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In Plato’s “ Ion ”, poets are portrayed as passive and irrational instruments of the Muses and their craft created in a state of frenzied ecstasy and madness. The Muse has entered them and taken possession of them, using them as a mouthpiece. The poet being a chain of influences, just as the Muse takes possession of the poet, so the poet causes the rhapsode who recites the poetry and also enters into a frenzied state and in turn the rhapsode will put the audience into a wild Bacchic state. Thus a chain of magnetic influence leading back to the Muse. The Muse is likened to a magnet, which has an attractive force on the poet, who has an attractive force on the rhapsode and so on down the chain to the audience. Therefore a chain of creativity is established, with creativity only occurring if the poet is found in a passive irrational state. During this chain of influences under a frenzied state, the poet does not comprehend what he/she utters within his/her craft and thus unable in understanding the nature of the poetry. One could apply Plato’s notion of the Muse’s magnetic force and coupled with effects upon the poet in a chain of influences, to that of social media. Wherein the subject is drawn to the magnetic forces at play through the interaction with technological devices in the palm of the beholder “ The Muse performs for the technological device, the technological device performs for the muse ”. Within our digital age of the 21st century, the notion of the Muse as magnetic force, becomes blurred through an opiate-like state of influence, through our interaction with the technological device. “ Estuary a la mode ” attempts to evoke Plato’s notion of the Muse set within the febricity of our digital age.

Born Essex, UK 1962 1990-95 Studied Kunstakademie-Düsseldorf, Germany. Studied under Nam June Paik/Nan Hoover 1996 Videokunst Preis Bremen 1997 Kunstfonds Stipendium, Bonn 2000 Artist Residency, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska, USA 2003 Arts Council England Artist Grant 2013 CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain, Artist Residency 2014 Arts Council England Artist Grant 2016 18th St Arts, Santa Monica, CA, Artist Residency CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain, Artist Residency Arts Council England Artist Grant Berlin Senate for Cultural Affairs, Artist- Research Grant 2018 Berlin Senat Artist Catalogue- Grant

In the garden 2012, DV HD, 07:57:00 The enclosed space of the Neue Nationalgalerie?s Sculpture garden is one that is off limits to us, not only physically but also mentally. This sombre terrain is reminiscent of a relic, one that had had experienced better days, though the absent viewer adds to its enchantment. Within its enclosure of grey granite stone, the sculptures that are found there seem to emit an ontological indifference to their habitat, like that of a cadaver is to its tomb. How ironic that Mies van der Rohe concluded in 1943, ?the first problem is to establish the museum as a centre for the enjoyment of art, not the interment of art?. We know from archival documents, that the conception of the building had certainly not an easy birth. A structure born out of a modernist spirit, of which had been ravaged by totalitarian politics of the past, no doubt such troubled history lends certain pathos to the Sculpture garden?s atmosphere. Within the oasis of calm, the sculptures seem to have an air of aloofness about them, some reflecting, whilst others absorbing their surroundings. They almost seem to gesture at an independence from the viewer?s gaze, a possible asset that seems to give the works added vigour. As Henry Bergson?s states in his major work ?Matter and Memory?, ?the same images can enter at the same time into two distinct systems, one belonging to science, wherein each image, related only to itself, possesses an absolute value; and the other, the world of consciousness, wherein all the images depend on a central image, our body, the variations of which they follow?. In this case the sculptures as images, seem to belong to that of the former, the system of science. ?In the garden?, takes the viewpoint of a floating spirit, with its drunken gait, roaming through the Sculpture garden with a gaze like that of a zombie, and in a manner of uncontrollable restlessness. This phantom is unable to truly reflect the nature of its surroundings. The unfolding images within the film reveal a faux romanticism, which is evident in the mocking artificial reflection and mimicry of the full moon in the sky above and its ambient sound borrowed from other sources. The spluttering fountain drinking from the pool that is its source, negates its present moment in time by striving to return to its place of origin. All of which suggests a phantasmagorical realm, wherein the enchanted garden has become the abode of the spectral.

Rick Buckley Born Southend-on Sea,Essex, UK 1990-95 Studied Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. Studied under Nam June Paik/Nan Hoover 1996 Videokunst Preis Bremen 1997 Kunstfonds Stipendium Bonn 2000 Artist Residency, Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska, USA 2003 Arts Council England Artist Grant 2013 CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain, Artist Residency Exhibitions (selected) 2014 Blackbile 84, Focal Point Gallery, UK (solo) 2013 Mass. En Masse. Mass Medium, CGP, London The Legend of the shelves, Autocenter, Berlin Caution: things may appear different than they are, AEG Halle, Nürnberg 2012 The Hard & The Fast, Book Launch, Motto, Berlin Chains, Horse, Berlin Jack?s Union, Autocenter, Berlin (solo) Thames Delta, Focal Point Gallery, Southend on Sea, Essex, UK Ins Blickfeld gerückt, Galerie de Multiples, Paris 2011 The Black Goddess, Autocenter, Berlin (Curated by Rick Buckley) Wilhelm Reich / Ayn Rand, Essays & Observations, Berlin Point it at Gran, Nationalmuseum, Berlin 2010 Magic Show, Pump House Gallery, London Hayward Gallery London, UK Touring Exhibition, Ins Blickfeld gerückt, Institut Francais, Berlin Haunted Tate, Essays & Observations, Berlin Blattspezial, publication, Berlin, The Watering Hole, Cussler, Berlin (Solo) The Indistinct Seeing, Infernoesque, Berlin 2009 Magic Show, Hayward Gallery London, UK Touring Exhibition, The Incomplete Man, book launch, Motto, Berlin WANT, Arratia/Beer, Berlin Bank of Eden, curated by A.Hopf & R.Buckley, Whitechapel Berlin The Incomplete Man, SOX Schaufenster, Berlin (Solo) Straylight Cavern, Cell-Project Space, London Freundliches Feuer, PR17, Berlin 2008 Facets of Reason, Union Gallery, London (Solo) King Fisher Tales, Union Gallery, London Group Show, Nationalmuseum, Berlin Free Dimensionality, Silver Shed, NYC 2007 Dark Mirror, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam 2006 Everything Must Go, VTO Gallery, London Cow Shed / Blakean Shack, 7Hours, Haus 19, Humbolt University, Berlin (Solo) 2005 Scotty oder Madeline?, Center, Berlin 2004 Domestic Civil Wars, VTO Gallery, London (Solo) Whipping Wall & Window With Paint, Center, Berlin (Solo) Ideals, Uncertainties & Consequence, Galerie Mirko Mayer, Cologne (Solo) Works on Paper, SOUTHFIRST, Brooklyn, NYC Drawn By Reality / Encapsulated in Life, Wood St Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2003 Entranced, VTO Gallery, London 2002 Multitude, Artist Space, NYC Majik, VTO, London Three Dimensional Disaster, Galerie Mirko Mayer, Cologne (Solo) 2001 10 jahre Bremer Videokunst Preis, GAK, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen 2000 Certain Things Are Never Said / Said Things Are Never Certain, Galerie Mirko Mayer, Cologne, (Solo) Works on Paper, Martin Kudlek Galerie, Cologne, 1998 We Love You / We Love You Not, Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen (Solo) Give & Take Again, Whitechapel Gallery, London, To call unto those who prey & beg, Artothek, Colonge, (Solo)

