🎬 VHS Archive Jam: Session #1

Over the past twenty years, Cavia has built up a wonderfully chaotic VHS archive: festival submissions, homemade tape compilations, experimental films, commercial releases, underground oddities, and even some adult titles, all sitting side by side on the shelves. Together they show how VHS not only brought cinema into living rooms, but also made it possible for low-budget and far-flung productions to travel, circulate, and find audiences outside official circuits.

This event is an experiment in bringing that archive back to life. Instead of a fixed program, the evening begins with a 40-minute VHS “jam session.” Tapes from the collection are spread out across the space, and the audience is invited to browse through them, preview clips, and discover what’s inside. Together, we decide which tapes fragments of them should make it onto the big screen. The session evolves into a collective screening shaped in real time by the people in the cinema room.