LaborBerlin is happy to invite you all to Diffraktion#14, the annual screening of films by members of the collective and friends at City Kino Wedding on the 15th of March starting from 5:00 PM featuring analog film screenings, installations and performances. As always, the selection spans a wide range of formal and thematic approaches, all exploring the unique and ever-expanding qualities of analog film.
For the third consecutive year the event will take place in collaboration with SPECTRAL, a project created by six European analog film labs that focuses on Expanded Cinema. Within this framework guest filmmakers Nan Wang and KinoMANUAL will present two different performative approaches to the analog projection that redefine conventional notions of cinema.
5:00 pm
Installations:
The End of Human Eyes, OJOBOCA
Sunflower, martin moolhuijsen
6:00 pm
LaborBerlin Program:
Vision 2 200T, Hermann Feldhaus, Séverine Day, Zuzanna Marczak, Nora Molitor, Matteo Riebe, Leon Grant, Grace Baggott, 16mm, 3′
Phenomena (AIR), Carolina Romillo Marin, Digital, 3′
II (Above), Grace Baggott, 16mm, 4′
February Answers, Melissa Dullius, Digital, 8′
cinecorpse, directors’ uncut, Hermann Feldhaus/Achim Mohné, 16mm, 20′
Unsichtbare Filme Folge 6, Katrin Eissing, Digital, 4′
History Will Teach Us Nothing, Jan Rehwinkel, Digital, 5′
The Unchanging Sea, Luisa Greenfield, 16mm, 9′
Pflanzen Am Kottbusser Damm, Deborah S. Phillips, 16mm, 3′
9:00 pm
Expanded Cinema Performances:
Hue Shift, Nan Wang
Hue Shift is an immersive audio-visual piece that explores the hidden beauty of light refraction in transparent materials. Using DIY projectors and polariscopes, the performance integrates visuals and sound based on the binary system of I Ching hexagrams, creating a constantly evolving and mesmerizing cycle.
StillFrame Cinema. The Planet Store, KinoMANUAL
StillFrame Cinema (formerly called “Pocket Cinema”) is a project based on slide projectors from the analog era, formerly known as Lanterna Magica. KinoMANUAL started to explore the concept of multi source visual performance during an art residency at Filmverkstaden in February 2019. Their idea of creating home made cinema entertainment is no “pocket” anymore: the equipment they gathered during three years fills a medium size van so, to avoid unconvincing explanation, they have decided to rename the project “StillFrame Cinema”. The change highlights the origin of the moving images they create, because their visual compositions are built from single still slides. The slide projectors are modified by rotating devices, blended the slides with extra shapes and colors. They often combine these light effects with digitally animated projection.
Food will be available after 7:30 pm
15/03/2025
From 5:00 pm
City Kino Wedding
Müllerstrasse 74
13349
Berlin
Tickets 10€
Reduced 7€
Tickets can be acquired at the box office and from City Kino Wedding’s website
https://citykinowedding.de/programm/
The event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin