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Taiki Sakpisit
Catalogue : 2023Seeing in the Dark | Film expérimental | digital | couleur et n&b | 29:0 | Thaïlande | 2021

Taiki Sakpisit
Seeing in the Dark
Film expérimental | digital | couleur et n&b | 29:0 | Thaïlande | 2021
A sensorial, left-field take on Thai political history that moves between a subdued past etched in the landscape of Khao Kho mountain, once a stronghold of communist insurgents, and a dynamic near-present marked by Bangkok’s 2021 anti-government protests.
Taiki Sakpisit is a filmmaker and visual artist working in Bangkok. His works explore the underlying tensions and conflicts, and the sense of anticipation in contemporary Thailand, through precise and sensorially overwhelming audio-visual assemblage using a wide range of sounds and images. His films produce heightened and uneasy modes of spectatorship that often relate to the tumultuous socio-political climate in Thailand. Taiki’s moving images and experimental shorts have been presented at numerous exhibitions and film festivals. His feature length film The Edge of Daybreak premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition and won the FIPRESCI award. His film, A Ripe Volcano was presented at Les Rencontres Internationales in 2014.
Avelino Sala
Ivan Salatic
Catalogue : 2017Dvorista | Fiction expérimentale | 4k | couleur | 20:59 | Montenegro | 2015
Ivan Salatic
Dvorista
Fiction expérimentale | 4k | couleur | 20:59 | Montenegro | 2015
In the backyards there are sheds, a huge old tree, wild plants with wild offspring, waste scattered around. This is where they spend their time. A decaying building is about to be destroyed and someone may go beyond. Soon one of them becomes aware of the sea.
Ivan Salatic was born in 1982 in Dubrovnik and grew up in Herceg Novi. He finished the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade and graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje. He has directed several short films that have participated in festivals such as Venice Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Torino Film Festival.
João Salaviza
Jonathan Saldanha
Catalogue : 2021AFTER THE LAW | Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 27:0 | Portugal | 2020

Jonathan Saldanha
AFTER THE LAW
Fiction expérimentale | hdv | couleur | 27:0 | Portugal | 2020
"AFTER THE LAW" est un film court, où un tribunal d'humains et d'objets est contaminé par un virus impossible à trouver. Le verdict porte sur un accident inconnu, qui a fracturé la loi et érodé la parole. A travers une mutation toxique des rôles et des formes, des preuves, des gestes et des sensations haptiques, le tribunal perd sa capacité à délibérer. Tourné pendant une performance en direct, à l'aide d'un seul caméscope, ce tribunal a été conçu comme un dispositif cybernétique pour des réponses haptiques, où le mouvement collectif, la lumière, les vibrations, la reconnaissance des visages et l'empathie se heurtent à une voix synthétique. Tout le discours a été généré à l’aide de Google WaveNet, un modèle génératif utilisant des réseaux neuronaux pour simuler des voix humaines. Ce protocole a été exploré et accéléré pour trouver des moments où la voix de la machine se brise, bégaie et scande une glossolalie. En 2019, ces images ont été utilisées comme une partition visuelle pour qu'un groupe d'adolescents sourds les interprète dans une langue des signes étendue, explorant les lacunes de la description et les étendant à la description corporelle de cette cour aphasique. Les voix ont été enregistrées dans des états induits par l’hypnose, rendant floues les frontières qui séparent le corps de ses résonateurs spatiaux. Une voix cassée hante un paradoxe politique dans une bio-ingénierie inversée.
Jonathan Uliel Saldanha a étudié la sculpture à la Faculté des Beaux-Arts de l'Université de Porto (Portugal), et s'est consacré à l'étude du tabla – un instrument de percussion indien - avec le groupe musical hindou Jugalbandi. Il a fondé le collectif SOOPA, un laboratoire visuel, performatif et sonore, et le groupe Silorumor. Il est membre du Fujako duo, et est directeur du groupe HHY & The Macumbas. Depuis 2010, il a composé plusieurs œuvres sonores expérimentales, co-créé les pièces "Boca Wall", "Shark" et "King Trilogy", et réalisé "Jungle Machine", "Khorus Anima", "The Well" et "Oxidation Machine". Il a présenté ses œuvres dans divers lieux, notamment au musée Serralves, Porto (Portugal); au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal); au Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France); et au festival Accès(s), Billère (France). Il a collaboré avec des artistes tels que Carlos Zíngaro, Steve Mackay, Adrian Sherwood, Vera Mantero, Mark Stewart, João Fiadeiro entre autres. En tant que musicien, il s'est produit dans divers festivals, notamment au Nyege Nyege, Jinja (Ouganda); à Unsound, Cracovie (Pologne); à Sónar, Barcelone (Espagne); à Primavera Sound, Barcelone (Espagne); à Amplifest, Porto (Portugal); au Out.Fest, Barreiro (Portugal); Circular, Vila do Conde (Portugal); à Million Party; au Neopop, Viana do Castelo (Portugal); au Tapettefest, Campénéac (France); et à Elevate, Graz (Autriche). En 2019, il a présenté l'installation "Vocoder & Camouflage", dans "Vanishing Point: works from the António Cachola collection", Torreão Nascente Lisbonne (Portugal); la pièce "Scotoma Cintilante", pour chœur d'aveugles et sculpture-partition, à l’Université catholique de Porto (Portugal), au São Carlos Lisbon National Theater, Lisbonne (Portugal) et à la Biennale BoCa 2019 (Portugal); et "Broken Field Atlantis" un concert de nappes de lumière, a été présenté au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). Toujours en 2018, avant cette exposition, il a présenté la pièce "SØMA", où un groupe d'adolescents sourds traduit en gestes le tournage d'un tribunal animiste, à Culturgest Lisboa, Lisbonne (Portugal) et au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). En même temps, il a présenté les expositions "Behemoth Republic", dans le cycle "Sonic Geometry" au Archipelago São Miguel Arts Center, Ribeira Grande (Açores, Portugal); et "Dismorfia" à l'Université Catholique de Porto (Portugal).
Aarno Salosmaa
Miranda Salvador
Catalogue : 2025Life Eternal | Film expérimental | 4k | couleur | 23:19 | Canada, Pays-Bas | 2022

Miranda Salvador
Life Eternal
Film expérimental | 4k | couleur | 23:19 | Canada, Pays-Bas | 2022
Life Eternal tells three intertwining stories about immortality. The first story is about Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon and his legendary search for the Fountain of Youth. The second story tells us of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black tobacco farmer whose cancer cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. The third story takes up James Bedford, the first person to undergo cryogenic freezing in hopes of future revival. Spanning centuries, the film installation explores the desires and emotional entanglements of these stories. At the same time, it touches upon the complex and troubling historical themes that jump out so vividly from them - colonialism, exploitation, and techno-utopianism. This work is a poetic dialogue on the eternal conversation on time, our place in a constructed reality and our attitude toward it.
Salvador Miranda is a Mexican-Canadian filmmaker, artist, and producer. His debut short film, This is my land... (2019), premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). His film installation, Life Eternal (2022), premiered at Kasseler Dokfest, received a nomination for the 2022 Golden Cube Prize, and won the 2024 Hertzog da Silva Award. His latest documentary short, Promised Land (2023), also premiered at IFFR. In addition to international screenings, his films are frequently featured in gallery and art festival settings, including Eye Filmmuseum (Netherlands), Ruhrtriennale (Germany), Proyector (Spain), and IMPAKT Festival (Netherlands). Miranda is an alumnus of the Kunstinstituut Parallel Curriculum programme and holds an MFA cum laude in Lens-Based Media from the Piet Zwart Institute.
Mark Salvatus
Catalogue : 2021Jalan-Jalan | Fiction expérimentale | mp4 | couleur | 10:15 | Philippines | 2019
Mark Salvatus
Jalan-Jalan
Fiction expérimentale | mp4 | couleur | 10:15 | Philippines | 2019
Kaliurang, à Yogyakarta, est situé près du volcan actif Merapi, un lieu où les fantômes des souvenirs et de l'histoire font partie du paysage. Il s’agit d’une vidéo subtile, créée spécialement pour 900mdpl en 2019, dans laquelle les habitants de la ville deviennent acteurs, dans le rôle de fantômes. De temps en temps, les habitants de Kaliurang voient un Hollandais à pied, ou un soldat japonais qui marche, ou une Javanaise portant une jarre d'eau, ou un animal sauvage ou un être surnaturel... passer comme s'ils étaient là, vivant parmi nous. Ils se cachent dans les arbres - comme si les arbres, la forêt et la montagne étaient les témoins nus de toute l'histoire du colonialisme, de la guerre et du processus néolibéral du développement. Une œuvre de fiction sans flux narratif. Les fantômes marchent-ils parmi nous ou sommes-nous les fantômes ?
Mark Salvatus (né en 1980) vit et travaille à Manille, aux Philippines. Il a étudié les arts publicitaires à l'université de Santo Tomas, à Manille. Ses œuvres ont été présentées lors de différentes expositions et dans différents lieux, notamment à la 2e Biennale de Lahore (Pakistan); au Kyoto Art Center (Japon); à l'ISCP, New York (USA); au Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (Allemagne); à la 14e Biennale de Sharjah (Émirats arabes unis); au Mill6 CHAT, Hong Kong (Chine); à la Biennale de Gwangju - Pavillon PCAN (Corée du Sud); au Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Séoul (Corée du Sud); à l'Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong (Chine); au Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Japon); aux Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin; à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise - Pavillon des Philippines, (Italie); à la 6e Biennale de Thessalonique (Grèce); SONSBEEK International, Arnhem (Pays-Bas); à la 3e Biennale de Singapour; à la 4e Triennale de Guangzhou (Chine); aux 14e et 16e Biennale de Jakarta (Indonésie); au Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (Japon); à l’Hotel Inmigrantes, Manifesta 9; à la Brunei Gallery - SOAS, Université de Londres (Royaume-Uni); à Hasselt (Belgique) ; à la Biennale d’Honolulu - Exposition Prologue (USA); au Survival Kit Festival, Umea (Suède); à la Sharjah Art Foundation (Émirats arabes unis); à l’Asia Society, New York (USA); au Art Center Ongoing Tokyo (Japon) ; au Museum Baerengasse, Zurich (Suisse); à La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo (Australie); au Cultural Center of the Philippines et au Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center (Philippines). Il a été artiste en résidence à l'ACC - Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (Corée du Sud); à la Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (Pays-Bas); au IASPIS Umea (Suède); à la Art OMI, New York (USA); à la Common Room Networks Foundation, Bandung (Indonésie) et au Goyang Art Studio (Corée du Sud).