A Visitor, 2017, takes as a starting point the modernisation of a somewhat neglected memorial site at a former mass killing site in Germany. The video documents the replacement of older information panels and the changes to the landscape over an extended period of time. The video also draws on both a chance encounter with a beekeeper sent to contain and collect a “ stray ” swarm of honey bees at the site, and an archive interview conducted by historians at the nearby home of Maria Seidenberger. Seidenberger was a teenager at the time of the mass killings. She secretly helped concentration camp prisoners to smuggle and hide items that included clandestine photographs, letters, a heart and a death mask. The emerging portrait of the site exposes a multiplicity of narratives and reflects on themes such as subversion, guilt and remembrance. The persistence of material objects is questioned while resisting a linear view of history and memory.

Jamie Buckley is an artist who is originally from Kerry, Ireland but is now based in Munich, Germany. He completed an MFA at the University of Ulster, Belfast in 2012. Screenings and exhibitions include: LUX, London (2018); AMINI, Belfast (2017, 2015); Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin (2014, 2012); Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2013); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London and Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (2012).

DORF is the second film in a continuing series that concentrates on the grounds of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. It is informed by a practice that is rooted in contemporary visual art but which draws on documentary filmmaking strategies. The film points to the site a few months after the events of ’72. This was the transitional “ghost town” that existed before the more permanent residents moved in. The site is also shown at an unspecified but possibly contemporary time, when it is a place seemingly full of life. The film clips act as spacial and temporal coordinates that are assembled as a sequence of ordered pairs. Themes that interest me are evident, such as migration, residential space, and the absence of spectacle. A narrative is not explicitly dictated, instead it is allowed to be unpacked by the viewer. The persistence of material objects is brought into question.

Jamie Buckley (b.1980) is an Irish artist based in Munich. He completed an MFA in 2012 with First Class Honours at the University of Ulster, Belfast. In 2005 he completed a BA in Fine Art at the Limerick School of Art and Design with First Class Honours. His work was selected for “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012” and was then shown as part of the Liverpool Biennial and at the ICA in London. His work was shown at Rencontres Internationales in Paris in December 2012 and in Berlin in June 2013. His work was selected for the Aesthetica Short Film Festival and longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize.

"MUC 72" sits somewhere between lens based contemporary art and documentary film-making. Two temporal positions from one location are represented; one from the time of the Munich Olympics in 1972, the other a contemporary view of the ?Olympic Village?. The work explores the slippage between these different positions and points to issues regarding memory while refusing to represent the spectacular, the iconic.

Jamie Buckley (b.1980) is an Irish artist who lives and works in Munich. He completed a Master of Fine Art (MFA) in June 2012 with First Class Honours at the University of Ulster in Belfast. In 2005 he completed a BA in Fine Art at the Limerick School of Art and Design with First Class Honours. Buckley works predominantly in digital video. His works are often installed as single or multi-channel projections. Navigating significant historical locations and the memory attached to them, Buckley questions the position and formulation of their representation in terms of the hidden driving motives informed by political and social realities. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally; most recently his work was shown at Bloomberg New Contemporaries as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2012.

The project that Dorota Buczkowska develops does unveil only with a lot of attention; the multiplicity of the means and the treatments that populates this work could blur the apprehension. Fain physical, carnal, sometime close to morbid, it can also be decline in light figures, minimal, images of mist where balloon vanishing. The formal treatments, essentially videos, carving and drawing, doesn?t always belong to the same universe, they might be almost clumsy carving stroke, somehow thick drawing strokes, or images almost stills where motion is imperceptible. The coherence of such a project will so forth easily flew : this appearing dissolution can b explain maybe by what does the work by Dorota Buczkowska is nourished by the real, develops according to it, a priori without defined intention, with no worries to realize an idea or a starting project. A profusion of figures and sensations dwell and animate this work. These patterns reappear regularly there : the body, the organic, the treaty, the liberty that belongs maybe a bit more to Eastern Europe countries from which the artist comes from. The traffic : these of the corporal liquids, the relations setups with those who habit them or some hydraulic construction, clumsy or imaginary. These schemes falsely techniques, clumsy or imaginary. As an effort to understand, what would happen in it. As ones would play to master the elements, or at least, to continue the illusion. Some red spots that evolve in a kind of French polish, that gather and disappear ? do again. The odd ballet of a man who comes and raptor which wings are open for nothing. There is a lot of fragility in these images, a great vulnerability that emerges recklessly, more or less discretely, with more or less violence or incarnation. If ones should have to nominate a common denominator to all these images, this would be this fluidity that habits them: sings of life, movement?s core, its also the one that can flourish: factor of life as factor of lack, it can drive to things disappearance. These images seems to recall that there is in the beings themselves, a movement that could disappear. Same thing in the natural elements: the wind that carries away, the mist that fades, the ice that melts. Dorota Buckzkowska was then, looking for, by the image, creating this just movement in extra where ones grows the illusion to master it, to posses it, to understand it. The desire to appropriate or to fix. While measuring it, but as if done with closed eyes, vanity. (Corinne Cherpantier)

