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In a far away village Hai Hau of Vietnam, a group of Christians are building a spaceship to fly to the moon.

Cao Viet Hoai Son (Cao Viet Hoài S?n) was born in 1994, Hanoi, Vietnam. He was a film student in a collaborate course of Hanoi Academy of Theatre & Cinematography and Belgium Institut Supérieur des Arts. He is interested about human connections and inner desires

This video explores a kind of functionality of certain things in an apparent state of naivety: an art book becomes a model of exercises over the human body.

Gustavo Caprín was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1968. He majored in Painting at the Prilidiano Pueyredón Fine Art School of Buenos Aires in 1992, and finished Advanced Postgraduate Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain in 2005. Since 1994 his work has been shown regularly in individual exhibitions. The most recent include exhibitions at the Casa Elizalde (Spain, 2003), the Ross Farell Gallery, (USA, 1999), and the Fernán Félix de Amador Museum (Argentina, 1997). He has also participated in numerous group shows in the USA (Kantor Gallery, 121 Gallery/Los Angeles,), Spain (Casa de America/Madrid, Casa de Cultura/Girona), Italy (Casa Argentina/Rome, Unimovie Festival/Pescara), Canada (6th Biennale Champ Libre/Montreal, Shift Gallery/Toronto), Colombia (Museo de Arte Moderno/Bogotá), Perú (Centro Cultural España/Lima), as well in as other European and South American countries. During 1999/2000, he lived in Pasadena (CA), USA. Since 2001 he has been living and working in Barcelona, Spain.

An old couple dance a tango with no music.

caraballo-farman is a two-person team based in New York. They have been collaborating on various art projects for five years. As a team, they have shown their work in various international venues, and have won several awards and grants.

A film is being projected in a bedroom where a woman sleeps. The character of the film speaks of the future of humanity and his words penetrate the woman's head invading her subconsciousness.

Eneos Çarka (1996, Albania) began his film education at University of Arts of Albania graduating in Film Directing. As a recipient of the Government Fund of Excellence Scholarship, he was awarded an MA degree in Film Studies with Distinction from University College London. He is currently part of the 8th generation of DocNomads, an Erasmus Mundus Conjoint Masters on Creative Documentary. His short documentaries focus on character studies and often deal with the themes of identity, migration and family relations. He pays particular attention to issues of representations experimenting with various approaches to documentary cinema. His first feature-length documentary is currently in post-production.

My meditation on the romance of "The Wild West": pure spatial motion. I explore the virtual potential of the horizon line while framing that spatial experience.

Maïa Cybelle Carpenter is a moving-image artist and curator born in 1975 and raised between New York and the South of France. She completed her BA in Women`s Studies/Film Theory from Barnard College, Columbia University (1997), and has an MFA from the Film/Video/New Media Dept. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001). She currently resides in San Francisco and New York City. Her films and videos have been exhibited internationally in film festivals, cinematheques, museums, art centers and galleries. Selected exhibitions have included: Ars Electronica, Pacific Film Archives, The Ontario Cinematheque, Anthology Film Archives, Exit Art Gallery NY, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris Cinema de la Clef ?Cinemas Differents?, Telluride International Experimental Film Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The InterMedia Arts Center of Minneapolis, The Taiwan Cinematheque, PBS Television, Eye Drum Gallery, and recently, the First International Film Festival of Sexuality and Gender Plurality in Mumbai, India. The Spring 2003 International Film and Video Journal includes a limited edition DVD and theoretical essay written by Mary Slaughter about Maia?s first 16mm work, Site Visit. The San Francisco Cinematheque recently presented a mini- retrospective of her work at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as part of their ?Fresh Eyes Series? (Oct. 2002). In addition to her artistic production, Maïa has been actively curating film and video programs since 1996. In 1997 she served as the Programming Coordinator for MIX NYC: The New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival and has subsequently curated programs for this festival. She was also a Judge for Women in the Directors Chair 20th Anniversary Film/Video Festival in 2000, and a judge on the New York Foundation for the Arts Video Artist Fellowship Panel for the 2002 granting cycle. In the summer of 2004 she was a visiting curator for Pleasure Dome in Toronto, Ontario. She is currently a curator for the San Francisco Cinematheque, a member of Canyon Cinema, and The Golden Gate Awards Coordinator and Short Films Programmer for the San Francisco International Film Festival. Maïa has taught hand-processing and alternative film technique workshops and given guest-artist lectures at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Academy of Arts in San Francisco, at Mills College, Liason of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and at Phil Hoffman?s Independent Image-Making Retreat in Ontario, Canada. Maïa s new 16mm film Working Portraits screened as a work in progress in the 2005 editions of MIXNYC, Inside/Out, and Outfest. Her video installation piece, Lasso screened as a work-in-progress at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in a San Francisco Cinematheque program in December 2004. In current production is a feature-length bi-lingual (French & English), experimental narrative 16 mm film titled Nous (Us). Her work is distributed by Canyon Cinema and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.

Burn Out, 2009 16mm transferred to DVD Duration 4 mins 53 secs

In the video "Contact" Sidse Carstens seeks to change our collective awareness of Marilyn Monroe through rituals and manifestations in collaboration with performance artist Ramona Macho and a spiritual medium.
"Contact" has been exhibited i connection with "Mirror Mirror" at The Black Diamant, Copenhagen.

Sidse Carstens lives and works as film director and visual artist in Copenhagen, Denmark. 
Main themes in the works of Sidse Carstens are displacement and transformation. Through film, video and images she examines the transition between fiction and reality. 
She is educated as an animation director from The National Film School of Denmark. Sidse Carstens is a member of the Danish Film Directors Association, and her work is supported by i.a. The Danish Filminstitute / filmworkshop and The Danish Arts Agency. Her films are exhibited and screened both in Denmark and internationally. Together with the Danish writer Katrine Grünfeld, she is the director of an artists? workspace and salon in Copenhagen.


Show Dream is an emotionally disturbing film. It explores the world of transformation and dreams. The conjurer, the avenger, the woman with a new face, the horse and the egg woman is the four characters presented in Show Dream The film is a metamorphosis, we are thrust straight in to the middle of the story. There is no explanation to the rising questions; what?s burning? Why is that woman being made up? Where is she going? In Show Dream we detect the story before it happens ? something happened before we enter the scene ? and we leave the stage before the story ends. These unfinished stories, events before events will stick with the viewer long after the film finishes.

Sidse Carstens (1971) graduated in 2000 as an Animation Director from The National Film School of Denmark. She now works as Film director and visual artist in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her films have been screened at some of the most well renowned museums and galleries in Denmark and international at festivals. Her work is funded by Danish Film Institute and The Danish Arts Agency. Recently Sidse Carstens directed several music videos for the Danish band "Under Byen". She teaches courses in artfilm at The National Film school and recently guest edited a volume of the Danish Film director Association Magazine. In the summer of 2010 Sidse Carstens was invited to Northcap Norway, as Artist in Residency there. She is currently finishing a new film shot in Norway during her residency.

L`immobilité physique bascule vers une fissure dans le temps. Tout s`effondre dans une expérience de lumière, de bruit et de mouvement.

While the elite gangs of state and capital become evermore faceless, their fear of the faces of the everyday resistance grows. Yet, somehow the victims of their power - the poor, the oppressed, the broken and desolate - are always voiceless and are always faceless. Today we shall give this resistance a face: for by putting on our masks we reveal our unity; and by raising our voices in the street together, we speak our anger at the facelessness of power.

Born in 1969, Charley Case studied graphic design at the Brussels' La Cambre and he has made illustrations and designs for various international newspapers and projects. After collaborations with different activist groups he began to work independently for the Sangam collective. He picks his medium ? photography, film, painting, graphics, and performance ? in function with his objective. Most of his themes are marked by social awareness and rooted in conflict, between images and meanings, within contexts and among people. His work has been shown, amongst others, at The Fifart Festival International du film sur l?art in Lausanne, the Dallas Video Festival and the MACBA museum in Barcelona.

Leganés Street, for example. Leganés St. doesn`t want to disappear; as soon as the inhabited homes empty the buildings will be demolished to keep on constructing. advancing ruthlessly, the bulldozers don`t care about memories? they don`t ask? they don`t hesitate.

ZAUNKA was founded in 2004 by Dani Castillo and Quique Corrales. Their work talk about the relationship between people and their enviroment in contemporary world. They try to explore our society, developing projects between Art and Documentary. Dani Castillo (Vitoria 1974). Photographer and filmmaker. Specialist in on-line image solution. Quique Corrales (Madrid 1969). Photographer and filmmaker. Teaching Art and Photography in Universidad Europea de Madrid.

Public and private spaces make people develop political and social questions reaching beyond localities, widening questions about their role in the formation of political subjectivity. "Everywhere´s local" intends to examine how conventions about mobility as counter resistance affects identities of individuals and small communities as well as in working places and private locations; how these conventions speak about subjectivity ; their way of quest political and social visibility, and whether actions of reciprocity might be the source of mutual support allowing civilians to activate endurance in the development of social structures. The piece investigates the role of the aesthetic vision within the process of objectification, juxtaposing documents of daily practices where individual actions become the apparatus that institutions use to master control and by doing so reducing civilians as objects. Spaces create distinctive features for subjectivity to be activated where meanings of defiance alongside civil resistance are deepened inside description of subjectivity within differentiation of forms. Where actions are endorsed by connotation and not by their visible value. Interpretation of actions are investigated as potential fields, where their manifestations compared coloured smokes, aim to empower people visibility and at the same time longing to dismiss a system.

education: 1989/9 Institute for Arts and Restoration, Palazzo Spinelli. MA(Diploma) in Painting Conservation and Restoration on wood and canvas, Florence Italy, 1999/02 Academy of Arts, Painting department Bologna, Italy. 2004/06 LHÍ University of Arts, BA in Fine Arts Reykjavík, Iceland. 2006/07 LHÍ University of Arts, MA (I grade) Art Education, Reykjavík, Iceland. 2012/14 Goldsmiths University of London MFA in Fine Art. awards: 2010- 1 Year Research Prize from the Visual Artists Foundation of Iceland 2010- Art Prize from the Guðmunða Andresdottir Cultural Foundation for Postgraduate studies in Art. 2012-“Visual Art Award” Icelandic Prize as the best artist of the year 2012. 2013- 6 Months Research Prize from the Visual Artist foundation of Iceland grants: 2007- Travel Grant from the Icelandic Ministry of Education and Culture, for cultural exchanges between Greenland, Iceland and Foræ Islands. 2010-Travel Grant from MUGGUR, Artist Foundation of Iceland 2011-CIA International Travel grant, from the Centre for Icelandic Art residency/ workshops: 2008 Kangerullussuak Atuarfiat, Nuuk, Greenland. Two weeks workshops with pupils from secondary local schools, deepening questions around issues on memories and cultural connotations. 2008 Silamiut Theatre Nuuk, Greenland/ Theatre rehearsals with students from schools 2010/11 Circle Scandinavo in Rome/ Hosted performances and seminars on the rhetoric of language. group exhibition: 2008 After Urban - University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA – USA. New Media & Video Festival at the Indiana University Art Gallery, USA. Art & Architecture event at Monkey town in Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York. The law of dialectic at The New Branch “Grassroots’ 2008”, the Icelandic emergent artist Exhibition in Hjalteyri, Iceland. The entropy of landscape /God words Municipal Art Museum of Akureyri. 2009 Communism didn´t happen /Solitude Landscape, Exhibition at the Kulturhaus in Ahrenshoop, North-east Germany. Sometimes they’ll return Exhibition at the Natural History Museum of Kopavogur in Reykjavik, Iceland. ATTITUDE Festival- Centre for Contemporary Public Arts - Bitola, Macedonia. 2010 Anamnesis/ be known to knowledge, at the Árnesinga Art Museum in Hveragerði, Iceland DRA the Dieter Roth Academy in Hjalteyri Iceland 2011 In between ,Hafnaborg Hafnafjörður, Iceland 2012 The painting site Akureyri Municipal Art Museum 2014 Big Screen/Latitude Festival Southwold , Suffolk UK. 2014 6th Cairo Video Festival. Medrar films Cairo, Egypth

The video "Il tuo paese non existe" is a recording of a staged public musical performance in Venice. Appropriating the cliché and reality of the gondolier and the serenade, a mezzo soprano sings a contemporary serenade acompanied by a trumpet and a guitar, while floating in a gondola through the canals of the city. The lyrics, which were composed by the artists, are comprised of the following sentence in several languages: ?This is an announcement from Libia and Ólafur: your country doesn?t exist, your country doesn?t exist?. This statement is intertwined with phrases appropriated from a text by writer and curator Antonia Majaca, in which she reflects on their ongoing project ?Your Country doesn?t Exist?. The artists collaborated with the Icelandic composer Karólína Eiríksdóttir, who wrote the score. The video was shot at various locations across the city, in the afternoon and during the golden hour on two spring days in early May. It is an edit of several versions of the performance, these having been performed over the course of the journey, against the background of the city?s everyday life and the omnipresent reality of tourism.

Berlin and Rotterdam based artists Libia Castro (Spain) and Ólafur Ólafsson (Iceland) met in the Netherlands in 1997 and have been collaborating since. Exploring the relationships between art, everyday life, sociopolitical and cross-cultural issues, the artists have built up a body of work using a variety of media. Their practice is among other concerned with the ways in which globalization has affected local cultures, transformed national industries and led to an increase in mobility while deepening social injustices. Castro & Ólafsson?s situated projects, often made in collaboration with other artists, professionals, local citizens, decision makers, activists and illegal immigrants alike, serve as catalysts within given contexts. They operate by assembling, re-presenting and destabilising heterogeneous elements ? specific conflicts, inconspicuous social groups, etc. ? back to the host community through documentary videos, public performances, sculpture, photography, interventions and multimedia installations. Castro & Ólafsson represent Iceland at this year´s 54th Venice Biennial. They have furthermore shown in international exhibitions at major museums, contemporary art centres, galleries and biennials. In 2008 they participated in Manifesta 7 and in 2009, were awarded third place in the prestigious Dutch art prize, Prix de Rome, for their video work Lobbyists. 

Babel is a video taken with a cellphone camera. A scafolding its being constructed over the roof of some building without any apparent reason. The idea of contemplation its a fundamental principal in my video works , Babel its made from basic video tools, like cell pone cameras and photo digital cameras, the video was editing from this small cuts during a week, showing the process of construction as a methaphore of how the cities and its usuaries grows, get empowerment or loss everything in a second. The title Babel comes from the ancient history of the tower, in many ways big metrópolis and its biggest owners such as: enterprises, coorporations, goverments, and privates are represented trough the idea of high and big towers or construcrions to reflect their power, making this as a global and in some occasions a trendy effect.

Anibal Catalan was born in 1973 in the small Mexican village of Iguala. He attended the School of Architecture at Anahuac University, Mexico City (1993-1997) and earned his MFA from the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, La Esmeralda, Mexico City (2006). He has had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (2008); Brasilea Kulturhaus, Switzerland (2006); Gallery 415, San Francisco (2007) and National Center for the Arts, Mexico City (2004). Catalan?s work has also been included in the group exhibitions Qui Vive? at I Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2008); Festival Miden Kalamata, Grecce(2009), Its not Easy ,Exit Art. New York (2008); Draw In 00130 Gallery, Helsinki Finland (2008); VIII Biennial Monterrey FEMSA, San Idelfonso Museum, Mexico City (2007); Shangri L.A. Architecture as a State of Flux, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica CA. (2009) and Mexi-Cali Biennial 09-10, Los Angeles (2009). His works are represented in collections such as: Artists Pension Trust APT (USA), Mexic-Arte Museum (USA), Sayago & Pardon Collection (USA), National Auditórium(MEX)

With 'MSR' we are set amidst the vast emptiness of the Kuwaiti desert where, to a great extent, the landscape has been claimed by two imperious industries, that is, the oil companies and the military machine that protects their interests. As they both make great effort to keep their stealthy activities concealed, the landscape, as we perceived it, is somehow being held hostage in a state of suspense… Located next to the 'Main Supply Route' (the route designated within an area of operations upon which the bulk of traffic flows — hauling beans, bullets and fuel — in support of military operations), we are confronted with a sequence of documentary footage that puts the focus on the travails and tactics of 'survivors', i.e. a pack of stray dogs that dwells within the boundaries of a dystopian world. In order to outlive an enraged desert storm, they seek shelter behind scattered pieces of waste and continuously dig holes in the sand, determined to withstand their antagonistic environment.

Wim Catrysse (°1973 born in Leuven, lives and works in Antwerp) gained a Masters degree in Visual Arts at the Higher Institute St-Lukas, Brussels in 1997. From 1997 to 2000, he followed a post-program course at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) in Anvers followed by a one-year course at The Glasgow School of Art. Ever since the late 1990s Catrysse has been surveying the confines of visual constructions in his video installations, taking an architectural structure or the topographical features of a site as his starting point. He translates this investigation into cinematographic works in which the exposing and balancing of elementary forces play an essential role. The result is an accumulation of images that jerk us out of our comfort zone, that convey a physical threat, images that have about them something unheimlich and often unseat the obviousness of our most common perceptions. Moreover, Catrysse`s particular artistic method combines two apparently irreconcilable extremes: impulsiveness, physical directness, intuition and experimentation (almost nothing is worked out in detail beforehand) on the one hand and on the other an acute artistic and technical reasoning that can sometime lead to complex cinematographic image constructions.

Wim Catrysse est né en 1973 à Lovent en Belgique. Il a étudié à l?institut supérieur de Saint-Lukas de Brussel (1993 - 1997) et a obtenu un Master en arts visuels. En 1997 ? 2000, il a suivit le post-programme Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK), d?Anvers en Belgique. En 2000-2001, il a suivit le post-programme de la Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, au Royaume-Uni.Son projet pour 2006-2007 : Künstlerhaus Bethaniën, Berlin, Allemagne.

“ A transfixing look at how Belgian artist filmmaker Wim Catrysse surveys the dynamics of self-constructed, architectural settings or the fictitious characteristics of phenomenal environments ? dissecting subjectivity and thereby also the illusion of control. His films and video installations challenge both participants and viewers in a primordial way through the evocation of vertigo. This precondition of boundaries operates to expose the observer to underlying motives. His artistic approach combines intuition with technical reasoning, which often leads to complex, cinematographic image constructions. ”

Born 1973 in Leuven (BEL) Lives and works in Antwerpen (BEL) Studied at ESA St-Luc Bruxelles (BEL), Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Anvers( BEL) and The Glasgow School of Art (GBR)

F FOR FAKE by Filipa César When the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden`s green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: "It`s pretty, but is it Art?" (?) Rudyard Kipling F for Fake is a video on truth, lies, forgery and authorship concerning both art and life. Selecting Orson Welles last feature film as a departure point, Filipa César adds one more level to this meta-narrative by introducing 5 new characters: a lawyer, an actor, a writer, an art-critic and a guinea pig who play themselves and the roles of the characters Elmyr de Hory, Oja Kodar, Orson Welles, Clifford Irving and the guinea pig, Monsieur Hugo, who stars as Howard Hughes. F for fake is a movie where an intriguing lack of correspondence can be found between the levels of form and content, for if F for Fake displays a quite romantic concern with expertise and the author?s signature, it, for sure, displays it under a quite (post-) modern structure; meaning that its TV-styled editing techniques spell an altogether different reality from the one they depict. Thereby "what is said" and ?how it is said? belong to different tracks. As a narrative, the movie tells us about a biding connection between deed and doer and the whole ethical demeanour that springs thereof, namely the value of authorship and the chimerical crediting of symbolic totality upon the artistic. However if we place ourselves at the level of montage, we belong to a world acutely aware of its own mediaware, which utters its rived reality by displaying its own devices. This world, which is nonetheless our own, begotten by cinema among other discrete technologies, cannot help to look back at the world which preceded it, and deem it the real deal. While dwelling in its schizo nature, at once raving and mocking its cultural heritage, namely painting and literature, it nonetheless always already comments it. Using, by her turn, video as a means of commenting on a cinematographic device, and quoting the movie?s own editing techniques, Filipa César makes the leap into the electronic era, coming full circle with Orson Welles. F for Fake becomes an ongoing process of juxtaposition and insertion where we are never in or out the film since in and out have long became a mere point of view, being the sender-receiver poles inter-exchangeable. F for Fake, 2005: Video, PAL, colour, sound, 19` 04?? Edition of 3.

