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One Glass Eye Melting conjures the common imaginary of dystopia to rearticulate it in search of new possibilities. A close-up of a rotating eye gazes back at the viewer, its pupil reflecting a montage of disasters—war, natural catastrophe, and mundane accidents—juxtaposed with scenes of regeneration: microbial life, cosmic expansion, and technological evolution. Filmed in a raw, single-shot sequence with minimal post-production, the eye becomes both a mirror and a fractured “memory container,” destabilised by glitches, scratches, and analogue/digital noise. The work interrogates the act of looking itself, transforming reality into something surreal yet unnervingly familiar. As the eye spins 360 degrees, the pupi’s reflection remains fixed, anchoring chaos and renewal as cyclical, interdependent forces. One Glass Eye Melting reframes disaster as inseparable from rebirth, arguing that collapse harbours the potential to reimagine—and rebuild—our narratives. Rather than revisiting catastrophe, the work asks: What do we do with these images of disaster? The work summons the collective imagination of dystopia, rearticulating its imagery in pursuit of uncharted possibilities. Part of the series Bajo el cielo cayendo (Under the Falling Sky), which explores the tension between systemic disaster and fragile hope.

Sebastián Díaz Morales was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, in 1975 and lives and works in Amsterdam. He attended the Universidad del Cine de Antín in Argentina from 1993-1999, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2000-2001, and Le Fresnoy Studio des Arts Contemporains in Roubaix, France from 2003-2004. Díaz Morales’s examination of perception and reality is based on the assumption that reality itself is by nature highly fictional. Thus, his films do not simply transport the viewer into another, surreal, or phantasmal realm, but they strip reality of its familiarity and distort it, making it seem like something else. With Diaz Morales, the viewer’s imagination does not function as a basic counterpart to the real. Rather, it operates as a force capable of evoking space and producing it diegetically, one that, beyond generating a direct visual impression, fills in the gaps in seeing and, as the film unfolds, gradually reveals to the viewer the constructedness of what we call reality. Reality is presented here as a phantasm, as something that always eludes its defining in images. It is therefore always “a little bit ahead” of the image and the viewer’s gaze. His work has been exhibited widely at venues—such as the Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou; Stedelijk Museum and De Appel, Amsterdam; Le Fresnoy, Roubaix; CAC, Vilnius; Art in General, New York City; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Biennale Sao Pablo; Biennale of Sydney; Miro Foundation, Barcelona; MUDAM, Luxemburg; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; the Biennale di Venezia and Documenta Fifteen.

The serie Talk with Dust is composed of 8 video works and explores the idea of the fantastic or extraordinary. This fantastic is not the one that interrupts the ordinary course of things but rather that which is at once strange and present, at the same time its contradiction and its confirmation. The protagonist of a last sequence is a dog. Wandering through a semi deserted landscape, it encounters different situations that leads him to question what he sees, understands or knows. The sequence never completes a narrative. It is also fragmented into parts, which seem disconnected from a story. Therefore the script also pictures only fragments of what could be the entire movie or narrative.

Sebastian Diaz Morales (Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, 1975) studied both in Argentina and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Morales’s video work blurs fiction and documentary genres and has been screened extensively at in museum, gallery and festival context and his work has been supported by a number of grants and awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009. With its spliced footage and stills and jumbled observations, his work follows the tradition of Latin-American narrative film. Morales plays with the structure of narrative within his work, typically documenting and constructing journeys that explore social and political concerns.

1-channel video / 2k format / 10min / 2018 Soundscore Berend Dubbe & Gwendolyn Thomas / Photography Niels Boon / Special effects Arjan van Drunen / Production Bart van Dam Produced with financial support of the Mondriaan Fonds The multiverse (or metaverse) is a hypothetical group of multiple universes including the universe in which humans live. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, the physical laws and the constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called the "parallel universes", "other universes", or "alternative universes". #3 Multiverse is part of a series of videos which are ultimately sequences of a whole. Both a concept and a blurred narrative. The latter is not explicitly delineated in the course of the series but it is intuited. The sequences generate, rather than a narrative, a concept. All these sequences are thought to be shown on separate screens. In large and small shapes, vertically and horizontally they spread into one or various spaces in different combinations resembling an aleatory puzzle which ultimately takes a more clear and narrative shape in one last sequence/installation. The serie Talk with Dust is composed of 8 video works and explores the idea of the fantastic or extraordinary. This fantastic is not the one that interrupts the ordinary course of things but rather that which is at once strange and present, at the same time its contradiction and its confirmation. For something to be fantastic, it is not enough to be different from the real: also (and above all) it is necessary to mix inexplicably with the real thing. In more philosophical terms we can say that the fantastic is not the other of the same but its alteration: not the contradiction of the real, but its subversion. That is why the cinematic condition of the fantastic, which on the other hand can serve as an exact definition, is not at all in the production of real or supernatural beings, but in the fact that they affect what is recognized as real and natural through a contagion of the other who comes to seize the same in person. The feat made by the fantastic cinema does not consist only in this visible manifestation of the real as another. These are duplicated, in fact, and apparently paradoxically, by the work of an invocation of the Real as such, considered in its effective and singular existence; and in a way that is in itself quite strange. 1 The effects on this and the rest of the works had been recreated entirely on stage without the use of postproduction editing. 1 Clement Rosset, El Objeto Singular, Editorial Sexto Piso, 2007

