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THERE IS A HAPPY LAND FURTHER AWAAY (20 mins, S16, col/b+w, 2015) There Is A Happy Land Further Awaay (2015), captures the landscapes of the remote volcanic Republic of Vanuatu archipelago, before they were devastated by Cyclone Pam in early 2015, the footage becoming a ghostly document of an ecosystem now irrevocably altered. A hesitant female voice reads a poem by Henri Michaux, recounting a life lived in a distant land, full of faltering and mistakes. Island imagery of active volcanoes, underwater WW2 debris, children playing, and wrecked boats transform into intangible digital recollections of the island, made on the opposite side of the world. Images of the eroded land merge with eroding film, a lone figure on a boat drifts at sea.

Ben Rivers (born in 1972) is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in London. His work has been shown in many film festivals and galleries around the world and has won numerous awards. His work ranges from themes about exploring unknown wilderness territories to candid and intimate portrayals of real-life subjects. Rivers`s practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds. Rivers uses near-antique cameras and hand develops the 16 mm film, which shows the evidence of the elements it has been exposed to – the materiality of this medium forming part of the narrative.

Trees are the silent characters, narrating the architecture and life of Churchill College (opened in 1960) through its natural history. 6’s Cowan Court (completed in 2016) inverted the spatial and material order of the picturesque Brutalism of the original college, shifting its mineral world of brick and shuttered concrete to timber. Cowan Court’s oak, both new and old, defines its structure and in turn encloses a central court filled with recently planted birch trees. The analogue materiality of Churchill College is matched by the film which, like the architecture and landscape, leaves traces of its own development. The human habitat is seen through nature ‘ swaying trees, lost animals, birds of prey, the seasons “ to create a new dreamlike environment in which any distinction between human life, architecture and nature is erased.

Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, initially in sculpture before moving into photography and super8 film. After his degree he taught himself 16mm filmmaking and hand-processing. His practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds. He is the recipient of numerous prizes including: FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival for his first feature film Two Years At Sea; the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 42, 2011; shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2010/2012; Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2010. Recent exhibitions include: Slow Action, Hepworth Wakefield, 2012; Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery, London, 2011; Slow Action, Mattâ’s Gallery, London and Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2011; A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009. Artist-in-focus include Courtisane Festival; Pesaro International Film Festival; London Film Festival; Tirana Film Festival; Punto de Vista, Pamplona; Indielisboa and Milan Film Festival. In 1996 he co-founded Brighton Cinematheque which he then co-programmed through to its demise in 2006 “ renowned for screening a unique programme of film from its earliest days through to the latest artistâ’s film and video.

A family?s place in the wilderness, outside of time; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape. The work aims at an idea of freedom, which is reflected in the hand-processed Scope format, but is undercut with a sense of foreboding. There?s no particular story; beginning, middle or end, just fragments of lives lived, rituals performed.

Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. Since then he has worked predominantly in 16mm film, showing in galleries and international festivals, where he has won a number of awards. Most recent shows include; `If` Bloomberg Space, London; `Nought to Sixty`, ICA, London; `On Overgrown Paths` Permanent Gallery, Brighton.

The Coming Race (2006, 5 min, 16mm, b/w, Ireland) A hand processed film in which thousands of people climb a rocky mountain terrain. The destination and purpose of their ascension remains unclear. A vague, mysterious and unsettling pilgrimage fraught with unknown intentions. The title ?The Coming Race? is after a Victorian novel by E.G.E. Bulwer-Lytton, about a race of people who live under a mountain.

Studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. Co-founded and programmed Brighton Cinematheque from 1996-2005, while developing his artistic practice -predominantly working with moving-image. He has exhibited at many international film festivals and galleries, and won various awards, most recently Jury Prize at IFF Rotterdam. He has been the recipient of a number of commissions, most recently a London Artists Film and Video Award, for which he will make a new work: « Origin of the Species ». Current/upcoming shows include 'If' Bloomberg Space, London, 'Art with Strangers' Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, and solo show with Measure, London, and retrospective screenings in Chicago, Hull IFF and Courtisane, Ghent.

