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On another day, a group of policemen guard the outskirts of a city. There is no one else on the streets. They wait for an order to go into action. However, that order never comes and a state of confusion and disorientation begins to take hold off them, until they forget what they were doing there.

So far his works have toured several international film festivals and contemporary art spaces such as FICVIÑA, Minsk, Curtocircuito, Riga IFF , Tabakalera Donosti or La Fábrica de Armas in Oviedo. "The Coming Insurrection" was selected as a project in the Focus Script 2022 of the Cannes Film Festival, and was also a beneficiary of one of the Visual Creation Grants of Matadero Madrid, having its international premiere in the Busan International Short Film Festival. Also, he is codirector of "A suburban mythology" (2024, an hybrid film premiered at Documenta Madrid. He is currently editing several projects and developing of his first feature film, "Laguna El Ministro".

Thanks to the rise of mining, post-communist Mongolia was the fastest growing economy in the world in 2012. However, the poor were not profiting from the booming industry, and climate change plus overgrazing were leading to vast desertification. According to Mongolian shamanistic belief, the earth and sky are connected. Violation of nature by men provokes the anger of the ruling spirits or the ‘masters of the land’ and leads to drought and pestilence. How does the population relate to its ancestors when desires threaten to upset the cosmic balance? The film opens with images shot in Baganuur and Nalaikh, once the largest coal mines in Mongolia. Fixed camera images of workers in the shadow of gigantic machines alternate with desolate landscapes and downtown Ulaanbaatar by day and by night. Intermediate texts cut the medium long shots. The first excerpt originates from the Hungarian poet Ferenc Juhasz. In 1957, under the influence of LSD, he experienced the painful initiation of a shaman. The second excerpt comes from a song by the shamaness Kyrgys Khurak. It deals with the evocation of lurking greed and inequality that might destroy nature – an aspect that implicitly refers to the climate crisis. (Ive Stevenheydens)

The long-term projects of photographer and filmmaker Jan Locus study the complexity of worldwide, socio-political issues. His books include Mongolia, De Bewegende Stad and Devoted. His films have been screened at IFFR Rotterdam (NL), DokFest Kassel (DE), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (DE), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR/DE), Asolo Art Film Festival (IT), Split International Festival of New Film (HR) and FIFA Montreal (CA) among others. He lives and works in Brussels.

Intruders explores the boundary between science fiction and reality, investigating themes of reverse colonization, ecology and human environmental impact. The film offers an introspective reflection on the Western fascination and fear of extraterrestrial entities. In an elongated pan, mountain landscapes and misty images of animals are presented in an ethereal, ghostly way. Locus does not use conventional film footage, but found footage online hunting videos and black and white photographs of UFO observations from the 1950s and 60s. Although these images reveal their origins through their grainy texture, Locus removed the UFOs from these photos to seamlessly merge the remaining landscapes. The phenomenon of unforeseen animal death, often reported in UFO sightings, serves as a metaphor for human influence on nature. Locus intertwines photography with video to create a complex narrative that emphasises the ambiguity of reality and fiction. The film reflects on ‘intruders’ in nature, inspired by dystopian visions of the future and challenges the viewer to consider the complex and often disturbing relationships between humans, technology and nature.

Spanning the mediums of film, photography, and sound, his work often addresses landscape as a tool for the creation of national and social identities, focusing on environments altered by extraction and industrialization. In his latest work, he explores the tension between found footage, still photography, and the moving image, emphasizing the ambiguity of our perception of reality and fiction. His films have been presented at numerous international festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Le FIFA – International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal), Kasseler Dokfest, Asolo Art Film Festival, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, CROSSROADS Film Festival (San Francisco), ANTIMATTER Media Art (Victoria), Festival ECRÃ (Rio de Janeiro), PROYECTOR Plataforma de Videoarte (Madrid), SPLIT Film Festival, ONION CITY Experimental Film Festival (Chicago), BISFF Beijing International Short Film Festival, and Flight / Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Genova among others. Locus lives and works in Brussels.

There are things - stupid things - which the artist has always wanted to do, just to see if she could, just to see what it would feel like. "Why Always Instead of Just Sometimes" is a selection of 12 short works.

Deirdre Logue was the Executive Director of the Images Festival of Independent Film and Video and currently holds the position of Executive Director at the Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre in Toronto. Deirdre is perhaps best known for her series of short handmade performance films entitled "Enlightened Nonsense" completed in 2000.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Blake awakes from a comatic episode for which there doesn't seem to be any explanation. Set in London, the film interweaves his and other characters' discontinued journeys marked by peculiar moments and encounters. At once sober and enigmatic, "The Partition" reflects on singularity, alienation and intangible windows in the wider context of a shifting techno-capitalist environment.

Birgit Ludwig (b. Luxembourg) is a filmmaker and artist based in London. Her films take the form of unconventional dramas or documentaries, interweaving realism and a poetic uncanny. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins School of Art (BA Fine Art/Phoebe Llewellin Smith Scholarship Award) and Kingston University (MA Experimental Film).

