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"A Hot Sandfilled Wind" expresses the despair and hope of contemporary politics in Israel/Palestine. It is based on a poem by Nadia Habib, and part of the Palestine Trilogy: documentations in history, land & hope.

B.H. Yael is a Toronto based filmmaker, video, and installation artist. She is Professor and Chair of Integrated Media at the Ontario College of Art and Design, and past Assistant Dean in the Faculty of Art.

In the marshlands of southern Iraq, Ibrahim and his family live isolated from the rest of the world, deeply intertwined with the river, the reeds and the animals they tend. The quiet and withdrawn Ibrahim finds solace only in his buffalo, his one true companion. As Ibrahim’s world collapses, he must confront forces beyond his control that threaten not only his way of life but also the one living creature he truly understands.

Ali Yahya is an Iraqi filmmaker, born in 1994 in Baghdad, where he has lived and worked his entire life. His journey began after studying Psychology at the bachelor’s level. He later moved into visual arts, first as a graphic designer and then as a Creative Director at Becorp, one of Iraq’s leading creative agencies, where he continues to lead visual storytelling and cultural-visual projects. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Film. He uses film to explore the human experience, capturing the beauty and complexities of everyday life. Through his work, he brings the stories of his homeland to the world. His debut short film Beneath Which Rivers Flow (2025), shot in the marshlands of southern Iraq, blends poetic observation with lived reality, exploring the fragile relationship between a community and its disappearing landscape. The film premiered at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, where it received a Special Mention from the jury.

This work is based on works by Edward Hopper (1882?1967). Using a "realist" scene constructed by Hopper as a prototype, seven original works are intertwined with past works by the artist. The "reality of art" re-interprets the "super-arty" world. The whole mime is interspersed with the artist`s expressions concerning "arty" and "super-arty". All of the features that appear in this work point to an exploration of "art" itself. One could say that without the artist`s misinterpretation of "art", there would certainly be no better definition of "Super-Arty".

Born in Chongqing in 1986, Yan Xing graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2009 with a bachelor degree. Yan Xing currently lives and works in Beijing and Los Angeles. He is both the initiator and participant of the ?COMPANY? project. His works have been shown at institutions such as: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), Houston, USA; Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow, Russia; PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine; National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China; China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM), Beijing, China; Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China; Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT), Shenzhen, China and the A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu, China. He has also been featured at Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2012), Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale (2012). Yan Xing?s works involve an extremely broad range of creative media, including performance, video, installation and painting, among others. The solo exhibitions of his works were held at Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK (2012); Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne, Beijing, China (2011; 2013), and his works have also been shown in important group exhibitions such as: Meulensteen Gallery, New York, USA; Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China; Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China; and Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China. Yan Xing?s works have been public collections include: Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA; M+ Museum for Visual Culture, Hong Kong; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France; He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China. In 2012 he won the Best Young Artist Award by CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Award). The same year, he was a finalist in the ?Future Generation Art Prize?, Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Kiev, Ukraine; ?Focus on Talents Project 2012?, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, Martell Art Fund. Yan Xing has created and planned exhibitions such as: Dream Plant contemporary art exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China; Mummery, Art Channel, Beijing, China; and the Fact Study Institute, Yangtze River Space, Wuhan, China.

The film moves through the hidden storage spaces of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, revealing artworks whose ownership records remain incomplete. Some bear traces of wartime displacement and intentional omissions; others have shifted in attribution, altering the narratives attached to them. It traces how institutional structures shape what becomes visible and what remains unresolved. As the camera moves through the storage rooms, “Coming Home” observes the museum as an active system of organization, where artworks are continually recontextualized. Viewers encounter the collection as an unseen archive and are asked to navigate a place where certainty is partial and orientation never fixed.

Jinjoo Yang is a Montreal-based artist and architect whose films emerge from direct engagement with specific sites. She works with institutional interiors, using controlled camera movement to trace how places hold and mediate their histories. Her practice moves between observation and construction, turning regulated environments into temporal landscapes where visibility, authorship, and memory subtly shift. Yang’s recent works include “Coming Home,” filmed in the collection storage of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and “Occupied,” a forthcoming film shaped by Cold War infrastructures. Her projects have been presented internationally at institutions such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Architecture in New York, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

"Filmer à Dakar, présences singulières entre le sable, la ville et le delta" est un diptyque vidéo mettant en relation des espaces naturels, des espaces construits et leurs occupants. Les séquences formées par le diptyque tissent une trame dont l’agencement se renouvelle au gré des projections en boucle. D’une part un défilement de lieux tels que la ville en construction de Diamniadio ou des espaces en transition comme les espaces en démontage de la Biennale de Dakar dans l’ancien palais de justice. D’autre part, l’activité dense au cœur de la Corniche en bord de mer, où la caméra avance dans le mouvement fluide des séances d’entraînements. Un jeune garçon à l’écart tente un "selfie". Circulant d’une projection à l’autre on se rend compte de la complémentarité de celles-ci: l’énergie déployée sur la Corniche magnétise les espaces vides, en transition, présentés dans l’autre écran. Ces deux projections dans lesquelles se déploient espaces intérieurs et extérieurs, et leurs occupants, interpellent l’écologie du vivre ensemble, dont les paramètres sont en perpétuelle mouvance.

