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?Then I saw the face belonging to the voice that had spoken all night long.?

Oliwia Tonteri studies documentary film and Jerem Tonteri film editing at University of Art and Desing (UIAH), Helsinki.

In the medieval Town Hall Square, in the heart of the Old Town of Tallinn stands a huge fir tree. Christmas is in the air. On the streets is the hustle and bustle of present buying and preparation. Around the tree itself is a Christmas market, a range of kitsch, purpose built, festive stalls almost filling the square with their decorative, superfluous bric-a-brac. Approaching faintly is the familiar sound of the Hare Krishna, those naives with their innocent philosophy who always bring a condescending smile to our faces, blissfully chanting their way through the city ? ?Hare Krishna - Hare Rama?. But as the sound approaches it becomes clear that the chant is not Hare Krishna but actually ?Hare Christmas - Hare Christmas?, and it is not our friends from the Krishna community but in fact a line of Santa Clauses in the familiar red attire and with flowing white beards, skipping along to the rhythm of the chant. A young girl is explaining to us her desire to do something good and worthwhile in the world. She wants to help others. She is kind. The sound of her voice is honest but we do not see the speaker ? what we see is an interior, a living place, if it can be called that. The slum, of an alcoholic, anti-social character, who it is hard to believe has any hope left or even cares anymore. The rooms are infested with cockroaches and flies. Heaps of decomposing rubbish strewn around. We can easily imagine the smell of the place. Two different worlds that at some point in time will collide.

With precisely composed filmic-tableaux and through minimal movements the work Carusel evokes the image of a post-apocalyptic playground, while somewhere outside or above various doomsday scenarios take their course. It is a setting of the Zeitgeist-phenomenon celebrated by our pop culture in graphic novels, computer games and television series in all of its enjoyment and pessimism. Carusel triggers trails of thought in-between mythical traditions and actual fear of the dark. In an elevator ride in one of the sequences, we eavesdrop a conversation of a family: Arguably, the rest of the world still standing. Carusel was shot in the damp caverns of a former Romanian salt mine which was reused as a bomb shelter in the second world war and is now refurbished as an erie underground amusement park. Though equipped with a carousel, ping-pong tables, a childrens’ playground and rowboats, the combination with large threatening steel structures and surreal light-objects still produce a gloomy atmosphere and ambience of fear. It seems that the mythical echos of the historically charged site are still abound, yet absurdly translated into an uncanny and bizarre „amusement park“. Marlies Wirth

Patrick Topitschnig is a Vienna based filmmaker and audio artist and also collaborates on theatre projects. After he finished his studies in Commercial Information Technology he studied Intermedia Art and Narrative Film in Vienna and Berlin under the likes of Bernhard Leitner, Erwin Wurm, Constanze Ruhm and Thomas Arslan. For his diploma in 2012 he produced the experimental video “Right to Hospitality”. He received several awards, such as the Fred Adelmueller Grant and the Ursula Blickle Preis for his video "Concision of the Whole" (2007) ("Zerschneidung des Ganzen"). In 2013 he was granted the STARTstipendium for video and media art (Austrian Federal Ministry for Culture and Arts). He works primarily with video and sound, often within installative contexts. His works center on direct physical experience and immediate reception of time, as well as on enduring and measuring the passing of time on a visual or on an acoustic basis. Permanent repetitions or continuous oscillations constitute a recurrent theme.

"Postponing the Inevitable" is a film presenting three distinct interpretations on the theme of near-death. Based on true stories, the film?s chapters "Falling", "Faking" and "Freezing" conceptually sit between traditional cinematic storytelling and an ambiguous space of visual representation, asking the viewer to interpret the clues provided: A garbage collector is photographed by a woman for an unknown purpose, a man walks backwards and forwards at the beach, a hospital contains a lone patient.

Born 1975 in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Noam Toran studied fine art and combined artist commissions with set designs for theatre and film before receiving an MA in design at the Royal College of Art in London. His work spans multiple disciplines and mediums, from film to installations to conceptual design, and focuses on the social, psychological and ethical implications of emerging technologies, mass culture, and celluloid media to photography. Toran?s work is exhibited, screened and published internationally, notably at the New York MOMA, the Luxembourg MUDAM, the CNAC Pompidou in Paris, and the Kulturhuset in Stockholm. He currently teaches at the Royal College of Art and lectures worldwide.

