September 20, 2025

7pm

The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 6th Ave., Troy, NY

Join us for screenings of 16mm plant-processed performance films, presented by Katherine Bauer and Joyce Lainé, members of the film collective Le Ratoire and Atelier MTK. The image sin each film emerge before our eyes through the process of a developer composed of plants, ashes, and water. The sun gives to the plants, the plants give to the film’s silver, the silver turns the light around to give to our eyes. The screening will be followed by Q&A. This event is co-sponsored by iEAR Presents and The Sanctuary for Independent Media.


Bios:

Katherine Bauer manipulates celluloid film and the cinematic apparatus encompassing the practices of moving and still image, installation and live performance. She also studied herbalism for over a decade in the Hudson Valley of NY and worked on various medicinal gardens, including one in the Alps of Southern France. Joyce Lainé is an experimental filmmaker, performer, film curator, whose work incorporates personal as well as found footage, and veers toward the musical with an interest in performance and improvisation. She researches handmade emulsion, cross processing, plant processing, and the autochrome color procedure.

Both Katherine and Joyce are members of the filmmaking collective La Ratoire and Atelier MTK, the first artist-run film lab of France.