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Challenging traditional documentary practices with experimental approaches to editing and sound, GIVE explores Roland Gordon’s motivations to create a monumental visual archive displaying centuries of black agency and achievements, in the United States and beyond. Roland’s collage, "The Cloud of Witnesses", is comprised of thousands of photographic portraits,newspapers, and magazines cutouts, presenting an alternative visual history to empower the black community. The film explores collective representations of history, memory, and culture; where pasts, presents, and futures are modeled by the blending of imagination, facts, and love.

Born in Southern Europe, David de Rozas is a filmmaker and artist based in California, US. His interests relate to the politics of history, memory, and identity through a range of mediums and formats. His practice combines audiovisual research, film production, and curatorial projects. These include art center displays and program strategies, lectures, film programs, documentaries, written and film essays, and other forms and sites of knowledge production. David earned an MFA in Cinema at the San Francisco State University, and BA in Fine Arts from the Complutense University in Madrid. His projects have been recently screened and displayed at the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, SOMARTS, UCLA, CSU Media Arts Festival, FLEXfest, Artist’s Television Access, Southern Exposure, and the Prelinguer Library among others. He is currently lecturer at SFSU School of Cinema.

The Arab-Italian boy Zakaria meets a namesake during prayer preparations. The third part in a series about alternative cultures in Italy focuses on the language and culture lessons of the Arabic boy Zakaria.

Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio, born in Turin, 1978, are twins. Since 1999 they have made several shorts, including Maria Jesus (2003), Mio fratello Yang (2004), and Zakaria (2005), which have appeared in a number of international festivals and won several prizes: Candidates at the European Academy Awards 2006, three Silver Nasters for Best Italian Short Film, Best European Short Film at Biennial of Stuttgart, and Candidates of the David of Donatello, awarded in Oberhausen, Huesca, Edinburgh, Turin, Siena, Belo Horizonte. At the same time they have had intense activity in art exhibitions: T1, Turin Triennial, Fondazione Merz; Fondazione Olivetti, Roma; Galleria Civica di Trento; Maison Rouge, Parigi, etc.

Nous avons demandé à une dame, Maria, qui travaille à la campagne comme paysanne, de raconter la morte de notre grandmère, mais en première personne (comme si elle racontait sa propre mort). Notre grandmère, ouvrière à la campagne du sud italie, est morte à 33 ans, après un avortement spontané et pendant le travail. Elle était communiste, mais aussi chretienne. Il était le 14 mai 1958.

Massimiliano et Gianluca De Serio. Nés le 15/12/1978, à Turin. Ils travaillent ensemble depuis 1999.

What can a portrait photograph reveal about a political system? What can a picture taken 35 years ago tell us about our contemporary society? Based on photographs taken on the arrest of political prisoners during the Portuguese dictatorship (1926-1974), this documentary aims to convey the mechanisms by which a dictatorial regime sought to sustain its existence throughout 48 years.

Susana de Sousa Dias was born in Lisbon in 1962. She?s a PhD researcher in Aesthetics and Art Sciences and Technologies (University of Paris 8 and the University of Lisbon), she completed her Master?s Degree in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, her Degree in Fine Arts and Painting was awarded by the University of Lisbon in addition to gaining a Degree in Cinema from the Higher Institute of Theatre and Cinema. She also attended the National Music Conservatory. Lecturing at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, she has been guest participant in various cinema related events at higher education institutions and national and international cinema festivals. She has also sat as a member of the Editorial Council for the magazine Docs.pt. In 2001, she founded the production company, Kintop. She is presently working on a theoretical and practical research in the field of the relationships between Cinema and Contemporary Art with a special focus on archive. Her film Still Life (2005) has been shown in festivals and screenings in five continents, and won several awards (Prémio Atalanta Filmes at DocLisboa 2005, Merit Price at Taiwan International Documentary Festival 2006, Honorary Mention at the Slow Film Festival 2007, Hungry). Obscure Light (documentary feature in post-production) and Stillleben (installation on three screens - Temps d`Images Fetsival, Chiado Museum 2010) are the works she is presently working on. 48 (93`, 2009), her last film, won in 2010 the Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel the FIPRESCI Prize at Dok Leipzig and the Best World Documentary at Jihlava International Festival.

Within one image, another one is always hiding. Wordless and using only archive footage, "Still Life" aims to rediscover and delve into the opacity of images (news, war footage, propaganda documentaries, photos of political prisoners and never seen before rushes) made during the 48 years (1926-1974) of Portuguese dictatorship in order to foster new interpretations.

Susana de Sousa Dias was born in Lisbon in 1962. She completed a thesis in Aesthetics and Art Philosophy (Lisbon University), and holds University degrees in Painting (Lisbon Faculty of Fine Arts) and Cinema (National School of Theatre and Cinema). She studied music at the National Conservatory of Music and is currently a lecturer at Lisbon University of Fine Arts. In 2001 she founded the production company KINTOP.

How many members of a family get dragged into the web of the political police on the arrest of a single political prisoner? How do you give form to someone who disappeared without having had a historical existence? Taking as its starting point the photographs taken by the Portuguese political police (1926-1974), Obscure Light seeks to reveal how an authoritarian system operates within the family intimacy, simultaneously revealing areas of repression which mould the present

Susana de Sousa Dias was born in Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts/ Video, an MPhil in Aesthetics and Art Philosophy, a BA in Fine Arts-Painting, and a BA in Cinema. She studied music at the National Conservatory.

