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2009, in the high plateau of the Peruvian jungle, near the border to Ecuador, a mining company forces their way into the depths of the forest to search for mineral resources. They do this with the government`s permission, but without consent from the indigenous people, the Awajun natives who live there. Known for their fearlessness, the Awajun stand up to the invaders. But in the fight for their land they are brutally struck down by the government. Violence breeds counter-violence. Years later, young natives learn to use the videocameras and start to follow the trail of violence.

Fernando Vílchez Rodríguez (Perú, 1980). He studied Philosophy in Lima and Filmmaking in Madrid. His works are inquiries into the fractures of Peruvian society and the use of video archive, and have been selected in London, La Habana, Karlovy Vary, Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Montreal. Since last year, he is the Head of Programme of Lima Independiente International Film Festival. His last film, "I can only show you the color" had its premiere in the Berlinale Shorts Competition 2014.

Failing to have found Homer, I met Sisyphus It is the search for something that does not exist or no longer exists. It’s a movement that brings you alive. It is the encounter with absurd and ephemeral repetition. This is a look at the ongoing construction sites on the island of Ios. It is an echo of Greek mythology, Homer and storytelling in the broad sense.

When I was little, I made films with playmobiles and plastic Indians. Today, I am at the Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, in my second year and I specialize in video and writing. I also work with various materials including sculpture, ceramics and drawing. After my baccalaureate in Theater specialty, I did a year of hypokhâgne in Paris, then an artistic preparation, before moving for the first time, to Bordeaux. I've been making films for some time now, and I know that it's really in this area that I can express myself best. Show, make people travel, make people feel emotions. Choosing the aesthetic, the words of my actors, the framing of the shots, the editing of the rushes. All the stages give me a satisfaction and pleasure that I rarely find otherwise.

En passant par le front du Bassac, dans Phnom Penh, si l?on est un voyageur attentif, on sera surpris de voir surgir une construction qui pourrait avoir l?air d?un immeuble, mais qui ressemble davantage à un grouillement architectural étonnant. On ne perçoit tout d?abord qu?un enchevêtrement de lignes bleues, de points verts et d?étoffes colorées, en suspension sur ce qui devait être autrefois une façade blanche d?architecture moderne.On apprend alors que ce grand organisme vivant a été construit par l?architecte cambodgien Van Molyvann sur le modèle de l?utopie de la Cité radieuse...

Jean Luc Vilmouth was born in Moselle and is now living in Paris. Since 1978, he has been exhibiting his works throughout the world. He also works for art and architecture magazines and writes books on art. He realised several public works. As a director, he made several short films and video installations.

Dans le film, un homme retourne dans sa ferme natale au printemps pour participer aus travaux des champs. Il découvre à la fois le travail physique et la poésie et il est l'objet d'un petit miracle inattendu.

Sampsa Virkajärvi est née Sampsa Kuorevesi en 1970 en Finlande. De 1992 à 1993, elle étudie à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Carrare en Italie. Puis de 1993 à 1999, elle étudie à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Helsinki. En 2001, elle obtient son diplôme de Bachelor of Art (licence en art). Et enfin, depuis 2001, elle étudie à l'Université des arts et du design de Helsinki dans le département "film et télvision."

?Herbarium? is a cinematographic observation based on the changes in the classification of plants. Going from classical taxonomy to genetic data-storage, Visser wonders what is left when the plant its separated from its physical features. What is a plant to us, without the sensation of smell, texture and its visual appearance? In a long abandoned tropical greenhouse formerly used by the biology faculty of Wageningen University, during a full moon night, the dry plants are reanimated, in a visual language where nature is shown as an artefact, devoid of any natural context.