A fragmented narrative and exploration of abandoned spaces, using film sounds and music to create suspense and play with audience expectations.

Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. Since then he has worked predominantly in 16mm film, showing in international festivals, galleries, and UK theatres. In 1996 he co-founded and has since co-managed/programmed Brighton Cinematheque.

‘Ghost Strata’ refers to the missing elements from within the rock strata that despite their absence offer hints of what was once there. The film is divided into the months of the year in which the footage was captured. Filmed in various places over the globe, charting various personal movements of the filmmaker, Ghost Strata explores the differing scales of impact that humanity’s presence has on the earth in the past, present and into the future. Found sound and text create a meditation on time, memory, leftovers and extinction.

Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, initially in sculpture before moving into photography and super8 film. After his degree he taught himself 16mm filmmaking and hand-processing. His practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds. He is the recipient of numerous prizes including: FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival for his first feature film Two Years At Sea; the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 42, 2011; shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2010/2012; Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2010. Recent exhibitions include: Slow Action, Hepworth Wakefield, 2012; Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery, London, 2011; Slow Action, Matt’s Gallery, London and Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2011; A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009. Artist-in-focus include Courtisane Festival; Pesaro International Film Festival; London Film Festival; Tirana Film Festival; Punto de Vista, Pamplona; Indielisboa and Milan Film Festival. In 1996 he co-founded Brighton Cinematheque which he then co-programmed through to its demise in 2006 – renowned for screening a unique programme of film from its earliest days through to the latest artist’s film and video.

?Some things didn?t really matter, you know, some mutations didn?t matter all that much?they were neither beneficial to survival nor detrimental to survival?but if they just hung on, there?d come a time when?that was the thing that saved the day.? Charting the beginnings of the time, through the descent of man, on to an uncertain future - all shot throughout the seasons in the garden of S, who lives in the wilderness and builds contraptions.

Born 1972. Studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art. Co-founded and programmed Brighton Cinematheque from 1996-2006. He has exhibited at many international film festivals and galleries, winning various awards, including Tiger Award, IFF Rotterdam 2008. He has been the recipient of a number of commissions, most recently a London Artist?s Film and Video Award. Recent shows include; ?A World Rattled of Habit? A Foundation, Liverpool; ?An Entangled Bank? Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; and artist-in-focus screenings in Courtisane Festival; Pesaro International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Punto de Vista, and upcoming at Tirana Film Festival and Indielisboa.

Ben Rivers' films study the otherworldly, looking for places and stories outside the daily conventions of reality. Look Then Below was filmed in a Somerset transformed into a coloured, mist-enveloped island in an oily ocean with a cave basking in a subterranean glow. Time seems to stand still there. After Slow Action and Urth, this is the final part of a trilogy developed with American SF author Mark von Schlegell.

Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, initially in sculpture before moving into photography and super8 film. After his degree he taught himself 16mm filmmaking and hand-processing. His practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds. He is the recipient of numerous prizes including: FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival for his first feature film Two Years At Sea; the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 42, 2011; shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2010/2012; Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2010. Recent exhibitions include: Slow Action, Hepworth Wakefield, 2012; Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery, London, 2011; Slow Action, Mattâ’s Gallery, London and Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2011; A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009. Artist-in-focus include Courtisane Festival; Pesaro International Film Festival; London Film Festival; Tirana Film Festival; Punto de Vista, Pamplona; Indielisboa and Milan Film Festival. In 1996 he co-founded Brighton Cinematheque which he then co-programmed through to its demise in 2006 “ renowned for screening a unique programme of film from its earliest days through to the latest artist’s film and video.

The parts of a house: a door, the shabby ceiling, the wooden floorboards, the portrait of a little girl. And the crackling of the 16mm film on which they are printed, "concrete" like the objects he films and in opposition to the fading of things in the pixels of digital. The verses of a poem by Wallace Stevens accompany the images: "The house was quiet and the world was calm/the reader became the book/and the summer night was like being aware of the book". In the succession of verses - and in the repetition of the days locked in the house during the lockdown - the reader, the book, the house and the summer night become one, cradled by the crackling of the film.

