PROGRAMME
Lomography Analogue Lounge at Photokina 2008 featuring:
LIVE MUSIC BANDS
The Vienna Swing Sisters
Three women, three voices and a handful of songs from the golden era of swing: Together they perform classics in a barefaced and snappy way: Lisa Jakob, Stephanie Lang and Susanne Fanny Rader from Vienna are totally unplugged as they re-create an authentic 40s atmosphere, where three generations would devotedly gather around the radio. The Vienna Swing Sisters are the perfect formation for a tribute to the legendary trio: they slip into the roles of the passionate Andrews Sisters. Songs like "Carmen's Boogie" based on George Bizet, "Sabre Dance" based on Aram Khatchaturian as well as hits like "Rum & Coca Cola" or "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" are part of the analogue show. The Vienna Swing Sisters were accompanied by the pianist Bela Fischer.
Grooveheadz, feat. Harri Stojka
A Serbian-Austrian worldmusic formation: Grooveheadz, alias Jelena Krstic (Vocals), Benjamin Angerer (Bass), Daniel Weber (Saxophone), Vladimir Kostadinovic (Drums), Alekz Oxygen (Guitar), Erhan Mamudoski (Clarinet) are not constricted by any specific music tradition. They find inspiration in Jazz, Funk, Rock, Break Beat and Serbian Folk music. But their challenge is to venture into daring mixed styles and clashing genres. This can sound like Balkan-Funk, Klezmer-Jazz or simply like salacious film music you can dance to.
www.grooveheadz.com
www.myspace.com/projectgrooveheadz
Tobias Rueger Quartet
With his fully acoustic quartet, saxophonist Tobias Rueger explores the music of the most classic jazz outfits. Traditional set-up and modern musical language, along with spontaneous expression and improvisation flavours this unique blend of composition. Three excellent musicians join Tobias to delve into the lines of the analogue future at the Lomography Lounge: Daniel Stelter, guitar; Daniel Cordes, double bass; Marcel Madre, drums, dance. The Quartet also presented their new album 'Interlude' on Zama (Essay Recordings, Frankfurt).
www.tobiasruger.de/english/quartett.html
www.myspace.com/tobiasruegerquartett
Meraklije
The band Meraklije is located in Cologne and introduces a realm of music that evokes wild and romantic life lust and has been given recent recognized acclaim by Kusturica movies. The Meraklije musicians employ many instruments to create their unique sound, including guitars, clarinets, bouzouki, E-Bass, drums, percussion and of course the voice. They perform sad gipsy chansons just like fire songs from the Balkan - Djelem Djelem, Djindji Rindji Bubamara, Hei Mala Malena and many more.
www.myspace.com/experimentbalcaniakoeln
DJ SESSIONS
Dj - Team Schwarze Katze/Weißer Kater www.balkanbeatz.de
Dj – Team Kompott www.kompott.info
Dj Captain Matthias www.hoerrhein.de/doc2882A.html
Dj Stefan Kuhn www.stefankuhn.de
Lomography DJ line & more
WORKSHOPS & SPEECHES
Helen Errington
Lomography Crash Courses
A definitive life changing moment was waiting just for you. All you had to do was to imagine the neon, the rain, the buzzing sound of pods passed you by - then you took a small step, then strode towards us ready to experience Intense Analogue image making with a twist - allow the rush of blood to your creative brain zapping suddenly into life like a Tesla coil of pure energy - suddenly something snapped open, you floated across the void, the penny dropped and a new world window appeared - flowing onto your film via your Lomographic tool of choice. This was hotter than a desert, colder than an ice cap unlike anything you have ever experienced before ... You have token a crash course, have awaken your mind, released the flow and walked into the amazing world that is analogue film and Lomography! Whether you were brand new to Lomographic cameras or a seasoned professional, you were sure to gain a wealth of knowledge about our dynamic community, our photographic beliefs and the best of Lomography practices!
Helen Errington, alias Scootiepye and known as the queen of the Lomography community, is Lomography Ambassador in Newcastle and was leading most of the Lomography Crash Courses.
Martin Reinhart
Workshop: Panorama. The Absolute View.