“Ridder Thirst” explores the restorative agency and limits of queer youth, facing white supremacist denialism with an inventory of its continued effects. De Swardt fantasises the First River, a primary marker of settler colonial inhabitation in South Africa, into disappearance, perceiving that “if the ocean is the space of coloniality, the river is that of settlement”. The work takes the span of the river as witness of extreme socio-political discrepancies: snaking from the mouth of the river at Macassar Beach - a former separate amenity for brown people - to Stellenbosch, the affluent university town central to the formulation of apartheid. Photographs of Afrikaner student couples captured at the river in the sixties and seventies by Alice Mertens, a Namibian-German ethnographic photographer who was the first tertiary tutor of the lens in South Africa, are reworked and called into question through a series of anti-monumental gestures, motion-tracked data on spatial and gender traumas, and dense voice-over narration that `unwrites` place. Here the vagaries of the archival gaze is met with the insatiability of eroticism as De Swardt occupies and inverts the “straight” canons of documentary photography and essay film, asking how we can unlearn historic images that seek to define us.

Abri de Swardt (b. 1988) is an artist and writer based in Johannesburg. He holds a MFA in Fine Art with distinction from Goldsmiths, University of London (2014), and was named one of the inaugural Young African Artists by Wanted Magazine. Recent exhibitions and screenings include “phula! phula!”, Africa Open Institute, Stellenbosch (2019); “The Difficulty of Saying I”, Rupert, Vilnius; “Coded Encounters”, Galeria Graça Brand?o, Lisbon; “writing for the eye, writing for the ear”, The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg (all 2018); “These Rotten Words”, Chapter, Cardiff (2017); “Blend the Acclaim of Your Chant with the Timbrels”, Jerwood Space, London (2016); and “Men Gather, in Speech”, Cooper Gallery, Dundee (2015). De Swardt has held solo exhibitions at POOL, Johannesburg (2018); White Cubicle, London (2015); MOTInternational Projects, London (2013); and blank projects, Cape Town (2011). He has taught at Wits School of the Arts, and been published in Art Africa, How to Sleep Faster and Adjective. In 2019 he will contribute to “Radicalise Bauhaus - Perspectives from the Global South”, forthcoming from iwalewabooks, Bayreuth, and is a 2019/2020 artist-in-residence at Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen.

Look into the eyes of a horse and know that you are looking at an intelligent and sensitive animal. If a horse is an animal, what are we? We experience a trailer ride on the highway and wake up from anesthesia in a veterinary clinic. ‘No horse on Mars’ is a film, documentary in its research that plays with fictional elements. The horse’s POV is the most effective element of the film. The voice over tells the story of the galloping mind that resides in all domesticated horses and questions the horse-human positioning. The human is introduced as a screen viewer who follows the horse, wants to measure her, record her and knows her as an object. Ultimately, from the human perspective, there seems to be a glimmer of recognition in the film for the individuality of the horse.

Bea de Visser is known for her film art, installation work and sound performances. Her work can best be described as a digital media-based practice -from the perspective of a painter and storyteller who sees the world through different lenses. AnimaIs are a recurring motif in her work. Her latest works focus on non-anthropocentric storytelling. She mixes fiction with the everyday and emphasizes structures of power, dominance and control. Her work seduces the viewer through a rich audiovisual language, which is poetic in nature and told in an alternative narrative form. Bea de Visser attended the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam (1993-1995). Prior to she pursues her studies painting with a study electro acoustic sound. She initially began her career as a sound and performance artist in the trendy club scene and artist’s spaces, early 1980-ies. With her installation work, she was asked for international exhibitions in museums, art spaces, and galleries, including MoMA New York, National Museum Prague, Madrid, Pittsburgh, and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Her films are screened at international film festivals, museums and gallery’s worldwide. Bea de Visser leads to date the independent studio Anotherfilm that nowadays works as a platform for scenario and film development. Bea de Visser is a lecturer and researcher at the University of the Arts Utrecht at the departments Audio Visual Media and Writing for Performance. She is a buddy for Master students of the department MA Scenography. She works as an art consultant for the corporate art collection of the Bravis hospital, NL.

The last days of a swimming pool, just before the demolition. Regular visitors are isolated by mysterious encounters, nowhere to be seen in the film. We see the decline of a social meeting place unfold in sequential patterns. Without dramatic event, no music, no dialogue, this film is in relation with the `minimal` art cinema. ... A man walks through the hallways past lockers and cubicles. A boy plays in one of the lockers. A girl walks into a dressing room, opens the door, but does not enter. A boy walks past the grandstand where a young woman stares into the water. A woman swims her baby to the edge of the pool. The building is filled with sounds: water, machinery, leaking outside noise like the sound of emptiness. And old man steps off the high dive ... We come to know anything about the people we `follow` or meet. Everyone seems calm and happened to come by. It derives the film its quality as stylized documentary observation or film essay. Yet there is turmoil and tangible threat.