DOROTA BUCZKOWSKA Education 2003-2004 Scholarship in Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson, Nice, France 1999-2002 Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, studies at the Department of Sculpture in Professor G. Kowalski Studio. 1998-1999 University of Warsaw, Gender Studies 1998 Diploma of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw 1991-1998 Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Conservation and Restoration of Art GRANTS & RESIDENCES ( 2001-2004 ) 2005 Artist in Residence, Center for Contemporary Art, Synagogue of Delme, France 2004 Artist in Residence, Bundeskanzleramt- Federal Chancellery, Wien, Austria 2003 French Scholarship in Centre National des Arts Plastiques Villa Arson, Nice 2002 Nominee of the International Photographic Exhibition, Lutsine, Paris 2000 Silver Prize for Sculpture, IX International Lace Biennale Contemporary Art, Bruxelles, Belgium EXHIBITIONS IN PREPARATION ( 2005-2006 ) 2005-10 Collective Show, Vienna International Apartment, Turku, Finlande 2006-02 Projetion video, Lokal_30, Varsovie 2006-05 Area 54 Gallery, Wien, Austria GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2005 `But the Exciting Aspect is to?` Gallery AREA53 Vienna, Autriche 2005 `Forum de l`Image`, Les Abattoirs- Museum of Modern Art, Toulouse, France 2005 `50e Salon Européen des jeunes Créateurs`, Montrouge, France 2005 ART Poznan, National Art Fair, Poznan, Pologne 2005 `CLABCUBE`, video projction, Center for Contemporary Art, CSW, Warsaw 2005 `Corps & Âmes`, Art Vidéo Polonais au Centre d`Art le Parvis, K.01, Pau, France 2004 `Affinités électives`, Centre départemental d`art contemporain Cimaise et portique, Albi, France 2004 Neighbors to neighbors, Birthday installation, Opened studios, Warsaw 2004 Photographies of sculptors, video, Krolikarnia National Museum, Warsaw 2004 Circulation, sculpture and graphics, Maison d`artists, Charenton, France 2004 Birthday installation, Art Center Albi, France 2003 Je t`aime de loin, Aorta, installation, , Polishe Institut ,Paris 2002 Everyday death, video-photo installation, DAP Gallery `Supermarket of Art` Warsaw 2002 Serie of photographies, Lutsine exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris 2002 Systems Circulation, installation and photographie, Falaises, Paris 2002 To tame video-photo installation,novatr.pl, festival of young art, Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow 2002 Concentration, sculpture `Mia100 Kobiet Festival` ,Warsaw 2002 video -photo instalation To tame Capitol, Arles, France 2001 Participation in the group instalation` Face to` Rauma, Finland,(sculpture) 2001 Angelus popularis, kinetic sculptural installation, `Mia100 Kobiet Festival` Warsaw 2001 sculptur and photography Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France 2001 The IXth International Biennale de la Dentelle, Heidelberg, Germany, (sculpture) 2000 IX th International Biennale de la Dantelle, Bruxelles, Belgium,(sculpture) 2000 Krolikarnia National Museum, Warsaw, Exhibition of Decorativ Art , `Ulan` (sculptures) 2000 DAP Gallery, `Supermarket of Art` Warsaw, (sculpture) 1999 The VIIIth International Lace Biennal-Contemporary Art, Heidelberg,Germany, (sculpture) 1999 The VIIIth International Biennale de la Dantelle ,Bruxelles, Belgium, (sculpture) Individual exhibitions 2001 Art New Media Gallery, Warsaw, (video) 2001 Gallery Aux Falaises, Paris, (sculpture instalation) PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS (2000-2004) 2004 Graphic, City Contemporary Art Collection, Wien, Austria 2004 Drawing, private collection, Wien, Austria 2002 sculpture, private collection, Paris 2000 sculpture, private collection, Bruxelles

'Songs from the Compost: Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars', shot in the pine forests and sand dunes of the Curonian Spit, is a hypnotic exploration of nonhuman forms of consciousness and different dimensions of symbiotic life: interdependence, surrender, death, and decay. The images gradually layer, alongside intimate lyrics of a song that channels the desires of an entity shapeshifting across different genders, voices, and beyond-human embodiments. Featuring a cast comprised of local youth, alongside performer and choreographer Mami Kang, the film unfolds through a specially conceived song, choreography and costumes. Horizontality in the choreography undoes the usual verticality of the human figure, unfurling her into the landscape.The performers’ bodies are sites of activity, though they’re often horizontal, pulled toward the earth and one another, moving through the forest, along the sand dunes and water. The song lyrics draw on the work and words of biologist Lynn Margulis, celebrating the role of bacteria in making life and the collaboration between the single-cell organisms possible, as well as concepts by the science-fiction author Octavia Butler, who employed tropes of symbiosis, mutation, and hybridity to challenge hierarchies and categorisation.

Egl? Budvytyt? (b. 1981, Lithuania) is an artist based in Amsterdam and Vilnius working at the intersection between visual and performing arts. She approaches movement and gesture as technologies for a possible subversion of normativity, gender and social roles and for dominant narratives governing public spaces. Her practice, spanning across songs, poetry, videos and performances, explores the persuasive power of collectivity, vulnerability and permeable relationships between bodies, audiences and the environment. Her work was shown amongst others at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary art (RIBOCA); Renaissance Society, Chicago, Lofoten International Art festival; Block Universe festival, London; Art Dubai commissions; Liste, Art Basel; 19th Biennale of Sydney; De Appel Arts Centre; CAC in Vilnius, and Stedeljik Museum in Amsterdam. Egle was resident at Le Pavillon, Palais de Tokyo (Paris, FR, 2012) and at Wiels, Contemporary art centre, (Brussels, BE, 2013).

Secta is docu-fiction revealing a secret society ? a cult, which identity manifests through particular and often quite opaque behavior in public spaces. The film exposes Secta as open-source, fluid network, which co-exists in between and together with the lines of official social realities. The members of Secta do not know that they belong to it. The project started questioning how private and public spaces in the context of western cities are constructed, experienced and what are the potential ways of subverting the implicit rules and conventions that govern it.