Sebastián Díaz Morales was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, in 1975 and lives and works in Amsterdam. He attended the Universidad del Cine de Antín in Argentina from 1993-1999, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2000-2001, and Le Fresnoy Studio des Arts Contemporains in Roubaix, France from 2003-2004. His work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows and presentations at Venice Biennale; Tate Modern, London; Center Pompidou, Paris; Miro Fundation, Barcelona; Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; CAC, Vilnius; Le Fresnoy, Roubaix, France; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany and group shows at De Appel, Amsterdam; Art in General, NY; Ludwin Museum Budapest, Bienale Sao Pablo; Biennale of Sydney; MUDAM, Luxemburg; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. His work is represented in numerous collections, including Center Pompidou, Paris; Tate modern, London; Fundacion Jumex, Mexico; Sandretto Foundation, Torino; Sammlung-Goetz, Munich; Fundacion de Arte Moderna, Museo Berardo, Lisboa; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009

In Pasajes IV the idea follows the same narrative, concept and structure as in the other videos from the series. In the previous three Pasajes video works a formula repeats on different backdrops: a character unites places through gateways, doors, stairs and roads which are otherwise spatially disconnected from each other. This is the geography of a story expressed in an alteration of normalcy. In this formulation of Pasajes IV, the video explores the landscape of Patagonia. Crisscrossing this territory in search for differences within the landscape, a character as a guide, unites different territories disconnected in their geography, as essential pieces of a puzzle to understand this region’s present topography and history.

Sebastián Díaz Morales was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, in 1975 and now lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He attended the Universidad del Cine de Antin in Argentina from 1993-1999, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2000-2001 and Le Fresnoy Studio des arts contemporains in Roubaix, France from 2003-2004. He has had solo exhibitions in the USA, Mexico, and numerous cities in Europe, and his work has been supported by a number of grants and awards. Díaz Morales uses a number of different formal strategies to create his videos, ranging from the digital manipulation of appropriated news clips to lengthy, film-like narrative works made from footage filmed by himself. Díaz Morales explores the relationship between large-scale socio-political power dynamics and individual action in works which create a sense of uneasiness for the viewer. His films are often somewhat surreal, establishing a tension between a depicted social reality and its representation in a visually abstract or fantasy-inflected way. Throughout his works, multiple forms of dependence are explored, including dependent relationships between people, the environment, and social structures.

The Lost Object is the final video in a trilogy that examines the complex mechanisms of how we perceive the constructed nature of reality?and how this construction is performed, both in the realm our imagination and the one of film. As curator Cuauhtémoc Medina notes in a recent monograph dedicated to Diaz Morale’s work, the artist approaches film as a “factory of simulacra” a conceptual thread that carries throughout his trilogy, which began with Insight (2012) and was followed by Suspension (2014). A slow, steady shot travels into the set of The Lost Object, accompanied by the din of a whirring film reel that seems to methodically introduce the viewer into a world of artifice: a soundstage containing the set of a curiously dated, yet nonetheless anonymous room. The scenario slowly begins to unravel, disarticulating both the language and apparatus of filmmaking. Following Jean Baudrillard?s notion that the world has disappeared behind its own representation and therefore its impossible to return to it, The Lost Object proposes a new world in which fiction and reality merge into one single element. In this universe, fiction is autonomous and auto-generates itself.