Bea de Visser works as a autonomous visual artist and filmmaker. She started her career in the early 1980-s; she works as a sound and performance artist in the trendy club scene and artists spaces. Today, her work is shown at international exhibitions, her movies shown at international film festivals worldwide. Bea de Visser manages to present the independent production studio Anotherfilm. In the recent past Anotherfilm has become an initiative that participates in hard to realize projects of a small group of artists and filmmakers. Since 2010 Bea de Visser works as guest advisor at Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam. She is art consultant of the Collection Lievensberg in Bergen op Zoom. Occasionally she gives workshops and lectures at home and abroad in various disciplines such as film, scenario, drama, visual arts and theater design. Her films include: Mama Superfreak (2009), Roses and Fall (2006), Just a Minute Yoko (2004), The Second Memory (2004), The Barren Land (2001), Another Another (1999), A Breath Hush (1996). Besides she made music videos, films for theatre design and wrote scenarios for feature film projects.

In one long shot this adaptation of La Mamma Fricchettona, a monologue by Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, shows Viviane De Muynck in a humorous elucidation of a woman? s odyssey from doting motherhood to a state of independence whilst addressing an invisible and anonymous man. In an ambiance of a warehouse filled with white sacks the protagonist vociferously relates her non-existent relationship to husband and child and her escape to the alternative underground of squatters and punks, who are more of a family to her than her own brood.

She starts her career as a performance artist; beginning the 1980ies she performs on the podia of the trendy club circuit and the alternative art spaces with sound work, live installations and `noise` performances. Afterwards she returns to painting and works for two years at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst in Amsterdam (1993-1995). As from that time film is her medium. The work that she develops since then is shown worldwide in museums and art spaces, the theatre, the public space and especially the cinema. Her short films are: SSST?, Roses and Fall, Just a Minute Yoko, The Second Memory, The Barren Land, Another Another and A Breath Hush. `Cold` is her first feature film (in production 2009).

The projects tries to construct a visual metaphor in order to rethink the concept of conflict that lies beneath every human form of relation, and also to study violence as an organized mass media spectacle in contemporary society. We have recently observed the rapid growing of contact sports and all kind of brutal martial arts, from which one stands out above all, the so called Extreme Fighting, in which two contestants fight with almost no limits in the ring, using a mixture of all martial art disciplines. The work tries to investigate in the relation between the mechanisms of knowledge transmission both in the martial arts world and in University, relating the competitivity that is taught daily to the art of killing what is different form you?

Guzmán de Yarza Blache. Zaragoza, Spain. 1976 Architect by Universidad de Navarra. Spain After working at Andres Perea Office of Architecture in Madrid, founds J1 Architects in 2002, a Madrid based office of architecture that currently projects and directs works in several parts of Spain. He develops simultaneously a career as a video artist in a disciplinary mixture that in his own words enriches both practises and allows an exchange of sensitivity that eventually aims to somehow illuminate our perception of human condition. His interests as an artist are basically related to the act of portraying and to the description of contemporary society, for what he performs public art pieces and documental like productions that pose questions on a range of things that vary from the very intimate scale to that one national or transnational, with constant references to architecture and urbanism and the way they both dramatically affect our lives.

Selection of portraits taken late at night in different clubs and after hours in major Russian siberian cities in the summer of 2006. A collective portrait of the first generation of Russians born free that have learned amazingly fast those western rituals of leisure and hedonism through global television networks and that, supported by extremely flexible opening times, are currently developing a sensuality and a joie de vivre that somehow tries to compensate all that stolen time to previous generations. The project is indeed a documentary approach to three big industrial Russian cities, located within the Trans Siberian Route, Yekaterimburg, Novosibirsk and Irtkusk, where more than four hundred portraits where taken during a five week trip, from which around sixty have been chosen with the intention of achieving some knowledge about a generation of Russians whose life conditions have changed dramatically compared to those from their parents. The portraits are presented in a diptic with pictures of buildings belonging the cities where these main characters live, creating a catalogue of both soviet architecture and of the new mall-like constructions and ? western ? looking architectures. The project not only intends to investigate on how much of architectonical can lie in a face or how much of anthropomorphic can there be in a building, but also points out one of the main aspects of contemporary society which is the assumption of global trends by younger generations, always related to leisure time and hedonism, that are beginning to define a social battle field in which the new revolutionary attitude is to see how hard you can party and how little you can sleep?

Architect by Universidad de Navarra. Spain After working at Andres Perea Office of Architecture in Madrid, founds J1 Architects in 2002, a Madrid based office of architecture that currently projects and directs works in several parts of Spain. He develops simultaneously a career as a video artist in a disciplinary mixture that in his own words enriches both practises and allows an exchange of sensitivity that eventually aims to somehow illuminate our perception of human condition. His interests as an artist are basically related to the act of portraying and to the description of contemporary society, for what he performs public art pieces and documental like productions that pose questions on a range of things that vary from the very intimate scale to that one national or transnational, with constant references to architecture and urbanism and the way they both dramatically affect our lives.

These short animation sequences replay jingles of international production companies. Presented as a loop, the work creates a never ending prologue. By accumulation, the abstract logos refer to the history of the industry of cinema. “Midnight movie” evokes the commodification of these films produced and broadcasted in masses, while referring to “Cinéma de minuit”, a French television (1976-2018) program devoted to cinema. By suggesting these trademarks which are familiar to us, “Midnight movie” emphasises that these short sequences already constitute complex narratives. These short films are designed and produced by filmmakers. By shifting the attention to these jingles, "Midnight movie" attempts to question what we no longer see, and yet is an integral part of film production, and questions us on the notion of the author with a nod to the figure of the "orchestra man".

