Memories of Dream-Catching Sparks - workshop with Adriana vila Guevara
august 2-3 2025 kl(0) 10-17
In this 2-day workshop, filmmaker and anthropologist Adriana Vila Guevara takes us on a journey into 16mm -in camera- compositions and hand processing as resilient spiritual tools. Appealing to the phenomenological origins of cinema (through light, shadow/movement, memory, body and spirit), in this workshop we will navigate the theoretical, technical and experimental creative qualities of shooting and in camera editing with 16mm Bolex and the dark room lab B&W hand developing, with special focus on the sensorial and resilient virtues of its processes. As situated collective micro ceremonies, we will create in connection with the body's rythm, attributes and limitations. A workshop that invites to profound listening, tasting, smelling, touching, gazing and slightly dancing into the risky hypothesis of catching the instant of life as a dream still to come true. From intention, concentration, chance, presence, venture, flexibility, memory, accidentiality, failure and surprise, to acceptance and reinvention. From the technical knowledge to the development of intuition as the most powerful tool.
Workshop is open to all specialities and ages.
The workshop language is English.
Workshop fee is ‘pay what you can’, suggested fee is 80€, all materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to mail@filmverkstaden.fi
Maximum number of participants 8.
ADRIANA VILA GUEVARA (Caracas, 1981)
Artist, filmmaker and anthropologist currently living in Barcelona-Spain. Her work embraces the materiality and immateriality of film combining analogue-photochemical and video formats, as single-channel, film performance, and installation. Influenced by a questioned and insightful relation with the world and the self, her interests encompass the intersection between poetics and politics, and how cinema can explore and transform states of consciousness, as a useful stimulation for the times we are living -and the times to come-. Doctor and Master’s degree in Anthropology, she collaborates with national and international universities, film and art institutions, passionately teaching non-fiction film practices, different approaches to anthropology and ethnographic methodologies for the arts, as well as experimental photochemical laboratory practices. Co-founder of the independent analog film lab Crater-Lab, during the past decade she has devoted to developing and sharing DIY processes for analogue filmmaking. Currently she is working on her second feature film, as well as the design and creation of La Numinosa, a creative platform focused on developing social environmental -embodied- awareness, through arts, spirituality and regenerative cultures. She has screened her work at relevant festivals and art centers, in Europe, North America and Latin America, such as IFFR Rotterdam Film Festival, Oberhausen IFF, Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Video art festival LOOP, Curtas IFF Belo Horizonte, Museo de Bellas Artes Caracas, Museo de Arte Moderna da Bahia MAM, FID Marseille, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Microscope Gallery NY, Crossroads SF MoMa, among other.
The workshop is organised as part of the Analogue Adventure Nordic Residency Program and is generously funded by Nordic Culture Point, Konstsamfundet, Svenska Kulturfonden, Taike and the city of Vaasa.