Sebastiàn Díaz Morales was born in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, in 1975 and lives and works in Amsterdam. He attended the Universidad del Cine de Antón in Argentina from 1993-1999, the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2000-2001, and Le Fresnoy Studio des Arts Contemporains in Roubaix, France from 2003-2004. His work has been exhibited widely, including solo shows and presentations at Tate Modern, London; Center Pompidou, Paris; Miro Fundation, Barcelona; Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam; CAC, Vilnius; Le Fresnoy, Roubaix, France; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany and group shows at De Appel, Amsterdam; Art in General, NY; Ludwin Museum Budapest, Bienale Sao Pablo; Biennale of Sydney; MUDAM, Luxemburg; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. His work is represented in numerous collections, including Center Pompidou, Paris; Tate modern, London; Fundacion Jumex, Mexico; Sandretto Foundation, Torino; Sammlung-Goetz, Munich; Fundacion de Arte Moderna, Museo Berardo, Lisboa; Kadist Foundation, San Francisco. He was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009

Insight is the total abstraction. A carefully assembled film-crew appears like a tableau vivant facing the viewer. Then suddenly, they shatter- an analogy of breaking through the surface to expose the simulation - a mirror slowly explodes into a thousand pieces. Filmed in beautifully rendered high definition Insight is a tribute to the camera obscuras of old mingled with a critical spirit directed towards the mass media today. Regarded as a phenomenon brought about by a world lacking distinction between real and simulacra, Diaz Morales borrows media industry tactics to expose and undermine. Revealing rather than concealing his methods allows for a moment of realisation to occur. As the pieces of glass crumble into tiny galaxies, context is deconstructed and the universalising tendency of Diaz Morales' practise literally portrayed. With timeless grace the artist contemplates the nature of existence. (text Nathalie Levi) We look at a film crew; the film crew is watching us. Cinema as a mirror of reality that becomes fiction. Or is it vice versa? A world with a mirror image, one that can be accessed by crossing the mirror’s surface. Indeed, within the realm of fiction, mirrors provide characters and readers alike with a gateway to a different world. Interaction with that new environment, be it purely fantastic or disturbingly didactic, pushes one to expand one’s horizons and reconsider the concept of a real world.

Sara Bartman who is more commonly known as Venus Hottentot was a South African Khoisan woman who was brought to England to be exhibited in 1810. Her genitals and buttocks where far beyond the understanding of what most Europeans at that time considered a human body in that sense connecting humanity with their race solely, she was considered almost like an animal and was exposed like an object. After her death her genitals and her brain were kept, as well as a wax model of her body and her skeleton have being exposed in the Musée de l`Homme in France.This performance is the result of an investigation into the black performing body, and how blackness has become an act in itself, wearing her body as a skin was a solution to disguise myself and at the same time become myself through the other.The reason why Sara Bartman has become this icon for the African people in Africa and in the diaspora as well as for European people, is a reaction to the registered and legitimate scientific and voyeuristic rape of her body. The verticality of the sculptures and monuments that glorify the heroic acts of man is now simply the body of an African woman, silent, erect, awake.

Born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 9 April 1982, currently living in Amsterdam and making a Master in Fine Arts at the Dutch Art Institute in Enschede, The Netherlands. Graduated in 2007 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands at the Fine Arts department where I developed my last works, all of which are performances Hommage à Sara Bartman 2007, Throne of Gold 2007, Trujillo`s Island 2007, Trujillo 2006.

"Die Nacht" est une émission sur Arte, présentée par Paul Ouazan. Participent à la 25ème édition Marianne Müller, Bernard Rouget, Hiraki Sawa et Marina Abramovic

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The experimental film Zone of Silence (Scream Machine) explores the interplay between light, fog, and resonance to depict inner isolation and psychological disorientation. The city is enveloped in a dense atmosphere, while reflections of light and muffled sounds create a “zone of silence” in which orientation and communication begin to dissolve. Inspired by historical maritime navigation problems—where foghorns became inaudible under certain weather conditions—the film translates this phenomenon into the realm of the human unconscious. Theodor Reik’s psychoanalytic concept of the “zone of silence” serves as a central motif for repressed emotions and the difficulty of breaking through them. The closing sequence shows the fading inscription “EUROPA,” a bleak reflection on the continent’s political future. Through its dense atmosphere, a composition blending field recordings and synthesized sound, and the use of visual metaphors, the film offers a profound exploration of inner emptiness and the search for orientation.

Michael Dietrich (*1985, Vienna, Austria)studied social design at the HfbK Hamburg and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His work explores the impact of human intervention on nature, often unfolding unsettling scenarios through video and acousmatic.

