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A man spreads lime on a field in August, to prepare the earth for the autumn sowing. His action recorded and extracted from the surroundings and realistic conditions, becomes a ritual of a human caressing the land at dusk, reminding us of our relation and dependence to earth. The image obscured and slowed down confronts the viewer with an enigmatic time fragment of a ritual dance.

Vicky Betsou is a visual artist, working mainly with video installations. She lives and works in Athens. She studied Biology at Athens University, painting at Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA) and completed her MA in Digital Arts at ASFA (2000). She has been a teaching assistant in Multimedia and Video-art courses at ASFA since 2001 and in 2006 she was elected a Lecturer and is teaching Video Art in the graduate and postgraduate program at the same Institute. She has participated in research programs concerning Art and new Media and collaborated in E-Learning projects on Art education. Her work mainly addresses the complicated notion of time and memory, blurring the boundaries between objective and subjective time, emphasizing on the construction of temporal structures or the composition of time loops, engaged in the construction of multiple, multilevel narrations. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions and festivals in Greece and abroad.

This is a new inspector Rredick investigation. Nothing is said but all is known. Then, there is just to watch one another, to listen on another and to wait, the lie going on. When the words are gone, once read on faces. People live together, side by side, and that?s it. Sometime, they dream. A man dies, the first word is said. The death language is born

Born in 1972, august 13th, in a region called the Lot, in France. After university formation in cinema, he goes at L?École nationale supérieure Louis Lumière. He achieved his graduation work in 2003: « Temps Atomique » was screened for the first Paris Berlin International cinema festival first edition. Since, he essentially works on soap operas extracted images manipulation. ?Inspecteur Rredick? is his first opus.

Built during British colonial rule in 1930, the Kalurghat Bridge serves as a vital connection between the north and south of the greater Chittagong district of Bangladesh, bisected by the Karnaphuli River. Historically, this bridge facilitated communication between regions in south Chittagong, bridging the gap from British India. From the circle of my family ancestors, many left the southern part of Chittagong from the British period, particularly the partition period, to the Pakistan period and settled in different parts of this subcontinent. Then, during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971, some people in Bangladesh-India border areas took shelter for some time and worked in various ways for the freedom of the country. From the post-independence period to the present, many people from this southern region migrated to other countries outside the subcontinent for different purposes and reasons, including re-settlement in Chittagong City and Dhaka. These familial and local stories are not linear. Through different layered images on the bridge, the video features a female narrator, embodying the collective familial past. The narrative within the video is a fictionalised merge drawn from different stories and correspondences, further exploring familial history and connection.

Palash Bhattachajee has undergone a shift in his artistic journey, transitioning from academically focused printmaking toward multi-media, experimental art-practice via a close encounter with performance art activism. He takes critical interest in closely reading filmic genres and their performative idioms. The photo/videographic style and the eclectic selection of objects in his works are influenced by the cerebral matrix of contrapuntal, non-narrative aspect of deconstructed storytelling adopted from global cinema. Based and born in Chittagong, Bangladesh, he received his Master’s and Bachelor's degrees from the Department of Fine Arts, Chittagong University. He was awarded the Asia Pacific Fellowship Residency from MMCA Residency Goyang in 2011 and received a grant from Seoksu Art Project of Stone & Water, South Korea, in 2010. His works have been widely exhibited in Bangladesh, including at Chobi Mela 2021, Dhaka Art Summit 2012-2020, Asian Art Biennale 2012-2022, Dhaka, and internationally, including ‘Legacies of Crossings’, Shahnaz Gallery, London, UK 2024; NOmade Biennial, Art Center Gallery Elblag, Poland, 2023; Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2022; Colomboscope, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2022; ‘The Oceans and the Interpreters’ and ‘The Deep City’, Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan, 2020; ‘Seven Exhibitions’ at Exhibit 320, New Delhi, India, 2018; and many more.

A lighthouse on the mountains over Brunate, a beam of light incessantly rotating in the dark, shedding light over something which has remained in the shadows. It illuminates one house.  The house contains members of one family, portrayed in they daily life.  The story revolves around a specific moment in time, when Francesco, the eldest son, spends one year in jail. Around that time each one of the relatives exchanges letters with him. The Tyndall effect is a phenomenon of diffusion of light due to the presence of some particles in the air. It manifests itself, for example, when the car lights are turned on in a foggy day. The same effect is visible from the tower of the lighthouse looking towards the home of the Bianchi’s family.

Fatima Bianchi was born in Milano in 1981, she lives between Milano and Marseille. Her research focuses on the understanding of the individual, on his historical memory, his cultural and natural contest. Her artistic production is expressed through the medium of the video, the documentary and the site installation.

The video is an AI assisted meditation on self-help through extreme sonic manipulation, in a semi-erotic plastic dreamscape of watered down and for profit thanatotherapy, where new age imagery devolves into Cronenberg-esque mutations, in complete contrast with the chaotic and unpredictable sonic experiments which may or may not be useful in your personal quest to embetter your True Self™. The music is highly processed, with just a few audible artifacts left of the original code, drum kit and modular based sources, creating sounds that hopefully escape attempts at AI classification.

