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Blind soldiers are groping their way through a forest. Tight group is slowly shattered, leaving each man alone in the darkness.

Visual artist Outi Sunila (b. 1970) works mainly with video and installation art, experimenting with other media as well. For the past few years she has been focusing on both social and political themes in her works ? from the viewpoint of an individual. Her language is narratively minimal, portraying one scene without dialoque. She loads the scene and actions with symbolic values through which the story is told. Her works have been recently shown at exhibitions in MUU Gallery, Helsinki and S?rland?s Art Museum, Norway, as well as at festivals and screenings; FestArte Video Festival in Milan and Rome, Kakelhallen in Mariehamn and Waterpieces Festival in Riga. Sunila has works in collections of both Oulu and Helsinki Art Museums and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. Outi Sunila (b. 1970) is currently living and working in Helsinki, Finland. She graduated in 2002 with an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, and in 2005 with an MA from University of Art And Design, Helsinki.

En 2006, Jeanne Susplugas commande un texte à l?écrivaine Marie Darrieussecq, lié à ses préoccupations. Marie Darrieussecq répond par un dialogue à trois, à la fois personnel, absurde, drôle et grinçant. Un des personnages a des malformations liées à la prise de Distilbène par sa mère pendant sa grossesse, comme l?écrivaine elle-même qui est par ailleurs l?image publique des enfants distilbène. Le film a été tourné au Café de Flore à Paris comme un hommage à la littérature et souligne le lien que l?artiste entretient avec celle-ci.

Jeanne Susplugas, née à Montpellier en 1974, vit à Paris. De la vidéo à la photographie, de l?installation au dessin, Jeanne Susplugas évolue dans un univers aussi séduisant qu?inquiétant avec comme préoccupations principales nos addictions et autres aliénations. Son travail a été exposé notamment au KW à Berlin, à la Villa Medicis à Rome, au Palazzo delle Papesse à Sienne, au Palais de Tokyo à Paris, au Fresnoy National Studio, au Musée d?Art Moderne de St Etienne, au Musée de Grenoble, à la Biennale d?Alexandrie et celle de Shangai, à Dublin-Contemporary ou Nuit Blanche à Paris. Ses films ont été présentés lors de festival tels Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Locarno International Festival, Miami International Festival, Les Instants Vidéos à Marseille ou Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid. Des articles lui ont été consacrés dans des revues et quotidiens tels Art Press, Art in America, New York Times, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Flash Art, L??il, Beaux-Arts Magazine, BT, Corona Boreal... Elle a bénéficié de plusieurs bourses de recherche dont celle du FIACRE (Délégation aux Arts Plastiques) pour travailler au Japon ou celle de la FNAGP et a effectué plusieurs résidences, notamment à Toronto au Canada, au Wyspa Institut of Art à Gdansk en Pologne et à Thaillywood en Thaïlande. Son travail est présent dans de nombreuses collections privées à travers le monde et publiques : FNAC (F) ; FRAC Haute-Normandie (F) ; FRAC Champagne Ardenne (F); Chocarro, Fundacio Vila Casas, Barcelona (S); Artothèques Lyon, Annecy (F) ; Musée du verre, Carmaux (F) ; Musée d?Art Contemporain, Sérignan (F) ; La Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels (B); SONS Museum, Kruishoutem (B)?

Dialogue is sourced from historical recordings by notorious public figures and performed verbatim within a fictitious factory setting. Problems infiltrate the water factory and life’s ambitions and problems come into play: food must be procured, water is wasted, a worker disappears and another, a mysterious woman –– a provocateur? a spy?––appears, loyalty is questioned, everyone is suspected, the break-room in the factory morphs into a courtroom where eventually everyone pleads the 5th… The public figures (Princess Diana, LBJ, Charlie Watts, John DeLorean, Marcel Marceau, Janice Joplin, Lance Loud and Jimmy Hoffa among many others) remain largely unidentified in NO FOOD NO MONEY NO JEWELS but their spoken characteristics fuel the piece using the themes that emerge from the source texts. Individual notions of labor and economy, conflicting work ethics and responsibility for commodity are addressed through the monologues’ repeated motifs of accusation, denial, betrayal, accountability, implications of guilt and fear mongering.

