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Baba Dana Talks To The Wolves is an impressionistic portrait of Baba Dana, an 85 year-old Bulgarian woman who has chosen to spend her life in the mountains, away from people and cities. She lives in one of the oldest monasteries in Bulgaria, Zelenikovsky Monastery. Once known as a favorite place of repose for Bulgaria’s last Tzar, the place is now known as Baba Dana’s home.

Ralitsa Doncheva (b. 1987) is a Montréal-based filmmaker, originally from Bulgaria. A graduate from The Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal, she makes short films and video installations. Her recent works are focused between documentary and experimental cinema using analogue film techniques and photochemical processes.

An imaginary biography of my mother who, in her youth, dreamed of being a Bollywood dancer. In a lush fantasy through the heart of India, I reclaim her destiny and desires lost in another age.

Yanyu Dong is a Chinese visual artist currently based in Los Angeles. She uses video, photography, and performance as platforms to examine her cultural dissonance as an international artist. She received her BFA at the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and her MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at venues internationally.

What Belongs To The Sky? investigates social aspects between language and communication in a situation where the ability to speak is broken down. Together with my video and audio recording equipment, I inserted myself in the everyday life of an elderly couple living on an isolated, bi-lingual island of Utö in the middle of the Baltic Sea. The man has Bingswangers disease, a type of dementia, and as a result suffers of aphasia. Previously a bi-lingual, charismatic and an eloquent public speaker, his speech has in the last few years been reduced to a very basic level, consisting of simple sentences, isolated words, and supporting bodily gestures. More often than not, he is unable to finish his sentences and give form to his thoughts through words. His inability to partake in the social through language and speaking is heightened by his poor sight and hearing. However, it is specifically his loss of language and its creative power to construct, order and mediate that has placed him in a social abyss with diminished means to navigate in the social and so to have proper agency as a human being.

Deirdre M. Donoghue (b. 1971, Finland) lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is a performance and visual artist, writer and researcher with a background in theatre, directing, photography and fine arts. She received a BA in Photography at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland, and a MA in Fine Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute, the Netherlands, and The Plymouth University, United Kingdom. She is a co-founder of ADA, Area for Debate and Art, (NL), where she has been co-curating and developing its public program since 2008 and curated the project The Open Office for Words (2008-2010). She has co-edited the publications Resonant Bodies, Voices, Memories, (Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University, 2009) and Pick Up This Book (ADA Rotterdam, 2013), and has contributed to the publications P.A.I.R: Chorografie (PeerGrouP, 2010) and Our House in The Middle of The Street (ed. Bekan, Kromhout, Kunsthuis SYB, 2010.) She is currently running a long term research project entitled (m)other voices, the maternal as an attitude, maternal thinking and the production of time and knowledge in collaboration with Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, (NL).

Une histoire visuelle qui évoque l'expérience de l'oubli, filmée dans le décor désolé d’une station thermale pour enfants de la période socialiste, dans la ville côtière de Krvavica, en Croatie. Le titre est emprunté à un poème du poète surréaliste et révolutionnaire yougoslave Oskar Davi?o. Ce poème est une tentative d'enregistrer les images intérieures qui restent, sans musique et sonorité. Le poète évoque des mots et des termes qu'il oublie parce qu’il souffre d'aphasie. "A Record of Landscape without Prehistory" s'appuie indirectement sur la poésie de Davi?o, en la reliant au futur perdu d'un site de la côte adriatique. Un récit épistolaire basé sur des documents - des cartes postales de vacances d'été – prend place dans ce lieu et est déployé au travers d’une boucle temporelle répétitive. Chaque répétition produit chaque fois une nouvelle soustraction dans le support de l'enregistrement; c'est l'oubli. Cet oubli n'est pas oublié mais souhaité, puisque le support lui-même enregistre (numérique), communique (magnétique) et expose (analogique) l'incapacité humaine à préserver les souvenirs et l'histoire.