Barbara Visser researches the relationship between registration and dramatization. Her work is driven by fascinations around original and copy, historical narratives and constructed biographies, which she translates into subjective documentaries. By questioning the authenticity of images and their interpretation by the viewer, she influences the shape and the content of the work simultaneously. Projects are executed in an array of media: photography, film, video, text, printed matter and performance. Infiltrating into existing systems leads to a wide diversity of works. Visser has participated in the Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2006), Manifesta, Trento, Italy (2008), Architecture Biennale, Dutch Pavillion, Venice, Italy (2010), Art Biennale, Dutch Pavillion group show (2011). In 2011 and 12 she?s written and directed the film C.K. (2012). Awards for her work include the Dutch Cultural Media Fund Documentary Award (2010), the dr. A. H. Heineken Award for art and science (2008)
, David Roell Prize 2007, Prins Bernhard Foundation (2007) Barbara Visser studied photography and audiovisual arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Cooper Union in New York and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Since 1992 her work is shown internationally. Her work is represented by Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam.

Who is behind the most influential work of art of the 20th century? The answer to this question is highly debated. Is it by a celebrated male- or a forgotten female artist? Art experts tumble over each other to prove their version of the truth. The interests are great and the arguments numerous. But what is the value of their truth, if the artist him-/herself wishes to remain anonymous? Speculation about the work of art creates value, and that goes beyond the art market on which the many copies of the work circulate. When we try to get into the heads of the once so progressive artists themselves, the story takes an unexpected turn. From Dada to data: Alreadymade, like Fountain in 1917, radically challenges the idea of authorship and identity, and does so in a remarkable setting: the digital afterlife.

Barbara Visser (1966, the Netherlands) studied Photography and Audiovisual Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Cooper Union in New York and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and is an awarded artist. She has also worked as the artistic director of IDFA. Her work focuses on cultural and historical narratives and how these become manifest through art, design, media and science. By challenging conventions in storytelling and image-making, and questioning our memory- and belief systems, Visser aims to provoke a new perception of what a normality has rendered invisible.

Who`s still afraid of red, yellow and blue? The most famous abstract painting of the twentieth century has invoked much more than just one response to this provocative question. Fifty years after `Who`s Afraid of Red , Yellow and Blue III`, we question the meaning of art over the life of this famous, celebrated and mourned work by Barnett Newman.

Barbara VISSER (1966, the Netherlands) studied Photography and Audiovisual Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, the Cooper Union in New York and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and is an awarded artist. She has also worked as the artistic director of IDFA. Her work focuses on cultural and historical narratives and how these become manifest through art, design, media and science. By challenging conventions in storytelling and image-making, and questioning our memory- and belief systems, Visser aims to provoke a new perception of what a normality has rendered invisible.

? On the 3rd of March 2009, Clemens K. the head of finances of an Amsterdam arts fund, disappeared with 15.8 million Euros, his three children and two women, and they have not been seen ever since. The people in his former environment are left behind in shock: bewildered, angry, surprised and concerned. Strangely enough, it is not so much the massive amount he?s stolen: it is the treachery, which affects them most. Unexpected, and apparently out of nowhere, he?s broken all conventions, on a personal and professional level. 

The point of departure of the film is the paradoxical, almost mythical idea that the meticulous man of numbers, he, who has sent innumerable warnings and corrections to us artists, did what most artists want to do- but do so, only in a symbolic manner: crossing boundaries, putting his own needs and wants first with little need for a justification to the outside world. The cliché of the 'dull' world of the accountant versus the 'exciting' life of the artist is being turned upside down in the film. Why is it, that someone suddenly does something so extreme, so out of character? Where, when and how did it start with Clemens K., the good-looking, kind and helpful family man from the descriptions? Was he the nice guy they saw in him, or was he wearing a mask all along? What made Sammy run? The time before, the current situation, and the consequences of the fraud are being narrated by an actor speaking from the bookkeepers point of view and the people interviewed: the ones left behind. Next to the interviews that I will conduct, we hear a voice over which represents my own version of the truth, a second layer introducing another form of speculation. The man, Clemens is thus seen through a kaleidoscope, speculating on possible motives.