On Facebook, I recognized him right away. 40 years after we met, we don't even know if it's a good memory. Despite the virus, I was able to join Dean in Los Angeles. Here everything is closed, and from Malibu to Watts, we let ourselves be crossed by the immensity of the city, in the momentum of the Mustang. Hold my hand tight, my beloved, the end has already happe- ned, everyone knows it in Hollywood, but now only poetry can reveal it.

After studying art history, Vincent Dieutre entered IDHEC (Fémis) in 1983. In 1989, he won the Villa Medici outside the walls in New York, and then lived in Rome and Berlin. After these years of drift, he returned to Paris in 1990 and wrote his DEA dissertation there (“Aesthetics of confusion” Paris III) before turning definitively to directing with Rome Désolée. Filmmaker, critic (la Lettre du cinema, les Lettres Françaises), he also often teaches in film and art schools in France and Europe (Paris VIII, HEAD, Fresnoy, la Cambre, etc.). Both do- cumentaries and autofiction nourished by music, painting, Queer culture, his work questions the links between the intimate and the collective but also the forms of cinema. His films have received several awards at international festivals.

Interweaving archival audio, photographs, and films; eight years of visits to Google’s first hyperscale data center in The Dalles, Oregon; Google’s promotional videos; and encounters with local residents, PROJECT 02 untangles layers of power that underlie this Internet.

Adam Diller’s film and media works challenge our understandings of the ecologies, cultures, and media within which we live. He has exhibited internationally at venues including Anthology Film Archives, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Center on Contemporary Art, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Northwest Film Forum, Knitting Factory, Roulette, Issue Project Room, Sugar Refinery, and D-22. He has released music on labels including Line (12K), Locust Music, Gruenrekorder, DRAFT, Gift Tapes, and Present Sounds.

One Buenos Aires afternoon in the dominican hairdresser saloon, in which characters from different origins reunite around the musical feeling of the place. From dancers to performers and actors, clients and reggaeton singers.

MA in Documentary Cinema and Profesor Assistant at Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires. PhD Candidate at University NOVA, Lisboa. Currently working on my first feature film. I'm interested in the notions of displacement, ritual and longing. In color, rhythm, body and mixing genres in a surrealist way.

This film is an intimate exploration of the male territory of a city commuter. By following the wanderings of a band of young men, we walk a world where female bodies are only virtual and ghostly silhouettes. The wanderings of the characters lead us inside everyday places (gym, building hall, parking lot of a shopping center, squatted apartment) where we follow the staging of their manhood; while in off voice, intimate narratives reveal unsuspected share their stories and their personalities.

Born in 1979 in Aulnay-sous-Bois (France), Alice Diop fell in the documentary, despite herself "It is the fruit of a happy meeting with an documentary of Eliane de Latour" meeting enabling it to achieve strength of messages that can be conveyed in documentaries and the possibility of crossing a sociological glance with a cinematic treatment. Alice is interested in people we do not see, she tells the cultural diversity. For Alice Diop, realize a good documentary is to "tell intelligent things by using an artistic and human way." Combating ideas to advance society. " Alice Diop passed a Master Image and Society and incorporates a writing workshop to Fémis, in Paris. Director for The Eye and Hand (France 5), she is the author of documentaries. Alice Diop is the recipient of the Stock Exchange "Author documentary" of the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation. It carries two 52 minutes in 2006, for example Clichy and the world tour. In 2007, "Senegalese and sénégauloises". In 2011, his film The Death of Danton earned him several selections in festivals and awards

What happens when the consequences of human actions are so pervasive and profound that everything on Earth becomes artificial to some degree? This new 15-minutes video essay explores the most iconic specimens from A Bestiary of the Anthropocene book & research, combining video footage from around the world, this 2-channel video exposes the hybrid beings humans are now coexisting with in the Anthropocene era, merging in various forms and degrees the natural with the artificial. This new video work was commissioned by the Max Ernst Museum, and will be presented together with a large-scale installation featuring our full collection of physical specimens. BASED ON "A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE" BOOK 2021. An illustrated compilation of hybrid creatures of our time, equally inspired by medieval bestiaries and observations of our damaged planet. Designed as a field handbook, it aims to help us observe, navigate, and orient ourselves in the increasingly artificial fabric of the world. Plastiglomerates, surveillance robot dogs, fordite, artificial grass, antenna trees, Sars-Covid-2, decapitated mountains, drone-fighting eagles, standardized bananas… each of these specimens is symptomatic of the rapidly transforming “post-natural” era we live in. Often, without us even noticing them, these creatures exponentially spread and co-exist with us. A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE seeks to capture this precise moment when the biosphere and technosphere merge and mesh into one new hybrid body. What happens when technologies and their unintended consequences become so ubiquitous that it is difficult to define what is “natural” or not? What does it mean to live in a hybrid environment made of organic and synthetic matter? What new specimens are currently populating our planet at the beginning of the 21st century?