Matthew Biederman, b. 1972, Chicago Heights, IL, USA. Matthew Biederman works across media and milieus, architectures and systems, communities and continents since 1990. He creates works where light, space and sound reflect on the intricacies of perception. Since 2008 he is a co-founder of Arctic Perspective Initiative, with Marko Peljhan working throughout the circumpolar region. He has served as artist-in-residence at a variety of institutions and institutes, including the Center for Experimental Television on numerous occasions, CMU’s CREATE lab, the Wave Farm, th Finnish Bioarts Society and many more. His work has been featured at: Lyon Bienniale, Istanbul Design Bienniale, The Tokyo Museum of Photography, ELEKTRA, MUTEK, Ars Electronica, Bienniale of Digital Art (CA), Artissima (IT), SCAPE Bienniale (NZ) and the Moscow Biennale (RU), among others. Pierce Warnecke is a multidisciplinary digital artist. His work, on the border between experimental music, digital arts and video art, is influenced by the observation of the effects of time on matter: modification, deterioration and disappearance. He frequently collaborates with prominent figures such as Frank Bretschneider, Matthew Biederman, Yair Elazar Glotman and Keith Fullerton Whitman among others. He has presented his work in the form of performances, concerts and installations at MUTEK, ZKM, CTM, Elektra, KW Institut, La Biennale NEMO, Sonic Acts, Martin Gropius Bau, MAC Montreal, Scopitone, LEV Festival, SXSW, FILE, etc. Between 2017 and 2019 he composed several audiovisual pieces for the Institute for Sound and Music’s Hexadome project in Berlin, San Francisco, Montreal and more. His music has been published on raster-media (DE) and Room40 (AU), and he is represented by DISK Agency in Berlin.

In "The Hills Are Alive", an iconic scene from the beloved Hollywood musical "The Sound of Music" is transformed through a contrapuntal progression of split screen effects. The resulting mosaic reveals haunting melodies and reverberating dissonance.

Gregg Biermann was born in 1969 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated with Honours in Cinema from Binghamton University in 1991, and subsequently received an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has been making films, videos, and multi-media pieces since 1988. These works have been exhibited internationally including exhibitions at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium, the San Francisco Cinémathèque, the Pacific Film Archive, the Documentary Film Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago Filmmakers, the Massachusetts College of Art Film Society, the Ontario Cinémathèque, and the Deutsches Filmmuseum. His works and activities have received critical attention in the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Chicago Reader, and The Chicago Sun-Times. He has been collaborating with electronic music composer/performer Ron Mazurek for the past several years on a series of real-time music/video performances. He was a member of the Chicago x-film group, which mounted many programs of avant-garde films in and out of Chicago. More recently, he has done programming for the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema in New York. He has also written an avant-garde film including an article for the Millennium Film Journal on Nathaniel Dorsky's films, which was co-authored with his wife, Sarah Markgraf. Mr. Biermann has taught at Barat College, Horizons: the New England Craft Program, and is currently a Professor of Art at Bergen Community College.

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Hitchcock?s North by Northwest) is deconstructed and reassembled to illuminate the patterns, rhythms and choreography of the original so as to break through and make for an eight banded kinetic tour de force. As the piece progresses the temporal displacement of each band gets closer and closer until they all unite into a remarkable grand finale. --John Columbus, Black Maria Film and Video Festival

Gregg Biermann is a video and multimedia artist whose work comes out of the avant-garde filmmaking tradition. His work takes advantage of digital technologies to advance rigorous compositional strategies.

This is a recent piece in my series of computational transformations of iconic scenes taken from classic Hollywood films. Forty-one separate shots that have been appropriated and excised from the Hitchcock classic Vertigo are repeated and re-sequenced into a composite sequence of concentric rectangles. Each rectangle appears over the last and grows larger over time. The narrative of the original is all but lost and in its place is a hypnotic and meditative display of forms and sounds.

Gregg Biermann?s work is in the collection of FRAC Limousin has been exhibited internationally at Nam Jun Paik Art Center, Seoul, Korea; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Strasbourg; Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille; Film Festival of Experimental and Different Cinemas of Paris; Rencontres Internationales, Paris; Electrochoc Festival, Rhones-Alpes; Centre Images, Vendôme, France; Osterreiches Filmmuseum, Vienna, Austria; European Media Art Festival, Osnabruek, Hamburg Film Festival, Germany; The Caracas Contemporary Art Museum; The National Cinematheque, Venezuela; Media Art Friesland, IMPAKT Panorama, Noordelijk Film Festival, The Netherlands; Optica International Festival of Video Art, Gijon, Spain;VIDEOEX, Zurich, Switzerland and INVIDEO, Milan, and Abstracta, Rome, Italy. His work has also been exhibited in the USA at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts/San Francisco Cinematheque; Baltimore Museum of Art; Corcoran Gallery; Hunter Museum of American Art; National Gallery of Art; Cleveland Institute of Art; Anthology Film Archives; U.C. Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive; Centraltrak Gallery, Univ. of Texas at Dallas; Weisman Art Museum, Univ, of Minnesota; California Institute of the Arts; Los Angeles Filmforum/Echo Park Film Center; ArtPace San Antonio; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center; Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and the Jersey City Museum.

Un mouvement de caméra comme un balancement de tête, de gauche à droite. Si bien qu’il y a toujours ce qui sort et ce qui entre dans le champ. Dans ce trajet, l’œil caméra croise un papier, du papier peint, et plus loin encore, un miroir dans lequel se reflètent papier-peint et papier.