Born May 20th, 1966 in Haarlem, The Netherlands. 1998-99 Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL. 1989 Cooper Union, New York U.S.A. exchange student. 1985-1991 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL / Photography and Audiovisual Arts.

"Actors of Profane History" includes a series of recently discovered casting images from Sergei Eisenstein’s destroyed film "Bezhin Meadow," (1935-1937) preserved today at the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts. It questions the interrelation between the cinematographic use of film extras, who usually appear only in the background of major cinema productions, and the possibility of acting in political history, in itself closely connected to the history of representation. In his films, Eisenstein worked almost entirely with non-professional actors, the so-called "tipazhes." Deriving from the French word "typage," the Russian “tipazh” was a concept for denoting a typical appearance, giving an immediate visual presence to the palpable characteristics of a social type. This reading of human appearance as evidence of social and political conditions elucidates parallels between cinema and criminalistic as well as physiognomic paradigms. Yet, in 1935, when Eisenstein was commissioned to shoot Bezhin Meadow, such “irregular types” were already banned from official screens. The censured and destroyed film tells the story of Pavlik Morozov, a fourteen year old pioneer who lived in the village of Gerasimovka and was killed in 1932 by his family after denouncing his father for being opposed to the collectivisation of the land. After the editing of the film went through at least two different versions, the production was definitively stopped in March 1937. The film was withdrawn and disappeared in the deposits of Mosfilm, where it was eventually destroyed in the bombing of Moscow during the Second World War. In 1967, Naum Kleiman and Sergei Jutkevic reconstructed a version of Bezhin Meadow based on a surviving sequence of individual frames.

Elena Vogman is an author, independent curator and postdoctoral fellow in the research project “Rhythm and Projection” at the Freie Universität in Berlin. Her book on "Sinnliches Denken: Eisensteins exzentrische Methode" (2018) has been published by diaphanes. Currently, she finishes her next book, "Dance of Values: Eisenstein’s Capital Project," which is forthcoming in the Fall of this year. Together with Marie Rebecchi and Till Gathmann she curated the exhibition “Sergei Eisenstein: The Anthropology of Rhythm” in 2017 at Nomas Foundation in Rome. In 2018, the trio curates the exhibition “Eccentric Values after Eisenstein” together at Espace Diaphanes in Berlin. Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Solo exhibitions include: 2016 Hamburger Kunsthalle; P.O.V. - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; 2015 MCA Chicago; 2013 MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rom with the project “The Cast”, curated by Giulia Ferracci

Un jeune homme marche dans l’hiver, pour tenter de dépasser ses propres interdits : une rencontre amoureuse avec un autre homme, et une rencontre avec l’absolu et la spiritualité chrétienne. Signal GPS Perdu raconte son voyage intérieur, en associant les paysages enneigés du Jura, un texte courtois du Moyen Âge, et une application de rencontres gay sur smartphone. Tourné en Super 8 noir et blanc, le film nous emmène dans une quête contemplative et ascétique, où le contemporain se mêle à des récits anciens.

Né en 1992 à Dole (FR), Pierre Voland est réalisateur et enseignant. Il a étudié la littérature et le cinéma, puis a fait un master artistique à l’École de Recherche Graphique à Bruxelles, où il vit actuellement. Marqué par le volet lyrique du cinéma expérimental français et américain, il intègre dans son travail des éléments autobiographiques et littéraires. Son premier film, Signal GPS perdu, a été présenté dans plusieurs festivals internationaux tels que le FIDMarseille (FR), le Bejing International Short Film Festival (CN), et EXiS (KR).

Ducks & Cars joue de l'attente du spectateur. Lentement, comme une goutte de pluie qui se forme, une image se construit et disparaît dans le même instant. Doucement et calmement, de cette lenteur et de cette tension latente, nous apparaît un sujet enfantin : Ducks & Cars. La vidéo est pensée pour être projetée en arrière plan comme par exemple la prestation d'un groupe de musique ou lors de tout autre événement. Cela fait d'avantage référence à la conception classique de la peinture qu'à l'animation. Les symboles qui construisent l'image dérivent des caractères utilisées pour le tricot. Pas d'ASCII.