Eve Sussman is a Brooklyn-based artist and filmmaker who works independently and collectively with her partner Simon Lee and Rufus Corporation, founded in 2003. Along with Rape of the Sabine Women, and 89 Seconds at Alcázar, that debuted at the Whitney Biennial, the company has collaborated on other projects including Yuri’s Office, and whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir . Rufus Corporation’s works have been exhibited and screened internationally and are included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Margulies Collection, Miami; Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona; and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. whiteonwhite:algorithmicnoir was recently acquired for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Simon Lee works in photography, video and installation. His work is said to often be “a powerful metaphor for the random flow of history and a low tech formal tour de force” (Holland Cotter, New York Times). His 2010 film collaboration with Algis Kizys, Where is the Black Beast? (2010) was shown at the Sagamore Collection in Miami, Zebra Poetry Film Festival Berlin, IFC Center in New York, and was an official selection at the 2011 Rotterdam Film Festival. Together with Sussman, he co-founded the “Wallabout Oyster Theater,” a micro-theater space run out of their studios in Brooklyn. Lee has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art; The Berkshire Museum, MA; Roebling Hall, New York; the Moscow International Film Festival; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal; Poznan Biennale, Poland; The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn NY; Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland; Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France; and The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In addition to founding the Wallabout Oyster Theatre, Lee + Sussman have been producing for Jack+Leigh Ruby, to ex-con artists who are now directing videos including: Car Wash Incident

One night in Bangkok, Jon meets a mysterious woman. Together, they embark on a journey to a foreign land - the human heart.

Born in Thailand in 1976, Anocha Suwichakornpong, also known as 'Mai', spent the nineties living in England where she received her BA and MA. In February 2006, she graduated from a MFA film program at Columbia University, New York. In that same month, Anocha attended the Berlinale Talent Campus. Her feature-length script, "The White Room", was among the fifteen scripts chosen to participate in their Script Clinic program. In May 2006, Anocha's thesis, "Graceland" became the first Thai short film to be included in the Official Selection at Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation). She is soon to begin pre-production on a series of short films, titled "Like. Real. Love." Currently, Anocha is developing another feature-length script entitled "Jao Nok Krajok" (The Sparrow), which has received the Hubert Bals Fund from the Rotterdam International Film Festival and is one of twenty-five projects selected for HAF ? Hong Kong Film Financing Forum 2007. A former art and cultural studies student, Anocha's interest in film extends beyond the visual aspects of the medium. She views film as a language, with its own codes and representation. However, she fervently believes that great cinema can transcend the language barrier, in all senses of the term. Film can only be meaningful if it contains truth ? and not just cinematic truth. In other words, it must speak about human condition.

The Coat loosely adapts Aristophanes’ The Birds from the Athens of 414 BC to contemporary Calabria. Here the two people who leave their home looking for a better life are a young man and his daughter arriving from Albania in search of a swimming coach who fled the collapse of Communism in the 1990s. They search for the coach among Italy’s Arboresh community, descendants of an earlier Albanian exodus of the 1450s. Along the way the pair intercept two actors touring the rural south in an attempt to resuscitate the long dead street hero Punchinella. Here histories are invoked only to be folded in on themselves and diffused back through the Calabrian landscape. The characters, naive to the terrain that surrounds them rely predominantly on cartographies of their own desire while the birds fly overhead taunting their imprudence. Co written with, and employing professional and amateur actors, The Coat’s itinerant figures don’t so much drive narrative as walk it slowly along.

CORIN SWORN was born in London, England, and raised in Toronto. She studied psychology and integrated media before earning her master’s at the Glasgow School of Art. Sworn has exhibited internationally, including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain, the National Gallery of Canada, and the 2013 Venice and Sydney Biennials. Her film work has appeared at Rotterdam Film Festival and the Centre Pompidou. TONY ROMANO was born in Toronto and earned his B.F.A. from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. His film installations have been exhibited internationally, with solo and group shows at MoMA, Night Gallery in Los Angeles, Articule in Montreal, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, and MOCCA and The Power Plant in Toronto.

Oidar (2`, 2004) Digital film, specially made for the Cronica 021-2005 DVD: "Can I have 2 minutes of your time?". All Images by Telcosystems Audio by Longina

Telcosystems Lucas van der Velden and Gideon Kiers are the founding members of Telcosystems. Lucas van der Velden (1976, Eindhoven) lives and works in Rotterdam. Gideon Kiers (1975, Amsterdam) lives and works in Rotterdam and Reykjavik. Both studied at the Interfaculty Image and Sound, a department at the Royal Conservatory and the Royal Academy in The Hague. They started the Telcosystems in 2001 to explore new modes of audiovisual expression. They are also initiators of 0010, minuszero, D:U:M:B and DLF and members of the curatorial team for the Sonic Acts festival in Amsterdam.