Baltic Analog Lab

Meet our artist-in-residence Alasdair Asmussen Doyle from Australia.
Alasdair: I’m an artist and filmmaker working primarily with analogue film and installation. Over the last few years, my work has explored the relationship between film and animals, often focusing on migratory and displaced. While in Riga, I’m continuing this research, with a particular focus on the presence of animals in early cinema, and the transition from the still to the moving image.

🎥Describe your creative process in three words: Wandering, mapping, translating.
🎥Name one exciting thing about being here in Riga, in BAL residency: To be in a city with a rich history of cinema and experimental film, and the birthplace of Sergei Eisenstein.
‘Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?’ - Eisenstein.
🎥Link to your webpage: www.alasdairasmussendoyle.com
🎥Reach me: (Instagram)

Photo: Armands Andže, 18x24 paper negative.
Baltic Analog Lab Residency is supported by Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds.

Meet our artist-in-residence Tianjiao Wang from China!

Tianjiao: I primarily work with 16mm color film. My current project was initiated by a group of seagulls migrating from Siberia to Yunnan in China for the winter. I have been curious about flying and migration as acts, and when I eventually traveled to Yunnan, it felt as if the seagulls were guiding me to look more closely at the textures of this region. At BAL, I will begin working with the already shot images through printing and processes of reimagining them.

🪽Name one exciting thing about being here in Riga, in BAL residency: I look forward to being guided by the freshness of new techniques while not being misled by such stimulation.

🪽Reach me: (Instagram)

Photo: Armands Andže, 18x24 paper negative.
Baltic Analog Lab Residency is supported by Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds.

Meet our artist-in-residence Juan Duarte Regino from Mexico!

Juan: I am a sound artist, who creates my own instruments and media interfaces for immersion. Currently I am working on a multichannel sound composition for an upcoming exhibition of my project Augury in MO Museum in Vilnius.

📟Describe your creative process in three words: Drift, Prototype, Recursion

📟Name one exciting thing about being here in Riga, in BAL residency: Local Experimental Music Scene

📟Link to your webpage: https://juanduarteregino.com/

📟Reach me: .c_dr (Instagram), [email protected]

Photo: Armands Andže, 18x24 paper negative.
Baltic Analog Lab Residency is supported by Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds .

Last Saturday June 6 at Veldze Creative Factory we had our pre-party Equinox celebrating 10 years of BAL and finale of BAL film school 2026 with films, installations and expanded cinema performances with our special guests Gaëlle Rouard (FR) and Juan Duarte (MX)

Photos by Arturs Pavlovs Photography

Paldies Valsts kultūrkapitāla fonds, Rigas Dome un Nurme Brewery & Taproom

"Veldzē" noritēs audiovizuālas performances ar viesiem no Francijas un Meksikas Radošajā rūpnīcā "Veldze" notiks "Baltic Analog Lab" (BAL) pasākums, kurā būs skatāmas audiovizuālas performances un eksperimentālas īsfilmas analogā formātā. Pasākums ir daļa no starptautiskās BAL kinoskolas noslēguma programmas, un tajā piedalīsies viesi no Francijas un Meksik...

Meet five of our speakers of the BAL film school 2026
Open call for participation is still open until Dec 30
Applications and more info: https://www.balticanaloglab.lv/school-2026