Marine Bikard est née en 1988 et diplômée de l’ENSBA - École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (France) en juillet 2020. Avant et en parallèle de ce cursus artistique, elle a travaillé comme sociologue et poursuit la réalisation d’enquêtes de terrain. Pendant ces cinq années passées à l’ENSBA de Paris, elle a travaillé dans les ateliers de Pascale Martine Tayou, Emmanuelle Huynh, Aurélie Pagès et Jean-Michel Alberola, et a régulièrement participé à des workshops de danse qui ont marqué son parcours, notamment sa rencontre avec la chorégraphe américaine Lisa Nelson. Depuis 2019, elle imagine des rencontres collectives pour explorer par le dessin différentes manières d’être avec ce qui nous entoure. En 2021, elle a été artiste en résidence à l’Embac – École municipale des beaux-arts de Châteauroux (France).

A day in a life of a family. A story of hands : hands that act, hands that assist, hands that dance till the end of the day.

Manuel Billi lives and works in Paris. Film critic and director, he has authored several essays on contemporary cinema. Since the year 2000, he has been collaborating with different Italian and French film magazines. In 2014 he directs his first experimental short film, Battre, enlever. His first fiction short, Ghosts of Yesterday (2017) has been premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Then, he alternates between fiction (ENTER, 2018, selected in more than twenty international festivals; Ten Times Love, 2020) and documentary (Guardarla negli occhi - La Regarder dans les yeux, official selection at the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro 2020).

« Maintenant, je suis partout » « Maintenant, je te suis partout ». Des paupières qui s’ouvrent et se ferment en battant le rythme d’une rencontre amoureuse. Des captations de téléphone portable qui enlèvent au réel le sentiment du vécu. "Battre, enlever" est un compte-rendu vraisemblable de faits qui n’ont pas eu lieu ou qui ont eu lieu autrement, le récit d’un amour qui bride et élève à la fois.

Manuel Billi est écrivain, scénariste et producteur. Co-fondateur du collectif d'artistes Le Gauche, il a réalisé plusieurs courts-métrages à partir de captations de téléphone portable. Depuis 2013, il travaille avec Christian Merlhiot sur le scénario d'un long-métrage de fiction.

Un panorama extrêmement lent sur des arbres sombres, contre un ciel au crépuscule. Tourné avec deux images par seconde, les mouvements des arbres semblent davantage être une photographie animée. Dans un silence complet, les arbres sont secoués par un vent fort, qui remue les couches et les textures de la forêt alors que, presque imperceptiblement, la caméra fait un panoramique de droite à gauche. C?est seulement lorsque la forêt s?éloigne que l?on prend conscience du mouvement de l?image, à la fois lentement et soudainement, juste comme la nuit qui prend la relève du jour et le calme qui succède à l?agitation. SWEEP possède certaines des qualités spatiales et temporelles habituellement associées à la peinture de paysage, de Ruysdael, Claude ou Poussin, Turner ou Constable, et manifeste du sentiment intense de l?environnement et de la nature de Richard Billigham. Il effectue une réappropriation contemporaine du paysage, dans ce mouvement de forêt lors d?une tempête. SWEEP a été projeté au festival de Locarno, et présenté au New Forest Pavilion à la biennale de Venise cette année

Richard Billingham est né en 1970. Il grandit dans une zone industrielle de Birmingham, alors très touchée par la crise économique. Il suit des cours à la fondation d?art de la ville et à l?université de Sunderland. Il prend des photographies de sa famille, et de son environnement immédiat. Ce travail photographique, intitulé « Who`s looking at the family », a été présenté à la Barbican Gallery, et dans de nombreuses expositions consacrées à l?art anglais. Billingham réalise aussi des vidéos, la plus connue est FISHTANK, qui reprend les mêmes éléments tirés de son environnement immédiat, et présente sa famille. FISHTANK est de type documentaire, mais avec des spécificités propres à un travail de plasticien, notamment l?utilisation que Billigham fait des très gros plans pour étudier le mouvement. Présenté en 1997 à la Anthony Reynolds Gallery, à Londres, il gagne en 1997 le prix de la Citybank, et est présent à Londres, Berlin, New York dans l?exposition de la collection Saatchi consacrée aux jeunes artistes britanniques. Il est nominé en 2001 pour le Turner Prize, avec sa vidéo RAY IN BED. Richard Billingham réalise actuellement des photographies de paysages non habités : terrains semi ruraux en déréliction, à l?arrière de murs de briques rouges, aire de jeux désertées dans les banlieues entre des blocs d?habitats sociaux, mais aussi des paysages infinis en pleine campagne, aux ciels orageux.

steve the hunter is walking in the snow. This the first snow. He`s wakes up very early. He kill the time and then, the beast. Who said : " A king without entertaining is a man full of misery" ?

Bineau Juliette is French, she was born in 74. She was an actress before making films. She made ​​Gertrud a remake of the eponymous film Dreyer C th and Head, from Sam Peckinpah. In 2013 she was is Laureat of the artist residency Hors les Murs residence, she works on a project about Robocop, memory of Detroit. (work in prn progress)

"God... took one of his "pleura" (rib or side), edified it to make a woman and brought it to adam..." Androgynous and cannibal utopia, "Pleura" declines in the union and the break-up of the lovers. Diptych : 1. In the glass elevator, nowhere in the middle of the outside, going up above an inaccessible garden, a man and a woman are muted with shameful thoughts. 3. They penetrate a seeping forest, it is after the fall, they're covered with mud or painted for a cannibal ritual. Androgynous deflowering, they dance between the branches, they chew a reptilian phallus...