EDUCATION 2006 - 2008 MA Piet Zwart Institute, Fine Art Department, Rotterdam 2004 ? 2006 BA Rietveld Academy, Audio Visual Department, Amsterdam 2000 - 2004 BA Vilnius Art Academy, Photography ? media arts, Vilnius, LT SELECTED PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS 2008 FOYER: language and space at the border Contemporaty Art Centre, Vilnius, LT If We Can?t Get It Together Power Plant, Toronto, CA My Travels with Barry TENT, Rotterdam, NL Wilde Metaphysica Kunsthuis SYB, Beetsterzwaag, NL Explum Cultural Center, Murcia, ES Conspire Transmediale, Berlin, DE 2007 The Joy Is Not Mentioned Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT In collaboration with G.Budvytyte and I.Miseviciute This is how it must feel to be there Pakhuismeestern, Rotterdam, NL Vilnius is burning Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, IT Collaborative project Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time ? Strategies for a discontinuous future Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE 2006 Selfobjects Palace of Radvilai, Vilnius, LT Collaborative project 101.3KM: competition and cooperation Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT The Eye of the storm The Nordic Artists? Centre (nkd), Dale, NO Enthusiasts Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT In collaboration with G.Budvytyte 2005 Open gauge project International Culture house, Tbilisi, GE Art for sail Loods 6, Amsterdam, NL In collaboration with G.Budvytyte VIDEO, FILM SCREENINGS 2008 White night, Contemporary culture forum, Riga, LV 2007 Art in the New field of visibility, De Appel, Amsterdam and Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TR Migration Brewery Arts Center, Kendal, UK 2006 Live video perfornance together with sounds by Nathalie Bruys and Byungjun Kwon Smart Project Space, during the opening of Jaki Irvine show, Amsterdam, NL CATALOGUES, PUBLICATIONS 2008 Small Talk with the Janitor published by Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, CAC INTERVIU ?the quarterly conversation about art? Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT 2007 Notes on the catalog /Catalogue of moves part of the exhibition ?The Joy Is Not Mentioned?, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time ­? Strategien fur eine unstetige Zukunft Frankfurter Kunstverein, published by Revolver, DE Vilnius is blurring Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, IT 2006 101.3KM: competition and cooperation Kaunas and Vilnius artist exhibition Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, LT AWARDS 2001 Fast Food, 1st prize, Vilnius, LT 2002 (Not)believe 1st prize, Vilnius, LT 2006 Sleipnir, travel grant, Nordic Council of Ministers 2007 Lithuanian Cultural Ministry Award for the young artists, LT

A day at the Sony Center complex in Berlin. Two people meet in a chiropractor’s waiting room. They are both tired. Meanwhile, the building is under permanent construction.

Niklas Buescher studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He graduated in 2019 with his first short film. In 2021, he began studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Since then, he has made several fictional short films, each portraying a different site of the city.

Giang visits her aunt Mười in the Mekong delta (Tien Giang) for the summer to give her mother personal space and time to sort things out. The slow rhythm of countryside life, children’s games, and close relationship within the neighborhood help Giang forget about her personal troubles and the hot Mekong sun. Seeing her 60-year-old aunt constantly busy with farm work, Giang decides to help out. The film develops through Giang’s perspective, weaving documentary foot- ages with a fictional storyline. Through Giang and aunt Mười’s developing relationship we get a sense of the slow and drawn-out rhythm of life in the rural South of Vietnam, the close contact between human and animals, the switch from traditional methods to reliance on industrial feed, concerns sur- rounding food safety, and the perception and interests of a typical farming household in the Mekong Delta. The film also introduces a new angle into the relationship between human and animals, and the inseparable ties be- tween life and death.

Born in Danang, Vietnam, 1985. She spent part of her childhood in Thailand before completing secondary and high school in Saigon, Vietnam. She has a B.A in East Asian Studies from Wesleyan University, USA and since 2009 has moved back to live and work in Saigon as a full-time visual artist. She is happy to tell stories using whatever medium available, from words, images, to sounds and space. She has exhibited in various museums and art spaces in Vietnam and abroad. Her experience with moving images started with video art works: Passage of the mass, 2014; The process of purifying, 2013, Where birds dance their last, two-channel installation, 2012. Flat Sunlight is her first film.

The last heir of the Karmash tribe recollects his now-forgotten ancestral traditions. He wanders through fragmented memories of his past, his lineage, and the city, which is slowly fading into the ruins of his consciousness. A portrait of a man on the verge of familial madness.

Aleem Bukhari (born 1996) is a Pakistani visual artist, writer, and filmmaker. He began his career in 2016 with independent and experimental music videos before venturing into narrative filmmaking. His notable works include Sapola (2018), Aik Do Teen (2019), and Anaari Science (2024), all of which received major accolades at the FILUMS International Film Festival. In late 2024, he wrote and directed the experimental horror short film Karmash. Bukhari's work often—though not exclusively, incorporates genre-bending science fiction and occult horror themes, characterized by an eccentric visual style. His narratives frequently focus on working-class characters. Beyond filmmaking, Bukhari is also known for his avant-garde digital illustrations and photography.

The cruel reality of the children who live on the streets of Lima, Peru. Struggling to survive by begging, taking drugs, and stealing. While shooting this documentary amidst fights, police raids, and disputes, the film crew itself also fell victim to the physical abuse of the violent gangs.

Marcelo Bukin was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and graduated with honors from the Centre d?Estudis Cinematografics de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, where he studied film direction. Marcelo has explored and filmed the everyday lives of people of many cultures in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. After making various short films in Spain, he was the production manager of "The Children of Nepal", which won the 2004 Goya Award (Spanish Academy Award) for best documentary short film. In 2003, he directed "Children`s Stories", a documentary film project in Peru and Guatemala, which won the Audience Award at the FICDH 1st International Human Rights Film Festival in Spain. In 2005/6 he directed a series of documentaries including "Bread", "Angel`s Fire" and "Lima`s Streets", that are receiving awards and being screened at festivals worldwide, such as Montreal WFF, Edinburgh, IDFA and the IDA AWARDS in Los Angeles. Marcelo is currently developing a documentary feature film about the socio-economical crisis of his home country, Argentina, meanwhile directing, producing, and acting in television commercials and independent projects.

A nonlinear film examining U.S. artist Richard Serra`s enigmatic installation, "EAST-WEST/WEST-EAST", located in the Brouq Nature Reserve in Qatar. The film was shot on film with a Super 8 camera, with all edits executed in camera.

Gabriel Bullen is a Canadian filmmaker from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. His filmography consists of short narrative, documentary, and animation. His fields of interest also include experimental film, storyboarding, and animation. He has shot with digital DSLR, Super 8 and Super 16mm, mobile phones and RED Epic Mysterium-X. He creates his own analogue VFX using old techniques with ink, milk, and a fish tank.

