Filmverkstaden

Koti
Suomi
Vaasa
Filmverkstaden

A place for development and experiment, through exchange of knowledge and inspiration. This is a project of Dots: association for audiovisual art.

Independent audiovisual art

The aim is to improve the opportunities for artists to work with independent audio-visual arts while raising interest for audio-visual art in general. An art centre as a national and international platform where artists and creative professionals involved with audio-visual arts can meet, create, develop, show and share their art. Filmverkstaden tries to provide working

facilities, such as a darkroom, master classes and workshops, film screenings and interesting
projects.

14/01/2026

Printing B/W to colour & Expanded Cinema with Riojim and Luis Macías 25-25.1 kl(o) 10-17

Filmverkstaden presents a two-day hands-on workshop led by artists Etienne Caire and Luis Macías, where film creation and live projection develop together. Participants will work simultaneously on printing black & white film onto colour stock and expanded cinema projection practices, connecting material image-making with performative cinematic action.

Image Creation & Polychromy (Riojim)
Participants will learn how to copy black & white 16mm film onto colour print stock using a contact printer. Through techniques such as flat printing, double exposure, and colour filtering, we will explore how to create polychromie and multiple image generations. Work will focus on short film loops (1-2 meters), encouraging experimentation and tactile learning. Participants should bring 1-2 meters of B/W film (negative or positive).

Expanded Cinema & Live Projection (Luis Macías)
Working in parallel, this section explores expanded cinema and live film performance, focusing on projection as a sensory and performative act. Participants will experiment with 16mm projection, light artifacts, sound, silence, and improvisation, transforming the cinematic apparatus itself.

*The workshop culminates in a collective live film performance, where printed film and projection actions merge.

Participation fee is 80€, all materials are included. Max 10 students.
Sign up by sending an email to [email protected]
The workshop language is English.

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02/10/2025

Photopolymer - workshop by Sara Manninen 16-18.10 kl(o) 10-17

The course covers the different stages of photopolymer. Photopolymer is a printmaking technique in which photographs can be transferred to a printing plate by exposing them to UV light. On the course we prepare photopolymer plates using UV-sensitive photopolymer film, which is laminated onto the surface of the offset-plate. Photographs and drawings can be used as a starting point for the work. Participants can bring their own image material printed on film.

Participation fee is 80e, materials are included.
Sign up by sending an email to [email protected]
The workshop language is English.

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17/09/2025

Mika Taanilan found footage -työpaja ja näytös Filmverkstadenilla 18.–19.9.2025 16.9.2025 Mika Taanila vetää Vaasan Filmverkstadenilla kahden päivän työpajan, jossa katsotaan found footage -elokuvia ja keskustellaan niiden tekemisestä sekä lajityypin estetiikasta, moraalista ja historias...

11/09/2025

The exhibition Between Stones and Signals 20.9-12.10 opens at the Platform Gallery on September 19th. The exhibition presents works by two Ukrainian contemporary artists, Yuliia Bazchenko and Olga Drozd, dealing with Ukraine’s defensive war.

In Finland, we have been following russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine through the media since February 24, 2022. The exhibition offers a more personal and in-depth perspective on issues related to the current situation. What does it mean to be a living citizen in the midst of a war that destroys not only human lives but also nature? How can one create meaningful connections or find comfort amid the horror and senselessness? The visually striking works do not shy away from the negative emotions that arose during the fourth year of russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

In the exhibition space at the Platform Gallery, Bazchenko’s and Drozd’s works create an active dialogue that invites viewers to observe varying emotions and transitions between destruction, connections and comfort. The works in the exhibition raise questions about the desire of Ukrainian artists to communicate and reflect on the current situation in their war-torn country through their artworks. It is important to address these issues through art, which, unlike the media, offers a deeper surface for reflection on tragedies that do not always have verbal dimensions and that we share in the global world.

Both artists have spent time at Filmverkstaden’s residency program Analogue Adventure, in collaboration with Artist in Risk, during 2025. Through Malakta´s residency program Residency of Hope, Olga Drozd has continued her stay in Maalahti. Patricia Rodas, initiator of the exhibition who has worked closely with the artists during their residency time, invited Noora Lehtovuori to join the curation process for the exhibition in which the voices and realities of talented Ukrainian artists take artistic form in the exhibition space.

The exhibition is supported by Filmverkstaden, Malakta and Platform, generously funded by Nordic Culturepoint and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

10/09/2025

Celebration of Colour - workshop by Esther Urlus 3-4.10 kl(o) 10-17

A celebration of colour in this 16mm film workshop. Every filmmaker in this programme is skilled and sensitive with the tools of their art. That art includes camera techniques, interventions in the darkroom, manipulations in the printing and attention to projection presentation. The independent exploration of colour by each artist has shown us that there is still much more to discover on celluloid.

This workshop will show you some (hands-on) techniques to create an unique aesthetics in your filmmaking. We will try-out a kind of silkscreen printing technique on celluloid and the effects of re-exposure during colour development. This workshop includes camera techniques, interventions in the darkroom, manipulations in the printing and attention to cross processing. Film as a canvas to create new and unique coloured originals.

