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Visual reconstitution essay; a play on speeds of one, two, three, or four colored sticks hitting a disintegrated cube.

Sylvain was born in 1977. He has a master's degree in film from Université de Paris VIII. He tours the world without moving and makes small films.

A super-8 filmstrip, shot in 2002 is weaved and transferred by craftsmen in mini-DV in order to be digitally composed. It was an attempt to create a new cinematic vision, to have access to another visible world from the visual and light. The viewer sees geometric and floral designs, according to the various levels of recomposition of the initial ribbon. Disjointed around an inaccessible center, "D-VIDE" blends directly into the minds of the spectators that animate it.

Born in 1977, Sylvain Legrand obtained an M.A. in Cinematographic and Audio-Visual studies at the Université de Paris 8. He currently works ?the world over? and continues to make personal cinema projects.

ROUTE TO CAPE TOWN A picture and sound concept (Klangwerk), a sketch, a moving drawing. Streets leading to a town. Brief moments in the old center of Cape Town. Thoroughfares, People, pedestrians, brief flashes. Everything in motion; The people, the cars, the camera. Those who know the town and surrounding area will recognise the topography. All shots were taken out on the streets leading into the town but still, it is not a documentary; time is altered, camera takes are not linear. These are fragments of time. The film montage and the music allows the beginning to fall at the end and vice versa. Time frozen, parallel time. Motionlessness and movement combined. The rhythmn begins slowly, gathers speed, interrupted by panoramic shots. Concrete sounds become music,a sound becomes a Soundscape. A Sound Poem about a place surrounded in melancholie. Fleeting moments of people who we don´t meet and won´t get to know. It is the brief moment of encounter.What do we know of our fellow man? what does it mean exactly to know someone?, a place, a landscape, a feeling,an experience?. Memories. In the end everything is just a fleeting moment. Our most inner thoughts are written in ink on the tips of the waves of the sea. ROUTE TO CAPE TOWN is a short poem in black and white, in tones and shades, something secretive, something dark and sad lies within. It is filmed from inside a moving vehicle but in the very movement itself lies the stationary, the brief moment, the life of a fragment. The scenes are out of focus, dirty, sometimes mirrored in the windscreen. Our memories are not linear. A mosaic of sounds, pictures, impressions. What is hiding behind the faces of the people who glance in our direction as we pass by?. The film uses concrete pictures and sounds to form a rhythmical abstract poem. A couple of short moments from Cape Town South Africa-a foreign City in moments, that by the end-seem strangely familiar to us.

Born in 1967 in Breisgau, Germany. Involved primarily in Art Films, Contemporary music and writing texts for publications. Also active as; Author, Director, Cameraman and Editor. His films are shown in festivals, Art Cinema´s and Galleries both inside and outside of Europe. Over the last ten years he has organised; Festivals, Film Showings, Lectures and Film Introductions, focusing on the Classical AvantGarde. Thomas Gerwin (*1955) A classically educated Composer and Musicologist (Musikwissenschaftler), He came into contact early on with Electric Acustic Music.Since 1990 he has been intensely involved in Soundscape Composition and Radiophone Art. He is presently composing for concerts and the radio in his own studio using sound and video installations. His artistic space works draw from the New Media forms in Theatre, Dance, Film and Sculpture. He has won various international awards and grants and his performances and exhibitions are presented world wide. In 2001 Thomas Gerwin founded the?Gesellschaft für multisensoriale Kunst? (?Community for Multisensual Art?) and in 2002 ?The Berliner Lautsprecher-Orchester? (The Loudspeaker Orchestra?). Since 2003,he has been leading a series of Concerts (?Klangwelten?) in Der Unsicht-Bar (Invisible-Bar) in Berlin where he intepreted Ars Acustica in complete darkness with a small Loudspeaker Orchestra.

Moving trough the world wide web means being exposed to a variety of content in a high tempo which does not always attract you, but can also seem revolting to you. The resulting emotional state of the user - a feeling of being overwhelmed and a certain unsteadiness - is the starting point of the work “66mio views“. The viewer is sitting inside a room filling installation. Head mounted displays enable him to be part of an immersive VR environment in which he faces irregular shapes and so called “non-player characters“ (NPCs). The shapes are textured with videos from common Image- boards (4chan, 9gag, ...) as well as viral YouTube videos. Their content is diverse and evokes not only positive emotions (e.g. videos of puppies), but also very negative emotions (e.g. so-called gore videos, videos of violence). In a self- developing rhythm of motion, the forms relate to the position of the viewer, move towards him, go through him and move away from him. Various NPCs from 3D-model databases approach the viewer and recite text-sequences from the videos in varying tonalities. This immersive installation understands the technical infrastructure (computercases, cables, ...) as an instrument which designs and shapes the space. It is being expanded with ropes as well as pictures and text fragments from the videos. Stacks of prints show extracts from the videos and thereby display their content transformed and adapted to an analogue medium. The visitors are invited to take these prints with them and transform the content once again by removing it from its original place. Keywords like connectivity/disconnectivity and comprehension/incomprehension as well as thinking about the digital space as an emotional shaping tool led to this installation which connects digital and analogue content in an abstract, fragmented way. (The installation was originally developed for a specific exhibition space in the basement of „Halle 14 - center for contemporary art“ in Leipzig. However, we can set up the installation with regards to any available space, as its dimensions are variable. At least one VR system, ropes and prints in different sizes are fixed.) Yannick Harter, Fabian Lehmann, 2019

Fabian Lehmann (*1988, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany) graduated at University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld (2015) with degree Bachelor of Arts „Photography and Media“. Since 2016 he is studying „Media Art“ at the „Academy of fine Arts, Leipzig“ in the class „Expanded Cinema“ / Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer and has studied „Fine Arts“ at „Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design“ in Jerusalem during an exchange semester. His artistic work focus on different communication systems and how digital techniques shapes the humanity and society. He had various exhibitions in Germany and Europe e.g. Hamburger Triennale der Fotografie (Hamburg), Gallery „Kunstpunkt“ (Berlin), Emscherkunst 2016 (Dortmund) Siva Galerija, (Zagreb) UG Halle 14 (Leipzig) Yannick Harter (*1990, Worms, Germany) is a trained productdesigner, who worked in branches like automotive industry and medical cybernetics. Since 2016 he is studying „Media Art“ at the „Academy of fine Arts, Leipzig“ in the class „Installation and Space“ / Prof. Joachim Blank and has studied „Visual Communication“ at „Latvias Art Academy“ in Riga during an exchange semester. His artistic practice oscillates around the intersection between art, science and society. He had various exhibitions in Germany and Europe e.g. Kaiserwerke (Gera), Gallery? „Kunstpunkt“ (Berlin), Obro?ców Stalingradu 17 (Szczecin), D27 (Riga), UG Halle 14 (Leipzig) Yannick Harter participated in several curatorial and educational projects and volunteered as artist assistant e.g. at Kunstverein (Leipzig), Neustadprojekte (Mainz), Latvian Center for Contemporary Art and Survival Kit 10.0 (Riga)

“The photo was taken using a painted board in Kuling Park on Lushan…” A woman is reminiscing about the story behind a photograph: it was a bright summer day in the 1980s. Her family traveled to Lushan to escape the heat. As her memory unfolds, we gradually come to see the forgotten history and that very photograph being damaged by water stain.

