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08.05. - 11.05.2025

The Silver Record Festival

Experimental Film Festival and Symposium

All events are free and in English

The Silver Record Festival Program Sunday 11.05.2025

Fourth festival day with workshop, screening and closing performance

The Silver Record Festival Saturday program 10.05.2025

Third festival day with
Symposium at Tromsø Kunstforening and
Screenings at Verdensteatret

The Silver Record Festival Program Friday 09.05.2025

Second festival day with workshop, scratch-performance, screenings, expanded cinema performance and filmquizz.

06.05. + 07.05. + 08.05.2025

The Silver Record: Print, project & perform workshop

Three-day expanded cinema workshop with Britt Al-Busultan

Please sign up for taking part in the workshop.

Inside the Machine

The Films of Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie

Print, print, Bolex!

A one-day workshop on how to print using the Bolex

LABO K x PFL: Atterganger

Live cinema work ‘Atterganger'

The Silver Record Festival Program Thursday 08.05.2025

The first festival day with workshops, seminar, opening performance and screeing program.

Expanded cinema performance by Elena Pardo and Azucena Losana

A screening with works from Melina Pafundi

Polar Film Lab and Kurant host a screening with works from Melina Pafundi

Found footage & images in exile: recover, prevent, preserve

A workshop with Melina Pafundi

08.05- - 09.05.2025

The Silver Record: Arctic Photographic Garden

Two-days workshop experimenting with plant based developer with Ricardo Leite

Please sign up for taking part in the workshop

Organic film development and tinting workshop

Two-day workshop with PFL Azucena Losana and Elena Pardo

15.9.–17.9.2023

By Other Means for Other Ends

Expanded cinema workshop with OJOBOCA

In this workshop we will explore analog techniques for exploring the possibilities of the frame, the shutter and the screen. We’ll begin by looking at the projector not as a passive device for the reproduction of coupled images and sounds but as a playable instrument. We will explore ways of transforming the quality of the light through the use of an external shutter.

DIY/LIT - colour developing

Do It Yourself, Learn It Together - introductory workshop to colour processing

17.01.2025 – 11.05.2025

We Circle in Darkness, Consumed by Light

An exhibition exploring the elemental forces of nature which transform the human condition.

Pulsos Subterráneos / Underground Pulses

A live cinema performance by Elena Pardo

DIY/LIT - analogue camera, black & white developing, and analogue projecting

Do It Yourself, Learn It Together introductory workshop to all things analogue

DIY/LIT - intro to Bipacking and Print Positive!

Do It Yourself, Learn It Together workshop on bipacking and contact printing

Filmmaking workshop with the Institute for Scene Experiments

In collaboration with the exhibit Counterimaginaries at Tromsø Kunstforening

11.11-11.13.2022

DIY/LIT - analogue camera, black & white developing and analogue projecting

Do It Yourself, Learn It Together introductory workshop to all things moving-image and analogue!

Oblique Strategies

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

The Deviant Product with Anette Gellein & Laida Lertxundi

Film screening and conversation with artists

DIY/LIT - colour developing

Do It Yourself, Learn It Together introductory workshop on colour processing

Seaweed as film developer

A workshop with Lena Gudd

30.4.2022, 7.5.2022-8.5.2022

DIY/LIT - analogue camera, black & white developing and analogue projecting

Do It Yourself, Learn It Together introductory workshop on all things analogue