Doplgenger est un duo d'artistes de Belgrade (Serbie), composé d'Isidora Ili? et de Boško Prostran. Doplgenger travaille comme artiste film/vidéo, chercheur, écrivain et curateur. Le travail du duo traite de la relation entre art et politique en explorant les régimes d’images en mouvement et leurs modes de réception. Les deux artistes s'appuient sur la tradition du film et de la vidéo expérimentale et, à travers certaines actions issues de ces traditions, interviennent sur des matériaux préexistants ou ont recourt aux formes de l’expanded cinema. Leur travail a été présenté à l’international, dans des institutions telles que le Museum Wiesbaden (Allemagne); le Kunstmuseum Bonn (Allemagne); le Centre Pompidou, Paris (France); le Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (Pays-Bas); la Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (Chine); le Museum of contemporary art, Zagreb (Croatie) et le Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad (Serbie). Les films de Doplgenger ont été projetés et sélectionnés dans des festivals de cinéma, notamment le Festival international du film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas); le Seattle International Film Festival (USA); le Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Allemagne); le Cairo Video Festival, Le Caire (Égypte) et le Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (France). Doplgenger a participé à des symposiums et à des discussions, a organisé des projets éducatifs et des workshops, a présenté des conférences et a conçu et présenté des programmes de projections dans le monde entier. Le duo a édité la publication "Amateurs for Film" et travaille à la conservation et à la sélection pour le Alternative Film/Video Festival, Novi Beograd (Serbie).

A man performs the same ritual every day: he cleans his shoes, dresses up in his shiny blue suit, wears his white gloves and grey hat, and spends his time walking around Brazzaville. His presence generates an absurd apparition in the urban chaos of the city, which reflects the imaginary produced by one of the up-most icons of pop culture.

Wojtek Doroszuk (b. 1980 in Poland) is a video artist based in Krakow, Poland and Rouen, France. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland, Faculty of Painting, in 2006. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group shows in, among others, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle (Warsaw), Zachęta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), Location One (New York), Marina Abramovic Institute (San Francisco), The Stenersen Museum (Oslo), Joseph Tang Gallery (Paris) etc.

"even odd even" est une interprétation artistique du temps et de l'espace d'une vidéo qui délivre une vue intérieure d'un monde fascinant de complexité spaciale et d'un comportement dynamique. "La vision est dessinée de manière hautement suggestive par des motifs de lignes en noir et blanc. Par le mouvement rhytmiques de ces codes barre, pénétré par un épais tapis de son, la vision se transforme en même temps d'une pièce de puzzle à une dimension spatiale...". (Gunnar Landsgesell) Cela concerne le centre d'une vidéo dont les images défilent très vite. Pour être capable non seulement d'expérimenter les informations mais aussi le contenu et les liens, la vidéo est décomposée en ses parties essentielles- l'alternance de scènes faisant chacune 1/50second. Chacune séparée les unes des autres, différentes séquences sont créées pour faire un lien avec la vidéo d'origine. L'apparence cachée devient visible dans un processus d'expérience esthétique.

Né à Innsbruck, Autriche. Vit et travaille à Vienne. A étudié à l'Université d'Innsbruck, doctorat en 1989. Depuis 1994, artiste free lance. Domaine artistique: vidéo, vidéo expérimentale, intallations vidéo/média, gravure et peinture. A exposé en Autriche et ailleurs, vidéos présentées dans plus de 30 pays, à des festivals internationaux de film. Collaboration à des projets d'art média internationaux.

A stage unfolds and a love song is sung displaced from it’s owner. INSERT SONG is video-essay meditating on music and semiotics in relation to love, and how love declarations are falling victim to the image.

Kamil Dossar (b. 1988) is a Danish artist currently based in Copenhagen. Dossar’s practice is rooted in an interest in themes concerning identity and how we relate to images in contemporary society. Central to his work is the relationship between identity and the loss of it, and exploring the image in relation to the imageless, as a son to political refugees. By investigating visual identity and semiotics he renegotiates the status of the image by rearranging it into new modes of associations.

