Back to the Future Festival: SPECTRAL

Back to the Future is a 3-day festival dedicated to analogue moving images and optical sound- a celebration of the real film medium. The international programme features audio-visual performances, films, presentations, devices, a motion picture panorama, and a radio play.
This 4th edition has a focus on performative & expanded cinema. On show will be works that venture beyond the constraints of the passive cinema to propose an engaged, shared experience of the inimitable ritual of flickering light and shadow.
The festival is 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. Many of the works presented are created within the context of SPECTRAL, a joint project by six special film labs across Europe.

Schedule Saturday 20 September
Back to the Future on radio WORM 12.00-13.00 – Spectral Device intermezzo and talk about re-enactments of performances
15:00 Wandering, Mire (FR), Labor Berlin (DE), SPECTRAL Device improv performance
15:30-16:30 SPECTRAL Device Presentation, Mire (FR), Labor Berlin (DE), Crater-Lab (ES), Filmwerkplaats (NL), presentation
15:30-16:30 It’s not the sun who is moving, Luis Macias (ES), SPECTRAL Residency outcome, expanded cinema installation
16:30 Filmlabs, curated by Filmwerkplaats members, short film programme
17:30 Glue Your Eyelids Together, Mars Saude (US/UK), performance
18:00 Neuroqueer Landscapes, curated by Mars Saude (US/UK) & Pat Janeiro (PT/NL), short film programme
19:45 Inside-outside-around, Luis Macias (ES), performance
20:30 Shelter 9999, Takahiko Iimura & Alvin Lucier ( JP/US), performed by Ojoboca (DE) and Martin Moolhuijsen (IT/DE), re-enactment performance
21:30 Concert, Tesa (LV) and Baltic Analog Lab (LV), concert with live improv cinema
Back to the Future on radio WORM 22.00-23.00 – Stone Shadow, Filmwerkplaats member Cinzia Nistico (IT/NL),

FULL 3 DAY PROGRAMME HERE.
**tickets €10 day. Cineville valid at the door for the whole day! **

*SPECTRAL (Spatial, Performative & Expanded Cinematic Transnational Research at Artist-run Labs) is a joint project initiated by six such labs 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.

BACK TO THE FUTURE takes place on 19-20-21 September 2025 @WORM
Friday 19th 18:30-23:00
Saturday 20th 12:00-23:00
Sunday 21th 12:00-23:00

SPECTRAL is co-funded by the European Union.