our funding goal! Every one of us at LaborBerlin is absolutely drowning in gratitude for all the support and donations that have flooded in over the last 6 weeks of our campaign. For…
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LaborBerlin 2.0 – FILM AIN’T DEAD
FILM AIN’T DEAD – https://igg.me/at/filmaintdead – our crowd-funding campaing is getting to the end and we need your help!!! We are absolutely overwhelmed and excited by the incredible support that has been mustered up in the last 24 hours! A MASSIVE THANK YOU to each and every one of our 363 donors and everyone else who has been supporting…
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FILM AIN’T DEAD FOREVER – Party at Südblock
Date: Friday, March 18 2016 Miniconcerts: 23:00 (Doors: 22:00) Location: Südblock, Admiralstr. 1-2, 10999 Berlin Analogue film is grainy and dirty, baby. On this dark night, LaborBerlin invites your grainy dirty side to party with us in an offering to celebrate the future/s of analogue film. All film, art and music in solidarity with the…
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FILM AIN’T DEAD – Expanded Cinema at Spektrum
Date: Saturday, March 5 2016 Screening: 20:00 Location: Spektrum | art science community, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047 Berlin In the earliest days of film, every screening was a performance; projectors were hand-cranked, sound was performed live. Today outside of the multiplex, analog filmmakers carry on the tradition of film as a unique experience. For the third…