« And  Back » « joue » un « jeu » complexe avec les mots « and » (« et ») et « back » (« arrière »), dans lequel le mot « back » fonctionne parfois comme indicateur, parfois comme déclencheur, parfois comme commentaire sur ce qui se passe à l'écran. Il s?agit en particulier de mouvements gauche/droite et droite/gauche (« back » signifie également « à reculons » ) de choses représentées ? en majorité des véhicules ? mais ceux des interventions cinématographiques ont aussi leur importance. Ce mouvement de « back » est parfois répété dans la typographie ; enfin, il pénètre et, en un sens, organise le film dans son intégralité : comme une « histoire » qui se déroule, comme une « structure » avec ses symétries et ses qualités morphologiques.

eter Downsbrough est né en 1940 aux Etats-Unis. Son oeuvre - sculpure, graphisme, photographie, vidéo, film, livre - est née d'un intérêt pour l'architecture et explore la relation complexe entre architecture, langage et typographie pour ne garder que l'essentiel. La forme est réduite à des lignes, les couleurs sont presque inexistantes. Dans ses vidéos, le mouvement et le langage sont envisagés dans leur rapport au temps et à l'espace : tous deux représentent et déconstruisent l'architecture moderne urbaine et industrielle. Il se produit en parallèle un détournement linguistique : en insérant et en interposant des blocs de mots comme AND, AS ou IN, Downsbrough fait de sa vidéo une sorte de "phrase" qui fonctionne également comme un "lieu" pouvant accueillir le spectateur. Les oeuvres de Peter Downsbrough ont notamment été présentées au Reina Sofia (Madrid), au SMAK (Ghent), au Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Palais des Beaux-Arts (Bruxelles) et au Musée Sztuki (Lodz).

A]PART is the first publication in the brand new CKA _ EDITIONS series, run by Christian Kieckens. It constitutes the third collaboration between Brussels-based American artist Peter Downsbrough and Brussels architect Christian Kieckens. Sharing the same sensibilty for both industrial architectural heritage and public space in general, former joint-ventures involved the industrial `Amylum` site in the centre of Aalst (culminating in the 1996 exhibition and photo/text publication Densities) and Brussels? city centre, where Kieckens took on the technical and logistical side of the public commissioned work AND /MAAR, OP AND /POUR, ET (2000-03). Downsbrough?s passion for industrial architecture takes many forms. More often than not, ?preservation? means survival in the form of a film or photo series. His films and photos always capture an industrial or (sub)urban reality that will sooner or later vanish or be subject to redevelopment ? be it late Seventies Manhattan or the industrial zones around Kent, UK. For now, and for the foreseeable future, this seems not to be the fate of Citroën`s impressive, prototypical modernist interbellum garage at Place d?Yser in Brussels ? the subject of Downsbrough`s latest film. The building, once threatened with demolition, will hopefully be there for some time to come, and Downsbrough pays homage to the building and its architects, Belgians Alexis Dumont and Marcel Van Goethem, who cooperated with French architect Maurice Ravazé. By publishing this work, architect Kieckens pays tribute to them as well. The black-and-white film underscores the building`s basic logic and rhythm. The garage consists of two parts, garage and showroom, and Peter Downsbrough films both in a playful yet formally precise way. This includes trade-mark Downsbrough idiosyncrasies, like suddenly letting in short diegetic environmental sounds, or superimposing words, e.g. IN TIME, at the beginning of the film. Typical `car movements` are alternated with proper cinematic movements like pannings; sometimes, an image freezes, and film becomes film still, photo. Shot from the passenger seat of a car driving down the distended corkscrew ramp, the film shows the garage?s interior and views through its windows onto the urban setting below. Downsbrough In a way, the building is filmically taken apart by Downsbrough: from top to bottom (including close-ups of the stained garage floor) it is visually analysed and scrutinised. Yet the physicality of the building also imposes its framing rules on the film; `rules` the artist evidently plays with ? as before. Towards the end of the film, we witness a gay, somewhat absurd dance of cars at the roundabout in front of the building, a picture reminiscent of the famous last scene of Jacques Tati`s fillm Trafic. Still, A]PART ? elegant, heedful and spare ? has a darker side too: it is both ode and elegy. A part. In time. Apart in time. In paying attention to all the minute details of the space and its immediate surroundings, the work symbolically preserves the Citroën building-as-film. However, it also shows how space itself (every space, not just a filmed one) is formed as well by an `attention`. Created by circumstances of history, society and perception, it will in the end always be subjected to the workings of time. (Steven Tallon)

Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Brunswick, N.J.) studied architecture and art. Around the mid-1960?s, after several years of work and exploring materials, including cardboard, wood, steel, lead, neon tubing, an evolution took place which resulted, in 1970, in the work with the Two Pipes (outside), Two Dowels (inside) and Two Lines (on paper). At the same time, he also started taking photographs to document these pieces. By taking photographs from different angles and distances, he gradually started taking photographs of ?cuts? that already existed in the urban landscape. Some of these photographs were used in books, some appeared in magazines, but it wasn?t until 1980 that they showed up in exhibitions. From 1977 on, Downsbrough realized several videos as well as audiotapes. A record was made in 1978 and released in 1982. Looking to expand the vocabulary, he developed a series of works using dice. In 1980, on the Spectacolor Board on Times Square, New York, he realized a piece, a 30 second spot shown once every hour for four days, and documented it in a short film, ?7 come 11?. Around 1980, he also started using regular postcards, initially by applying two lines, later to be followed by the use of words. The work with maquettes as a means of exploring space and structure started around 1983. The first commissioned public work was a wall piece realized in Rennes, France, 1990. The film ?Occupied? was produced in 2000, ten years after it was conceived. Since then, several films, shot with a digital camera, have been published as dvd?s. Today, all these disciplines occupy the field of his activities. An overview exhibition, curated by Marie-Thérèse Champesme, opened on June 24, 2003, at the Paleis van Schone Kunsten, Brussels. It was accompanied by an extensive catalogue and traveled to two other venues.

Des bureaux vides dans la zone de Zaventem, près de l'aéroport de Bruxelles. Aucune présence humaine, excepté les voitures passent ou les bureaux voisins que l'on aperçoit par la fenêtre. Avec de fluides mouvements de caméra, des travellings et des panoramiques, Downsbrough scrute l'environnement et explore les relations potentielles qui peuvent en émerger : intérieur et extérieur, vide et inhabité, horizontal et vertical, surfaces sombres et surfaces claires. La géométrie de l'espace, renforcée par le recours à des images en noir et blanc, détermine également celle de l'écran. Dans l'?uvre de Downsbrough, la façon de considérer l'espace, de même que l'espace, est profondément politique. Ses vidéos mettent l'accent sur les limites, l'ordre et les règles que le système social nous impose et s'intéressent à nos modes d'appropriation de l'espace, nous rappelant que tout "placement" est en même temps une "mise en ordre".

Peter Downsbrough est né en 1940 aux Etats-Unis. Son oeuvre - sculpure, graphisme, photographie, vidéo, film, livre - est née d'un intérêt pour l'architecture et explore la relation complexe entre architecture, langage et typographie pour ne garder que l'essentiel. La forme est réduite à des lignes, les couleurs sont presque inexistantes. Dans ses vidéos, le mouvement et le langage sont envisagés dans leur rapport au temps et à l'espace : tous deux représentent et déconstruisent l'architecture moderne urbaine et industrielle. Il se produit en parallèle un détournement linguistique : en insérant et en interposant des blocs de mots comme AND, AS ou IN, Downsbrough fait de sa vidéo une sorte de "phrase" qui fonctionne également comme un "lieu" pouvant accueillir le spectateur. Les oeuvres de Peter Downsbrough ont notamment été présentées au Reina Sofia (Madrid), au SMAK (Ghent), au Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Palais des Beaux-Arts (Bruxelles) et au Musée Sztuki (Lodz).