DISNOVATION.ORG merges contemporary art, research, and hacking to critically translate complex eco-social debates into operative and provocative exhibitions. They create radical artworks staged as large-scale laboratory experiments focused on energy, ecology, and economics, which act as catalysts for imagining futures that diverge from prevailing narratives. Their exhibitions, books, and videos have permeated cultural landscapes worldwide, fostering critical dialogue at the intersection of artistic, political, and scientific inquiry. They co-edited A Bestiary of the Anthropocene with Nicolas Nova, an atlas of anthropic hybrid creatures, and The Pirate Book, an anthology on media piracy. DISNOVATION.ORG’s works have been exhibited, performed, published, and reviewed internationally, including at the Palais de Tokyo, Centre Pompidou, Jeu de Paume (Paris), Museum of Arts and Design (New York), Fonderie Darling (Montréal), HMKV (Dortmund), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Ars Electronica (Linz), MU (Eindhoven), Strelka Institute (Moscow), China Museum of Digital Arts (Beijing), Chronus Art Center (Shanghai), Polytechnic Museum (Moscow), ISEA (Paris, Hong Kong), Elektra (Montréal), and HEK (Basel). Their work has been featured in Forbes, Wired, Vice, Motherboard, Libération, Die Zeit, Arte, Next Nature, Hyperallergic, Le Temps, Neural, Digicult, Gizmodo, and Filmmaker Magazine, among others.

Twenty performing artists and dancers embedded themselves in sites with different dynamics between nature and culture: the Berlin Botanical Garden, a cultural site focused on nature; a power plant, where nature is burned to make culture; a landfill and recycling center where the detritus of culture re-enters nature; a spy station built on a hill of rubble from the second world war; and a nature paradise impacted by climate change. Contaminations is an outdoor, experimental educational programme for people who want to work with their bodies (floating-berlin.org/contaminations). This short film shows scenes from Contaminations 2022. In this film, you see roads washed out by floods induced by climate change, with their guardrails floating in midair. There are metal structures newly constructed to prevent landslides in a forest impacted by forest fires worsened by climate change. When trees burn, their roots no longer hold the soil, and landslides further destroy the forest and homes.

Sebastian Díaz de León lives in Berlin with a spatial practice at the interface of architecture, film, photography and research. He examines existing structures to imagine a social and climate-just future, combining a variety of disciplines to address contemporary spatial challenges. As part of the collective ufoufo - urban fragment observatory they edited and published the book „VISITING - inken baller & hinrich baller, berlin 1966-89" (2022), including the accompanying exhibition at DAZ berlin (2022), Freie Akademie der Künste in hamburg (2023) and Kunsthochschule Kassel (2024). With ABRISSSTOP! (2023) they fight against the demolition of buildings in Berlin through film, performance and exhibitions. IVRY-AFFAIRES (2023) is a 3-channel video installation displayed in the public spaces of Ivry-sur-Seine and berlin. It shows the stories of Ivry-sur-Seine’s inhabitants and unfolds collective imaginaries emerging from the multi level terrace housing by Renée Gailhoustet and Jean Renaudie. After teaching architectural design at the chair of Jean-Philippe Vassal, he is currently teaching at the chair of Stéphanie Bru at Universität der Künste berlin. Katherine Ball is a habitat for fungi and bacteria located on planet Earth. Katherine is a member of Floating University e.V., runs the program Contaminations, and is part of the Hybrid Infrastructure Working group there. Their art practice includes things like: living in an off-grid floating island building mushroom filters to clean a polluted lake and coordinating a national day of action to halt business at banks and corporations influencing state laws. Katherine has a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University School of the Environment (2022), a Master’s in Fine Arts in Social Practice from Portland State University (2012), and studied at the School of Walls and Space in Copenhagen (2011, 2015). Katherine has exhibited and performed at Smackmellon (NY), apexart (NY), Kampnagel Hamburg (DE), Schauspiel Dortmund Theater (DE), Wien Woche (AT), Wiener Festwochen (AT) and their work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA, NY). Their books include Not Broken Yet: Life in the Mojave Desert (High Desert Test Sites, 2014) and Utopia Walks Away: Infrastructure in Copenhagen, Denmark (LikeLichen Press, 2014). Katherine has been a Fulbright Fellow in Copenhagen, a German Chancellor Fellow (Bundeskanzler-Stipendium), a Macdowell Fellow, an artist in residence at Andrea Zittel's High Desert Test Sites in the Mojave Desert, an observer delegate at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Mexico, and a member of the inflatable sculpture collective Tools for Action (2014-2017). Originally from Detroit, Katherine lives between Colorado, Berlin and Hawaii.

