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The video was shot at the "Seven Arches" hotel in East Jerusalem. Built in 1962 by the Royal Jordanian family, it hosted the first meeting of the P.L.O (Palestinian Liberation Organization) in 1964 and the first signing of the Palestinian charter. Currently managed by Israel`s ministry of justice - department of missing person`s property, its almost empty all-year. The hotel is kept in a state of near death where employees and tourists seem like ghosts. The video follows the hotel`s spaces and halls for 24 hours, focusing on the futile actions of the staff, expecting arrivals that never come.

Nir Evron Born 25/7/1974, Herzeliya, Israel Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel Tel: (00-972) 0544576028 E-Mail: nir_evron@yahoo.com Education: 2005 MFA Fine Art Media Department, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London 2001 BFA Photography and Media Department, Bezalel Academy for Art, Jerusalem 1999 Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris (Atelier Jean-Marc Bustamante) Solo Exhibitions: 2008 Generator, The Artists` Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv 2007 Serpentine, The Artists` Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv 2006 Herzelia Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzeliya, Israel (curator: Dalia Levin) 2003 Schwartz, The Photographers Gallery, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem Group Exhibitions and Screenings: 2009 The 2nd Herzeliya Biennial, Israel (Curated by Picnic Magazine) Our Time, Small Box 28, Centro Hospilatar Psiquiatrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Zulu, Nahum Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv (Curator: Tali Tamir) (Catalogue) Hidden Secrets, The Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel (curator: Galit Eilat) Echoes Of Time And Place, The Jerusalem Cinematheque. The Age Of A Different Re-Action, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany 2008 Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA Europa Neurotisch, Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam, Holland Overcast & Flowers, D&A Gallery, Tel Aviv Visits To (Some)Where, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland (curator: Adi Englman) Untamed Paradises, MARCO Vigo & CAAC Sevilla, Spain (curator: Virginia Torrente) The Prize Winners 2007, Haifa Museum of Art (Catalogue) Click-Clack, University of Haifa, The Art Gallery (Catalogue) (curator: Ruti Direktor) Snap-Shot, Ramle Art Gallery, Ramle, Israel Vergescapes, Tivom Memorial Center Gallery, Tivon, Israel. 2007 Passage, Video Art screening at the Artistsʼ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv 2006 The Third Generation, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv We Are So Much Better Than This, Studio 27, San Fransisco. USA The Impossible Landscape, UMASS Gallery, Amherst, USA (curator: Mark Godfrey) VideoZone 3. The International Video-Art Biennial in Tel Aviv, Israel Black-Implication Flooding, Colony Gallery, Birmingham, U.K Cortisane - Short Film, Video and New Media Festival, Ghent, Belgium Athens Video Art Festival, Greece 2004 SNAP! Diorama Gallery, London 2003 Artik 5, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Israel 2002 Florocent 5, Florocent Gallery, Tel Aviv Collapse, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv. Awards and Scholarships: 2008 The Tel Aviv Museum ʻSam Givonʼ Prize for Young Artist. Video Art Fund, Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2007 Israel`s Minister Of Culture Prize for Young Artist, 2005 Video Art Fund, Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2005 Project Award, Slade School of Fine Art, London 2004 The Thomas Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art 2003 America Israel Cultural Foundation Award for Young Artist Collections: Amos Schocken `Haaretz` Publishing Group Collection Private Collections - Tel Aviv Private Collection - Zurich Teaching: 2005-Present The Photography Department, Minshar Art School, Tel Aviv 2007-Present The Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel 2009-Present Hamidrasha School of Art and Education, Beit Berl, Israel

An unseen narrator tells his experience of wrongful imprisonment in an unnamed country and his random release. Based on a letter sent to Amnesty International, by the filmmaker’s father, and a surreal interview given about it. ‘Prison with Songbirds’ is a documentary and fiction hybrid in which dream-nightmare and digital-celluloid collide.

Ewan Macbeth (born 1992, UK) is a Scottish artist filmmaker based in Rotterdam. After studying Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art he did an MA in Lens-Based Media at The Piet Zwart Institute. His work has been seen in International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, EYE Filmmusuem Amsterdam, EMAF Osnabrück, CCA Glasgow, RSA Edinburgh; amongst others. He is currently a member of Time Window collective and developing his first feature film.