"] AND HERE" est un projet vidéo filmé dans l'environnement urbain et industriel du North Kent. Il se compose d'images de centres villes, de la plate forme de transport de containers de l'île de Grain, des caravanes de l'île de Sheppey, etc. Ce projet est une commande de la Faversham Society en réponse aux changements rapides entraînés par le Thames Gateway North Kent Development, un programme de rénovation s'étendant Dartford à Teynham dans le Sud de la région. Contrairement aux précédents films de Downsbrough, l'espace est ici clairement identifié : les endroits visités par l'artiste peuvent théoriquement être reportés sur une carte. Cette oeuvre souligne avant tout un aspect du travail de Downsbrough (que l'on retrouve également dans d'autres films) qui consiste à offrir un témoignage matériel de l'histoire et de lieux qui sont en train de disparaître. Une autre différence vient du fait que ce film est en noir et blanc et en couleur : les spectateurs concentrés pourront à certains moments distinguer deux secondes en couleur ! Il s'agit de son plus long film (24 min.) depuis "The Other Side" en 1979. Dans les oeuvres de Downsbrough, le spectateur est en général confronté à un même type de "mondes". Comme auparavant, ce film est fait d'espace ? un espace représenté concrètement et mentalement ? de typographie et de blocs de mots : le titre "]AND HERE" ou des mots comme AS, qui découlent des précédents films de Downsbrough. Le film alterne plans fixes, travelling et images tournées depuis l'intérieur d'une voiture, auxquelles on peut facilement rattacher des scènes de "AND[BACK " tournées depuis une voiture et inversement. Ici, Downsbrough ne filme pas que des sites industriels mais aussi des villes et des villages du Kent. Avec leurs bâtiments en briques typiques et leurs pubs, ces lieux et ces habitations ? contrairement à la force de déplacement formellement et géo-économiquement uniformisante de l'espace industriel ? sont identifiables comme appartenant au Sud-Est de l'Angleterre et, plus particulièrement, au Kent. Mais la principale différence par rapport à ses précédents projets, qui pourrait être annonciatrice d'une nouvelle tendance chez Downsbrough, réside non pas dans l'utilisation de texte et d'images (ou d'images textuelles) mais dans celle du son. Pour "] AND HERE", Downsbrough utilise une musique spécialement commandée pour l'occasion et jouée par Xavier Garcia Bardon et Benjamin Franklin, deux membres du groupe bruxellois Buffle. Downsbrough avait déjà utilisé la musique dans ses premières vidéos avec des groupes comme The Spinners ou Talking Heads mais ici, outre le fait de créer un certain atmosphère, la musique joue le rôle d'un élément structurel et structurant. Tout comme les images, la musique est souvent interrompue soudainement ? le morceau le plus long ne dure qu'une minute. Comme dans la plupart des cinémas narratifs, il y là aussi une confrontation et un dialogue entre le son/la musique et l'image/la typographie. La musique, similaire aux images structuralistes du cinéma de Downsbrough, se situe entre shoegaze, post-rock et improvisation et insiste fortement sur la texture, notamment à travers des effets obtenus avec la pédale de la guitare et l'utilisation du traitement numérique. On note également un côté industriel dans cette musique qui reflète et renforce les paysages industriels filmés par Downsbrough.

Peter Downsbrough est né en 1940 aux Etats-Unis. Son oeuvre - sculpures, graphismes, photographies, vidéos, films, livres - est née d'un intérêt pour l'architecture et explore la relation complexe entre architecture, langage et typographie pour ne garder que l'essentiel. La forme est réduite à des lignes, les couleurs sont presque inexistantes. Dans ses vidéos, le mouvement et le langage sont envisagées dans leur rapport au temps et à l'espace : tous deux représentent et déconstruisent l'architecture moderne urbaine et industrielle. Il se produit en parallèle un détournement linguistique : in insérant et en interposant des blocs de mots comme AND, AS ou IN, Downsbrough fait de sa vidéo une sorte de "phrase" qui fonctionne également comme un "lieu" pouvant accueillir le spectateur. Les oeuvres de Peter Downsbrough ont notamment été présentées au Reina Sofia (Madrid), au SMAK (Ghent), au Paleis voor Schone Kunsten/Palais des Beaux-Arts (Bruxelles) et au Musée Sztuki (Lodz).

