film blog

On what it is, and what it is not


What it is

Theorima film lab is a research project aimed at exploring new avenues of thought through the medium of the moving picture.

No common thread ties together the films produced at theorima, except for the thinnest and loosest one–a strict adherence to a set of guiding axioms. If these axioms are to be stated, there is likely no better place to do it than right here:

  • (P1) There are non-trivial truths of a contradictory nature.
  • (P2) Films are uniquely equipped to both express, question, and address these contradictory truths.
  • (P3) To articulate a contradiction is to open up a new way of thinking.

This is what theorima is, more or less1. If either confusion or curiosity remains, please see this page for inquiries and contact info.

What it is not

There are many things which theorima is not2; most importantly theorima is not a laboratory for developing and processing film negatives. We kindly request folks to refrain from sending in camera negatives3.


Footnotes

  1. There’s also blog posts, but that should just be taken as a given at this point. ↩

  2. Theorima is not, for example: a building, an ideal, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization, a botany club, a theory of differentiable surfaces, a recipe for banana bread, and so on. ↩

  3. Please be aware, due to lack of storage, any film negatives sent to our facilities will have to be disposed of within 2 weeks; negatives of Eat, Pray, Love will be disposed of immediately. ↩