Speech: The Past Was Digital
You think that digital media is state of the art technology? Well it seems that you have never heard about the steam powered computer from 1822, the first fax built in 1890 or the first television recording from 1927. The 19th and early 20th centuries are full of weird utopistic inventions and concepts - We dag a little deeper and saw what still was hiding in the attic. A tour de force lecture in two parts and an insane workshop gave you a crash course in panorama photography, media archaeology and changed the way you look at your Lomographic camera for ever.
The workshop was guided by the inventor and filmmaker Martin Reinhart from Austria.
Alex Graham
LUST FOR LIFE: FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN WITH ANALOGUE
Ranting and Screening
“I love pictures. Analogue pictures that is. I love the way that film can surprise and seduce you; the way that colour and light and texture and grain and contrast all smudge up together, up close and personal. Film is like a lover, never perfect, but it can perfectly reproduce the feeling of something, the memory of the thing as you saw or imagined it.
My first camera was a Zenit E - an amazing Russian SLR, built like a battleship, with a shutter noise like a falling girder or a guillotine blade - whoosh, crash, bang. Great engineering that was so heavy you could also use to fight off muggers or bang in nails. It felt like a piece of history in your hands and every picture was a joyful thing.
Digital took over my life when I started making TV - then Lomography came along and love was restored with the Lomo LCA; and then a documentary made in part using Super 8 film, with a wind-up camera bought on Nevsky Prospekt in St Petersburg for ten dollars. Now, with film makers everywhere, we’re back in love with analogue and Super 8 especially. It’s fluid, unpredictable and inspiring. Everything about it feels Lomo-like.
It’s hard to fall in love with a digital image. There’s no surprise, no waiting, no anticipation, no foreplay. It’s all over all too soon with digital and it’s so promiscuous. For all the democratic wonder of digits, it’s cold, mechanical and spiritually dead. You need film to get feeling. Think about it - all the best dreams and desires are soft and warm and liquid. They’re analogue. It’s a beautiful world, and it deserves beautiful analogue pictures.
Alex Graham, London, August 28, 2008
Alex Graham, Bloomberg News, also showed extracts from his documentary on the Lomographic Society (The Lomo Camera, BBC 2004) and other Super 8 shorts.
Straight 8
Super 8 film programme
Lock and load for the Straight 8! The group Straight 8 challenges anyone to make a 3 minute film on one cartridge of super 8, editing only in-camera, people join in from all over the world. Presentation of the best films (including the Cannes Film Festival 2008 show reel) at the Lomography Analogue Lounge!
Liad Cohen
The Lomography Diana+ Dialogues
Workshop & Photo Safari
The Lomography Diana+ Dialogues Workshop & Photo Safari Created nearly 50 years ago, the original Diana camera is a cult legend in the world of analogue photography. The Lomography Diana+ and Diana F+ cameras are a faithful reproduction and a loving homage to this classic 1960s Diana – with a few seriously exciting new features and creative enhancements included – including panoramic and pinhole capabilities. This workshop focused on all there is to know about these “plastic fantastic” medium format cameras. It started off with a full overview of the original Diana’s history and the new Diana+’s development, and was followed by an introduction of the exciting and ever-growing collection of Diana+ lenses, accessories, and tools – all designed to expand the creative capabilities of Lomographers – giving a full walk-through of the camera’s functions, settings, and quirks. Liad gave insights into the Diana’s impact on analogue photography over the past 40-odd years, and its huge potential for the future.
Pasquale Caprile
The Analogue Republic
Humanoid Starfleet officer Pasquale Caprile, Photographer and Lomography Ambassador of Spain, invited all the members of the new Republic of Analogue to take an unforgettable trip, starting of at the Lomography Analogue Lounge. You had to set your lasers to stand by & to activate all listening devises. You stood upright, were alert. There were secrets to discover & the mystery of analogue photography was available star date 2008. The ten golden rules made with a high tech alloy mix flexed just enough to reveal this analogue film photography project – Subject ‘’walk crossing the Rheine River, passing the Cathedral and having a "Koelsch”.