With no visible human presence, we move through the interior of a house. Like all houses, it contains spaces of darkness and corners hidden from view. That house, that interior, hides its flat background of ephemeral construction. We are inside a set built to the limits of the frame that films it. That house was only a fragment of what it appears to be. “The Uninvited” is a short film not about what there is, but about what there could be. Cinema is an apparatus of power over the representations shown therein and the bonds of continuity of a society. “The Uninvited” shows a house haunted by those absences, its blind spots and the violence of its limits and exclusion that its representations have meant.

Fabiola Torres-Alzaga is a Mexican artist working in contemporary art. She studied photography at “The active school of photography” and visual arts at “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City. She has been investigating focus and nearsightedness present in the act of gazing, and its repercussions in our socio-spatial relationships. I have a keen interest in cinema and its articulations of space and time, as well as stage magic and its defiance of logic. Both disciplines comprise the basis of my research. Through them, I seek to expand the scope of the visible, creating illusionary worlds that intrude into real space, counter-spaces that claim inclusive folds within the rigid limits of patriarchy to generate Other possible relations. Her work has been shows at MUAC (Mexico City, 2021), Lille3000 (France, 2019), the Biennal FEMSA (Zacatecas, 2018), the Anthology Film Archives (New York, 2018), the Biennal of Moving Images (Buenos Aires, 2018), the Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York, 2018), Videoex , Maison des Arts de Malakoff (France, 2016), the Polytechnic Museum of Moscow (Russia, 2015), MARCO (Monterrey, 2015), Museum of El Chopo (Mexico City, 2014), Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City, 2014), Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City, 2011), the Center for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv, 2006) and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros (Mexico City, 2004), among others. She has published “Historias de la noche” (Stories of the night, ESPAC, 2019) a book/project in dialogue with cinema curator Mara Fortes, and a solo catalogue “Fabiola Torres-Alzaga: In between acts” (Museo Universitario del Chopo, 2015), she´s currently a member of the Fonca’s Sistema Nacional de Creadores.

“Jalal, last night, I had a dream about our film.” “Which film?” “The one we are working on these days.” “Hong Kong, China, Solaris?” “Yes.” Can one have a dream where one’s deepest, unconscious wishes are fulfilled by Solaris or a Solaris equivalent, the extraterrestrial hyperintelligent sentient ocean of Tarkovsky’s film Solaris that fulfills such wishes? Yes, if one’s meta-wish is to have one’s unconscious wishes fulfilled in the manner Solaris does that rather than in the manner dreams do it (through such mechanisms as condensation and displacement). One should bear in mind though that, since dreams are wish fulfillments, Solaris or a Solaris equivalent would end up making one unable to dream, an insomniac, since it would render dreams superfluous. By dreaming about Solaris or a Solaris equivalent one would be dreaming about a place where one cannot dream, where there are no dreams.

Graziella Rizkallah is a Lebanese filmmaker. Her videos have been shown at Sharjah Biennial 11; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; MAXXI; First Asia Biennial & 5th Guangzhou Triennial; 7th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen); Times Art Center Berlin; Darat al Funun (Amman); and Beirut Art Center. Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. In addition to writing over ten books, he has made over ten films and videos, which include essay films and conceptual films; short films (7 minutes, 8 minutes, etc.), feature-length films (110 minutes, 138 minutes, etc.), and “inhumanely” long films (72 hours, 50 hours); videos that are standalone works as well as ones that are part of mixed media works; films that he shot and films in which all the images are from works by other filmmakers (Hitchcock, Sokurov, Bergman, etc.). His work has been shown in the 6th, 10th and 11th Sharjah Biennials; the 9th Shanghai Biennale; the 5th Guangzhou Triennial; MoMA PS1; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Pompidou; ZKM; Kunsthalle Fridericianum; MAXXI; Witte de With; and Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

La théorie des vagues est un film en trois mouvements, au fil desquels, à partir du motif de la vague, la question du passage de la perception à la représentation tente de se résoudre. Le film s?ouvre sur la description d?une maison tout au bord de l?eau, sur laquelle les vagues viennent éclater les jours de tempête. Ce lieu évoqué par la narratrice est celui où j?ai passé les deux premières années de ma vie. Hormis le récit que l?on m?en a fait, je n?en garde aucun souvenir, aucune image, même si je peux supposer qu?il a affecté mon mode de perception. C?est un autre lieu, le laboratoire de mécaniques des fluides de l?école centrale de Nantes, qui a réactivé la mémoire de cette maison au bord de l?eau, quarante ans après. Là, les vagues viennent s?écraser régulièrement sur les murs de béton d?un bassin à houle.

