Back to the Future: SPECTRAL, Edition IV, day 1, 19th September 2025, analog/chemical/handmade 16mm/8mm/35mm film festival at WORM, Rotterdam, Netherlands

"Back to the Future is a 3-day festival dedicated to analogue moving images and optical sound - a celebration of the real film medium. The international programme features audio-visual performances, films, presentations, devices, a motion picture panorama, and a radio play.

This 4th edition has a focus on performative & expanded cinema. On show will be works that venture beyond the constraints of the passive cinema to propose an engaged, shared experience of the inimitable ritual of flickering light and shadow. The festival is an initiative of Filmwerkplaats, WORM’s artist-run analogue film lab and a vital hub for DIY film practice in the Netherlands and across Europe. Many of the works presented are created within the context of SPECTRAL, a joint project by six special film labs across Europe."

Program Friday 19th September 18:30 When Gods Have Been Done, Merve Kılıçer (TR/NL), performance "‘When The Gods Have Been Done’ is based on field research in Western Anatolia and the Aegean coast of Türkiye and explores active mining sites for coal, gold, and granite, as well as folktales and ancient shrines dedicated to Cybele, the archaic goddess of Anatolia, once considered the protector of mountains and wildlife."

19:00-20:00 It’s not the sun who is moving, Luis Macias (ES), SPECTRAL Residency outcome, expanded cinema installation "A film created with the Hyperlapse 360° Camera, a device developed at Crater-Lab during SPECTRAL, unfolds as an immersive installation within the 360° Motion Picture Panorama of Filmwerkplaats."

20:15 Vegetal & Filamentous II, curated by Michaela Davidova, short film programme with works by Karel Doing, Lichun Tseng, Miki Ambrózy, Joanna Byrne, Stan Brakhage & Joel Haertling

21:30 Beira Douro, Gaëlle Rouard (FR), performance [dark / not depicted]

[moving images from high-speed photographs, lenses: KMZ OCT-18 28mm/50mm/135mm, originally designed for Konvas 35mm motion picture camera]