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Bride Kidnapping is a common way of marrying in Kyrgyzstan, one of the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia. Though the custom is ancient, it has picked back up since Kyrgyzstan?s independence. With increasing poverty, many choose to kidnap, because they cannot afford the typically high price asked by a Kyrgyz bride's family. Typically, the groom takes several friends, hires a car, stakes out his bride-to-be`s movements, and snatches her off the street. The woman is taken to the groom`s family home. A delegation is then sent to her family to inform them of the kidnapping. The abducted woman is kept until someone from her family arrives to determine whether she will marry her abductor. The level of consent and the familiarity of the bride with the groom vary. Sometimes the kidnappings are consensual - the bride is engaged to the groom and agrees to her ?abduction,? a playful ritual, prior to marriage. But in many other cases, the bride has never met the groom before her abduction, and does not want to marry. Recent studies estimate that about half of all rural marriages in Kyrgyzstan today follow the kidnapping custom, and that in half of these marriages the bride is forced to marry against her will. This documentary - the first to ever document the custom - follows the dramatic stories of four non-consensual kidnappings.

Petr Lom was born in Prague in 1968. He grew up in Canada, and received his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Harvard University. He taught at several European universities from 1998-2004 (The EUI in Florence in 1998-1999 and the CEU in Budapest form 1999-2004). In 2003, he decided there must be more to life than the library, and so decided to make a documentary film, though he had no training or experience in the craft. The resulting film, "Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan" has been screened in over 25 film festivals around the world, and will be broadcast in more than 20 countries. Petr has since given up his academic career to devote himself to documentary filmmaking. He is much happier now that he is following his dreams.

A young boxer is fighting his first significant spar: obstructed by his mother, and attempt of corruption by his adversary's father, he finds in himself, and in the love for a girl met on the beach, the spirit to react.

Francesco Lomastro has been working on audiovisual and movie production since 1993, making his way up to first-assistant director and production director. As a director he has shot several video-clips, one documentary, and a television programme on a national network (LA7). "Four days that I love you" is his first fiction short film. He is currently working on a video linked to an installation and is writing a feature film.

Taking Sophocles' Antigone as its starting point, “Antígônadá” deals with the contemporary political situation, exploring the revolutionary aspect of the main character, a woman who defies the established social order. After the death of their two brothers, Antigone and Ismene reflect on the laws of “God” and the laws of the State, the rights of the citizens and of the social excluded. “Antígônadá” is an experimental film, composed of 6 travelling shots of 20 minutes, with the camera in a circular continuing motion. Each shot represents one of the 4 elements: light, water, earth and air. The camera accompanies Antigone and Ismene - played by the same actress – whose journey follows the same path four times, reflecting on the status of women in patriarchal society.

Dora Longo Bahia is a visual artist, born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1961. As of 1984, she has worked with various media: painting, photography, video, sound, set design, illustration and performance art. She has also played bass with several bands: Disk Putas, Verafischer, Maradonna, Sujos de Dora, Osmacaco, Blá Blá Blá and Cão. In 2010 she completed her PhD on visual poetics at ESchool of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo - ECA/USP where she currently teaches. In 2016 she completed her postdoctoral studies at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo – FFLCH/USP that resulted in her first long feature film, The Dora Case. Since the 1980’s, she participated in several exhibitions and festivals, amongst them: We Never Sleep, at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2020); Bienal Sur, in Argentina (2019); 9th Busan Biennale: Divided We Stand, Busan, South Korea (2018); 35o Panorama da Arte Brasileira – Brasil por multiplicidade, São Paulo, Brazil (2017); Eloge du Vertige, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France (2012); The Spiral and the Square, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2011); IX Biennial of Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico (2009); 28th International Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (2008). Among the artist’s audiovisual achievements are: petit a (2011), part of the Brazilian version of the Destricted project that brought together directors such as Gaspar Noe, Larry Clark and Matthew Barney and the feature film The Dora Case (2017).