`Tonight’s programme` toys with history to construct a new realm in between, merging Duke Ellington’s 1963 performance at Khuld hall in Baghdad with Saddam’s bloody coup in the same space 16 years later. Eyal creates a fictional space to provide a different history and a different world for those victims in the hall, a gate of annunaki through which the dead and lost can reclaim their place. “Don’t let anyone kill your daughter in the underworld. don’t let your precious metal be alloyed with the dirt of the underworld. don’t let your precious lapis lazuli be split there with the mason’s stone. don’t let your boxwood be chopped up there with the carpenter’s wood.” – Words by inana of the underworld, the land of no return.

Ali Eyal`s (b. Baghdad, 1994) work spans across different media. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. His work explores the complex relationships between community and politics using different media such as video, photography and painting, in order to examine social attitudes, particularly in the context of Baghdad and Iraq. Eyal has exhibited in several group shows in Baghdad, Egypt, Lebanon, USA, Greece, and Cuba, among others.

After living together for more than thirty year, a woman decided to leave her husband suddenly. The man sits in grieve contemplating what’s next as he looks back.

After his fellowship at the prestigious LaRochelle Film Festival in 2002, Simo Ezoubeiri directed two short films ( Terrace & Under the table) that both became an international artistic hits, being widely screened in Santa Monica Art Center in Barcelona, LaSala Una in Roma and chosen as the best film of the month by videoart.net editor in New York. In 2007, Simo moved to live and work in Chicago and directed a short thriller “Popcorn” that received The Second Best award by Chicago Filmmakers. Between 2009 and 2014, Simo received wide acclaim for his film trilogy (The Daily Show, Inner Marrakech and A Day in Life). These projects were a representation of artistic themes on experimental films particularly his portrayals of the Marrakech he knows and loves. In June 2015, He wrote, edited and directed his first narrative film “Ladder”. The film has already received accolades in accomplished film festivals such as les Inattendus Film Festival in Lyon, Wiper Film festival in New York and Goldensun festival in Malta.

Following the likes of the experimental/avant-guard cinema, from Dziga Vertov, to Jean Vigo or Jonas Mekas, the video-artist wanders between heaven and earth in a summery Rome with his superzoom camera in his hand observing and spying – from huge distance – stars, planets and the diverse humanity that lives, photographs, and roam through the city.

Italian multi-disciplinary artist between Rome and Berlin, with a PhD in philosophical anthropology and life sciences, a master’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in “philosophical counseling”. Over the years I have worked on various projects related to the creative fields (TV author, film distribution, music festivals) and online journalism (Dazed Digital, Huffington Post). In 2014 I created goodshortfilms.it, the first Italian platform entirely dedicated to short films. In 2017 I am co-author and co-producer of the documentary film ALBE – A Life Beyond Earth (80’), directed by Elisa Fuksas. In 2018 I wrote, directed, and produced my first shortfilm Microcosmo (exp. docudrama, 15’), an experimental docu-drama in competition in various festivals in Italy and abroad (Special Mention delivered by Fondazione Cinema per Roma for the UNESCO Creative Cities International Contest “The Ideal City”). In the same year, Macrocosmo (videoart, 8’) was selected in the “Art Foundations and Galleries” section at the 1st Videocittà event in Rome, in collaboration with RUFA – Roman University of Fine Arts, and Fondazione Pastificio Cerere. In December 2018 I opened my first solo show entitled “Where is my sacred?” inaugurating the new underground spaces (Spazio Molini) of the Pastificio Cerere Foundation in Rome. My artistic statement: here My obsession: memes My motto: “The actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts” – J. Locke

"En 1982, l’éruption du volcan Chichonal a forcé la communauté zoque à émigrer. Filmé pendant six ans, (((((/*\))))) capte l’atmosphère unique de leur village du Chiapas. Cette promenade ethnographique ravit le regard, nous entraînant dans un voyage sonore rythmé par les musiques et les annonces commerciales pittoresques qui émanent des magasins ou des camionnettes ambulantes. Peu à peu, d’autres discours plus politiques font surface. À travers le portrait de ce micromonde, Charles Fairbanks et Saul Kak (artiste et activiste zoque) abordent aussi bien la richesse culturelle des communautés minoritaires que la pression néolibérale exercée sur les Autochtones et leurs terres, tout en se faisant l’écho de la situation douloureuse des réfugiés à travers le monde." (RIDM). Cette excursion ethnographique est un régal pour les yeux, rythmé par le refrain des sons quotidiens d'un village chiapanèque. Petit à petit, des thèmes politiques font surface. En racontant l'héritage des ancêtres réfugiés du coréalisateur Saúl Kak, (((((/*\))))) (ou "echos of the volcano") donne une voix à la lutte du peuple Zoque pour la souveraineté autochtone, contre un État néolibéral.

