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SINGLE STREAM takes a close look at the problem of waste, through a visual and sonic exploration of a recycling facility. The title refers to the “single stream” method of recycling in which all types of recyclables are initially gathered together, and sorted later at a specialized facility. With SINGLE STREAM, viewers enter one of the largest of these materials recovery facilities in the US. Inside a cavernous building, a vast machine complex runs like clock-work, sorting a steady stream of glass, metal, paper and plastic carried on conveyor belts criss-crossing the space, dotted with workers in neon vests. The interwoven movements of human and machine produce sounds and images that are overwhelming, but also beautiful, and even revelatory. Blurring the line between observation and abstraction, SINGLE STREAM is a meditation on our society's culture of excess and its consequences.

Paweł Wojtasik (b. 1952, Łódź, Poland) creates poetic reflections on cultures and ecosystems in the form of short films and large-scale installations. His investigations into the overlooked corners of the environment have led him to pig farms, sewage treatment plants, wrecking yards and autopsy rooms. His work has shown in venues such as PS1/MoMA, Reina Sofia Museum, Berlinale and New York Film Festival. www.pawelwojtasik.com/ Toby Lee (b. 1980, Los Angeles) is an artist and scholar based in New York, working across video, installation, drawing and text. She holds a PhD in Anthropology and Film & Visual Studies from Harvard University, and she is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Ernst Karel (b. 1970, Palo Alto) works between experimental nonfiction sound and electroacoustic music. He composes and performs with location recordings and/or analog electronics, often for multichannel environments. As a Lecturer on Anthropology at Harvard University, he teaches a production course in sonic ethnography. http://ek.klingt.org/

"The film is about asylum seekers who are leaving in Gabcikovo refugee camp in Slovakia and their every day life, which is passing unused. The most of them are there more than three years, but still did not get asylum. The only contact is phone, by what they can contact with the world of out side. Phone, which makes them happy or angry. Phone, which gives them a new hope. Film is trying to show relationship between refugees and phone and place where they are already there. I choose this place, maybe for this reason that the Gabcikovo refugee camp is a very special place for me too. 3 years ago, I came there and I spent there several months of my life, which were full of sorrows. By this film, I have tried at least to speak with myself and believe it that we did not born because of world, the world created because of us."

Sarah Karimi was born in 1981 in Kabul. In 2004, she enters at The Academy of Music and Performing Arts(major documentary 1997-2000) and takes course of camera 1998-1999, course of singing 1999-2000 and Creative writing.

The story is about a photography and the story behind it. There is an old ballerina who has her last performance - derniere. She tries to remember how it was when she was a young beginner balerina. It is a story of a picture in motion ...

Biography: Sahraa Karimi is a young afghan film director. She was born in Kabul- Afghanistan in 1981. She immigrated to Iran, when she was just 15 years old. After 5 years living in Iran she decided to immigrate again. Now she lives in Slovakia, where she has been granted asylum, she had been attending Slovak language course for the entry exam to the university. She is studying at The Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Film and TV Faculty (FTF V?MU) in Bratislava at Art Master Degree. She starred in ?Daughters of the Sun? (1999, Mariam Shahriar), the winning film at film festivals in Montreal, Canada and Bratislava, Slovakia; in ?White Dream? (2000), a film directed by Hamid Jebeli, and in ?Who is Sahraa??(2002), a documentary directed by Hossein Fazeli. Sahraa has directed several short films and documentaries herself, which won many prizes at the different film festivals around the world. Now she is shooting her debut film ?AFGHAN WOMEN BEHIND THE WHEEL?, which is a documentary film and takes place in Kabul- Afghanistan This documentary film will be a collage-edited film depicting the place of a woman in the Afghan society. The film will endeavor to retell this reality through short stories of individual women behind the wheel. The document wants to show that an Afghan woman strives to be active and wants to be useful and beneficial for the society.

Simona is a thief, who is living alone. She lost her boyfriend in a car accident. We show a short period of her life between the 20th and 21th of March. During this time she accidently steals a part of somebody?s intimity.

Sahraa Karimi is a young afghan film director. She was born in Kabul- Afghanistan in 1981. She immigrated to Iran, when she was only 15. After 5 years living in Iran she decided to immigrate again. Now she lives in Slovakia, where she has been granted asylum, she had been attending Slovak language course for the entry exam to the university. She is studying at The Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Film and TV Faculty (FTF V?MU) in Bratislava at Art Master Degree. She starred in ?Daughters of the Sun? (1999, Mariam Shahriar), the winning film at film festivals in Montreal, Canada and Bratislava, Slovakia; in ?White Dream? (2000), a film directed by Hamid Jebeli, and in ?Who is Sahraa??(2002), a documentary directed by Hossein Fazeli. Sahraa has directed several short films and documentaries herself, which won many prizes at the different film festivals around the world. Now she is shooting her debut film ?AFGHAN WOMEN BEHIND THE WHEEL?, which is a documentary film and takes place in Kabul- Afghanistan This documentary film will be a collage-edited film depicting the place of a woman in the Afghan society. The film will endeavor to retell this reality through short stories of individual women behind the wheel. The document wants to show that an Afghan woman strives to be active and wants to be useful and beneficial for the society.

There are worlds out there they never told you about, 2017 is a video that is part of a larger body of work under the same title. While rightfully addressing tragic stories of migration through water, the work viewed collectively through drawings and new media is also about reimagining freedom through the imagination and creation of fantastic worlds. Worlds that are less about occupying physical space but more about cultivating ways that one can be free in a place where home and freedom remain elusive.

Jackie Karuti is an artist based in Nairobi. Her practice is largely experimental and employs the use of new media through drawings, video, installations and performance art. Her work is founded on ideas around knowledge production & accessibility as well as the depths of possibility enabled by radical imagination. Karuti is the 2017 recipient of the Young Artist Award at the Cape Town Art Fair, an alumna of the Gasworks residency program in London as well as Asìko, a roaming Pan African art school designed to redress the frequently outdated or non-existent artistic and curatorial curricula at tertiary institutions across Africa. In 2017 she was shortlisted for the residency program at The Rijksakademie. Karuti has participated in several exhibitions & residencies, both locally & abroad as well as multidisciplinary projects such as curating the Out Film Festival-Nairobi (2016-2018). In 2017 she established the online platform, I’ve Been Working on Some MAGIC which seeks to engage Nairobi based visual artists in critical writing, collective curatorial projects as well as sharing audiovisual material. In 2018 Karuti’s work will debut at the 13th edition of the Dak’Art Biennial in Dakar, Senegal.

Incorporated in 1994 and re-organized in 2000, E-Media Centre (EMC) focuses on research and instruction and promotion of digital culture and art in Estonia. The EMC is open to students for the acquirement of information and multimedia skills, as well as the realization of study projects. The centre offers the possibility to create different projects with the techniques of digital media, and organizes equipment rental and lectures in the framework of the Estonian Academy of Arts. The Master's programme in Interactive Multimedia (IMM) has been available since the 2000/2001 academic year. The two-year MA programme is organized in modules to offer theoretical and practical skills in digital media. Study takes place in the form of traditional lectures/workshops, as well as online lectures/seminars, using several international specialists as lecturers. Besides teaching, the EMC regularly hosts smaller events: special workshops, courses and symposiums, providing essential practical skills for students, teachers, artists, as well as the public at large. The centre participates in various joint projects, research, residencies and cooperation networks. It has collaborated with Hypermedia Research Centre from University of Westminster, London; Electronic Music Studio of Estonian Academy of Music; Contemporary Art Centre; thealit, Bremen; Estonian Museum of Art; and m-Cult from Helsinki, to mention just a few. Currently the EMC is an active member of TMC (Tallinn Media Cluster) and NICE network. In 2003 NICE offered a common ground for new media culture initiatives in the Baltic region. Additionally, the E-Media Centre has been actively involved with artist-in-residency programs like NIFCA and MapXXL.

Dagmar Kase earned a BA in Scenography in 2001 from the Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA); a MA in Interactive Multimedia in 2004 from the EAA; and since 2005 is a PhD candidate in Theory of Culture at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University. She is a member of The Estonian Artists' Association and Estonian Media Artists Union, as well as head of the E-Media Centre at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She works mainly with video, photography, text, sound, and (interactive) installation. Her work discusses our contemporary society which is a global playful organ that functions as a whole of the components of the era. The central questions are time, space/place, memory, and identity. She finds that it is important to meditate on the world that surrounds us and to grow deeper to see the importance of simple things/events, combining theory and practice in order to create interdisciplinary works.

