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Until the beginning of the 1990s, there were no rap artists in Russia and the Soviet Union. In the middle of the 1990s, a lot of boys throughout Russia started performing hip hop music, many of them had ended up working on factories in the former closed cities. Filmmaker asked several former hip-hop musicians, some still having factory jobs, to remember their old rhythms silently, and paired it with a spontaneous hip hop jam of young people living near the factories of Nizhny Tagil and Yekaterinburg on a second screen. Their voices dissolve like smoke in the back streets of Ural cities, gigantic open-air factories.

Maria Morina is a Russian photographer and filmmaker. She is one of the authors of a cross-media project that took 9 years to produce - Grozny: Nine Cities. It explores specific aspects of the aftermath of the two Chechen wars. It has won several international awards, including Calvados Awards for War Correspondents, 2014, and Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles, 2017. While working with different mediums on the Grozny: Nine Cities project, Maria has turned to film-making. Maria Morina?s first full-length documentary film, Don?t Press Stop, about Rap musicians in Nizhny Tagil, a gigantic open-air factory in Russia, was released in 2017. It was selected for Lussas Documentary Film Festival, France and Russian Open Documentary Film Festival Artdocfest in 2017. Maria Morina has participated in numerous exhibitions and festivals in Russia and abroad. Her works are held in the Les Rencontres d’Arles and The Open Society Foundation collections.

Bully Beef is an attempt to reconnect two histories that continue to be held apart. In 1914 Germany invaded ?little? Belgium. Her allies came to her rescue. It took four years and over forty different nations or ethnic groups ? many of the latter colonised by the allied nations - to hold the German imperialists at bay. The memory of that trauma is kept alive in Belgium. Tourism to sites of battle in the First World War is at an all-time high. Daily busloads of schoolchildren are led around the museums and Commonwealth graveyards in Ieper and the Westhoek. More books are being published in Belgium on the First World War than ever before. There is, in contrast, a dearth of publishing that investigates memories of another invasion concerning the Belgians that occurred only thirty years previous to 1914. Many of the officers and generals honoured for their roles in defending Belgium in the First World War had practised their trade not in Europe but in the acquisition, control and exploitation of a piece of land eighty times the size of the motherland, the Congo Free State. Belgium did to the Congo what Germany was hoping to do to Belgium and other parts of Western Europe. Repelling the German invader with the help of its allies, Belgium continued its invasion of the Congo for a further forty years.

Wendy Morris was born in Namibia (1960), grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa. She studied Fine Art at the university of the Witwatersrand and at the University of South Africa. Now living in Belgium and working towards a (practice-based) doctorate in the arts at the University of Leuven. Her animated films are made by filming large charcoal drawings that she alters and redraws. Bully Beef is her third film. Morris exhibits her films, sometimes together with the drawings, in galleries, museums and on festivals. Her films have been selected for competition at Fantoche, Oberhausen and Annecy festivals.

"Taste the World", a video of four minutes, explores tourist notions of the 'Third World' as a playground for Europe. The title is taken from a tourist brochure in which travellers are exhorted to 'taste the world'. The subtext of the advertisement is that the world is out there for 'you' - for the 'you' of the discerning connoisseur, the 'you' of the Eurostacrat with excess leisure-time. Borderless, the ('third') world is presented as a consumer domain of unlimited choices: culinary, sexual, economic, cultural, etc. The film starts and ends with a meal. Intercut into this narrative is a reference to the journey and homecoming of Sarah Bartman, the South African Khoi woman displayed in Europe in the 1700s as the link between man and ape. She died young, in Paris, and parts of her body were bottled and displayed in the Museum of Man. In 2003 her remains were repatriated to SA where she was then buried.

Wendy Morris is a visual artist born in 1960 in Walvis Bay, Namibia. She is of South African nationality but resides in Belgium. Her studies include a Master in Visual Arts, 2004; an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art History, 1999; and a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, 1994, all from the University of South Africa.

INCIDENT reconstructs a police shooting in Chicago in 2018, reassembling the event and its immediate aftermath from a variety of viewpoints, including surveillance, security, dashboard, and body-worn cameras as a continuous, synchronized split-screen montage.