In this work, Valeriano Lopez makes an assessment of historical aspects that perpetuate themselves, starting with the celebrations that incorporate customs and folklore. The video displays the Toma de Granda, a celebration that is held every beginning from the balcony of the town hall where a municipal councillor addresses the city with the slogan, "Granada for the venerable Catholic Kings and Queens", while the banner is brandished and the national hymn plays. The filming results in a complete anachronism of this triumphal tone and in the imposition of a quintessence associating Spanish with a Catholic fanaticism. In this work, modelled on the different takes of the celebration, operates a sequence shot of the Archbishop's sermon based on the unity of Spain. The act appears like an exaltation of Spanish nationalism which has its ironic counterpart in this work with the subtitling in Catalan.

Valeriano Lopez is a Spanish artist who in his works principally resorts to video, the language of video games, or publicity, products of a society of consumption, to attract the attention of viewers to problems such as immigration or the differences that are intentionally established to push away the third world. His irony reflected on these phenomena produce a critical reflection on the cultural stereotypes and introduce doubt in the spectator. He dissolves the frontiers of artificial separation constructed for the Occident with the sole motive of protecting himself from this "other" that he fears, and with the objective of justifying the xenophobic and racist behaviours that translate themselves in established systems to control the population that has emigrated from countries that are either poorer or in the developmental process.

The film follows for two years a group of NYC subway dancers. In the trains, at home, at the rehearsal location, at the events organized by their commutity. The film portraits five individuals as well as the dance community they are part of, the city and the society they are living in. Despite obstacles, social backgrounds and racism, they are determined to succeed and fight against an illusional meritocratic system.

Rafaela Lopez (b. 1988, Paris) is a visual artist working in New York and Paris. Her work deploys between videos, performances, sculptures, drawings and collaborative projects. She is interested in marginalized creative practices, the pop cultures and our socio-cultural backgrounds. Each of her projects searches for a specific language, adapted to the implicated communities and questions the social role of art. Rafaela Lopez studied at Royal College of Art (London), Villa Arson (Nice) and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. In 2015, she is awarded at Art-O-Rama (Marseille), in 2017 by Mécènes du Sud (Montpellier / Sète), in 2020 she is nominated for Prix Sciences Po for contemporary art (Paris), in 2021 she is awarded by the Fondation des Artistes and in 2022 she is the laureate of the Social Practice Arts Prize, organized by the Centquatre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Rotschild Foundation. She has exhibited in various venues such as Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY, 2022), NY Greek Consulate (NY, 2020), FLAX (Los Angeles, 2018), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris, 2018), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2017), Centre National d’Art Contemporain de la Villa Arson (Nice, 2012, 2014, 2017), Studio Voltaire (London, 2015), Camden Art Centre (London, 2015), Flat Time House (London, 2014, 2015). She has been a resident artist at FLAX (2018, Los Angeles), Villa Arson (2017, Nice), Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (2017, invited by Grace Ndiritu), Villa Lena (2015, Palaia) and Casa de Velazquez (2014, Madrid). Rafaela Lopez is the former president of DOC!, an independent art space located in North Paris.

A voice describes the relationship between two young neighbours and their encounter with a mysterious woman that reveals an augury about future times.

Luciana is an Argentinian born film director and photographer . Her main area of interest has been always the visual language. She started from an early age taking several courses on analogue photography and Super 8 film. She obtained her BA in Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires and a MA in documentary film directing at ULHT, SZFE and LUCA School of Arts as a scholarship student. She has directed several short films that have been featured in international film festivals such as BAFICI and FIDBA in its competitive section and selected by Berlinale Talents BA as director. In 2019, she attended Biographical Documentary Theatre Course with Gudrun Herrbold at UDK awarded with a fellowship and in 2021, she was chosen to participate as a jury at ELIA Academy (European League of Institutes of the Arts). Nowadays, she is based in Brussels working on both personal and commissioned projects.