Les œuvres de Myriam Yates se déploient sous forme de grandes projections vidéographiques ou de séries photographiques. Elle privilégie une approche hybride de l’image entre une certaine forme de document et l’essai vidéo. Elle s’intéresse à la construction de l’espace public, aux jonctions entre l’aménagement et la nature ainsi qu’à la notion de territoire. Ses œuvres ont été présentées lors d’événements tels que le Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel (Allemagne); le Images Festival, Toronto (Canada), les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (France/Allemagne), le Mois de la Photo à Montréal (Canada) et Nuit Blanche, Toronto (Canada). Elles ont fait l’objet d’expositions individuelles et collectives, notamment à la Galerie d’art Foreman de l’Université Bishop’s, Sherbrooke (Canada), au Hessel Museum of Art — CCS Bard, New York (USA), au Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Canada), au centre d’art contemporain OPTICA, Montréal (Canada), à Dazibao, Montréal (Canada). Un essai dans la revue Prefix Photo sur les architectures improbables a été consacré à ses œuvres vidéographiques accompagnant une exposition au Prefix ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (Canada). Elle remporte en 2015 le Prix Victor-Martyn-Lynch-Staunton (arts médiatiques) du Conseil des arts du Canada. Originaire de Montréal, elle vit présentement à Sherbrooke. Ses projets sont régulièrement financés par les Conseils des arts et des lettres du Québec et du Canada.

Isolated in Central Newfoundland (Canada), Gander Airport had played a vital role from 1940s as a refueling stop for transatlantic flights. During the Cold War, Gander was one of the few refueling points where airplanes could stop en route from Eastern Europe or the Soviet Union to Cuba. Intended to present a progressive image of Canada, the historical international lounge was built in the late fifties with furniture by influential designers of the time. With the advent of jets with longer range in the 1960s most flights no longer needed to refuel. Gander has decreased in importance. The imposing lounge of the international zone today stands still, only occupied by US air force and private jets. Gander Islands (diptych) focuses on the smokers` room adjacent to the lounge. During the filming, deposited on the floor, a barely started drink with an Arabic writing on the bottle label - recalling the use of the place by American soldiers in transit from a mission. Punctuated by stickers of various tactical forces placed here and there in the terminal, this discrete presence hovers the lounge. The two images that run in synchronicity are close to a drift, a reverie of a hypothetical occupant.

Myriam Yates has developed a practice based essentially on the image (videographic, cinematic and photographic). Her work takes the form of large projections, installations and photographic series. She explores the connection between sites and their representation, often basing her projects on modern sites or sites in transition whose singular status interrogates the connections between the individual, modernity and architecture.

REHEARSAL vidéo monobande HD, 10 min. (2013). La vidéo Rehearsal nous transporte dans un studio d`entraînement situé au siège social du Cirque du Soleil à Montréal (Québec, Canada). Une équipe composée de six gymnastes d`élite de l?Europe de l?Est (russes et ukrainien) s`entraînent à adapter leur savoir-faire pour une performance de Grand volant dans l`éventualité d`intégrer un spectacle. Je propose ici un regard qui délaisse les costumes et le spectaculaire de la scène pour mettre l`accent sur la concentration des athlètes, leur état psychologique et leur effort physique, éléments qui sont camouflés lors de leur performance scénique. Je tente de créer un dialogue formel entre la structure des studios d?entraînement et les corps qui doivent effectuer des mouvements précis dans cet espace que je me plais à comparer à un vaisseau spatial.

Biographie: La pratique de l?artiste en arts visuels Myriam Yates, basée sur la photographie et la vidéo, explore la relation précaire entre l?espace public et l?espace privé, à l?image de celle existant entre l?architecture et celles et ceux qui l?habitent. Elle s?intéresse particulièrement aux lieux en phase de transition. Yates est titulaire d?un baccalauréat en arts plastiques et d?une maîtrise en arts visuels et médiatiques de l?Université du Québec à Montréal. Ses ?uvres ont été présentées lors d?événements tels que le Buenos Aires International Documentary Film Festival (2013), la Kasseler Dockfest (Kassel, Allemagne, 2012), lmages Festival (Toronto, 2012), Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal (2007), les Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid (2007, 2012, 2013). Son travail a fait l?objet d?expositions individuelles et collectives : au Hessel Museum of Arts du CCS Bard (N. Y., 2012), lors de la Triennale québécoise au Musée d?art contemporain de Montréal (2011), à Optica, centre d?art contemporain (Montréal, 2009). Elle a participé au programme de résidences du Banff Center et à ses conférences du New Media Institute (Alberta, 2004-05). Au printemps 2014 Prefix photo magazine lui consacrera un essai/portefolio, et le Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art (Toronto) une exposition en 2015.