Muriel Toulemonde est née à Lille en 1970. Durant ses études à l?Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Paris et après, (DNSAP en 1997), elle bénéficie de plusieurs résidences à l?étranger : Milan (1991), Los Angeles (1994), Cologne (1999), Budapest (2001), Delphes (2004).

"Sarcocoptes" in greek, it means flesh cutters. This short film-videoart is an experimental animation. The human body transforms depending on the emotions. Persistence on the human head and its anatomy. Anatomy drawings mutate. Emotions and memories have actual flesh and struggle with the real flesh. A simple thought seems like a medical operation. Is organism closer to death or is he ready to rebirth? A lonely creature that diggs his mind to discover himself.

Giorgos TOURLAS was born in Athens in 1979. He is a graduate of the Athens? School of Fine Arts , where he studied in the laboratory of Rena Papaspyrou, from the year 1999-2000 up to 2003-2004. In the same faculty he studied mosaic and computers. Now, he is in Athens? School of Fine Arts, for postgraduate studies in Digital Art. In the University of Fine Arts of Valencia, in Spain, in 2002, he studied copper engraving (calcografico) and animation.

With evocative sound and visual elements, ETHER aims to create an immersive environment of data decay. Images crackle and distort, merging in and out of video noise. The hiss and hum of sound thousands of miles away fills the room, snatches of music and voices decompose into static. In a darkened room, the video diptych is projected on a flat white wall as the only illumination. Four speakers in the upper corners of the room put forth a wash of sound that envelops but doesn`t intimidate.

Bruce Tovsky is a visual/sound artist and resides in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his MFA degree in Multimedia (Film, Video, Sound, Performance and Installation Art) from Rutgers University in 1979. He began showing video across the USA, Europe and Japan in the early 1980`s. He has video in the collections of The Kitchen and The New York Library Donnell Library Center, both in NYC. He embarked on a diverse career as an audio producer (Liquid Liquid, Lydia Lunch, Karen Finley, Foetus) and video editor/designer for commercials and music videos. For the past several years he has been creating live video and sound improvisations, often in collaboration with sound artist John Hudak, in a variety of spaces around New York City, including Diapason, Experimental Intermedia, Issue Project Room, and his own installation space 106BLDG30 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In the summer of 2003 he performed "for the time being" with Hudak at Roulette`s "Festival of Mixology" at The Performing Garage. This performance was released in October 2004 on Jason Kahn`s CUT label, and was reviewed in the February 2005 issue of The Wire. In October 2003 Tovsky assembled a group of improvisors - Beo Morales, David Linton, Michael Schumacher and Brooks Williams - to perform a piece for the Réseaunances festival at Ircam in Paris. His most recent video/sound piece ETHER premiered at 106BLDG30 in the Navy Yard in June 2005, and has been playing in international festivals from São Paulo to Seoul. The audio from ETHER was recently featured in a BBC radio documentary on shortwave numbers stations.

Project Strings is an audio-visual live performance and a video essay by TraumaZone art duo. The project is based on the book Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway, where the author reflects on how ideas, beings, and worlds are connected together like strings in the game of Cat’s cradle. Taking the string games as the main idea, the Strings talk about the concepts of human and non-human co-existing together in a social system. As the narrative moves forward, the audience sees the solid grid of connections gradually dissolving, and fluidity emerging as the core cooperation principle. The performance consists of reactive live and prerecorded visuals, and the live sound set, that includes a 20-second loop of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a solar panel, combined with fragments of AM broadcasts recorded during an art residency in rural Bavaria. The video essay also includes the shortened version of the material with more energetic pace of narration. Project Strings invites the audience into a meditative landscape where sound and visuals work together, destroying rigid structures and embracing a more fluid, interconnected modes of existence.