Ecoutons le guide pour un parcours touristique balisé, aux étapes attendues, entre statues des Grands hommes et sites qui furent le théâtre d?une geste mémorable. Regardons le paysage urbain de Madrid, un jour de janvier 2012. Deux fils se déroulent. Du frottement de oeil et de l?oreille, s?ouvrent des interstices.

material. (lat.: materiālis). 1. adj. Having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary. 2. adj. Derived from or composed of matter. 3. adj. Having material or physical form or substance. 4. adj. Directly relevant to a matter especially a law case. 5. adj. Concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being. 6. adj. Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests. 7. n. Artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers. 8. n. Things needed for doing or making something. 9. n. Information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form. 10. n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.

In 2008, Javier Fernández (1980), Luis López Carrasco (1981) y Natalia Marín (1982) found the artistic collective Los Hijos, devoted to the research of cinematic form and the mechanisms of audiovisual representation. With their first work, El sol en el sol del membrillo, they competed in the official section of DocumentaMadrid. Afterwards, this short film has been selected in several other festivals as well as art galleries. Afterwards, they finished their second short-film, Ya viene, aguanta, riégueme, mátame, video essay that attempts to question certain sequences which have become iconic in the history of Spanish cinema. Los materiales, their first feature-length film won the Jean Vigo award to the best direction in Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival of Navarre and a Jury?s Special Mention in FidMarseille 2010. Their second, feature-length film, Circo, was selected in the competition section section of Documentamadrid 2010. Currently, all their works are being screened at several contemporary art museums and art centres throughout Spain. In november 2010, Los Hijos enjoyed their first retrospective of their work in Mar del Plata Film Festival.

"A few people behaving like children and dressed with tutus wander on a roof in San Francisco. They just have fun throwing each other cream-pies. With Georges Kuchar." "Five winsome damsels picnic on the roof of a warehouse in charming Long Island City, a forest of skyscrapers gleaming across the river. But when a swarm of flies interrupts their feast of chocolate-covered pretzels and cream-pies, the young ladies run amok."

"Marie Losier is a filmmaker and curator working in New York City. She was born in 1972 in Boulogne, France. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennial and festivals, including P.S.1, Tribeca Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Seoul Film Festival (Korea) , The Lausagne Film Festival (Swiss), Andrew Kreps Gallery, White Column Gallery, The Black Maria Film Festival, The Biennial of Saint Etienne (France), The York Underground Film Festival, Lake Placid Film Festival, Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Anthology Film Archives, Ocularis, British Film Institute (London), Au Grand Action (Paris) and many others. In 2000, she became the film programmer at the French Institute / Alliance Francaise in New York City, where she presents a weekly film series. She has hosted many notable directors and artists, including Raoul Coutard, William Klein, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Chantal Akerman, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Moreau, Tavernier, and Anouk Aimée. She also programs experimental films at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (now at Participant Gallery, NYC) and Ocularis in Brooklyn and bring programs in Europe and all over in the States. She has also performed in films by George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, and Jackie Raynal, and in plays by Juliana Francis, and Tony Torn. She is currently completing a short documentary on musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad. It has just been announced that Marie`s film on Richard Foreman, The Ontological Cowboy has been selected for the 2006 Whitney Biennial."

Cet Air la is a famous french song from 1963, sung live by NY singer April March in acapela with Julien Gasc. The couple is singing while flying over a superimposed 16mm projection of a stop motion animation of a series of clouds, birds, bubbles, smoke machines and glitters?the song has the texture of a dream. Part of Residency Unlimited Project.

Marie Losier, born in France in 1972, is a filmmaker and curator working in New York City. She was born in 1972 in Boulogne, France. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennial and festivals, including this year for the 2006 Whitney Biennial with her on Richard Foreman, The Ontological Cowboy and at MOMA with Electrocute Your Stars. Also P.S.1, Tribeca Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Seoul Film Festival (Korea), The Lausagne Film Festival (Swiss), Andrew Kreps Gallery, White Column Gallery, The Black Maria Film Festival, The Biennial of Saint Etienne (France), The York Underground Film Festival, Lake Placid Film Festival, Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Anthology Film Archives, Ocularis, British Film Institute (London), Au Grand Action (Paris) and many others. In 2000, she became the film programmer at the French Institute / Alliance Francaise in New York City, where she presents a weekly film series. She has hosted many notable directors and artists, including Raoul Coutard, William Klein, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Chantal Akerman, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Moreau, Tavernier, and Anouk Aimée. She also programs experimental films at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (now at Participant Gallery, NYC) and Ocularis in Brooklyn and bring programs in Europe and all over in the States. She has also performed in films by George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, and Jackie Raynal, and in plays by Juliana Francis, and Tony Torn. She is currently completing a short documentary on musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad and starting one on the musical genius Genesis P-Orridge, and her band Psychic TV.

