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Benevolence is a film art installation in the form of a flicker film. The subject is the depiction of relationships between men and women in film. The work analyses and reveals the various forms of sexism, particularly benevolent sexism. The movement of the film unfolds like a love scene: starting with a seemingly innocent chase, it progresses into violence and ultimately culminates in an overwhelming display of love and submission. The film constructs a choreography using the mise-en-scène typical of classic Hollywood films from the 40s and 50s. Shots are divided into segments of 7 frames and interwoven with one another, creating a choreography of movement, a dance. By doing this, the film reveals the conventions in the ways men and women interact with each other in physical space. In doing so, the film not only questions the normative framework of that time but also challenges the cinematic conventions of today, as many of them are still in use.

Karel De Cock, born in 1982, works and lives in Brussels. He studied Audiovisual Arts at the Sint-Lukas Institute. In his film and photography work, he often reflects on the weight of social conformity. His practice is heavily grounded in research, drawing from popular culture, film, and media history. His photography takes a sociological approach, incorporating an observational element in an urban context. His central goal is to bring visibility to the unseen, emphasizing the extraordinary within the ordinary rather than seeking out exceptions. His work has been featured internationally in several exhibitions and museums, including, House Of World Cultures, Transmediale, Berlin; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck; Centre Pompidou, Rencontres Internationales, France; Europalia Arts Festival, Belgium; Beirut Art Center, Lebanon; Museum M, Belgium and Courtisane, Belgium.

?Accepting The Image? portrays the way New York City women, their dreams and their lifestyles are represented in the media and in reality. The film questions this dual relationship between both worlds by sketching the portraits of Alynn, Lindsey and Holly, three young women who recently moved to the city. Filled with certain dreams and expectations, they each tell us what New York means to them and what their motivations were to go live there. As it appears, their incentives seem to blend with the image of the city as it is depicted in their favourite movies and television series. Some of the girls try to live up to the fiction, while others have already been confronted with a somewhat different reality. An observing camera sketches a feminine image of the streets of New York. The girls` story provides a direct comment to this and offers a critical perspective on the way young women in general identify with this and their idols representing it. ?Accepting The Image? questions the adoration of certain media and its consequences.

Karel De Cock °1982: Lives in Brussels and studied Audiovisual arts at the Sint-Lukas Institute in Brussels. In 2008 he received his Bachelor degree with his film ?Resonance? (2008). The film has been selected by various festivals e.g. Rencontres Internationales (FR), Transmediale 09 festival (DE) and Migrating Forms (New York Underground Film Festival). In 2009 he was selected for an exchange program with Beijing where he shot ?A Beijing Tale?, which was shown at Europalia China and The Beijing Student Film Festival. He graduated in the master department in 2010 with the film ?Accepting The Image? for which he spend 3 and a half months in New York City. His films are character based and situate themselves in the search and recovery of identity and relations. He has a background in the traditional fiction genre but since Resonance he finds himself crossing the borders of both fiction and documentary. He finished his studies as a bachelor in the fiction department with guidance from Patrice Toye and graduated in the master department of documentary with guidance from Herman Asselberghs & Rob Rombout

Unheard Silence is a meditation on the role of women in the western genre. I came to realize that I related this subject matter to an image of The Searchers that was imprinted on my memory. So I decided to use this image hoping it would trigger a similar memory and communicate this subject to others as well. We stand together with a woman. Waiting and staring into the empty desert. Not knowing if the men will return or not.

Karel De Cock °1982: Lives in Brussels and studies Audiovisual arts at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels. In 2008 he received his Bachelor diploma with his film Resonance (2008). The film has been selected by various festivals e.g. Rencontres Internationales (FR), Transmediale 09 festival (DE) and Migrating Forms (New York Underground Film Festival). His films are character based and situate themselves in the search and recover of identity and relations. He has a background in the traditional fiction genre but since Resonance he finds himself crossing the borders of both fiction and documentary. Right now he finishes his studies in the master department of documentary with guidance from Herman Asselberghs, Rob Rombout and Ronnie Ramirez

There`s John a businessman from Louisiana, François the banker from London and Antoine a trader from Switzerland. Together they reflect on their career and on the choices they made and the one`s they didn`t. Choices that made them successful, and into who they are today. As we get to know them, we also get to know someone else. Someone that may have been less lucky in his career. Or maybe we see what the true face of success can be.

Karel De Cock is a filmmaker who lives and studies in Brussels, Belgium. He has roots in graphic design but soon developed an interest for film. The foundation of his films can always be found in the character`s psyche. For every new film the main challange is to find a new way to communicate the story, and to find a way to combine both content and form in a harmonious way. Having a graphical background he combines the conventions of communication trough still images with the traditional film conventions. This way the traditional film conventions can be expanded and new ways of communication can be explored.