TraumaZone is a live-coding duo based in Berlin, consisting of Ksenia Sova, a video artist and Fyodor Stepanov, a sound designer. Their main focus is to politicize the art community by bringing to the spotlight important questions and creating a safe space for discussion. Ksenia Sova (they/them) is a media artist based in Germany. They studied media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Germany. They work are especially interested in exploring topics connected with alienation, isolation and anxiety of a queer body in digital environments. They use an expanded cinema approach to create time-based art-pieces for personal and group exhibitions. Fyodor Stepanov (he/they) is a sound artist and composer based in Berlin, Germany. He specialises on electro-acoustic works for interactive installations, audio-visual performances and video art. His creative output is driven by notions of transience, non-linearity, and ambiguity intrinsic to sound. The approach he has developed over the past decade combines generative algorithms with bits of radio broadcasts, field recordings, and electromagnetic listening to produce eerie acousmatic soundscapes that slowly develop over long periods of time.

"Beatings Of The Devil" is based on the concept and weather event called sunshowers, or, as my grandmother would often say when it rained while the sun was shining, “The devil is beating his wife”. This wildly inappropriate, and outdated colloquial phrase, which resonated deeply within me as a child, provides a point of departure and interpretation for this work. Created through a series of shoots spanning over four years, the piece has evolved into a memorial to my mother, and a reckoning for my father, who recently lost his wife of 51 years. The piece premiered at the 2022 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, and won the Vanguard Award for Best Experimental Short.

Bradly Dever Treadaway is a Brooklyn based artist, educator and curator utilizing lens-based image making, moving images, sound, sculpture, installation and performance to comment on the breakdown of intergenerational communication and broken familial links due to natural disaster, technological evolution, mental health challenges, societal shifts and the continuance of interpersonal detachment occurring within American communities. His work is visualized through archival interventions, recontextualizing the archive to serve as form, medium, subject matter and concept, elevating domestic ephemera and rituals while questioning material significance within the photographic medium. Treadaway creates memorials, monuments and mnemonic devices to illustrate ancestral collisions with contemporary responses. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, The International Center of Photography,The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Agora Gallery in Chelsea, NY, The Mobile Museum of Art, The Ospedale degli Innocenti in Florence, Italy, and the Lishui Museum of Photography in China. His film/video work has been screened at the New Orleans Film Festival, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia, Union Docs, Anthology Film Archives, the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, the Nashville Film Festival, the Coney Island Film Festival, and at the Brooklyn Arts Council’s Scene: Brooklyn. Treadaway’s work has been curated by Vince Aletti, Kevin Jerome Everson, Jon Feinstein and Julian Cox and is part of the permanent collections at The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Masur Museum of Art, the Ewing Gallery at the University of Tennessee, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Mobile Museum of Art. Treadaway has recently held residencies at Trestle Art Space and BRIC Media Arts in Brooklyn, Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and the Contemporary Arts Center at Woodside in NY.

Comma Boat is one of four movies to date completed in 2013 by Trecartin, first shown as a work in progress at the Arsenale of the the Venice Biennale. Since settling in Los Angeles in 2010, Fitch and Trecartin have designed and built a modular maze of sets on a soundstage with the help of Hollywood technicians who have rigged the space with lights and hydraulics enabling it to move and change for different projects.

Termed "the most consequential artist to have emerged since the 1980s" by The New Yorker, Ryan Trecartin is one of the most innovative artists working with video today. Trecartin`s video narratives unfold like futuristic fever dreams. Collaborating with an ensemble cast of family and friends, he merges sophisticated digital manipulations with footage from the Internet and pop culture, animations, and wildly stylized sets and performances. While the astonishing A Family Finds Entertainment (2005) has drawn comparisons to Jack Smith, early John Waters, and Pee-Wee`s Playhouse, Trecartin crafts startling visions that are thoroughly unique. Kevin McGarry writes, "Ryan Trecartin has established a singular video practice that in form and in function advances understandings of post-millennial technology, narrative and identity, and also propels these matters as expressive mediums. His work depicts worlds where consumer culture is amplified to absurd or nihilistic proportions and characters circuitously strive to find agency and meaning in their lives. The combination of assaultive, nearly impenetrable avant-garde logics and equally outlandish, virtuoso uses of color, form, drama and montage produces a sublime, stream-of-consciousness effect that feels bewilderingly true to life." Ryan Trecartin was born in 1981 in Webster, Texas. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 2004. Solo exhibitions include Any Ever, which traveled from the Power Plant, Toronto in 2009 to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2010, then to the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL in 2011; MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York; Musée d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (both in 2011); Kunsthalle Wien, Austria; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York. His works have been seen in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia; The Eighth Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea; MIT/List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; the 2006 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; USA Today: Works from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; Moore Space, Miami, Florida; The Getty Center, Los Angeles; New York Underground Film Festival, New York; Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago; and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, among others. In 2009 Trecartin was the recipient of the first Jack Wolgin Fine Art Prize, presented by the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, which recognizes the highest level of artistic excellence on an international level. In 2009 he received the Calvin Klein Collection New Artist of the Year Award at The First Annual Art Awards, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He also received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2009. Trecartin lives and works in Los Angeles.