Juliette Bineau was born in 1974. She studied at the Beaux-Arts of Rennes, then with the author - director Didier George Gabily. She's an actress, a performer in noise music bands, a cineast (Gertrud 2009, La Tête 2010, Robocop memory Room 2011). She meets the dancer Cécilia Bengoléa in 2005, during the creation of the music piece of the duo Chaignaud-Begoléa Pâquerette that she accompanies on the (tribal) drums in her band Minitel.

"Dieu? prit un de ses "pleura" (côte ou côté), l`édifia pour en faire une femme et l`amena à Adam?". Utopie androgyne et cannibale, Pleura décline en l`union et la séparation des amants. Dans l`ascenseur de verre, nulle part au milieu du dehors, s`élevant au dessus d`un jardin inaccessible, un homme et une femme sont tues de pensées inavouables.

Juliette Bineau Est né en 1974. Elle fait les beaux Arts de Rennes et suit l?enseignement de théâtre de l?auteur scène Didier George Gabily, ce qui la mène à être un temps comédienne et metteur en scène. Elle est aujourd`hui musicienne (batteuse du groupe de free noise psychédélique Minitel)vidéaste et performeuse. Depuis quelques années elle s?intéresse particulièrement au remake comme moyen de revisiter et de s?approprier de grandes formes cinématographiques, de remettre en jeu dans ses films des questions de théâtre (la répétition, l?interprétation d?une ?uvre). Elle réalise « Gertrud » d?après le « Gertrud » de Carl Th. Dreyer. Ce projet a été soutenu par la DRAC Île-de-France (Bourse individuelle à la création 2008) et est montré à la Fémis par le collectif Point Ligne Plan, au centre Culturel de la Récolta de Buenos Aires, au Film Festival de Rotterdam, à la Cinémathèque Française, au Palais de Tokyo? En 2009, elle réalise « La Tête « d?après Apportez-moi la tête de SamPeckinpah : Un road movie argentin, dans le cadre d?une résidence de Cultures-France, avec le concours de l?allocation Image mouvement

Road-trip, Argentine 2009. Un remake de « Apportez-moi le tête d?Alfredo Garcia » de Sam Peckinpah. Alfredo Garcia, l? homme que l?on recherche, est mort. Sa tête est mise à prix. Bennie convaint Elita de le conduire à sa tombe pour decapiter la tête du cadavre. Le couple roule au travers des montagnes arides du nord de l?Argentine, tels des Yankees traversant un purgatoire indien ....

Juliette Bineau Est né en 1974. Elle fait les beaux Arts de Rennes et suit l?enseignement de théâtre de l?auteur scène Didier George Gabily, ce qui la mène à être un temps comédienne et metteur en scène. Elle est aujourd`hui musicienne (batteuse du groupe de free noise psychédélique Minitel)vidéaste et performeuse. Depuis quelques années elle s?intéresse particulièrement au remake comme moyen de revisiter et de s?approprier de grandes formes cinématographiques, de remettre en jeu dans ses films des questions de théâtre (la répétition, l?interprétation d?une ?uvre). Elle réalise « Gertrud » d?après le « Gertrud » de Carl Th. Dreyer. Ce projet a été soutenu par la DRAC Île-de-France (Bourse individuelle à la création 2008) et est montré à la Fémis par le collectif Point Ligne Plan, au centre Culturel de la Récolta de Buenos Aires, au Film Festival de Rotterdam, à la Cinémathèque Française, au Palais de Tokyo? En 2009, elle réalise « La Tête « d?après Apportez-moi la tête de SamPeckinpah : Un road movie argentin, dans le cadre d?une résidence de Cultures-France, avec le concours de l?allocation Image mouvement.

In Canon: Taking to the Streets, Birnbaum breaks with traditional documentary format. Using tools from the low-end and high-end of technology, she episodically views recent events of student activism in the United States. This is a study of the 1987 Take Back the Night march on the Princeton University campus. Birnbaum's treatment of the original student-recorded VHS footage reveals this march as having the potential to develop political awareness through personalized experience. The students attempt to "put across a historical message" that was started in San Francisco in 1978: the protest of any form of violence against women. Take Back the Night now represents men and women, in solidarity with one another, marching against sexual violence of any kind. Here the activity remains specific to violence as perpetrated against persons in the Princeton community.

For four decades, Dara Birnbaum's pioneering works in video, media and installation have questioned the ideological and aesthetic character of mass media imagery, and are considered fundamental to our understanding of the history of media practices and contemporary art. Dara Birnbaum was born in New York City in 1946 where she continues to live and work. Dara Birnbaum received a B.A. in architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a certificate in video and electronic editing from the Video Study Center at the New School for Social Research in New York. Dara Birnbaum was one of the first artists to develop complex and innovative installations that juxtapose images from multiple sources while incorporating three-dimensional elements - large-scale photographs, sculptural or architectural elements - into the work. She is known for her innovative strategies and use of manipulated television footage. Birnbaum's work has been exhibited widely at MoMA PS1, New York (2019); National Portrait Gallery, London (2018); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (2018); South London Gallery, UK (2011); major retrospectives at Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal (2010) and S. M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (2009); Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu (2009); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2006); and The Jewish Museum, New York (2003). His work has been exhibited at Documenta 7, 8 and 9. Birnbaum has won several prestigious awards including: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021); The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts Residency (2011); the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2011); and the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship (2010). In 2016, she was recognized and honored for her work by The Kitchen, New York, at their annual gala. She was the first woman in video to receive the prestigious Maya Deren Award from the American Film Institute in 1987. In February 2017, Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art established the Birnbaum Award in her honour.