Bijan Dawallu termine en 2003 ses études de communications graphiques à l'UdK (Ecole des Beaux arts)de Berlin. Avec son collaborateur Andreas Eberlein, il intervient dans l'agence "Aroma", à Berlin. Mathias Volz: Mathias Volz achève ses études de multimédia en 2002. Après deux années d'activité pour une agence internet à Barcelone il travaille actuellement à Berlin en indépendant.

The three-minute film, a snapshot of an encounter, is based on concrete experience. In an accompanying note, the filmmaker writes: ?For years, weeks, I have had to visit my mother and am regularly overwhelmed by the purpose of life, compassion, and anticipation of my own passing.? This experience is condensed in the film.

*1946 in London. She spent her childhood in Vienna and Berlin. From 1965-1969 she studied photography at the School of Graphic Arts. 1971 Masters certificate and commercial atelier for photography. 2005 National award for photography. 1990 Founder and director of School for Artistic Photography, Vienna until 2010. 2006 Founder and director of School for Independent Film, Vienna. First films in 1968. Screenings/Exhibitions (Selection): Centre Pompidou, Paris; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Generali Foundation, Wien; Anthology Filmarchives, New York; documenta 12, Kassel; Österreichisches Filmmmuseum, Wien; International Film Festival Toronto; International Film Festival Hong Kong; Berlin Biennale; Diagonale, Graz; Viennale; Lentos, Linz; Media-City, Windsor, HGB-Leipzig, Mumok Wien.

Fire ravages relentlessly through paper. Individual words, ragged sentences, loose thoughts have broken free of their contexts and flare up once again before melting away forever: ?unfaithful,? father,? ?on 17 October, K. complained of overwork,? ?I also think about incest and wanting to save sister.? The clearly legible handwriting on white sheets of paper has given up its search for meaning and surrenders to the flames. Artist Friedl von Gröller hands over several-page-long psychoanalytical protocols from her professional practice as psychoanalyst to the funeral pyre flaring in the middle of a snow-covered landscape. The notes from hundreds of hours of ?talking cure? extinguish silently, almost blithely. They abdicate their cognizance of the long therapy sessions between analyst and patient. But the burning paper is not the only storage medium that knows of Groller?s notes. The short film My Psychoanalytic Notes begins with close-ups of people?s faces?psychoanalysts?reading, intently studying Gröller?s protocols. Only then does the camera turn away from the faces?with an increasingly faster pan?toward a snowy forest landscape and the pile of burning books: As though the filmmaker wanted to once again call up her own profession as witness, which will remember her work even after the cold fire destroys all traces. The camera moves in an extreme close-up across the pages, leafs through once again. Yet it is just as fascinated by the bizarre ash formations that arise from the act of burning as it is by the notes and sentences dying on them. In the end, the camera digresses once more, wanders across the snow and wood, and ultimately turns to the backlight of the sky. The image fades, becomes white like snow?or white like a clean sheet of paper, on which a new stage of life can be recorded. (Alexandra Seibel) Translation: Lisa Rosenblatt

1946 in London. She spent her childhood in Vienna and Berlin. From 1965-1969 she studied photography at the School of Graphic Arts. 1971 Masters certificate and commercial atelier for photography. 2005 National award for photography. 1990 Founder and director of School for Artistic Photography, Vienna until 2010. 2006 Founder and director of School for Independent Film, Vienna. First films in 1968. Screenings/Exhibitions (Selection): Centre Pompidou, Paris; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Generali Foundation, Wien; Anthology Filmarchives, New York; documenta 12, Kassel; Österreichisches Filmmmuseum, Wien; International Film Festival Toronto; International Film Festival Hong Kong; Berlin Biennale; Diagonale, Graz; Viennale; Lentos, Linz; Media-City, Windsor, HGB-Leipzig, Mumok Wien.