Catalogue : 2017Notes from the New World | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 12:24 | Philippines | 2015
Mark Salvatus
Notes from the New World
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 12:24 | Philippines | 2015
The Philippine Constabulary Band was a symphonic band formed in 1901 by African-American Lt. Walter Loving of the US Army’s 48th Volunteer Infantry during the American period in the Philippines. Since its first public performance on May 20, 1903, the band has brought the country international fame through its participation in international competitions, including the 1904 St. Louis Exposition in the USA, where the band placed second. In this infamous fair where live Filipinos were exhibited especially the dog-eating Igorot tribe, the band performed Rossini’s classical music ‘Willam Tell Overture’. Forward to the year 2015, the artist’s father’s has a vast vinyl record collection and one of them is a Philippine Constabulary band record that was released in the 70’s under the New Society period of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Creating a new narrative about the band and the collection, the current Philippine Army band played Rossini’s Willaiam Tell Overture after 100 years ago side by side by the vast collection of the artist’s father that were gathered slowly since the 70’s.
Mark Salvatus is a contemporary artist from Manila, Philippines. His works crosses various disciplines and media that deal with chance encounters and everyday politics creating his own narrative and visual language. Calling his works and practice as “Salvage Projects”, he has shown his projects in different international exhibitions including the Philippine Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2016); SONSBEEK International, Arnhem, The Netherlands (2016); Singapore Biennale (2011), Guangzhou Triennale (2011), Jakarta Biennale (2011/2015), Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (2011), Hotel Inmigrantes, Manifesta 9, Hasselt, Belgium (2012), Prologue Exhibition: Honolulu Biennale (2014), Survival Kit Festival, Umea, Sweden (2014) and Next Wave Festival, Melbourne (2010). He had also presented his works in different museums and galleries including La Trobe University, Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo; Asia Society, New York; Museum Brengasse, Zurich; Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore; Ateneo Art Gallery; Cultural Center of the Philippines, Vargas Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Osage Foundation, Hong Kong; 1335 Mabini in Manila; Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo. Mark is a recipient of the 13 Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2012) and Ateneo Art Awards (2010). In 2012 he founded and acts as the artistic director of 98B COLLABoratory, a multi-disciplinary site for creative sharing, discussion and collaboration.
Roy Samaha
Catalogue : 2012Transparent Evil | Vidéo | | couleur | 27:0 | Liban, Allemagne | 2011

Roy Samaha
Transparent Evil
Vidéo | | couleur | 27:0 | Liban, Allemagne | 2011
Late 2010, I got commissioned by Leica to follow in the footsteps of James Bruce and document the Nile river from Alexandria to Aswan. I invited my friend Gheith El-Amine to join me on this trip. it was his first time in Egypt. December 10, 2010: we made plans to leave on February 1, 2011. He contacted two Egyptian friends of his, and we were supposed to meet them as soon as arrived there. January 25. The revolution started in Egypt. the only incoming images so far were made by protesters with cellular phones and uploaded on the net. They were much more efficient than the state-owned television station which was still doing the pro-regime propaganda in high definition resolution.
Roy Samaha
Catalogue : 2020Sun Rave | Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 11:0 | Liban | 2018
Roy Samaha
Sun Rave
Vidéo | hdv | couleur | 11:0 | Liban | 2018
This video explores childhood anecdotes heard around an apartment, which until 1989, when a major solar storm erupted, had been inhabited by a strange couple. Some suspected them of being undercover agents while others said they were just some new age sorcerers. The work addresses the relationship between layers of history, outstanding events in nature and ancient cyphering of language; how the cycles of the Sun’s unpredictable release of energetic flares affect the magnetic fields of the earth and influence radio transmissions, communication and reason on a mass scale.
Roy Samaha is a Lebanese artist, living and working in Beirut. He explores the boundaries of filmic language, perception of reality and the memory of personal objects.
Roy Samaha, Fakhoury Omar
Catalogue : 2014Incarnation of a Bird from an Oil Painting | Fiction expérimentale | hdcam | couleur | 8:0 | Liban | 2013
Roy Samaha, Fakhoury Omar
Incarnation of a Bird from an Oil Painting
Fiction expérimentale | hdcam | couleur | 8:0 | Liban | 2013
??Once Dr. Dahesh referred to a painting made by Mrs Marie Haddad, and which showed a bird on a tree. The colours of the painting moved and took the form of flesh, blood and feathers and the bird in that painting was converted into a living bird, which was placed in a cage and remained there for several years. Its place on the linen remained white.?
Omar Fakhoury Artist, Beirut Born in 1979, Omar Fakhoury is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He holds a Bachelor in Painting and a Masters of Fine Arts Roy Samaha, Artist, Beirut Born in 1978, a video artist and photographer living and working in Beirut Lebanon where he completed a Masters degree in film studies.
