Challenging the Cinema Room is a programme dedicated to collective research into the qualities, possibilities and limitations of the conventional cinema device. In 2023 it features the performance “Intra Protocol”, by Sally Golding with Matt Spendlove (Spatial) and the presentation of ECA works resu...

This creative-critical workshop will investigate the practice of expanded cinema using speculative design to explore intangible properties and compositional methods which underpin sensory and participatory artist-audience experiences. Connecting the physical darkroom with networked space through hyb...

LAIA-TORRE presents Cauldron, a program dedicated to the sharing and dissemination of knowledge around analog cinema devices produced by the network of independent film laboratories of the SPECTRAL project. For this year’s program the film labs Mire (FR) and Crater-lab (ES) will be in Porto to prese...

Karel Doing is an independent artist, filmmaker and researcher. During his residency he will focus on the old Eucalyptus trees in Porto, combining lens based images with material and chemical alterations, to create an intense double projection, alternating between slow/majestic and rapid/hypnotic. H...

To celebrate the solstice LAIA will setup a 2 day all members residency event at Torre for sharing knowledge, workshops and works. The public event will occure on the 21st at 20h30 with the work-in-progress from Laura Battucci and the performance from our special guest Luís Macias.

For about one month LAIA-TORRE will support an artistic residency for one member, in order to develop an expanded cinema performance, to be shown on December 21st 2022.