1985 Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, An experimental animation artist with his hands on video arts, painting, installation, music and VJ performance also. In 2009 He got a master's degree in animation from Tsinghua University. In 2010, his film This is LOVE was shown at Ottawa International Animation Festival and awarded The 2010 Best Narrative Short. In 2013 his film Recycled was the Winner Grand Prix shorts - non-narrative at Holland International Animation Film Festival. In 2014 he is the Jury of Zagreb / Holland International Animation Film Festival. and he was the winner of 2014 asian cultural council grant. In 2017 he works in CalArts Experimental Animation program as Faculty. In 2018 he invited for New Academy Member for the Short Films and Feature Animation branch. In 2019 his first feature film Breathless Animals has been selected by Berlinale Forum.

SCREENING (HD, 9 min, 2011, single screen) SCREENING is based on the association of screen-tests and auditioning, that is often attached as extra material on dvds. Five female characters of age 16-30, are filmed in a white studio. They are wearing ordinary clothes and at first sight it might look like they are filmed just as ?themselves? in front of the camera. After a while it becomes more obvious that they go in and out of, and are trying out different roles. The characters do not know that the camera is recording the whole time during the shooting, even when they are stopped in the middle of an act; this to create an interaction of acting, trying to act, or just being themselves. Feminine expressions are contrasted with masculine to generate friction and to enhance the collision of the characters? attempts to go into a role, failing and managing the role.

Kaja Leijon is born in Tromsø, 1980, and now lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She is educated at the National Academy of Fine Arts. During her education she participated in several exchange programs, among those at CalArts, US. Leijon works with film and photography. Leijon recently had a solo exhibition at Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst. Her films have been screened at international exhibitions and film festivals such as; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kunsthalle in Mainz, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Videonale and Kasseler Dokumentar und videofest,

Wasteland ? synopsis: Wasteland is a film that consists of short episodes. The structure of the film gives impression of a loose narration, but the episodes have a common thread which becomes clearer throughout the film. The film investigates how our fantasy and imagination is affected by film, and how people in everyday life integrate images from fiction into their own lives. The film attempts to understand how preconceived conceptions influences the way we see and interpret our surroundings.

Kaja Leijon is born in Tromsø, 1980, and now lives and works in Oslo, Norway. She is educated at the National Academy of Fine Arts. During her education she participated in several exchange programs, among those at CalArts, US. Leijon works with film and photography. Leijon recently had a solo exhibition at Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst. Her films have been screened at international exhibitions and film festivals such as; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Kunsthalle in Mainz, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Videonale and Kasseler Dokumentar und videofest.

Répondant à l`invitation du Théâtre Jean Lurçat, Scène Nationale d`Aubusson, nous avons réalisé cette série d`images alternant vues de la ville d`Aubusson et portraits de ses habitants. Quelque part entre la carte postale, le diorama et la stéréophotographie, ces images dressent un portrait sensible de la ville d`Aubusson. L`ensemble se présente comme un diptyque établissant un aller-retour permanent entre la ville et ses habitants.

Architecte diplômé en 2001, Nicolas Lelièvre s`est rapidement tourné vers les pratiques de l`image. La vidéo et la photographie sont pour lui des moyens privilégiés pour interroger les rapports qu`entretiennent le temps et l`espace. Le projet Centres Horizons mené entre 2003 et 2008 avec le marionnettiste Renaud Herbin a notamment été l`occasion d`explorer différents territoires urbains parmi lesquels Berlin (Villa Médicis Hors Les Murs 2004), Buenos Aires, Montréal ou encore Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande et Lisbonne. Son questionnement sur les perceptions et les représentations des espaces urbains prend des formes variées, entre photographie, vidéo et spectacle vivant. Parallèlement, Nicolas Lelièvre participe régulièrement en tant que vidéaste à des créations de spectacles de théâtre (Cie LàOù, Théâtre de l`Arpenteur,...) et de danse (Cie EnCore, Cie Jean-Pierre,...).

Angela et Marius, deux jeunes étudiants, ont accompagné un jeune migrant lors de son arrivée en France. A travers leur récit, nous découvrons le périple de Bangoura, jeune guinéen ayant fui son pays lorsqu'il avait 17 ans. Sur une production musicale composée de samples (notamment extraits de musiques traditionnelles issues de différentes immigrations françaises), l'œuvre questionne la manière dont chacun de nous se réapproprie un fait, un événement ou un récit en en abolissant son contexte, son passé, sa connaissance et sa mémoire collective. Ainsi, la vidéo propose au spectateur de s’approprier l’histoire de Bangoura en reprenant son récit à la manière d’un karaoké. De cette manière, le récit relaté offre de multiples interprétations et peut aussi bien symboliser une génération de migrants cherchant à survivre, critiquer une société capitaliste ou les instituions, décrire le portrait d'une jeunesse française ou encore interroger la connaissance que nous avons de l’immigration française.

Artiste plasticien diplômé de l'ENSAM, Yoann Lelong trouve son inspiration dans la danse, la recherche scientifique et la problématique de l'exclusion. Il explore la vidéo comme moyen de retranscrire une réalité transcendée, mêlant la poésie réaliste de ses sujets à une réalité sociale fragmentée. Son passage par l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan le forme à la physique quantique, point de départ d'une démarche artistique qui irrigue l’ensemble de ses travaux, et donne à ses œuvres une lecture sous-jacente plus métaphysique. De sa collaboration avec Amos Poe, pionnier dumouvement new-yorkais No Wave, naît PERSON(A), installation vidéo où s'entrelacent vingt-trois portraits filmés au 16mm. Une œuvre poétique où les éléments se distinguent, se répondent, puis se fondent dans un flou indistinct. Cette 1ère œuvre illustre dès lors le rapport distancié qu’entretient Yoann Lelong au réel et qui le pousse, à chaque nouvelle création, à saisir l'instant sans filtre et sans interprétation pour retranscrire et sublimer les sujets à l'état brut. Les sujets deviennent matière, le tout rejoignant le tout. A l'issue d'une résidence artistique à bord du voilier Tara Méditerranée en 2014, il crée PerceptConcept, à l'image du mouvement ondulaire et répétitif de l'expédition maritime : les gestes de l'équipage épousent le va-et-vient de la mer, au rythme de sons mécaniques ou organiques. Par la suite, il s'interrogera sur l'essence d'une création et plus particulièrement sur ce qui en fait son unicité en collaborant avec la chorégraphe Anne Nguyen et le musicien Les Gordon (2015). Le mouvement gestuel et sonore apparaît ainsi dans le travail de l’artiste comme une composante clé de toutes ses créations. La recherche de l’unicité à partir de fragments épars constitue, pour l’artiste, un cheminement permanent, un questionnement métaphysique qui explore, chaque fois, un nouveau terrain de création, tantôt attaché à une réalité sociale, tantôt abstrait.

Derrière tout œuvre artistique, se cache un travail de recherche foisonnant, un parcours irrégulier fait d’avancées et de doutes. Mettant en perspective le travail de 2 artistes aux disciplines différentes, le film retrace ces moments d’improvisations, de répétition ou d’hésitations qui font partie intégrante d’une œuvre en devenir. Aux mouvements des danseurs hip-hop de la chorégraphe Anne Nguyen (artiste associé à Chaillot), se superpose une oeuvre musicale du musicien Les Gordon (du label Kitsuné), 2 univers qui, bien que différents, viennent se compléter pour créer une forme nouvelle et singulière. Qu’il s’agisse d’une pièce dansée ou d’une œuvre de musique, l’impression d’aisance et de maîtrise que suscite la découverte de l’oeuvre aboutie est toujours flagrante. Quel processus de création derrière cette sensation de fluidité, de perfection ? Comment, d’une matière brute et spontanée, naît l’oeuvre future ? C’est par cet angle que le film tente de capter et de retranscrire la genèse d’une création artistique, nourri par les séances de travail et de répétition des danseurs, autant que par la l’oeuvre musicale composée sur le mode de l’improvisation. Questionnement, tentatives, ajustements, répétitions... Autant d’étapes nécessaires que requiert la création d’un projet artistique, mouvement permanent oscillant entre la projection initiale de l’artiste et le projet en devenir, matière polymorphe et versatile. Miroir de cette genèse continue, le film finit par lui-même devenir objet de son propos.