Ben Rivers studied Fine Art at Falmouth School of Art, initially in sculpture before moving into photography and super8 film. After his degree he taught himself 16mm filmmaking and hand-processing. His practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Often following and filming people who have in some way separated themselves from society, the raw film footage provides Rivers with a starting point for creating oblique narratives imagining alternative existences in marginal worlds. He is the recipient of numerous prizes including: FIPRESCI International Critics Prize, 68th Venice Film Festival for his first feature film Two Years At Sea; the Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel 42, 2011; shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2010/2012; Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists, 2010. Recent exhibitions include: Slow Action, Hepworth Wakefield, 2012; Sack Barrow, Hayward Gallery, London, 2011; Slow Action, Mattâ’s Gallery, London and Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2011; A World Rattled of Habit, A Foundation, Liverpool, 2009. Artist-in-focus include Courtisane Festival; Pesaro International Film Festival; London Film Festival; Tirana Film Festival; Punto de Vista, Pamplona; Indielisboa and Milan Film Festival. In 1996 he co-founded Brighton Cinematheque which he then co-programmed through to its demise in 2006 “ renowned for screening a unique programme of film from its earliest days through to the latest artistâ’s film and video.

Drawing upon the name of earthly paradise in Greek mythology, the film ‘Fortunate Isles: Landings’ explores the awakening of sentience and biological complexity within digital images. To fully inhabit utopian and cinematic visions of analog & digital interpretations of landscape, ‘Fortunate Isles: Landings’ is filmed on location at sites of human achievement and continuous habitation; the level Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah and remote cliffs of Salvage, Newfoundland. During filming, performers wore chroma-key suits on location that, in post-production, allow the suit’s geometric faces to be digitally blanked and replaced with hand-drawn animation. Through the dialogue of gaps and joins created by the subtle collapsed spaces between layers of inter-narrative animation, questions of evolution, reality, and wonder begin to surface. The figures each carry a drawn experience inscribed into their outer forms. A patina of frames progressing forward echoes an imprinted memory; Landscapes are portable.

Jacob Rivkin is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Philadelphia, PA, USA. His animations and sculptures focus on how we experience and internalize landscape, memory, and desire. His work has exhibited widely, including at the Arlington Arts Center, the Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Animation Block Party, and the National Museum of Australia. He holds lecturer positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and BA from Vassar College in 2007. His awards include selection as a finalist for the anthropoScene Film Competition in 2016, a Fulbright Student Grant in 2008 to study Chinese Traditional Landscape Painting in Hangzhou, China, and the Weitzel Barber Art Travel Prize in 2006 to study Buddhist Sculpture Practices in Western China. He is a member of the OOF Animation Collective and in 2014 he was an Artist-in-Residence at the Hacktory in Philadelphia, PA.

"Yasujiro's journey" is a portrait of a fictional wandering, that of Yasujiro Yamadawho, who, in 2002, travelled in Indonesia in search of his grandfather, whose name he inherited. This grandfather had apparently been a Japanese soldier who survived a plane crash above Indonesia, on his way to Pearl Harbour in 1942, but who never returned home. The journey is not as much a quest in the literal sense to find the elderly man, as it is a spiritual search through this foreign landscape his ancestor crossed. The fact that he doesn't find what he is looking for, and that he doesn't find himself, is particularly significant in one scene, in which he piles up stones until filling the height of the screen, then moves away, unsatisfied, knocks them over, and builds a new mound. The sound of the wind, very present throughout the film, functions as a warning, as if a Socratic demon was warning him of an error. The theme of the journey is central in this film, and in the filmmaker's works. He questions his native country and the former generations who never lived in an urban environment. Faozon Rizal also wills to explore the landscape from a foreigner's point of view, and it is significant that the protagonist of this wandering is Japanese.