Proposition Two: The Collection SYNOPSIS The Propositions series assemble my projects dealing with contemporary art issues through photography and video. Contemporary art, as most intellectual endeavors today, has its own narratives, languages and contradictions that often feel highly specialized and removed. These projects search for visual structures that raise questions and pull them back to the social and political. In particular, ?Proposition Two: The Collection? addresses the permanent collections in contemporary art museums today. A collection necessarily reflects the dominant/institutional understanding of the nature of art and its role in society. Long gone the alternative visions led by artists such as Broodthaers and Haacke, the model initiated by Thomas Krens has been carried out to its logical consequences by incorporating advertising and entertainment into the museums core values.

Biography Max was born in 1959 in Barcelona, Spain. Lived and worked in Palo Alto, New York, Madrid and London. In 2009 opened his first stable studio in Barcelona and since then focuses exclusively on personal project-based work. Solo Exhibitions: Elegies of Manumission, Quartier Gallery, Vienna, Feb. 2013 Proposition One. Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, 2012 Elegies of Manumission, CEHP, Bratislava, 2012 Proposition One. Klompching Gallery, New York, 2011 Proposition One. Spicer House, Barcelona, 2011 Vertige. Fotofestiwal, Lodz, 2010 Don?t listen to me. Spicer House, Barcelona, 2010 Selected Group Exhibitions: Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA, 2012 Post Script, Cork, Irland, 2012 The Gathering. Rhubarb. Diemar/Noble, London, 2012 Winter Salon. Klompching Gallery, New York, 2012 PNetwork, Siegen, Germany, 2011 Fnac. Madrid and Barcelona, 2011 Escuela Arte, Granada, 2011 FotoTageTrier Triennial, Trier, Germany, 2010 Awards: Encontros da Imagem, Best Portfolio, Finalist, 2011, Portugal National Award of Professional Photography, Gold LUX, 2010, Spain Grand Prix Jury`s Special Award, Fotofestiwal 2010, Poland Monographs: Elegies of Manumission, Nazraeli Press, USA, 2012 Selected TV, Magazine, Journal and Online Features: TA3, TV feature, July 2012, Slovakia Pravda Kultura, Elegies of Manumission, by Jena Opoldusová, July 2012, Slovakia ARTVAS, Vertige, by Joanne Junga Yang, June 2012, Korea Lens Culture, Elegies of Manumission, by Jim Casper, May 2012, France DW-TV Deutsche Welle, TV feature, November 2011, Germany Feature Shoot, by Alison Zavos, November 2011, USA NYC Art Scene, November 2011, USA NY Art Beat, October 2011, USA Wired, August 2011, Italy, USA and Japan Conscientious, by J. Colberg,, March 2011, USA Hotshoe Magazine, by Bill Kouwenhoven, February 2011, UK Education: Graduate from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) Master from Stanford University (USA) PhD from Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain) Fulbright Alumni. Representation: Klompching Gallery (New York) Charles Guice Contemporary (San Francisco) Spicer House (Barcelona)

Guglielmo, my grand-father, enters an old people's home. He hands over a file to each of his children. My mother does not open it. I do. I always heard about this file. The black file. I was sure it was only a image, a myth. The black file does exist, it is brown. It is a collection of files regarding my mother. In it I find various letters, drawings, cards, school reports and even a list of her mistakes. The documents are moreless in chronological order. Gugliemo fournished his collection during fifty years. His fille, his son in law and his grand children all are in this herbarium. I find articles realting a suicide attempt by my mother, underlined in red. When she was twenty-one, Paola swallowed sleeping pills in the waiting lounge of Pisa's train station after failling an anatomy exam. I also find pages from her diary. My grand-father rip them off the following days. I read them today as he read them yesterday. Guglielmo files, steals,invesigates but does not listen.

“Whoever You Are” is a cinematic adaptation of Walt Whitman's seminal poem, “Whoever You Are Holding Me Now In Hand” directed by Javier De Frutos and produced by Whoever You Are Productions. Following a lifelong scholarship and appreciation of American literature, De Frutos adapted Walt Whitman's poem into a screenplay for the film. Within “Whoever You Are”, De Frutos utilizes several different mediums of execution including dance and vocals, which he combines using his unique directorial and choreographic style blended with dexterous editing.

Shocking, sensual, raw, radical – these are words synonymous with work by Olivier award-winning director and choreographer Javier De Frutos. Renowned for creating brutal yet beautiful film and stage work, De Frutos has consistently stunned audiences with his ability to make work that not only is violently challenging, but also sears the stage and screen with its intelligence and wit. Prompted by the pandemic to expand their film-making practice, producers Paul Chantry and Rae Piper of Whoever You Are Productions, invited De Frutos to collaborate with them in creating a new short film. This collaboration sought to build on a fruitful prior relationship which Chantry had enjoyed with De Frutos, that had involved working together on several productions, two of which had been filmed for the BBC ("Eternal Damnation to Sancho & Sanchez" and "The Most Incredible Thing"). Chantry and Piper had enjoyed a longstanding relationship of 7 years collaborating with award-winning company Evenlode Films and Productions, who were additionally invited to join the project.