Ce film-installation, projeté en boucle sur deux écrans, présente une variation sur la vision paroptique (la possibilité de voir avec la peau, sans le concours des yeux), la télépathie, la théorie des couleurs et le thérémine. Les différentes séquences introduisent l’hypothèse d’un cinéma imaginaire. Le film est présenté comme une série de rushes suggérant un film inachevé, en puissance.

Érik Bullot est cinéaste et théoricien. Auteur de nombreux films à mi-chemin du documentaire et du cinéma expérimental, il a publié récemment L’Attrait des ventriloques (Yellow Now, 2022) et Apunts de cinema (Filmoteca de Catalunya, 2023). Il présente en 2025 une exposition personnelle Voyages en kaléidoscope au Centre d’art Les Tanneries, accompagnée d’une publication Cinéma vivant chez Macula. Il enseigne le cinéma à l’École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges.

Un oiseau est-il un document ? Les réserves d’un musée de civilisation peuvent-elles être perçues comme un miroir aux alouettes ? S’agit-il d’oeuvrer à une libération du document, à l’instar de la libération animale ? Telles sont les questions posées par ce film visionnaire et poétique, tourné dans les réserves du Mucem à Marseille.

Erik Bullot est cinéaste et théoricien. Il réalise des films à mi-chemin du film d`artiste, du documentaire et du cinéma expérimental. Ses films explorent les puissances poétiques et formelles du cinéma. Sa filmographie compte une trentaine de titres. Son travail a été présenté dans de nombreux festivals et musées, en France et à l’étranger. Il a publié récemment “ Le Film et son double ” (Mamco, 2017) et coordonné l’ouvrage “ Du film performatif ” (it: éditions, 2018). Il enseigne actuellement le cinéma à l’école nationale supérieure d`art de Bourges (France).

Tourné dans une chapelle transformée en studio, le film Fugue géographique propose une interprétation rythmique et visuelle de la pièce musicale "Geographical Fugue" d`Ernst Toch.

Érik Bullot est cinéaste. Il a réalisé de nombreux films à mi-chemin du film d?artiste et du cinéma expérimental. Il a publié récemment "Sortir du cinéma. Histoire virtuelle des relations de l?art et du cinéma" (Genève, Mamco, 2013) et "Renversements 2. Notes sur le cinéma" (Paris, Paris Expérimental, 2013). Il prépare un essai sur le cinéma performatif ainsi qu?un film sur la réforme de l?alphabet en Turquie. Il enseigne le cinéma à l?École nationale supérieure d?art de Bourges et dirige le post-diplôme «Document et art contemporain» à l?École européenne supérieure de l?image (Poitiers-Angoulême).

"Send toast to ten tense stout saints' ten tall tents". A tongue twister is a sentence hard to pronounce. Presented as a poetic collage, alternating between landscapes and portraits, this film suggests to different models, almost all american, filmed in a studio in Berkeley, to say tongue twisters in their mother tongue or their second one : english, arabic, armenian, assyrian, chinese, korean, croatian, spanish, french, hebrew, japanese, persian, portuguese, tagalog, vietnamese.

Erik Bullot was born in 1963. After studying at the "Ecole National Supérieure de la Photographie" in Arles and at l'IDHED (Paris), he starts directing films halfway between artist film, documentary and experimental cinema. His filmography counts more than twenty titles, like "Le Jardin chinois" (1999), "Le Singe de la lumière" (2002), "Glossolalie" (2005), "Trois faces" (2007), "L`Alliance" (2010). His work has been shown in numerous festivals and museums, in particular "le Jeu de Paume", the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the "Biennale de l?image en mouvement" (Genève), the "CCCB" (Barcelone), the "MICEC 08" (Barcelone), La Enana Marrón (Madrid). Member of the "pointligneplan" collective, he coordinated the book "pointligneplan, Cinema and contemporary art" (Léo Scheer, 2002). He recently published "Renversements 1. Notes sur le cinéma" (Paris Expérimental, 2009. He currently teaches cinema at the "Ecole nationale supérieure d'art" of Bourge and is in charge of the post-diploma "Document and contemporary art" at the "Ecole européenne supérieur de l'image" (Angoulême-Poitiers).

Bulnygin Dmitry est né en 1965. Il vit à Novossibirsk en Russie, dont il est diplômé du Architectural Institute en 1990. En l`an 2000, il a débuté une carrière de conservateur. Le premier projet auquel il a abouti a été l`organisation d`un festival international de très courts-métrages (ESF) à Novossibirsk.

I began to see the complexity and fluidity of sexuality and gender in my early 20s, as growing up believing in a particular concept of my sexuality and others, I felt stuck to an idea. I wanted to be a boy and aspired that when I’m grown enough to have a job I would begin to save money for a sex change surgery. This film celebrates the transcending and inner self discovery, from there, it simplifies self-acceptance. Reflecting on my upbringing and adolescence memoir, performed by myself presenting with a humour approach.

Bulthaweenan, Praewa ‘Bink’ (Bangkok, August 1995 - present) Attended Manchester School of Arts studied Bachelor in Interactive Arts 2018, previous studies in Media, and Fine Art: Photography at Solihull college. Now based in Manchester, U.K. I work with film, writing, performance, sculptor, and ceramics. I began making short films and moving image since 2013 when I studied Photography. I’m interested in looking at ways of telling stories, ritual movements of bodies and surroundings, and using bodies as an object. My current interests is fantasing about the future that already exists in the present, a world where there are no boundaries of cultural concept.

The hypnotic and purring sound of a bus engine resonates, accompanied by the rumble of the vehicle's interior. The voice, close and intimate, leads us into an inner monologue. We are on our way to Prijedor, the author's hometown in Bosnia and the place of his perpetual departures. Before arriving there, we must first learn to inhabit departure as a space in which we can grow and be reborn.

Mladen Bundalo (born in 1986, Prijedor) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, and author of Bosnian origin, currently based in Brussels. His essay-films explore themes of belonging and the human condition in the context of migration, diaspora, and periods of uncertainty and crisis.

A video essay on hyperinflation, which happened to the Yugoslav dinar from February 1992 to January 1994. Passing through banknotes design, science and personal memories, we make an irrational journey to one of the worst hyperinflation in human history.