Catalogue : 2008Please rewind me later | Doc. expérimental | dv | couleur | 30:0 | Liban | 2007

Roy Samaha
Please rewind me later
Doc. expérimental | dv | couleur | 30:0 | Liban | 2007
Cette oeuvre se veut un outil de recherche dans son propre passé. Il s'agit de relier les lieux d'enfance, les rêves et les enregistrement VHS. Comment réaliser un autoportrait sans s'adonner aux clichés des archives historiques? Il a été dit : "Vous devez comprendre: la mémoire des objets enregistre et retient les actions humaines... de sorte que les générations futures en héritent... Mais on vous a aussi demandé de partir, de tout laisser derrière vous comme si vous n'étiez jamais venu. Les choses, les lieux possèdent une sorte de mémoire. Quand vous entrez dans un espace fermé, une partie de vous y reste attachée, vous perdez quelque chose. Vous devez apprendre à partir sans abandonner une parcelle de votre être... Apprendre à circuler sans laisser de trace."
Roy Samaha est né à Beyrouth en avril 1978. Il y vit et travaille comme vidéographe à ses heures. Il est diplômé en cinéma de la Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), au Liban.
Roy Samaha
Catalogue : 2014Incarnation of a Bird from an Oil Painting | Fiction expérimentale | hdcam | couleur | 8:0 | Liban | 2013
Roy Samaha, Fakhoury Omar
Incarnation of a Bird from an Oil Painting
Fiction expérimentale | hdcam | couleur | 8:0 | Liban | 2013
??Once Dr. Dahesh referred to a painting made by Mrs Marie Haddad, and which showed a bird on a tree. The colours of the painting moved and took the form of flesh, blood and feathers and the bird in that painting was converted into a living bird, which was placed in a cage and remained there for several years. Its place on the linen remained white.?
Omar Fakhoury Artist, Beirut Born in 1979, Omar Fakhoury is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He holds a Bachelor in Painting and a Masters of Fine Arts Roy Samaha, Artist, Beirut Born in 1978, a video artist and photographer living and working in Beirut Lebanon where he completed a Masters degree in film studies.
Catalogue : 2008Please rewind me later | Doc. expérimental | dv | couleur | 30:0 | Liban | 2007

Roy Samaha
Please rewind me later
Doc. expérimental | dv | couleur | 30:0 | Liban | 2007
Cette oeuvre se veut un outil de recherche dans son propre passé. Il s'agit de relier les lieux d'enfance, les rêves et les enregistrement VHS. Comment réaliser un autoportrait sans s'adonner aux clichés des archives historiques? Il a été dit : "Vous devez comprendre: la mémoire des objets enregistre et retient les actions humaines... de sorte que les générations futures en héritent... Mais on vous a aussi demandé de partir, de tout laisser derrière vous comme si vous n'étiez jamais venu. Les choses, les lieux possèdent une sorte de mémoire. Quand vous entrez dans un espace fermé, une partie de vous y reste attachée, vous perdez quelque chose. Vous devez apprendre à partir sans abandonner une parcelle de votre être... Apprendre à circuler sans laisser de trace."
Roy Samaha est né à Beyrouth en avril 1978. Il y vit et travaille comme vidéographe à ses heures. Il est diplômé en cinéma de la Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), au Liban.
Rajee Samarasinghe
Catalogue : 2022Misery Next Time | Doc. expérimental | mp4 | noir et blanc | 4:58 | Sri Lanka | 2021
Rajee Samarasinghe
Misery Next Time
Doc. expérimental | mp4 | noir et blanc | 4:58 | Sri Lanka | 2021
This associative stream of visuals, culled from the past, reflect on the roles of art, labor, and journalism in contemporary Sri Lanka, facing a dubious future ahead. Memory and ethnographic deconstruction cascade in an obliterated form, forging a dire and prescient assemblage.
Rajee Samarasinghe was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His filmmaking practice was born out of a desire to understand the circumstances around his childhood and his work often navigates the terrain of memory, migration, and impermanence within the framework of deconstructing the ethnographic image and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. Rajee is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka—the project has received support from the Sundance Institute, Berlinale Talents' Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False Film Festival’s inaugural PRISM program. Rajee was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, and had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2021. His short films have been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films presented by Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA, MoMA Doc Fortnight, BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM Festival, REDCAT, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, Vancouver International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival etc. He’s received the Tíos Award for Best International Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Film House Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, and an Honorable Mention Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival among others.
Catalogue : 2021Imitation of Life | Vidéo expérimentale | mov | couleur | 0:58 | Sri Lanka | 2020
Rajee Samarasinghe
Imitation of Life
Vidéo expérimentale | mov | couleur | 0:58 | Sri Lanka | 2020
Retrouvant la trace du regard colonial à la fois dans l'image ethnographique et dans les formes des médias dominants, cette courte réalisation décrit une rencontre impressionniste avec une femme vue de très loin, qui cache son visage au téléobjectif curieux.
