Balagan and the Film Study Center at Harvard proudly welcome Kevin Rice of the Colorado-based nonprofit organization, Process Reversal, to presents the third installment of a unique traveling film series – Frenkel Defects.

This recurring series aims to explore what it means to work in – and exhibit on – photochemical film today by examining works from artists operating specifically within this practice. Often, this involves getting their hands dirty at every stage of the process from optical effects to developing, editing and contact printing, optical sound recording, and even the creation of the photosensitive emulsion itself... As a result (and as suggested by the series' title), creative aberrations make their way into the standard photochemical process, giving birth to a new, textural aesthetic that plays out on the surface of the film strip. More than ever before, film reminds us of its physicality; giving a new sense to Andrei Tarkovsky’s idea of “sculpting in time.”