A bed-bound woman's year passes as a day: her time is no longer measured by the increments of a clock but by the quality of weather outside her window. Objects emerge and merge in the gloom; the woman dissolves and reforms. Her muteness, her glaucomas and her inactivity render things indeterminate. By naming objects, animal and phenomena we reduce and delineate them, and so separate ourselves from the world around us - she cannot do this.

Peter Treherne is a moving image artist working in the South East of England. His films explore the affects of the environment, particularly weather, on agricultural and creative labour. His work is distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre and Kinoscope, has been funded by Arts Council England, and has screened internationally at festivals and galleries including Festival ECRA, Whitechapel Gallery and London Institute of Contemporary Arts. Peter is also director of the Slow Film Festival, an organisation that shares moving image art with the British public in rural areas. The festival has collaborated on programmes with institutions including Close-Up Film Centre, MUBI and the British Council, and has screened work from artists including Ben Rivers, Kevin Jerome Everson, Babette Mangolte and James Benning. Peter also holds a master’s degree in Film Aesthetics from the University of Oxford.

In an exercise of compensation, I invert the condition of the representations of prominent figures of class society. Between the social pages and the elitist advertising, I incrust them in the context of the settlers, the called ?D sector?. By means of digital abrupt manipulation turning to a stereotype, an exchange in a coarse way the roles of the social actors, I execute a pleasant revenge in photomontage key. For the speech, I used an early ?opened work?, as Umberto Eco concept, the prologue of a Peruvian basic book: Seven Essays Interpretation of the Peruvian Reality, by Jose Carlos Mariátegui, whose reflection about a racist society is still remaining up to the present. Declared in Quechua and without subtitles the voice force the spectator to enjoy a despised and unloved language.

Visual Artist and teacher Produced artwork with diverse media: video, installations, assembly, graphic arts, silkscreen, stage scene. In the decade of the 80`s, he participated in the underground scene of music and alternative art in Lima, Peru. Took part in artwork collective production: Macho Cabrio, Bestiarios, MUTA. Collaborates in initial and formative events of electronic art in Peru, organized by DACP, ATA, Medios Nómades. Founder member and director of DACP projects (Peruvian Cultural Artistic Development), Lima 2000-2008. Group of artists who promoted and produced Peruvian video-art works internationally. His video work was exhibited in diverse festivals placed in Japan, Los Ángeles, Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Berlín, London. At the moment he is a teacher of Visual Arts at Corriente Alterna Fine Art School

Starting off of a visualization of satellite type, that used to spy to us, I discover the map of Peru, like a humanized silhouette. The satellite images can be destined like an illusion source: from very far the territory of the country is beautiful, and shows a vital green topography. Nevertheless closely together, the human drama that experiments most of inhabitants of those colorful zone, indicates the opposite... close by, everything seems so far. For that reason I display the form of our country in irreverent character. The orientation is reversed; the south is on the north, and the east on the west. Then, which will be the most resistant perspective?

He produced artwork with diverse media: video, installations, assembly, graphic arts, silkscreen, stagescene. In the decade of the 80`s, he participated in the underground scene of music and alternative art in Lima, Peru. Took part in collective artwork production: Macho Cabrio, Bestiarios, MUTA. Collaborates in initial and formative events of the electronic art in Peru, organized by DACP, ATA, Medios Nómades. Founder member and director of DACP projects (Peruvian Cultural Artistic Development), Lima 2000-2007. Group of artists who internationally produced and promoted Peruvian video-art works. Troncoso´s videoart was exhibited in diverse festivals in Japan, Los Ángeles, Barcelona, London. At the moment he is a teacher of Visual Arts at Corriente Alterna Fine Art School

The persons are looking for each other. Sometimes they feel they are going to see the other, but it is just an illusion of mind. The gazes that point out of the frames to somewhere invisible. The repetition of images recalls the feelings of a loosen memory.