Explosive bursts of fire open Technology/Transformation, an incendiary deconstruction of the ideology embedded in television form and pop cultural iconography. Appropriating imagery from the 1970s TV series Wonder Woman, Birnbaum isolates and repeats the moment of the "real" woman's symbolic transformation into super-hero. Entrapped in her magical metamorphosis by Birnbaum's stuttering edits, Wonder Woman spins dizzily like a music-box doll. Through radical manipulation of this female Pop icon, she subverts its meaning within the television text. Arresting the flow of images through fragmentation and repetition, Birnbaum condenses the comic-book narrative — Wonder Woman deflects bullets off her bracelets, "cuts" her throat in a hall of mirrors — distilling its essence to allow the subtext to emerge. In a further textual deconstruction, she spells out the words to the song Wonder Woman in Discoland on the screen. The lyrics' double entendres ("Get us out from under... Wonder Woman") reveal the sexual source of the superwoman's supposed empowerment: "Shake thy Wonder Maker." Writing about the "stutter-step progression of 'extended moments' of transformation from Wonder Woman," Birnbaum states, "The abbreviated narrative — running, spinning, saving a man — allows the underlying theme to surface: psychological transformation versus television product. Real becomes Wonder in order to "do good" (be moral) in an (a) or (im)moral society."

For four decades, Dara Birnbaum's pioneering works in video, media and installation have questioned the ideological and aesthetic character of mass media imagery, and are considered fundamental to our understanding of the history of media practices and contemporary art. Dara Birnbaum was born in New York City in 1946 where she continues to live and work. Dara Birnbaum received a B.A. in architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a certificate in video and electronic editing from the Video Study Center at the New School for Social Research in New York. Dara Birnbaum was one of the first artists to develop complex and innovative installations that juxtapose images from multiple sources while incorporating three-dimensional elements - large-scale photographs, sculptural or architectural elements - into the work. She is known for her innovative strategies and use of manipulated television footage. Birnbaum's work has been exhibited widely at MoMA PS1, New York (2019); National Portrait Gallery, London (2018); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (2018); South London Gallery, UK (2011); major retrospectives at Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal (2010) and S. M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (2009); Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu (2009); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2006); and The Jewish Museum, New York (2003). His work has been exhibited at Documenta 7, 8 and 9. Birnbaum has won several prestigious awards including: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021); The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts Residency (2011); the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2011); and the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship (2010). In 2016, she was recognized and honored for her work by The Kitchen, New York, at their annual gala. She was the first woman in video to receive the prestigious Maya Deren Award from the American Film Institute in 1987. In February 2017, Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art established the Birnbaum Award in her honour.

Birnbaum manipulates off-air imagery from the TV game show Hollywood Squares in Kiss The Girls: Make Them Cry, a bold deconstruction of the gestures of sexual representation in pop cultural imagery and music. Minor celebrities (who Birnbaum terms "iconic women and receding men") confined in a flashing tic-tac-toe board greet millions of TV viewers, animating themselves as they say "hello." Birnbaum isolates and repeats these banal and at times bizarre gestures of male and female presentation — "repetitive baroque neck-snapping triple takes, guffaws, and paranoid eye darts" — wrenching them from their television context to expose stereotyped gestures of power and submission. Linking TV and Top 40, Birnbaum spells out the lyrics to disco songs ("Georgie Porgie puddin' and pie/kissed the girls and made them cry") with on-screen text, as the sound provides originally scored jazz interpolation and a harsh new wave coda. The result is a powerful, layered analysis of the meaning of the gestures of mass cultural idioms.

For four decades, Dara Birnbaum's pioneering works in video, media and installation have questioned the ideological and aesthetic character of mass media imagery, and are considered fundamental to our understanding of the history of media practices and contemporary art. Dara Birnbaum was born in New York City in 1946 where she continues to live and work. Dara Birnbaum received a B.A. in architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a certificate in video and electronic editing from the Video Study Center at the New School for Social Research in New York. Dara Birnbaum was one of the first artists to develop complex and innovative installations that juxtapose images from multiple sources while incorporating three-dimensional elements - large-scale photographs, sculptural or architectural elements - into the work. She is known for her innovative strategies and use of manipulated television footage. Birnbaum's work has been exhibited widely at MoMA PS1, New York (2019); National Portrait Gallery, London (2018); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (2018); South London Gallery, UK (2011); major retrospectives at Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal (2010) and S. M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (2009); Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu (2009); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2006); and The Jewish Museum, New York (2003). His work has been exhibited at Documenta 7, 8 and 9. Birnbaum has won several prestigious awards including: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021); The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts Residency (2011); the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2011); and the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship (2010). In 2016, she was recognized and honored for her work by The Kitchen, New York, at their annual gala. She was the first woman in video to receive the prestigious Maya Deren Award from the American Film Institute in 1987. In February 2017, Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art established the Birnbaum Award in her honour.

Commissioned by VideoGram International, Ltd., for a videodisc of music by Jimi Hendrix, Fire! uses the stylized visuals and pacing of a music video to critique the representational economies of sexuality and consumerism. Translating the psychedelic fervor of the Hendrix song into a contemporary visual vernacular, Birnbaum similarly recasts the lyrics' meaning. A young woman is the "protagonist" of a fragmented narrative in which Birnbaum re-frames images of American consumerism and commodities — fast food, cars, the exchange of money. Birnbaum calls attention to the woman's relation to the advertising image: she is consumed as she is consuming.

