Interview with Filmwerkplaats’s Esther Urlus

Recently Filmwerkplaats’ Esther Urlus was interviewed by UitAgenda Rotterdam about the Back to the Future Festival. The interview is in Dutch and you can read it in PDF format here.

The festival was dedicated to analogue moving images and optical sound: a celebration of the *real* film medium. The international programme featured audio-visual performances, films, presentations, devices, a motion picture panorama, and a radio play. The focus was on performative & expanded cinema with works that ventured beyond the constraints of the passive cinema to propose an engaged, shared experience of the inimitable ritual of flickering light and shadow.

The festival was an initiative of  Filmwerkplaats, WORM’s artist-run analogue film lab and a vital hub for DIY film practice in the Netherlands and across Europe.

The SPECTRAL (Spatial, Performative & Expanded Cinematic Transnational Research at Artist-run Labs) project is a joint project initiated by six laboratories focusing on a variety of kinds of work with photo-chemical moving images. SPECTRAL has been conceived to support the creation and dissemination of Expanded Cinematic Art (E.C.A.) and to encourage international collaborations to ensure that this kind of artistic practice can thrive in the future.