NACHLEBEN

Nachleben is based in coastal Suffolk in the East Anglian region of the UK.

It is a resource that aims to share photochemical techniques in film and cinema.

The collection of apparatus and films has been assembled by Hogge who is a co-founder of the Cube Cinema in Bristol, a long term and active participant in the Kino Climates network of Cinema spaces. He divides his time between here and there.

Nachleben is a word that means ‘survival/afterlife’.

Although named as an ‘Archive’, its more an ‘Experimental Archive’, which aims to explore how a ‘Lab’ can act in a productive capacity.

Hogge, working alone normally, welcomes people who want to come and work. There is a shortage of people out here. Its very lonely. Its a good place if you want to make resolute and focussed operations without the distractions that urban environments can surround you with. Its quite flat so a bicycle is a good way to get around, or a horse and cart.

The Nachleben studio is a studio amongst many other Artist studios and we are a workers Co-Operative. The studio building/group is called ‘Asylum Studios’.

As well as painters, sculptors, framers, printers, illustrators, engineers and technicians there are a few shared resources. These are a gallery space (11m x 7m), a multi-use space with moving walls that can configure differently, a print studio with all things needed for silk screen work and a wet dark room with large format and 35mm enlargers. There is a nice garden and kitchen.

In the Nachlab space there is an NH/Oxberry printer for 16/35, a manual exam/rewind table, Steenbecks in 16 and 35, 16mm/35mm/8mm projectors, Bolex RX and lenses, a 2^nd Oxberry camera for animation or custom uses, lights (all sorts), Nagra IV and digital recorders, various mics and sound equipment, a perfectone mag follower (16 and 35), work bench, heavy tripods and bases and a Moy geared head.