The video consists of scenes, that describe the course of a morning in a suburban area in Southern California. Observing and subjective views of spaces and details establish the place. The images and the editing suggest a closed form of narrative development of the film. Shortly after it seems that a character will become established, a break happens. Images showing subjective views, which might have got assigned to a person, take on a shift and one can hear three US-Marines answering questions about there living conditions in Iraq, while the images stay in suburbia.

Immo Lüdemann wurde 1975 in Düsseldorf geboren und studierte bis zum Jahr 2005 an der Universität der Künste Berlin und dem California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, bei Heinz Emigholz, Harun Farocki und James Benning. Seine Arbeiten beschäftigen sich mit strukturellen Problemen des filmischen Erzählens und mit Fragen der narrativen Beziehungen von Bildern. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Hamburg. Immo Lüdemann was born in Düsseldorf in 1975. Until 2005 he studied at the University of the Arts Berlin and the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, with Heinz Emigholz, Harun Farocki and James Benning. His works deals with structural problems of cinematic storytelling and with questions of narrative relations between images. He lives and works in Berlin and Hamburg.

This work interlinks filmic, installative and performative layers. Joseph Kosuth?s compiled collection of contemporary art in the Freud Museum in Vienna is used as a filmset. Accompanied by a cameraman and sound technician a journalist interviews an artist pacing through the exhibition. The takes of this scene discuss conditions of myths of biographical narration and are being repeated over and over for about 50 minutes. The spectators transform into extras.

born 1976 in Feldkirch (Aut), lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria 1994 Studies Architecture at the Technical University Vienna. 1996-2003 Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. since 2008 Saprophyt, Projectspace (Co-founded with Barbara Kapusta), Webgasse 29, Vienna.

THE MACKEYS evolved out of a six months residency during the MAK Schindler Program in Los Angeles. The Movie A filmic collage on Los Angeles based on former residents?s memories, diary entries, references to art, literature and film. It starts with a young woman talking about a confusion of two movies with nearly identical titles - L.A. Plays Itself and Los Angeles Plays Itself. Subsequently follows a remake of the opening titles to Thom Anderson?s Los Angeles Plays Itself. A couple of minutes later we hear the sound of an helicopter taken from the opening sequence of Robert Altman?s Short Cuts while the camera pans in bird?s-eye view across the hedge?s and front yard of R.M. Schindler?s Mackey Apartment House. A voiceover recites a passage from Memoirs of My Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber: ?To make myself at least somewhat comprehensible I shall have to speak much in images and similes, which may at times perhaps be only approximately correct. For the only way a human being can make supernatural matters, which in their essence must remain incomprehensible, understandable to a certain degree is by compairing them with known facts of human experience.?

Lion’s Court is a cinematic short opera in which the Binnenhof—the seat of Dutch Parliament in The Hague—is reimagined as a virtual stage where history dissolves into myth. Inspired by the discovery of 14th-century lion bones at the site and by stranded whales as omens, Lukács & Broersen collaborated with composer and political scientist Bram Kortekaas to reinterpret Goethe’s Faust’s vision of redemption. At its center stands the lion Faust, sung by baritone Michael Wilmering—a despot in pursuit of a freedom that consumes itself, a mirror of imperial ambition on the verge of collapse. The artists also drew on the 1650 writings of Johan de Witt, the republican Grand Pensionary, whose words are voiced by the whale (alto-mezzo Carina Vinke), rising from beneath the flooded foundations of the Binnenhof. De Witt believed that a true republic is not ruled by the whims of a single individual, but rooted in the principles of freedom and equality—the very foundations of democracy. In Lion’s Court, a digital hortus conclusus unfolds: a fluid, enclosed world where power, morality, and prophecy converge, and where the myths of the past reverberate through the politics of the present.

Margit Lukács and Persijn Broersen are an Amsterdam-based artist duo exploring the entanglements between nature, culture, and technology. Their work includes films, digital animations, and spatial installations that investigate how media shapes our perception of the natural world. Graduates of Graphic Design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, they completed their MFA at the Sandberg Institute and were artists-in-residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Broersen & Lukács’ practice is rooted in media theory, art history, and mythology. Drawing from cinematic, scientific, and historical sources, they reimagine landscapes and natural phenomena through digitally layered environments. Their work often reflects on the politics of representation and the appropriation of nature, reconfiguring dominant narratives through fragmented, multi-perspective storytelling. Their installations and films have been widely shown internationally, including at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Centre Pompidou (FR), FOAM (NL), MUHKA (BE), Centraal Museum (NL), MacKenzie Art Gallery (CA), WRO Biennale (PL), Biennale of Sydney (AU), Rencontres Internationales (HKW Berlin, Louvre/Grand Palais/CWBP, Paris), and Wuzhen Biennale (CN). In 2024, they represented the Netherlands at the Gwangju Biennale. Their film I Wan’na Be Like You was nominated for the Tiger Award/IFFR 2024.