Rajee Samarasinghe est cinéaste. Originaire du Sri Lanka, il habite actuellement aux États-Unis. Il est titulaire d'une licence de la UCSD – University of California San Diego (USA) et d'un Master de CalArts – California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (USA). Il travaille actuellement sur son premier long métrage, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible", inspiré par ses expériences d'enfance pendant la guerre civile au Sri Lanka - le projet a reçu une bourse du Sundance Documentary Fund, Salt Lake City (USA), en 2019; a été invité à la Doc Station de Berlinale Talents, Berlin (Allemagne), ainsi qu'au Inogural PRISM Programm du True/False Film Festival, Columbia (USA) en 2020. Il a également été nommé comme l'un des 25 nouveaux visages du cinéma indépendant par le "Filmmaker Magazine" en 2020. Son travail a été présenté à l'international, notamment dans le cadre de la Tiger Short Competition du Festival international du film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas); du New Directors/New Films présenté par la Film Society of Lincoln Center et le MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA); du BFI London Film Festival, Londres (Royaume-Uni); du FIDMarseille (France); du Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal (Canada); des Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Allemagne); du Slamdance Film Festival, Park City (USA); du REDCAT – Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater, Los Angeles (USA); du SFFILM Festival – San Francisco International Film Festival (USA); du Media City Film Festival, Windsor (Canada); et du Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajato (Mexique). Entre autres prix, il a reçu le "Tíos Award for Best International Film" au Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor (USA); le "Film House Award for visionary filmmaking" au Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athènes (Grèce), et un "Audience Award" au festival CROSSROADS au SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA).
Catalogue : 2019Pituvahalaya | Doc. expérimental | mov | couleur | 7:49 | Sri Lanka | 2018
Rajee Samarasinghe
Pituvahalaya
Doc. expérimental | mov | couleur | 7:49 | Sri Lanka | 2018
Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history and the process of reconstruction in the post-war era. The visions of an exile are carried through an immoral silence, to an end both dubious and bittersweet.
Rajee Samarasinghe is an award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker and visual artist. Some of his recent work examines contemporary ethnographic practices through associations of family and heritage. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Rajee`s work has been exhibited at venues internationally.
Catalogue : 2017If I Were Any Further Away I’d Be Closer to Home | Doc. expérimental | hdv | noir et blanc | 14:30 | Sri Lanka | 2016
Rajee Samarasinghe
If I Were Any Further Away I’d Be Closer to Home
Doc. expérimental | hdv | noir et blanc | 14:30 | Sri Lanka | 2016
Le déroulement de la pellicule se confronte à d’autres rouleaux manufacturés face à l’objectif. Le grain des images restitue, en noir et blanc, les habitants, les animaux, les paysages. La fabrication quotidienne voisine la vie domestique dans le découpage rythmé des gestes du travail. L’action semble accueillir quelques à côtés du labeur. Le film s’organise sous nos yeux, animé par de nouvelles itérations. L’absence de piste sonore n’annule que le bruit mécanique des projecteurs anciens. - Gilles Grand
Rajee Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan visual artist. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Rajee`s work has been exhibited at venues internationally.
Catalogue : 2016An Appearance of Fortitude | Film expérimental | hdv | couleur | 5:14 | Sri Lanka, USA | 2015
Rajee Samarasinghe
An Appearance of Fortitude
Film expérimental | hdv | couleur | 5:14 | Sri Lanka, USA | 2015
Part of an ongoing series of American psychogeographies, this particular piece investigates the idea of "remoteness," as two people establish a curious rapport in a sleepy Southern Californian suburb.
Rajee Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan visual artist. His work often examines consciousness and impermanence. Some of his recent work develops questions into contemporary ethnographic practices. Rajee attended the University of California San Diego and is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts.
Catalogue : 2015Untitled (Horse) | Doc. expérimental | hdv | noir et blanc | 4:23 | Sri Lanka, USA | 2014
Rajee Samarasinghe
Untitled (Horse)
Doc. expérimental | hdv | noir et blanc | 4:23 | Sri Lanka, USA | 2014
A symbiotic collaboration in movie motion. After Muybridge.
Rajee Samarasinghe is a relatively young imagemaker, once upon a time Sri Lankan. He makes fake narratives and destructive formal experiments. He aspires to make videos of a respectable length and standard. Rajee attended the University of California, San Diego and is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts.
Rajee Samarasinghe
Catalogue : 2022Show Me Other Places | Doc. expérimental | super 16mm | couleur | 11:25 | Sri Lanka, USA | 2021
Rajee Samarasinghe
Show Me Other Places
Doc. expérimental | super 16mm | couleur | 11:25 | Sri Lanka, USA | 2021
At the center of this film is a Sri Lankan woman accessing other places in digital form, while situated in her own physical reality. Navigating through a multitude of spaces from the natural world to man-made environments as well as virtual planes, traditional relationships between the creator, the tool, and the subject are questioned, shattered and reconstructed. Reflecting on my own practice as a filmmaker working in non-fiction, the film takes a collage-like approach to examining issues around representation, verisimilitude, the ethnographic image, and the limitations of the form itself. Shot on seven different cameras (and a video synthesizer) on both film and video over the course of a decade in Sri Lanka, China, and the United States, I delve into some of my fundamental curiosities as a filmmaker.