Filipa César Born in Porto 1975 Lives and works in Berlin 1999 Graduated in Fine Arts ? Painting at the Fine Art Faculty, University Lisbon 1996 BA in Fine Arts ? Painting at the Fine Art Faculty, University Porto Grants and Prizes 2007 Fellow Artist, HFF Konrad Wolf, Potsdam 2005 Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Ringbahn Project 2003-04 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Grant, Berlin 2003 União Latina Preis, Lisbon 2002 Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes Grant, Bad Ems 2001 Post-Graduation ? DAAD Stipendium, Munique 2000 Young Creators ? Centro Nacional de Cultura Stipendium, Lisbon Solo Exhibitions 2007 Allee der Kosmonauten, Museu Atelier António Duarte, Caldas da Rainha (curated by David Etxeberria) Rapport Raccord, Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid 2006 Filipa César, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich F for Fake and Ringbahn, Sint-Lukas Gallery, Brussels ( curated by Filip Luycky) 2005 Ringbahn, Serralves Museum, Porto (curated by João Fernandes) Berlin, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv Ringbahn, Küchenstudio, Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin F for Fake, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon Aura, Galeria Espacio Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid 2004 Transmediterráneo, Centre d?Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona (curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez) Berlin Zoo, Part 02, Project Space, Karlsplatz ? Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna Menschen Tiere Attraktionen, bergstueblPROJEKTE, Berlin 2003 Product Displacement, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon 2002 Sets for thoughts, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon Hotel, Emser Arkaden, Bad Ems SlowMotion, Estgad, Caldas da Rainha and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Group Shows (selection) 2007 Stream, White Box, New York (curated by João Silvério) Art Summer University, Tate Modern, London (curated by Manuel Saiz) Por Entre as Linhas, Museu das Comunicações, Lisbon ( curated by Isabel Carlos) Shot an go, Isola di San Servolo, Venice (curated by Raffaele Gavarro) In the Eye of the Storm, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen (curated by Konrad Bitterli) Unversagt, Das Hotel Balzer!, Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems (curated by Rainer Hofmann) Sines Local, Emmerico Nunes Cultural Center,, Sines (curated by Isabel Silva) 2006 Tales from the Travel Journal Vol. 1 CAC Vilnius (curated by Catherine Hemelryk) Concrete language, CAG, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver ( curated by Christina Ritchie) Urban Spaces, Galerie Dina 4, Munique (curated by Patricia Drück) Das Fest, Residenz der Portugiesischen Botschaft in Berlin (curated by Ana Pinto) Diegesis, Schleswig Holsteinhause, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, 16. Filmkunstfest, Schwerin (curated by Nuno Faria) Sede e Museu da F.C.G: A Arquitectura dos anos 60, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (curated by Ana Tostões) 2005 Portugal Novo: Artistas de Hoje e amanhã, Pinacoteca, São Paulo (curated by Alexandre Melo) Tableaux Vivants, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Serralves, Porto (curated by Ulrich Loock und Sandra Guimarães) Temporary Import, Artforum, Berlin (curated by Suzanne Titz) In Progress, 58. Internationales Film Festival in Locarno, Locarno Art Unlimited, Basel (curated by Simon Lamunière) Artstars-Shooting Star, ON25, Luxemburg (curated by Diana Baldon) 60th Anniversary of ONU, NUOI, Geneva (curated by Simonetta Luz Afonso) Portugal: Algumas Figuras, Alameda Art Laboratory (LAA), Mexico City (curated by João Pinharanda) 2004 Video Zone, 2nd International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel (curated by Sergio Edelsztein) Believe it or not, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (curated by C. Burbaum, M. Röhrborn und O. Pietsch) Continental Breakfast, 45 October Salon, Cultural Center, Belgrade (curated by Anda Rottenberg) Close by (Time Space Architecture), Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Re-Produtores de Sentido, SESC Rio, Rio de Janeiro (curated by Miguel Von Hafe Pérez) Carte Blanche, Théâtre des Salins (curated by Rui Pedro Morais) Video Shop, Intervenciones en la calle Alfonso, Zaragoza (curated by Pilar Cruz and Maribel Perpiñá) True Lies, Kallmann-Museum, Munique (curated by Reinhard Spieler) Arte Contemporânea na Assembleia: César, Queiroz, Sendas, Vasconcelos, Palácio de S. Bento, Lisbon (curated by Simonetta Luz Afonso) SESIÓN CONTINUAD VIDEO, Galería DV, San Sebastián, (curated by Margarita Sanchez) PØRTUGÅL- 30 artists under 40, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo (curated by Pedro Portugal) True Lies, Franz Gertsch Museum, Bern (curated by Reinhard Spieler) Meeting between 2 Collections: Serralves Foundation ? ?La Caixa? Foundation, Caixa Forum, Barcelona 2003 Off Loop`00, Post-Portugal, met. Room, Barcelona (curated by Pilar Cruz and Maribel Perpiñá) Otras alternativas. Novas experiencias visuales en Portugal, MARCO, Vigo (curated by David Barro) Trabalho, Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra (curated by Albano da Silva Pereira und Miguel Amado) Poetic Justice, 8. Istanbul Biennial, Yerbaten Cistern, Istanbul (curated by Dan Cameron) União Latina Prize, Culturgest, Lisbon Balmoral in Berlin, Landesvertretung Rheinland-Pfalz, Berlin Cutting Edges, ARCO, Madrid (curated by Miguel von Hafe Pérez) 2002 Video Lounge, Art Basel, Miami Contemporary Art from Portugal, European Central Bank, Frankfurt (curated by Pedro Lapa/ Heike Sutter) Video Zone, 1st International Video Art Biennial, Tel Aviv, Israel (curated by Miguel Wandschneider/ Catarina Campino) Seiten, Antiquariat Gundel Gelbert, Cologne Home Sweet Home, MAN, Nuoro (curated by Chiara Leoni) and then there were nine, Kulturamt in der Fruchthalle, Kaiserslautern (curated by Andrea Edel) Narrando Espaços, Tempo, Histórias?, XXVII Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra, Pontevedra (curated by Maria de Corral) Deutsches Eck, Galerie Václava Spály, Prag (curated by Jiri Suruvka) Expect the world, moi non plus, Sparwasser HQ and Parkhaus, Berlin (curated byAna Pinto) 2001 Voyager ? Experimenta Design, Lisbon (curated by Pedro Gadanho) Situation Zero, Yerba Buena Center for the arts, San Francisco (curated by René de Guzman) Night Visions ? Schnittraum, Ludwig Museum, Cologne (curated by Corinna Schnitt) Biberstein, César, Onofre, Sarmento, Sendas, Toscano, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon Streetwear, Galeria da Mitra, Lisbon (curated by Fransisco Vaz Fernandes) Milano Europa 2000 ? Anteprima Bovisa, Triennale, Milan , (curated by Alexandre Melo) Voyager-Experimenta Design, Milan, (curated by Pedro Gadanho) Disseminações, Culturgest, Lisbon (curated by Pedro Lapa) Ausgewählte Bibliographie / Bibliography (selection) Edelsztein, Sergio `Filipa César` Ice Cream, edited by Phaidon, 2007 Hemelryk, Catherine "Tales from the Travel Journal Vol. 1" edited by CAC Vilnius, 2006 Faria, Nuno, Diegesis, mit Essays von Antje Weitzel "Two or 3 Thing I know about her"; Nuno Faria "Raccord (on the diegesis project) edited by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006 Cesar, Filipa, Ringbahn, essays by João Fernandes "Filipa César?s Video-situations: exception and rule", Ana Pinto "Mind the Gap" und David Gieselmann "Die Berliner Ringbahn" (eng. und port.), edited by Serralves Museum, 2005 César, Filipa, Belgradee Footnotes, mit einem Essay von Simone Homem de Mello (eng.) edited by Revolver, 2004 Spieler, Reinhard, In-between realities, in "True Lies. Lies and other trues in the contemporary photography", edited by Reinhard Spieler und Museum Franz Gertsch, 2004 Rottenberg, Anda, Continental Breakfast, 45th October Art Salon, edited by Cultural Center, Belgradee, 2004 Wandschneider, Miguel, Filipa César, in "Narrando Espacios, Tempos e Histórias... XXVIII Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra", edited by Deputación Provincial de Pontevedra, 2002 Wandschneider, Miguel, 9 Portuguese artists, 18 Video Works, in ?Video Zone, First International Art Biennial, Tel Aviv?, edited by Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 2002 Lopes, Diogo, Berlin Zoo, in "Poetic Justice, 8. Istanbul Bienal", edited by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, 2003 Barro, David, Filipa César, in "Outras Alternativas visuais: Novas experiências visuais em Portugal", edited by Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, 2003 Silva Pereira, Albano / Amado, Miguel, Trabalho / Work, edited by Centro de Artes Visuais, 2003 Edel, Andrea, Observations from offstage, in "Sets for Thoughts", edited by Filipa César and Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral, 2002 Leoni, Chiara, Case: un Catalogo, in ?Casa Dolce Casa?, edited by Museo d?arte provincia di Nuoro, 2001 Lapa, Pedro, Disseminações, edited by Culturgest, 2001 Melo, Alexandre, Filipa César, in ?Milan Europa 2000?, edited by Electa, 2001