Myriam Yates, Racetrack Superstar Ghost, 2011, Film 16mm transféré sur fichier numérique et son, projeté en boucle. 7 min. 10 sec. (7 min. 37 avec générique). La projection filmique Racetrack Superstar Ghost propose un regard contemplatif qui met en parallèle deux structures événementielles, soit les estrades montées temporairement pour le méga concert rock de U2 et les bâtiments désaffectés des anciennes estrades de l`Hippodrome de Montréal. En l`espace de deux soirs ce site longtemps délaissé, mais récemment abandonné, devient illuminé de l`extérieur par un spectacle qui le réactualise. Ce projet s`inscrit dans un moment unique de la «fin de vie» de cette piste historique qui sera démolie incessamment où deux temporalités se déroulent dans un même site. Par des plans d`ensemble en film 16mm, le projet consiste à investiguer autour du contraste entre ces deux structures de rassemblements populaires. Des lieux tels que l`hippodrome, qui ont rassemblé des milliers de gens à une époque révolue, nous montrent une réalité en marge de la nôtre. Présents dans l`urbanité, en état d`attente, ils deviennent des espaces parallèles propices à la projection d`une certaine narrativité. Cette recherche s`inscrit dans une pensée hétérotopique où plusieurs lieux, plusieurs temporalités se côtoient sur un même site. En ce sens, l`événement du concert de U2 à l`hippodrome est un paroxysme. Présenté sous forme d`installation en primeur dans le cadre de l`exposition collective la Triennale québécoise : Le travail qui nous attend du Musée d`art contemporain de Montréal du 6 octobre 2011 au 3 janvier 2012. Présenté ensuite à CCS Bard Hessel Museum (Annandale-on-Hudson, New-York), Spring exhibitions and projects, du 18 mars au 15 avril 2012, commissaire : Janine Armin Programmé à la 25e édition d`Images Festival (Toronto), du 12 au 21 avril. À venir : Centre Canadien d?Architecture (Montréal, automne 2012). Kasseler DokFest, (Kassel, Allemagne, novembre 2012). Remerciements : Conseil des arts du Canada, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Kodak Canada et le centre d`arts médiatiques Prim. Crédits : Réalisation et montage : Myriam Yates; Direction photo : Etienne Boilard; Assistants caméra : Ina Lopez, Nicolas René; Prise de son et mixage : Alexis Bellavance.

In the video diptych Occupants the camera takes us into two neglected sites of a North American city; an hippodrome and an abandoned pavilion of the EXPO 67 (Montreal?s international fair, 1967). By waiting, listening and investigating, three individuals, placed in the frame of the camera, are the recipients of a background noise created by site-specific captures from the two spaces. These two vast and open places form the perimeter of a space of reflection and experimentation related to the rapid disappearance of cultural sites and the obsolescence of a place where people gathered. Is the cameraman filming a real race? Through a pile of magnetic tapes, the characters are looking for clues that would create links between the two sites and situate us in the time.

Myriam Yates?s photography and video based practice tends towards a documentary approach, exploring the tenuous relationship between public and private space as well as obsolete urban sites related to leisure and culture. She has recently completed a master`s degree in visual and media arts at University of Québec at Montréal. Interested in the many ways images are used in the public arena, she has also studied advertising and graphic design. Her work has been shown in individual and collective exhibitions in artists centres in Canada (Gallery44, La Centrale, Skol, Dare-Dare) and at the Montreal Contemporary Art Museum. Parallel to her practice she works as programming coordinator of StudioXX, a media art center in Montreal.

The birds of Arabia On the eve of the Second World War, thousands of Spanish refugees crossed the Pyrenees as they fled from Franco?s advance. Antonio Atarès was one of these. Upon his arrival in France, he was interned in a camp in the Vernet in Ariège. In March 1941, he received a letter from someone he did not know, the philosopher Simone Weil. A correspondence started up between them. On the one hand, a Jewish thinker, engaged in a political and mystical struggle in Marseille, and on the other hand, an anarchist peasant exiled in France, then at the doors of the Sahara, in Djelfa in Algeria.

David Yon was born in 1979 in Provins (France). He works and lives in Lyon. In 2005, he obtained a master degree in documentary film making. In 2007 he founded "Dérives", a movie review & dvd, and website. The birds of Arabia, achieved in 2009, is his first film.