Now that Lumumba's mortal remains have been repatriated, renowned artists Marlene Dumas (South Africa) and Luc Tuymans (Belgium) talk about their paintings of Pauline and Patrice Lumumba respectively. About paintings, politics of nudity and death.

I’m a Belgian filmmaker and professor in film studies and visual cultures. Since 2005, my work centers around exploring the failures of decolonization. I've been trained in Philosophy (MA), African Studies, International Relations (MA), and Cinema Studies (MA). After I completed a thesis on Eurocentrism (Europa Mensura) and co-created a video series on Alterity (ôtre k’ôtre 2007), I researched African cinema and postcolonial film theory at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies; the University of Bayreuth’s Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and at the Waseda University in Tokyo. I teach/taught courses on World Cinema, Aesthetics, Curating & Exhibiting, Documentary Theory, Film Criticism, and Script Writing. My current Marie Sk?odowska-Curie research at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis of the University of Amsterdam, explores scattered worldviews and aesthetics as politics of forms. My films, including Under The White Mask(2020), Palimpsest of the Africa Museum (2019), Lobi Kuna (2018), Diorama (2018), and Jerusalem, the Adulterous Wife (2008), have been showcased at festivals such as the Berlinale and numerous platforms. I guest lectured at EHESS, Paris1-Panthéon, Humbold… and published with Interventions, Third Text, Cambridge Scholars, Columbia UP, Black Camera, Artl@s Bulletin, Visual Anthropology, Francofonia, Imaginations, Journal of African Cinema, Image [&] Narrative, Ethische Perspectieven, L'Harmattan, Sternberg Press and Wallflower Press amongst others. My writings include an edited book on Lumumba in the Arts (Leuven University Press) which reached a list of the top-100 "books to escape the news" (LitHub). Besides, I was regularly invited to talk in non-academic contexts (Bozar, RFI, Klara, KVS, De Roma, Bruzz, Cinematek, WIELS), to curate film programs (MuZee, NOVA) and to write for MO* Magazine, Rekto:Verso, l’Art Même, Aktief, Filmmagie and Décadrages.

"Under the White Mask: the film Haesaerts could have made" uses fragments of "Under the Black Mask", a 1958 film about Congolese art directed by the Belgian artist Paul Haesaerts and qualified as colonial propaganda. This new film imagines what the masks, now subjects and not objects, would say. Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism" is spoken in Lingala for the first time. This speech is still a critical mirror for Europe. "Under the White Mask" is limited to elements already existing in 1958.

Matthias De Groof (1981) Belgium. Filmmaker and scholar. His award-winning films have been presented at venues like the IFFR, Cannes Pan-African Film Festival, Le FIFA and the Berlinale. His edited book “Lumumba in the Arts” is published with Leuven University Press, and reached the top-100 "books to escape the news" (LitHub). He has held appointments at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts; the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies; the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence of the Bayreuth University; and the Waseda University in Tokyo. Throughout is artistic and academic career, he was granted fellowships by the Canon Foundation, the KONE Foundation, Fulbright and BAEF. His filmography, produced by Cobra Films, includes “Under the White Mask” (2021), “Palimpsest of the Africa Museum” (2019), “Lobi Kuna" (2018), “Diorama” (2018) and “Jerusalem, the Adulterous Wife” (2008) among others.

When the staff of the AfricaMuseum destroys the very dioramas they used to guard for decades, a colonial worldview is demolished. What remains are dead animals staring at you amidst ecocide. The violent destruction forms an allegory of museological and ecological relations. Diorama literally means “through that which is seen”. It is a window which wants to suggest life as truthful as possible through death. The diorama then, becomes a still life: a Vanitas. So still, that the sculptural becomes pictorial, until men enter the broken window and become part of the nature morte. Men animate death through caress and tear the animals loose from a morbid decorum that offered them verisimilitude of an obsolete landscape.

Dr. Matthias De Groof has a strong interest in film, Congo and (post)colonialism. He has a Master’s in Philosophy (HIW - KUL), International Relations (UCL) and Cinema Studies (UA). He studied African Studies at UMU (Uganda) and became a Fulbright and BAEF visiting scholar at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His PhD in Cinema Studies looked at African cinema. As a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), he studied postcolonial film theory at the Antwerp University where he also taught World Cinema, Aesthetics and Curating & Exhibiting. His scholarly work has been published in Third Text and Columbia University Press amongst others. He is regularly asked to talk and write in non-academic contexts and to curate film programs. His own films have been presented i.a. at the IFFR, Media City, Cannes Pan-African Film Festival and the San Francisco Art Institute. Currently, he works at the Collegium for Advanced Studies in Helsinki. His film-triptych on postcolonial museology (CobraFilms) and his book on Lumumba’s Iconography (Leuven University Press) are about to be published.