Music video Papal Breakdance by PTV3-Genesis P-Orridge With Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and many friends. A campy music video in the style of a scopitone from the early 1960s, with the wonderful cast of 10 boys in sexy red singlets and girls in red tutus, all dancing with joy with Genesis P-Orridge in a boxing ring?all the ingredients for a slap stick boxing match in music.

"The theater is about sex." At least it is according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater. The Ontological Cowboy documents Foreman?s invocation of the "manifest destiny" of the avant-garde theater - King Cowboy Rufus strolling down off San Juan Hill with a sigh, waving his handkerchief. Foreman plays himself, and the cast pantomimes his preoccupations. If "the cast and crew suffer alike," it's all for a good cause: the violent rebirth of the American theater, with Foreman as its midwife.

Marie Losier, born in Boulogne, France in 1972, is a filmmaker and curator working in New York City. She has shown her films and videos at museums, galleries, biennials and festivals, including, this year at the 2006 Whitney Biennial with her "On Richard Foreman, The Ontological Cowboy"; as well as at P.S.1, Tribeca Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Seoul Film Festival (Korea), The Lausagne Film Festival (Switzerland), Andrew Kreps Gallery, White Column Gallery, The Black Maria Film Festival, The Biennial of Saint Etienne (France), The York Underground Film Festival, Lake Placid Film Festival, Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Anthology Film Archives, Ocularis, British Film Institute (London), Au Grand Action (Paris), and many others. In 2000, she began working as a film programmer at the French Institute/Alliance Francaise in New York City, where she presents a weekly film series. She has hosted many notable directors and artists, including Raoul Coutard, William Klein, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Chantal Akerman, Jane Birkin, Jeanne Moreau, Tavernier, and Anouk Aimée. She also programs experimental films at the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (now at Participant Gallery, NYC) and Ocularis in Brooklyn, as well as in Europe and throughout the United States. She has also performed in films by George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, and Jackie Raynal, and in plays by Juliana Francis, and Tony Torn. She is currently completing a short documentary on musician and filmmaker Tony Conrad, and starting one on the musical genius Genesis P-Orridge and her band Psychic TV.

descending notes (2022) is an erotic science-fiction film that explores transness as a form of dissonance and resonance. It takes inspiration from Donny Hathaway’s heartfelt rendition of A Song for You, whose lyrics are punctuated by a discordant progression of piano notes: “If my words don’t come together, listen to the melody ‘cause my love is in there hiding… I love you in a place where there's no space or time.” Written and performed with Ada M. Patterson and Raffia Li, the film is a cosmic love story between three transing beings whose desire unfolds across time and space, from the sensuality of early Christian sainthoods to future alien intimacies. Grounded in autobiographical experiences of tenderness, solidarity and grief within transgender friendships and everyday life; as the world splits apart, these undercover beings covertly learn to live in transformation and to give each other breath.

Lou Lou Sainsbury is a transfeminine artist based between Rotterdam, NL and Margate, UK, working across film, live-performance, poetry, installation and textiles. She identifies as a time traveller, making things that unwrite histories of living beings into tricksterish dreamscapes, exploring identity, community and ecological entanglement. She often works in collaboration, developing intimate long term projects guided by improvisation, cinematic processes and sonic thinking. Lou Lou’s work questions how we can become better listeners and how bodies can trouble history and geography. Moving across a poetics of sensual communion, her transformative work seeks to imagine stories for more liberated futures. After graduating from her MA in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute (2021), Lou Lou was recipient of the Freelands Gasworks Partnership Programme. She was an associate artist at Open School East (2017), after completing her BA in Moving Image at the University of Brighton (2016). Her recent solo exhibitions include Roodkapje, Rotterdam (2023); Humber Street Gallery, Hull; Gasworks, London (2022) and Well Projects, Margate (2020). Recent performances and group presentations include: International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023); Whitstable Biennale (2022); Centre for Contemporary Arts, Prague (2021); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2020), Tate Modern, London; Nottingham Contemporary and Yaby, Madrid (2019).