A small village in the beautiful mountains of southern Siberia. A family living out of the way, not accepted by the society. They have their own secrets. Step by step, we get involved in their mysterious world. Strong characters, complicated relationships, and an uncovered story in the background. No fiction. Real world, no matter how surrealistic it appears to be. Real people. Real life. Real story.

In Breu (Pitch black), the recorded images present, in a non-linear montage, the semi-artisanal paving process of a rectangle arbitrarily drawn in the middle of a vacant lawn. The soundtrack brings a circular text that overflows in modal adverbial adjuncts (mainly right and wrong),without defining any clear object, the text builds the speech in an endless cycle, onto which the ideas of progress and evolution cannot be applied.

JULIA KATER | 1980 ‘ Paris, France Lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in Photography from the School of Advertising and Marketing - ESPM (Sao Paulo - Brazil). The research of the artist Julia Kater is guided in the elaboration of a body of work that can treat it from its visual improbability. Whether by the collage brought about by different overlaid photographic prints, which announces a watchful sky ‘ despite its invisible character ‘ or by videos that bring about the rearrangement of a set of actions and phrases, each work in its own way prioritizes the elaboration of bodies from everyday scenes that suggest simultaneous shared experiences with the persistent memory together with its struggle with forgetfulness, its ally and the cause of the gradual loss of a large part of the truths. Kater regularly participates in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, in countries like France, USA, Belgium and Portugal.

The modifications that the inhabitants of a housing estate have brought to the standardized model of their house are revealed in a rhythmic way. The video camera opens a space of multiplicity and constant variability, using the schematic organization of the buildings. The architectural surface changes are depicted as swings. What is concrete dances - on the dance floor of the abstract.

Timo Katz was born in 1977 in Siegen. From 1999 to 2006 he has studied film design and photography at the College of Bielefeld, and graduated as a designer in February 2006. He lives in Bielefeld and works on experimental films projects as well as commissions.

The experimental video work ?Die Welt? concerns space-time perception in our visual experiment of the world. Our perception is not only defined by photography, but especially by the rules of the main perspective. This one shows and explains the visible world through a diagrammatic simplification. This work is interested in the widened use of the camera like prosthesis of observation for the discovery and the recognition of the visible one. The main perspective here is broken and disintegrated. The piece, under consideration through this process of disintegration, undergoes a shift in time and space. The edition, and only the edition, makes it possible to make visible an alternated Space-Time-Vision. It raises the question of the significance of technical widening growth of our tool of observation, and its consequences at the present and in the future. It underlines moreover our tendency to depend more and more on models of perception already built.

Timo Katz was born in 1977 in Siegen. He studied the photo and film graphic design at the Higher School of Bielefeld where he obtained his diploma in 2006. He has been working since 2002 in the field of videos and experimental films. He currently lives and works in Leipzig. He started with Jan Fuchs the independent group of visual research Katz&Fuchs. Jan Fuchs was born in 1976 in Hamburg. He studied photo-and film graphic design at the Bielefeld School and obtained his diploma in 2004. HE has been working since 2002 in the field of videos and experimental films. He lives and works in Kassel. He started the independent group of visual research Katz&Fuchs with Timo Katz.

In this documentary film, the filmmaker Naomi Kawase, having becoming a mother, pursues her personal work of the interrogation of the world. Her son Mitsouki was born on April 24, 2004, at 10:40. His birth was a traditional one, without medicine, with only the assistance of a midwife in an old Japanese house on a tatami surrounded by her family. As the umbilical cord was cut, Naomi recorded this highly symbolic moment, as well as all the people that had affectionately been present. Day by day since then, she sees and films her son and her ninety year old grandmother in their old house of Nara. The film develops on two dimensions: one with the child growing up under the attentive watch of his mother and great-grandmother, and one of the artist's own infancy told in the first person.