Currently_off_sight investigates visibility on sex webcam platforms through the testimonies of webcam performers. Despite the asymmetry of power between them and the sexcam platform, currently_off_sight resists a binary understanding of what is and what is not visible in that context. In this way, the project questions the purpose of rendering things (hyper)visible at the expense of others while exploring the many shades of online perception. Foregrounding webcammers’ voices, currently_off_sight examines how visibility manifests on the platform, and the various degrees of agency the different actors have there. Both in its web and video versions, the project is divided into chapters concerning the different topics addressed by the webcammers. Quoting the aesthetics used in the camming environment, these elements are placed on a simulated desktop that works as a stage and place of observation, while it also acknowledges the presence of a user in this entanglement.

Lotte Louise de Jong is a media artist from the Netherlands with a background in filmmaking. Her work is research-based and ranges from physical, digital and online installations to more traditional forms of narrative. Her practice addresses how we, as a society, view and shape our identity through mediated spaces like the digital world. The internet as a space for exploring intimacy has been the main focus of her past projects. She obtained a master’s degree in Fine Art and Design at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2019. In 2020 she received an emerging artist grant from the Mondriaan Fonds. Antonia Hernández is a writer, designer, and media artist whose work explores infrastructural relations of intimacy, combining theoretical investigation with arts-based practices to understand the fleshy, living, and domestic aspects of media. She has presented her work and research-creation methodologies widely at conferences, exhibitions, and in artist talks, and is preparing a book on the role of fictional currencies in sexcam platforms.

Can true paradise exist within a corrupted society? Can education fight television and its pornography? How can citizenship participate in education, and education encourage citizenship? 19 kilometres off the Peruvian capital Lima, Villa El Salvador is no ordinary "barriada". With its more than 300,000 inhabitants, it is a true example of self-management, autonomy and community. Joëlle de La Casinière makes a portrait of this "new city", built out of nothing, in no time, in the middle of nowhere. Her soundtrack work is a true musical poem in radio language. In the same collage style - product and anticipation of the zapping era - that would characterize de La Casinière's work during the 1980's, Rose de Lima plays with the clashes and new meanings that the juxtaposition of sound and images produces. Associating boleros, rancheras, and other South American popular music genres with the devastating sight of desert roads and industrial cars, de La Casinière plays with the existing stereotypes of South America, highlighting thus this continent's great contrasts.

French by origin and Belgian by adoption, Joëlle de la Casinière, born 1944, is mostly known for her work in the 1980's with the Montfaucon Research Center. Inspired by Marshall McLuhan, the Montfaucon videos are self-reflexive television images which intend to deconstruct the idol television itself. 'Total art works', they employ all the semiotic systems the television uses: music, images (found footage and self-generated), and language in speech, writing, and songs. The resulting collage interrupts conventional perception and a reflection on the medium becomes therefore possible. Between 1972 and 1979 Joëlle de la Casinière and her companion Michel Bonnemaison (°1923-2006) travelled across the American continent, a series of ten films being the result of their journey.

In 1924, a marine crinoid fossil is unearthed near the summit of Mount Everest, a famous British mountaineer disappears and a Soviet leader dies. This simultaneity is the starting point of a narrative on the transformation of matter. In a vast movement, substances metamorphose, scales and temporalities overlap and human bodies nestle in the depths of great terrestrial processes.

Astrid de la Chapelle is a French filmmaker and artist. In her films she experiments with storytelling, particularly in relation to geology and the economic circuits of the Earth's resources, as well as science fiction. She also plays in the group Shrouded and the Dinner with four other artists since 2012. Astrid’s films were shown at Cinéma du Réel (FR), Oberhausen festival (DE), ECRA Experimental Festival (BR), FID Marseille (FR), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR/DE), Museum of natural history (FR), Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (FR)…

L'épopée sur branches et en sous-bois, télescope: nature, peinture: uccelli et Uccello. Le film tisse un dialogue avec des éléments photos et vidéos trouvés sur internet d'oiseaux et d'extraits de tableaux de Paolo Uccello.

Astrid de la Chapelle est réalisatrice, artiste et musicienne. Elle est née en 1983 à Paris. Dans ses films 16mm, dessins et projets éditoriaux, elle procède à des transcriptions entre médiums et à des reconstructions narratives en renouvelant les hiérarchies de récit et l’utilisation de documents. Son travail explore les potentiels qu’ouvre les espaces ou les paysages. Elle auto-édite le fanzine de science-fiction Futu et joue en parallèle dans le groupe de musique, Shrouded and the Dinner, avec quatre autres artistes et musiciens. Elle a étudié à l’Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (diplômée en 2008), à la School of Visual Arts de New-York (USA) et à l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Duperré. Invitée par le Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle en 2017, elle a imaginé le cycle sur l’île de Pâques avec une sélection de films et de conférences.

