A three-day workshop led by Laida Lertxundi and Ron Ebel

When: 8. & 9. & 10.Sept. 2022 // 11AM - 4PM (lunch included)
Where: Polar Film Lab (Kysten), Tromsø

PFL provides equipment and material for the workshop.
Please sign up by writing an email to:
polarfilmlab@gmail.com

In this three day workshop, we will watch films, read texts and shoot 16mm film with an emphasis on producing spontaneity and surprise out of the banal and the ordinary. Each day will focus on one of three themes — Environment, Object and Text — and will include both a discussion of relevant texts and moving image works by various artists and filmmakers, as well as a workshop portion where we will perform collaborative scores and exercises as a group, both with and without 16mm filmmaking equipment, with the intention of making work not based on ideas and concepts, but on playful experimentation with the forms and materials of time-based art.

We will be discussing the texts:
"Oblique Strategies" Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
"Pillow Book" Sei Shōnagon
"Approaches to What?" Georges Perec
"Against Meaning in Ballet" Edwin Denby
and works by:
Yvonne Rainer, Paul and Marelene Kos, Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Sherman, Marcel Broodthaers

Laida Lertxundi is a filmmaker and artist living and working between Los Angeles, California and the Basque Country. Her 16mm films bring together ideas from conceptual art and structural film with a radical, embodied, feminist perspective. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and solo exhibitions at museums including the Whitney Biennial, Museum of American Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MoMa, New York; Tate Modern, London, Matadero, Madrid and ICA, London.

Ren Ebel is a writer and artist from California whose work includes sound, film/video, text and drawing. His criticism, fiction and art has appeared in Artforum, Frieze and Mousse.

We ask for a limited fee of 300kr to cover some of the costs of materials, but if you are unwaged/low waged get in touch as we have some free spaces. We aim to make Polar Film Lab as accessible as possible, for as broad a group as possible, and aim to offer as much free or on a ‘Pay what you can’ framework as possible - if you receive project funding or have an income, we ask that you help us keep doing what we are doing by paying a small fee.