As part of BEEF’s ongoing commitment to DIY analogue film practices, we present a curated weekend of film screenings, performances, discussions, critical dialogue, and a workshop.

The programme explores how DIY film labs and collectives support and stimulate new ways of thinking about cinema. It emphasises collective approaches to making and screening film, considers how shared equipment and resources, integrated models of analogue film production and presentation and also artist initiated publications play a crucial role in the ongoing experimental and artist film making ecosystem. Practices that emerge from artist run film labs push at the limits of the analogue film gauge and take time and care to acquire. This knowledge stimulates innovations in filmic language and formulates new aesthetic possibilities that this program will consider and demonstrate.

The DIY film lab community is thriving internationally. This programme brings together laboratories and filmmakers from across the world, with contributors and guests from Brussels, Berlin, Aberystwyth, Australia, and Mumbai. The programme aims to inform, inspire, and connect artists, practitioners and audiences within the evolving landscape of experimental film and expanded cinema past, present, and future, both locally and internationally. Panel discussion and film screenings will tease out and demonstrate the ways in which DIY analogue film labs and artist initiated film screenings stimulate and support innovation.

This programme is funded by Arts Council England.