Rajee Samarasinghe was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His filmmaking practice was born out of a desire to understand the circumstances around his childhood and his work often navigates the terrain of memory, migration, and impermanence within the framework of deconstructing the ethnographic image and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. Rajee is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka—the project has received support from the Sundance Institute, Berlinale Talents' Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False Film Festival’s inaugural PRISM program. Rajee was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, and had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2021. His short films have been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films presented by Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA, MoMA Doc Fortnight, BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM Festival, REDCAT, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, Vancouver International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival etc. He’s received the Tíos Award for Best International Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Film House Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, and an Honorable Mention Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival among others.
Keith Sanborn
Catalogue : 2018An Epilogue | Vidéo | hdv | couleur et n&b | 3:3 | USA | 2016
Keith Sanborn
An Epilogue
Vidéo | hdv | couleur et n&b | 3:3 | USA | 2016
A détournement of Walter Benjamin`s "Theses on the Philosophy of History," reconfigured for an era dominated by the digital, the instability of the physical body, and the seeming triumph of technology over art and the virtual over the real. Is technology the handmaiden of art? Is art the handmaiden of technology? Or is the notion of a handmaiden so hopelessly obsolete, then it can no longer provide metaphors which provoke us to think?
Keith Sanborn is a media artist, theorist, translator, and curator based in New York.
Catalogue : 2012Oh, David, you know what colors I like... | Vidéo expérimentale | | couleur et n&b | 1:34 | USA | 2011
Keith Sanborn
Oh, David, you know what colors I like...
Vidéo expérimentale | | couleur et n&b | 1:34 | USA | 2011
This video was produced for an exquisite corpse project by Jason Simon to be screened on Bastille Day, 2012 in Narrowsburgh, NY. I added a title to my segment and kept the first second of picture from the previous video, the starting point for my work. The title was inspired by a remark of Paul Sharits. One of his assistants had just screened a test for him of an elaborate optical printer film. The title was his response. Also, the Stones played several times on the David Frost Show. Also James Brown was Black and Proud. Also I?m going to dye my hair black and you can?t stop me.
Keith Sanborn is a media artist, theorist, curator and translator based in New York.
Samuel Sanchez
Vanja Sandell Billström, Pagano, Lucia
Catalogue : 2025Diskret Matematik | Fiction expérimentale | 4k | couleur | 15:20 | Suède | 2024
Vanja Sandell BillstrÖm, Lucia Pagano
Diskret Matematik
Fiction expérimentale | 4k | couleur | 15:20 | Suède | 2024
A passage between two buildings, a nail salon, a stairwell, a badminton hall, an atrium, a hospital culvert. Life takes place. With the small details of existence in focus, rather than the larger narratives and conflicts, fragments are connected to a possible outcome. In mathematics, the word discrete is used to describe objects that are not continuous and separated from each other. Discrete mathematics is applied in a number of different areas such as encryption, databases, game theory, graph theory and algorithms.
Lucia Pagano and Vanja Sandell Billström were educated at the Lodz Film School and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Discrete Mathematics is their second film as a duo which further explores methods developed in their previous film Park. Park was nominated to the Best Swedish Short at Göteborg Film Festival 2020, Tempo Short Award, 1KM Film Award, and winner of the Tempo Sound Award the same year. Previously they have shown their work at festivals and art venues around the world.
Catalogue : 2021Park | Documentaire | mov | couleur | 14:58 | Suède | 2020
Vanja Sandell BillstrÖm, Pagano, Lucia
Park
Documentaire | mov | couleur | 14:58 | Suède | 2020
Scènes de personnes en mouvement. Certains travaillent, d'autres profitent de leur temps libre. Le bruit des avions et des métros nous rappelle la ville située derrière ce bout de nature artificielle. Un court documentaire fait de scènes filmées dans les parcs de Stockholm, pendant une année.
Lucia Pagano est née en 1984. Elle est réalisatrice et artiste, et a été formée à la Lodz Film School, Lodz (Pologne) et au Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (Suède). Ses films s'intéressent aux détails de la vie quotidienne, souvent en observant, parfois jusqu'à l'absurde, des fragments de réalité en apparence insignifiants. Ils ont été projetés dans des festivals à l’international, notamment à São Paolo (Brésil); à San Francisco (USA), à Kiev (Ukraine) et à Varsovie (Pologne). Ils ont été récompensés ou ont reçu une mention honorifique aux festivals du film de Los Angeles (USA), Oberhausen(Allemagne), Stockholm (Suède), et au Nordisk Panorama, Malmö (Suède). Vanja Sandell Billström est née en 1983. Elle est réalisatrice et artiste. Elle a été formée au Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (Suède). Elle travaille à la fois la forme documentaire, des situations mises en scène, et des installations vidéo. Ses films portent souvent sur des situations quotidiennes, et présentent des personnages qui semblent réfléchir spontanément aux conditions de leur vie quotidienne ou aux situations du film lui-même. Vanja Sandell Billström a déjà été nommée pour le Prix Guldbagge du meilleur film court suédois, et a exposé au Göteborg Konsthall (Suède); à la Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (Suède); à la Box Gallery, Göteborg (Suède); et Färgfabriken, Stockholm (Suède). "Park" est le premier film qu’elles ont réalisé ensemble. Il a été nommé pour le prix du meilleur film court suédois au festival du film de Göteborg (Suède); pour le Tempo Short Award, Stockholm (Suède); pour le 1KM Film; et a remporté le Tempo Sound Award, Stockholm (Suède) [2020].