Faozan Rizal is a young Indonesian filmmaker. His films were the object of an unofficial retrospective at the 18th International Singapore Film Festival in 2005. He has produced several experimental short films or films situated at the frontiers of various practices. He explores the qualities and textures of a film and the regions between cinema and photography. He has also produced a series of medium-length films of about thirty minutes, in collaboration with the dancer Katia Engel, in which dance and photography are so intimately linked that it would be an error to describe them simply as experimental films. It would actually be very difficult to imagine the performance without its transcription on film. The interweaving of different art forms is not surprising in the work of Faozan Rizal, who studied and practiced Javanese Dance in his youth, then painting before joining the Fémis. He has been an actor, a director of photography, a screenwriter and a producer. His work goes beyond linear narration. He expresses feelings and conveys ideas through the juxtaposition of concrete and specific images, the repetition of movements and the use of long sequence shots. His films do not present a transparent narration, but the sound is highly significant. Rizal did not abandon the idea of storytelling, but he gave up what was not necessary to the core of narration, the core being the very essence of narration.

An exploration of the interconnection between ghost stories, tech company culture in South Korea, and the economy of logistics in Indonesia told through a notebook/premake film and dossier of an unmade techno-horror feature-length film set in between port in Jakarta and an unnamed employee assistance programme office in Seoul.

Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and filmmaker. He works predominantly with the medium of moving images and sound, both in the black-box of cinema settings as well spatial presentation as installation. His artistic practice focuses mostly on the relationship between capital and technology, labour and nature, worldviews, genre cinema, and the possibility of theoretical fiction. His works have been shown at various international film festivals (including Locarno, IFFR, FID Marseille, Viennale, BFI London, Cinema du Reel, Vancouver, etc) as well as Centre Pompidou Paris, NTT InterCommunication Center Tokyo, Taipei Biennial, Istanbul Biennial, Venice Architecture Biennale, Biennale Jogja, National Gallery of Indonesia, and other venues and institutions. In addition, solo exhibitions and focus program of his works had been held at Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto and Centre de la photographie Genève amongst others.

One-third of the global tin supply is extracted from Bangka island in Indonesia. Tin is the most impacted mineral by the upcoming technological development, which includes artificial intelligence and technology for renewable energy. Natasha is a solar-powered A.I. voice, and in this film, they trace their genealogy and the truth of their origin; from the capital liquidity to labour dynamic. With their feminised voice—as quite often performed by other AI-powered voice assistants produced by tech-companies, Natasha narrates the emergence of tin in Bangka island and their existence from the perspective of tropical anthropology of nature, value theory, philosophy of time, genetic mutation, geopolitics, and automation.

Riar Rizaldi works as an artist and researcher. Born in Indonesia and currently based in Hong Kong. His main focus is on the relationship between capital and technology, extractivism, and theoretical fiction. Through his works, he questions the notion of image politics, materiality, media archaeology and unanticipated consequences of technologies. He is also actively composing and performing sonic-fiction using the methods of field recording and foley through programming language. Riar has also curated ARKIPEL Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival — Penal Colony (2017), Internet of (No)Things (2018) at Jogja National Museum and co-curated Open Possibilities: 'There is not only one neat way to imagine our future' at JCC, Singapore & NTT ICC, Tokyo (2019-2020). His works have been shown at Locarno Film Festival, BFI Southbank London, International Film Festival Rotterdam, NTT InterCommunication Center Tokyo, and National Gallery of Indonesia amongst others.

A man wakes up in a nightmare where he finds his grandmother's favorite tree burning outside his window, and is haunted by whispers of his childhood. The text is adapted from a page in my notes app dedicated to things my younger sister says that I find strange, or sad, or hopeful. The images are from a recurring nightmare. This film was shot on 500 ft of 5219 Kodak 35mm film stock.

Dylan Rizzo is a filmmaker and photographer based in New York City. He is currently pursuing his MFA in directing at Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema. His work draws from his experiences as a native New Yorker and Chinese - Italian American, often dissecting the meaning of memory and how reconciling the past informs the process of becoming. Last year he completed a 18 min short film titled “One Day I’ll Open My Fist”, shot on location in NYC’s Chinatown on 16mm film. It is currently being submitted to festivals.