Bill Morrison has been called “the poet laureate of lost films” (New York Times, 9/22/21). He makes films that reframe long-forgotten moving images. He has premiered feature-length documentary films at the New York, Sundance, Telluride and Venice film festivals. Morrison had a mid-career retrospective at MoMA in 2014. His found footage opus Decasia (2002) was the first film of the 21st century to be selected to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) was named one of the best films of year by more than 100 critics, and among the best of the decade (2010s) by the Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, and Vanity Fair, among others. In 2021 Morrison became a member of the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.

Cloud Cuckoo Land (2008) is a collaboration between Erik Moskowitz and Amanda Trager. The title of the piece, Cloud Cuckoo Land is taken from the Aristophanes? play The Birds. In the 4th Century BC, the notion of utopia was already in play?and put into doubt. The narrative encompasses a family?s move to a contemporary commune. The central character, Bianca, after years of fantasizing about the ideal way to raise her child and with fixed, romantic notions of the ?best? way to live, is confronted by her own intolerance and inability to integrate with the community. The video?s narrative exploits conventional cinematic devices (shot/reverse shot, music cues) and is meant for exhibition in gallery and museum space as well as in cinematic space. Cloud Cuckoo Land critiques assumptions too easily relied upon when determining the difference between public and private space. The prescribed boundary between art space and cinema space functions as a model of the larger issue whereby artificial and arbitrary boundaries are used to define conventions of personal and societal comfort and safety.

Erik Moskowitz uses the relationship between cinema space and gallery space as a point of departure for installation and film. Amanda Trager fuses painting, sculpture, and installation with first-person prose narrative. The artists? involvement with fractured narrative or anti-narrative is of long-standing in their independent practices. For Moskowitz it dates back to childhood, when Spalding Gray invited him to perform in the Wooster Group?s Sakonnet Point. His work with Spalding continued for the next eight years; his relationship with Joan Jonas dates from this period. More recently, Moskowitz has been known for music/video installations based on excerpts from literary sources. Trager, focusing on rant-like texts and character-creation in painting, sculpture and installation for over ten years, most recently has been making work embodying lopsided ?conversation? between mismatched players. Both live and work in New York City and Canada.

In response to an invitation to ?describe the queer voice,? artists Erik Moskowitz + Amanda Trager created this video, a whimsical portrait of an artist-couple.

Our collaborative work has been exhibited and screened internationally at venues that include Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2008-10); Reina Sofia, Madrid (2009); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2009); Participant, Inc. and 303 Gallery, NYC (2009). The single-channel component of our newest work premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and won Grand Prize for Short Film at IndieLisboa (2011). Art residencies include Montalvo Arts Center (2006) and Headlands Center for the Arts (2011), both in California. Grants include a NYFA Fellowship in Video (2008) and a NYSCA Distribution Grant (2009).

Jeu de Paume depicts a court tennis match at the Château de Fontainebleau, France, set in 1907. The stop-motion animation, filmed with a robotic hand-held camera, reflects the asymmetrical design of the court and the irregular rhythm of the game.

Joshua Mosley is Professor of Fine Arts in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his M.F.A. and B.F.A. from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Joshua is a recipient of fellowships including the Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. His work has exhibited and screened at the 2014 Whitney Biennial, the 2007 Venice Biennale, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Bruce Museum, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Donald Young Gallery, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, the SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.

All and everyone is happy here. They are hidden from the other world by the walls of a madhouse which is the only Paradise on the Earth.

Vladimir MOSS was born in Smolensk (Russia) in 1964. Graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinema (VGIK, Moscow) in 2003. In 2004 graduated from the Higher Courses of film writers and directors.

"Kuleshov Sukiyaki is based on the music piece "Systole No 2" from INTERSTICES (2000) by Terre Thaemlitz. It uses this music collage as a grid for the montage of a particular set of found images. In the music piece ?Systole No 2?, Thaemlitz deconstructed a funky 70`s pop song with the idea to extract those music passages where no vocals are being sang. These are usually the pop song segments that hardly anyone pays attention to. Thaemlitz therefore distills the background radiation of the song, transforms it into an arrhythmic instrumental piece, not without leaving some traces of the singer`s voice - his inhalations and exhalations, "suggesting emotional, physical and/or sexual exasperation, and occasionally resulting in the whispering of new words?? (T.T.) Analog to this "systolic" sound collage Kuleshov Sukiyaki contains a patchwork of clips from 70`s erotica and soft porn movies which highlight similar emotional moments, including the befores and afters of orgasm scenes. It features a variety of highly aesthetic cinematography (in films of Radley Metzger, Paul Morrisey) as well as stylistic somersaults. In the eyes of their producers and occasionally even directors these elements are exclusively created for the support or exaggeration of pure lust and sexual charge, that their creators hope to have embedded in these scenes. This over-saturation becomes apparent even in single images, after being taken out of their context. (Mostly close-up`s of actors gazing at their partner.) In this assembly of images the energy fields are redirected, using their magnetic charge in order to fuse together associative image elements of entirely different films. In addition, it also applies the oldest experiment in associative editing, the famous Lev Kuleshov effect, while featuring a non- linearity that could be compared to the ?now legendary? chopped film-with-sukiyaki dish by experimentalist Tony Conrad."