When Oum Kalthoum meets Serge Gainsbourg meets Billie Holliday meets Aisha Al Marta meets Sabah meets Taxi Girl meets Esther Phillips meets Yasmine Hamdan meets Souad Abdallah meets Jeanne Moreau meets Dina Washington meets PJ Harvey meets Marylin Monroe meets Astrud Gilberto meets Sara Vaughan meets Catherine Deneuve meets Mohamad Mounir meets Madonna meets Delphine Seyrig meets Soapkills meets Ahmad Adawiya meets Eartha Kitt meets Mirwais meets Bandali Family meets Feyrouz meets Asmahan meets Cheikh Imam meets Marguerite Duras meets Nina Simone meets Cole Porter meets Omar Zeini meets Fleetwood Mac meets Tarab meets Kitsch meets Choubi meets you.

Actor (notably directed by Christian Merlhiot, Jocelyne Saab, Georges Hachem, Roy Samaha, Omar Fakhoury and Jad Youssef…) and journalist, Nasri has also been a DJ for over 8 years in Beirut, and Berlin where he is currently based. With an eclectic mix of uninhibited pop with borderless genres and tastes - good or bad - Nasri creates the musical encounter with the great names of the Arab world`s classical repertoire alongside those of Western pop, music of the Emirates, Egypt, Lebanon, and beyond with stars and starlets of French cinema and literature. A fanatic of Jazz divas, Nasri links Asmahan and Delphine Seyrig, Grace Jones and Jeanne Moreau, as well as the most kitsch of Arabic sounds with acoustic dialogues by Bette Davis, among other great actresses of International cinema.

Rachid Djaïdani, a young author, films himself as he is writing his second novel and takes us along during the various stages of his creation. The life of this self-taught artist, gifted with an extraordinary capacity to talk about himself while explaining his own world, unrolls through these brutal images.

I’m marking the area surrounding the home of my mother in Nogent-sur-Vernisson (Loiret, France) with the flag of Romania. I marked a Romanian territory in France. My mother left the country when I was 20, being one of those who left in the first waves of immigration after the acceptance in the EU. She works as a doctor and has her own private business close to Montargis, France. The sound represents my mother’s reaction to a work I had planned to do in Paris, on July 14th, 2014. I wanted to take yellow graffiti spray and transform all of the French flags from Champs Elysee into Romanian ones.

Daniel Djamo (b.1987, Bucharest) is a young Romanian artist and film director, interested in personal and group histories and stories and in themes such as the national identity. He combines film with video art and installation with photography in order to evoke the past and to underline “the now.” Winner of the 2013 ESSL award CEE (offered by the ESSL museum), the 2013 Henkel Art.Award. Young artist prize CEE (given by mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - and KulturKontakt Austria) and the 2011 Grand Prize of the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest. In 2015 he won Premio Combat’s Video art award at Museo Giovanni Fattori, in Livorno, Italy. Also, in 2015, Djamo won the Special Award for Documentary Film given by the Romanian Filmmakers Union, while also being nomineed for the 2015 Best Debut for a feature film (Opera Prima award) by the Romanian Filmmakers Union. Daniel had solo exhibitions in Glasgow (Briggait, 2014), Leipzig (KunstKraftWerk, 2015), Kassel (tokonoma, 2012), Vienna (Schleifmuhlgasse 12-14 Gallery, 2014), Bucharest (Anca Poterasu Gallery – 2014 and 2015, Victoria Art Gallery – 2013 and 2015), Timisoara (Calina Gallery, 2012) and Kuala Lumpur (WOLO and Wei-Ling Gallery, 2015).

The work is based on fragments from interviews taken from Romanian immigrants living in Paris in 2011, 2013 and 2014. Shot in Nogent sur Vernisson. Loiret, on December 28th, 2013. 2013 had a warm autumn and an even warmer winter debut. "I think that this is one of the reasons why the birds that live along the Loire chose to rest longer. Some rested even until late December. I filmed this material when they started preparing to fly away. ”Birds” presents 7 minutes of French sunset, on continuous shooting, with the migratory birds preparing to leave. It presents the sunset of the West, with governments taking measures belonging to the right. I chose to draw a paralel between this story and statements that I had previously recorded in Paris, belonging to Romanian immigrants."

