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Valdas is a talented architectural visionary who left his life unexpectedly ten years ago, and who did not fit into the standard architectural frameworks. As the architect of many of the Centre for Contemporary Art's exhibitions, he spent a large part of his life at the museum. It is here that the artist's daughter Elena walks, having to unload the artist's legacy from the museum. The visit becomes a tender farewell and a touch of her father's work, as well as the projects that were never realised. Dark matter is not only the title of the film, but also the title of the architect's last phase of work: a black as a hole in space sadness and Ozarinskas own words: "We haven't done anything more".

Graduated Russian Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography, directing. 1987m. 13 years as a director and producer for national TV. For many years worked in Lithuania as an executive producer for cultural events, film festivals, fashion days. Manager and shareholder of Impar reklama, advertising company, Commercial Director of radio station RADIOCENTER. In 2018 she founded Vegele Films. Lives in Europe.

On December 23, 1957, at 11:10 AM, a US Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star aircraft flown by Major Howard J. Curran left Chateauroux, France, heading for Naples, Italy. Above Turin, the aircraft radio failed and after hitting bad weather with strong winds, the plane veered off its flight path to end up, by mistake, in the sovereign airspace of the People`s Republic of Albania. At 1:28 PM, the intruder was intercepted by the Albanian Air Force Command, which instantly ordered two MiG-15 fighter jets to take off and identify it. By 3:50 PM, the fighters reported that they had spotted the intruder in the area around Rinas Airport, flying at 500-650 km/hr at an altitude of 150-200 m. Prompt countermeasures were taken. The airplane was forced to land and, to keep it from taking off again, the airport was locked down.

Born in 1980 in Tirana, Albania, Armando Lulaj is a writer of plays, texts on risk territory, film author, and producer of conflict images, orientated toward accentuating the border between economical power, fictional democracy and social disparity in a global context. Exhibitions include the Prague Biennial (2003; 2007), Tirana Biennial (2005), 4th Gothenburg Biennale (2007), the 6th Berlin Biennial (2010), the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival (2013) and the 56th Venice Biennale - Albanian Pavilion (2015).

With references to landscape painting from the Romantic era and to silent film Henrik Lund Jørgensen draws inspiration from the works of the Danish film maker Carl Th. Dreyer in the making of his new video The Recruitment (And Escape) Of A Plastic Soldier (2015). In a cinematic language a narrative arises that exchange concepts as recruitment and flight and for whom it concerns. 

Henrik Lund Jørgensen received his Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2005 at the Malmö Art Academy, where he also lives and works today. In addition, he has a Bachelor’s degree in photography and a Master’s degree in film. In recent years, he has taught in the Master’s Programme Cinematic processes at Valand Academy of Film at Gothenburg University. Lund Jørgensen has exhibited both in Sweden and internationally, including at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Rostock, Museum Kunst der Westküste (DE), Kiasma (Helsinki), Norrtälje Konsthall, Scandinavia House (New York), The Hirschsprungske Collection (Copenhagen) and at the Atelier Nord ANX (Oslo) and was recently a grant holder at the Iaspis program in Stockholm.

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Working almost exclusively with animated art, mostly as single channel videos. Through animating my own drawings, I am mediating tales of human relationships and not shying away from life’s darker and more destructive sides. Since 1994 I’ve created over 30 videos, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. My works have all been screened at numerous occations worldwide and I’m represented at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

The animated video "Tilt" describes a deep relation that is abruptly broken up and as a result, the existing life is turned into ruin. The video is a contemplation of a human being’s inability to comprehend its own transience.

Working almost exclusively with animated art, mostly as single channel videos. Through animating my own drawings, I am mediating tales of human relationships and not shying away from life’s darker and more destructive sides. Since 1994 I’ve created over 30 videos, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours.
My works have all been screened at numerous occations worldwide and I’m represented at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

The animated video The Quiet Game Starts Now (Tysta leken börjar nu) is a satire about the current escalation of self-absorption. Two women meet in a conversation, which from the start is a one-way communication, with one dominating party. After a while there is a shift in power and the silence grows stronger and starts to speak.

Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Currently living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Artist specializing in animation and since 1994 working almost exclusively with videos, which have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. Over 30 videoworks have been created between 1994 and 2014, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. Represented with videoworks at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

The video is a description of two people who are situated in an constant state of present, where the past is continuously fading and the future seems unreachable. It appears as if the woman and the man are unaware of their situation, which amplifies the sense of meaninglessness. "Eternal Start" illustrates a relationship where everything is routine, and every day is the same. Eternity becomes a reflection of a life without meaning, in which they are unable to change their accustomed behaviour. They converse like a record that is stuck, and never gets the chance to develop. The video highlights and gives insight to the importance of having the ability to make new memories, so that life can go on.

Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Currently living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Artist specializing in animation and since 1994 working almost exclusively with videos, which have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. Around 30 videoworks have been created between 1994 and 2010, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. Represented with videoworks at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

The video Area of Use is an illustration of a housewife?s inner thoughts about alternative ways of using her most common working tools. It is also a manifestation of a sealed existence that exposes a mind which gives a sense of being trapped in a treadmill.

Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Currently living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Artistic education: 1999-00 Royal University Collage of Art, Postgraduate, Stockholm, Sweden 1994-99 University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Art Department, Stockholm, Sweden Artist specializing in animation and since 1994 working almost exclusively with videos, which have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. Around 25 videoworks have been created between 1994 and 2009, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. Represented with videoworks at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

« Oh, I'm So Happy » est une vidéo d?animation où nous rencontrons une femme d'âge moyen qui vit dans un isolement total et, par conséquent, dans une extrême solitude. La femme récite un monologue, dans lequel elle fait de son mieux pour nous convaincre qu?elle est heureuse et contente de sa situation actuelle. Cependant, sa tentative est totalement superficielle et transparente.

Cecilia Lundqvist est née en 1971 à Eskilstuna (Suède) ; elle vit et travaille actuellement à Stockholm (Suède). Durant son éducation artistique, elle a fréquenté l'Université des Arts de Stockholm (Département de l?Artisanat, du Design et de l?Art, 1994-99) et l?Université Royale des Arts de Stockholm (troisième cycle, 1999/00). Elle se spécialise aujourd?hui dans l'animation et, depuis 1994, elle a travaillé presque exclusivement avec la vidéo. Ses ?uvres vidéo ont été projetées dans de nombreux musées et galeries, ainsi que dans des festivals du monde entier comme le Centre Pompidou ou le Moderna Museet de Stockholm.

Making Pancakes est une vidéo d'animation qui montre un homme et une femme engagés dans une relation totalement déséquilibrée. Parfois, on assiste à ce qui ressemble à des événements ordiaires, et d'autres fois ils sont dans des situations plus menaçantes. L'homme se complaît dans l'autosatisfaction et pourtant il émane de lui une incertitude et un désir de reconnaissance. La femme est comme engourdie par la routine et fait tout ce qu'elle peut pour maintenir les apparences. En renversant la situation et en transposant les violences domestiques à l'extérieur du domicile, où elles sont visibles, alors qu'à l'intérieur du domicile il s'agit de maintenir une apparence parfaite, on montre l'absurdité de ce comportement. Les erreurs insignifiantes que la femme commet en préparant le dîner agissent comme un catalyseur des actes de violence, elles sont les gouttes d'eau qui font déborder le vase.

Power Play est une vidéo d'animation, comprenant dix différentes scènes dans lesquelles deux hommes se font compétition, à travers leur virilité, qu'ils exagèrent, et l'utilisation de différents attributs, dans une série d'actes sans queue ni tête.La vidéo commente et ridiculise clairement les stéréotypes que les deux personnages emploent dans leur conversation d'homme à homme, les coutumes qui sont généralement établies dans la culture occidentale. Le film s'intéresse à ce jeu d'actes, pour montrer clairement au spectateur à quel point ce comportement est dépourvu de sens.Quand l'?uvre est présentée en galerie, un contrepied, spectateur de la vidéo, est installé. Dans cette autre vidéo, qui contient seulement une scène, une femme complètement, qui s'ennuie profondément, regarde les hommes dans leur performance.

Cecilia Lundqvist est née à Eskilstuna en Suède. À la base ingénieur, elle a changé de carrière en 1991 pour s?orienter dans les arts et depuis 1994, elle travaille sur des vidéos animées qui furent projetées à plusieurs occasion partout dans le monde. Elle est représentée, par exemple, au Museum of Art de Stockholm et au Centre G?rges Pompidou de Paris avec de ses ?uvres vidéos. Sa formation artistique commence dès 1991, où elle va à la Gotland Art School jusqu?en 1993. L?année suivante elle suivra des cours au Birkag?rden Art Department de Stockholm. Pendant cinq ans, jusqu?en 99, Cecilia Lundqvist étudie au University College off Arts, dans le département de Crafts and Design et Art à Stockholm. Elle parachève ensuite da formation au Royal College of Art, dans le département vidéo. Aujourd?hui, elle travaille et vit à Stockholm et à Londres.