Yoann Lelong, né en 1985. Après avoir étudié la physique quantique au cours de son cursus universitaire, Yoann Lelong s’est progressivement tourné vers la création artistique en se formant au California Institute of Arts et en collaborant avec le pionnier du mouvement No wave New Yorkais, Amos Poe. Le travail de Yoann Lelong émerge d’une vision du monde où tous les éléments sont reliés et interagissent entre eux. Chaque élément est, pour lui, une abstraction issue d’une totalité de mouvement fluide (telle la notion d’holomouvement). Il adopte ainsi une approche centrée sur l’individu pour ensuite en dégager une structure systémique en s’intéressant aux interactions qu’un individu peut avoir avec un lieu, une ambiance ou d’autres personnes. En 2013, encouragé par Alain Cavalier, Yoann Lelong réalise le film PERSON(A). Il s’agit de 23 portraits entrelacés (dont ceux de Benoit Forgeard, Amos Poe et Lola Bessis). En 2014, il rejoint l’expédition Tara Méditerranée, dans le cadre d’une résidence artistique qui donnera lieu à l’installation vidéo PerceptConcept. En 2015, Yoann Lelong a réalisé des projets sur le thème de la transidentité et de l’insertion des personnes réfugiées en collaboration avec l’association Singa. En 2017, il prépare une nouvelle œuvre en relation avec le centre de pédopsychiatrie de l’hôpital La Pitié Salpêtrière.

Angela et Marius, deux jeunes étudiants, ont accompagné un jeune migrant lors de son arrivée en France. A travers leur récit, nous découvrons le périple de Bangoura, jeune guinéen ayant fui son pays lorsqu'il avait 17 ans. Sur une production musicale composée de samples (notamment extraits de musiques traditionnelles issues de différentes immigrations françaises), l'œuvre questionne la manière dont chacun de nous se réapproprie un fait, un événement ou un récit en en abolissant son contexte, son passé, sa connaissance et sa mémoire collective. Ainsi, la vidéo propose au spectateur de s’approprier l’histoire de Bangoura en reprenant son récit à la manière d’un karaoké. De cette manière, le récit relaté offre de multiples interprétations et peut aussi bien symboliser une génération de migrants cherchant à survivre, critiquer une société capitaliste ou les instituions, décrire le portrait d'une jeunesse française ou encore interroger la connaissance que nous avons de l’immigration française.

Artiste plasticien diplômé de l'ENSAM, Yoann Lelong trouve son inspiration dans la danse, la recherche scientifique et la problématique de l'exclusion. Il explore la vidéo comme moyen de retranscrire une réalité transcendée, mêlant la poésie réaliste de ses sujets à une réalité sociale fragmentée. Son passage par l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan le forme à la physique quantique, point de départ d'une démarche artistique qui irrigue l’ensemble de ses travaux, et donne à ses œuvres une lecture sous-jacente plus métaphysique. De sa collaboration avec Amos Poe, pionnier dumouvement new-yorkais No Wave, naît PERSON(A), installation vidéo où s'entrelacent vingt-trois portraits filmés au 16mm. Une œuvre poétique où les éléments se distinguent, se répondent, puis se fondent dans un flou indistinct. Cette 1ère œuvre illustre dès lors le rapport distancié qu’entretient Yoann Lelong au réel et qui le pousse, à chaque nouvelle création, à saisir l'instant sans filtre et sans interprétation pour retranscrire et sublimer les sujets à l'état brut. Les sujets deviennent matière, le tout rejoignant le tout. A l'issue d'une résidence artistique à bord du voilier Tara Méditerranée en 2014, il crée PerceptConcept, à l'image du mouvement ondulaire et répétitif de l'expédition maritime : les gestes de l'équipage épousent le va-et-vient de la mer, au rythme de sons mécaniques ou organiques. Par la suite, il s'interrogera sur l'essence d'une création et plus particulièrement sur ce qui en fait son unicité en collaborant avec la chorégraphe Anne Nguyen et le musicien Les Gordon (2015). Le mouvement gestuel et sonore apparaît ainsi dans le travail de l’artiste comme une composante clé de toutes ses créations. La recherche de l’unicité à partir de fragments épars constitue, pour l’artiste, un cheminement permanent, un questionnement métaphysique qui explore, chaque fois, un nouveau terrain de création, tantôt attaché à une réalité sociale, tantôt abstrait.

Derrière tout œuvre artistique, se cache un travail de recherche foisonnant, un parcours irrégulier fait d’avancées et de doutes. Mettant en perspective le travail de 2 artistes aux disciplines différentes, le film retrace ces moments d’improvisations, de répétition ou d’hésitations qui font partie intégrante d’une œuvre en devenir. Aux mouvements des danseurs hip-hop de la chorégraphe Anne Nguyen (artiste associé à Chaillot), se superpose une oeuvre musicale du musicien Les Gordon (du label Kitsuné), 2 univers qui, bien que différents, viennent se compléter pour créer une forme nouvelle et singulière. Qu’il s’agisse d’une pièce dansée ou d’une œuvre de musique, l’impression d’aisance et de maîtrise que suscite la découverte de l’oeuvre aboutie est toujours flagrante. Quel processus de création derrière cette sensation de fluidité, de perfection ? Comment, d’une matière brute et spontanée, naît l’oeuvre future ? C’est par cet angle que le film tente de capter et de retranscrire la genèse d’une création artistique, nourri par les séances de travail et de répétition des danseurs, autant que par la l’oeuvre musicale composée sur le mode de l’improvisation. Questionnement, tentatives, ajustements, répétitions... Autant d’étapes nécessaires que requiert la création d’un projet artistique, mouvement permanent oscillant entre la projection initiale de l’artiste et le projet en devenir, matière polymorphe et versatile. Miroir de cette genèse continue, le film finit par lui-même devenir objet de son propos.

Yoann Lelong, né en 1985. Après avoir étudié la physique quantique au cours de son cursus universitaire, Yoann Lelong s’est progressivement tourné vers la création artistique en se formant au California Institute of Arts et en collaborant avec le pionnier du mouvement No wave New Yorkais, Amos Poe. Le travail de Yoann Lelong émerge d’une vision du monde où tous les éléments sont reliés et interagissent entre eux. Chaque élément est, pour lui, une abstraction issue d’une totalité de mouvement fluide (telle la notion d’holomouvement). Il adopte ainsi une approche centrée sur l’individu pour ensuite en dégager une structure systémique en s’intéressant aux interactions qu’un individu peut avoir avec un lieu, une ambiance ou d’autres personnes. En 2013, encouragé par Alain Cavalier, Yoann Lelong réalise le film PERSON(A). Il s’agit de 23 portraits entrelacés (dont ceux de Benoit Forgeard, Amos Poe et Lola Bessis). En 2014, il rejoint l’expédition Tara Méditerranée, dans le cadre d’une résidence artistique qui donnera lieu à l’installation vidéo PerceptConcept. En 2015, Yoann Lelong a réalisé des projets sur le thème de la transidentité et de l’insertion des personnes réfugiées en collaboration avec l’association Singa. En 2017, il prépare une nouvelle œuvre en relation avec le centre de pédopsychiatrie de l’hôpital La Pitié Salpêtrière.

