Duration:
4-6 weeks
Paid by host:
  • Fee of 750 EUR for a single artist / 1000 EUR for a duo / 1250 EUR for group (>2).
  • Travel: 400 EUR for individuals; up to 800 EUR max in total for duo/groups. (The organisers encourage environmental friendly ways of travel.)
  • 24/7 Entrance to Filmwerkplaats’ DIY analogue film lab
  • Production budget: A detailed description of needed materials, tools and devices is needed.
Application guidelines:

This residency is co-funded by the European Union and focuses mainly on artists/collectives living within the EU, but Filmwerkplaats would like to encourage international artists from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, India, and Asia as well as areas where the film labs network is not established, to apply. Filmwerkplaats can provide an additional travel grant on the basis of personal significance/impact on the artist’s community/financial need.

This is the first open call for a total of four residency spots at Filmwerkplaats. There will be two additional calls in 2024, for July and August, and one in 2025, for Aug/Sept.

Apply here.

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Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam

Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam

Filmwerkplaats Open Call 2023
Description

Filmwerkplaats is an artist's lab that provides a space for the production and audience building around the analogue film. It has a well-equipped analogue film lab, extensive knowledge of photochemical film techniques and facilities for hosting rehearsals and public events. The Filmwerkplaats is an association dedicated to a DIY analogue practice and gives space to almost 80 artists/members interested in working with photo-chemical film with an artistic and experimental approach.

Within the framework of the SPECTRAL project, Filmwerkplaats in Rotterdam is offering a 4-6 weeks long residency during August-September 2023 for the creation of a performative analogue motion picture piece.

The residency focuses on individual artists or artist-collectives that work in the field of the analogue (image) medium and/or optical sound. It is also open to cross-disciplinary projects in which artists from the field of Expanded Cinematic Art will collaborate with artist(s) from other (performative) art disciplines (sound, dance, poetry, theatre, etc.), as long as the main research is on analogue, aka photochemical, image making and/or optical (light image) sound.

Outcome

Filmwerkplaats offer a 4-6 week-long residency period in which you can carry out your own project, which should result in a performance. At the end of the residency, a public presentation of this performative cinematic work is expected during the Back to the Future Festival as part of the performance programme. There is also the possibility to do a small tour among Dutch experimental performing arts venues.

Studio Information

The lab has three darkrooms and is equipped with multiple Bolex 16mm cameras, processing tanks for 8mm, 16mm and 35mm film, a black-and-white developing machine, super8, 16mm and 35mm editing tables, two 16mm J-K optical printers, a Bell & Howell continuous contact printer, an optical sound negative machine and an Oxberry optical printer, recently acquired through crowdfunding. There are also loop-systems for exhibition purposes and a large number of film projectors.

Accommodation Information

Guesthouse with shared kitchen and bathroom.

Technical Information

The Filmwerkplaats is equipped to facilitate individual artists throughout the production process of their films. It's possible to go from unexposed filmstock to final exhibition print without having to rely on commercial labs or rental companies.

Because most of the equipment is irreplaceable, new members will be given an introductory workshop on any machine or tools they want to operate.

Location

The Filmwerkplaats is located in the city centre of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has a staff of four paid members and is hosted by WORM, a venue with 20 years of experience as a workspace for music, film & new media.

Contact information

Rotterdam
Netherlands

Email
filmwerkplaats [at] worm.org
Website
https://filmwerkplaats.org/?03-projects-residency=