m o s t r a is a duo of video artists Gabriela Monroy and Caspar Stracke. They gather and transform found images according to single themes of social, architectural and political nature. Harvesting the net as well as recycling found footage, they recontextualize raw content in which images sequences are treated as text re-edited. Occasionally this also happens vice versa: text is transformed into imagery--literally, though ASCII code. m o s t r a `s fast-paced hybrid language of juxtaposed imagery and animated shapes allow a constant exchangeability of visual and textual signifiers, creating new meaning out of re-used images. Both, Monroy and Stracke have produced several video installations and single channel works that have been shown in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Europe and Japan. Their work has been published on the Eyewash DVD compilation by forward-motion theater. Stracke?s single channel work is in distribution of video data bank, e-film workshop, Oberhausen Festival and Lightcone, Paris.

In Nefandus two men travel by canoe down the Don Diego river in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the Colombian Caribbean, a landscape of “wild” beauty. The men, an indigenous man and a Spanish speaking man, tell stories about pecados nefandos [unspeakable sins, abominable crimes]; acts of sodomy that took place in the Americas during the conquest. It has been documented that Spanish conquistadores used sex as a weapon of domination, but what is known about homoerotic pre-Hispanic traditions? How did Christian morality, as taught by the Catholic missions and propagated through war during the Conquest, transform the natives’ relationship to sex? Nefandus attentively looks at the landscape, its movement and its sounds for clues of stories that remain untold and have been largely ignored and stigmatized in historical accounts.

Carlos Motta's interdisciplinary artistic practice includes the making of video essays, documentaries and online video archives. His early video Letter to My Father (Standing by the Fence) (2005) narrates the experience of living and working in New York City at the aftermath on 9/11 and focuses on the personal and political intersections of immigrants within that context. Motta is interested in questioning the structures of power that control and regulate civic life as well as hegemonic construction of historical narratives. One of his most recognized projects is We Who Feel Differently (2012), a comprehensive video archive of interviews with dozens of queer subjects that speak about the forty years of gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer activism from a variety of social perspectives. The installation was first presented in a solo exhibition at New York's New Museum in 2012 to great acclaim. Motta's most recent video works Nefandus Trilogy will have its World Premiere at the 2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam's Tiger Awards Competition. Composed of three short films, Nefandus (winner of Catalonia Hotels Award for Best Video at LOOP, Barcelona, 2013), Naufragios and La visión de los vencidos, the trilogy exposes the imposition of the category `sexuality` onto indigenous cultures in the Americas during the Conquest and throughout the colonial period, based on moral and legal discourses of sin and crime. These works will also be presented at the First International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias in February.

Il y a très longtemps, se trouvait un vieil homme au village, qui gardait jalousement un secret. Certains soir de l'année, quand la lune était pleine Il s'asseyait devant l'arbre sacré. Les mains écartées, il prononçait des paroles incantatoires jusqu'au bout de la nuit. La forêt tout entière s'animait. Après quoi, On raconte l'avoir vu à des centaines de kilomètres de là. Certains disent qu'il aurait le pouvoir de se téléreporter.

Pierrick Mouton est artiste et vidéaste, et vit à Paris (France). Son travail s’articule autour de systèmes de croyances, spirituels ou idéologiques à travers des films, des œuvres sonores ou des objets, qu’il fait réaliser ou qu’il réalise lui-même. Cette démarche est associée à une approche documentaire, et à une immersion sur le long terme avec différents groupe de croyance et de pensée. Pierrick Mouton a récemment exposé au Salon de Montrouge, Paris (France); à l’École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris Est (France); à la Clark House Initiative, Mumbai (Inde); à la Villa Belleville, Paris (France); à l’Alliance Française, Chandigarh (Inde); à la Nunnery Gallery, Londres (Royaume-Uni); et à Carrousel, Londres (Royaume-Uni). Ses créations radiophoniques sont régulièrement diffusés sur France Culture et DUUU radio.