Stephanie Lang
Transformation Analogue
Camera-shy? Fear of flashes? Feel like attacking innocent people who dare to take your picture? Help was at hand. Singer and Actress, Stephanie Lang, showed you how easy being perfect-picture can be. The participants learned some tricks so that even a bad hair day will never stop them from striking a pose that Madonna would be proud of. No make-up, cover-up or war paint – just you!
Stephan Kaps
Moving Objects Of Desire
When the object of your desire moves, you have to move too; the art of multilens photography is the art of action. Our mind holds a key – that key is a moving recall of memory – a snapshot of emotion. Each multilens machine blinks – with each blink its cogs turn & a sound whirl deep inside emanates. The moments of all our futures placed on film serving as a moving memory portal. The Workshop evolved secrets and perfection around multilens cameras and was lead by expert Lomographer and memory specialist Stephan Kaps from Germany– his lomographic laboratory showed you the future.
Liad Cohen
The Story of the Lomo Lubitel
Dating back to 1949, the Lomo Lubitel was conceived as a medium format twin-lens camera for the Soviet everyman & everywoman. Meaning “Amateur,” the Lubitel was a portable, accessible, lightweight, friendly, and decidedly quirky camera that delivered evocative and surprisingly professional results. Out of production for a decade, this Russian classic has been re-produced and re-imagined as the Lubitel+ by Lomography! Its classic features are all there, and a host of new functions and improvements – including the ability to shoot 35mm panoramic images – have been engineered inside. Lubitel Lovers, simply stated, are people who love and adore life, who are open-minded, enthusiastic, free with their ideas, philanthropic, endlessly curious, always travelling, constantly documenting, and completely awestruck by the enduring power of analogue photographs.
This lecture gave you a full overview of the classic Lubitel’s 40-year history, the development of the Lubitel+, and the bright, exciting potential of this two-eyed plastic, metal, and glass machine. We walked-through of the camera’s functions and features, detailed our plans for Lubitel+ accessories and add-ons, and discussed the Lubitel+’s place within the enduring future of analogue photography.
Aneesh Bhasin
The history of analogue and digital Photography
Photographer Aneesh, based in India, focuses on people and travel photography and is an expert in workshops on digital Photography. His international award-winning work has been exhibited all around the world. Aneesh adapted to digital photography when it was in its infancy, but his continued use of analogue photography has reasons. Aneesh delivered the historical background of the analogue and digital era of photography based on his own experience.
Cat Ong Chun Moon
From LCA to LCA+
A Soviet relic from the 1980’s, the iconic Lomo LC-A (Lomo Kompakt Automat) camera is one of the most famous cult cameras of all time. Robust, pocket able, easy to use, good-smelling, and armed with Professor Radionov’s incredible “Minitar 1” lens – the “Lomo” is capable of color bursting and fiercely radiant images that no other camera can duplicate. In 2006, this classic camera was recreated as the Lomographic Society’s Lomo LC-A+. Rebuilt from the ground up, the “new Lomo” includes a host of new features, and has brought the magic of the LC-A to a new generation of Lomographers. This lecture and workshop was detail the history of the original LC-A, told the production story behind the LC-A+, presented the full range of LC-A+ accessories and goodies, and relayed crucial tips and tricks for getting the best images out of your Lomo.
Based in Hong Kong, “Cat” Ong Chun Moon is one of the Lomographic Society’s key Product Managers. As a professional photographer and camera engineer, he is one of the world’s premier experts on analogue photo equipment and images.
Sally Bibawy, Matthias Fiegl
Special Lomography talk
Planet Lomography to Planet Earth - Behind the scenes: Sally and Matthias from the Lomography International Board gave an overview of the Lomographic history, and talked about the products and services development within Lomography; they spoke about the evolution of both the community and business aspects and gave an overview and feedback on the recent survey of "Analogue versus Digital 2008“.
The Language of the LomoWall
LomoWall Building Session
Creating a hybrid of images, alive and breathing with colour, movement and vitality – sliding your hands over it – allowing your brain to start the process of understanding as your eyes slide and dart .This is the legacy marked future. A real LomoWall collective – built with humanoid blood, sweat and tears for generations to come. The future is here & now and we taught you how.