For four decades, Dara Birnbaum's pioneering works in video, media and installation have questioned the ideological and aesthetic character of mass media imagery, and are considered fundamental to our understanding of the history of media practices and contemporary art. Dara Birnbaum was born in New York City in 1946 where she continues to live and work. Dara Birnbaum received a B.A. in architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a B.F.A. in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a certificate in video and electronic editing from the Video Study Center at the New School for Social Research in New York. Dara Birnbaum was one of the first artists to develop complex and innovative installations that juxtapose images from multiple sources while incorporating three-dimensional elements - large-scale photographs, sculptural or architectural elements - into the work. She is known for her innovative strategies and use of manipulated television footage. Birnbaum's work has been exhibited widely at MoMA PS1, New York (2019); National Portrait Gallery, London (2018); Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (2018); South London Gallery, UK (2011); major retrospectives at Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal (2010) and S. M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (2009); Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu (2009); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2008); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2006); and The Jewish Museum, New York (2003). His work has been exhibited at Documenta 7, 8 and 9. Birnbaum has won several prestigious awards including: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2021); The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Arts Residency (2011); the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2011); and the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship (2010). In 2016, she was recognized and honored for her work by The Kitchen, New York, at their annual gala. She was the first woman in video to receive the prestigious Maya Deren Award from the American Film Institute in 1987. In February 2017, Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art established the Birnbaum Award in her honour.

Neuland - 7min 22sec - 4:3 - dv_pal - 2009 A dutch landscape. The video-work `Neuland` (Virgin Soil, Unknown Territory) belongs to a series of landscape studies. The definition of the `Argument` and the `By-work` is questioned. It remains unclear if the `Argument` refers to the subject aimed by the camera or the one passing by. The attention is turned to an artificial landscape which stands for modernity and progress. Routine reveals itself as mechanical ritual. Seen from this perspective there is no place for the individual.

Biography José Miguel Biscaya, born in Lisbon in 1973, is a Mixed-Media Artist and Curator living and working in Amsterdam. He graduated at the Sandberg Institute where he received his Master-degree in Fine Arts (MFA). His work has been shown in numerous international festivals and group-exhibitions. He co-curated and produced several shows, including Volume and Hiscox Art Award. In 2007, he created in association with Jonathan Sullam and Tom Hillewaere the Mobile Institute in Brussels. As a jury member of the Media Art Friesland commission in 2009, José co-curated and lined up the Friesland International Media Art Competition program. Currently he is working on a new series of video-works.

Inside a 1940?s film-noir set the FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone a.k.a. Donnie Brasco is questioned by the artist about his six years long undercover operation inside the American Mafia (1976-1982). Pistone was the first FBI agent able to infiltrate the New York mafia and report ?inside? information back to the FBI. His undercover role was so convincing that he was able both to involve some of the mafia members with criminal activities that were entirely set up by the FBI (The King?s Court Bottle Club) and also to introduce other FBI agents as ?criminal partners?. He created a complete fictional context that acted as a trap for the Mafia. In The Undercover Man, Joseph D. Pistone is not only a character but a living memory, the only person that knows what happened and contains all the information. Cinema, with all its devices of form and construction, is used as a reference point for what is real. The film is shoot in a specially designed and constructed film-set that revisit the noir aesthetic from the 1940s. The myth of the underworld, the double face of reality (dark and light, investigator and investigated) connects the story by Joseph D. Pistone both with the history of gangsters and with our knowledge of it given by the American cinema.

Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, Italy, 1978; lives and works in Rotterdam, Holland) is famous for her videos regarding the traces of lives of others, that are usually anonymous in history. They are sources that stimulate a reflection on the situation of (collective and personal) identity and memory, in present time. Her recent exhibitions include the solo shows: The Undercover Man, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL); You have to be focused, prometeogallery, former church of San Matteo, Lucca (IT); Everything is somehow related? site-specific project for Museion in Bolzano (IT) in 2008. Group shows: Cabinet of imagination, Netwerk, Aalst (BE); Peripheral vision and collective body, Museion, Bolzano (IT); Dai tempo al tempo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT) in 2008; Looking for the Border, De Garage, Mechelen / Cultuurcentrum Strombeek (BE); Premio NY, Italian Academy at Columbia Univesity, NY, (USA); Nessuna paura, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato (IT); Work_show in progress, Galleria Civica di Trento (IT) in 2007; Sense and Sensitivity, TENT Rotterdam Center for the Arts, Rotterdam (NL) in 2006; Adam, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (NL) in 2005. In 2007 her video The Sun Shines in Kiev won The City of Geneva Grand Prize at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l?image contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland), and the Golden Cow at Gstaadfilm, Gstaad (Switzerland).

A selection of inhabitants from the township New Crossroads (Cape Town), attempt to change the location with a not functional working intervention. In a public field, they build a tower of 5 meters by stacking beams of wood, painted in a vivid green. When the structure is at its highest point, other residents are invited to come and dismantle it, to take the materials to use for their own purposes. The ?tower? finds its meaning only after it is taken down and fragmented. The image of the tower like a unique symbol and reference point of the township fades away in the horizontality of the neighborhood.