Ouvrez les yeux et continuez de regarder l'aveuglante source de lumière qui réduit, dans ce film, les personnages et les objets en minces silhouettes. Il y a seulement de la lumière ...

Christina von Greve est née est 1968 à Bonn. De 1996 jusqu'à ce qu'elle obtienne son diplôme en 2001, elle a étudié à l'Académie des Arts Médiatiques à Cologne. En 2002-2003 elle a été artiste résident au MAP, un programme mis en place par la Pépinières européennes pour jeune artistes à Madrid en Espagne. Elle vit et travaille à Cologne en Allemagne. C-Schulz est né en 1968 à Cologne. Il travaille en tant que musicien et réalisateur depuis 1990. De 1996 à 2001, année où il a obtenu son diplôme, il a étudié à l'Académie des Arts Médiatiques de Cologne. Depuis 2002, il travaille en tant qu'auteur, directeur et compositeur pour la WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk, une station de radio) dans le domaine du 'featuring', de l'Ars Acustica et de la musique expérimentale. Il vit et travaille à Cologne, en Allemagne.

Scènes familiales avec poisson.

Christina von Greve est née en 1968 à Bonn . 1996-2001 études à la Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (école supérieure d'arts des médias) 2002/2003 résidence à la Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes (MAP), Madrid, Espagne. Travaille comme artiste indépendante et cinéaste à Cologne.

Ouvrez les yeux et continuez de regarder l'aveuglante source de lumière qui réduit, dans ce film, les personnages et les objets en minces silhouettes. Il y a seulement de la lumière ...

Christina von Greve est née est 1968 à Bonn. De 1996 jusqu'à ce qu'elle obtienne son diplôme en 2001, elle a étudié à l'Académie des Arts Médiatiques à Cologne. En 2002-2003 elle a été artiste résident au MAP, un programme mis en place par la Pépinières européennes pour jeune artistes à Madrid en Espagne. Elle vit et travaille à Cologne en Allemagne. C-Schulz est né en 1968 à Cologne. Il travaille en tant que musicien et réalisateur depuis 1990. De 1996 à 2001, année où il a obtenu son diplôme, il a étudié à l'Académie des Arts Médiatiques de Cologne. Depuis 2002, il travaille en tant qu'auteur, directeur et compositeur pour la WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk, une station de radio) dans le domaine du 'featuring', de l'Ars Acustica et de la musique expérimentale. Il vit et travaille à Cologne, en Allemagne.

Scènes familiales avec poisson.

Christina von Greve est née en 1968 à Bonn . 1996-2001 études à la Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (école supérieure d'arts des médias) 2002/2003 résidence à la Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes (MAP), Madrid, Espagne. Travaille comme artiste indépendante et cinéaste à Cologne.

Die Narbe / The Scar is a film project in two parts by Burkhard von Harder ? in both cases helicopter flights following the remnants of the former inner German divide and demarcation line 20 years after the reunification. Part I ? Westberlin follows the former death strip in 76 minutes, part II takes the viewer in 16 hours realtime from the Czech border to the Baltic Sea up North along 1378 km through four seasons in three years: a line becomes a circle that turns into a spiral. The pod version of Part II (Von Prex bis Priwall) is envisioned as 28 volumes representing 28 years of oppression, covering 50 km each. So far 4 double volumes condense the experience.