We are constantly inundated by images of violence, and at the same time by images of lifestyle. The contrast is certainly great. Sentiments vary, but whichever way we look at it, both kinds exist so vividly as to be indispensable. In the morning of April 20, 1999 two young Americans, 15-year-old Eric Harris and 18-year-old Dylan Klebal, went to their school, the Columbine High School in Littleton, USA carrying guns and hand-grenades. They killed 14 of their fellow students and one teacher. Most of the victims were in the cafeteria of the school. The whole incident was recorded on closed-circuit TV. This event is so important in itself as to eclipse even the shine of a global symbol. The video starts with Mickey and Minnie Mouse at various poses, running and twirling amidst flashing colours. Is this a party or a bloodbath? The music form the song "My Cat Fell In The Well" (1983) by Manhattan Transfer accompanies them, carefree yet also persistent at the same time. The song tells in a cheerful way the dramatic story of a glamorous star-cat that fell down a well, and its owner"s distress until it was found. Suddenly, the music stops and the video shows the faces of the unfairly killed children, those who believed in the carefree innocence of Mickey Mouse or any other Mickey Mouse. For the rest of us relief does come in the end, as Mickey reappears and the music starts playing again. The issue is no longer our concern. This could never happen to us.

George Kazazis was born in Athens in 1958, where he lives and works. He has been teaching at the Athens School of Fine Arts since 1990. Was member of the Project Space, Athens, (artist -run space founded in 2000-2001)

African Union responds to 2018 reports of Chinese surveillance at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa. Made with generative AI, commercial stock imagery, and documentary footage, the film explores digital imperialism, data extraction, and the ideological entanglements of AI within the evolving dynamics of China–Africa political and technological relations.

David Kelley’s work traces the hidden ecologies of global infrastructure—from deep-sea mining and the Silk Road to Alberta’s oil sands and the extraction of rare earth elements in China. Working across film, photography, installation, and sculpture, he explores how technology, modernity, ecology, and memory operate as interwoven systems of mediation. His practice draws on essay film, experimental ethnography, and experimental theater, using form as a site for affective experience, ambiguity, and transgression. Kelley approaches research as an aesthetic process, privileging sensorial and speculative modes over purely discursive ones. His projects often involve site-specific production, archival research, and the integration of everyday objects and theatrical constructions within immersive environments. Scientific specimens—borrowed from natural history collections or reimagined in glass, ceramic, and stone—anchor his installations in material history while opening space for surreal and speculative encounters. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; and The Bank, Shanghai. Upcoming presentations include LACMA in Los Angeles and the Global Visions FotoFest Biennial 2026 in Houston. Kelley holds an MFA from UC Irvine and was a 2010–11 Whitney Independent Study Program fellow.

Spiritual Myopia is a film dealing with the invisible labor and desire of the residents of the oil industry boom towns of Fort McMurray in the Canadian Tar Sands and the refining town of Port Arthur Texas. The two cities are terminal nodes of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline which would span the United States. Fort McMurray is the third largest oil deposit in the world. Its rapid pace of growth has meant a dearth of housing for its migrant workers. Port Arthur boasts the world’s largest concentration of oil refineries and its town center has nearly disintegrated from economic decline. These twin cities are related spatially as nodes in the same energy infrastructure, and temporally in their different stages of a boom or bust economy. Borrowing its title from Alfred Stieglitz’s photo Spiritual America, Spiritual Myopia speaks to the nearsightedness innate to hypercapitalism.

Spiritual Myopia is a collaboration between artists David Kelley and Patty Chang Patty Chang (Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) Patty Chang is an artist working in performance, video, writing, and installation. Her work has a capacity to explore complex subjects nearly simultaneously, as does life. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and internationally at such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; BAK, Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Fri Art Centre d’Art de Freibourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England David Kelley (Lives in Los Angeles California, CA.) David Kelley’s work is a hybrid of experimental documentary and ethnographic practices that make use of imaginary, choreographic and performative strategies. His work has been shown in galleries throughout the world. Recently, he has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, White Box in Portland Oregon, and Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles. Other recent exhibitions include The Bank in Shanghai, New Art Center, the de Cordova Biennial in Boston, BAK in Utrecht, MAAP space in Brisbane Australia.