ET[- opens with a silent black-and-white close-up of a vertical rod shuttling back and forth across a mechanical loom. The short sequence could be mistaken for footage from an early 20th-century propaganda film. Cut sharply to the next scene, also in black and white and taken from a fixed position but unmistakably contemporary. Reflected in a polished, slightly distorting surface, cars are seen entering a gated parking lot. That image is overlaid on the lower left by the film's title, printed in black, and is accompanied by a burst of ambient sound: the dull rumble of traffic. Cut abruptly to a silent close-up in color -- a kind of industrial interior still-life-- then cut again to black and white: a steel door opens vertically onto a cavernous corridor where mini-forklifts scurry about. The rest of the film, which zig-zags between exterior and interior views, is in black and white. Two more jarring spurts of ambient sound are heard and a second word, LA, appears, in white and preceded by a closed bracket, just before the final fade-out and credits. The reflected scene over which ]LA is superimposed is much like the one seen in the film's title image. ET[- has all the characteristics of a signature piece by Peter Downsbrough. The mostly silent, almost entirely black-and-white film is a visual exploration of constructed form, in this case, a modern factory building, a sprawling reflective box situated next to a busy road in a semi-rural setting. The blind facade of pleated, polished stainless-steel mirrors the constant flux of its surroundings and seems to dissolve into them. Inside is a different story: a universe of crisp, hard-edged geometries, gleaming surfaces and clinical precision. Giant spools, looms and bolts of material are stacked, aligned and otherwise arranged in perfect order. Fully automated machines revolve, throb, swivel and tick, each in its own rhythm and speed in the film's eerie silence. Eerie too is the absence of humans. Except for the two forklift operators, whose tiny vehicles occasionally career by like wind-up toys in a madcap adventure, there isn't a soul in sight. The camera surveys the factory's outside features and inner workings with slow pans, and it fixes on details with a steady gaze, shifting its focus constantly from interior to exterior, and its pacing from smooth, stately pans to rapidly cut fixed shots -- a visual interweaving that mimics the manufacturing processes taking place in the factory itself. If the final product is shown wrapped up and ready to go, we don't necessarily recognize it as such. However, we do witness its departure in trailer trucks as they pull out from the factory's loading docks, bound for the highway. That part of the drama, too, is seen reflected in the building's skin. - Sarah McFadden -

Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Brunswick, N.J.) studied architecture and art. Around the mid-1960?s, after several years of work and exploring materials, including cardboard, wood, steel, lead, neon tubing, an evolution took place which resulted, in 1970, in the work with the Two Pipes (outside), Two Dowels (inside) and Two Lines (on paper). At the same time, he also started taking photographs to document these pieces. By taking photographs from different angles and distances, he gradually started taking photographs of ?cuts? that already existed in the urban landscape. Some of these photographs were used in books, some appeared in magazines, but it wasn?t until 1980 that they showed up in exhibitions. From 1977 on, Downsbrough realized several videos as well as audiotapes. A record was made in 1978 and released in 1982. Looking to expand the vocabulary, he developed a series of works using dice. In 1980, on the Spectacolor Board on Times Square, New York, he realized a piece, a 30 second spot shown once every hour for four days, and documented it in a short film, ?7 come 11?. Around 1980, he also started using regular postcards, initially by applying two lines, later to be followed by the use of words. The work with maquettes as a means of exploring space and structure started around 1983. The first commissioned public work was a wall piece realized in Rennes, France, 1990. The film ?Occupied? was produced in 2000, ten years after it was conceived. Since then, several films, shot with a digital camera, have been published as dvd?s. Today, all these disciplines occupy the field of his activities. An overview exhibition, curated by Marie-Thérèse Champesme, opened on June 24, 2003, at the Paleis van Schone Kunsten, Brussels. It was accompanied by an extensive catalogue and traveled to two other venues.

The silent, ultra-short black-and-white video IN [ TO is shorter than a video clip: it clocks in at 2 minutes, 47 seconds. It was made with material shot exclusively for the film, plus footage filmed `on the occasion`, while Downsbrough was working on other projects. One sees images from (South) Chicago, Brussels and Kent respectively, but since everything is filmed at night, only viewers who are familiar with the location will easily identify the spots. Here, the purpose is not to be specific about a site, to identify a place, or to document a certain location. Rather, Downsbrough gives an overall feeling of some quasi-archetypical `city at night`. The city is shot both as cityscape, from a distance, e.g. from outside the window of a Brussels apartment private building, or from nearer-by: a zoom-in from inside of the same building. IN [ TO contains many elements that define former Downsbrough films, both content-wise ? urbanism, cars, freeways and ring roads ? and formally: clean, `structural` framing, abstraction, the use of graphically inserted words. Here, as before, a phrase or a word game, almost hidden, can be discerned ? it might or might not be a key to the film. First, there?s the title of course, IN [ TO. Only at the very end, when the image is fading, the word TIME lights up, shortly. It seems like an indication of what time does: fading out light. Into time, the light fades out. A stream of cars passes by, only their head lights are visible. Everything else is dark, except for the horizon, with the outlines of distant buildings and hundreds of lights flickering: lit windows, neon publicity, street lights. At the film`s very end, a point of view shot from inside a car shows a road at night: Kent ? but it might be any city, or in between cities. To the left, trees; to the right, light posts; in front, the beam of the headlights, some other cars` rear lights. Then the image fades. TIME. The image`s gone. IN ] TO, with reversed bracket. Credits. - Steven Tallon -

Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Brunswick, N.J.; lives in Brussels) initially studied architecture but decided early on to work as a sculptor. Taking photographs of his trademark Two Pipes lead to taking photographs of ?cuts? that already existed in the urban landscape. Initially used in his books, they were shown in exhibitions from 1980 on. After having realized a few videos around 1978, Downsbrough took up filming again when he got a digital camera in 2002. In 1980, on the Spectacolor Board on Times Square, New York, he realized a 30-second spot shown once every hour for four days, and documented it in a short film, ?7 come 11.? His ongoing research of time, space and structure is further articulated through lines and letters in maquettes, wall and room pieces, and public commissions. Exhibitions include POSITION, 2003, curated by M.-T. Champesme, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels (B), Espace de l?Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux (F) and Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz (PL); Mamco, Genève (CH); FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon (F); SMAK, Ghent (B) and PETER DOWNSBROUGH: THE BOOK(S), curated by M. Küng, deSingel, Antwerp (B) which will have a second venue at Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (E) in the beginning of 2013.

Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Brunswick, N.J.) fait des études d’achitecture et d’art. Au milieu des années 1960, après quelques années de travail et d’exploration de divers matériaux, notamment le carton, le bois, l’acier, le plomb et les tubes de néon, sa pratique a évolué et trouve une forme différente, en 1970, dans les oeuvres "Two Pipes" (outside), "Two Dowels" (inside) et "Two Lines" (on paper).A la même époque, il commence à prendre des photographies de ses pièces. En prenant en photo sous différents angles et avec différentes distances, il commence graduellement à se concentrer sur les "coupes" existantes du paysage urbain. Certaines de ses photographies ont été publiées dans des livres, d’autres apparaissent dans des magazines, mais elles n’ont pas été exposées avant 1980. A partir de 1977, Downsbrough réalise plusieurs vidéos et des cassettes audio. Il a fait un disque en 1978 qui est sorti en 1982. Cherchant à étendre son vocabulaire pictural, il développe une série d’oeuvres avec des dés. En 1980, sur le Spectacolor Board de Time Square à New York, il réalise une pièce, un spot de 30 secondes s’allumant une fois l’heure pendant quatre jours, une performance qu’il documente dans un court-métrage « 7 come 11 ». Autour de 1980, il commence également à utiliser des cartes postales, en y dessinant deux lignes, suivi ensuite par l’utilisation de mots. Le travail avec des maquettes comme un moyen d’explorer l’espace et la structure commence vers 1983. Downsbrough a réalisé sa première commande publique à Rennes (France) en 1983 pour un espace mural. Le film "Occupied" a été produit en 2000, dis ans après qu’il a été conçu. Depuis, plusieurs films, tournés avec une caméra numérique, ont été édités en DVD. Aujourd’hui toutes ces disciplines font partie de son champ d’activité. L’intérêt de Downsbrough pour l’architecture industrielle prend beaucoup de forme. Plus souvent, la "préservation" signifie la survie formelle d’un film ou d’une série photo. Ses films et ses photos capturent toujours une réalité industrielle ou (sub)urbaine qui disparaîtra un jour où l’autre ou sera sujet à des réaménagements ‘ comme c’est le cas dans le Manhattan de la fin des années 1970 ou dans les zones industrielles de Kent, en Angleterre.

We don`t know where we are. We`re in a car, looking at other cars, roads, structures, tunnels – wasteland. Position? The Global Positioning System informs us, with its horde of satellites, orbiting Earth. Guiding us with its synthesised voice, transporting us, `translating` us. Telling us what to do. `After 250 meters, keep to the right on the Brudermühlstraße, then keep to the left.` (And so on, and so forth.)