Burkhard von Harder wurde 1954 auf der Nordseeinsel Sylt geboren. Fruehe Auseinandersetzung mit den Medien Photographie und Film. Studium an der Filmschule der New York University (1977), Student von Prof. Willy Fleckhaus (1983). Die anfaenglich widerstrebende Auseinandersetzung mit der deutschen Vergangenheit und deutschen Schuld fuehrt zu einer Reihe fotografisch-filmischer Projekte, was bis in die Jetztzeit anhaelt. Das Cold War Projekt, das auf mehreren tausend verwitterten und anonymen Negativen aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges in der ehemaligen USSR basiert, wird im Fruehsommer 2013 zentraler Bestandteil der ersten Photo Art Biennale der Ukraine. bvh, 2012

synopsis CYCLES Appropriation of Godfrey Reggio's QATSI Trilogy ‘That is really expanded cinema, explaining cinema as a direct theory for the eye.’ Pip Chodorov, Director of The Film Gallery, Paris after watching the project's silent version 24 Frames per Second - Deconstructing Movies was the title of my exhibition that opened on Christmas Eve 2015 in Beijing/China. The project’s aim was to make visible each and every single frame of a given movie, in this case Zhang Yimou’s ‘Raise the Red Lantern’. A digital file as scroll had been created and, printed in book form as well, but now for the first time on wallpaper that kept meandering 40 meters in length and 3 meter in height along the gallery walls. More Untitled Filmscrolls were to follow even if the results soon appeared too limited being too static. More digital experimentation, reintroducing movement, led to another climax that seemed to be peek with the digital translation of Godfrey Regio’s QATSI Trilogy. Renamed CYCLES (CYCLE OF DISRUPTION - CYCLE OF WAR - CYCLE OF CHANGE) an extraordinary visual DNA was revealed, the dance of hundreds of thousands of frames caused by the excessive use of stop motion technology of the original, including time lapse, jump cuts, use of color etc., most fascinating hidden meta-levels of the cinematic language with endless cascades of caleidoscopic image patterns no one seemed aware of they existed. As in real life viewers of a film are locked into the unfolding process of time. Looking at a filmscroll is like looking at time from the outside, with past, presence and future happening simultaneously, transcending the usual timeline. The drone-soundtrack by Thomas Fleischhauer (2024), created especially for the Moving Image Art Prize, offers a new experience alltogether. BURKHARD von HARDER, 2024

biographical note burkhard von harder, *1954, germany photographer, filmmaker, artist Film Studies Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, 1977/78 Guest Student of Willy Fleckhaus, University of Wuppertal, 1982/83

Ein sehr kurzes Stück für Bankdirektoren (fr: une très courte pièce pour directeurs de banque)est un opéra solo, monté sans autorisation dans une banque; une pièce d'une extrême sensibilité, qui traite d'une manière de "humer la folie" et du retour à "l'ennui, à l'odeur de tisane au tilleul, de l'adaptation raisonnable". (Critique du TAZ). Une autre pièce, celle du Libretto, est mise en scène et superposée à un métaniveau, à l'instar d'un titre: comme le chant n'est, dans les banques, toléré que dans des limites très restreintes, la police est alertée en très peu de temps. Des commandos des forces spéciales, qui interviennent généralement sur des prises d'otages ou des gros cambriolages, attaquent le bâtiment. Ils ne trouvent en face d'eux qu'une unique actrice à la sensibilité apparemment à fleur de peau, dont la fragilité est portée à son comble par sa tenue,une simple robe de papier. Si on la touchait brutalement ou si on la saisissait, elle se retrouverait nue (ce que, bien sûr, personne ne souhaite.)C'est le début d'une chorégraphie qui se trouve entre mise en scène et réalité... ...que la banque ait retiré sa plainte pour intrusion (dans les 8 cas) par souci de son image de marque, montre comment on peut , à l'aide de (méta-)planification, utiliser les mécanismes du marché dans un but artistique et politique, ainsi que pour sa propre protection... En tout, environ une demi-douzaine de projets du même type ont été jusqu'ici réalisés et montrés grâce à des caméras vidéo (manifestations comme forme d'art, installation d'une boîte d'informations " au nom du gouvernement fédéral" dans la zone piétonne de Potsdam, par laquelle nous présentions le grand projet (fictif) "nouveaux Länder - nouvelles identités ", avec pour fonction de développer pour les personnes des nouveaux Länder des identités adaptées au marché, entre autres) Ce projet a été financé par le Ministère de la Culture et de la recherche scientifique du Brandebourg.

