ANALOGICA SELECTION 16 PR 5
SAB / 14 / WAAG / h. 19.30
54min
Bentwaters Frequency Test
by Lewis Heriz
16mm / 2025 / Latvia,
United Kingdom / 3’ 47’’’
Something revealed itself during a series of optical sound print tests at a former US Air Base in rural Suffolk, UK.
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Lewis Heriz is a sound-forward animation artist, working with photochemical film and experimental processes.
He is currently investigating optical sound reproduction, rhythms in print and the unpredictable as a medium.
Afternoon Hearsay / 四散
by Peng Zuqiang
19’, color, sound, cinemascope
China/UK/Italy
8.75mm film - a celluloid format unique to China and never circulated elsewhere, was a film format where no camera was made for. This print film stock was primarily used for mobile projection units to exhibit films in countryside, mountains, islands and ethnic minority regions in China from the 60s to 80s.
'What is a film without a camera?’, a question that emerged from the research, was explored by the artist through DIY printing and different photochemical processes. Images of film strips burn, blur, and tear within the chromatic space, the fleeting frames of archival films overlap with the super 8 camera footage shot by the artist. These interlayered images coalesce with optical sound and narratives from unnamed interlocutors, weaving together fragmented stories of an audience, a film factory and a camera inventor, where facts are immaterial, and memories are evanescent.
Within the abstractions, the images and sounds of resistance are folded into the tales of the cinematic invention. Reimagining a format that once resisted circulation, as a medium through which other forms of affect and dissenting hearsay continue to ripple.
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Peng Zuqiang (b.1992, Changsha) works with film, video and installations. He is interested in the stories of media and mediums—from obsolete film formats to downtempo in Mandopop—attending to their affective resonances and dissenting associations.
I am a River
by Heidi Piiroinen
16mm / 2026 / Finland / 6’ 10’’
Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions—a collection of lyrical, unanswerable poems that playfully interrogate nature, life, and the cosmos—the film weaves poetic inquiry with visual abstraction through the rarely used mordançage technique. Its veil-like formations evoke the fluid, fragile, ever-changing essence of rivers, suggesting they are living entities, much like us.
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Heidi Piiroinen is a Helsinki-based visual artist and photographer working across experimental moving image, photography and installation. With a background in documentary storytelling and photojournalism, her practice has shifted toward more intimate, process-based works that explore emotional memory, invisibility, and suppressed states of being.
Piiroinen combines analogue techniques like 16mm film and mordançage with text, archival material, sound, and community collaboration. Her recent solo exhibition In Case of Loss / sitten haluaisin laulaa—which weaves together diary entries, collaborative writing, soundscapes, moving images, and performance into a cinematic, multi-room installation—premiered at the Rauma Art Museum (2024–2025) and travels internationally to Lisbon in late 2026.
The Ghost Image
by Emmanuel Piton
16mm / 2025 / France / 19’
In the house where I grew up, something appeared once upon a time, a shape, a presence, an image that has never ceased to haunt the memory of that place. I search for traces of this apparition as if this image from the past had never left the house.
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Emmanuel Piton's films oscillate between experimental cinema and documentary. Most of his creations, shot on Super 8 and 16mm film and developed using traditional methods, address the question of memory and traces in isolated territories. His films are screened at film festivals, museums and independent screenings. He has set up training courses on filmmaking at universities and art and film schools. He also directs collective performances at Labo K and in collaboration with other artisanal film laboratories (Bombay, Mexico, Tromso, etc.).
Mindfullmess
by Niina Suominen
16mm / 2026 / Finland / 5’ 50’’
A celebration of neurodiversity. Scattered stimuli dissolve thought into noise—yet within the chaos, a new order emerges as perception shifts into a bodily experience of rhythm and movement, image and sound. What first appears senseless leaves behind traces that may, after all, hold meaning.
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Niina Suominen is a visual artist working with experimental moving images using animation and analogue
hand-made processes. For over 20 years she has produced short audiovisual films inspired by early experimental animation, exploring late-modern surrealism through self-built tools and repurposed materials.