LaborBerlin

23/06/2026

We are happy to invite you on the 2nd of July to an evening of 16mm short experimental Canadian films and a performance of 35mm flickering urchins, a homage to the genius of Ken Jacobs and Jean Painlevé, with music by Merlin Campbell, the complicity of Miguel Morin and Martin Chateauvert, and thanks to the Laboratoire CinéMédias and the CinEXmédia partnership.

The evening will begin with a curated program of historic and contemporary Canadian experimental films, all on 16mm, that dialogue with key issues in early cinema

July 2 - 20:00
Programme

- A selection of 16mm experimental films from Canada
- Cadavre exquis 5.3 - les oursins nerveux - Miguel Morin, André Habib, Merlin Campbell, (2025-)

Curated & Performed by
André Habib

André Habib is a professor of film studies at the University of Montreal. He has written on Ken Jacobs, Bill Morrison, Louise Bourque, Karl Lemieux, Daïchi Saïto, Ernie Gehr, Joseph Cornell, Jean-Luc Godard, on film collectors, cinephilia, melancholia, nostalgia, Iranian cinema, found footage film practices, Kodachrome, archives, ruins. He is the director of the Journal Hors champ, the initiator of the platform Zoom Out (zoom-out.ca), Obsolescence (obsolescence.ca) and the project Cadavre exquis (cadavrexquis.ca).

Address:
PA58
Prinzenallee 58
13359 Berlin
July 2
20:00

30/11/2025

LaborBerlin is happy to bring S.P.A.C.E. EXPANDED to Paradoks in Leipzig—a program featuring works developed through the S.P.A.C.E. residency (Nov. 2022 – Oct. 2024), initiated by LaborBerlin, an artist-run analog film lab, as part of the SPECTRAL project. This unique European collaboration between six artist-run film labs supports analog projection as an artistic practice, offering resident artist’s studio space, equipment, and access to LaborBerlin’s film lab. At Paradoks, we present an expanded cinema performance that emerged from this intensive, hands-on environment.

Programme:

Devotion – Renata Daguerre, 16mm projectors, digital video, analog video, 30′.

A live film performance incorporating projected 16mm and digital footage. In Devotion Renata Daguerre explores joy, beauty, wildness, dance floors and hybrid beings between human and animal. The swan serves as a symbol of grace, protection, rage, migration, loyalty, and family.

Feathers and dancers with feathers. Transitioning their shapes, the swan becomes a beautiful raver.

Materials and sensations are assembled in a galactic aquarium – shaped space. The limits between screen – spectator – creator are dissolved. Surrounded by disco balls and immersed into fog, Devotion is an invitation to dance with enchantment and freedom.

Paradoks Festival
6.12.2025
20:00
Tickets: https://www.tixforgigs.com/Event/69464

ZiMMT
Torgauer Str. 80
04318
Leipzig

The event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin

17/11/2025

We’re happy to bring S.P.A.C.E. EXPANDED to Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV)—a performance program featuring works developed through the S.P.A.C.E. residency (Nov. 2022–Oct. 2024), initiated by LaborBerlin as part of the SPECTRAL project.

At WKV, we present works that emerged from this intensive, hands-on environment, alongside a re-enactment of Horror Film 1 by Malcolm Le Grice, which we brought to EMAF in 2024. These expanded cinema pieces activate the projection space in new ways, rethinking the relationship between image, sound, audience, and environment. Together, they highlight the living vitality of analog film and its evolving artistic potential.

As part of the event, the Expanded Cinema Study Collection will also be accessible. It brings together video documentation from the series Expanded Cinema: Film as Spectacle, Event and Performance (HMKV Dortmund, 2004) and Expanded Cinema: Space / Time / Structure (WKV Stuttgart, 2006), both curated by Mark Webber.

S.P.A.C.E. Expanded
Württembergischer Kunstverein
Stuttgart
November 22, 2025 | 7 pm
Free Entry

Program:

Horror Film 1
By Malcolm Le Grice (Reenacted by Betija Zvejniece)
1971, 14', sound (no dialogues)

With thanks to the Artistic Estate of Malcolm Le Grice.

DNCB
By Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger
2021, ca. 20 min, sound

REVUE !!!
By Bernd Lützeler; Music by Brain Operating System
2025, ca. 10–15', sound (no dialogues)

333 : Invocation
By Pilar Falco
2024, ca. 25', sound

The event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin

06/11/2025

CONDITION REPORT in November at LaborBerlin

Film copies are subject to constant change, which is documented in condition reports in the archive. In the series “Condition Report,” filmmaker Juan González shares his personal moments of discovery while examining copies in the Arsenal archive.

Arsenal continues the series in November with EMILY – THIRD PARTY SPECULATION (UK 1979) by Malcolm Le Grice.

For the 14th edition of Condition Report, Arsenal on Location returns to LaborBerlin. The non-profit, self-organised film lab sees itself as an open space for the exchange and discussion of cinematic ideas and working methods. It brings together films from collaborative projects that have created alternative spaces for independent, non-commercial cinema.