An abandoned construction site becomes the arena for a handful of men.  They prepare to fight and defeat the enemy; but who is the enemy?

Amira Louadah was born in Algiers. From 2014 to 2021, she studied design and visual arts at Ensci, les Ateliers de Paris, developing an enthusiasm for staging and storytelling. Her journey is marked by seminal stays, notably in Chang Maï in Thailand and New York in the United States, where she made her first field captures. She collects and deploys her perceptions in an empirical and exploratory approach. Her filmography includes La grosse moula ou li michan (2020). Her latest film L'Arche (2022) won the Renaud Victor Award at FID Marseille, and was selected in official competition at the Camden Film Festival in Rockland, the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, the MedFilm Festival in Rome and The Clermont-Ferrand international short-film Festival 2023.

2007. East Baghdad. A US Army Apache helicopter shoots down a group of men outside a house. It’s a Reuters photographer, his driver and the contacts of the photojournalist actually doing a report. The military who shot them from a distance, using state-ofthe- art hyper-vision technology, assisted by satellites, mistook them for “insurgents” as the reporter’s camera was “seen” as an RPG. This degraded perception is illustrated here in its barbaric acme. That said, this killing is not isolated. Doesn’t virtuality gaining more and more of the reality territory? In those times of planetary virus and practically generalized lockdown, coercive power uses and abuses of its new tools for controlling the population in peacetime (drones, facial recognition, apps, etc.). The experimental film li(f/v)e interrogates through several typologies of images our relationship to reality when it has been invested by its virtual counterpart.

Ismaël a réalisé Babylon (Grand Prix du Festival International du Cinéma FIDMarseille et Prix des Université DOCLisboa 2012) et Leïla’s blues (Quinzaine des réalisateurs, Cannes et Mention Spéciale au Festival des Cinémas d’Afrique de Montréal). Il a produit The last of us (Lion du Futur à la Mostra de Venise 2016, candidature tunisienne aux Oscar 2018). Son film expérimental Fragments of self-phone-destruction (2018) a été primé au Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. Son premier long-métrage de fiction Black Medusa (2021) a été sélectionné aux compétitions de nombreux festivals : Rotterdam, New Horizons, Lima Alterna, Split, Fantaspoa, Tarifa, etc. Ismaël est par ailleurs artiste visuel et auteur. Il a été diffusé et/ou exposé au MoMa à New-York, au Museo Reina Sofia à Madrid, au Bal à Paris, ainsi que dans les galleries Momenta (New-York), Talmart (Paris), Le Cube (Rabat), A. Gorgi (Tunis), etc. Il a publié un essai : Cinéma en Tunisie (Tunis, 2008) et un recueil de poésie en revue : lettres à la mort (Toulouse, 2009). Il vit et travaille entre Tunis et Beyrouth.

"Since the downfall of the Soviet Union, no one really knows who the Russians are anymore - what their dreams are, who they believe in or how they live. The Moscow Skyscraper, "the unsinkable Titanic" was built under Stalin and has been for more than 50 years now, a true metaphor of Russia and its people. Former apparatchiks, children and grand-children of the Soviet elite mix with the "nouveaux riches" and businessmen in this huge skyscraper in Moscow. They all waver between the nostalgia of the Soviet time, with its imposing shapes and prefabricated but reassuring happiness, and the instantaneous pleasures capitalism offers. Pavel Lounguine went and looked for the Russian soul inside the Moscow Skyscraper. He knocked on the doors of this mythical building and, focusing on its inhabitants, he painted an ironic, funny and poetic picture of Russia today."