Water tanks work as collectors that help to control water levels in times of extreme rainfall, ensuring the availability of this resource in future times of drought. The one in Madrid is one of the largest in the country. I was not aware of its existence until a few months ago when I heard about it on the radio. It was a feature about everything that could be found there along the years: a dead donkey, an rusty small car, chandeliers... What kind of memories do we throw away in the water of these places where they cannot be carried away by the current? Do we want to forget them? Or do we want just to keep them preserved under water? In this virtual reality experience, the water-collector is part of the subconscious. It is a place where childhood memories are encapsulated. We can revisit them in the virtual world, but probably they will drown us.

Born in Madrid (Spain) 1988. Nieves de la Fuente studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She finished her studies with an Erasmus Scholarship at the Kunsthochschule Kassel with Professor Norbert Radermacher. During her Posgradual Studies at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne, she worked as a 3D artist and improved her understanding of the 3D medium. The work in 3D, open her a different approach to sculpture and a way into immersive technologies. She uses these as a medium to deliver a message and keeps working as a conceptual artist. Her current line of work oscillates among the construction of memory and its experience in immersive processes and the investigation of non-human perception delivered through these technologies. She has shown her work in institutions and festivals around Germany, Spain, Canada, Taiwan and Croatia among others.

In his essay Prison Time, Michael Hardt maintained that we have to construct a way for the moment of love to return, for it to be repeated endlessly and take on a tempral density, a duration that would become the material structure for a new time. That is what I wanted to construct, tinking in terms of the literal meaning of the word construct. To modify time and make visible not only something that generates a crucial change, but also something that apparently does not, whose change we are unable to perceive because of their fleetingness or because they are too commonplace. Using the strategy and the power of slowness. As Genet, who Hardt addresses in his Prison Time, might have put it, somebody could have achieved it even if it were only for a thousandth of a second. Things are not as they seem. They are much more coplex or contain more than we can see at first glance. Paraphrasing Frank Stella, "things are as they seem, but for me they are not as they seem...". Reality is much more complex, as well as changing and fragile. Any detail can breach it, one single event can transform a scene from reality into something completely different. We to are part of this reality, and that makes us just as fragile and changing. We are a reflection of what is happening around us. With this project, I continue transgressing reality, looking for ways to explore it further and find that which is difficult to see, accentuating the importance of what surrounds us in order to reach a better understanding and valuation. I have constructed a path twelve metres long by one metre wide for a trolley to circulate automatically along it in both directions. On it is a six metre high tower with a 500 watt spotlight. The trolley moves at a very slow speed from one end of the path to the other, pausing for one minute on both ends. It takes approximately one minute to cover the twelve metre stretch. At this speed, the trolley iluminates everything along its path as it comes under its focus. When bringing the work into the exhibition hall as we see in the intervention shown in the video, something that I touched on earlier happens: the structure somehow loses its core role and the place takes on a greater centrality, thus transforming it into an object and part of the installation. It takes on the false appearance of a stage set and reveals all its fragility, its harshness, or it is simply transgressed. Everything is a to-and-fro, a coming and going, endlessly repeating itself and marking this temporal density Michael Hardt spoke of. The idea is form this moment to keep on repeating itself and to generate a false way of controlling the uncontrollable, which is time.

Jaime de la Jara (Madrid, 1972) graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from de Universidad Complutense of Madrid in 1996. Since then he has won several prizes and grants, including one from the Fundación Marcelino Botín in 2003 and another from the Artistic Creation Awards of the Region of Madrid in 2008. His works have been seen in various exhibition and competitions such as: Generaciones 2005 and 2006 at La Casa Encendida and Destino Futuro, the selection of young artists by the Region of Madrid at the Botanical Garden, curated by Oliva María Rubio. He took part in LOOP 05 with an individual project and at the Planes futuros exhibition curated by Lorena and María Corral. De la Jara is on the roster of Fúcares Gallery in Madrid where he showed his work in the 15 inches project in 2007. It was then seen at art fairs like Balelatina (Miami, New York and Basel), ParisPhoto, Foro Sur, MACO, D-Foto, Vienna Fair, ARCO, Artorama (Marsella)? His work is in public and private collections like Fundación Coca-Cola, Caja Madrid, Fundación Marcelino Botín in Santander, Artium Museum in Vitoria, Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo, Region of Madrid and ABC Vocento. In 2005 he was runner-up at the ABC Vocento Prize. He is currently preparing a one-person show for Sala Tecla in Barcelona.

