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Founded in 2024 in Gangjeong Village, Jeju IslandSamguri Film Lab was founded on a site of activist resistance against the navy base in Gangjeong Village as one part of the community’s practice of art as resistance. It’s name derived from the activist kitchen Samgeori Shikdang, a community kitchen that has been collectively feeding the community since the beginning of the anti-base resistance. 

The darkroom project began in the former site of a community health clinic based out of a shipping container that hadn’t been running for years and with the help of many friends it began its life.
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May 2024 - Phytogram & B/W Reversal 
July 2024 - 16mm Direct Animation 
August 2024 - 16mm Pinhole Camera Making 
September 2024 - Camera Obscura & Reversal Phytogram 
January 2025 - 16mm Reversal Phytography
January 2026 - Multiple Exposures on 16mm + Expanded Cinema Performance 
July 2026 - Multiple Exposures on Color Print Stock 
July 2026 - Gangjeong Media Activism: Shooting on 16mm & Plant Processing 
August 2026 - Contact Printing on Eiki Projectors
September 2026 - Color Reversal on Color Print Stock + Two Channel Expanded Cinema Performance 
Select Events & Screenings 

May 11th, 2024 - Spacecell x Samguri Film Lab Screening   
August 7th, 2024 - Samguri x Films For Freedom: Film Screening For Palestine 
October 13th - 20th, 2024 - 섬과 바람 / Island and Wind: 채지원 Open Studio 
Feburary 21st, 2025 - “On Clogger Lane” Andrew Black Community Screening 
November 2nd, 2025 - Palestine Cinema Days Screening  
Winter 2026 - Frames Per Wave: 16mm Collective film benefit for Korean Flotilla for Free Palestina In 2026, Samguri Film Lab moved locations to permaculture farm Altitude 512 and joined the newly formed collective Kinofield. We built the new lab out from scratch up in the mountains.Kinofield Instagram 
Altitude 512 Instagram

 October 23rd to 25th, 2026 marked the Opening Weekend of both the Collective Kinofield as well as the re-opening of Samguri Film Lab. Artists from Spacecell Lab and across Korea came to the farm to help us open the space with evenings of screenings and expanded cinema performances
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