SPECTRAL IMPROV session #4 & #5

Filmwerkplaats presents SPECTRAL Improv session 4 & 5
19 October 2025, WORM UBIK, 18.00-19.30
FREE ENTRANCE

Filmwerkplaats is WORM’s own artist-run film lab and operates from the basement with a well equipped workspace dedicated to DIY analogue (celluloid) film practice. Part of a larger network of artist-run film labs worldwide. The lab runs as an association with more than 70 artists members.

The last few years the Filmwerkplaats opened up her lab for local and international film artists working with analog film within the framework of the SPECTRAL project. This EU partner project, with an emphasis in expanded cinema, comes to an end this year and we would like to celebrate this with a program of three live cinema collaborations, improv sessions, between our local film artists and local artists in various fields.

Sunday 19 October, 18.00-19.30 we will present these collaborations in UBIK, You are welcome to our performative playground.
Free entrance

IMPROV Sessions are short term collaborations with the aim of connecting local film artists to artists in various fields like sound art, poetry/spoken word, theatre and dance. At the end of each Improv Session the collaboration will have a stage through a joint performance during a live event at WORM.

SPECTRAL is a four-year collaboration between six artist-run film labs with a DIY philosophy and a focus on analog film. The project includes artist residencies, workshops, the creation of hybrid film equipment, and expanded events.

Participating artists:
dzum: Electronic soundscapes, dark drones, small acoustic instruments and things that almost sound like songs. dzum is a four-letter word, and dzum believes in the power of simplicity, of language, the voice and intuitive moves.
https://re-sister.bandcamp.com/track/step-over

Tes Damen (solo) is the sonic output and occasional live appearances of Dan Fogarty. A mix of studio experiments, noise, prog, effects pedals and incidental drums. A blend of swelling, dynamic, immersive and scrappy, never sitting too long in one mode.
https://tes-damen.bandcamp.com/track/harbour-wall

Valentina Vella is an Italian/US interdisciplinary artist living in Rotterdam. Her work investigates how environments and infrastructures—with a particular focus on water systems—choreograph emotion, attention, and relational life. Fieldwork, improvisation, voice research and Zen-grounded practices shape both process and presentation. Her work has been presented internationally, including at Links Hall (Chicago), Kunstinstituut Melly and WORM (Rotterdam), and La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome). Her current trajectory, A Poetics of Infrastructure: Expanding School of Love and Chaos, develops across performances, an autofictional novel, and moving-image work, and is supported by CBK Rotterdam.
https://www.valentinavella.com/