Tiziano doria

Dear Matt, Tiziano and Samira here writing from Làbbash - an independent, non-industrial laboratory based in Milano - Italy. We set up the lab with the help of many friends who have given us their disused equipment and their experience. Over the years we have recovered and put back into operation cameras, moviola, developers, projectors, telecine. Làbbash is equipped for processing 16mm ( shooting, development and printing) and all analogue photographic formats. Certainly unique in Italy, it is located in Sesto San Giovanni, one of the largest cities of factories in Europe that has attracted thousands of workers from all over Italy during decades. A city that the 2016 census showed to be made up of 17% of foreign immigrants. The laboratory was born to be able to make our films in 16mm in total autonomy compared to large productions. We also pay close attention to dissemination and organize numerous workshops and noticed that a lot of young people approaches this practice. We have therefore decided that a part of our equipment such as Bolex or tripods we make available to independent directors who need to make their film or their experimentation in 16mm. My partner Samira and I are teachers in high school and in our cinema courses we use 16mm film. We would be extremely grateful to have your support and one or more cameras. Here are some links where to find more info on us. https://warshadfilm.com/our_non_industrial_lab/ https://warshadfilm.com/workshops/ https://www.instagram.com/labbash.milano/ https://www.moderntimes.review/la-zita/ Indeed they are not simple filmmakers but total experimenters, the only ones in Italy who, in addition to shooting in 16mm negative (using Bolex, Arri and other cameras), develop and print
all their materials in black and white and in color. In Milan they set up a laboratory, Làbbash, full of machines that they assembled or modified by themselves starting from old devices, perhaps using them improperly and carrying out traditional chemical processes, sometimes intervening in the printing phase using the translation technique. [...] But Doria and Guadagnuolo are not nostalgic crazy, they have started to work autarchically on the 16mm pushed by the very limit
by the machines. “This limitation for us”, as Samira explains, “becomes a
creative opportunity. These devices, which originally had rigid industrial purposes,
have become “soft”, non- standardized machines in
our hands. At one time using them could be stressful because there was a margin for error, while now they are an instrument of freedom, since imperfection and low definition are a value for us “.
The single-channel cinema of Samira and Tiziano and their multi-channel installations, also accompanied by live music
on some occasions, are in the balance between documentary and experimentation,
between found-footage and anthropological investigation: after all they often start
from material of archives, photographs and home movies.(ilManifesto, Bruno Di Marino, 20 November 2021) https://ilmanifesto.it/doria-e-guadagnuolo-16-mm-di-autarchia