Saúl Kak est peintre et jouit d’une renommée internationale. D’origine Zoque, il parle cette langue depuis sa naissance. Sa pratique artistique est dédiée à la "cosmovisión" (la vision du monde) et aux droits de son peuple. Fils de campesinos, des paysans, qui ont fui l'éruption du volcan Chichonal en 1982, Saúl dirige le programme de résidence artistique de la Galería MUY, un centre d'art contemporain pour l'art et les artistes autochtones. Charles Fairbanks est réalisateur, écrivain et boursier Guggenheim. Ses films ont été diffusés sur POV et à l’Anthology Film Archives, New-York (USA); au CPH:DOX, Copenhague (Danemark); à Visions du Réel, Nyon (Suisse) et dans plus de 100 autres festivals sur six continents. Ensemble, Fairbanks et Kak aspirent à documenter les défis contemporains du peuple Zoque et sa vision unique du monde: la cosmovision. Leur précédent film "The Modern Jungle" a été nommé l'un des meilleurs films latino-américains de 2016 par de nombreux critiques. Il a reçu le prix du meilleur documentaire au Festival international Présence Autochtone, à Montréal (Canada), et les prix du jury à Slamdance, Park City (USA), et au Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athènes (Grèce).

Song for Being Alone is a one shot video-performance where sounds and images are brought together within a physical place- no digital editing technique was used. In this space-related performance the sound builds up subtly along a mysterious corridor. The camera discovers this rather unusual place but also plays the role of the listener. The path it follows activate and pass by the sound. Space and distance create a unique sound piece - bounding together both mediums of sound and video in a unique perceptive experience.

Mélissa Faivre, born 1989 in France, is an experimental video artist based in Berlin. Her contemplative and mesmerising work seeks to provoke questions on the nature of perception. Exploring notions of movement, repetition, performance and memory, she creates images that present blended and distorted realities that seek to test the temporal and spatial co-ordinates foundational to the perceptive experience. Mélissa’s videos demand an active viewer prepared to engage with the images she presents. Guided by aspects of performance and action, her films reject easily apparent and conventional narrative structures in favour of a visual-poetic experience in itself.

On September 24th 1987, the Serbian League of Communists in the former Yugoslavia held its 8th Session. The 8th Session was a meeting in which Slobodan Milosević won a significant vote over his main political rivals on his rise to power. The whole event was broadcast live on Yugoslav television. The 8th Session was an historical turning point, starting an era of ethnic conflict which ultimately lead to the break-up of Yugoslavia . Theta Rhythm is a meticulous reconstruction of that day, from the perspective of one of the administrators of the 8th Session, Mirko Fajfrić. Mirko is interpreted by his son Bojan Fajfrić, the director of this film.

Bojan Fajfrić was born in 1976, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. His professional development has not been linked to Yugoslavia, which he left in 1995, when he went to study visual arts in the Netherlands. He graduated from the Royal Academy in The Hague and was the resident of the Rijks Academy in Amsterdam. However, in his works he has always referred to the country he grew up in, its political inheritance, as well as other social circumstances. His work presents a certain way of looking at history, one which stands at the intersection of personal memories, collective historical consciousness and the inevitable course of events. He uses mostly video installations as a form of expression. His works have been exhibited in many art galleries/spaces and museums: the Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade; the Tirana Contemporary Art Biennial; De Appel, Amsterdam; MUHKA, Antwerp; Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp; ARCUS, Japan; Spaport, Banja Luka, October Salon, Belgrade. Film Theta Rhythm was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Seoul international NewMedia Festival, Viennale-International Film Festival Vienna, Human Rights Film Festival PRAVO LJUDSKI Sarajevo, Noordelijk Film Festival Leeuwarden, Impakt Festival Utrecht and Film Institute Netherlands.