Five of these sketches are inspired by modern art: "Le calvaire de R.Mutt" ("R.Mutt´s calvary", a reference to M.Duchamp). The artist follows an abrupt Way of the Cross. He is carrying Duchamp´s "Fountain" (a reference to Warhol). In a landscape, the artist paints the word "brillo" in white on a white board. "Tombeau pour M.B" ("A tomb for M.B", a reference to Broodthaers). The artist finds the "Belgian man´s thighbone", painted in the Belgian colors. He discolors it and buries it in the ground of the Battle of Waterloo. "Le semeur de pensées" ("the pansies sower", a reference to Monet). The artist sows pansies in Monet´s garden in Giverny. "Parcours d´artiste" ("an artist´s route", a reference to Ensor). The artist, wearing a 3-piece-suit and carrying a suitcase, walks up a brook. He ends up finding a smoked herring (pun with the name of the fish in French, "hareng-saur", and "Ensor"). Three sketches give to the television another role than that of a screen : "La tour penchée" (The leaning tower). Toutists try to push Pisa´Tower. The tower is set upright again by inclining the television. "Repasser l´image" ("ironing/replaying the movie"). One scene displaying a woman ironer is being replayed on the TV screen. "Chaussettes-show" ("the socks´ show). The ballet of a pair of socks for a pair of shoes. A sketch where a message is transmitted by the viewer: "Le message de l´ogre"("the message of the ogre", Bomarzo´s enigma). In the park of Bomarzo´s monsters, the artist transmits an enigmatic word in semaphore language.

Jacques Lennep was born in Uccle, Belgium, on the 11th of July 1941. He is a multidisciplinary artist. In 1972 he created the CAP group within which he formulated the principles of a relational art. He developed one sociological trend of this art by creating his Man´s museum in 1974. From then, he dedicated himself to video, and was a video pioneer in Belgium. He taught in the Academy of Fine arts in Brussels. He belongs to the Royal Academy of Belgium. His most recent videos are gathered under the titles "Delirium-vidéo" and "Musée de l´homme Postproduction". He wrote 2 books about his approach : Alchimie du sens (La part de l´oeil Editions, Bruxelles, 1999) and Conversation avec P.-Y Desaive (Tandem Editions, Gerpinnes 2003). The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) of Liège will devote a retrospective to him in 2007.

The installation directly refers to spectacular films, in its organization and dramaturgy (the scenes? succession, the function of music) as well as in the implemented technical means (HD projection, 5.1 surround sound). Designed as an adventure movie in which the main character would be hold by the camera, the video makes its way through an island that happens to be a shapes directory. It is a long tracking out : inside a crystal structure, through different desert and deserted places, flying over the sea off a prismatic object. The nature of the depicted objects and places, as well as their relations, is never obvious, as the camera changes directions to get closer of surfaces, and plays with scales? effects, sometimes even getting lost in details. Co-production Ville de Beauvais, Le LABO, DRAC Picardie.

This is a film about time and experiencing a work of art. The form and structure of video and the use of digital media and sound instill emotional tension in an environment that otherwise lacks it. The camera tracks forward and progresses into a snowy landscape. The video is divided into two equal parts which are linked together when the camera?s angle moves towards the floor. From this moment forward, the image slides from the representation of a physical space to a rhythmic abstraction. When the camera lifts up again, we are back at the beginning. Two successive soundtracks accompany each part of this video.

Born in 1981 in Dijon (France), Thomas Leon currently lives and works in Paris. His work is articulated mainly around the video medium, in the form of complex and condensed installations, on the border of narration. His achievements were especially chosen for the following exhibitions: ?The children of Sabbath 07? with the Hollow of the hell, Centers Contemporary art of Thiers (France) in 2006, ?Multipolar? with the Market 14 of Leipzig (Germany) in 2006, ?Filterbox? with Glassbox (Paris) in 2006, ?the syndrome of Broadway? in the Center of Art of the Saint-Leger Park to Pougues-the-Water (France) in 2007, ?Science and fiction? with General in Manufacture in 2008.

To Ashes explores the thresholds between reality and machinic hallucination, questioning contemporary image-generation technologies — particularly artificial intelligence — and their influence on our perception of the real. Created through a hybrid process combining 3D modeling and AI-based generation tools, the video unfolds as a continuous tracking shot through a brutalist megastructure in constant transformation. Architectural forms disintegrate and transform, while ash-like particles rise into the air. This disintegration is accompanied by an experimental soundscape, where analog synthesizers and transformed voices evoke a latent collapse. Gradually, the architecture gives way to unstable crystalline structures. Reality wavers. In the end, something gives way, shifts, disappears. Everything must burn.

Thomas Léon develops his practice by merging cinema, graphic arts and images from new technologies. He creates films, immersive video and sound installations, as well as large-format drawings. His work explores the interconnections between memory, sensuality, intimate experiences, and the imaginary, drawing on fictions, whether they be social, urban, climatic, etc. He is notably influenced by science fiction and utopian literature and frequently develops his projects using contemporary image creation tools (3D modeling, AI, etc.). He regularly participates in screenings or exhibitions in France and abroad: 'Listening to Transparency' at the Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai (China, 2017), 'Cruces Sonoros: Mundos Posibles' at the MAC in Santiago de Chile (Chile, 2016), 'Rendez-vous 11' at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Villeurbanne (France, 2011), and at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town (South Africa, 2012). He notably took part in residencies : Drawing Factory organized by CNAP (National Center for Visual Arts) and the Drawing Lab (Paris) in 2021 ; a residency in Taiwan, organized by Grame, the National Center for Musical Creation (Lyon), and the Digital Art Center (Taipei) in 2011. His works can be found in the collections of CNAP (National Center for Visual Arts) and the Louis Vuitton Foundation. Thomas Léon lives and works in Montreuil.

maybe dramatic frame change is unnesessarry...

Born in Vilnius in 1967. Graduated from the Art School of Justinas Vieno?inskis in Vilnius. In the 1983?1995 period, he worked as an art director at a Vilnius restoration studio, as a costume designer, art director and director at the Lithuanian national television, was a lecturer at the Vilnius Conservatoire and worked as art director assistant in the film Corridor (Koridorius) by ?arūnas Bartas. In 1996? 2000, Leontjev worked as art director and creative director at the advertising agency Brand Sellers DDB Vilnius. From 2000 until present, he has been the director of film production company Vilks Studija. Leontjev has directed a number of commercials and music videos that have won various awards including the MTV Russia prize for the music video of the year in 2004. He has authored scores of film scripts that are yet to be fulfilled. He is currently preparing for the shooting of a new 20 minute short film. Absence (Nebuvimas) is the first film from the cycle You Are Not Alone.