NON HUMAN is a film made from poems written in collaboration with an Artificial Intelligence (recurrent neural network) and five artists — York Chang, Marcus Civin, Tia-Simone Gardner, Viet Le, and Yvonne Rainer. Inspired by poet Muriel Rukeyser’s technique for writing The Book of the Dead (1937), a poem in which she directly quotes workers’ voices from congressional testimony about the Hawk’s Nest mining catastrophe that killed nearly 2000 miners, 80% of whom were Black workers. NON HUMAN was filmed in rural Vermont in disused marble, quarries, hospitals, and local artists’ studios and it presents leisure time and creative space as conditions to excavate the unwritten histories of labor, racism, and environmental destruction in local American communities. The generative AI used to write the script was trained with Rukeyser’s Collected Poems, the congressional testimony of workers that she quoted, and contemporary critical race and eco-feminist theories of Kathryn Yussof, Tavia Nyong’o, Saidiya Hartman, and Hortense Spillers. In Hartman’s essay The Dead Book Revisited she asks “how do we attend to black death? How do we find life where only the traces of destruction remain?” NON HUMAN’s critical AI writing machine, fed by historic documentary materials, poetry that witnesses to extractive capitalism and anti-black racism, speculates on Hartman’s question. Live performers in NON HUMAN include: sound engineer Ben Arindell, singer/song-writer Patrick Sargent, physician Jeffrey Yucht, critic Marcus Civin, sculptor Fred X Brownstein, and sound technician Jack Schlandt.

David Kelley is an artist working in photography, video, and installation. His recent projects explore the impacts of global capitalism, resource extraction, and evolving landscapes, combining elements of experimental documentary, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to offer a perspective that is both grounded and speculative. His work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Fotofest Biennial in Houston, Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, The Bank in Shanghai, and the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok. Kelley holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was a resident of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He is based in Los Angeles, where he is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California.

The Book of the Dead is an experimental documentary meditating on the American poet Muriel Rukeyser’s poem about the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In the 1930s in West Virginia, nearly 2,000 primarily Black migrant workers were sickened or killed by silicosis, a lung disease caused by breathing silica dust. Rukeyser travelled to West Virginia to meet workers and their families, in some cases, appropriating their words directly. The film revises her white characters to a predominately Black cast — more accurately reflecting the insidious racism prevalent in American society at the time. The film appropriates interviews with the poet, her unfinished screenplay, and worker’s testimony to U.S. Congress. Using actors, theatrical sets, and 3D generated backgrounds, the film produces a multisensory experience of Rukeyser’s process and the industrial tragedy. Unable to travel during the Covid-19 pandemic, Kelley designed the West Virginia mining sets in Unreal, a 3D gaming software and filmed actors at a green screen studio near his home in Los Angeles. The work's theme of failure to breathe poignantly resonates with the Covid-19 pandemic, and the final words turned protest chant of George Floyd: I can't breathe.

David Kelley (Born in Portland Oregon. Lives in Los Angeles California.) Kelley is an artist working with photography, video, and installation. His recent projects draw attention to the effects of global capitalism, resource extraction, and shifting physical and political landscapes. Influenced by a range of visual traditions, Kelley draws upon elements of experimental documentary, ethnography, performance, and avant-garde cinema. By working at the intersection of these strategies, he encourages an understanding of his subjects that is simultaneously direct and speculative. His work has been shown in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Fotofest Biennial, Houston. Other exhibitions include Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, The Bank in Shanghai, the de Cordova Biennial in Boston, BAK in Utrecht, MAAP space in Australia, and the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok. Kelley received a Master of Fine Art from the University of California, Irvine, and was a 2010 -11 resident at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California, and is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California.

African Union responds to 2018 reports of Chinese surveillance at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa. Made with generative AI, commercial stock imagery, and documentary footage, the film explores digital imperialism, data extraction, and the ideological entanglements of AI within the evolving dynamics of China–Africa political and technological relations.

David Kelley’s work traces the hidden ecologies of global infrastructure—from deep-sea mining and the Silk Road to Alberta’s oil sands and the extraction of rare earth elements in China. Working across film, photography, installation, and sculpture, he explores how technology, modernity, ecology, and memory operate as interwoven systems of mediation. His practice draws on essay film, experimental ethnography, and experimental theater, using form as a site for affective experience, ambiguity, and transgression. Kelley approaches research as an aesthetic process, privileging sensorial and speculative modes over purely discursive ones. His projects often involve site-specific production, archival research, and the integration of everyday objects and theatrical constructions within immersive environments. Scientific specimens—borrowed from natural history collections or reimagined in glass, ceramic, and stone—anchor his installations in material history while opening space for surreal and speculative encounters. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; and The Bank, Shanghai. Upcoming presentations include LACMA in Los Angeles and the Global Visions FotoFest Biennial 2026 in Houston. Kelley holds an MFA from UC Irvine and was a 2010–11 Whitney Independent Study Program fellow.