``He has no coherent idea of himself, but all that he remembers is somehow connected to the city, although he has never lived, nor was born in the city, nor did he die in the city, or anybody else, as far as he knows. `` (Georgio Manganelli) Documentary scenes of wartime Osijek and a sound recording of Fritz Lang`s M create a macabre portrait of the city devastated by irrational forces and an invisible killer.

Born in Crnac (Croatia) in 1953. He is working on experimental film, photography, video, and video-installations. From 1975 to 1977 he was the editor of The Film-lovers panel in Osijek, than went on to direct film program of the Students` Centre (1981-1988), and since 1992 he has been the editor of the film program of Osijek Cinema. He has been shooting films and video works since 1975. Since 1979, he has regularly participated in conceptualist activities and exhibitions, held video and film performances, built installations and made multimedia presentations. In 1995, he participated at the Venice Biennale (A Case/At Home2), and in 2002, he represented Croatia at the 25th biennale in Sao Paolo. He won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at 11th Days of Croatian film, the 2002 "Vladimir Nazor" award, and the Grand Prix of the 39th Zagreb salon in 2005. He was the founder and manager of the "Kazamat" gallery in Osijek (2001-2004) and organizer of the Performans art festival since 2001. Lives and works in Osijek.

Kangaroo Court is the second part of the multimedia reconstruction of the sequence from Fritz Lang`s famous movie M (1931), which began with the photographic replica of the scene of the illegal trial of the psychopathic murder in Berlin underground. In the first phase, the Berlin half world was revived by two hundred costumed actors, rounded up in a devastated former Zagreb factory. Two film cameramen kept a look out on the process of their costumed retro-initiation to Lang`s universe, which was in the film ?reconstruction of reconstruction? additionally underlined by the counter-point of documentary material and fragments from the sound track with dialogues from M.

Born in Crnac (Croatia) in 1953. He is working on experimental film, photography, video, and video-installations. From 1975 to 1977 he was the editor of The Film-lovers panel in Osijek, than went on to direct film program of the Students` Centre (1981-1988), and since 1992 he has been the editor of the film program of Osijek Cinema. He has been shooting films and video works since 1975. Since 1979, he has regularly participated in conceptualist activities and exhibitions, held video and film performances, built installations and made multimedia presentations. In 1995, he participated at the Venice Biennale (A Casa/At Home2), and in 2002, he represented Croatia at the 25th biennale in Sao Paolo. He won numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at 11th Days of Croatian film, the 2002 "Vladimir Nazor" award, and the Grand Prix of the 39th Zagreb salon in 2005. He was the founder and manager of the "Kazamat" gallery in Osijek (2001-2004) and organizer of the Performans art festival since 2001. He lives and works in Osijek.

?Pusta? or wasteland (aftre the Hungarian word ?puszta?), designates a spacious, level steppe in Hungary; it is a spacious, lever terrain which is not worked, but used for raising livestock, horses and pigs in the open. The puszta is a form of organised, planned, collective habitation, specific to Hungary, Slavonia and Baranja, constructed in 18th and 19th centuries on the nedless Slavonian plains owned by well-to-do aristocratic families. The wasteland was always inhabited by those who had no land, settlers, rstless spirits, wanderers unable to stay in one place, but there were those who stayed in the wasteland for generations. The film was shot by hand-held camera, and is all in subjective takes. The main ?character? in the film is light. Light reveals characters and objects, without care for the composition of the shot ou using artificial lighting. Simultaneously with the shooting of the refraction of light, the spreading ? ringing of sound is recorded. And the most important ? silence, because in the wasteland, on that ?island? with no visiable boundary between the sky and the eart, in that prison with no fences, silence is louder than the noise of any city.

Faktor was born in Crnac, Slavonia, in 1953. He deals with experimental film, photography, video and video installations. He has shot films and subsequenly videos ever since 1975. Since 1979 he has taken part in conceptualist actions and exhibitions, film and video performances, mounted installations and done multimedia shows. In 1995 he took part at the 46th Venice Biennale (A Casa/At Home 2) and in 2002 was representative of Croatia at the 25th Biennial in Sao Paolo. He has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Grand Prix at the 11th Croatian Film Days, 2002, the annual Vladimir Nazor Prize for film, 2002, and the Grand Prix of the 39th Zagreb Salon, 2005. From 1975 to 1977 he was the editor of the panel of the Film Lovers Club in Osijek; from 1981 he ran the film programme at the Student Centre, and from 1992 to 2006 was the editor of the film programme of Osijek Cinematography. He is the founder of the Kazamat Gallery in Osijek and managed it from 2001 to 2004, and has run the Performance Art Festival since 2001. Since 2001 he has been the director of Osijek?s City Galleries. He lives and works in Osijek.

