We are screening in Ponrepo
Screening: East of Kodak: Foma, ORWO, Svema
This program focuses on film stocks made in postwar Eastern Europe—Agfa/ORWO, Foma, and Svema—establishing a dialogue between advertising films by film manufacturers, amateur work rooted in 1980s alternative culture, and contemporary experimental films. The program begins in the East German factory town of Wolfen, where Agfa and ORWO black-and-white and color stocks were manufactured. It moves to Czechoslovakia, home to Foma, where Agfa and ORWO were widely (if at times reluctantly) used by amateur and underground filmmakers. It concludes by considering the vibrant present-day lives of these East European stocks, as they are used by artist-run film labs to reimagine our relationship to photochemical film.
Film und Faser (Film and Fibers)
Dir. Fritz Gebhardt, GDR, 1960, 26 min.
Proč?! (Why?!)
Dir. Červenka, Dašek, Kusý, Mihle, Novotný, Czechoslovakia, 1964, 2 min.
Skinflicker
Dir. Helena Gouveia Monteiro, Ireland, 2024, 5 min.
Bus, Turning
Dir. Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie, Australia, 2021, 7 min.
Lichtspiele. Erkennen – Gestalten – Erhalten ORWO (Lichtspiele: Understand – Create – Preserve ORWO)
Dir. Manfred Gußmann, GDR, 1979, 28 min.
Hynku, Egone (Hynek, Egon!)
Dir. Lubomír Drožď (aka Čaroděj OZ), Czechoslovakia, 1985, 5 min.
Z jedné strany na druhou: Sieh des Todes Blasses Bild (From One Side to Another: Behold the Pale Image of Death)
Dir. Lubomír Drožď (aka Čaroděj OZ), Czechoslovakia, 1985, 5 min.
Fetish Frames #1
Dir. Masha Godovannaya, U.S., 2013, 3 min.
The screening is part of the program of specialized workshops titled “Photochemical Film: Materials, Industries, Histories” led by theorist Alice Lovejoy.