What do we become when we realize that we are no longer what we used to be? Are we still ourselves, even though we no longer remember what we used to be? Through a collage of excerpts from conversations, thoughts, pictures of places and intimate family moments, "All the Leaves are Brown" is an autobiographical reflection, in film, of the American director Daniel Robin. The nostalgia for the past and for his life in California (as in the music by "The Mamas & The Papas" suggested by the title) is imprinted in the beautiful landscapes shot in Super8, which are in contrast with the narrator`s feeling of anguish, regarding the present and the future, a time that is characterised by what no longer exists or what has ceased to be. In a touching and intimate portrait about memory, family and loss, the fallen leaves of "All the Leaves are Brown" represent the end of a season and the beginning of another cycle: Daniel knows that, next year, the tree he sees from his window will once again be filled with leaves. He will have to learn to be another one. (LQ)

Daniel Robin’s film, “my olympic summer,” won the 2008 Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking. The film also won the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Short at the Florida Film Festival, Best Documentary Short at the Nashville Film Festival, and best documentary short at several other festivals. The film was also selected to screen at the prestigious New Directors/New Films Festival in New York. His other films have twice screened at Sundance, at the SXSW Film Festival and festivals in Bogota, Cartagena, Abu Dhabi, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Spain, Philadelphia, London, Atlanta, Baltimore, Humboldt, Ann Arbor, and elsewhere. Filmmaker magazine recently named Robin one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” a major honor. Robin is an innovative online artist, having pioneered web video in 2001, and with 6 episodic web series to date available at his website www.neighborhoodfilms.com. Robin recently wrote an essay about his experiences with web video for Movement, the NYU Tisch School journal. Daniel has been invited to present web video work at the Amsterdam Worldwide Video Festival and elsewhere. His projects have received support from the San Francisco Arts Commission, Apple Computers, the Fleishbacker Foundation, and the Film Arts Foundation. As Robin puts it: “My film/video work is primarily made for two distinct exhibition venues: film festivals and the Internet (web series). My short films are personal and, for the most part, interrogate relationships I have with women, my family, and Judaism. While the majority of my filmmaking can be read within a documentary framework, I’m more inclined not to use labels to categorize my work. I have a deep love and appreciation for narrative cinema and have incorporated some fictional devices in my more recent films. I use narrative strategies both as a means to critique how we consume documentaries and, in some sense, as a way to liberate my work from the constraints of conventional non-fiction storytelling. The most important aspect of filmmaking, for me, is to arrive at an emotional truth that resonates with the viewer.I began making web series at my site www.neighborhoodfilms.com in 2000. My first series, the valet chronicles, set the thematic standard for each new series, my relationship with a specific neighborhood, and or community. My work here maintains an aesthetic and tonal consistency that aligns itself with familiar tropes of documentary practice, yet I consider these web series an extension of my personal filmmaking.”

A modern prophet’s visions of mythical destruction and transformation are recounted across a turbulent geometric ceremony of rising curtains, swirling set pieces, and unveiled idols from music television’s past. Together, these parallel cults of revelation unlock a pathway to the far side of the sun.

Michael Robinson (b.1981) is an American film, video and collage artist whose work explores the joys and dangers of mediated experience, riding the fine lines between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria. His work has shown in both solo and group shows at a variety of festivals, museums, and galleries including The 2012 Whitney Biennial, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival, The BFI London Film Festival, REDCAT Los Angeles, MoMA P.S.1, The Sundance Film Festival, The Walker Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, The Images Festival, The European Media Art Festival, and Whitechapel Gallery in London. Michael was the recipient of a 2014 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a 2012 Creative Capital grant, a 2011-2012 Film/Video Residency Award from The Wexner Center for the Arts, a 2009 residency from The Headlands Center for the Arts, and his films have received awards from numerous festivals. He was featured as one of the “50 Best Filmmakers Under 50” by Cinema Scope magazine in 2012, and listed among the top ten avant-garde filmmakers of the 2000`s by Film Comment magazine. Michael holds a BFA from Ithaca College, and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work is distributed by Video Data Bank and represented by Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago.

