WHAT'S ON
Where: Yö gallery
When: 20.1.-25.1.2026
Time: Every evening starting at 19:00
ALERT vol.2 is a five-day micro-festival dedicated to analogue film, live cinema, and experimental performance. Featuring local and international artists working with argentic processes, expanded cinema, and live improvisation. Formulated in 2023 by Helsinki based analogue film artists Marek Waldemar Pluciennik, the festival now returns for its second edition. Alert vol.2 unfolds as a sequence of surprise evenings where moving image, sound, and gesture meet in real time and share the same space of the gallery Yö.
Program to follow:
Tuesday, January 20
Time 19:00
Opening Night of the Festival / Finnissage of Analogue Film Installations
We meet in the gallery for the Finnissage of the analogue film installations by Marek Waldemar Pluciennik, Severi Haapala and Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki TEMPUS Lux, Draw a/the line and Light in the machine.
We open the night of the ALERT Fest with the performance art by Tomasz Szrama (PL/FIN), with music, drinks, food, and being together.
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Wednesday, January 21
Time: 19:00
Expanded-cinema performances exploring material of film, rhythm, optical perception and narrative traced across family generations.
Riojim (FR)
Stromboli Left Hand
Format: 1x16mm
Duration: approx. 30min
Paola Guzmán Figueroa (CO/FIN)
Generational Traces
(2025)
Format: 3x16mm
Duration: approx. 30min
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Thursday, January 22
Klo 19:00
An evening of experimental analogue cinema that uses the machinery of 16mm film, overhead and slide projectors as optical instruments
Natalia Kozieł-Kalliomäki (PL/FIN)
Warm Data
(2024)
Format: 2x16mm 1x overhead projector
Duration: 20min
Luis Macias (ES)
Inside-Outside-Around
(2024)
Format: 3x16mm 2xslide projector
Duration: 25min
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Friday, January 23
Klo 19.00
Live film performances at the intersection of sound, light and mechanical projection.
Lasse Vairio (FIN)
Sunny Beach Boogie
(2025)
Format: 2x16mm
Duration: 20min
Marek Waldemar Pluciennik (PL/CAN/FIN)
Quiet !!!
(2025)
Format: hand-cranked 35mm film projector and live sound
Duration: approx. 30 min
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Saturday, January 24
Klo 19:00
A night of analogue cinema performances, dance, movement and collaborative energies.
Seppo Renvall (FIN)
Format: always a surprise. Worth waiting!
Duration: approx. 30min
Marek Waldemar Pluciennik (PL/CAN/FIN)
Somatic Fields I
(2025)
Format: hand-cranked 35mm film projector and live sound by Francesco Carella (ITA)
Duration: approx. 30min
Francesco Carella (ITA)
Format: live sound
Duration: approx. 30min
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Sunday, January 25
Klo 19:00
The night ignites with an electrifying performance by 70FPS and unfolds toward a collective film and sound improvisation, where all participating artists of ALERT vol.2 Fest stands together for final live analogue cinema session.
70FPS / Andrea Saggiomo (ITA)
TRANSPARENT NATURE
Format: 16mm color
Duration: 11 min
Last Cine Impro -by All Artists
Format: multiple 16mm film projectors, hand-cranked 35mm film projector and live sound
Duration: approx. 45 min