Some accounts bend the soul. Such changes, such losses, fold us. We curl up around the hollow. Then, to raise is to unfold. That which requires forms of return, to dwell and reflect. Then, memories prove themselves useful: stacked up, a column of support; moved around they play novel roles and entertain. At the peripheries of such accounts, in the process of change, external beings turn towards us, the world becomes loaded with entrails, the other moves us, while in face of everything we pour ourselves. Divides where never so present and simultaneously misty. The backbone of loss is a trajectory. It is myth as verb and essay intertwined. It is the flexible virtuality of structures; diverse forms talk like sisters. Like Chiropractice, this film is an adjustment, proper and of cinema’s patterns towards the unpredictable, the playful or loving.

Artist and filmmaker based in Mexico City.?At first glance, her work carries aesthetic and pleasure claims, right up to a tenuous range of sensations. However, its presentation is performative - soaked with temporality; and its purpose, conceptual or perhaps spiritual. The work revolves around a quest to locate and isolate concepts built around tangible elements, to then create abstractions that regenerate their image and position their force within a new context. Virtual spaces rise and with them propositions for change: towards kindness, backwardness, slowing down, Ecology... Her practice ponders on presence; greatly inspired by the simplicity of certain formations, the economic and exponential nature of proposals, the power of hosting bodies and the playful air of philosophical reverberations. Laborde just finalized her first feature: The Backbone of Loss; as well as, attended Atelier 105 - Post production residency with her experimental documentary of Havana, Fiñe. As a result she is now distributed and archived by Light Cone. Her solo show, El duelo de una espina dorsal, curated by José Esparza Chong Cuy, Director and Chief Curator at Storefront for Art and Architecture took place at Luis Barragán’s J17 as a PEANA Off-site exhibition, February 2022. In 2021 Laborde aside having a retrospective with DocumentaMadrid, had a year long residency at The Museo Rufino Tamayo CDMX with her project -ito/-ita, a production residency at LIFT CA, and a three year, hybrid residency with Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen - Conditional Cinema for the production of her film Ficciones, recently presented at the New York Film Festival and BFI among others. Her thesis, AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN, is part of the catalogue: Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo: Experimental Cinema in Latin America and was widely screened among these: Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam (Competition Tigger Shorts), New Directos/New Films at MoMa, FSLC and 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil… and awarded GRAND PRIX at 25fps Zagreb and JURY AWARD at 24th CUFF. Collaboration Notas y notas y notas… with Jenny Berger Myhre was commissioned and presented at Borealis Festival for Experimental Music in 2019. Manuela de Laborde holds an Intermedia Art BA hons from Edinburgh College of Art and an MFA in Film and Video from The California Institute of the Arts.

In The Era is an abstract work documenting the Experimental Concrete Workshop in Las Pozas, Xilitla. A diptych of Manuela’s subjective style of documentation, the film uses color and black and white to create two separate dreamlike and fragmented expressions of a single event: a group of foreigners immersed in the jungle among the surreal constructions of Edward James while creating sculptural works of their own. The film’s viewer is thrust into all that this stunning setting entails – the local residents, the nature, food preparation… In The Era is firmly grounded in the sensorial, with Camila Fuchs’ sound design melding sound scoring with field recordings from beyond the viewer’s visual frame of reference.

In 2012 she exhibited her solo show, Maquettes, in Generator Projects, Dundee; in 2013 screened, Sun, at London MexFest with the live score of Camila Fuchs; her short films Viveros, The exponential Nature of Images and Le Visible et L’Invisible where shown at Antimatter FF, Jihlava IDFF and Milwaukee UFF; and this year her thesis film, As Without So Within, was screened at Toronto International Film Festival, Winnipeg WNDX (Best International Short), 25fps Festival in Zagreb (Grand Prix), FICM of Morelia and International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors MoMA + FSLC and VideoBrasil among others.

En La Era (In The Era) is an abstract work documenting the Experimental Concrete Workshop in Las Pozas, Xilitla. A diptych of Manuela’s subjective style of documentation, the film uses color and black and white to create two separate dreamlike and fragmented expressions of a single event: a group of foreigners immersed in the jungle among the surreal constructions of Edward James while creating sculptural works of their own. The film’s viewer is thrust into all that this stunning setting entails - the local residents, the nature, food preparation… En La Era is firmly grounded in the sensorial, with Camila Fuchs’s sound design melding sound scoring with field recordings from beyond the viewer’s visual frame of reference.

Manuela de Laborde is an artist and filmmaker from Mexico City. Laborde’s practice, by abstracting concepts from their concrete properties, looks to create [virtual] spaces and [regenerate] the image. Inspired by simplicity of expression, economy of detail, location of exhibition, her practice is a meditation on physical presence. To the eye, her work carries aesthetic claims and pleasure; yet in its presentation is performative and in its purpose, conceptual. In 2012 she exhibited her solo show, Maquettes, in Generator Projects, Dundee; in 2013 screened, Sun, at London MexFest with the live score of Camila Fuchs; her short films Viveros, The exponential Nature of Images and Le Visible et L’Invisible where shown at Antimatter FF, Jihlava IDFF and Milwaukee UFF; and this year her thesis film, As Without So Within, was screened at Toronto International Film Festival, Winnipeg WNDX (Best International Short), 25fps Festival in Zagreb (Grand Prix), FICM of Morelia and International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors MoMA + FSLC and VideoBrasil among others. Manuela is currently one of the ‘resident’ filmmakers for Oberhausen Film Festival - Conditional Cinema for which she is finishing her film, Ficciones. During October this year Manuela attended the artist residency at LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers in Toronto).