'Another Woman - film adaptation' is a three channel film presenting intimate scenes of three characters, two women and a man, in the course of a breakup. The film explores a world of fiction and performance in a cinematographic and spatially designed narrative where three images are presented simultaneously. The visual style focusses both on the performing bodies and their surroundings. Subcutaneous emotions surface through tactile interaction, as the characters touch and feel their place amidst the physical properties of the space. Walls, ceiling, floor, curtains and furniture form obstacles, boundaries and voids that confront the protagonists with the situation and state of mind in which they find themselves. The interiors become mirrors for their inner worlds, surreal and intuitively recognisable at the same time. 'Another Woman - film adaptation', 2025, is a re-staging of the spatial installation 'Another Woman', 2022. We show an exerpt of 13 min 6 sec. of the final film that will have an estimated duration of 70 minutes.

Leopold Emmen is a collaboration between filmmaker Nanouk Leopold and visual artist Daan Emmen. In our work, we experiment with film as a spatial, cinematographic experience in which the visitor plays an active role. Through the characteristics of a place and the behaviour of our protagonists, we want to make tangible how a presence influences life and relationships with the other. An open invitation to explore the physical and mental world of the characters themselves. Creating awareness of the way in which space, sound and moving image can come together in a deepening, embodied experience, we want to stir up our conditioned gaze. Reflecting on how we see the world, how we see ourselves in that world and how we see each other.

"Contrapeso/verde/rojo" is a video-documentary presenting two distinct glances. The first scene happens in the park of Chapultepec (Mexico city), where we observe a snack-stand whose tarpaulin is supported by a rope at the end of which is a bottle of Coca-Cola. It plays the role of a counter-weight, like a scale or an anchor (hence the name of the play). The second scene presents a zoom into another Coca-Cola bottle which, thanks to the opening shot, finds itself inside a demolished cab in the woods of Ajusco. The two glances start with and confine themselves to the tension generated by these bottles between the natural and the cultural, which allows us to associate the objects when they activate or deactivate something concrete. The structural logic of León's work in these two videos resides in the presentation of a narrative that leads to the reading of an idea of production after the one of consumption.

Edgar León finished his Master in Visual Arts at the Academy of San Carlos, Independent National University of Mexico (UNAM), in 2005. He produced a dozen of solo exhibitions between Mexico and Costa Rica, and has participated in more than forty group shows world-wide. As an independent commissioner, his latest work "La reconstrucción del lugar común. Imàgenes de autor" was inaugurated in 2005 at the Museum of Art and Drawing in San José, Costa Rica. He organised "Residuos y Particulas" Privado Público" in Mexico in 2004. León lives and works in the Paris area.

Das Fehlen eines konkreten Bildes. Autobiografische Bruchstücke zwischen Fiktion und Realität vereint zu konstruierten Erinnerungssequenzen und endlosen Variationen davon. Das Gegenteil des Vergessens. Aber was ist wirklich passiert? Es gibt nur die eine Wahrheit. Die eigene. Entscheidungen trifft man, weil man sie treffen muss.

1985 in Frankfurt am Main geboren, seit 2005 Studium der freien Kunst an der Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach mit dem Schwerpunkt Malerei und neue Medien und seit 2010 Studium der Malerei, Animation und Tapisserie in der Klasse von Judith Eisler an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien. Ihre Videoarbeiten wurden bereits bei vielen nationalen und internationalen Filmfestivals wie z.B. den Kurzfilmtagen Oberhausen, der Kunstfilmbiennale Köln/Bonn oder den Rencontre Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid gezeigt.2008 erhielt Xenia Lesniewski den ?3 Sat Förderpreis? bei den Internationalen Kurzfilmtagen Oberhausen sowie das Stipendium der Deutschen Studienstiftung. 2009 gewann ihre Arbeit EGODYSTON den "Movies and Stills" Award der Videor Art Foundation sowie den zweiten Muvi-Preis bei den Internationalen Kurzfilmtagen Oberhausen. 2010 erhielt sie beim Internationalen Filmfest Dresden den Drematrix Förderpreis. Ebenso nahm Lesniewski an zahlreichen Ausstellungsprojekten sowie weiteren internationalen Film- und Medienkunstfestivals teil.

Egodystonic - My fear of death will blow my head away. I think I need other eyes for my brain.

Born in 1985 / Frankfurt am Main, has been studying Fine Arts with focus on Painting and New Media at the Offenbach Academy of Art and Design since 2005.

Children´s excrement anal-yzed between sodomy and fear of death. The video ?Supersensibel? of Xenia Yvon Lesniewski is a provocative animation which deals with sex, eroticism, obscenity and individual fear. A daring representation of the polymorphic sexuality accompanied by phrases and noises in the form of riddles which give the film an infectious energy.

Xenia Yvon Lesniewski was born in 1985 in Frankfurt; she has been studying since 2005 at the School of Realization of Offenbach specializing in Painting and New Media (communications).

xenia yvon lesniewski GERADE AUS Die künstlerin stellt eine schwarzweiss animation mit dem titel ?gerade aus? vor. zeichnungen sind der ausgangspunkt von xenia yvon lesniewskis arbeit, welche sie dann in stilistische animationen überträgt. kurze szenen werden durch ein flimmern ineinander übergeleitet. szenen, in denen zum beispiel eine mit einem maulkorb versehene, der künstlerin stark ähnelnde person, nach luft schnappt oder in einer unterwürfigen pose auf dem boden liegt. fetisch und sadomasochismus werden in ihrer arbeit thematisiert, gefühle plakativ und direkt wiedergegeben. ?der betrachter ist ein teil meiner arbeit.? dem zuschauer werden innere verlassene landschaften vor augen geführt. man erhält unweigerlich einen offenen blick in eine innere folterkammer. für die künstlerin handelt es sich hierbei um eine sehr intime arbeit ?die grenzen zwischen realität und fiktion verschmelzen. ein zwischenraum entsteht und zwar ? GERADE AUS.? der eingeschobene text gibt hinweise und lenkt den betrachter. der abstrakte sound der arbeit nimmt unmittelbar einfluss auf seine befindlichkeit. aus dieser fragmentierung von bild, text und ton resultiert eine provokative und kompromisslose aussage über die erfahrung von kunst und wirklichkeit. text anna kalinski

biografie xenia yvon lesniewski xenia yvon lesniewski geboren 1985 in frankfurt, deutschland: bildende künstlerin; studiert seit 2005 an der hochschule für gestaltung offenbach freie kunst mit dem schwerpunkt malerei und neue medien. malerei prof. adam jankowski freies zeichnen/film prof. mariola brillowska experimentelle raumgestaltung prof. heiner blum warum sie etwas tut? alles immer nur mittel zum zweck. aber sie hätte sich auch auf die zunge beissen können, sie hat eine schöne, gesunde zunge - rot von blut.

La vidéo met en scène le corps de personnages dénudés filmé en caméra infra rouge semblant errer dans un espace vert, enveloppés de silence. Les corps se heurtent, se touchent, se bousculent. La caméra abandonnée à elle-même en plan fixe construit une image anonyme et saisit sans émotion le cours indistinct du temps qui s?écoule. Dans le fragment de ce cadre, entre violence et douceur les hommes semblent monologuer et construire de toutes pièces une mise en scène imaginaire.