Truong Minh-Quy was born in 1990 in Buon Ma Thuot, a small city in the central highlands of Vietnam. In 2008 he entered film directing class at the Cinema and Theatre University in Ho Chi Minh City. After one year, he decided to quit the school to pursuit his independent filmmaking path. In 2012, he was a fellow of AFA (Asian Film Academy, Busan International Film Festival). In Feb 2016, he attends Berlinale Talent Campus, Berlin International Film Festival. Gradually he has realized the dilemma that he feels between urban and rural life. His favorite place is his family farm where he can be alone with his dog, listening to the wind moving through the hills. Recently, he is working at ZeroStation, an alternative art space in Ho Chi Minh city.

"In Minh Quý Truong’s striking second feature, a man living on Mars in the year 2045 examines footage brought back from his encounters with an indigenous community in the jungles of Vietnam. As he experiments, his thoughts drift from matters of identity, aesthetics, and the politics of imagemaking, to ritual burial practices, to the seen and unseen forces that shape cultures. Combining elements of science fiction and ethnography, The Tree House is a powerful exploration of how time and environment relate to our understanding of home.", (57th New York Film Festival).

Truong Minh Quý was born in 1990 in Buôn Ma Thuot, a small city in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Quý lives and works here and there in the vibrancy of memories and present moments, his narratives and images, lying between documentary and fiction, personal and impersonal, draw on the landscape of his homeland, childhood memories, and the historical context of Vietnam. In his films, he has experimented with combining abstract concepts-images with realistic improvisations during shooting. He is the alumnus of 2012 Asian Film Academy (Busan International Film Festival) and 2016 Berlinale Talents (Berlin International Film Festival). His films have been selected for international film festivals and exhibitions such as Locarno, New York, Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, Busan, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. He won the main Art Prize at the 20th VideoBrasil (Sao Paulo) in 2017. His second feature film, The Tree House, premiered in 72nd Locarno Film Festival (Filmmakers of The Present Competition, Swiss Critics Boccalino Award), where it was called as “Three of the festival's best premieres” by Mubi and “a singular entrancing ode to memory and filmmaking” by The Film Stage. The film continued to screen in 57th New York Film Festival (Projections), Viennale, Festival Des 3 Continents (Competition), Rotterdam International Film Festival (Bright Future Main Program), CPH:Dox (Artist & Auteur), Goteborg International Film Festival, among others. Currently Quý is taking his research on analog and new media at Le Fresnoy - National Studio of Arts in France.

Interprétation libre du mythe dans laquelle Tsai Ming Liang propulse une femme délaissée par son amant dans la cohue de la gare des bus de Kuala Lumpur.

In 'Terms of Play' 60 different training sentences were taken of the voice-cloning software 'Lyrebird IA' and recombined in a screenplay to form a dialogue. This dialogue was then interpreted by two actors. Each part was interpreted in a different emotion: some factual, some dramatic, some singing… The 2-channel video work deals with the processes of machine learning technologies which are playing an increasing role in film production. By appropriating and reinterpreting the training sentences (which the software itself has taken from publicly available texts, novels and essays), the work inverts these processes and reflects them critically.

Florian Tscharf (*1987 in Germany) is a video and media artist. He studied Media Design in Ravensburg, Directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg and Screen Based Arts at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. He lives and works in Berlin.

In "Mistelpartition" (2006), there is a travelling shot of a row of trees made to look like sheet music. The silence is broken by the sound of music which is visualized through illuminations in the mistletoe in winter branches ? the distant reflection of a lost tune.

Born in 1973, Su-Mei Tse is an artist based in Luxembourg and Paris. She uses different media (videos, photographs, installations, objects...) in function with the core idea she wants to express. Sound, rhythm, and music are also important components in her work, which is characterized by a placing in suspension, moments of silence, and an invitation to a degree of introspection. Su-Mei's work has recently been exhibited at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp, at Peter Blum Gallery and PS1 in New York, at Albion Gallery in London, at Casino, Forum d'Art Contemporain in Luxembourg, and at the Kunsthaus in Zürich. Her awards include: 2006, SR-Medienkunstpreis, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken 2006; 2005, Edward Steichen Award Grant and Art Residency in NY for 2006; 2003, Golden Lion for the Best National Participation, 50; Esposizione Internazionale d?Arte, Venice Biennial 2000; Prix d?art Robert Schuman, and prix interrégional SaarLorLux.