The collaboration between the two artists Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, Italy, 1978) and Kevin van Braak (Warnsveld, The Netherlands, 1975) started with the project in the township of New Crossroads in Cape Town (South Africa). It is based on their common interest for the exiting relationship between the real, pure or idealist environment and the fictional, man-created context inside of the contemporary society. In their work these aspects come together. The collaboration started with the movie New Crossroads filmed in a township in Cape Town (South Africa). They worked together in different projects involving photography, installations and sculpture. In 2006 they directed a second movie, The renovation of the empty bath, about a renovation of a swimming pool in Rome, built during the fascist period. Together they have exhibited in the Fonds BKVB in Amsterdam (NL), in the American Academy in Rome and in Fondazione Adriano Olivetti in Roma (IT). As independent artists they have exhibited also in different galleries and museums.

Inside a 1940?s film-noir set the FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone a.k.a. Donnie Brasco is questioned by the artist about his six years long undercover operation inside the American Mafia (1976-1982). Pistone was the first FBI agent able to infiltrate the New York mafia and report ?inside? information back to the FBI. His undercover role was so convincing that he was able both to involve some of the mafia members with criminal activities that were entirely set up by the FBI (The King?s Court Bottle Club) and also to introduce other FBI agents as ?criminal partners?. He created a complete fictional context that acted as a trap for the Mafia. In The Undercover Man, Joseph D. Pistone is not only a character but a living memory, the only person that knows what happened and contains all the information. Cinema, with all its devices of form and construction, is used as a reference point for what is real. The film is shoot in a specially designed and constructed film-set that revisit the noir aesthetic from the 1940s. The myth of the underworld, the double face of reality (dark and light, investigator and investigated) connects the story by Joseph D. Pistone both with the history of gangsters and with our knowledge of it given by the American cinema.

Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, Italy, 1978; lives and works in Rotterdam, Holland) is famous for her videos regarding the traces of lives of others, that are usually anonymous in history. They are sources that stimulate a reflection on the situation of (collective and personal) identity and memory, in present time. Her recent exhibitions include the solo shows: The Undercover Man, Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam (NL); You have to be focused, prometeogallery, former church of San Matteo, Lucca (IT); Everything is somehow related? site-specific project for Museion in Bolzano (IT) in 2008. Group shows: Cabinet of imagination, Netwerk, Aalst (BE); Peripheral vision and collective body, Museion, Bolzano (IT); Dai tempo al tempo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT) in 2008; Looking for the Border, De Garage, Mechelen / Cultuurcentrum Strombeek (BE); Premio NY, Italian Academy at Columbia Univesity, NY, (USA); Nessuna paura, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato (IT); Work_show in progress, Galleria Civica di Trento (IT) in 2007; Sense and Sensitivity, TENT Rotterdam Center for the Arts, Rotterdam (NL) in 2006; Adam, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (NL) in 2005. In 2007 her video The Sun Shines in Kiev won The City of Geneva Grand Prize at the 12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l?image contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland), and the Golden Cow at Gstaadfilm, Gstaad (Switzerland).

A selection of inhabitants from the township New Crossroads (Cape Town), attempt to change the location with a not functional working intervention. In a public field, they build a tower of 5 meters by stacking beams of wood, painted in a vivid green. When the structure is at its highest point, other residents are invited to come and dismantle it, to take the materials to use for their own purposes. The ?tower? finds its meaning only after it is taken down and fragmented. The image of the tower like a unique symbol and reference point of the township fades away in the horizontality of the neighborhood.

The collaboration between the two artists Rossella Biscotti (Molfetta, Italy, 1978) and Kevin van Braak (Warnsveld, The Netherlands, 1975) started with the project in the township of New Crossroads in Cape Town (South Africa). It is based on their common interest for the exiting relationship between the real, pure or idealist environment and the fictional, man-created context inside of the contemporary society. In their work these aspects come together. The collaboration started with the movie New Crossroads filmed in a township in Cape Town (South Africa). They worked together in different projects involving photography, installations and sculpture. In 2006 they directed a second movie, The renovation of the empty bath, about a renovation of a swimming pool in Rome, built during the fascist period. Together they have exhibited in the Fonds BKVB in Amsterdam (NL), in the American Academy in Rome and in Fondazione Adriano Olivetti in Roma (IT). As independent artists they have exhibited also in different galleries and museums.

Interweaving stories inside a multi-storey car park.

This is a film poem about love. A Lebanese-American filmmaker photographs a woman in Paris: as a trapeze artist, a model, a lover, and a child. The film attempts to capture that moment between wakefulness and dream. It carries within it melancholy and loneliness, sadness and joy, adulthood and childhood. It evolves out of the metaphor that life is a circular journey whose end is "to arrive where we started / And know that place for the first time" (T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding).

Hisham Bizri is a Lebanese-American filmmaker born in Beirut. He has made several short films and has had retrospectives and screenings at Anthology Film Archives and MOMA in NYC, Centre Georges Pompidou and the Cinémathèque Française (Paris), Cairo Opera House (Egypt), among others. He has worked with Raùl Ruiz and Miklós Jancsó and was a jury member at several international film festivals, including the Chicago International Film Festival. Hisham has won several awards such as the Guggenheim and the American Academy Rome Prize. He is currently working on his feature "Until Morning" with producer Andrew Fierberg.

"Song for the Deaf Ear" is a film meditation on the insanity of war and violence in my country, Lebanon.

Hisham is a Lebanese filmmaker. He studies in the US with filmmakers Raoul Ruiz and Miklos Jancso and has lectured on film in the US, Lebanon, Ireland, Korea, France and in Japan. A big part of his work can be considered a meditation on the themes of exile and melancholy. His work has been shown throughout the Arab world and internationally, most notably at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Arab Film Biennale in Paris, the Milan Film Festival, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Institute of Arab World in Paris, the Harvard Film Archives in Cambridge, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the French Cinematheque in Paris, the Pompidou Center in Paris, and the Caire Opera amongst others.