Transmission from the Liberated Zones, is an experiment bringing together statements and documents accessed and presented by a young boy through a low-fidelity feedback channel – a resonance studio to wander back and forth through time and subjects, between tepid and tropic encounters. This essay departs from the concept of Liberated Zones a designation used to describe areas freed from Portuguese domination, organised and managed by the guerrilla militants of the PAIGC in Guinea, during the 11-year liberation war 1963-74. The Swedish protagonists are diplomate Folker Löfgren, filmmaker Lennart Malmer, filmmaker and psychologist Ingela Romare and politician Birgitta Dahl, all of them visited the zones in the early 1970. The contemporary presenter reflects his own condition and states that recalling instances of liberation prepares the ground for further recurrences.

Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker interested in the porous boundaries between the moving image and its reception, the fictional dimensions of the documentary and the economies, politics and poetics inherent to cinema praxis. Great part of César’s experimental films have been focussed on the spectres of resistance in Portugal’s geo-political past, questioning mechanisms of history production and proposing spaces for performing subjective knowledge. Since 2011, César has been researching the origins of cinema in Guinea-Bissau, its imaginaries and potencies, developing that research into the collective project Luta ca caba inda (the struggle is not over yet). She was a participant of the research projects Living Archive (2011-13) and Visionary Archive (2013-15) both organised by the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin.

The film-essay Mined Soil revisits the work of the Guinean agronomist Amílcar Cabral, studying in the 50's the erosion of soil in the Portuguese Alentejo region through to his engagement as one of the leaders of the African Liberation Movement. This line of thoughts intertwines a documentation on an experimental gold mining site, operated today by a Canadian company and located in the same Portuguese area once studied by Cabral. The reading of the essay explores the space, surfaces and textures of the images, proposing past and present definitions of soil as a repository of memory, trace, exploitation, crisis, arsenal, treasure and palimpsest.

