Light in Motion: Working with slide projectors
Workshop – 03.10.2026
For Elvira Akzigitova, the slide projector is a natural continuation of the darkroom practice— a way of bringing light-based image-making out of the dark and into a shared room. In this one-day workshop, she opens up the process of working with the projector as a live animation instrument, not just a device for showing finished pictures.
Participants will be looking inside of projectors, making slides and shutters by hand. By playing with focus, distance and location, one will be able to witness how the space between the lens and the screen changes an image completely. Elvira will introduce different ways of animating still images, and explore how multi-channel projection can create optical motifs that feel layered and dimensional. Toward the end, the group will bring their pieces together and improvise a short performance in the cinema — projecting, layering, reacting to one another in real time on big screen.
No prior experience is needed. The workshop will be held in English.
Dauer / duration: 2x6h
Termin / date: Saturday, 3.10.2026, 12:00 – 18:30 Uhr, incl. 30min break
Elvira Akzigitova (1988, Tallinn) is a film-based analogue artist and printmaker who participates in international exhibitions, festivals, and workshops. Her self-taught cameraless optical designs, known as light graphics, originate from long hours of photographic darkroom work with light-sensitive materials. With a process that is led by discovery and deep feeling, the artist further expands her handmade image-making practice through slide frame cinema performances, combining live projection, moving image, sound, and optical manipulation.
Working across analogue film processes, Elvira develops a distinctly crafted, abstract, and introspective universe consisting of custom light mechanisms and tools sensitive enough to detect what is invisible to the naked eye. Her medium captures the radiant energies, while drawing from a rich tradition of experimental cinema, kinetic art, and laterna magica. A viewer of her work is met with geomantic figures, cosmic dancing images, full of movement and intent. They pulse with interpretation and invite curious introspection, creating a retreat into the pure realms of form and colour. This expanded practice opens a space to bring the tactile and poetic qualities of analogue image-making into a collective live experience.
https://elvira-akzigitova.com/
https://www.instagram.com/elvira.akzigitova
With a successful registration, you agree with the following terms & conditions: / Mit erfolgreicher Anmeldung erklärst du dich mit den folgenden Teilnahmebedingungen einverstanden:
Participation fee:
After your registration, we will send you an invoice. If not stated differently, the invoice has to be paid one day before the workshop. / Die Teilnahmegebühr wird nach eingegangener Anmeldung in Rechnung gestellt. Der Rechnungsbetrag muss, sofern nicht anders angegeben, bis einen Tag vor Beginn des Workshops eingegangen sein.
Cancellation:
Cancellations are free up to 14 days before the workshop, for later cancellations, we reimburse 50% of the workshop fee. From 48h before the workshop on, there will be no refund. / Eine kostenlose Stornierung der Anmeldung ist bis 14 Tage vor Beginn des Workshops möglich, danach berechnen wir 50% der Teilnahmegebühr. Ab 48h vor Beginn des Workshops kann die Gebühr nicht rückerstattet werden.
Refund:
If the number of registered participants is not sufficient, we will notify you of the cancellation of the workshop. In that case, we can re-imburse the fee. The same is the case for cancellations due to illness of the person giving the workshop. / Sollten sich nicht genügend Teilnehmende angemeldet haben und der Workshop muss abgesagt werden, erstatten wir dir die Gebühr selbstverständlich wieder zurück. Dies gilt ebenso im Falle der Erkrankung der Workshop-Leitung.
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