Synopsis: Les coups sur la porte ne révélaient pas ce qui se cachait derrière... J`aurais souhaité être mort, mourir entre leurs mains, avant que la peur ait raison de moi.

My name is Mahmud Farag, I am 28 years old, from Alexadria, Egypt. In 2005 I graduated from the faculty of Education in Arabic Language and Education at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. My interest in cinema started when I was a teenager but as a student in Al Azhar school I was not allowed to study cinema. So, in these years I cultivated my passion for cinema by reading and watching movies, and attending workshops (Script writing workshop at French Cultural Centre in Alexandria, 2004). In 2005 I made my first digital video experiment, which is film Fabrica, based on the debut poetry collection Bel-Amsy Faqadtu Zirran (Yesterday I Lost A Button) written by the Alexandrian poet Tamer Fathy (Sharqyat, Cairo, 2005) In 2006 I wrote and directed the film Kurras Kharayt (Blank Note), which tells about the inner thoughts of an intellectual, his relation with girl-friend and his friends, and his inner conflict with himself and the society.Both the films are mini-dv, their duration is 15 minutes and have been shown in Cairo and Alexandria in the Cinema Cultural centre, Syndicate of Journalists and at the Indipendent Film Cairo Festival. In 2006 I enrolled the High Cinema Institute and I obtained my second degree in Scriptwriting and Cinema Studies in 2010. During this four year study period I wrote and directed some documentaries (Nubat Sahyan (Sudden wake) and Al-dar darak (The center is yours). I also wrote scripts for the graduation movies of some students from the direction department in the academy. My last scriptwriting work is "Pale Red", which has been awarded with many prizes inside and outside Egypt ( Best short film prize for in Alexandria International Film Festival (2010) - Best short film prize in Carthage Film Festival, Tunis (2010) - Best short film prize in Kazan International Film Festival, Russia (2010)- Best film in the Independent film festival at the French Cultural Centre in Cairo, 2011). In the last year I also worked as Assistant Script-writer of Dr. Rafiq El-Sabban for the next-coming film As-Samt (The silence) and for the next-coming series Akhir Ayyam Ghrnata (The last days of Granada). This year, I also had a very interesting experience from my work as assistant with two photographers. The first one wanted to meet the new generation of the revolution, the youth of the new Cairo. My second work was about the families of the martyrs of the revolutio. Beside my interest in cinema, I also have a passion for visual arts. Painting, to me, is the unloading extra energy process, and the teacher of patience. Later I started making pieces of arts from old garments and unused plastic pieces. In May 2010, I was awarded the best painting prize in the ?Funny Nature? artistic competition organized by the association L?Arbre des égrégores, Paris, France.

John Giorno (né en 1936), poète de la beat generation, récite passionément son poème «Just say no to family values» (1995). Il essaye avec une grande détermination de persuader son auditeur de profiter de la vie au maximum de son potentiel, et de ne pas se satisfaire avec moins. Dans les mots de Giorno, cela donne : « Le tabac est une substance sacrée pour certains, donc même si vous avez arrêté, faites preuve d?un peu de respect. L?alcool est complètement génial, célébrons les glorieuses vertus de la pinaille, et j?ai passé un bon moment avec toi. » Cependant, ses mots sont perdus pour la frêle petite femme qui regarde distraitement ce poète gesticulant, cet étranger. Elle est assise en face de son habitat décrépi, le rideau voguant de temps à autre au gré du vent. Dans ses vêtements dernier cri, Giorno est comme un cheveu dans la soupe au milieu de ce décor simple. La femme et le petit hameau de Tursi représentent précisément tous ces standards et valeurs qui devraient être, pour Giorno, évacués avec l?eau du bain. La région de Basilicata, où se situe Tursi, est sa terre d?origine: ce poète italo-américain qui a fait partie de la scène underground des années 60, jouait le premier rôle dans Sleep, d?Andy Warhol (1963), et fréquentait des personnes comme William S. Burroughs. John Giorno se donna pour mission d?amener la poésie parmi les gens dans l?esprit de la production de masse. Les images lucides d?Antonello Faretta nous montrent sans équivoque que la passion de Giorno pour la poésie est toujours bien vivante.

