Zelluloid Resistance @ Galiläakirche, Berlin, 3.-5.10.2025

3-day-event organized by LaborBerlin

For LaborBerlin’s first collaboration with the Youth Resistance Museum situated in the Galiläakirche, a former church in the iconic Rigaer Straße, we present a programme of films, installations and performances in dialogue with the organic materiality of film, the thin line between the human and non-human, as well as the cultural spaces that are activated by collective gestures of resistance.

The program also features the presentation of a prototype of our latest engineering achievement, a State-of-the-Art 16mm Projector, which is packed with modern technology and never before seen technical features and effects. Also, we will engage with the venue and the neighborhood, we will show films from the 1990’s Rigaer Str. squatting era and invite for an open panel discussion on building and sustaining collectives in times of gentrification and digital fragmentation

LaborBerlin is a collectively organised film laboratory in Berlin, open to everyone interested in working with photochemical film with an experimental and DIY approach. Our members conduct regular workshops, film screenings and exhibitions, and act as a platform for exchange of ideas and experiences around the practice and spirit of analogue filmmaking.

Zelluloid Resistance is presented in collaboration with SPECTRAL, a four-year collaboration between six artist-run film labs: LaborBerlin, Mire, Baltic Analog Lab, Filmwerkplaats, Crater-Lab, and LAIA. SPECTRAL stands for Spatial, Performative & Expanded Cinematics – Transnational Research at Artist-run Labs, and facilitates projects of a DIY nature with a focus on expanded cinema.

Timings:
DAY 1 Friday Oct 3rd: 17:00 pm doors open / film installations
18:00 pm launch of our state-of-the-art 16mm projector prototype
19:30 pm film program & film performances
22:00 pm social hang-out at Filmrisz (Rigaer Str. 103 – across the road)

DAY 2 Saturday Oct 4th: 16:00 pm open panel / films from the 1990’s Rigaer Str. squatting era
18:00 pm film installations
19:00 pm film program & film performances
21:00 pm film performance by Maja Milic
22:00 pm social hang-out at Filmrisz (Rigaer Str. 103 – across the road)

DAY 3 Sunday Oct 5th: 18:00 pm doors open / film installations
18:30 pm film program & film performances
21:00 pm film performance by Cinzia Nistico (Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam)
22:00 pm social hang-out at Lauschangriff (Rigaer Str. 103 – across the road)

Venue: Galiläakirche – Rigaer Str. 9, 10245 Berlin, Germany
Admission: donation based: 3–10 Euros per day
free admission for Panel (Saturday 16:00 pm)

Film Installations – ongoing on all three days

Spectral / S.P.A.C.E. Expanded:
Forms of Motion
film installation, 16mm, slides & light box, 2024
by Martin Moolhuijsen

Spectral / S.P.A.C.E. Expanded:
Three Sheets to the Wind
film installation, 16mm & sculpture, 2025
by Grace Baggott

DAY 1 – Friday Oct 3rd – doors open at 17:00 pm

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

Zelluloid Resistance @ Galiläakirche, Berlin, 3.-5.10.2025

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