Filipa César was born in Portugal in 1975 ; she lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the University of the Arts in Porto and Lisbon, at the Academy of the Arts in Munich and obtained a master’s in Context at the University of the Arts in Berlin (2007). Her work interrogates the porous relation between the animated image and its reception by the public. Interested by the fictional aspects of documentary and motivated by a desire to reveal the political behind the moving image, the artist positions herself at a crossroads between storytelling, chronical, documentary and experimental film. Her films—F for Fake (2005), Rapport (2007), Le Passeur (2008), The Four Chambered Heart (2009) and Memograma (2010)—were presented at the 8th Istanbul Biennale, 2003 ; at the Kunsthalle Vienna, 2004 ; the Serralves Museum, 2005 ; at the International Film Festival at Locarno, 2005, at the CAG—Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2006 ; the Tate Modern, 2007 ; the St. Gallen Museum, 2007 ; the SF MOMA, San Francisco, 2009 ; the first Architecture Biennale in Venice, the 29th São Paulo Biennale and Manifesta 8, in Cartagena.

Un chant d’oiseaux nous, ouvrant sur une forêt verdoyante un jour de pluie. Une langue de brume s’insinue lentement dans l’image et s’enroule autour des arbres. Des silhouettes humaines la traversent, paisibles malgré les flammes qui lèchent leurs vêtements. Ces âmes errantes fuient-elles quelque catastrophe urbaine ou font-elles partie du bestiaire de créatures merveilleuses peuplant les forêts ? Sont-elles des messagers de l’Apocalypse ou des martyrs, après un geste ultime de protestation ? Le cheval qui les observe sans broncher, tapis dans les fougères, se contente de renforcer l’inquiétante tranquillité de la scène sans donner de réponse. Julie Chaffort connaît bien ce sentiment, pour avoir tourné dans les forêts nombre de ses vidéos, la figure animale y étant quasi omniprésente. Pour l’artiste, le cheval est le « témoin privilégié de quelque chose que l’on arrive plus à percevoir en tant qu’humain ». Un témoin dans une partition tragi-comique nous menant d’un univers « intemporel » et obscur propre aux contes.

Les vidéos de Julie Chaffort mirent le paysage, le toisent et le parcourent ; on y croise des hommes au destin tragique et des héros aussi beaux que les chants qui les accompagnent – peut être pour en donner la mesure. Les gestes accomplis sont tout à la fois drôles et absurdes, l’avenir toujours incertain et les paroles s’envolent, attrapées par les branches d’une forêt ou englouties dans les eaux d’un lac. Les plans fixent les branches ; ils convoquent les tableaux de l’école de Barbizon où les bruns apparaissent comme chargés de bitume et les lumières s’accrochent aux pâtes colorées. Les récits s’écrivent entre les longs plans-séquence et se devinent dans les détails que la lenteur permet d’observer comme l’on admire une nature morte. L’artiste ouvre des univers parallèles, atemporels et insituables, où le monde se signale à nous par ses infimes déplacements et l’infinité de ses signaux – étrangement menaçants. Pour Julie Chaffort, le cinéma est un médium dominant, naturel, qu’elle choisit très tôt de développer, à l’école des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux où elle étudie, puis auprès de Roy Andersson qu’elle assiste en Suède, et de Werner Herzog dont elle suit le séminaire à sa Rogue Film School à New-York. Elle expose en France et à l’international. Ses œuvres font parties de collections nationales et privées Julie Chaffort est née en 1982. Elle vit à Bordeaux et travaille partout.

"L’odeur des fauves en nous". L’oeuvre s’inscrit dans la démarche assurément poétique de Julie Chaffort qui imagine et fabrique des situations relevant de l’instant magique. Les ingrédients sont le vivant, le chant, la musique, la visibilisation de corps contraints à une trop grande discrétion. Au coeur de ces situations aussi fascinantes que troublantes, Julie Chaffort filme les relations qui existent entre les terrestres (l’ensemble des êtres vivants, sans hiérarchie), les éléments (eau, terre, air et feu), les voix, les sons et les musiques qui prolongent les corps. Le chant des oiseaux, la voix d’une humaine, la puissance d’une chorale, le râle du vent. Les animaux (humain.es compris.es) interagissent avec ferveur et tendresse avec les arbres, la neige, les rivières, les sols. Pensées comme des scènes refuges où les corps existent librement, exultent et s’expriment, les oeuvres réveillent des émotions et des sentiments profondément inscrits dans nos chairs terrestres : l’attention, l’inquiétude, l’écoute, l’amour, la perte, la sensibilité, l’absence, la jouissance, la vulnérabilité ou encore le réconfort. Un ensemble d’états qui nous attache les un.es aux autres et qui rythme les cycles d’une longue métamorphose commune aux êtres visibles et invisibles qui peuplent le vivant.