Isabelle Lévénez aime à manier les contraires et l?ambiguïté. Les images, les titres de ses ?uvres, les phrases qu?elle écrit sont autant de jeux d?ombres et de lumières qui définissent la posture générale de l?artiste, développé par les multiples pièces de son travail tournant autour du thème du secret », nous proposant une réalité fragmentée, un jeu entre innocence rêves et fantasmes, entre douceur et violence. Biographie : Isabelle Lévénez Après des Etudes à l?école des Beaux Arts de Nantes elle décide de s?installer à Paris ou elle obtient en 1997 un DU en psychopédagodie à l?université paris V. En 1994 elle est sélectionnée pour le master de l?institut des Hautes études en arts plastiques crée par Pontus Hulten. En 1995 elle effectue un master multi média aux Arts et métiers à Paris. Depuis 1995 Isabelle Lévénez a effectué plusieurs séjours à l?étranger au cours desquels son travail a été exposé : New York, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Moscou, Bratislava, Budapest, Prague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Ottawa, Nagoya, Reykjavik, Athènes, Riga, Barcelone, Istambul, Sofia. En 2001, elle a obtenu la bourse de la Villa Médicis hors les murs à Los Angeles. Différents lieux en France et à l?étranger (Musées, Centres d?art, Fracs, Galeries?) lui ont consacré des expositions personnelles et collectives , notamment

Je m`interroge ici sur la dualité humaine, déchirée entre pulsion de mort et respect de l'environnement. Ainsi la vidéo, qui a pour titre " à mort la mer" montre des images en Noir et Blanc d`un paysage marin. La jeune fille filmée au bord de la mer, la présence du vent,un bateau échoué au milieu d`un champ créent une atmosphère étrange, ou temps, espace et mouvement sont modifiés. La caméra abandonnée à elle-même en plan fixe construit une image anonyme et saisit sans émotion le cours indistinct du temps qui s?écoule. Dans le fragment de ce cadre, un univers suréaliste semble évoluer, monologuer et construire de toutes pièces une mise en scène imaginaire. La jeune fille les mains tachées de goudron manipule un poisson dans l`eau, joue t `elle ? , est ce qu`elle le lave de son jus noir ? avant de finir triomphante sur son bateau échoué brandissant son trophée à la main: un poisson vierge de toute pollution!

Isabelle Lévénez (1970) vit et travaille entre Trélazé (49) et Paris. Elle est représentée par la Galerie Aeroplastic à Bruxelles. Depuis 1995 Isabelle Lévénez a effectué plusieurs séjours à l`étranger au cours desquels son travail a été exposé: New York, Milan,Barcelone, Madrid, Berlin, Moscou, Tokyo, Budapest, Prague, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Ottawa, Reykjavik.... En 2001, elle a obtenu la bourse de la Villa Médicis hors les murs (Los Angeles). Différents lieux en France (musées, centres d`art, Fracs...) lui ont consacré des expositions personnelles et collectives notamment: Le centre d`art de Meymac (2007),Musée de Grenoble (2007), Le Palais de Tokyo (2006),Le lieu Unique, Nantes (2004),Le Centre d`art de St Fons (2002), Le Frac Haute Normandie ( 2002), Le rac Alsace (2000), La Fondation Guerlain, Paris (1999), La Box, Bourges (1997)...

Depuis 1991 et à travers ses vidéos, dessins ou photographies, Isabelle Lévénez révèle le mal être de l`individu ou son inquiétude identitaire dans sa dimension cachée sans que le dysfonctionnement mental ne soit jamais mis en avant.Les vidéos de la serie animaux domestiques forment pour elle, une seule et même ?uvre considérée à des stades différents de sa conscience du monde. Elle s`interroge ici sur la dualité humaine, déchirée entre pulsion animale et respect de la loi. Ces vidéo montrent le corps de personnages dénudés portant un masque (lapin, loup, âne, mouton?) Les protagonistes sont souvent silencieux, par exemple en partageant un repas qui se termine par un cri proche de celui d?un animal. La caméra abandonnée à elle-même en plan fixe construit une image anonyme et saisit sans émotion le cours indistinct du temps qui s?écoule. Dans le fragment de ce cadre, un univers hybride, humain/animal, semble évoluer, monologuer et construire de toutes pièces une mise en scène imaginaire. Les visages recouverts d?un masque d?animaux nous renvoient à la construction d?un système où désir, violence et pulsions rencontrent la morale d?un monde codifié. Cette violence ne fait jamais l`objet d`une quelconque fascination, elle n`est pour l`artiste que le reflet du monde dans lequel elle vit.

Isabelle Levenez est née à Nantes en 1970. Artiste enseignante à l`école des Beaux arts d`Angers, elle se considère comme une artiste multimédia, c`est à dire qu`elle passe d`une production de dessin à une réalisation d`installation vidéo ou de photographie numérique. Entre réalité et fiction son travail ne cesse d`interroger l`individu. Son travail a été montré dans de nombreuses expositions individuelles et collectives, notamment à la galerie Anton Weller, à LOOP Barcelone , au CCC de Tours, à l?Abbaye du Ronceray, Angers, au Musée de Grenoble, à l?ARCO, au Musée National des Beaux Arts de Lettonie à Riga, à la National Art Gallery à Sofia, dans plusieurs Instituts Français à l?étranger : à Barcelone, Budapest, Cologne, Berlin. Elle a également exposé au Palais de Tokyo, Paris, au Musée Péra d?Istambul, au Musée Benaki, Athènes, au Musée Zadkine à Paris, à l?Orangerie du Sénat et Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, au Musée des Beaux arts de Tourcoing, au Lieu unique à Nantes, au Musée d`art contemporain de Milan. Son travail fait partie des collections du FNAC et de plusieurs FRAC. Elle a obtenu la bourse de la villa Médicis hors les murs à Los Angeles.

Depuis 1991 et à travers ses vidéos, dessins ou photographies, Isabelle Lévénez révèle le mal être de l`individu ou son inquiétude identitaire dans sa dimension cachée sans que le dysfonctionnement mental ne soit jamais mis en avant.Les vidéos de la serie animaux domestiques forment pour elle, une seule et même ?uvre considérée à des stades différents de sa conscience du monde. Elle s`interroge ici sur la dualité humaine, déchirée entre pulsion animale et respect de la loi. Ainsi les vidéos ayant pour titre de série "Animaux domestiques", montrent le corps de personnages dénudés portant un masque (lapin, loup, âne, mouton?) Les protagonistes sont souvent silencieux, par exemple en partageant un repas qui se termine par un cri proche de celui d?un animal. La caméra abandonnée à elle-même en plan fixe construit une image anonyme et saisit sans émotion le cours indistinct du temps qui s?écoule. Dans le fragment de ce cadre, un univers hybride, humain/animal, semble évoluer, monologuer et construire de toutes pièces une mise en scène imaginaire. Les visages recouverts d?un masque d?animaux nous renvoient à la construction d?un système où désir, violence et pulsions rencontrent la morale d?un monde codifié. Cette violence ne fait jamais l`objet d`une quelconque fascination, elle n`est pour l`artiste que le reflet du monde dans lequel elle vit.

Isabelle Levenez est née à Nantes en 1970. Artiste enseignante à l`école des Beaux arts d`Angers, elle se considère comme une artiste multimédia, c`est à dire qu`elle passe d`une production de dessin à une réalisation d`installation vidéo ou de photographie numérique. Entre réalité et fiction son travail ne cesse d`interroger l`individu. Son travail a été montré dans de nombreuses expositions individuelles et collectives, notamment à la galerie Anton Weller, à LOOP Barcelone , au CCC de Tours, à l?Abbaye du Ronceray, Angers, au Musée de Grenoble, à l?ARCO, au Musée National des Beaux Arts de Lettonie à Riga, à la National Art Gallery à Sofia, dans plusieurs Instituts Français à l?étranger : à Barcelone, Budapest, Cologne, Berlin. Elle a également exposé au Palais de Tokyo, Paris, au Musée Péra d?Istambul, au Musée Benaki, Athènes, au Musée Zadkine à Paris, à l?Orangerie du Sénat et Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, au Musée des Beaux arts de Tourcoing, au Lieu unique à Nantes, au Musée d`art contemporain de Milan. Son travail fait partie des collections du FNAC et de plusieurs FRAC. Elle a obtenu la bourse de la villa Médicis hors les murs à Los Angeles.