"A Place" is a video triptych that depicts a singular apprehension of familiar interior and exterior spaces, brought together by various lines of flight. Three physical and mental spaces, inhabited by the affective presence of those who cross them or occupy them, follow one another, responding and canceling each other out.

Jean De Lacoste, born March 27, 1984; Belgian video artist and musician; graduated in 2009 from the E.R.G., Brussels and lives and works in Brussels. His work is a reflection on the phenomenological apprehension of inhabited, familiar places (related to souvenirs, family, anecdotes) and of non-places who don?t really belong to anyone, places we go through, that can even liberate us. This notion of « affect » is translated rather suggestively and distantly through editing image and sound.

In 2006, nearly 40.000 people were presented in the form of victims of persecutions in their countries and asked for protection in France. On their arrival they were directed to the OFPRA, the French Refugees Protection Office who ruled on the validity of their requests. 92% were rejected. The applicants for asylum rejected by the OFPRA can to be re-examined calling upon the Commission for the Refugees Resources. It is the highest French jurisdiction; made up of magistrates coming from the civil organization assisted by a representative of Office of the High Commission for the Refugees and another from the OFPRA. This year the Commission for the Resource of the Refugees cancelled 4081 decisions, that is to say 14% of the claims deposited. The film puts before us and very often upsetting pictures of five applicants, assisted by their lawyers and interpreters, with the Commission and waiting for the results to be posted. In front of this large white wall their destiny is played out.

A woman tries to understand who she is and what her life was like. A group of scientists found her standing on an icefloat in Arctic waters. She used to be one of them. They found her back, but her memory is gone. Her state of mind and the state of the melting glacial ice surrounding her run parallel in the film.

Arjen de Leeuw is a visual artist, mainly working in the field of video and sculpture. Featuring within fictional settings his protagonists are challenged to deal with existential questions. They are forced to ask themselves how to position within these often absurd circumstances. Recurring elements in his work consist of the limitations of our western notion of freedom, fate and controllabilty, and the question if our (technological) progress brings us closer to the subliminal. Arjen de Leeuw was born in Amsterdam in 1972 where he still lives and works. He graduated from the Royal Academy of arts in The Hague. His work has been exhibited and screened both nationally and internationally. Including exhibitions in Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona and Keith Talent gallery, London. Recent screenings of his work have been at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the Reine Sophia museum, Madrid, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and 25fps in Zagreb. Parallel to his practice, he has designed theatre sets and costumes for several experimental theatre productions.

Eruptions a video by Arjen de Leeuw concept, setdesign, camera, editing, sound: Arjen de Leeuw actors: Luc van Esch, Emanuel Muris running time: 7.33min format: 16:9 miniDV,Betacam/PAL color/sound, no dialogue year: 2009 screeningformat: dvd/beta SP/Pal shot in Japan at mount Aso and in the Netherlands Synopsis: 2 men are working in a control room, monitoring a volcano. With all their buttons and control panels they give the impression they can adjust and manage these natural forces.