“… Junkyard explores the accumulated car wrecks as archeological remains for the future - a future that is undergirded by the consumptive cultures of petroleum, rare earth minerals and metals of which the car is emblematic. Paul Virilio’s argument about the relationship of technology and accidents is illuminating in this sense: "every time that a new technology has been invented,” he writes “a new energy harnessed, a new product made, one also invents a new negativity, a new accident.”[1] In this sense, the easy conclusion would say that the people who invented the car also invented the car accident. But what happens, when we think about not individual accidents but the industry as a whole as an extended scale of a systematic accident that leaves traces of wrecks as the memory of past archaeological periods, whether that pertains to chemicals, metals or residual traces of media of past automobile cultures? In other words, what if we think that the whole industry, with production, distribution, excavation and use, and what it has been doing to the earth’s “resources,” the organisation of labour and gender roles, an historical accident that undermines the viability of organised human existence? – the car industry as the accident of the fossil fuel culture” …

Felix Luque Sánchez (Oviedo, Spain, 1976) is an artist whose work explores how humans conceive their relationship with technology and provides spaces for reflection on current issues such as the development of artificial intelligence and automatism. Using electronic and digital systems of representation, as well as mechatronic sculptures, generative sound scores, live data feeds and algorithmic processes, he creates narratives in which fiction blends with reality, suggesting possible scenarios of a near future and confronting the viewer with her fears and expectations about what machines can do. Luque’s installations are configured as autonomous and uncontrollable systems in which each element plays a role in both their functional and visual design. The machines are thus conceived not only in terms of the processes they carry out, but also as objects of aesthetic contemplation. Each artwork is divided into different parts or sections, that can be read as chapters of the same narrative, constitutive elements of a system, or attempts at exploring a single subject. This fragmentation counters the apparent oneness of the piece and the seemingly perfect operation of the machine. Failure and vulnerability are present in the way that these devices are forced to maintain delicate balances, pursue nonsensical dialogues, generate incomplete renderings of reality, and finally express themselves by means of a sound score that results from their own activity and the physical processes involved in it. The artist consciously plays with the contradictory perception of technology as purely functional while at the same time imbued with a mysterious purpose, and the fear that machines may replace humans. Inspired by science fiction, he draws from its aesthetic and conceptual foundations the tools to elaborate speculative narrations and address the spectator using preconceptions about technology in popular culture. The outcome is a series of artworks that fascinate by their technical elegance and intriguing opacity, at the same time attracting and distancing themselves from the viewer.

Born in 1982 in Vienna Johann Lurf has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Slade School of Art in London. He graduated from Harun Farocki’s film class in 2009. He received the State Grant of Austria for Video- and Media Art and participated in the Artist-in-Residence Programs at the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles 2011 and at the SAIC in Chicago 2015. His works have been internationally shown and awarded in numerous exhibitions and festivals.

In silent shots, Lurf offers a clip-like depiction of the Morris Reservoir near the Californian city of Azusa?a huge reservoir, which long served as a testing site for torpedoes , or rather, underwater warfare. RECONNAISSANCE targets details of the terrain in a seemingly motionless way, to unfold a subtle play with light and movement within this ?framing.? First is a stone wall on which the incidence of light begins to oscillate almost imperceptibly. Then come parts of the dam, ramp-like concrete colossi, obstructed sections of road, underground shafts; and also medium shots of the surroundings?all sublimely alienated. One alienating effect is the partially abrupt, and partially barely perceptible change of light. The other, much more ghostly, is the sliding movement of individual areas of the landscape or the building.

Born in Vienna in 1982. Since 2002 he has studied at Vienna´s Academy of Fine Arts. 2009 diploma at Harun Farocki´s filmclass.

"The work is a study on Refraction of light and sensations in a prism of the artist memories imprinted on Super8-mm film. Here black and white urban dreamlike scenes refract into restraint colors of the pristine northern landscape and pulsate in the rhythms and prophetic mutterings of a reggae guru."