"Pavel Lounguine studied at the University of Moscow between 1965 and 1971 before entering the Moscow Film School in 1973. There he studied screen-writing till 1975 and wrote the scripts of many Russian films including Nepobedimyj (1983) and Poputchik (1986). In 1990, the first full-length film he directed, called Taxi Blues, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival. This tragic story depicts the friendship between a taxi driver and a penniless saxophonist. The film was well received by the critics and the director then became a regular visitor of the Croisette. Luna Park (1992), which tells the story of a young man who is looking for his Jewish origins, and La Noce (The Wedding) (2000), which is a tragicomedy about the unexpected progress of a wedding ceremony, were also shown in Cannes. Pavel Lounguine is interested in the economic and social changes his country is going through due to the downfall of communism. This interest is revealed in Lifeline (Ligne de Vie, 1996), in which Vincent Perez is battling against the Russian mafia, and in A New Russian (Un Nouveau Russe, 2003), a drama about a former scientist (Vladimir Machkov) who will do anything to get rich. In 2005, Pavel Lounguine directed Familles à vendre (Families to Be Sold), a film that deals with the exile and the geographic division of the Russian people. At the same time, he occasionally makes films for the Russian television.

A shot-sequence grasps the scenery from a car, along a wind beaten crest bordered by large windmills. The night comes. The film is landmarked by appearing titles: a confabulated filmography.

Julien Loustau was born in 1971 in Salies-de-Béarn, and now lives and works in Paris.

During this time, and for centuries now, norias have been turning. They sing Oronte's draught. On the banks of the Seine, a dialogue joins them.

Julien Loustau was born in 1971 in Salies-de-Béarn, and now lives and works in Paris.

Vostok Lake has been trapped under the Antarctic ice and isolated from the rest of the world for millions of years. This exceptional environment, deprived of light and subject to extreme pressures and temperatures, might shelter unknown forms of life. The only technology that would allow people to reach the lake without any risk to contaminate it is the Cryobot, a sounding line conceived by NASA and meant to explore sub-ice oceans on Mars and Europe. In China, in the area of the Three Gorges, the construction project of the biggest hydroelectric dam in the world is about to be finished. 600 km of valleys have already been flooded by this dam, which means that hundreds of towns have disappeared and 1.8 million Chinese people had to relocate. Throughout a night trip over the Yangtze River, in the distant exploration of its banks in a state of respite, this movie imagines the solitary odyssey of the Cryobot through the ice to Vostok lake.

Julien Loustau was born in 1971 in Salies-de-Béarn. He lives and works in Paris.

The first sentences could make us think of snippets of conversations gleened from a cocktail party, we recognise the contemporary all-entrepreneurship mixed with an ideology of ideal management. Behind thedialogues are reflections on work, its constraints and the space for freedom that everyone is looking for within the framework that they create or are subject to. And what about these people who work? Do they talk about work or activity, passion or flexible hours? Are we capable of living at full speed and feeling sensations in the same way? How is our self-awareness evolving in the face of this ambition for complete control of our lives, when chance and the vagaries of life often give it flavour?

Ariane Loze, Belgium 1988. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium Since 2008 Ariane Loze researches the coming to life of a story out of seemingly unrelated images with her camera. In these series of videos she takes on all the parts: she is at the same time the actress, the camerawoman and the director. Through the editing of the images she develops a relation between two (or more) characters and the architecture. The videos of Ariane Loze put the spectator in the active role of creating his/her own story out of the basic principles of film editing: shot and counter-shot, the presumed continuity of movement, and the psychological suggestion of a narrative. The filming of these videos has been made public as a ongoing performance. Ariane Loze studied theatre direction at the RITCS Brussels, and took part in a.pass (Advanced Performance And Scenography Studies) in Antwerp. She is laureate of the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) Ghent 2016-17. The videos of Ariane Loze will be presented at the Salon de Montrouge Paris (May 2018) and in the new museum for contemporary art KANAL Centre Pompidou in Brussels (May 2018). Recent exhibition projects include Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (2015), Traverse Vidéo Toulouse FRAC Midi-Pyrénées (2015), Medienwerkstatt Berlin (2016), S.M.A.K. Etcetera Ghent (2016), Boghossian Fondation Brussels (2016), De Appel "You are such a curator" Amsterdam (2016), "Kunst om de lijf" Emergent Veurne, New York Anthology Film Archive AXW screening (2017), Watch this Space Biennale #9 Lille Brussels (2017), Gemischte Gefühle Tempelhof Berlin (2017). Ariane Loze’s videos got selected for the Movimenta Video Art prize in Nice (2017), and the Prix Médiatine Brussels (2016) and got awarded at the Art Contest Brussels (2015), by the Art For All Society of Macau (2016) and Côté Court Festival Pantin (2017).