The cabin is on fire! Krystle can't stop crying, Alexis won't stop drinking, and the fabric of existence hangs in the balance, again and again and again. – MR "The Dark, Krystle brilliantly re-purposes the artificiality of stock gesture, allowing viewers to see its hollowness and to feel it recharging with new emotional power. Equal parts archival fashion show and feminist morality play, Robinson’s montage rekindles the unfinished business of identity, consumption, and excess in 1980s pop culture." - Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago

Michael Robinson (b.1981) is an American film, video and collage artist whose work explores the joys and dangers of mediated experience, riding the fine lines between humor and terror, nostalgia and contempt, ecstasy and hysteria. His work has shown in both solo and group shows at a variety of festivals, museums, and galleries including The 2012 Whitney Biennial, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival, The BFI London Film Festival, REDCAT Los Angeles, MoMA P.S.1, The Sundance Film Festival, The Walker Art Center, Anthology Film Archives, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Viennale, and Whitechapel Gallery in London. Michael was the recipient of a 2012 Creative Capital grant, a 2011-2012 Film/Video Residency Award from The Wexner Center for the Arts, a 2009 residency from The Headlands Center for the Arts, and his films have received awards from numerous festivals. He was featured as one of the “50 Best Filmmakers Under 50” by Cinema Scope magazine in 2012, and listed among the top ten avant-garde filmmakers of the 2000`s by Film Comment magazine. His work is distributed by Video Data Bank and Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago.

Learning to love again, with fear at its side, the film draws balance between the romantic and the horrid, shaping a concurrently skeptical and indulgent experience of the beautiful. A Frank O`Hara monologue (from a play of the same title) attempts to undercut the sincerity of the landscape, but there are stronger forces surfacing.

Since the year 2000, Michael Robinson has created a body of film, video and photography work exploring the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience. His work has screened in both solo and group shows at a variety of festivals, cinematheques and galleries including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival, The Times BFI London Film Festival, Media City, Anthology Film Archives, Viennale, Cinematexas, The Wexner Center for the Arts, ICA London, Impakt, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Chicago Filmmakers, PDX, and the San Francisco, Oberhausen, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals. His film ?You Don?t Bring Me Flowers? was awarded ?Best International Film? at the 2006 Images Festival in Toronto, ?Best of Festival? at the 2006 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, and Michael was awarded "Most Promising Filmmaker" at the 2007 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Originally from upstate NY, Michael holds a BFA from Ithaca College, and a MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently resides in Chicago.

This animation dives into the daily world of Benjamin. The soundtrack was constructed based on his emotional states. It is made by sounds produced by himself and by sounds that fascinate him. The images in this work are an attempt to interpret Benjamin′s perceptions and sensations.

Robles obtained a bachelor degree in Visual Communication in 1999. During her studies she took a workshop in animation where she made a spot for the UNICEF. This spot was awarded the first prize in the ″Television and Video Festival ANUIES 2000″ (National Association of Universities and Institutions for Education). In 2001 she formed the collaboration group dobleA (doubleA) together with Adriana Bravo. Since then they have produced all their work in collaboration. In 2002 Robles attended a workshop given by Jesse Lerner at the Centro de la Imagen (Image Center) where she created "Mirada pérdida" (Lost sight). It is an animation piece done with objects. In the same year she produced "Contemplación" (Contemplation) and "Experimento" (Experiment). She conceived the work "Anatomy of a Moth on 2004". This animation of pencil drawings won a grant from ″Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes″ (Arts and Culture National Council). During the same year she received the Jóvenes Creadores 2004-2005 stipend (Young Creators 2004-2005) from "Fondo National para la Cultura y las Artes" (Arts and Culture National Fund). Within this period Robles produced "Microftalmía" (Microphthalmie), an experimental animation of oil drawings on glass.

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout Portuguese history?

Born in Lisbon in 1966. Pedro Rodrigues attended the Lisbon Film School, in which he graduated in 1989. From 1989 to 1996 he worked as assistant director and editor with well-known names of the portuguese cinema, such as Teresa Villaverde. His short ?Parabéns!? (1997) participated at the Cinema Festival of Venice of 1997 and received a special distinction of the Jury. And his feature, ?O Fantasma?, of 2000, received the Award for the Best Foreign Feature Film at the Cinema Festival of Belfort in the same year. Recently he directed ?Odete?, Special Mention from Cinémas de Recherche in Cannes 2005, Director?s Fortnight .