Vanja Sandell Billström, Lucia Pagano
Catalogue : 2025Diskret Matematik | Fiction expérimentale | 4k | couleur | 15:20 | Suède | 2024
Vanja Sandell BillstrÖm, Lucia Pagano
Diskret Matematik
Fiction expérimentale | 4k | couleur | 15:20 | Suède | 2024
A passage between two buildings, a nail salon, a stairwell, a badminton hall, an atrium, a hospital culvert. Life takes place. With the small details of existence in focus, rather than the larger narratives and conflicts, fragments are connected to a possible outcome. In mathematics, the word discrete is used to describe objects that are not continuous and separated from each other. Discrete mathematics is applied in a number of different areas such as encryption, databases, game theory, graph theory and algorithms.
Lucia Pagano and Vanja Sandell Billström were educated at the Lodz Film School and at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Discrete Mathematics is their second film as a duo which further explores methods developed in their previous film Park. Park was nominated to the Best Swedish Short at Göteborg Film Festival 2020, Tempo Short Award, 1KM Film Award, and winner of the Tempo Sound Award the same year. Previously they have shown their work at festivals and art venues around the world.
Catalogue : 2021Park | Documentaire | mov | couleur | 14:58 | Suède | 2020
Vanja Sandell BillstrÖm, Pagano, Lucia
Park
Documentaire | mov | couleur | 14:58 | Suède | 2020
Scènes de personnes en mouvement. Certains travaillent, d'autres profitent de leur temps libre. Le bruit des avions et des métros nous rappelle la ville située derrière ce bout de nature artificielle. Un court documentaire fait de scènes filmées dans les parcs de Stockholm, pendant une année.
Lucia Pagano est née en 1984. Elle est réalisatrice et artiste, et a été formée à la Lodz Film School, Lodz (Pologne) et au Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (Suède). Ses films s'intéressent aux détails de la vie quotidienne, souvent en observant, parfois jusqu'à l'absurde, des fragments de réalité en apparence insignifiants. Ils ont été projetés dans des festivals à l’international, notamment à São Paolo (Brésil); à San Francisco (USA), à Kiev (Ukraine) et à Varsovie (Pologne). Ils ont été récompensés ou ont reçu une mention honorifique aux festivals du film de Los Angeles (USA), Oberhausen(Allemagne), Stockholm (Suède), et au Nordisk Panorama, Malmö (Suède). Vanja Sandell Billström est née en 1983. Elle est réalisatrice et artiste. Elle a été formée au Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (Suède). Elle travaille à la fois la forme documentaire, des situations mises en scène, et des installations vidéo. Ses films portent souvent sur des situations quotidiennes, et présentent des personnages qui semblent réfléchir spontanément aux conditions de leur vie quotidienne ou aux situations du film lui-même. Vanja Sandell Billström a déjà été nommée pour le Prix Guldbagge du meilleur film court suédois, et a exposé au Göteborg Konsthall (Suède); à la Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (Suède); à la Box Gallery, Göteborg (Suède); et Färgfabriken, Stockholm (Suède). "Park" est le premier film qu’elles ont réalisé ensemble. Il a été nommé pour le prix du meilleur film court suédois au festival du film de Göteborg (Suède); pour le Tempo Short Award, Stockholm (Suède); pour le 1KM Film; et a remporté le Tempo Sound Award, Stockholm (Suède) [2020].
Aurora Sander
Catalogue : 2020À la carte | Animation | mp4 | couleur | 12:44 | Norvège, Allemagne | 2019
Aurora Sander
À la carte
Animation | mp4 | couleur | 12:44 | Norvège, Allemagne | 2019
A narrator takes you on a deep dive into the art world. What mechanisms are driving this ecosystem, or rather: which participants? The animation film "À la carte" takes a humorous look at the food chain in the art field and the challenges we face.
The artist duo consisting of Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard and Bror Sander Berg Størseth constantly serve up fresh perspectives on the world, tongue in cheek, jaws scraping off the ground. In their particular case form does not follow function, but function at least contains the word fun. The objects produced by the duo are caught in between form and function, art and design, discourse and disgust. For instance: portable paintings whose support structure doubles as shipping crates, and a mobile sculpture serving you social lubrication. Or high heeled shoes with built in brushes for an easy clean, and seats reserved for magazine covers. Aurora Sander reacts to the intrinsic structures of the art world, of socialization, distribution, value creation, judgement, and accruement, to turn some tables, but making sure the tables look damned good on the way round. The references in the work of Aurora Sander are plentiful, and the usual appropriation of low culture you traditionally would find in the art is repurposed with a refined knowledge of not just the art world, but also an interest in merchandizing and hanging out, dipping low. Their artistic strategies are closely linked to design, theater, and fashion; fields that art is struggling to keep at bay. Art historian Benjamin Buchloh describes this relationship as one where high art constantly appropriates images, strategies, and mechanisms from low culture, not in order to assimilate the two, but rather to reaffirm art's position in the hierarchy. Aurora Sander seems to confuse the hierarchy, and the identity of the duo, who might be mistaken for a singular artist, a case of mistaken identity, might range from a Disney princess to an emerging artist trying to make it in the cruel marketplace of the art world. Aurora Sander's strategy of confusion, fusion, fiction and friction, seems to be the duo's strength, making objects and creating characters that belong in the art world, but have no idea how they got there.