If we seek beyond our own vision, below the constraints and our primary needs, if we seek greater than ourselves, it is to better meet a whole made up of this multitude of separate individuals seeking in secret their ultimate common point: humanity.

Ariane Loze, Belgium 1988. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium Since 2008 Ariane Loze researches the coming to life of a story out of seemingly unrelated images with her camera. In these series of videos she takes on all the parts: she is at the same time the actress, the camerawoman and the director. Through the editing of the images she develops a relation between two (or more) characters and the architecture. The videos of Ariane Loze put the spectator in the active role of creating his/her own story out of the basic principles of film editing: shot and counter-shot, the presumed continuity of movement, and the psychological suggestion of a narrative. The filming of these videos has been made public as a ongoing performance. Ariane Loze studied theatre direction at the RITCS Brussels, and took part in a.pass (Advanced Performance And Scenography Studies) in Antwerp. She is laureate of the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) Ghent 2016-17. The videos of Ariane Loze will be presented at the Salon de Montrouge Paris (May 2018) and in the new museum for contemporary art KANAL Centre Pompidou in Brussels (May 2018). Recent exhibition projects include Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (2015), Traverse Vidéo Toulouse FRAC Midi-Pyrénées (2015), Medienwerkstatt Berlin (2016), S.M.A.K. Etcetera Ghent (2016), Boghossian Fondation Brussels (2016), De Appel "You are such a curator" Amsterdam (2016), "Kunst om de lijf" Emergent Veurne, New York Anthology Film Archive AXW screening (2017), Watch this Space Biennale #9 Lille Brussels (2017), Gemischte Gefühle Tempelhof Berlin (2017). Ariane Loze’s videos got selected for the Movimenta Video Art prize in Nice (2017), and the Prix Médiatine Brussels (2016) and got awarded at the Art Contest Brussels (2015), by the Art For All Society of Macau (2016) and Côté Court Festival Pantin (2017).

Collective consciousness has built itself up over the centuries, but society's boat is sailing on the seas of globalization. Voices sometimes very old warn us about the risks that men incur, when they are handed over to excess. The video features fragments of these discourses, which from generation to generation have brought fervor and citizen hope, in front of an empty room, symbol of our desertion in front of realities, sign of our increasing capitulation, expression of our renunciation. Outside, it rains more and more and a terrible wind rises. Climate change is on the horizon ... Increase the speed!

