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This short film is made of archival footage shot at the Yalta conference (1945) - a historic meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin shortly before the end of the WWII. The film mimics the style of a TV documentary and shows behind-the-scenes of the conference through the eyes of a fictitious character, whose possible involvement in espionage and unexplained disappearance comprise the mystery, which the film attempts to resolve, - albeit unsuccessfully. The fictional narrative provides possible reasons and motivations behind the random collection of recordings in the original footage, weaving together several important historical themes associated with the Yalta conference: the deep cultural divide between the Soviets and the Western Allies; the eavesdropping and espionage attempts made by the negotiators, and the premonitions of the upcoming Cold War.

Tatiana Istomina is a Russian-born US artist working in video, painting and drawing. She holds a PhD in geophysics from Yale University (2010) and MFA from Parsons New School (2011). Her works have been shown in the US, Russia and Canada; she had solo shows in New York and Houston. Istomina has completed several artist residencies, including the Core Program (Museum of Fine Arts of Houston) and the AIM residency (The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York). She was nominated for Kandinsky prize and Dedlaus foundation fellowship and received awards such as the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and the American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts.

Created in 1985, the Image in Movement Biennial (BIM) is one of the pioneer manifestations in the programming of artists' films. Comprised of a festival and an exhibition, the Biennial's mission is to present films that weave together links between plastic arts, cinema, and the media world. This year, the festival will consecrate some of its retrospectives to Stavros Tornès of Greece, Robert Morin of Canada, and Clemens Klopfenstein of Switzerland. Programs will be dedicated to Hannes Schüpbach of Switzerland, Shelly Silver of the USA, Corinna Schnitt of Germany, and Martha Rosler of the USA. There will be young artists to discover in the international competition sections and art school programs. Conferences will also be organized around the work of several artists. Conceived in parallel to the festival, the exhibition permits for the presentation of video installations. Under the title "Culture hors-sol", this edition will present works by Thierry Kuntzel, Pierre Huyghe, Beat Streuli, David Claerbout, Hubbard & Birchler, Stan Douglas, and Samuel Beckett amongst others.

André Iten is the director of the Geneva Saint-Gevais Centre for Contemporary Image. Anxious to preserve the artistic patrimony that constitutes the tapes produced by artists during the 60's and 70's, he conceived and initiated a plan of restoration, listing, and archiving tapes, a plan initiated in 1990 and which allows for the display of the richness of this collection of video works through a historic program entitled "The Pioneers of Video in Switzerland", the visible side of is wide restoration plan funded by the 'Fonds municipal d'art contemporain' of Geneva. In 1998 he created the Centre's contemporary image, a place dedicated to activities linked to images, with the aim to give a body to the several years of reflection on the evolution of image and the activities born by his artistic engagement.