Daniel Djamo (b.1987, lives and works in Bucharest) is a young Romanian artist and film director, being interested in personal and group histories. He combines film with video art and installation with photography in order to evoke the past and to underline “the now.” Winner of the ESSL award, Henkel Art.Award. Young artist prize CEE, Startpoint Prize Romania and the Grand Prize of the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest. Daniel benefited from residencies in Paris, Kassel, Chemnitz, Bruxelles, Vienna and Liege. He exhibited at the Museum of Moscow, Kunsthaus Dresden, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and the ESSL museum from Vienna, while also presenting his works in Germany, Italy, Canada, Netherlands, USA, Russia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Estonia etc. His video artworks have been screened in numerous video art and film festivals. He is a PhD candidate at the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest.

I’m marking the area surrounding the home of my mother in Nogent-sur-Vernisson (Loiret, France) with the flag of Romania. I marked a Romanian territory in France. My mother left the country when I was 20, being one of those who left in the first waves of immigration after the acceptance in the EU. She works as a doctor and has her own private business close to Montargis, France. The sound represents my mother’s reaction to a work I had planned to do in Paris, on July 14th, 2014. I wanted to take yellow graffiti spray and transform all of the French flags from Champs Elysee into Romanian ones.

Daniel Djamo (b.1987, Bucharest) is a young Romanian artist and film director, interested in personal and group histories and stories and in themes such as the national identity. He combines film with video art and installation with photography in order to evoke the past and to underline “the now.” Winner of the 2013 ESSL award CEE (offered by the ESSL museum), the 2013 Henkel Art.Award. Young artist prize CEE (given by mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - and KulturKontakt Austria) and the 2011 Grand Prize of the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest. In 2015 he won Premio Combat’s Video art award at Museo Giovanni Fattori, in Livorno, Italy. Also, in 2015, Djamo won the Special Award for Documentary Film given by the Romanian Filmmakers Union, while also being nomineed for the 2015 Best Debut for a feature film (Opera Prima award) by the Romanian Filmmakers Union. Daniel had solo exhibitions in Glasgow (Briggait, 2014), Leipzig (KunstKraftWerk, 2015), Kassel (tokonoma, 2012), Vienna (Schleifmuhlgasse 12-14 Gallery, 2014), Bucharest (Anca Poterasu Gallery – 2014 and 2015, Victoria Art Gallery – 2013 and 2015), Timisoara (Calina Gallery, 2012) and Kuala Lumpur (WOLO and Wei-Ling Gallery, 2015).

The work is based on fragments from interviews taken from Romanian immigrants living in Paris in 2011, 2013 and 2014. Shot in Nogent sur Vernisson. Loiret, on December 28th, 2013. 2013 had a warm autumn and an even warmer winter debut. "I think that this is one of the reasons why the birds that live along the Loire chose to rest longer. Some rested even until late December. I filmed this material when they started preparing to fly away. ”Birds” presents 7 minutes of French sunset, on continuous shooting, with the migratory birds preparing to leave. It presents the sunset of the West, with governments taking measures belonging to the right. I chose to draw a paralel between this story and statements that I had previously recorded in Paris, belonging to Romanian immigrants."

Daniel Djamo (b.1987, lives and works in Bucharest) is a young Romanian artist and film director, being interested in personal and group histories. He combines film with video art and installation with photography in order to evoke the past and to underline “the now.” Winner of the ESSL award, Henkel Art.Award. Young artist prize CEE, Startpoint Prize Romania and the Grand Prize of the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest. Daniel benefited from residencies in Paris, Kassel, Chemnitz, Bruxelles, Vienna and Liege. He exhibited at the Museum of Moscow, Kunsthaus Dresden, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) and the ESSL museum from Vienna, while also presenting his works in Germany, Italy, Canada, Netherlands, USA, Russia, Portugal, Czech Republic, Estonia etc. His video artworks have been screened in numerous video art and film festivals. He is a PhD candidate at the National University of Fine Arts from Bucharest.

Cambridge Bay is an arctic Canadian town where a community of Inuit lives. They have recently gone from a nomadic to a sedentary situation following the arrival of the Hudson Bay Company, wich has brought with it the forces of order, religious representatives, etc. The Inuit population has thus been subjected to profound changes. Notably, the generation gap has become wider and has made cultural transmission improbable. However, such a description only presents the backdrop of a film that is engaged in something in other than an ethnological or sociological exercise.