Arthur Debert *1990 in Paris, lives and works in Paris and Berlin. He grew up in Nancy in the Northeast of France. His passion for animation led him to cinema studies before entering Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine - Epinal. He pursued a Master degree in 2013 in E.S.A.L - Metz and began to work for artists and institutions. In 2014, he lived in Shanghai for one year, part-taking in the postgraduate program Ecole Offshore with E.N.S.A.D - Nancy. The program focuses on the influences of globalisation on the artistic ecosystems and the compatibility of art practices and society. In 2016 he moved to Berlin where he developed projects in the field of video and new media. In his artistic practice, he values ??collective formats and the principles of direct exchange. At the heart of his installations, videos and editions is the question of the transmission and survival of knowledge, which is at the same time subjective, anecdotal and memorable.

« Tout a tendance à dériver avec le temps et perd de sa précision de façon périodique. Un ajustement assure que la précision reste au niveau requis. » Comme une invocation, une nécessité de calibration du paysage qui perdrait petit à petit sa condition naturelle, le film projette une nature mouvante, en constante modification et réajustement. Les niveaux de vents, hauteurs de neiges, les compositions physiques, géologiques, morphologiques et temporelles s’étalonnent lentement, la montagne s’équilibre. Dans la continuité de « Volva », film tourné en 2016 à l’observatoire astronomique du Pic du Midi, « Calibration » est une expérience physique de la nature, d’un temps vécu, en plein hiver, isolé dans un refuge de haute montagne durant trois semaines, au contact des aléas du vent, de la neige, des lumières et du temps.

Architecte de formation il collabore dans diverses agences avant de se consacrer exclusivement à sa pratique artistique. En 2006 il est lauréat de la bourse de la Fondation EDF pour les jeunes architectes. Il réalise le projet photographique Landscape scale sur les barrages des Pyrénées qui marquera la direction de ses futurs projets. Il centre ses recherches sur les relations qui se tissent entre l’architecture et le paysage, entre l’homme et la nature. Ses recherches tentent de construire la part impalpable de notre relation au naturel. Ses installations se développent entre photographies, vidéos et volumes construits. En 2016 il réalise son premier film, Volva à l’observatoire astronomique du Pic du Midi. Durant 3 semaines passées à 2871m, il capte inlassablement les traces du temps imprimés dans les expériences scientifiques, l’architecture du lieu et le paysage environnant. Nominé dans divers festivals, Volva est lauréat du prix LOOP Discover à Barcelone. Il intègre la collection du MACBA et du FRAC Normandie Caen. Il a été résident de la Casa de Velázquez et de l’Institut français. Ses travaux sont exposés en Europe, aux Etats-Unis et intègrent diverses collections publiques, FRAC, musées et Fondations. Il vit et travaille à Argut-Dessus, dans les Pyrénées.

Volva est le nom que Johannes Kepler a donné à la Terre, vue de l’espace, dans son texte « Somnium » considéré comme le premier ouvrage de science-fiction . Les observatoires étudient un passé lointain, suspendus dans un temps indéterminé, sans à peine faire attention à leur entourage. Centré sur l’observatoire du Pic du Midi, tourné en 16mm, Volva réfléchit aux rapports espace-temps qui s’établissent entre architecture, science et paysage. Suivant une chronologie solaire, les machines filmées tentent de capter un environnement proche ainsi qu’une série d’ondes semblant provenir des montagnes. L’absence de forme humaine laisse penser à un lieu contrôlé artificiellement. Les plans, entre intérieurs et extérieurs, conduisent le lieux à se confronter à un espace-temps parallèle d’où il semblerait provenir. Un nouveau territoire apparait alors entre l’architecture et le paysage qui l’entoure. Le film est construit dans le possible mouvement de cet espace qui se déplacerait dans divers temps à la fois, passé - présent - futur, et divers lieu, hors et sur Terre. En associant des représentations du réel, Volva vient explorer le rôle de l’image dans l«Transformant la recherche en une exploration du territoire à la première personne, Édouard Decam bâtit une méthodologie du vécu (…) le voyage est lié à un enracinement transitoire dans ces lieux où l’architecture est la partie essentielle d’un environnement qui ne peut être compris sans elle et où l’on a besoin du temps nécessaire pour comprendre l’espace.» Sonia Fernández Pan Édouard Decam est architecte de formation. Il collabore dans diverses agences entre la France et l’Espagne avant de se consacrer exclusivement à sa pratique artistique. En 2006 il est lauréat de la bourse de la Fondation EDF pour les jeunes architectes et réalise le projet photographique « Landscape scale » qui marquera la direction de ses futures recherches. Ses travaux, entre photographies, volumes construits et films, questionnent l’architecture, la science et le paysage. Ses recherches servent à construire la part impalpable de notre relation au naturel. Il s’inscrit dans une démarche d’identification des limites, des zones de contact entre l’espace et le temps, qui constituent des territoires. Aide à la création, résident de la Casa de Velázquez puis du Matadero Madrid, ses travaux ont été exposés en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Il vit et travaille actuellement entre Bordeaux et Barcelone.