The Uncertainty Principle consists of videos and an interactive application about information and uncertainty in the domain of image analysis. The various elements of the work are produced by applying certain filters, known as 2D Gabor filters, to images. Gabor filters identify various kinds of edges -- horizontal, vertical, and diagonal – by responding to specific visual frequencies in an image.

Hector Rodriguez is a digital artist and theorist whose work explores the unique possibilities of computational technologies to reconfigure the history and aesthetics of moving images. His animation Res Extensa received the award for best digital work in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003. His 2012 video installation Gestus: Judex received an achievement award at the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards and was a jury selection of the Japan Media Art Festival. He received a commendation award from the Hong Kong Government for his contributions to art and culture in 2015. He was Artistic Director of the Microwave International Media Art Festival, and is now a member of the Writing Machine Collective. He currently teaches at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He has taught courses on art and science, game studies, generative art, software art, media art theory, contemporary art, and film history.

INFLECTIONS is a real-time generative system that temporally rearranges video sequences based on mathematical equations. It explores the relationship between duration, simultaneity, and expectation. The technical concept of the work is based on the idea of a one-dimensional random walk: a mathematical representation of a journey along a linear path. The path contains several nodes or decision points. At each node along the path, the walker decides at random whether to go forward or backwards. In this work, the ?path? is the timeline of a movie clip. The program identifies a set of "inflection points" (or ?decision points?) along this timeline. An inflection point is a moment that contains no motion, where movement comes to a standstill. It is thus a good point to change direction. Imagine now the computer program walking along a movie timeline. When it reaches one of those inflection points, it makes a yes-no decision, either to go forward or move back. In this project, the walk is not random, because the program relies on some non-linear dynamical equation to make each decision. Inflections uses equations that exhibit chaotic behavior and for this reason can be used to simulate a random process.

Hector Rodriguez is a digital artist and theorist. His animation Res Extensa received the award for best digital work in the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2003 and has been shown in India, China, Germany, and Spain. His essays about film theory/history and digital art have been published in Screen, Cinema Journal, and Game Studies, and he has participated in various art and technology conferences. He was Artistic Director of the Microwave International Media Art Festival, where he has also taught workshops on Java programming and organized an exhibition on art and games, and is now a member of the Writing Machine Collective. He currently teaches at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. He has taught courses on game studies, generative art, software art, media art theory, contemporary art, and film history.

A spring afternoon on the San Cristobal hill, in downtown Santiago de Chile. Four friends and a sound engineer talk about the events seen and experienced during the popular revolt that began in 2019 in Chile. The film brings to the surface certain conversations related to any revolution: hope, disillusionment, fire, torture and police violence. The name of the film comes from the poem April Noon by Eileen Myles.

Francisco Rodríguez Teare is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in France with a moving image practice working predominantly with film, video and installation. Since 2015 he has been creating works and exhibiting them both in film festival circuits and contemporary art contexts. He has directed the shorts Appels téléphononiques, Una luna de hierro, Why are they equipped with eyes ?, Octubre al mediodía, El oro y el pez. The video installations and performances Gois, Colored Procession, This dream is mine and the hybrid feature film Otro sol. Recently his work has been presented at film festivals and museums as New Directors/New Films at MoMA, Toronto FIlm Festival, 62 New York Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Taipei Biennial, Stedelijk Museum, Cinémathèque Française, Mar del Plata IFF, CPH:DOX, Shanghai IFF, IndieLisboa, FID Marseille, Viennale.

With Vanja and other friends, we go swimming every summer in the rivers of Góis. We started going there in 2016, when we arrived in Europe and we were looking for a place that would remind us of the mountains of Chile, where we grew up. Every year new lovers arrive and new couples are made or broken. Everything is always in motion again. One afternoon of swimming, my friend Rodrigo tells me that some time ago he and his boyfriend started practicing a form of vampirization: they make small cuts in each other's skin with razor blades and suck each other's blood.