An interdisciplinary artist working on a visual, dialogical, and autoethnographical system addressing movement, exchange, value, inflation, temporality, compatibility, and uncertainty, as nodal categories in the experience of modern society. Participated in over 80 international exhibitions, screenings and residencies, among them are: Cairo Video Festival, 2019; Now&After, Moscow, Russia, 2018; Moving Chronotopes, Remont, Belgrade, 2017; FDTD, National gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, 2016; Videographies, Liege, 2015; KulturKontakt’s artists-in-residence, Vienna, 2012; Atelier Banja Luka, Tranzitdisplay, Prague, 2012; La Biennale du Film Exposé, Paris-Montreuil, 2011; Cynetart, Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, Dresden, 2010; Crazycurators Biennale, Bratislava, 2010; Fears, parallel event to Manifesta7, Trento, Italy, 2008.

Lev works at a construction site in a new suburban residential area in Western Germany. But things change, friends will leave and the forest becomes a place of desire

Maximilian Bungarten born in 1993, in North Rhine-Westphalia, studies Documentaryfilm at HFF Munich and Université Paris VIII. Together with Camille Tricaud and Felix Herrmann, he founded the production company Benedetta Films. His award-winning short films have screened at numerous international film festivals including ISFF Clermont-Ferrand and art institutions like Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

A filmic examination of school rooms in the 70s. The era`s school-architecture displays the intention of historical and educational reforms. We are interested in the Utopia written into the architectural designs and the current state of schools. Rebuilding and repurposing point to a tense area between planning and actual usage.

Arne Bunk is a freelance artist and filmmaker. In 2010 he has been studying for his PhD with an academic and an aesthetic (film) component at Hamburg`s University of Fine Arts. He holds a scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation (promoting German talent) and since 2006 has taught film in schools in and around Hamburg. His short films have been shown at international short film festivals (including in Busan, Berlin, Madrid, New York and Paris), and rated "recommended" and "highly recommended" by the German Film Evaluation Board.

The city of Wolfsburg can be interpreted as a model of various urban planning and architectural blueprints of modernity. The film fluctuates between cinematic movement and photographic stagnation, thereby counteracting the metropolitan directive regarding mobility and acceleration.

This video is a scrapbook of dreams of (or by) animals inhabiting a world without humans. Natural Intelligence is “intelligence created by nature, natural evolutionary mechanisms,” - as opposed to artificial intelligence. With it, “there is a dynamic movement of natural intelligence that evolves from vague, fuzzy, and unconscious states to more concrete and conscious states, and thus realizing the essence of perception” (Perlovsky and Kozma, 2007, p. 1). It is beautiful and deeply flawed, but it levels out in the end.

Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand-based artist and videographer whose practice includes the construction of large-scale outdoor sculptures and installations as well as the creation of ‘impossible’ moving and still images and architecture designed using 3D modelling, video editing, and image editing programs. Bunkley, a NZ/USA dual citizen, received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two NY state grants, and the Rome Prize Fellowship in the USA. He has exhibited at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa, had international screenings, including the White Box Gallery in NYC, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin several times between 2003-2024, and exhibited video multiple times at File SaoPaolo. In 2012, he was an award winner at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the «Now&After» Festival. He participated in the Athens Digital Arts Festival in 2017 and File Sao Paolo (2017, 2018, 2019). Bunkley screened his video, Ghost Shelter/6, at The Federation Square Big Screen, Channels Festival 2017, Melbourne, and at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, in 2018. He participated in the Visions in the Nunnery at the Nunnery/Bows art gallery in London in 2022 and in 2024 at Rencontres Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and he exhibited in Artweek Gyumri, Armenia. he was the award winner for Best Art | Experimental video/film at the New York City Independent Film Festival 2024 in NYC.

The short video vignettes use both animated environments and real footage in an attempt to blur the line between augmented realities and actual settings in order to create an ominous atmosphere of transformation and exposure. It is my intention that the videos function by capturing imagined moving images in believable but slightly skewed settings that are both convincing and unsettling that creates a context that accentuates the sinister socio-political content of the quick (TV advertising length) punch-line animations The Vignettes of War and Business are a series of recent interrelated short 3D animations woven together that obliquely refer to the US ?permanent war economy? that has been transposed into the context of modern corporate New Zealand (which, as in most countries, is often at the mercy of the ?virtual parliament? of international investors and corporations). These vignettes reflect on paranoia, beauty and terror that is inherent in the modern world both here and in the USA. (8 min 56 sec) ?Fleece Blackout?: a short video animation of a 3D model sheep that stands (mostly) stationary and statue-like in a mountainous landscape while cruise missiles fly by and the woollen fleece on the sheep slowly turns into a photographic floral pattern. ?Masquerade?: a whimsical vignette of manufactured fear -?starring? a clown based on a 19th century cast iron bank, and a news commentator in a gas mask (waiting for the WMD?s during the invasion of Iraq.) ?4 Heads?: 4 heads with balaclava-like mapping of textiles wiggling their ears and noses. (with clips morphed from the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers) ?Red Cap?: Obliquely referring to the Citizen Cain inspired lost innocence. The Return of the Body Snatchers: The Return of the Body Snatchers is a 3d animation (obliquely influenced by the original Siegel movie The Invasion of the Body Snatchers) that takes into consideration the current global social-political climate of fear. ?Girl in the Canoe?, the sheep from ?Fleece Blackout? float down a river. It is followed by an inner tube and rubber duckie. A ?girl on a canoe? is reflected on the water. An old trite postcard of a girl in the Canoe in Wanganui, New Zealand fades (and blurs) out at the end of the clip. The soundtrack is by myself and the addition of three musical clips: by Alistair Galbraith and Constantine Karlis from the CD Radiant¸ ?In Prelight Isolate? by Set Fire To Flames, from the album ?Telegraphs in Negative?, and ?Translation? by Songs:Ohia.