Nine Hamlet RGB engages a simple algorithm to destabilize the timing of the red, green and blue frame sequential display system while incorporating fragmented, appropriated “to be or not to be” excerpts from nine Hamlet films. The audio is the synced sound from the appropriated excerpts laced with low frequency binaural tonal pulsations. The physicality of the constructed optical and aural experience is seeking a mechanism of unconscious disarticulation. The ghosting of colors, evanesent Hamlets, and somatic tones are looking for a “dream-work” that can be ciphered, displaced, or not.

Les LeVeque works with digital and analog electronic technology. His projects include single and multi-channel videos and video/computer based installations. His projects have been exhibited and screened internationally. Video Data Bank distributes his single-channel video work. He is represented by Kerry Schuss Gallery in New York City.

Communists Like Us is an ambient music video made from a few seconds of archival footage of Mao Zedong applauding and members of the Red Guard chanting. The title Communists Like Us was taken from the 1985 text of the same name written by Felix Guattari and Toni Negri.

Les LeVeque received an MFA in Video Research from the Department of Art Media Studies at Syracuse University. He is a Visiting Associate Professor in Film and Electronic Media at Bard College and co-Chair of the Film/Video program in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. His work has been exhibited internationally including 2000 Whitney Biennial, Georges Pompidou Center, Museum fur Neue Kunst ZKM, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Centre Culturel et de Cooperation Linguistique Bilbao, Pacific Film Archive, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum and The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Festival screenings of his work include Transmediale Berlin, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. The Video Data Bank distributes his single channel video work. He is represented by KS Art in New York City.

stammering forward backward GIANT is a re-edit of George Stevens? 1956 film Giant - an epic story of Texas, oil and racism. Condensed to 17 minutes and beginning in the middle stammering forward backward GIANT implements improvisational percussive frame by frame editing structures to simultaneously unwind the film to the conclusion of beginning and end.

Les LeVeque is an electronic media artist who lives in New York City. His work has been exhibited in internationally including 2000 Whitney Biennial, Georges Pompidou Center, Museum fur Neue Kunst ZKM, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Museo de Arte Moderno Buenos Aires, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Centre Culturel et de Cooperation Linguistique Bilbao, Pacific Film Archive, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, The Hammer Museum and The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Festival screenings of his work include Transmediale Berlin, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. The Video Data Bank distributes his single channel video work. He is also represented by KS Art in New York City.

Dramatically Repeating Lawrence of Arabia is a re-edit of David Lean?s orientalist ?classic? Lawrence of Arabia into a dissonant hallucination of repeating masculinized poses, costumes and dramatic gestures.

Over the last decade Les LeVeque has produced works in video where algorithmic editing structures are applied to a variety of mass cultural media forms, from Hollywood films, advertising, presidential broadcasts and publicly televised hearings. These works employ a misuse of persistence of vision and the phi phenomenon to generate sensuous hallucinations, which activate an aleatory space between images.

Last Person Shooter examine a range of both human and mechanical modes of vision. By way of a series of historical scenes reconstructed as 3D architectural models, the historical context of machine vision and its underlying concepts are conjured. These models are explored by an invisible protagonist, embodying the familiar, yet antiquated aesthetic of a first-person shooter. The work opens with a reconstruction of the assassination of Ahmed Jabri, a Palestinian militant who was targeted by an Israeli drone in November 2012. The assassination was documented simultaneously both by Palestinian passersby and by the IDF’s drone, creating two parallel, conflicting narratives: these were then uploaded to Youtube and tweeted, in what was in effect a war of images. The video leads into a dreamlike digital desert, evoking the Cuban Missile Crisis and its significance for the development of satellite reconnaissance during the 1960s. The protagonist embodies a birds-eye view, exploring the blind spots and prejudices of such varying perspectives. Finally, the film concludes with a reenactment of a video shot by an American soldier in Afghanistan in a first-person perspective. The footage offers an immersive, bleak representation of 21st century warfare and its mediation.

Adam Kaplan is an artist, ­a graduate of the Fine Arts department in Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Born in Jerusalem, he currently lives between Montreal and Berlin where he is studied under Hito Steyerl as a guest student in the Universität der Künste. Boaz Levin is an artist and writer based in Berlin. He studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and under Hito Steyerl at the Universität der Künste in Berlin.

MIDSENTENCE, filmed over five years inside a county jail, lays bare larger truths about incarceration, institutional authority, confinement, shame, guilt, and power dynamics between those in and out of uniform.

Erik Levine was born in Los Angeles, California in 1960. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, most recently at Ludwig Forum Aachen with a solo survey exhibition of his videos from the past 15 years. His work includes video, sculpture, and drawings, and is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Des Moines Art Center, among several others. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pollock–Krasner Foundation awards. In addition, he’s received two grants each from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as grants from Awards in the Visual Arts, Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.

The Guilty Sleep, filmed during more than 75 overnight ride-along shifts with the police, illuminates urgent issues related to the current state of policing. It's a composed collage of raw, slow paced, and evocative imagery and sounds that frame polarities such as justice/injustice, observer/observed, confined/free, power/disempowered, and innocence/guilt. The video highlights the landscape behind these dualities and focuses on their complex relationship to one another.

Erik Levine was born in Los Angeles, California in 1960. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, most recently at Ludwig Forum Aachen with a solo survey exhibition of his videos from the past 15 years. His work includes video, sculpture, and drawings, and is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Des Moines Art Center, among several others. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pollock–Krasner Foundation awards. In addition, he’s received two grants each from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as grants from Awards in the Visual Arts, Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.

Filmed in Maison de l`Armateur, One of the few houses in Le Havre, France that remained in tact after the city was almost completely destroyed in the allied bombings of 1944. The tower like mansion is a kind of museum. A woman, the curator, is rigorously organizing objects. All kinds of dishes, globes, shells, sculptures, paintings, taxidermy animals, maps, ship models etc... There is something obsessive about her preciseness and the time she invests in placing each item. It is clear that despite the objects useful proposes, they are not being used, lifeless. The more she organizes them, the more she kills them. The work is about a nostalgia to a world that no longer exists, and perhaps never did. The house is built like a spiral, where each floor has more and more rooms, full of treasures that all tell the story of western colonialism, particularly French 19th century bourgeoisie objects, with curiosity cabinets full of exotic oddities from faraway conquered lands. The woman seems to have a special relationship to the objects. Her love and care for the objects, also express her love of the culture she belongs to. The film makes references to suspense movies, such as Hitchcock Vertigo. And the soundtrack is based parts of Bernard Hermann?s Psycho soundtrack.