Curriculum Vitae Name Arjen de Leeuw Date of birth 17-08 1972 Place of birth Amsterdam, The Netherlands Education 1991-1995 Bachelor of fine arts, sculpturedepartment Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten Den Haag, the Netherlands Grants: 2006 Basisstipendium Dutch Fund for visual arts (Fonds BKVB) 2002 Basisstipendium Dutch Fund for visual arts (Fonds BKVB) 1996 Startstipendium Dutch Fund for visual arts (Fonds BKVB) Prizes 2007 Workspace 2007, filmhuis, Den Haag Selection of recent exhibitions 2009 Visions of William Living ( a collaboration with Pia Wergius) is shown as part of her solo exhibition in Kristinehamns Konst Museum , Sweden Video festival Narave, Mestna-galerija,Ljubljana, Slovenija 2008 Amsterdam Int Filmfestival, de Melkweg, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Visions of William Living, met Pia Wergius, de Veemvloer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2007 Festival del creativita, Florence, Italy de altijd prijs prijs, de Fabriek, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Visions of William Living, met Pia Wergius, Filmhuis, Den Haag, the Netherlands 2005 the Videodictionary, as part of Impakt festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands Disegnitudine, la quotidianita?dell?utopia curated by Fiametta Strigoli La Giarina arte Contemporanea,Verona, Italy Access, Consortium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Use this Kind of sky, curated by Paul Eachus and Nooshin Farhid, Keith Talent Gallery, London, UK La mossa delle idee, Sala santa Rita, curated by Fiametta Strigoli, Rome, Italy/Spacio Uno, Firenze, Italy 2004 No premises/no conclusions, curated by Manuel Saiz, Moriarty gallery, Madrid, Spain 2003 De Grote Verbeelding, de Grote kerk, Den Haag, the Netherlands Overexposed, curated by Jorge Bravo, Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona, Spain 2001 Vertrek en verblijf, op Admiralengracht 52, Amsterdam, the Netherlands recent Screenings/videofestivals 2009 Noordelijk filmfestival, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands Architecture filmfestival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands Floss, VHDG, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands Revision, Dutch filmfestival, Utrecht, he Netherlands 25fps, Zagreb, Croatia 2007 Indie Memphis Micro Cinema Club ,Memphis, Tennessee, USA Central Cinema Seattle, Washington, USA Metropolis, broadcasted on TVE(spanisch national television) Spain. Filmfrontfestival, Gorcums museum, Gorichum, the Netherlands Videoar(Te)mpoAttivo, curated by Fiammetta strigoli,Plasma Art, Firenze, Italy, 2006 Prescriptions, a videonight by Spark video at ForestCity gallery, London Ontario, Canada Videothek, Korperein/satz. Hedah, Maastricht, the Netherlands, MuseumAbteiberg, Mönchengladberg, countryclub InternationalVideo.ArtFestival and Competiton.,Germany NPS new arrivals, web site 2005 Impakt avBBQ night, Impakt festival,Utrecht, the Netherlands 2004 Halloweird, Microcinema, shown oa, New York, San Francisco , USA All tomorrows deja vu, Video Mundi, Chicago, USA Island art film and videofestival, London, UK Love and other difficulties, Microcinema, shown oa in San Francisco, Houston, Oakland, USA Rotterdam VHS festival, of Corso, het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2003 Videovisions, broadcasted by Edith Russ haus fur Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany Exploding cinema, London,UK 25HRS, the videoartfoundation, Barcelona, Spain the video?s are also distributed by De Filmbank, Amsterdam. Recent Theatreworks/stage and costume design/ projects 2008 teaching and lecturing at Hogeschool voor de kunsten Utrecht. costumedesign Alles is goed, direction Gienke Deuten, Toneelschuurprodukties, Haarlem 2006 Springplank voor de Val, a theatreproject with Gienke Deuten, produced by het Lab, Utrecht,The Netherlands 2005 costumedesign De Groote Storm, direction Rieks Swarte, Toneelschuurprodukties, Haarlem, the Netherlands 2004 costumedesign Woord and Van de wind en de berg, direction Rieks Swarte, Emanuel Muris, Toneelschuurprodukties, Haarlem, the Netherlands

In the hot month of August, Alice and her siblings go to their grandmother’s summer house. As the days go by, the house becomes a hive of slow straying bodies, as Alice becomes more and more engrained in her grandmother’s colonial past.

Inês de Lima Torres was born in 1995 in Setúbal, Portugal. She graduated from university at Lisbon School of Theatre and Film, majoring in Cinema, in the branch of Directing in 2017 “De Madrugada”, her graduation film, premiered at IndieLisboa 17’ National Competition and was also screened at other festivals such as San Sebastián International Film Festival.

The protagonists of this project are a group of 40-to 70-year old thieves from the north of Italy called ?I Lupi? the Wolves. The only time they steal is when it`s very foggy. The fog makes everything invisible including them. They rob houses, banks, jewelers, trucks - everything they can profit from. The video `I Lupi` is part of an installation that was made in collaboration with the Wolves.

Alberto De Michele (IT,1980) received his education at the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, department Audiovisual (1997-2001) and the Sandberg Instituut (Master Degree), Fine Arts, Amsterdam (2001-2004). His work straddles the line between (pulp) fiction and (plain) fact. It involves highlighting an individual, a phenomenon, an experience. His aim is to penetrate into the most expressive part, the core of his chosen subject. De Michele shows himself to be a captivating narrator with an eye for gripping personal stories or penetrating observations, causing intangible and alienating experiences. In the past three years he has mainly been focusing on the world around his father. His was given an upbringing surrounded by thieves, gangsters and gambling addicts, a social environment most people experience as sinister and unsavoury. Since De Michele grew up in this environment and still has one foot in his father`s world, he?s able to communicate easily with the people in it. The artist can build up a bond of trust between them and himself that enables him to explore their lives in a privileged way. De Michele has participated in several group exhibitions, for example at W139 - Amsterdam, Montevideo - Amsterdam, Kunsthal - Rotterdam, Apexart - New York, The Alternative Film Video - Belgrade. In 2007/08 the artist had a solo exhibition entitled ?Adriano? at the Appel in Amsterdam, an installation about an Italian bank robber who for a period of time was hiding in Amsterdam. From january 2010 Alberto De Michele will be a resident artist at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.