«Transformant la recherche en une exploration du territoire à la première personne, Édouard Decam bâtit une méthodologie du vécu (…) le voyage est lié à un enracinement transitoire dans ces lieux où l`architecture est la partie essentielle d’un environnement qui ne peut être compris sans elle et où l’on a besoin du temps nécessaire pour comprendre l`espace.» Sonia Fernández Pan Édouard Decam est architecte de formation. Il collabore dans diverses agences entre la France et l’Espagne avant de se consacrer exclusivement à sa pratique artistique. En 2006 il est lauréat de la bourse de la Fondation EDF pour les jeunes architectes et réalise le projet photographique « Landscape scale » qui marquera la direction de ses futures recherches. Ses travaux, entre photographies, volumes construits et films, questionnent l’architecture, la science et le paysage. Ses recherches servent à construire la part impalpable de notre relation au naturel. Il s’inscrit dans une démarche d’identification des limites, des zones de contact entre l’espace et le temps, qui constituent des territoires. Aide à la création, résident de la Casa de Velázquez puis du Matadero Madrid, ses travaux ont été exposés en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. Il vit et travaille actuellement entre Bordeaux et Barcelone.

Water like crystals, spirited ruminants and haunted lakes. A meal is prepared, animals graze, wind moves through potato flowers. Land, lore and history conflate, confuse and constellate. Meanwhile: musicians are in the street, ancient objects are unearthed and small plans are made.

Bolivian filmmaker living in La Paz. MFA graduated in Cinematic Arts program at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Working in 16mm format, I’m exploring the spectral presence of places, objects, and matter, intertwining them with microhistories revealed through intimate interactions and relationships with the people who participate in my films.

In an Paper, a journalist revealed some classified elements which prove that French weapons are involved in war crimes. She is being questioned by the intelligence services to reveal her source.

Various structures of power, the forces of order, contemporary forms of oppression and security, and media manipulation are the core concerns of French artist Alain Declercq. Born in 1969 in Moulins, France, he lives and works in Paris. His work has been shown in Europe since the early 1990s, including at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006 and 2003), Museum 52 in London (2005) and the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (2001). He has also created a number of specific pieces, among them Welcome Home Boss, featured in the Mois de la Photo in Montreal (2001) and Crash Cars, shown at the Cairo Biennale (2001). Alain Declercq is represented by Lœvenbruck gallery, Paris. Jacky Strenz gallery, Frankfurt and Museum 52, London.

En Suisse, plus de trois-mille bunkers ont été construits entre 1882 et 1995. En 1914, l?aviation entre pour la première fois dans l?histoire d?un conflit armé et engendre des changements de stratégies : il devient nécessaire de se cacher, c?est la naissance du camouflage. Les ouvrages militaires suisses ont été camouflés par d?étonnantes décorations, si bien intégrés au paysage que personne ne les remarque: du sapin métallique de Fort Pré-Giroud (Vallorbe) au porte rocher de Gütsch (Uri). Cette singulière architecture témoigne de la neutralité Suisse et questionne la relation entre architecture et paysage. Aujourd?hui, la plupart de ces fortins sont désaffectés et posent la question du devenir de cet important patrimoine.

De la vidéo à la photographie, de l?installation au dessin, Jeanne Susplugas évolue dans un univers aussi séduisant qu?inquiétant avec comme préoccupations principales nos addictions. Elle crée des espaces pénétrables, des « maisons » qui questionnent le spectateur sur des comportement sociaux et intimes. Susplugas est représentée par la galerie Valérie Bach (Bruxelles), Mizuma Art Gallery (Tokyo) et Rewind (New York). Alain Declercq explore les différentes structures du pouvoir et les oppressions qu`elles engendrent - schizophrénie sécuritaire, surveillance, manipulations médiatiques. Sa technique de l`inversion transforme Declercq en chasseur d`indices, provocateur de dysfonctionnements, renverseur de situations ou empêcheur de tourner en rond. Declercq est représenté par les galeries Elaine Lévy (Bruxelles) et Loevenbruck (Paris).

PROTECTION CIVILE seems the obvious continuation of the first film made by Alain Declercq and Jeanne Susplugas PLAN IODE (which questions the distribution of potassium iodide, vital drug in case of a nuclear attack). After the pharmacies backrooms, it is the under ground Swiss shelters the two artists went to explore. The country abounds of those shelters and each inhabitant has a space. Individual or collective, from particular cellar to enormous medicalized shelters, they all answer a strict and effective organization. The film then questions a possible presence under ground, the limits of the cohabitation, promiscuity and the inevitable problems of organization what raises such a plan of protection. In panoptical and systematic form, appear dormitories, kitchens, surgical unit, medical and emergency material. However in some of these spaces, transformations are taking place, changes of affectation or use. So, certain shelters can serve as heterogeneous storage places which can sometimes take an improper aspect... The artists testify through this movie of the singular and unique architectural heritage of Switzerland.

Alain Declercq is a french artist, born in Moulin in 1969. He works and lives in Paris, his work has been exhibited since 1996. He's represented by the Hervé Loevenbruck art gallery in Paris, and by the Elaie Levy Project Gallery in Belgium (Brussels).
Jeane Susplugas is a french artist, born in Montpellier in 1974. She works and lives in Paris. She's represented in Paris by the JamoisArtPartners Gallery, in Brussels by the Charles de Jonghe Gallery, in Copenhagen by the Poulsen Gallery and in Tokyo by the Mizuma Art Gallery.

In an Paper, a journalist revealed some classified elements which prove that French weapons are involved in war crimes. She is being questioned by the intelligence services to reveal her source.