Till Nikolaus von Heiseler, né à Braunschweig. Méningite suivie de séquelles neurologiques. Résistance éducative. Puis Wolfsburg, ville frontalière, ville de la Volkswagen. A neuf ans, première publication (dans le Zeit). Certificat d'incapacité scolaire, internat chrétien-fascisant. Sept renvois. Membre du groupe d'action artistique Head Resonance (devenu plus tard : Ponton Art Lab). Concert troyen: apparition avec musique "concept noise" au festival de jazz de Wolfsburg. Création du `lyrik werkstatt Göttingen`. Lecture à la NDR (radio Nord-Allemagne). Soutien du Dr. Walther Killy. Publications dans un manuel scolaire, chez Beltz, Rowohlt, edition Sisyphos et dans des revues littéraires. Formation de réalisateur avec John Costopoulos (N.Y.C.), Dominique De Fazio (L.A.) und Jack Garfein (N.Y.C. / Paris). Travail en tant que réalisateur à partir de ses propres textes à Berlin, Bâle, Francfort sur l'Oder et à la radio, et en tant que professeur de comédie (système Stanislavski) et coach pour acteurs de cinéma. Essai d'une nouvelle transmission de la littérature (fragment d'opéra, performance littéraire, installation textuelle, action publiques)- toujours en étroite collaboration avec des compositeurs et/ou des plasticiens. Fondateur des groupes interdisciplinaires d'artistes hai gorgai et du µ5-project.2 livres, 8 pièces de théâtre, scénariste et concepteur. En 1994, naissance de jumeaux, Anton et Emilia. Concepts expérimentaux en relations publiques. 5 années (1995-2000)d'expérimentation du roman à format média (3000 pages non éditées). Depuis l'hiver 1999/2000 travaux vidéo, co-fondateur du collectif des NEUEN METHODIKER (fr: nouveaux méthodiciens)avec entre autres Janus von Abaton, Andres Fuentes-Cannobbio et Michaela Caspar. Depuis l'automne 2002 séminaires dans le domaine de la théorie des médias avec le Dr. Bernd Ternes. Début du projet métathéorique ?Toward an Integral Theory of Media? couplé à des expérimentations pratiques dans différents médias (radio, vidéo, internet, installations sonores)et des interventions artistiques (performances dans l'espace public). Domaines de recherche formes de collectivité en réseaux, application de la théorie des médias, formats scientifiques, artistiques et des médias de masse. Colloques sur internet à l'Université Libre de Berlin en collaboration avec l'Université Humboldt et l'école supérieure des arts de Berlin. En 2005 création du formatLabor.

La crise de la formation n?est pas un sujet nouveau, mais d?autant plus central dans le débat politique et les enjeux économiques du 21ème siècle. La journaliste rapporte les propos néolibéraux du secrétaire d?Etat à la formation et à la recherche ; les acteurs récitent, lors de l?audition, des fragments d?un roman d?éducation atypique de Robert Walser ; l?adolescent présente patiemment sa lettre de motivation pour trouver une place d?apprentissage. Est-ce que tout un chacun remplit son rôle ? Dans trois épisodes hétérogènes, l?essai filmique NULLZUSTAND propose subtilement de reconsidérer la formation non comme une garantie pour une place dans la « société du savoir », mais comme potentiel subversif de la jeunesse à transformer et renouveler le monde.