Begun in the wake of recent (and ongoing) racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, USA, The Forcing (no. 2) is a meditation on power and the longing for deliverance in contemporary America. It combines original sound and video with appropriated content, observing no hierarchy of image quality or authorship.

Lydia Moyer is a visual artist and media maker who lives and works in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, USA. She directs the new media program in the art department at the University of Virginia where she is on the faculty. Her video and print work has been shown widely in the US and abroad.

Someone Else?s Project gives an unmediated insider look to the everyday lives of residents of Tehran, focusing on a correspondence between a U.S. based artist, and a Tehran based videographer, who takes on the risk of shooting illegally on the streets. The videographer recounts her interactions with civilians and guards, where strangers offer her voluntary and enthusiastic support to accomplish an illegal task. While reflecting on the unexpectedly familiar nature of everyday life in Tehran, Someone Else?s Project sheds light on Tehrani civilian?s resistant attitude towards civil obedience and the isolation of a society that is desperate to participate.

Shirin Mozaffari is a media artist, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Mozaffari has screened her short films and exhibited her video installations widely in the United States and abroad including the Asian American Film Festival at The Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago, and the Queelnsland Gallery of Modern Art in Queensland Australia. Mozaffari was awarded for best Art Direction at Chicago Short Film Festival for her film Namesake. Mozaffari currently lives and works in Boston, MA.

The reports by civilian victims of the Russian and Belarusian occupation in Ukraine contain descriptions of torture and repression that appear to be systematic in nature. Taking those reports as a basis, a filmmaker born in Belarus investigates that systematic procedure on the streets of his Berlin neighbourhood. He also confronts the question of what this war of annihilation has to do with him and what responsibility he himself bears.

Born in Minsk, Belarus in 1987, he grew up in and around Berlin from the age of ten. From 2009 to 2012, he studied philosophy and economics at the University of Bayreuth. In 2015, he took up a film directing degree with a focus on documentary at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. His short documentary Handbook, about the protests in Belarus in August 2020, won numerous awards, including Best Short Film at the IDFA in 2021. Mozhar’s most recent work is a short documentary Unwanted Kinship about the Russian war of extermination in Ukraine.

This is an animated movie based on the illustrations in "Duden", a German-Russian vocabulary book. This 1953 version depicts the world in numerous illustrated tabs starting from political life to sports and housing to nature and the human body. The movie is independent from the text of the song; it loosely reflects its psychedelic and surreal mood /"the city is the fishhook, the prey on its thin rope... i'm smoking now, after the work, the door slams...slowly through the day, nothing to do, slowly along the window shops and pubs..."/

David Mozny is a visual artist who has been working with digital images since 2000. He exhibits his works in galleries as well as in media, theatre, clubs, and as a VJ. He is a part-time teacher at the faculty of social studies, 'new media section' in Masaryk University Brno. He works from home.

Magma is the first film in a greater series of experimental short films called The Cycle - 8 experimental short films that embrace and discover movement through camera. The films are shot in the extreme and wild landscapes of a remote group of islands far up in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Faroe Islands. Fragmented stories are unraveled in these open and empty spaces, enhanced by the uncontrollable and extreme weather conditions that have an important character in all the films. Deprived from dialogues and narratives, the repetitive patterns of movements, costumes, music, landscapes and other components create an intriguing atmosphere that takes the viewer to a surrealistic yet hauntingly beautiful universe.

Rannvá Káradóttir is a London-based artist and filmmaker. Since graduating from London Contemporary Dance School she has emerged as one of the most prominent performance directors on screen. Rannvá started to use the film media for her practice early on and has developed a distinctive movement vocabulary on screen, exploring dance in various contexts and cross disciplinary works. Marianna Mørkøre, filmmaker and illustrator, began her career during fashion studies in London, especially interested in editing. Her constant curiosity in challenging the traditional perception of moving image has generated unique visual narratives that are marked by an experimental approach and a personal voice - a methodology of intriguing imagery determined to linger in your mind.