Antonello Faretta est né en 1973 à Potenza. Il est photographe, réalisateur et producteur. Il a collaboré avec des réalisateurs comme Abbas Kiarostami, Marco Bellochio, Saverio Costanzo, Giacomo Campiotti, Peter del Monte, Babak Payami. Il travaille également pour la Rai, Sat Arte et T9. Il réalise de nombreux films, parmi lesquels Lei lo Sa, Da Dove Vengono le Storie, Il vento, la Terra, Il Grasso sulle mani, 20Venti, Silenced Thoughts, et Just Say No to family values. Ses oeuvres ont été montrées dans de nombreux festivals, chaînes de télévision, galeries et musées de part le monde, et ont reçu de prestigieus prix. En 2002, Antonello Faretta fonde une production indépendante, Noeltan Film, qui produit ses propres oeuvres comme celles de jeunes artistes internationaux : presque 40 films ont été ainsi produits jusqu?à ce jour. En 2004, il fonde l?Atelier del Cinema di Potenza et le festival international du film de Poteza dont il est le directeur, et pour lequel il a reçu en 2006 le prestigieux Targa per Meriti Culturali du Président italien Giorgio Napolitano.

Ellipsis is part of a trilogy called Conic Trilogy, based on an island called Orford Ness off the Suffolk coast. This small island has been the site of a number of activities over the years which touch upon the political and includes scientific research, espionage, international communications, military equipment testing as well as being a First World War prison camp. In making this video work Farhid implemented a mathematical concept based on a geometry of surfaces and curves: Ellipse (from Greek åëëåéøéó meaning ?to come short?). can also be described as the intersection of a plane with a conic surface when the inclination of the plane to the base of the cone comes short of the inclination of sides to the base. Ellipse through its Greek etymology, also has non geo-mathematical characteristics, ?Ellipsis? refers to: ?missing words in a sentence? which would be needed to complete the grammatical construction or fully to express the sense. Conceptually the video takes the form of a set of fragmented narratives, an eclectic mix of images drawn from a range of different sources and collaged together to make a coherent but inconclusive whole. Whilst images filmed on Orford Ness constitute the main structure these are as it were glimpses of the islands usage , its surveillance equipment, idiosyncratic architecture and ground markings where once secret military equipment was tested. Added to this are a range of images that refer to the act of leaving, escaping, migration and transience perhaps a reference to the instability of what might appear as fixed, stable and even autocratic

Nooshin Farhid was born in Tehran, Iran and now lives and works in London. She came to the UK as a political refugee. She has been involved in a number of exhibitions, film festivals and screenings of her video works internationally. Her work is primarily concerned with the moving image, which takes the form of single screen works, installations, interventions and animation. Her video works whilst employing different subjects and scenarios have a connecting thread, a commonality, namely there is a certain kind of agitation, a restlessness and a deliberate disjuncture that ruptures the familiar trajectory of the traditional narrative. This agitation and an unwillingness to settle for what is ?on offer? (this is the way things are) reflects upon the current state of things socially, politically and ideologically. This work continually picks away at those familiar stabilising forces that we encounter on a daily basis both within the social space of the everyday and also within the domain of contemporary art itself. Farhid?s work is eclectic and conceptually nomadic, she uses the camera as a visual notebook collecting fragments of encounters, events and chance meetings. At the same time she appropriates that form of ?making dumb?, the popular media ? soaps, reality TV, Bollywood, MTV. This raw material is savagely and uncompromisingly edited and undergoes a form of post production, collaged fragments are welded together, each one activating and qualifying its predecessor. It is within this approach to her work that her radical position is to be found, her deliberate lack of regard for status, image hierarchy and historical continuity allows for an essentially tangential trajectory to her subject matter.

Conic Trilogy Study 2 explores the idea of machinery through its rhythmical and continuous production processes, the early association with a human being is quickly supplanted by the power and energy of the heavy machine. Filmed in black and white there is a poetic quality to the images which is added to and emphasized through the early slowing down of the movement. The viewer is lured into this sense of the ?romance? of the machine and its potential for endless production and the efficiency to manage that production without human interference. However the outcome of this reliance on the mechanical is answered in the latter part of the film. This is a powerfully metaphorical work that relates to contemporary political systems and movements.