Brit Bunkley Bio Brit Bunkley is the head of sculpture and a lecturer in digital media at the Quay School of the Arts, Wanganui UCOL in Wanganui, New Zealand. He immigrated to New Zealand from New York City with his family in 1995. They became NZ citizens in 1999. Bunkley`s previous 16 years in New York as a working sculptor and photographer included building numerous commissions while also receiving several grants and fellowships such as the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship grant and the Rome Prize Fellowship. Since immigrating to New Zealand, Bunkley has had several solo shows in public and private galleries including a recent show at Te Tuhi - The Mark in Auckland in February - April 2002 and a show at the McPherson Gallery in Auckland, February 2003, the New Zealand Film Archive Pelorus Trust Mediagallery and Lopdell House 2005. Bunkley also has been included in numerous NZ group shows ranging from St@rt up : New Interactive Media and Animation at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa to Intersculpt:2001 in Wellington and Intersculpt:2003 in Auckland (which he also curated) at the Adam Gallery in Wellington. He has recently shown digital video/sculpture installations at, the Mary Newton Gallery 2005. Overseas, Bunkley was chosen as one of the 6 ?working artists? at the SIGGRAPH:2002 digital art exhibit in San Antonio in 2002. He also recently co-chaired the Art Show of the ACM sponsored GRAPHITE: 2003 conference and art show; at the Span Gallery, Melbourne, Australia February 2003. In 2003, he exhibited digital sculpture and video at SIGGRAPH:2003 in San Diego, Expace[ex-space] project#002 video screening, Knitting Factory, NYC, Not Still Art Festival, The Micro Museum, New York City, the Transference, The Manipulation Of Vision in Sydney, Australia. He also participated in the traveling International RP Sculpture Exhibition that has been at 10 international venues including the Zoller Gallery at Penn State University, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey, Chicago Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill. He screened digital animation videos at the Ciberart-Bilbao 2004 Festival and art show, Bilbao, Spain April 2004, the Thailand New Media Festival in Bangkok in March 2004 and more recently at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, the First International Festival of Electronic Art 404 /Astas, Argentina. This year he showed a video animation at Prog:ME the1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, File 2005, Sao Paolo Brazil and Not Still Art at the Micro Museum in NYC in September. This video work is an award winner at the Sarjeant Gallery in New Zealand for 2005. Bunkley co-curated and participate in ?Made Known?, a show of digital sculpture and video 3D animation, with Ian Gwilt at the University of Technology (UTS) Gallery, Sydney, Australia this September. Vignettet of war and Business recently won the top award at the Sarjeant Gallery annual award show. His work will tour New Zealand as part of the Wallace Trust in 2005-2006.

“The Peaceable Kingdom” is a deep fake ontology. It is a dreamscape of various domestic and wild animals inhabiting human architectural spaces metaphorically and physically as both totems and discrete intelligent beings. The title is taken from a series of paintings by the Quaker minister and painter, Edward Hicks.

Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand-based artist and videographer whose practice includes the construction of large-scale outdoor sculpture and installations as well as the creation of ‘impossible’ moving and still images and architecture designed using 3D modeling, video editing, and image editing programs. Bunkley, an NZ/USA citizen, has also been a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and the Rome Prize Fellowship in the USA. International screenings include the White Box gallery in NYC and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. In 2012 Bunkley was an award winner at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the «Now&After» Festival. He took part in the Athens Digital Arts Festival and File Sao Paolo 2017, 2018, and 2019. Bunkley screened his video, Ghost Shelter/6 at The Federation Square Big Screen, Channels Festival 2017, Melbourne, and at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany in 2018, Docfest Kassel 2019 and Jihlava IDFF 2021 and 2022, Czech Republic. And Video Art Miden and Video Art Projects, Municipal Gallery of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, FILE SP 2023 exhibition and Hochkantfilmfest, Portrait -video on advertising billboards, Bremen, Germany in 2023 Recent group exhibitions include the “Stories of Rust”, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga, NZ, and “Green Around'' in Taipei, Taiwan in 2019, the Auckland Botanic Gardens 2022 and “Sculpture on the Gulf” 2022, Auckland, NZ, the “2021 National Contemporary Art Award”, Waikato Museum, Waikato, NZ and “Visions in the Nunnery”, Bows Art/Nunnery Gallery, London in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include Solo exhibitions include the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand in 2018, the Institut für Alles Mögliche/Stützpunkt Teufelsberg, Berlin 2019, The Rabbit Room, Napier, NZ 2022, at Scott Lawrie Gallery, Auckland New Zealand 2022, and aGallery, Whanganui, NZ.

Ghost Zone is an homage to Tarkovsky`s “Stalker” (1979) takes us on a journey to the original expedition into the ineffable aqueous “Zone” - where wishes may be granted to one’s detriment. Bunkley stitches together his own footage in such a way that the landscape and buildings resemble a magic realist post-apocalyptic wasteland. Photographic composites of two rural locations has been made a lot easier with the use of drone captured imagery in that they will accommodate points of view not accessible form the ground. From this data he uses photogrammetry 3D scanning to create his eerie works as “œislands of memory┝ - akin to the islands that feature in the science fiction film Solaris (1972) by Andrei Tarkovsky. (Photogrammetry uses multiple photographs placed within software that creates 3d printable meshes.) By extracting these images, the buildings are divorced from their surrounds while the videos resemble chunks of architecture and landscape made from an indefinable material floating in black cyberspace.Ultimately they refer to eschatology - the “end of time”.

Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand based artist whose art practice includes the proposal and construction of large scale outdoor sculptures, discrete objects, installations as well as the creation of ”impossible” moving and still images and architecture designed using computer 3D modelling, video editing and image editing programs. His work explores an oblique sense of paranoid apocalyptic fear tempered with a sense of whimsy and irony. International screenings include the White Box gallery in NYC and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2016, 2018, 2019), and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in 2018. He took part in the Athens Digital Arts Festival and File Sao Paolo 2017 and 2018. Bunkley screened his video, Ghost Shelter/6 at The Federation Square Big Screen, Channels Festival 2017, Melbourne and at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany in 2018. In 2012 Bunkley was an award winner at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for the «Now&After» Festival, and he was again included in «Now&After» at Moscow’s Artplay Design Center February 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Ghost Shelter 17 at Te Uru, Titirangi, Auckland, The Happy Place- Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland and the Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui, New Zealand in 2018.

Ghost Shelter/6: encompasses a variety of significant post-industrial structures all at the edge of metropolitan regions in various states of ruin. They are created from 3D scans and drone footage, rendered and animated in 3D as discrete virtual entities simulating islands of memory (as in Tarkovsky’s Solaris). 1.Chemiewerk Rüdersdorf, an abandoned chemical factory in the former German Democratic Republic 2.The Teufelsberg, a NSA listening station in Berlin built on top of a man-made hill constructed from the rubble of WW2 Berlin. 3.Immerath, a ghost town in western Germany removed in 2017 by the energy giant RWE for the expansion of their open cast coal mine, Garzweiler. 4.The Martha Project, a NZ open cast gold mine whose mining operations ground to a halt due a major landslide collapsing the north wall of the mine. 5.Domes of Case Grande, an incomplete and abandoned futuristic computer facility in Arizona. 6.The Sleeping Beauty Castle, the centrepiece of the California Disneyland Park, modelled on the late 19th century Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany.