Various structures of power, the forces of order, contemporary forms of oppression and security, and media manipulation are the core concerns of French artist Alain Declercq. Born in 1969 in Moulins, France, he lives and works in Paris. His work has been shown in Europe since the early 1990s, including at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2006 and 2003), Museum 52 in London (2005) and the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (2001). He has also created a number of specific pieces, among them Welcome Home Boss, featured in the Mois de la Photo in Montreal (2001) and Crash Cars, shown at the Cairo Biennale (2001). Alain Declercq is represented by Lœvenbruck gallery, Paris. Jacky Strenz gallery, Frankfurt and Museum 52, London.

En Suisse, plus de trois-mille bunkers ont été construits entre 1882 et 1995. En 1914, l?aviation entre pour la première fois dans l?histoire d?un conflit armé et engendre des changements de stratégies : il devient nécessaire de se cacher, c?est la naissance du camouflage. Les ouvrages militaires suisses ont été camouflés par d?étonnantes décorations, si bien intégrés au paysage que personne ne les remarque: du sapin métallique de Fort Pré-Giroud (Vallorbe) au porte rocher de Gütsch (Uri). Cette singulière architecture témoigne de la neutralité Suisse et questionne la relation entre architecture et paysage. Aujourd?hui, la plupart de ces fortins sont désaffectés et posent la question du devenir de cet important patrimoine.

De la vidéo à la photographie, de l?installation au dessin, Jeanne Susplugas évolue dans un univers aussi séduisant qu?inquiétant avec comme préoccupations principales nos addictions. Elle crée des espaces pénétrables, des « maisons » qui questionnent le spectateur sur des comportement sociaux et intimes. Susplugas est représentée par la galerie Valérie Bach (Bruxelles), Mizuma Art Gallery (Tokyo) et Rewind (New York). Alain Declercq explore les différentes structures du pouvoir et les oppressions qu`elles engendrent - schizophrénie sécuritaire, surveillance, manipulations médiatiques. Sa technique de l`inversion transforme Declercq en chasseur d`indices, provocateur de dysfonctionnements, renverseur de situations ou empêcheur de tourner en rond. Declercq est représenté par les galeries Elaine Lévy (Bruxelles) et Loevenbruck (Paris).

PROTECTION CIVILE seems the obvious continuation of the first film made by Alain Declercq and Jeanne Susplugas PLAN IODE (which questions the distribution of potassium iodide, vital drug in case of a nuclear attack). After the pharmacies backrooms, it is the under ground Swiss shelters the two artists went to explore. The country abounds of those shelters and each inhabitant has a space. Individual or collective, from particular cellar to enormous medicalized shelters, they all answer a strict and effective organization. The film then questions a possible presence under ground, the limits of the cohabitation, promiscuity and the inevitable problems of organization what raises such a plan of protection. In panoptical and systematic form, appear dormitories, kitchens, surgical unit, medical and emergency material. However in some of these spaces, transformations are taking place, changes of affectation or use. So, certain shelters can serve as heterogeneous storage places which can sometimes take an improper aspect... The artists testify through this movie of the singular and unique architectural heritage of Switzerland.

Alain Declercq is a french artist, born in Moulin in 1969. He works and lives in Paris, his work has been exhibited since 1996. He's represented by the Hervé Loevenbruck art gallery in Paris, and by the Elaie Levy Project Gallery in Belgium (Brussels).
Jeane Susplugas is a french artist, born in Montpellier in 1974. She works and lives in Paris. She's represented in Paris by the JamoisArtPartners Gallery, in Brussels by the Charles de Jonghe Gallery, in Copenhagen by the Poulsen Gallery and in Tokyo by the Mizuma Art Gallery.

Silhouettes and songs are hand-scrawled besides lists of birds and other animals. Feathers are carefully placed besides photographs of remote destinations. This was a life of observation documented in little notebooks, but the man who made them is no longer here. Now these fragments serve as a guide in search of a waning fascination for the environment. I revisit these traces and explore what is left behind.

Leon Decock was born in 1999 in Ghent, Belgium. He has a background in documentary filmmaking and holds a MA in audiovisual arts from RITCS, Brussels and as of 2022 studies media art at KASK, Ghent.

A couple in a rowboat are caught in a never ending circle. They appear to be trapped within the mechanisms of the film itself. The looped rowing action of the man gives him the appearance of an automaton, while the flickering image of the woman frozen at the boat's rudder has a ghostly quality. The actors, or rather their images, are caught in a state of limbo between past and present, movement and stasis, life and death. Differing forms of recorded time are brought together in this work, forcing different perceptual rules to combine. The merger of still images and film motion acts to deform cinematic narrative. The ceaseless forward motion of the storyline has been caught in a loop, creating a film requiring a contemplative approach from viewers more akin to photography or painting. The past and present merge together preventing the possibility of a narrative ending, creating a work complete within itself, yet forever unresolved. Technologies from several different eras are referenced. The lakeside backdrop spinning around the couple is actually a still image created by digitally stitching together individual film frames into a 360-degree panorama, while the man's looped animation resembles a 19th century Zoetrope sequence.

Jason Dee studied photography at Northumbria University and completed a Masters in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art. His current art practice investigates connections between modern media from the mid 19th century to the present day. He uses digital software to alter film scenes originally shot on celluloid, assessing how new media has reconfigured and re-contextualised the way we perceive 20th century cinema. His work has been exhibited in Europe and the United States. Dee is currently undertaking a year long new-media residency at the University of Abertay funded by the Scottish Arts Council. He lives in Dundee, Scotland.