Pour Julie Chaffort, le cinéma est un médium dominant, naturel, qu’elle choisit très tôt de développer, à l’école des beaux-arts de Bordeaux où elle étudie, puis auprès de Roy Andersson qu’elle assiste, et de Werner Herzog dont elle suit le séminaire à sa Rogue Film School. Les vidéos de Julie Chaffort mirent le paysage, le toisent et le parcourent ; on y croise des hommes au destin tragique et des héros aussi beaux que les chants qui les accompagnent – peut être pour en donner la mesure. Les gestes accomplis sont tout à la fois drôles et absurdes, l’avenir toujours incertain et les paroles s’envolent, attrapées par les branches d’une forêt ou englouties dans les eaux d’un lac. Les récits s’écrivent entre les longs plans-séquence et se devinent dans les détails que la lenteur permet d’observer comme l’on admire une nature morte. L’artiste ouvre des univers parallèles, atemporels et insituables, où le monde se signale à nous par ses infimes déplacements et l’infinité de ses signaux – étrangement menaçants. En 2013, Julie Chaffort expose au Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de Vassivière, le film « Hot-Dog », moyen-métrage qu’elle y a réalisé la même année en résidence. L’année suivante, elle présente sa première exposition personnelle « Jour Blanc » au Centre Clark de Montréal, avec des installations vidéos et sonores créées in situ. En 2015 lors de sa résidence à Pollen à Monflanquin, elle réalise le moyen-métrage « La barque silencieuse » ; ce film, « aussi facétieux qu’émouvant, aussi déroutant que respectueux de tout ce qui s’offre à voir et à entendre » pour Jean-Pierre Rehm, est sélectionné en 2016 en compétition française et premier film au FID Marseille. Il est également projeté à la galerie Thaddaeus Ropac à Paris Pantin lors de l’exposition Jeune création 66ème édition et remporte deux prix indépendants, avec deux expositions à la clé, l’une pour la Progress Gallery, « Entre chiens et loups », et l’autre pour la galerie du Pavillon à Pantin, « Les cowboys », sélectionné également au FID 2017. Julie Chaffort remporte en 2015 le prix Bullukian et crée « Somnambules », une exposition personnelle présentée à la fondation. L’artiste a été lauréate du prix « Talents Contemporains » 2015 de la fondation François Schneider pour l’oeuvre « Montagnes Noires » et obtient la même année, le prix Mezzanine Sud et expose au Musée des Abattoirs de Toulouse. Le film « La barque silencieuse » entre en 2017 dans la collection du FRAC Aquitaine ainsi que la vidéo « Nostalgia » dans celle du FRAC Occitanie Toulouse. En 2018, Julie Chaffort est lauréate du prix Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète et obtient en 2019 la bourse de soutien à la création du CNAP pour l’élaboration de son projet vidéo « PRINTEMPS » dont une exposition monographie du même titre est présentée à l’ancien palais épiscopal des musées de Béziers avec le soutien de Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète en 2020. Son dernier film « Légendes » a fait partie de la compétition officielle française et la compétition CNAP du FIDMarseille 2020.

Une trentaine de personnes qui ne se connaissent pas acceptent de voyager ensemble pendant 5 jours et de tourner dans un film sans scénario préétabli. Chacun tiendra son propre rôle, vêtu de costumes choisi par la réalisatrice. Portraits de familles, blagues, danse, roller, chants se dévoilent aux spectateurs sous le regard d’un cheval tranquille et bienveillant.

Oeuvrant dans les champs du cinéma et de l’art contemporain, Julie Chaffort s’intéresse tout particulièrement à l’immensité et à la vacuité des territoires naturels, à leur aspect désertique et délaissé ; ses films et vidéos sont habités par une certaine lenteur, invitant à l’écoute et à la contemplation, mais jouant aussi sur les registres de l’absurde, de la chute, de la surprise et du décalage. Pour Julie Chaffort, le cinéma est un médium dominant, naturel, qu’elle choisit très tôt de développer, à l’école des beaux-arts de Bordeaux où elle étudie, puis auprès de Roy Andersson qu’elle assiste, et de Werner Herzog dont elle suit le séminaire à sa Rogue Film School. En 2013, elle expose au Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de Vassivière Hot-Dog, moyen-métrage qu’elle y a réalisé la même année en résidence. L’année suivante, elle présente sa première exposition personnelle Jour Blanc au Centre Clark de Montréal, avec des installations vidéos et sonores créées in situ. En résidence à Pollen à Monflanquin 2015, elle réalise le moyen-métrage La barque silencieuse ; ce film, "aussi facétieux qu’émouvant, aussi déroutant que respectueux de tout ce qui s’offre à voir et à entendre" pour Jean- Pierre Rehm, est sélectionné en 2016 en compétition française et premier film au FID Marseille. Il est également projeté à la galerie Thaddaeus Ropac à Paris Pantin lors de l’exposition “Jeune création 66ème édition” et remporte deux prix indépendants, avec deux expositions à la clé, l’une pour la Progress Gallery, Entre chiens et loups, et l’autre pour la galerie du Pavillon à Pantin, Les cowboys (également selectionné au FID en 2017). Julie Chaffort remporte aussi en 2015 le prix Bullukian et crée Somnambules, une exposition personnelle présentée à la fondation. L’artiste a été lauréate du prix "Talents Contemporains" 2015 de la fondation François Schneider pour l’oeuvre Montagnes Noires et obtient la même année, le prix Mezzanine Sud et expose au Musée des Abattoirs de Toulouse. Le film La barque silencieuse entre en 2017 dans la collection du FRAC Aquitaine et la vidéo Nostalgia dans celle du FRAC Occitanie Toulouse. Julie Chaffort vient d’être lauréate du prix Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète. et d’obtenir une bourse à la création du CNAP pour la réalisation de son projet vidéo PRINTEMPS.