As a starting point we are going to film, with a Bolex camera, on black and white hi-con film material and process these as negatives. This will be our source material to transform into outlandish colour effects. It incorporates the uses (and abuses) of film print materials, printing techniques, colour (cross) processes and solarization.

Sign up by sending an email to [email protected]

Esther Urlus makes Super8, 16mm and 35mm films and installations. Her work always arise from the DIY method. Kneading with the material, by trial, error and (re) inventing, she creates new work. She is founder of the WORM Filmwerkplaats, an artist run film lab in Rotterdam (NL) dedicated to motion picture film as an artistic, expressive medium. Her work has been exhibited and screened at film festivals worldwide, among other Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Sonic Acts, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

03/09/2025

An invitation to the artistic practice of Maia Torp Neergaard

On 21st September, Maia will invite you to a presentation of the work she has done during her residency in her on-going project Reflections on soil and agriculture. For the first part of her stay she has worked alongside farm workers at two farms in Singsby and Solf deepening her method of working - and thereof learning - alongside the people she makes pieces with and about. The work touches on weather, home, animism, immigration, climate change, and gratitude.

The event will start with an analogue screening of some of the work in progress made in Finland, an artist talk about Maia’s methods of working and end with an open conversation with snacks and coffee.
The talk will be held in English.

We look forward to seeing you 21st September at 3:00 PM
Sepänkyläntie 2 in Funkkis

29/08/2025

Hidden Intentions: found footage and cameraless approach - workshop by Mika Taanila 18-19.9 kl(o) 10-17

A two-day session consisting of screenings, presentations and discussions around the themes of found footage in contemporary filmmaking and visual art.

DAY ONE: Rebounds
Mika Taanila discusses his own found footage projects with several examples.

My Silence, The Zone of Total Eclipse, A Physical Ring, Man and Science, Patent Nr. 314805, The World, Film Reader, Tapes without Eyes, Twilight and Reflection of Fear…

DAY TWO: Damage/Control

Morning: Mika talks about the history of found footage filmmaking with extracts.

Afternoon: Mika presents his two cameraless projects: the feature film Tectonic Plate and photogram series Black and White Movies.

Workshop language is English.
Workshop fee is ‘pay what you can’, suggested fee is 50€.

Sign up by sending an email to [email protected]

Mika Taanila is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Helsinki. His experimental films have been screened internationally at numerous film festivals and special events. Taanila’s moving image installations and collage works have been shown at several solo and group exhibitions, including Venice Biennale, Aichi Triennale and Documenta in Kassel. He received The Ars Fennica Award in 2015. He has a history of working over 30 years with and around found footage.

13/08/2025

Filmverkstaden is delighted to host Alina Panasenko as our artist in residence, as part of our Analogue Adventure Program 4.8-4.10.2025.

Alina Panasenko is a director, screenwriter and visual artist, b.2000 (Severodonetsk, Ukraine) and based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Member of Ukrainian Film Academy. Studied in Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema and Television (screenwriter), Serhiy Melnychenko
MYPH School (conceptual and art photography), Pinchuk Art Centre curatorial course. Sarajevo Talents Alumna. In her practice she researches on the nature of image itself, as well as eroticism, political and social problematics within native Ukrainian context.
Continuing her interest in cinema and culture, she curates the «Practice. Cinema as/and politics» publishing project.

Kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point, Artist-at-Risk, Taike, Vaasa city and Svenska kulturfonden.

13/08/2025

Filmverkstaden is delighted to host Maia Torp Neergaard as our artist in residence in the Analogue Adventure Program, 1.7-30.9.2025

During her residency Maia will focus on the harvest, exploring what rituals land workers and farmers go through during the harvest season. She will become part of the work in the countryside of Vasa, and engage and learn from farmers working and living here. Harvesting is one of the last steps of the year for a farmer, a time of reflection and begin: What kind of life have they chosen, and what makes them continue with the work? How have they planted themselves in that soil that brings them work and produce?
The residency will also allow Maia to further her research around the history of agriculture in the Nordics. She is interested in how people have worked on and with the land in Vasa through time, and will pursue reaching out to people living and farming here, and talk to them about their relationship with the land.
Evolving her project about farmers and the land at Filmverkstaden will allow her to engage deeper with analogue processes. She will be learning and experimenting with double exposures, contact printing and expanded cinema, as she dreams of working more experimentally with how her films are shown after they’ve been filmed and developed - to strengthen her work with the analogue film world by gaining skills and perspectives.

Maia Neergaards practice investigates communities and is an artistic
political project about opening the systems we live in – and enhance what unites us. The care for people, animals and nature is key to her work. She makes films and installations, and in recent years, she has
taken up analogue filmmaking as a form of working more consciously. Receiver of Jubelfondens stipendie, Stockholm 2023

Kindly supported by Nordic Culture Point, Konstsamfundet, Taike and Vaasa City.

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