The backstory for The Golden Wish is that the danish left government`s suggestion that the police could be able to seize jewelry and valuables from asylum seeker as they arrive in to the country. The jewelry and the valuables would finance board and lodging for the newcomers. In connection with this project I have been to Iraq and visited two large refugee camps outside of Suleimaniah. The refugee camps are Arbar and Barika and they are located 29 km southeast of the city Suleimaniah. In all their are 32 000 refugees in both camps together. I was on the lookout in their local markets and contacted jewelry dealers and private persons in the area. I then buyed their gold jewelry, melted and casted it to a text based installation, formed to the sentence: “Everything will be ok”.

I am a artist that works within drawing, painting, installation, video and film. Thematically in several of my work I have worked with my own experiences as a Kurdish refugee, but my experiences can provide knowledge of universal issues that can be linked to being a human being on the run. I am originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, I completed a five-year art education before fleeing due to persecution in 1997. After a challenging escape through 11 countries, I came to Norway in December 1999 and completed art education here as well.

A slow dance of classical cinema to the music of Zelany Rashoho. The work deals with well-known films: 'Sun Valley Serenade', 'Casablanca', 'Some Like It Hot', 'In the Waterfront', 'Citizen Kane'. The footage of these films is transformed in order to coincide with the new music made by Zelany Rashoho which is a mixture of jazz, electronics and dub.

AV are two video artists from St.-Petersburg, Russia. AV = Alexei and Sergei Dmitriev, 21 and 19 years old visual artists from Saint-Petersburg, Russia. We do experimental film and live video. Perform with a band called Zelany Rashoho.

"DENSITY 1" is a sensory video about displacement, time, and space. It attempts to capture the essence of temporal spaces that we so often dismiss frivolously.The relationship between audio and video is intensified by its complimentary, subconscious transmission of its fundamental characteristics. Overall, this pieces comments on the ephemeral nature of long term memory, and how its representations are distorted through a person`s environment, experience, and temperament.

Patrick Doan currently resides in Montreal, Canada, and is currently studying design at Concordia University. Specializing in digital animation, his work is characterized by the investigation of the relationship that exists within digital information, space, and the urban landscape. Having worked extensively in graphic design, his work layers cinematic composition and typographic treatment. Since 2001, he has been producing work under DEFASTEN, a creative outlet and reservoir of client work.

Hidden in Plain Sight was commissioned by the Centre d’art et photographie de Lectoure. The film is based on fragments of Robert Bresson’s acclaimed film Pickpocket (1959). The work re-enacts short scenes from Bresson’s film in which the protagonists rehearse and perform the techniques that pickpockets use to avoid being caught. Accompanied by a voiced script written from the intimate perspective of one of the characters, the work was shot in the studio with a small group of non-professional actors. The film reflects on the position of the actor and the thief both of who rely on the arts of mimicry and deception. My interest in the figure of the pickpocket as represented by Bresson’s film was partly informed by about thinking about the banking industry and its routine use sleight of hand and misdirection to acquire what rightly belongs to us. Hidden in Plain Sight was originally conceived to be screened alongside a voice over performed live by an actor standing by the screen. It can also be shown as a projection work only where the voice over is made integral to the soundtrack of the film.

Sarah Dobai is an artist based in photography and film. Over recent years her production has also extended into publication and performance. The work engages with realism, artifice and illusion in relation to pictorial or cinematic conventions. Recent exhibitions and projects include the artist’s book The Overcoat, (Four Corners Books, Raven Row), The Vanishing Point in History, Centre d’art et photographie de Lectoure with Matthew Buckingham, Lina Selander and Eric Baudelaire. Her performance Study was commissioned by Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol. The film Twenty Second Hold will be shown next year at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. The fixed frame 16mm work Nettlecombe showed both as an installation and projected work at multiples venues internationally including Tate Modern, FACT Liverpool, Site Gallery (Sheffield), Dundee Contemporary Arts, Kamloops Art Gallery, Canada, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei. Other exhibitions include Theatres of the Real, Antwerp FotoMuseum, Darkside II, FotoMuseum Winterthur, Sarah Dobai: Photographs & Film works, Kettles Yard, and Above the City, Artist’s Space (solos), New York. Dobai completed a Masters in Fine Art at the University of British Columbia studying under Jeff wall and Mark Lewis. She lives and works in London.