Brit Bunkley’s current art practice includes public art, sculpture, installation, and the creation of “impossible” moving and still images and architecture designed using computer 3D modelling, video and image editing programs, with content emphasizing majestic landscapes, human revelry and an oblique sense of apocalyptic anxiety tempered with whimsy and irony. Brit is represented in numerous international collections and has completed a dozen permanent and temporary public art projects. In addition, he has received several grants and fellowships including a Wallace Trust grant in NZ; a New York State Fellowship (CAPS) grant, a New York State Council on the Arts project grant, a USA National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the American Academy Rome Prize Fellowship. Recent international group exhibitions and screenings include Sanctioned Array-Other2 Specify at the White Box gallery in NYC, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid at the Centre Pompidou and at the Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, Spain; The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; FILE 2012 at the SESI' Cultural Centre Sao Paulo, Brazi;, the Berlin International Director?s Lounge 2014 and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art where he won an award. Bunkley?s most recent solo exhibition, Social Realism opened at the Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ November 2014- with forthcoming solo exhibition November 2015. Recent video exhibitions and festivals include FILE 2015; Fiesp Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil; the International Video Art Festival “ Now&After ” MINI VIDEO'15, Schusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia, and International short- and longfilm videodays 2015 and 2016, G.A.S-station, Berlin, Germany

Oil, ghost towns and dust devils are aligned as tropes of climate change. Tornado-like dust devils, as canaries in the coal mine, are increasingly common in hot, barren deserts and in drought stricken areas of the world. I imagined spilling flower petals into the path of dust devil so that it would create a colorful vortex of swirling petals. I recently found a few dust devils during each of my 3 trips to the California desert, but they are fast, dissipate quickly and mostly too far off the road to catch…always just ahead of my car. When I was ready to give up looking after my third desert trip and was focusing my camera on abandoned school, a well-formed small dust devil appeared about 10 meters to my right. I turned my camera on a tripod towards it, snatched a bag of flower petals that I had bought at LA`s flower district and ran into the small vortex dumping the contents. It grabbed the petals and dumped them over a nearby road.

Brit Bunkley is a New Zealand based artist whose current art practice includes public art, sculpture, installation, and video. He designs his work using digital 3D modelling, video and image editing programs… emphasising majestic landscapes, human revelry and an oblique sense of apocalyptic anxiety tempered with whimsy and irony. Brit is represented in numerous international collections and has completed a dozen permanent and temporary public art projects. He is a recipient of a New York State Fellowship grant, a New York State Council on the Arts project grant, a USA National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the American Academy Rome Prize Fellowship. He has completed more than a dozen temporary and permanent public art projects including the commission Hear My Train in Wanganui, New Zealand completed in 2012 and a public screening at the Oslo Central Station, Oslo Screen Festival in collaboration with Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway autumn 2013. Recent international group exhibitions and screenings include 2015 at the SESI` Cultural Centre Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Berlin International Director’s Lounge 2014 and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Bunkley’s most recent solo exhibition, The Happy Place opened at the Sanderson Contemporary Art, Auckland, NZ November 2014.

Up River Blues is a dreamlike series of vignettes featuring the region surrounding the Whanganui River Valley. The Whanganui River is New Zealand?s longest navigable river with rich historical significance. The abandoned Shangri-la commune of Ahu Ahu Ohu, on the Ahu ahu tributary of the Whanganui is the central feature of this video. In 1974 the NZ government found an ?Ohu Scheme? on public land to establish communes - ?intentional communities?. Most failed. This was one of the longest lasting "Ohus". A sense of apocalyptic foreboding was created through special effects including 3D animations of a stranded Russian submarine rusting on a steep inland hill and black helicopters flying over Ahu Ahu Ohu. (In fact, helicopters are a reality in this region in the government?s search for marijuana crops; the hills are indeed former sea beds.) In combining apocalyptic paranoia with irreverent whimsy the video ends with a tree disappearing into its shadow and a crop duster reversing into a cloud of dust.

Brit Bunkley, emigrated with his family in 1995 from New York City to take up a teaching position to New Zealand. Bunkley`s art practice during his 16 years in New York included building numerous commissions while also receiving several grants and fellowships including a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship grant, New York State artist Fellowship, and the Rome Prize Fellowship. (see: www.britbunkley.com) Bunkley?s work has appeared in many solo and group shows internationally and is in many public and private collections in New Zealand and the USA. Exhibitions included St@rt up: New Interactive Media and Animation at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa and SIGGRAPH 2003 , 2004 and 2006. In addition he showed artwork at Ciberart-Bilbao 2004 Festival and art show, Bilbao, Spain, Prog:ME the1st Festival of Electronic Media of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Caracas, 2005 in Paris and 2006 in Venezuela. Bunkley?s sculpture has been commissioned by the NY MTA, the Minnesota Percent for Art program, Connells? Bay, NZ and several other public and private agencies (His work is featured in the Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit, Celebrating 20 Years of Public Art, by the Monacelli Press; 2006 and The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design, 2008, by Ronald Lee Fleming.) Recent shows include FILE RIO 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, in Sao Paolo: Brazil, March 2008; Urban Screens Melbourne 08; Federal Square, Melbourne, Australia; Eform; Beijing - Today Art Museum; Shanghai - Duolun Museum of Modern Art; Chongqing - Jinse Gallery; Migration, Völklingen, Germany; as well as solo shows at the NZ Film Archive Gallery ?A Slow Train a? Comin?? and at Mary Newton Gallery - both in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2008 he co-curated and participated in the show Terrible Beauties, at City Art Room in Auckland. File 10 Nurbs Proto 4KT, Sao Paolo. In 2010 he co-curated and participated in the exhibition Hybrids at Auckland?s MIC gallery; exhibited at the National Contemporary Art Award at the Waikato Museum of Art, NZ; Insideout, Sydney; A Light at the End of the Tunnel, Scope Basel, Basel; From the Earth to Space: Exobiology & Biodiversity, Cité des sciences et de l`Industrie, Paris; and he recently had a solo show at the Mary Newton Gallery in Wellington. He will exhibit video at the E4C: Electronic Gallery; Seattle.