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Alyscamps revisits the pre-Christian practice known as drue de mourtilage in non-narrative terms. Filmed in Arles, and St-Gervais in France, and Cape Town and Robben Island in South Africa, this 8 minute long video projection explores the myth of the Phantom Ship (sailors doomed to beat into the wind forever), through a series of hypnotic scenes of devastation, flood, fire and death. In ancient times corpses from all over southern Europe were lain in shallow rafts and floated down the Rhône to Arles? famous necropolis at Les Alyscamps. Here the corpses were placed in enormous stone sarcophagi. However the people of Arles, aided and abetted by their Bishops, looted Les Alyscamps and sold off this treasure trove of carved stone coffins. According to legend, the Archbishop of Arles was confronted one night by an apparition of the Phantom Ship that appeared out of the mists of the Camargue. Remarkably, a thousand years later the future king of England was confronted by a similar apparition whilst sailing off Cape Town in 1881.

Gavin Younge works internationally as an artist, author, and filmmaker. His video installation, Curating the Waves featured on the 2003 Rencontres Paris/Berlin and was purchased by the Göppingen Museum in Germany. His most recent international exhibitions include `Prosthesis` with La Noire Galerie in Paris in May 2007, participation in the `Champs de la Sculpture 2000` exhibition in Paris, and two solo exhibitions in France: `Gilets du Sauvetage` in Nimes and `Collection Privé` in Paris. He attained an MA in Fine Arts in 1988 and holds a professorship at the University of Cape Town. He is the immediate past Director of the Michaelis School of Fine Art and lectures Sculpture, and Videography. In 2007 he will present two works on the inaugural SpierContemporary exhibition. He lives and works in South Africa and France.

a video that attempts to portray an eerie study of seclusion, alienation in and through the image of the fugitive. the main character occupying the images is an anti-hero recluse who resides in a state of self-inflicted introspection. the character is transcended through a narrative thread of non-fiction moments and segments, into a cluster of morose stagnation and insistent malaise. *secrecy molds the morbid drifting of hatem, a man who works in privacy and lives his life accordingly. hatem hides more than he tells, clouding himself in a reclusive state of introspection.

Born in 1989, I am an artist-filmmaker from beirut. I finished my bachelors in audiovisual studies, with a specialization in cinema, from saint joseph university, beirut in 2013 with my film “ transmission ”. afterwards, I went on to collaborate with ashkal alwan, which led to my 2014 ongoing film project titled “ a thin soft layer of ”. I graduated from the film masters program at the netherlands film academy in 2017 with a thesis exploring the self-alienation and seclusion that deviant members of society may inflict on themselves as an act of escapism. I’ve worked in different fields related to film, including cinematography, editing, sound, development, production as well as assembling my own process, first and foremost as a filmmaker, but also as a researcher.

The collision and fusion between civilizations, the transformation of the geological landscape, the conflicts between human beings and natural forces – after thousands of years, they have been molded into specimens of human ambition in different times and displayed on the timeless wilderness. However, the heavy significance of their conflicts in their own time has been dissolved by the endless wilderness and become a simple landscape beaming their messages to the timeless vast. When the shadow of modern the signal tower passes over the beacon tower built two thousand years ago, the significance of conflicts in different times collapses at the same time. Indigenous ecological knowledge and modern civilization representing advanced productive forces coexist in the gaps of collapse. The sublime will to strive for arete blocked by giant building fortifications echoes over the desert as permanently and incoherently as the signal sent by the towers. The passion and ambition for conflict have not diminished but have become more and more intense. The exploration of the deep sea and space, obsession and fear of artificial intelligence, everyone’s determination to fight against everyone, trade war, economic war, energy war, technology war, information war, cold war thinking, clash of civilization, identity politic. Human society seems to be in an eternal state of conflict, a stasis. This series of images are three longitudinal slices of this stasis.

Bian Yunxiang, creative designer/media artist who does visuals in digital space, self-taught in visual communication, trained in postdigital storytelling, specialising in the vast in-between, working as a design technologist in luxury, practicing media art and critical design around the topic of digital geopolitics, lecturing at the Royal College of Art and China Academy of Art, exhibited works in London, Eindhoven, Athens, Dublin, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Bejing, Kaohsiung, completed commercial art commissions from Burberry, Harrods, Nike, BMW, and Arcteryx through the years. Currently based in Shanghai, previously in Hong Kong and London. In my practice, I use media technology to express concern about geopolitical-related topics and create poetic moving images in the context of post-colonialism and global civil war through the construction of digital geo-landscapes. This allows me to document and depict the diverse and complex ways in which people engage with extreme environments from a political philosophy perspective.