Spiritual Myopia is a film dealing with the invisible labor and desire of the residents of the oil industry boom towns of Fort McMurray in the Canadian Tar Sands and the refining town of Port Arthur Texas. The two cities are terminal nodes of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline which would span the United States. Fort McMurray is the third largest oil deposit in the world. Its rapid pace of growth has meant a dearth of housing for its migrant workers. Port Arthur boasts the world’s largest concentration of oil refineries and its town center has nearly disintegrated from economic decline. These twin cities are related spatially as nodes in the same energy infrastructure, and temporally in their different stages of a boom or bust economy. Borrowing its title from Alfred Stieglitz’s photo Spiritual America, Spiritual Myopia speaks to the nearsightedness innate to hypercapitalism.

Spiritual Myopia is a collaboration between artists David Kelley and Patty Chang Patty Chang (Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) Patty Chang is an artist working in performance, video, writing, and installation. Her work has a capacity to explore complex subjects nearly simultaneously, as does life. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and internationally at such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; BAK, Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Fri Art Centre d’Art de Freibourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England David Kelley (Lives in Los Angeles California, CA.) David Kelley’s work is a hybrid of experimental documentary and ethnographic practices that make use of imaginary, choreographic and performative strategies. His work has been shown in galleries throughout the world. Recently, he has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, White Box in Portland Oregon, and Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles. Other recent exhibitions include The Bank in Shanghai, New Art Center, the de Cordova Biennial in Boston, BAK in Utrecht, MAAP space in Brisbane Australia.

Skull Island is an ongoing series of lectures, films and installations that examine a hypothetical image environment as an introspective space that reflects the sociopolitical contexts of its audience. Using the fictional island from King Kong as an analogy, cultural and technological developments define a relative position from which the viewer can view and question their surroundings. Part III is structured around two artefacts found in the visual effects archive of Berlin’s Deutsche Kinemathek Museum of Film and Television. A cast of the skull of the original armature for the stop-motion model of King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) and a silicone mask constructed for Kevin Bacon’s computer-generated invisible character in Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven, 2000) create a framework in which to discuss the surfaces and armatures or the skin and bones of moving images. The film examines the inherent hidden material and socio-political properties of moving images, the perpetuation of insidious ideological constructs in cinematic remakes or reboots, and traumas encapsulated in the sites and systems of moving image production.

Graham Kelly is a visual artist and filmmaker. His practice is situated in the interfaces between contemporary forms of images, physical bodies, and environments. By considering these interactions as engulfing and continuous states or effects, his work seeks to expose and dissect power structures that are cast, distorted or enforced within them. His works have been screened and exhibited in a number of international contexts that include: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Kino der Kunst, EYE Filmmuseum, TENT, Transmission, NEST, Recontres Internationales, and LUX. He was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in 2015/16 and at AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz in 2018.

Skull Island is an ongoing series of video works, lectures and installations that use the fictional island from the various versions of King Kong as analogies for hypothetical image environments. Each island provides a means of manifesting and examining an introspective image space that reflects the sociopolitical contexts of its audience. The cultural and technological developments displayed within each version of the film define relative positions from which the viewer can question their current perceived surroundings. After being captured by a camera crew within this otherwise inaccessible territory, Kong escapes into the physical context to confront the audience with their internal fears and shared cultural constructs.

Graham Kelly (b. 1982, Ayr, Scotland) is an artist and writer based in Rotterdam and Brussels. Previous exhibitions, screenings and lectures include: Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), Intermedia (Glasgow), Generator Projects (Dundee), Kino der Kunst (Munich), TENT (Rotterdam), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam) and the 2016 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2009 with a Masters in Research and with a Masters in Fine Art in 2014 from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. He was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht between 2015 and 2016 and is the recipient of the Mondriaan Fonds Werkbijdrage Jong Talent and Centrum Beeldende Kunst O&O subsidies and a Scottish Arts Council Creative and Professional Development Award.

Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as a potential home? And how does that symbol function beyond the boundaries of its geographic limits?