Nooshin Farhid was born in Tehran, Iran and lives in London. She has been involved in a number of exhibitions, screenings and festivals both nationally and internationally. Nooshin Farhid?s video works whilst employing different subjects and scenarios have a connecting thread, a commonality, namely there is a certain kind of agitation, a restlessness, a sense of things not being right. This agitation and an unwillingness to settle for what is ?on offer? ( this is the way things are ), reflects upon the current state of things socially, politically and ideologically. Though not overtly political, for such a strategy inevitably enables privileged authority to manipulate the artist into the cul de sac of irrelevance, this work continually picks away at those familiar stabilising forces we encounter on a daily basis both within the social space of the everyday but also within the domain of contemporary art itself. Farhid?s work is eclectic and conceptually nomadic, she uses the camera as a visual notebook collecting fragments of encounters, events, chance meetings that collectively question the incessant drive towards normality and conformity through the pressure of state surveillance.

Criss Cross opens with a single image of a parked car lit only by a street light, although this ?minimal? scene is countered by the imposition of redness, infa red or night vision. This opening image in many ways sets the agenda for what is to follow, the colour red coupled with the overpowering element of water, a double saturation both literally and metaphorically. Criss Cross appropriates images from particular areas of media representation, the video takes genres that would appear to come from areas that might be generally referred to as ?low life? or an underworld of sexual exploitation and criminality. What follows from the opening sequence is a series of image clips, fragments, as if wrenched from more prolonged narrative sources, these visual fragmented elements have in common the night, what goes on in the night, what goes on in the ?after dark?. There is an almost subterranean quality to the series of rolling images, cars being broken into, sex chat line conversations, clandestine meetings in dark streets, empty car parks as sites of secret exchange and the imposing sounds and images of law enforcement, however the latter seem only on the periphery of this darkness.

Nooshin Farhid was born in Tehran, Iran and lives in London, she has been involved in a number of exhibitions, screenings and festivals internationally. She also co curated a number of exhibitions including ?Use this kind of Sky? which manifests as gallery show, video installation, radio broadcast, film/video screening and publication (www.nooshinfarhid.com). Nooshin Farhid?s video works whilst employing different subjects and scenarios have a connecting thread, a commonality, namely there is a certain kind of agitation, a restlessness, a sense of things not being right. This agitation and an unwillingness to settle for what is ?on offer? ( this is the way things are ), reflects upon the current state of things socially, politically and ideologically. This work continually picks away at those familiar stabilising forces we encounter on a daily basis both within the social space of the everyday but also within the domain of contemporary art itself. Farhid?s work is eclectic and conceptually nomadic, she uses the camera as a visual notebook collecting fragments of encounters, events, chance meetings that collectively question the incessant drive towards normality and conformity through the pressure of state surveillance. At the same time she appropriates that other form of ?making dumb? the popular media ? soaps, reality TV, Bollywood, MTV. This raw material is savagely and uncompromisingly edited and undergoes a form of post production, collaged fragments are welded together, each one activating and qualifying its predecessor. This process produces a contemporary surreal space that re-presents the familiar into that which is astonishing and invites the viewer to reconsider.

« Sleepwalker » se concentre sur un unique personnage, un jeune homme que l?on voit errer dans des espaces urbains banals, apparemment à la dérive, sans aucun but et seul. Toutefois, cette errance fait rapidement place à la prise de conscience qu?il existe un courant sous-jacent d?une autre sorte d?espace psychologique. Le jeune homme commence à étudier son environnement, en touchant les choses, en testant leurs surfaces comme s?il n?était plus certain de leur stabilité matérielle, comme si elles contenaient quelque de chose de menaçant à son égard. Ce faisant, il déclenche un autre type de réalité qui peut être vue comme un flash-back, comme le souvenir d?expériences antérieures ou comme une certaine forme de névrose. Ces images menaçantes, filmées à travers un filtre bleu, proposent un espace liminal de paranoïa, d'anxiété, ou peut-être de fantasmes ; s?instaure alors, de façon progressive mais insistante, une fracturation et un flou entre la notion de réalité et l?espace de la psychose, comme si les règles du jeu qui déterminent notre compréhension du fonctionnement des choses étaient en train d?être brisées.