Brussels-based Peter Downsbrough (born New Jersey, USA, 1940) has developed a highly distinctive, strongly cohesive body of work that includes sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, videos, books, wall pieces and room pieces, architectural maquettes, and sculptural interventions in public space. Frequently heightening his famously sparse visual vocabulary with an equally sparse linguistic component—often just a single word—Downsbrough calls attention to a vast landscape of structures both physical and social, cultural and political—that shape modern life.

Germany, in the summer 2006: a woman is roaming around, torn between images of her past in the Red Army Faction and the flood of pictures of the world football championship. Her loneliness grows between the huge "public viewing" places and the giant screens, when talking to officials, and finally standig in front of the grave of Baader, Ensslin and Raspe. By associative montage the film tries to portray from ?behind the mirror? what Germany looked like in the Summer 2006.

Philipp Doering was born November 28th, 1977, in Freiburg, Germany. After high school one year of civil services in Hamburg. He studied German, Slavistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Since 2004 he studies film directing at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.

un court-métrage sur le thème de la séparation.

Philipp Döring est né le 28 Novembre 1977 à Freibourg, Allemagne. Après un baccalauréat à Bamberg il effectua un an de service civil à Hambourg, puis fit des études germaniques, slaves et de science cognitive à l´Université de Freibourg. Depuis 2004 il étudie la réalisation cinématographique à la Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg à Ludwigsburg, Allemagne.

"Spring & Stalin" is based on 27,000 stills photographed from the archives of the National Television in Tirana. The movie is accompanied by a poem from the writer, Ismail Kadare, which was published in "The teacher and the Art", 1953, p. 49- 53. It is a reflection on the mentality and nature of the transition period in the artist's home country. Kadare's poem is intentionally recited by an anonymous fictional voice that has no clue about poetry, not even about language, and it reads in a mechanical and computer-like manner, with a low rhythm and almost sleepy voice, which later on generates a chaotic tension to an growing stressed babbling. All this pandemonium unfolds the idea of false propaganda and governmental elite hypocrisy that in fact displays doubt in these images, which are not believed and understood even from those who see them. Here, the goal is not to stigmatize Kadare's work, but the veiling of that happy and idyllic in disguise reality, after which was hidden the drama of the persecuted people, unable to have the freedom of speech and the freedom of individuality; a people who tried to survive in a oppressed and isolated society.

Robert Aliaj Dragot, not only began as a painter, but his painting was also the point of departure for all the other activities he has manifested. At the end of 90's, after a long career as a pop star singer, he nearly stopped music altogether to go back to his first career as an art painter. Now many years later in Brussels, he is focused especially on a multimedia research, experimenting with photography, moving images, animations, sounds, and painting without losing the picturesque quality. His attention is divided between a critical curiosity of the artistic scene in Europe and a renewed interest for the shockingly fast therapeutic change that the Albanian state underwent.

A car is burning in front of the Alps and swallows it`s smoke. Two screens, one scene: one backwards, one forward. The impact on the ground of the car falling from the sky and flying back to it is the point of synchronization of both film- channels. The car is disappearing and exploding loop after loop. The sound channels of both projections forward and backwards access into each other creates a collage of sound.

SHORT BIO Fabian & Fred: Fabian Driehorst & Frédéric Schuld studied together at Academy of Media Arts, Cologne (KHM) till October 2011. Hohenpeissenberg is one of a couple of works they created together in and alongside their studies at Academy of Media Arts. Frédéric worked as a designer for multimedia and Fabian worked as cameraman, editor and director of film productions. They work together as creative duo called Fabian&Fred. Fabian Driehorst (born 17.02.1982, Gifhorn) 2004-2011 freelance cameraman, director, editor 2006-2011 studied Film and Art at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne 2011 founded creative atelier Fabian&Fred 2012-2013 scholarship of AV-Gruenderzentrum for Fabian&Fred 2011 till now Director, Author, Producer of art- and film projects. Frédéric Schuld (born 20.06.1985, Dusseldorf) 2004-2011 freelance designer for multimedia and film 2006-2011 studied Film and Art at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne 2011 founded creative atelier Fabian&Fred 2012-2013 scholarship of AV-Gruenderzentrum for Fabian&Fred 2011 till now creative director of art- and film projects.