In Opaque Sirens of São Paulo wells the tension between the city as anonymous concrete that occupies the space, and the world as experience accumulated in the body. But the city is also the world and the space is also the body, and each one carries the anatomy of opaque memories. The magnitude of the buildings vis-à-vis the passing human scale is opaque to the search for safe places before the imposing verticality. The gesture as a detail of the body that speaks is opaque to the noise of the urban abyss. The inert suspense that scratches the skies is opaque to the experiences that transfigure themselves in self-search. And this tension neither increases nor decreases, it is constant and what sustains the daily movement, and the absence of it, in the streets of São Paulo.

Born in Angola in 1989. A transdisciplinary artist, Lubanzadyo Mpemba expresses himself in video art, photo performance, performance, and documentary. His work includes visual stagings that address migration, urban gentrification, institutional violence, and collective memory. He has a law degree, and studied Urban Sociology, Curatorial Studies, Film, and Painting in Motion.

Written upon testimonies, rumors and fake news, this film questions the architectures of energy shaping the Algerian territory from its colonial history to the rise of Chinese extractivism, underlining the multiplicity of reality in a post-truth era. Since 2006, thousands of Chinese workers have been arriving daily in Algeria to build new cities across the country. Refusal of taking care of the dead by construction companies led to rumors about the disappearance of worker’s bodies, therefore questioning the collective memory of these workers expunged from history. Memories of an Unborn Sun aims to articulate a metaphysical query around light as a form of memory, blending archives from French nuclear tests in the Sahara, viral footage of an artificial sun rising in the sky and verses from Tuareg poet Hawad. As this nightless world embodies the capitalist utopia of infinite growth, how to remember those made invisible? Exiled workers and ghosts of an energetical quest.

Marcel Mrejen (FR/DZ) born in 1994 (Paris, FR) is a visual artist and filmmaker exploring the articulation of technology within living and economic metabolisms. The form of his work spans various time-based media — installations, filmmaking, sound, and machine-learning. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018, before being a resident of Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains. His work has been exhibited in various cultural institutions, including the Stedelijk Museum, Laurel Project Space, De Brakke Grond, or the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. Parallel to his artistic practice, he co-curated the first edition of REFRESH: Future-Proof. In collaboration with Eliott Déchamboux, his book: L’Europe c’est Deutshland quand tu rate laba tu est foutue mon frère, le reste c’est du fouma-fouma, was published by Jungle Books in 2019. His debut film Memories of an Unborn Sun was awarded the Jury Prize at Visions du Réel in 2024.

Set against silent 16mm footage filmed by a French soldier in occupied Algeria, the film stages an encounter between colonial memory and the soundscape of contemporary warfare. As present-day militarism infiltrates the archive, time fractures and the images begin to echo with conflicts past and future. What emerges is a haunting meditation on the ways colonial violence continues to reverberate through today’s military imaginaries.

Marcel Mrejen (FR/DZ) born in 1994 (Paris, FR) is a visual artist and filmmaker exploring the articulation of technology within living and economic metabolisms. The form of his work spans various time-based media — installations, filmmaking, sound, and machine-learning. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2018, before being a resident of Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains from 2021 to 2023. His work has been exhibited/screened in various cultural institutions, including the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), or the Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam). Parallel to his artistic practice, he co-curated the first edition of REFRESH: Future-Proof in 2021. His debut film Memories of an Unborn Sun was awarded Best Short Film at Visions du Réel in 2024 and was screened and won awards in numerous festivals around the world. In 2025, it was awarded the Scam Prize for Best Experimental Film. In collaboration with Eliott Déchamboux, his book: L’Europe c’est Deutshland quand tu rate laba tu est foutue mon frère, le reste c’est du fouma-fouma, was published by Jungle Books in 2019.

"Looping", l?une des ?uvres majeures de JEAN-FRANÇOIS MORICEAU ET PETRA MRZYK caricature avec une précision chirurgicale un monde dont les personnages et les objets animés, à la fois grotesques et improbables, semblent en parfait décalage avec le réel: des animaux fantasques, une danseuse hermaphrodite, deux squelettes figés à jamais dans un coït, deux maisons jumelées en twin towers, l?écran d?un téléphone portable se dématérialisant." Extrait du texte de présentation de Fri-Art, au Centre d`art contemporain Kunsthalle, du 17 septembre 2005 au 6 novembre 2005.