Les vidéos de Nooshin Farhid s?approprient différentes situations narratives et genres cinématographiques, en les re-présentant dans des scénarios nouveaux et dérangeants. Son point de départ est souvent l'ordinaire, le banal ou le culturellement familier. Elle observe attentivement ces événements banals, en les isolant et en les montant de telle façon qu'il existe une interaction entre la lucidité et la raison, l'obsession et la folie. Structurellement, ces vidéos apparaissent souvent fragmentées et incohérentes. La reconnaissance d?un genre cinématographique est perturbée, de manière à éviter continuellement la sécurité d?un territoire narratif familier, ce qui ne permet donc pas au spectateur de contrôler pleinement ce qu?il est en train d?éprouver. Mais, tout au long de ce voyage « schizophrène », une certaine logique du sens trace son chemin à travers la complexité de l??uvre.

"Aux ouvriers d?une société industrielle se substituent les technocrates issus de l?ère informatique. La vision de la gestion des moyens de transport est saisissante : les employés des années vingt s?occupant de la surveillance des transports ferroviaires sont remplacés par des caméras vidéos reliées à des centres où un personnel surveille les écrans et analyse la multitude d?images reçues. Prenant la suite de L?homme à la caméra, les images sans cameraman de Farocki témoignent d?un regard critique sur notre société, où le développement des moyens de communication génère des outils de surveillance toujours plus puissants et conduit à la négation de l?individu."

Harun Farocki est né en 1944 à Neutitschein en Tchécoslovaquie alors indexée par l`Allemagne. De 1966 à 1968, il étudie à la Deutsche Film and Fernsehakademie de Berlin et est depuis cette date réalisateur freelance, de 1993 à 1999, il est lecteur à l?Université de Californie à Berkeley, depuis 2000 il enseigne à la Hochschule der Künste de Berlin au sein du dépatement Média. Ces films abordent les notions de politique et de mass média à partir d?un travail d?archives, de recherches et de réflexions théoriques sur la société contemporaine. Harun Farocki vit et travaille à Berlin.

"Respite" se déroule à Westerbork, un camp de transit des déportés vers Bergen-Belsen et Auschwitz. À la demande de l?officier SS Gemmeker, le Juif Allemand Breslauer a filmé avec une caméra 16mm un convoi en partance pour les camps de la mort, ainsi que des scènes de travail et de loisir.

Harun Farocki est né en 1944 à Neutitschein en Tchécoslovaquie alors annexée par l`Allemagne. De 1966 à 1968, il étudie à la Deutsche Film and Fernsehakademie de Berlin et est depuis cette date réalisateur freelance, de 1993 à 1999, il est lecteur à l'Université de Californie à Berkeley, depuis 2000 il enseigne à la Hochschule der Künste de Berlin au sein du département Média. Ses films abordent les notions de politique et de mass média à partir d'un travail d'archives, de recherches et de réflexions théoriques sur la société contemporaine. Harun Farocki vit et travaille à Berlin.

Recycling materials with historic meaning are being put together by apprentices and professionals to erect a temporary event pavilion in front of the Bauhaus Archiv in Berlin. The determining architectural elements of the pavilion are about 100 meters of re-used steel windows from the original Bauhaus building in Dessau. The process is in its aspects a declaration of love for the ideas of the Bauhaus.

In their films, illustrations and educational / curatorial work the Berlin-based artist duo Faroqhi & Peretz choose various themes such as biography, architecture and history. Their work examines social issues and critically deals with the way images are being produced and received as well as how stories are being told. Anna Faroqhi is a filmmaker and illustrator. Haim Peretz is a technician and filmmaker. Their body of work contains films, texts and illustrations as well as educational works and has been presented internationally in museums and art events. Faroqhi & Peretz teach video for opera directors and singers at Hochschule für Musik „Hanns Eisler“ Berlin. They also are engaged in the education of film and illustration to children and adults at various public schools, museums and institutions. Here, they are part of the Arsenal Film Studios at the Arsenal Institute for Film and Video e.V., Berlin. Faroqhi & Peretz’ work has been shown Museum Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Saalbau Neukölln Berlin, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Manifesta Italy, New York Film Archives, Goethe Institute Tel Aviv etc. The duo is currently working on a multimedia installation documenting refugee stories.