Talena Sanders
Catalogue : 2019Between my flesh and the world's fingers | Doc. expérimental | 16mm | couleur et n&b | 31:0 | USA | 2018
Talena Sanders
Between my flesh and the world's fingers
Doc. expérimental | 16mm | couleur et n&b | 31:0 | USA | 2018
Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman of Butte, Montana, published her diaries in 1902 and 1917. As an out queer and proto-feminist at the turn of the century, MacLane became notorious upon the publication of her 1902 diary, I Await the Devil’s Coming. She was whisked away from the industrial hellscape of her copper mining Montana hometown to a life in the public eye as an author, journalist, female film pioneer and always a provocateur - sending up social norms throughout her career, with a special focus on staid notions about women and sexuality. Between my flesh and the world’s fingers is an experimental essay and diary film primarily based on her published diaries and her film work. Though the film is not directly a personal film, the production is founded in part in the act of a woman telling her own story through that of another woman, a trailblazing figure from the past.
Talena Sanders makes moving image works that explore the development of individual and collective senses of identity in affinity groups. Her films and videos are informed by an interest in presenting the many ways that social institutions can shape individuals lives on both the broader geopolitical level and the most intimate, personal scales. A common starting point for developing new projects begins with an interest in interrogating narratives from histories and how historical records can influence senses of identity, especially as it relates to ideas of national and regional character. She believes there are endless means to present and interrogate materials from the real on the spectrum from nonfiction to narrative production approaches. Her work often places historical found/archival footage and audio in dialogue with contemporary media captured on location to question constructs of privilege and power in who gets authorized to tell the story of a shared experience. She holds an MFA from Duke University’s Experimental and Documentary Arts program and a BFA from the University of Kentucky. Her work has been screened, exhibited, and collected internationally, including at the New York Film Festival`s Views from the Avant-Garde, FID Marseille, Montreal International Documentary Festival, Fronteira Festival, Viennale, DokuFest Kosovo, BFI London Film Festival, and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Her first feature documentary, Liahona, is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources and Doc Alliance. She has previously taught film and video production and film studies at Duke University and the University of Montana. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sonoma State University.
Vladlena Sandu
Catalogue : 2025No Nation Without Culture | Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 16:0 | Russie, Pays-Bas | 2022
Vladlena Sandu
No Nation Without Culture
Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 16:0 | Russie, Pays-Bas | 2022
Tchétchénie, Grozny, printemps 2021. Les paysages de la ville sont remplis de portraits de Poutine, de Kadyrov père et de Kadyrov fils. Ils me surveillent de tous les coins, s’infiltrent dans mes pensées. C’est presque impossible à croire et à accepter. Je ressens le totalitarisme que ces portraits dégagent, les observant délibérément à travers un objectif déformé. Je filme les rues de ma ville natale, Grozny, depuis les vitres teintées d’une voiture, consciente que de tels actes m’exposent au risque de persécution. Je documente un moment où le fascisme commence à s’enraciner en Russie—un temps où, après trente ans de lutte du peuple tchétchène pour l’indépendance, l’accent est mis sur l’endoctrinement des enfants. En 2022, plus de 12 000 soldats de l’armée de Kadyrov sont envoyés en guerre en Ukraine.
Vladlena Sandu est née en Crimée, en Ukraine (URSS), en 1982 et a grandi à Grozny, en Tchétchénie, où elle est restée pendant quatre années de guerre. Elle est diplômée du VGIK en 2016 avec un diplôme en réalisation cinématographique. En 2019, elle a obtenu un diplôme de troisième cycle en art au VGIK, spécialisé en esthétique, et a publié plusieurs articles académiques. La même année, elle a également terminé sa formation en mise en scène théâtrale au Studio de Boris Yukhananov. Ses œuvres ont été présentées dans des festivals internationaux tels que le Festival du film de Rotterdam, la Berlinale, DocLisboa, GoEast, Movies That Matter, ZagrebDox, le Festival international du film de Genève, DOK Leipzig, et bien d’autres, remportant des prix internationaux. Au début de la guerre de la Russie contre l’Ukraine, en mars 2022, Sandu a fui la Russie et s’est installée à Amsterdam. Là, elle a réalisé No Nation Without Culture, un film sur le régime en Tchétchénie, qui a remporté le prix du Meilleur court-métrage au GoEast IFF 2023. En 2023, elle a également mis en scène la performance autobiographique The Rainbow Cinema et a reçu le prix du Meilleur spectacle d’Amsterdam Fringe 2023.