Film and video artist, director and photographer. Head of the DodoFilm production company. Curator of the international art project ?Cultural Transit?. Member of the Norwegian film workers association - Norsk Filmforbund. Dimitri Lurie is a representative of the European art film community and has a particular poetic voice. His credo is to experiment with the visual nature of film and its atmosphere rather then direct storytelling. Dimitri has made more than twenty documentaries, short and experimental films along with various video art projects. Lurie?s photographs, video and film works are shown internationally at various film festivals and art exhibitions and have been marked with various prizes and awards.

Collider Games, en association avec Showtime, présente Twin Peaks VR experience. Conçue en collaboration avec David Lynch et son équipe pour recréer fidèlement le monde de Twin Peaks, l'expérience de RV immersive combine surnaturel, aventure et escape game, mettant le joueur au défi de résoudre des énigmes et d'explorer des environnements très élaborés, pour la première fois en réalité virtuelle. David Lynch déclare à propos de l'expérience RV : "Le monde tridimensionnel de la VR de Twin Peaks donne lieu à une expérience en 10 dimensions". Les joueurs peuvent revisiter plusieurs lieux de la série télévisée iconique, notamment la Salle rouge, le bosquet de Glastonbury, le bureau du shérif, les boîtes de verre d'observation et bien d'autres encore.

Le cinéaste et scénariste David Keith Lynch est né en 1946 dans le Montana, aux États-Unis. Son ambition première était de devenir peintre et, après avoir obtenu son diplôme de fin d’études secondaires en Virginie, il s’est inscrit à l’école du musée des Beaux-Arts de Boston. Plus tard, il a étudié à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Pennsylvanie. Il y réalise son premier film, une animation de 60 secondes intitulée Six Men Getting Sick (1967), pour un concours de peinture et de sculpture expérimentales. En 1970, Lynch devient étudiant au Center for Advanced Film Studies de l’American Film Institute (plus tard le Conservatoire AFI), où il commence à travailler sur son premier long métrage, Eraserhead (1977). Après le succès d’Eraserhead sur le circuit des films de minuit, Lynch est engagé pour réaliser le film biographique The Elephant Man (1980), qui lui vaut un succès grand public. Il est ensuite employé par le groupe De Laurentiis Entertainment et réalise deux films : l’épopée de science-fiction Dune (1984), qui se révèle être un échec critique et commercial, et le film policier néo-noir Blue Velvet (1986), qui suscite d’abord une controverse sur sa représentation de la violence, mais dont la réputation s’accroît par la suite jusqu’à ce qu’il soit acclamé par la critique. Lynch a ensuite créé sa propre série télévisée avec Mark Frost, le populaire roman policier Twin Peaks (1990-1991), qui a été diffusé pendant deux saisons. Il a également créé la préquelle du film Twin Peaks : Fire Walk with Me (1992), le road-movie Wild at Heart (1990) et le film familial The Straight Story (1999) à la même époque. S’orientant davantage vers le cinéma surréaliste, trois de ses films ultérieurs ont fonctionné sur des structures narratives non linéaires à logique onirique : Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) et Inland Empire (2006). Entre-temps, il a adopté Internet comme média et a produit plusieurs émissions en ligne, comme la série animée DumbLand (2002) et la sitcom surréaliste Rabbits (2002). Lynch et Frost se sont retrouvés en 2017 pour une troisième saison de Twin Peaks, diffusée sur Showtime. Lynch a co-écrit et réalisé chaque épisode, tout en reprenant son rôle à l’écran dans le rôle de Gordon Cole. En plus de l’écriture et de la réalisation, Lynch a souvent servi de concepteur sonore et a écrit la musique de ses films. Il a également continué à s’exprimer en tant que peintre, photographe et artiste d’installation.

A film about snow outside the window, tractors in convoys, children learning and breathing.

Magnus B. B. Lysbakken is a writer, director and cinematographer, working in the intersection between fiction, documentary. He started his career in the Danish film industry, where he made his screenwriting debut with the feature film «Lovers» in 2017, directed by Niels Kaa. In 2022 he graduated from the Norwegian Film School with a master’s degree in Directing Fiction, specializing in combining film production with social outreach. He also holds a BA in Film Science and a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen. Magnus’ films explore the social dynamics of small communities, with a special emphasis on the interactions between children and adults.