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?

Lapkričio 8 d. 18.30 val. Kauno menininkų namuose vyks V-ojo Vilniaus analoginės fotografijos ir kino festivalio (VAFKF) renginys – kino vakaras.
Ankstyvojo kino festivalis „Pirmoji banga“ pristatys nebylią rež. Harry Langdon Slapstick trijų 8mm juostų komediją „Soldier man“, sukurtą 1926 metais.
Filmą įgarsins gyva muzika – specialiai filmui parengto garso takelio atlikimas pianinu kuria gyvą dialogą su filmu ir ryšį su žiūrovu, pateikdamas unikalią juostos interpretaciją.
Dalyviai: kino mechanikė Judita Ragauskaitė ir pianistas Pavel Pavlosyuk.
Renginys nemokamas!