E L E M E N T A L
featuring SPONGE lab and the oracle

We invite you to continue the conversation around the term “experimental” with different local artist who work with and through the moving image using photochemical means.
The cinematic is tied in with ecology and materiality: the meanings we carve out of chemical and biological entities in making moving images. Our works presented all come out of a tradition of crafting images and materials manually, while our lives remain inescapably tied to the digital contemporary. 
The show explores a mode of making films usually called "experimental". A loaded term taken up by many without much attention to the values within. Artistic experiments with moving images are part of a multi-modal discourse, where boundaries and contexts are fluid. This can provoke "disciplining" from the side of tradition and convention, or an affirmative embrace from transdisciplinary artists.
Which way do we go, as creators, and why? What kind of experience or argument does the spectator end up with in different configurations? What is a critical inquiry using film?

2024 09 11 19 val. Vilniaus fotografijos galerija (rūsys), Stiklių g.4

  Middle Ground is a series of panoramic photographs from Lithuania, made during the years 2014-2024, by British photographer Joe Wood. Fundamentally the project aims to deliver an unusual and authentic picture of the young country during an eventful decade, which included the 25th anniversary of the reinstatement of Lithuanian independence, the arrival of the Euro currency, the corona pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Moments of national significance are recorded alongside smaller moments from everyday life, with an emphasis on action in the street and public spaces, including by a range of people trying to shape the country's trajectory at what seems to be a global inflection point.
  Project shot on a 35mm Hasselblad Xpan camera using colour negative film from both Fuji and Kodak. Mostly he has used high speed film to enable shutter speeds over 250th of a second for handheld photography with a deeper depth of field.

www.joe-wood.eu
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This event is part of 7th Vilnius Analog Photography and Film Festival.

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Susitikime penktadienį 19 val. prie Vilniaus fotografijos galerijos (Stiklių g. 4) ir leisimės pokalbiui į rūsį.

Foto: Vytautas Juozėnas (Škicas)