Chris Kennedy is an independent filmmaker, programmer and writer currently living in Toronto. He programmed for the Images Festival from 2003-06, Pleasure Dome from 2000-06 and co-founded the ongoing screening series Early Monthly Segments in 2009. His short experimental films have screened at over one hundred film festivals worldwide and he has presented film programs in Egypt, Belgium, Germany, the US and Canada. He holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Une nuit, un homme étrange apparaît. Arrivé non loin des côtes, il croise le chemin d’un fantôme, qu’il se décide à suivre.

Nicolas Keroulas est né en 1997.

The Same Room investigates the dual nature of water, both as a destructive and life-giving force. In collaboration with the Deltares Institute, Minne Kersten recorded a self-made filmset of a bedroom in an industrial wave-tank, where it was deliberately flooded with water over three successive days. By inverting the use of the institute’s controlled environment originally intended to prevent flooding, she questions the human desire to control the course of nature. Furthermore, Kersten is interested in the state of paralysis and tranquility that can occur upon a catastrophe, opening up a space for thinking about the end as a transitional state rather than something final. By combining the personal space of a bedroom with the horrors of a flood, the work creates a powerful and emotional image that wavers between clarity and chaos.

Minne Kersten (b. 1993, Utrecht, NL) lives and works between Amsterdam and Paris. She works on installation, video and paintings in which ephemeral occurrences and the construction of reality is explored. Through her architectural environments, she speculates on how buildings can be receptive to stories and traumas by staging situations subjected to chaos, decay and deconstruction. She explores the traces of events left behind and questions them as witnesses to private stories retained by the walls that surround human life. Working across diverse media, she interweaves personal themes such as mourning, loss and memory with the collective domain of fiction, fables and symbols. Her work has been presented in numerous institutions including the CAPC Bordeaux 2024, Glasgow International 2024, Bonnefanten Museum 2023, 16th Lyon Biennale 2022, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 2022, the Living Art Museum 2022, De Ateliers 2022, Hotel Maria Kapel 2021, among others. In 2022, she won the Volkskrant Visual Arts Audience Award and was nominated for the Royal Award of Modern Painting. She has been selected for residencies at De Ateliers 2018-2020, Triangle Astérides 2023 and Cité Internationale Des Arts 2024. She is represented by Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam.

Where I'm calling from was an exhibition of new work by Netherlands-based artist Minne Kersten. Working with the architecture of David Dale Gallery, Minne constructed a detailed and evocative environment exploring the narrative capacity of inanimate objects, and their role in triggering memory in a transportative way. Minne takes a literary approach to her work, blending installation, video, sculpture and drawing to craft the backdrop of a fictional world. Through her immersive installations, she reveals buildings to be receptive to stories and traumas, as she stages situations subjected to chaos, decay, and deconstruction. Minne explores the traces of events left behind and exposes them as witnesses of private stories retained by the walls that surround us. Her work considers the relationship between the real and imagined, the ordinary and the uncanny, and poses questions about memory and its reconstruction. Working across a range of media, she interweaves personal themes such as mourning, loss and memory with the collective domain of fiction, fables, and symbols.

Minne Kersten (1993, NL) is an artist based in Paris and Amsterdam, working with video, installation and paintings. Underneath these media lies a literary approach in which she combines several techniques to construct a world where objects and scenes hold traces of both facts and fiction. She speculates on how we can recall events, memories and stories, by tracing what is lost in what remains. Her work considers the relationship between the real and the imagined, the ordinary and the ephemeral, and poses questions about memory and reconstruction. By drawing attention to the act of construction in both our shared real and imagined world, her work offers a connection between intimate themes such as mourning, loss and desire, and the collective domain of fiction, fables and symbol making. Painting and drawings are continuously made during a process of introspection and research. They serve as a form of visual note taking, made alongside her spatial approaches. In recent years, she has used the method of crafting an architectural environment, which reveals itself as a scenography, a film set, and subsequent sculpture. Often informed by personal encounters with spaces, these sculptures provide a tangible terrain to explore how a space can witness or distort stories and events. By staging situations that embed symbolic elements such as the appearance of animals or phantom presences, she refers to ways of how the past can leave impressions on the present. Subjecting her scenes to chaos, decay and disruption, she suggests different outcomes of the familiar circumstance of feeling unstable, losing control and reaching a state of transition.