Ariane Loze, Belgium 1988. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium Since 2008 Ariane Loze researches the coming to life of a story out of seemingly unrelated images with her camera. In these series of videos she takes on all the parts: she is at the same time the actress, the camerawoman and the director. Through the editing of the images she develops a relation between two (or more) characters and the architecture. The videos of Ariane Loze put the spectator in the active role of creating his/her own story out of the basic principles of film editing: shot and counter-shot, the presumed continuity of movement, and the psychological suggestion of a narrative. The filming of these videos has been made public as a ongoing performance. Ariane Loze studied theatre direction at the RITCS Brussels, and took part in a.pass (Advanced Performance And Scenography Studies) in Antwerp. She is laureate of the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) Ghent 2016-17. Recent exhibition projects include Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (2015), Traverse Vidéo Toulouse FRAC Midi-Pyrénées (2015), Medienwerkstatt Berlin (2016), S.M.A.K. Etcetera Ghent (2016), Boghossian Fondation Brussels (2016), De Appel "You are such a curator" Amsterdam (2016), "Kunst om de lijf" Emergent Veurne, New York Anthology Film Archive AXW screening (2017), Watch this Space Biennale #9 Lille Brussels (2017), Gemischte Gefühle Tempelhof Berlin (2017), Salon de Montrouge Paris (2018), RIBOCA Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art (2018), Moscow Biennial of Young Art (2108) KANAL Centre Pompidou Brussels (2018). Solo exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain Chanot, Paris, exhibition at Gallery Michel Rein Paris (2019), Urbane Künst Ruhr – Ruhr Ding : Territorien curated by Britta Peters Oberhausen (2019), Solo exhibition De Vereniging S.M.A.K., Ghent (2019), Solo exhibition Gallery Michel Rein Brussels (2019). Ariane Loze’s videos got selected for the Movimenta Video Art prize in Nice (2017), and the Prix Médiatine Brussels (2016) and got awarded at the Art Contest Brussels (2015), by the Art For All Society of Macau (2016), Côté Court Festival Pantin (2017), Watch this Space Biennale #9 (2017) and Salon de Montrouge (2018) Ariane Loze will be resident at ISCP New York on the invitation of the Salomon Foundation in from January until June 2020.

« We do not have to know each other in advance » is a hybrid video work that alternates moments of dance performance with archive footage and textual quotations. Gabriela Löffel draws on the political aspect of public space to construct her thinking, developing a visual essay that stages the ‘performativity of bodies in this zone of political action’. Drawing on the written work of Judith Butler, an American philosopher and gender theorist who has worked on the question of the body and its normalised representativeness in contemporary society, Löffel gives corporeality to the issues raised by the author. Quotations from Butler's work are shown alongside the danced and archival elements of the video. The almost fixed camera allows us to examine in detail the slow, precise movements of the dancers. The camera's movements are almost imperceptible, so subtle are they. The artist and choreographer Cédric Gagneur worked closely together to define the various movements that make up the choreography: they propose an abstraction of gestures of resistance or revolt, drawn from archive images from the collection of the Archives contestataires de Genève. The piece is inhabited by slowness and silence, giving the body enough space to unfold individually or collectively. The work offers a dialectic of the potential for protest in the public space. Co-produced by the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain and the Fonds d'art contemporain de la Ville de Genève for the Mire program.

Gabriela Löffel mainly works with time-based media and focuses on the zones of political and finance structures, and infrastructures. Shifting and translating from the documented immediate to the fields of interpretation and mise-en-scène are strategies she uses in her work process. A method that often results in long-term projects and enables her to create spaces for questions and to propose disruptions to linear narratives. She is interested in the obliquity of the subject and his context. It’s in this gap, brought about by her way of addressing subjects, that her work opens onto reflections on the sense of how we understand a world when we become conscious of the fragmentation of our knowledge. Her work has been presented at institutions and galleries including MAST Bologna, Aargauer Kunsthaus, EMAF Osnabrück, Galería Metropolitana Santiago, Dazibao Montreal, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale among others. Gabriela Löffel is a recipient of the Swiss Art Award, the Lewis Baltz Research Fund, the Landis+Gyr Grant, as well as others.

Santiago in the shimmering summer heat. High-res images undergo a digital zoom which transforms spaces into surfaces and houses into textures. In between, there are the small gestures of everyday urban life as two women in search of a place for their love.

Pascal Viveros is a filmmaker intrigued by digital image possibilities, exploring new ways to represent his surrounding landscapes. His work in Santiago's cinema theaters reflects a profound interest in programming and curation. His first short film, AL SOL LEJOS DEL CENTRO was selected at the Berlinale Shorts competition in 2024. Luciana Merino is a Chilean director and screenwriter. She is interested in a hybrid cinema, putting into tension the margins of reality and its deviations. Her first short film, AL SOL LEJOS DEL CENTRO was selected at the Berlinale Shorts competition in 2024.