Program

SU, 2.11., 7pm, Introduction & Discussion: Juan González
EMILY – THIRD PARTY SPECULATION Malcolm Le Grice UK 1979 16mm engl. OmdU 62'
The film takes us into a domestic setting that disrupts our viewing habits, shaped by narrative cinema, and forces us to question our expectations and our role as viewers. In everyday life, we take it for granted that our attention unconsciously creates order. Narrative cinema takes over this process by guiding us through characters, perspectives and continuity. Le Grice dissolves these structures and directs our attention to attention itself – as a way of regaining freedom in seeing. (Juan Gonzáles)

📍 LaborBerlin, Prinzenallee 58, 13359 Berlin
📅 2.11.2025
🔗 For the program 👉 https://onlocation.arsenal-berlin.de/condition-report-14

04/10/2025

DAY 3 – Sunday Oct 5th

Doors open at 18h

Zuza Marczak & Deborah S. Phillips - Przybłędy
Film performance, 16mm & voice, 2 min, 2025

Séverine De Streyker - Cuba, 50 Years After the Revolution
Film, Super-8 to digital, 11 min, 2025

Christin Turner - The Wind Is Calling
Film, Super-8 to digital, 4 min, 2025

Deborah S. Phillips - Capsicum
Film, 16mm, 11 min, 2008

Jan Rehwinkel - Licht und Ton (Light and Sound)
Film, 16mm, 2 min, 2025

Renata Daguerre - I Find it Hard to Say
film, Super-8 to digital, 5 min, 2024

Jules Leaño - Forage Friction
film performance, 16mm & live music, 20 min, 2025 music: Tengal Drilon & Elvin Brandhi

Cinzia Nistico (Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam) - DIsINCARNATE (Spectral Expanded)
film performance, 16mm & trumpet, 30 min, 2024 trumpet: Igor Iofe

22:00 - Hang-out at Filmrisz (Rigaer Str. 103 – across the road)

Venue: Galiläakirche – Rigaer Str. 9, 10245 Berlin
Admission: donation based: 3–10 Euros per day

This event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin.

02/10/2025

Zelluloid Resistance at Galiläa-Kirche Berlin

Day 2 - Saturday Oct 4th

16:00 - Doors open / Film installations

Films from Rigaerstr Str:

Igor
Super-8, 14min, 1994

Sascha
Super-8, 4min, 1996
by Jean-Paul Pacífico & Martin O’Shea.

Open Panel - Reel Solidarities: On Building and Sustaining Collectives.

Films from Rigaer Str:

Gun’s and Vodka
16mm, live foley & music, 4min, 1996

Gasmaske und Cognac
16mm, live foley & music, 10min, 1994
by Johan Robin & Cédric Robin / SKZ Produkt

19:30 - Film Programme

Katrin Eissing - Postupak/Film 1
16mm to digital, 10 min, 2023

Bernd Lützeler & Kolja Kunt - Unterwegs mit Maxim Gorkis
Super-8 , 11 min, 2014

Milica Jovcic - Negotations #2
Film Performance, Super-8 & Slides, 8 min, 2025

Kornél Szilagyi & Linn Löffler - Fearkingdom
16mm to digital, 24min, 2022

Maja Milic - Inscription, Enduring, Potential
Film Performance, multiple Super-8, Live Sound, 40min, 2023 - Spectral / S.P.A.C.E Expanded.

22:00 - Hang-out at Filmrisz (Rigaer Str. 103 – across the road)

Venue: Galiläakirche – Rigaer Str. 9, 10245 Berlin
Admission: donation based: 3–10 Euros per day

This event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin.

01/10/2025

Zelluloid Resistance at Galiläa-Kirche Berlin

Installations running all three days:
Friday 3rd - from 17:00
Saturday 4th - from 18:00
Sunday 5th - from 18:00

martin moolhuijsen - Forms of Motion
Slides, 16mm, arduino controlled lightbox

Following a geometrical metaphor for film editing, Forms of Motion presents hand-painted frames as points (slides), lines (filmstrips), and planes (multiple adjacent filmstrips) which will be animated through different colored lights.

Grace Baggott - Three sheets to the wind
16mm

Three Sheets to the wind explores’ the imperfect nature of analogue technology, utilising its proclivity for failure and flaws to envisage a state of intoxication.

Three Sheets to the Wind does not directly correlate to drinking alcohol or alcohol culture. Instead it explores a hypothetical narrative of intoxication which personifies the camera as an intoxicated entity. Using the camera’s mechanical complexity to its advantage, as well as disadvantage - for example: manipulating the focus, exposure and speed - the camera acts as a physical extension of the filmmaker, following the impacts of movement and environment. The narrative follows the effects of alcohol such as blurred vision, dizziness and loss of memory.

The 16mm reel has then been developed as a positive print using red w**e as a developer. By developing the film in w**e I conceptually tied in the idea of intoxicated apparatus, and by physically soaking the film in alcohol, furthering the unpredictability and intoxicated nature of the visual outcome. During the printing process I also experimented with different variations of printing including double exposures to imitate dizziness and double vision.

Venue: Galiläakirche – Rigaer Str. 9, 10245 Berlin, Germany
Admission: donation based: 3–10 Euros per day

This event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin.

01/10/2025

30/09/2025

Zelluloid Resistance at Galiläakirche

DAY 1
Friday Oct 3rd:

17:00 - doors open / film installations

18:00 - Spectral Devices:
SPECTRAL 800 Chronophantoscope
State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector
developed & presented by Juan David González Monroy, Bernd Lützeler & Jan Kulka

19:30 - Film Programme

Laurence Favre - Zerzura
16mm, 11 min, 2024

Markus Wambsganss - Scale A
Single-8 to digital, 7 min, 2024

Sophie Watzlawick - Now it’s Stable, but in the Wrong Pitch
16mm, 5 min, 2020

Ojoboca - A Running Woman 2025
film performance, 16mm, slides & voice, 6 min, 2025

Carolina Romillo Marin - Phenomena I-II
film performance, 16mm & live music, 15 min, 2025

Bigum+Björge - Pareidolia – a Nature Exploration Beyond Facts
film performance, 16mm & slides, 30 min, 2025

22:00 - hang-out at Filmrisz (Rigaer Str. 103 – across the road)

Venue: Galiläakirche – Rigaer Str. 9, 10245 Berlin, Germany
Admission: donation based: 3–10 Euros per day

This event is supported by the Creative Europe Program and the Senate of the City of Berlin.