Re-encounter found footage & home movies

A two-day workshop with Melina Pafundi (in residency at PFL)

May 25th & 26th 2024 // 10am - 4pm at Polar Film Lab

Please sign up by writing an email to: polarfilmlab(at)gmail.com

Our era is one expressed primarily in material images. The mania for digital production and reproduction has driven material images, still and moving, into a kind of exile. How to bring back from exile these testimonies of a personal time and a micro-political memory? The workshop is inspired by the "Home Movie Day" to allow participants to re-encounter images in exile from their attics and project them back to the public.
Basic guidelines on preventive preservation of audiovisual media will be provided and, in addition, cleaning materials, repairing and mounting the existing footage, will be made available.
We ask you to search your home/ family (friends) archives for personal footage and bring your own super 8 found footage, personal archives and home movies with you to share, edit and preserve at the workshop. For those who couldn't find personal material we can provide some film material.

Melina Pafundi is an Argentinean filmmaker and film restorer living in Berlin. The sense of the intersection between image archaeology and film philosophy is at the center of her oeuvre. She works mainly on analogue film support. Installations, Film performance, and hybrid cinematic forms are the expressions that her works adopt, addressing the emergence of the image as a constitutive phenomenon of epistemologies.

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.

The project is generously supported by: Kulturrådet - Arts Council Norway, Tromsø kommune, Fylkeskommune and Nordic Council of Ministers’ Culture and Art Programme.
And its part of the project series "Expanding North" a collaboration of 4 Baltic/Nordic labs: BAL in Riga (LV), LIFT in Torronto (CA) and Filmverkstaden in Vaasa (FI).