Francisco Rodríguez Teare is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in France with a moving image practice working predominantly with cinema, video and installation. Since 2015 he has been creating film and video works and exhibiting them internationally both in film festival circuits and contemporary art contexts. His work explores the flow of power within fluid global networks and territories, opacity of violence, the traces of the dead in the world of the living, oral traditions and their intersection with personal memory and popular myths. Recently his work has been presented at Stedelijk Museum, Taipei Biennial, Film Society of Lincoln Center, VIDEONALE, FID Marseille, Collection Lambert, CPH:DOX, Shangai Film Festival, Courtisane, Doc Lisboa, Viennale, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. He has received awards at the Valdivia Film Festival, Festival Punto de Vista and the Fondation François Schneider, among others.

A spring afternoon on the San Cristobal hill, in downtown Santiago de Chile. Four friends and a sound engineer talk about the events seen and experienced during the popular revolt that began in 2019 in Chile. The film brings to the surface certain conversations related to any revolution: hope, disillusionment, fire, torture and police violence. The name of the film comes from the poem April Noon by Eileen Myles.

Francisco Rodríguez Teare is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in France with a moving image practice working predominantly with film, video and installation. Since 2015 he has been creating works and exhibiting them both in film festival circuits and contemporary art contexts. He has directed the shorts Appels téléphononiques, Una luna de hierro, Why are they equipped with eyes ?, Octubre al mediodía, El oro y el pez. The video installations and performances Gois, Colored Procession, This dream is mine and the hybrid feature film Otro sol. Recently his work has been presented at film festivals and museums as New Directors/New Films at MoMA, Toronto FIlm Festival, 62 New York Film Festival, Centre Pompidou, Taipei Biennial, Stedelijk Museum, Cinémathèque Française, Mar del Plata IFF, CPH:DOX, Shanghai IFF, IndieLisboa, FID Marseille, Viennale.

With Vanja and other friends, we go swimming every summer in the rivers of Góis. We started going there in 2016, when we arrived in Europe and we were looking for a place that would remind us of the mountains of Chile, where we grew up. Every year new lovers arrive and new couples are made or broken. Everything is always in motion again. One afternoon of swimming, my friend Rodrigo tells me that some time ago he and his boyfriend started practicing a form of vampirization: they make small cuts in each other's skin with razor blades and suck each other's blood.

Francisco Rodríguez Teare is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in France with a moving image practice working predominantly with cinema, video and installation. Since 2015 he has been creating film and video works and exhibiting them internationally both in film festival circuits and contemporary art contexts. His work explores the flow of power within fluid global networks and territories, opacity of violence, the traces of the dead in the world of the living, oral traditions and their intersection with personal memory and popular myths. Recently his work has been presented at Stedelijk Museum, Taipei Biennial, Film Society of Lincoln Center, VIDEONALE, FID Marseille, Collection Lambert, CPH:DOX, Shangai Film Festival, Courtisane, Doc Lisboa, Viennale, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image. He has received awards at the Valdivia Film Festival, Festival Punto de Vista and the Fondation François Schneider, among others.

This video speaks about the exploitation and its institutionalized discrimination (economic and racial) and slavery. The location is Brazil, because this one of the most unequal countries worldwide and was the last to declare slavery illegal (Aurea Act of 1898).

Lives and works in Guatemala. With his work tries to explore the historical memory, sordid aspects of the human being and the ridicule of the societies that are imposed over others. He graduated as Engraver from Art School no. 10 of Madrid, with his final project received the Honourable mention at Aurelio Blanco awards. He was awarded with the residencies of FONCA / CASA of Oaxaca, Mexico; Des.Pacio of San Jose, Costa Rica, Fundaçao Armando Alvarez Penteado in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and AIT in Tokyo, Japan. Also participated in 32nd. Biennial of Ljubljana, in the XVI and XVII Biennial of Guatemala and the VII Central American Biennial. In 2007 he co-founded the TEGG, the only engraving workshop in Guatemala, where he teached and organized exhibitions related to graphic arts. From 2010 to 2014 he was in charge of the Cinematographic Art Center of the CCEG, coordinating films screenings and workshops of cinema. Rodriguez also coordinated the Contemporary Film Festival (MUCA) and has worked for the human rights oriented film festival “ Memoria, Verdad, Justicia ” since 2013. He participated in the films "Even the Sun has spots" that won "Prix Espérance" and "Honourable Mention" in the FID of Marseille.