Moonscape is a continuously looping panorama, made by digitally stitching together painted backdrops from numerous 1950?s sci-fi films. These films looked forward to the future ? yet created their futuristic effects by returning to cinemas roots. They were shot in Cinemascope, at the time, cutting-edge technology , yet it?s format and the use of painted landscapes harked back to 19th Century panoramas. ?Moonscape?, merging paint, celluloid and pixels, continues this sense of simultaneously looking back and forward. In the 1950?s, these landscapes had to be imagined; yet they also contained scientific details from a society on the verge of space travel. Hand-painted backdrops, blended with lens-based imagery, fantasy merged with scientific facts, as the imagined paintings become infused with film?s reality effect. Viewing these landscapes now, after manned lunar exploration appears to have come and gone, the pioneering optimism (expressed in the use of Technicolor and Panovision) has given way to a more desolate and directionless viewpoint. This panorama shows a distant suspended world, sealed off and preserved from the world and time. Distant ghostlike spacemen look isolated and without purpose, caught in limbo on an imagined future landscape of celluloid and paint that became reality and is now slipping back into memory.

Jason Dee is a graduate from Glasgow School of Art`s MFA programme. He continues to live in the city, working on his art practice while occasionally teaching New Media skills and lecturing at the Art School. His work has been exhibited and screened at venues throughout Europe and the USA.

Après l?échec d?un avenir radieux annoncé par le communisme, nos amis les clones, chantres du capitalisme, décident la mise en faillite délibérée d?entreprises. EXTRAIT D?UN ENSEMBLE DE FILMS REGROUPÉS SOUS LE TITRE : « In The World Of Opulence » Les films se jouent des sujets épineux et calamiteux de nos sociétés contemporaines. Les thèmes récurrents qui ont influencé OBSESSION 27 (l?isolement social, l?exclusion, la jet set, la perversité, certains fléaux planétaires?) sont illustrés avec légèreté ou tragique, humour ou ironie, parfois sous forme purement documentaire et généralement engagée. Tout à la fois ludiques et humoristiques, les vidéos participent autant de la critique sociale que du divertissement. Toute lourdeur de production écartée,a favorisé une grande souplesse de réalisation et les moyens réduits furent propices à la spontanéité : Matériel minimum (caméra DV), logiciel de montage de base, séances improvisées et intervenants évidemment non professionnels

Olivier Degorce & Christophe Griseau sont nés à Niort, France. Ils vivent et travaillent à Paris et près de l`Atlantique. Au gré de ses collaborations, on retrouve Olivier DEGORCE sous différents pseudos : M&M?S, OBSESSION 27, NOWHERE, ou encore WHAT?S FOR DINNER. Sa production polymorphe associe la vidéo, la musique électronique, la photographie, et l?écriture. Il revendique une approche ludique, touche-à-tout, iconoclaste et un certain militantisme. Les thématiques récurrentes qui traversent sa pratique et constituent des sources d?inspiration sont aussi variées que les médias qu`il utilise : l?environnement, la question de la célébrité, les sociétés d?opulence, les fléaux planétaires, etc? Ses installations photographiques ont été exposées à Paris [ American Center, Passage de Retz, Centre Georges Pompidou...], à l`étranger [Nikolai Comtemporary Art Center de Copenhague, Traders Pop Gallery à Maastricht, Speak For Gallery à Tokyo] et dans plusieurs galeries de province [Confort Moderne de Poitiers, C.A.P.C de Bordeaux , Le rectangle à Lyon...]. Dès 1988, M&M`S a été partie prenante de la scène électronique française. En 1998, il a publié l?ouvrage de référence sur la culture DJ, « NORMAL PEOPLE » compilant 180 portraits photographiques de Dj`s français et internationaux (Crash Editions). Ses productions musicales ont été signées sur des labels tels que TEKNOTIKA ? Detroit / USA, MENTAL GROOVE Records?Genève /Suisse SKAM Records-Manschester/UK MAZZO Music (Pays-Bas), B-Cool (Japon), Sony France, BMG?.. En 2004 et 2005, il se consacre notamment, avec Christophe Griseau, à la réalisation d`une série de vidéos illustrant leur pièce sonore : OBSESSION 27 "In the World of Opulence" Ce projet est réalisé avec le soutien de la DRAC Ile-de-France. *Articles et textes engagés avec Amandine Geers sur l`alimentation et l?écologie pour le magazine CRASH / Paris, pour lequel il a été également photographe.

La maison qui vous veut du bien La maison qui vous veut du bien est un film-essai sur l'histoire de la sonnette caméra de la société Ring rachetée par Amazon devenant en quelques années l'épicentre des objets connectées dits smart. Elle se voit envahie d'innombrables produits, éclairages, capteurs, caméras, aspirateurs, ours en peluche « intelligents » qui deviennent autant de témoins aux points de vue improbables. Des logiciels associés au réseau de surveillance des quartiers sont programmés pour analyser des comportements, ou encore des réseaux de neurones sont entraînés à reconnaître des visages captent, annotent, data minent, transforment la masse de données, filtrent par la détection biométrique assistée par du deep learning, en fonction de listes de gestes suspects, balancent leurs résultats aux officiers des polices publiques ou autres agences de sécurité... La capture sans autorisation du voisinage, l'espionnage organisé entre voisins et la disponibilité des vidéos privées pour les polices municipales font basculer le grand rêve de la maison automatisée en un cauchemar paranoïaque. Le moindre signe capté – vol d'un papillon, chien perdu, ombre d'un promeneur... – devient suspect, vient hanter les occupants de la petite maison blanche. Il se constitue progressivement un réseau d'espionnage privé en peer to peer. La bunkerisation des maisons entre dans sa phase «deep».