L?artiste Laura von Niederhäusern articule ses recherches par le moyen du film ; elle a notamment réalisé les essais filmiques Hier und Jetzt (2009) et Nullzustand (2011). En 2009, elle obtient le diplôme de la Haute école d?art et de design - Genève où elle a étudié la théorie critique dans le Programme Master de la recherche Critical Curatorial Cybermedia (CCC). Actuellement elle travaille comme assistante coordinatrice de l?orientation Master CCC et participe au projet de recherche Politiques et initiatives mémorielles et pratiques artistiques. Elle est membre et cofondatrice de l?association Uqbar.

Born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin. Between 1996 and 1998 he studies photography and media at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld. In 1998 he transfers to the HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and graduates from Astrid Kleins’ class in 2002, followed by a master in 2005. In the same year he receives the Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen. In 2006 he wins the German competition at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen as well as the Karl-Schmidt-Rottluff-Stipendium. Wedemeyer exhibits at the Moscow Biennial in 2005 and at the Berlin Biennial in 2006. In 2008 he participates in Skulptur Projekte Münster. Solo exhibitions include Kölnischer Kunstverein and MoMA PS1, New York, in 2006, the Barbican Art Centre London in 2009 and the Frankfurter Kunstverein in 2011. He participates in documenta 13 in 2012.

Une réalisatrice veut tourner un film médiéval dans la banlieue de Paris. Pendant le casting, elle se concentre sur une seule personne. Le parking, devant le théâtre, sur lequel les jeunes acteurs attendent leur tour, devient vite le décor de la nouvelle scène. Pendant qu´à l´intérieur, l´aliénation entre la réalisatrice et son assistant, atteint son paroxysme, commence à l´extérieur, la danse des « superflus ».

Maya Schweizer, née le 10 janvier 1976 à Maisons-Alfort,vit et travaille à Berlin En juin 1998 Licence d´arts plastiques à l´ Université d´Aix-en-Provence. De 2000 à 2002 elle entre à la Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB), de Leipzig puis entre en équivalence à l´ Universität der Künste(UdK) de Berlin où elle est diplômée en janvier 2005.

In the background of blockbuster films, algorithms have been employed to replace extras in post-production. Since years we are used to scenes in which masses of automated characters fill the screen, animated by algorithms that let them interact, similar to computer games and agents in computational sociology. Such artificial masses are stepping in the foreground. Simulating life began in the movies and computer games, but is influencing many fields today. In architecture, city planning and traffic navigation as well as in predictions of markets and trade, virtual scenarios influence society and change the way we live. Transformation Scenario (2018) by Clemens von Wedemeyer creates a speculative narration on the impact of emulated group behaviour in society. It follows an idea that could be inspired by Jean Luc Godards film Le Gai Savoir: “To find the solution to a problem, be it a chemical or political problem, one has to dissolve it: dissolve hydrogen, dissolve the parliament. Therefore we will now dissolve images and sounds.“ The film is part of a long term project by the artist making reference to the work Mass and Power (1960) by Elias Canetti, shifting the view on imageries of society, crowd control and potentials of masses today. This is especially relevant in times of populism, when numbers are used to construct power, and demonstrations and mass events form moments of resistance.

Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. The artist and filmmaker participated in group shows such as the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008), and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). He had solo shows among others at MoMA PS1, New York, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, the Barbican Art Centre, London, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein and Hamburger Kunsthalle. His works can be found in major collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Tate Modern, London.

Container ships, infrastructures of the digital economy, mines and cityscapes of contemporary California are brought into an associative montage that expands via the soundtrack of improvisational musician Zsolt Sorés. In a film without dialogue, landscape images and music produce a raw and psychedelic anti-effect in which musical delays reflect on the surfaces of the images and support the montage: Individuals are networked, but Silicon Valley's digital enterprises are inaccessible, public space closed off by smart fences.

The artist and filmmaker Clemens von Wedemeyer, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Mass (1999), Otjesd(2004), From the Opposite Side(2007), Muster / Rushes (2012), The Horses of a Cavalry Captain (2015), Esiod 2015 (2016), Transformation Scenario (2018)