Born in Tel Aviv, lives in New York Levy?s solo exhibitions include World Order, Center For Contemporary Arts, Tel Aviv (2012); The Wake/ Silent Among Us, Loop Fair, Barcelona (2012); Wild Thing, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, NYC (2010); and Dreams & Disasters, Habres+Partner Gallery, Vienna, Austria (2009). Her group exhibitions include Unnatural, Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2012); Art and Social Activism, Nicholas Cohn Art Projects, Long Island City, NY (2012); Magic Lantern: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2012); Lush Life, Invisible-Exports Gallery, NYC (2010); and Trembling Time: Recent Videos from Israel, Tate Modern, London (2010). Levy was awarded residencies by the LMCC in 2012, Omi International Arts Center (2011), the I-Park Residency Program (2011), and the Institut Francais/Triangle Arts Association (2010), and received the Young Artist Award by the Ministry of Culture and Sport, Israel (2008). She received her B.A. from Camberwell College of Art and her Post Graduate Diploma from Duncan of Jordanstone ? College of Art, Dundee University.

In the midst of the recent revolution in Egypt, Beduins in Israel get updated on the latest news from their car`s radio, in what seems to be the middle of nowhere. Suddenly a bus load of Polish "holyland" pilgrims fill the landscape, posing with Beduin`s camel and taking pictures.

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, lives in New York 1998 PostGrad- Electronic Imaging Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee 1997- BA Camberwell College of Art, London . Won the Dumbo Arts Festival NYC best open studio award in 2010; Won the 2008 Young Israeli Artist Award, The Hamburg Film festival low budget jury award 2006, Took part in the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2006. Took part in various international artist residencies in the USA: New York 2009-2010, 2011, Florida 2001,Connecticut 2011; In France: Le Havre 2011; in Austria: Vienna 2005, Linz 2003, and in Italy Milan 2007. Solo exhibitions include at: Nicelle Beauchene NYC 2010, Habres+Partner Gallery Vienna 2009; Tavi Dresdner Gallery Tel Aviv 2008; Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv 2004; Haifa Museum of Art 2004.

The film is built from a sequence of photographs which I took at an abandoned house near the separation wall in Palestinian territory. The graffiti on the walls of the house indicates that the Israeli army had once occupied the site. Its just another ordinary day, the locals can not leave without permits and they are imprisoned like the sheep. But the children haven`t lost faith and are flying a black kite made from a plastic bag.

Born in Tel Aviv 1973 1997-1998 MA in Electronic Imaging at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art - Dundee, Scotland 1994-1997 BA in Graphic Design at the Camberwell College of Art, London. Currently lives in Israel, Creates in the field of digital photography, single channel video and video/multi media installations. Her work deals with notions of identity and borders. Home, belonging, and temporal architecture . Participated in artist residencies in Austria ,Finland and the US. She has had solo shows at the Haifa Museum of Art, Rosenfeld Gallery Tel Aviv, Digital art lab Israel. She has participated in various group shows including Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Smack Mellon NY, OK center for Contemporary art Austria, Jewish Museum NY and her videos were screened at various film festivals

We Marry You, O Sea engages with Venice and its lagoon “from below,” with the aim of focusing attention on the city’s submerged, life-giving, and altered bio-geomorphological processes rather than on its often-recounted political and military histories. Underwater filmmaking opens new ways of knowing the materialities of the Venice Lagoon and exposes a fractured and troubled environment that complicates mainstream historical narratives that start above the water’s surface. By attuning to the ebb and flood of the lagoon, we start sensing the interplay between land and water, life and decay, and the intimate processes shaping this environment. Noticing the kinds of life made possible in this damaged watery space compels us to delve into the ways it has been profoundly transformed. We Marry You O Sea as a Sign of True and Perpetual Dominion takes its title from the words uttered during the Venetian ritual The Marriage of the Sea, which was held annually on Ascension Day between the eleventh and eighteenth century. During the event, the Doge, the patriarch of the Venetian Republic, would wed the lagoon by casting a golden ring into the water, declaring dominance over the sea. The artist reframes Venice’s enduring relationship with its permeating waters by reflecting on this ongoing legacy of quests for mastery over watery environments. How, this work asks, might we imagine different futures for Venice if we begin to experience the lagoon as a lively place populated by manifold ways of living and dying? In the lagoon, a space requiring continuous modifications for human settlement, wetlands and infrastructures have long been intertwined. Venice’s consolidation as a trading hub and epicenter of naval advancement during the Middle Ages prompted major hydrological engineering to maintain the lagoon’s shallow depths for defense purposes. However, in the twentieth century, harrowing modernization transformed parts of the wetland into petroleum refineries and one of Italy’s largest container terminals as part of an effort to turn the lagoon into an industrial frontier. Urban anthropologist Clara Zanardi has described how these transformations spatialized class divisions in a new way, while also causing irreversible ecological degradation that has profoundly altered the lagoon’s lifeways. The film presents these histories of modernization by interweaving rare historical photographs from Venice’s Giacomelli Photographic Archive with submerged perspectives of the present conditions of the lagoon. The historical significance of these photographs is emphasized by the negative black-and-white reversal of the submerged perspectives, connecting past and present and unfolding futures within the lagoon’s contaminated waters. An original score, created by a chorus of human voices and underwater sound recordings, further emphasizes the links between submerged spaces and human domains. The composition captures the lagoon’s pulses and the impact of industries—from aquatic sounds drowned out by boat noises to the rhythmic poundings of industrial activity amid surging tides—as it gestures toward the profound interplay between human activities and the lagoon’s shallows.

Sonia Levy is an artist filmmaker with a Berber-Polish background. Her work, marked by site-specific and interdisciplinary inquiries, delves into the implications of Western expansionist and extractive logics, exploring how these forces manifest in the transformation and governance of hydrosocial worlds. Her practice aims to probe the thresholds that have shaped and influenced the conditions necessary for life to flourish.

Creatures of the Lines is an artist film and collaboration with anthropologist Heather Anne Swanson. It explores how desires for economic growth and linear progress have produced straightened forms in England’s watery terrains and asks what risks are associated with the conversion of once-curvy and braided worlds into a linearised landscape. Drawing on their longstanding research interests and conversations exploring the risks to and in aquatic ecologies with freshwater scientists, the film explores how English waterscapes have been transformed via the construction of canals. As arteries of British Empire, canals linked Indian cotton fields to domestic textile mills, facilitating vast ecological transformations from monoculture agriculture in the colonies to industrial discharges in England’s waters, soils, and air– and thus serve as a key site for exploring often-overlooked histories of colonial capitalism and their material presences in contemporary worlds. Attempting to work from within muddy, submerged sites, rather than from grand narratives or “god’s-eye” viewpoints, the work begins inside canals, telling stories from within the lines. Making use of the open-ended sensibilities of ethnography and natural history, it raises questions about ecological transformations and their ties to infra/structures of global political economy.

Sonia Levy's inquiry-led practice considers shifting modes of engagement with more-than-human worlds in light of prevailing Earthly precarity. Her work operates at the confluence of knowledge practices to interrogate Western expansionist and extractivist logics. She is the 2023-2024 recipient of the European Marine Board artist-in-residence programme. She was the 2022 selected artist of the S+T+ARTS4Water residency hosted by TBA21 in Venice and the 2021 commissioned artist at Radar Loughborough and Aarhus University's "Ecological Globalization Research Group". She has presented her work internationally, including shows and screenings at Ocean Space, Venice; Museo Thyssen, Madrid; Museo CA2M, Madrid; Sainsbury Centre, Norwich; ICA, London; The Showroom, London; Goldsmiths College, London; BALTIC, Gateshead; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Art Laboratory Berlin; HDKV, Heidelberg; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris; Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri, Iceland Whale Museum, Iceland; Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge USA; NYU Gallatin, New-York, Paris. Her work has been published by MIT Press and Thames & Hudson.