Asmahan is the story of a woman who takes revenge on the man she thinks killed her husband, but falls in love with him in the process. During the filming, the actress in the film who sings the two beautiful songs on the soundtrack, dies in a car accident and the ending had to be changed so that her character would die also. Asmahan is a real person who was the quintessential figure of sin and freedom to the women in the Arab world. She left her home and husband in Syria in the 1930?s to pursue fame in Egypt. She was murdered in 1944 and her murder remains a mystery for she was believed to be a double agent, working for the British and Egyptian governments. Asmahan?s life was shrouded in myth and intrigue and several stories about her modern attitude towards life, her smoking and drinking, and her romantic liaisons continue to generate the aura around her even after her death. My film shows her aura through a cinematic language inspired by her music and life.

Hisham is a filmmaker from Lebanon. He has studied in the US with filmmakers Raoul Ruiz and Miklós Jancsó and lectured on filmmaking in the US, Lebanon, Ireland, Korea, France, and Japan. Much of his work may be viewed as meditations on the themes of exile and melancholy. These visual meditations are shaped by his personal experience of interceding between the Middle East of my Arab-Muslim upbringing and Anglo/European art and culture. Emerging from this personal context, his work reflects political and social concerns with contemporary Arab politics and culture and aesthetic concerns with painterly values and the poetics of modern life. His work has been shown in the Arab world and internationally, including Louvre museum (France), Biennale Des Cinema Arabes (Paris, France), Milan Film Festival (Italy), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Museum of Modern Art (New York), among others.

Asmahan is a visual and cinematic meditation with an avant-garde motif. Based on Asmahan's, (the Syrian/Egyptian singer 1912 - 1944), last film "Gharam Wa Intiqam" (Passion and Revenge, 1944), the film's cinematic form merges her songs with plot and actions to reveal an insight into the relationship between the star's tragic life, colonial Egypt, and the nature of cinema.

Hisham is a filmmaker from Lebanon. He has studied in the US with filmmakers Raoul Ruiz and Miklós Jancsó and lectured on filmmaking in the US, Lebanon, Ireland, Korea, France, and Japan. Much of his work may be viewed as meditations on the themes of exile and melancholy. These visual meditations are shaped by his personal experience of interceding between the Middle East of his Arab-Muslim upbringing and Anglo/European art and culture. Emerging from this personal context, his work reflects political and social concerns with contemporary Arab politics and culture and aesthetic concerns with painterly values and the poetics of modern life. His work has been shown in the Arab world and internationally, including at the Louvre (France), Cairo Opera House (Egypt), Biennale Des Cinema Arabes (Paris, France), Milan Film Festival (Italy), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), Harvard Film Archives (Cambridge), and the Museum of Modern Art (New York), among others.

Land Bodies, Decomposing Mass is an audiovisual collaboration between Ingrid Bjørnaali, Maria Simmons and Fabian Lanzmaier, focusing on preserved peatlands and their interpretation through various recording and 3D computing technologies. Through the use of photogrammetry, a technology that relates to satellite mapping and archiving of anthropocentric spaces and monuments, the biotope is interpreted bit by bit in an intimate, close-up interaction. The work explores specific peatlands in Finland, Norway and Canada from various perspectives, focusing on the idea of natural landscapes as sources as opposed to resources, and their capability or not to be translated to binary code.

Ingrid Bjørnaali is a multidisciplinary artist based in Oslo who records specific biotopes in various states of their ongoing world-building processes. Her works explore the omnipresence of the digital in our experience of the world as well as the inability of technology to articulate matter’s complexity. Recent exhibitions include Screen City Biennial, Berlin, Fabbrica Del Vapore, Milan, Charles Street Video, Toronto and Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM). Fabian Lanzmaier is a musician and sound artist living in Vienna. In his practice he explores perception and ideas of natural / artificial sounds, fluid and ambiguous environments. He works with real-time audio synthesis utilizing digital/analog physical modeling techniques and feedback networks to explore aspects of texture and structure of sound as well as its presence within space. Recent projects include: Artist in Residency at Wave Farm – NY, composition commission through INA - grm - Paris, AV - Performance at Fridman Gallery - NYC and Artist in Residency at EMS – Stockholm. Maria Simmons is a Canadian symbiontic artist who investigates potentialized environments through the creation of hybrid sculptures and installations. Her work embraces contamination as an act of collaboration. She collects garbage, grows yeast, ferments plants, and nurtures fruit flies. She makes art that eats itself. Recent solo exhibitions include the Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Trinity Square Video, and Centre3.

The short film UNCERTAINTY is like Ouroboros, has no beginning and no end. The important aspect of the plot is constant change of the perspective between the observer and the observed person. This endless inversion and slow close-ups create the atmosphere of uncanny epidemic. Uncertainty is the effect of being infected by a microbe which forced a victim to intense observation of the surrounding world. The final aim is to not get concentrated on any specific element or quality but to exceed the cognitive habits. The suspended certainty of the existence forces all observers to look through the images of so-called reality. Their behavior may look absurdly, although it’s based on the promise given by our culture: there must be something beyond the visible world.

Born in 1980 in Wroclaw, Poland where he lives and works. Since 2004 studied at The Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Wroclaw. Received MA Degree in Media Arts in 2011. Founder and director at EMDES gallery which existed between 2009 and 2011.