Stéphane Degoutin est artiste et chercheur. Ses thèmes de recherche portent sur l'humanité après l'homme, la ville après l'espace public, l'architecture après le plaisir. Ses projets enquêtent sur des situations d'ambivalence, entre la guerre et la danse, entre le plaisir sexuel et le non-lieu, entre la ville et son potentiel, entre le posthumain et l'obsolescence de l'homme. Il enseigne à l'École des Arts Décoratifs à Paris. Site internet : https://d-w.fr/ Gwenola Wagon est artiste et enseigne à l'université Paris 8 à Saint-Denis. Son travail imagine des alternatives et des récits paradoxaux pour déconstruire le monde numérique contemporain. Elle a réalisé des films et des installations pour des festivals et des expositions en France et à l'étranger. Elle a publié Psychanalyse de l'aéroport international avec Stéphane Degoutin, et le livre Planète B aux éditions 369. Site internet : https://d-w.fr/

Idiots combines words and beats into an apoplectic symphony. It's language is raw and jagged, stuttering onto the screen into rants, shouts and screams. This film is angry on your behalf.

Michelle Deignan makes moving image, photographic and print works, for gallery exhibition, for cinema and for other screening contexts. With moving images she creates factual and fictional narratives that present alternative experiences and understandings of identity and place. These films often feature the triumphs and failures of protagonists struggling to be seen, remembered or heard as they fight for agency. Michelle's moving image work is distributed by LUX. She is one of a group of international women artists who collectively produce The Crown Letter, online participatory art project that began in April 2020.

By exploring representation of time, movement, fact and fiction, `A Glimpse of Common Territory` tells of the unsettling distance between what we see, what we assume and what we know. Two aristocratic characters from an 1827 sci-fi novel, "The Mummy: a Tale of the Twenty Second Century", are invoked through the words of their author. We see them overlooking the landscape from an open platform within an uncanny architectural anomaly, a 127 metre cast concrete building in the centre of a housing estate. Together they confront a crisis, their new found awareness that what they perceive, see and control are completely fictitious. Though their negotiations are precarious they reach an understanding about how they can retain a semblance of control.

Deignan has exhibited her work in over 100 exhibitions, screenings and film festivals including: ‘New Work UK - Trust Yourself’, Whitechapel Gallery, London; ‘Europart - New Contemporary Art from Europe’, Vienna; ‘Terror and the Sublime: Art and Politics in an Age of Anxiety’, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; ‘transmediale.08’, House of Cultures, Berlin; ‘Les Rencontres Internationale’, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris; Cork International Film Festival; ‘This Fanciful Digression’, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland; ‘Black Box Programme’ at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Michelle Deignan’s moving image work is distributed by LUX.

Actual and virtual simulacra of historical European buildings, monuments and recreational spaces are presented in a tumultuous and fluctuating sonic landscape. This uncanny vision of past and present, depicting the instrumentalisation of places, is framed by two distinct voices. One languidly quotes lyrics from Kraftwerk’s Europe Endless (1977) the other earnestly performs excerpts from the introduction to the sci-fi novel, “The Mummy: A Tale of the Twenty Second Century” by Jane Webb Loudon (1827). Between them they proposes a progressive but unstable future where past dramas can easily be re-enacted.

Michelle Deignan (b. Dublin 1970) is an artist and filmmaker based in London. She has exhibited her work in over 60 national and international exhibitions, screenings and festivals including: `Public Space Ltd.`, Athens Media Art Festival;`transmediale`, House of Cultures, Berlin; `India Art Summit`, Delhi; The LUX and Cranford Collection Present: The World Turned Upside Down, Camden Arts Centre, London; `Terror and the Sublime: Art and Politics in an Age of Anxiety`, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; `This Fanciful Digression`, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland. Michelle Deignan`s moving image work is distributed by LUX.

`Her Fanciful Digression` imagines a meeting between 19th Century Irish feminist Anna Doyle Wheeler and English landscape painter John Constable. It is set in Hatfield Forest, formerly The Houblon Estate, in South East England. Two apprentice romantics dressed in period costume repeatedly walk through the vistas of the landscape as the film`s voice over talks about the events that contribute to Constable and Wheeler`s meeting. The film considers the aesthetics of romanticism within the context of cultural, political and economic changes of the time and the application of those aesthetics in film now.

Michelle Deignan`s is an artist and filmmaker. Her work is represented by Maria Stenfors, London. She has exhibited in over 50 national and international exhibitions and festivals including: `New Work UK - Trust Yourself`, Whitechapel Gallery, London; `Europart - New Contemporary Art from Europe`, Vienna; `transmediale.08`, House of Cultures, Berlin; `Her Fanciful Digression`, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; `Film Programme 1`, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; `Black Box Programme` at the Edinburgh Film Festival.