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Opus III explores the landscape of the Atlas Mountains as both a physical territory and a symbolic topos. Filmed between Tunisia and Morocco, the work expands the research initiated in Opus I and II by confronting the visible landscape with its mythological echoes. The piece considers the Atlas not only as a geographical massif but as an archetypal figure shaped by recurring narratives, beliefs and collective memories. Through a slow and contemplative visual language, Opus III becomes a passage between the material presence of the mountains and the intangible layers of meaning that inhabit them. The work invites the viewer to shift perspective and enter a space where landscape, myth and perception intertwine.

Haythem Zakaria is a transdisciplinary artist and sound performer born in 1983 in Tunisia and based in France. Working across video, installation, photography, drawing and sound, he explores how landscapes, myths and forms of memory shape perception, and how the visible can open onto more elusive dimensions of experience. His practice is grounded in field research, slow temporalities and a refined attention to the resonance of places. Since 2010, his work has been presented internationally in major exhibitions, biennials and independent art spaces across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia and North America, including documenta 15, the Venice Biennale, the Japan Media Arts Festival, Cairotronica, Dream City, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Casa Árabe and numerous institutions in Paris, London, Berlin, Beijing, Rabat, Tokyo and San Francisco. Recipient of the Grand Prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival for Interstices, Zakaria continues to develop research-based projects where image, sound and matter intersect, forming a space of inquiry into archetypes, memory and the thresholds between the visible and the unseen.

The work follows the idea of the impossibility of perception. Basically, it is the memory which formulates reality and perception. Feelings of strangeness and the loss of security follow mankind on their way- or their search- to "a home". I understand "a home" as a place J.Derrida developed under the term Xora. The title of the video starts with the english word "movie", which used at the same time can be taken for granted as the polish word he/she says.

Set in the city of Ahlen, Germany, ?My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar?, is a server side generated movie that imitates an amateur?s film of the landscape framed at sunset. While the city strip is prerecorded the sky is captured in real time from a webcam shooting the sky of Naples (Italy) at sunset and as such, always changing. The website hosting the project renders a new movie every day and save it in an archive. The work, confronting themes such as exile, migration and border control, is enhanced by a poem by the esteemed author Ghada Samman and music by the international band Gotan Project and legendary composer Gabriel Yared.

Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, Italy, 1975) is among one of the pioneering New Media artists of his generation. Since 2000 Carlo Zanni`s practice involves the use of live Internet data feedback to create time based social consciousness experiences under the form of games, photos, films and installations. For the past eight years Carlo Zanni kept investigating a new radical approach to the art making that is the use of live material gathered from the Internet to shape forms reflecting topical issues of our life. This data can be eBay.com stock market charts like in "eBay Landscape, 2004", or a set of images gathered from daily top stories like in "Average Shoveler, 2005", or even weather forecasts in "Time-In, 2005" or UNESCO Indicators for the upcoming ?The 5th Day, 2009?. This use of live data, screening our society, lets the viewer be part of the piece even if he physically doesn`t interact with it. His work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown`s Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001). ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts in London held his first retrospective in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In October 2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist and director Marcin Ramocki featuring an interview with Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. With his latest project "My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar" ? 2007 [www.FromTheSunsetTerrace.com] Carlo Zanni keeps investigating what he calls DATA CINEMA: a new way to approach filmmaking and narrative forms at large based on the use of live data feedback gathered from the Net, to create ever changing cinematic live environments. More info on the artist at http://www.zanni.org

Prima Vita is part of a series about mechanized landscapes. A short piece recorded in Barcelona´s container terminal from Montjuïc, a nearby hill overlooking the city. Huge tired cranes roll along aisles made of thousands of containers stacked on top of each other in an otherwise rigid matrix that provides for efficient storage and transport between large ships and trucks. The cranes are operated by a single driver assisted by computers in a carefully choreographed dance thru the meadows of invisible goods. Landscape is a machine part of larger machines, where humans, surface rolling vehicles and ships are gears in permanent interaction.

1974, photographer and architect. Graduated from the PUCMM in Santiago, Dominican Republic. I´m a founding member of Grupo Fotográfico de Santiago since 1996, a group of photographers from different backgrounds committed with promoting photography through exhibitions, lectures and workshops. I moved on to study architecture and urbanism at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam in 2000 focusing on recent urban transformations through the landscapes of Rotterdam and Zuid Holland and eventually went on to work for the photographer Francesco Jodice and Multiplicity, in projects like Secret Traces and Uncertain States of Europe at the Triennale di Milano. Among other distinctions is the Wilfredo García international photography prize, first prize at the 2005 Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (Al_Caribe with Supersudaca) and being selected for the XXIV Bienal Eduardo León Jimenes. I`ve taught at several institutions in Latin America and Europe while working in collaborative projects and workshops as an independent architect and visual artist in projects on architecture, landscape and photography.

Kitty came back home from on the island But kitty came on home without a name. To speak in tongues’ means to have the gift for mastering an unknown language while also being passed through by someone else’s word. In this telescopic and panoramic film of fac-simile et exempla, circularity at first, leads us right into the 360° view of a battle scene where the past is frozen within a tourist museum-device and the viewers with their camera are the actual subject. In sequence, concentric holes open up: a horse is performing a dance stepping backward; a fortune teller takes guesses on future circumstances and retrospective ones; the bodies of two gymnasts extend through their tools of artifice and grace, then we are taken on a ride across a Little Venice in miniature empty like a movie set. This spiral comes full circle in the silence of a lonely hunter on a Apennines tromp-l’oeil, a simulation park with fake birds and a mimetic wildermann: a carousel of the artificial where solitude is sound and nature is impermeable.  Proceeding by aphorisms, this film unfolds into a number of articulations and dimensions, all exceptionally true and false, like in an almanac of vision.

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is a collective formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Founded in 2000 and based in the hills between Cesena and Rimini, the group is the author of film projects and art installations that have been shown in major international film and art festivals. Zapruder’s fervent production relies on a ferocious and comic analysis of the human condition whose tragic destiny becomes a metaphysical place where they explore the language of representation, forging a surreal and poetic portrait. The group film-projects are often flexible cinematic devices, which Zapruder defines as `Chamber Cinema` sort of incarnated environment and disembodied theatre, poised between visual and performing arts. Vision becomes experience of time, long shots prevail and draw a polycentric spatial scene that allow the eye to open on the enigma of vision rather than narrowing on the narrative anecdote. Zapruder’s projects are written and directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi. David Zamagni ( b. 1971, Rimini) During his cinema studies in Bologna at DAMS, in 1994 he joins the theater company ‘Motus’ to later become icon actor of the performance `Catrame` (1996). In 1998, with Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, is co-author of `Orlando Furioso` and in 1999 they are awarded the UBU prize as well as that of the magazine `Lo straniero`; in the same year he leaves Motus to pursue his interests in cinema. Nadia Ranocchi ( b. 1973, Rimini) After completing her studies in Psychology at the University of Bologna, in 1998 she starts working with David Zamagni on their movies and audiovisual projects. Monaldo Moretti (b. 1972, Recanati) joins them in 2000. He is David’s former classmate in highschool and later on over the DAMS years. As well as co-founder of the group Zapruder, he`s director of photography, actor and foley artist.

Experimenting in telepathy during the 1970s, American Parapsychologist Charles Honorton introduced what he termed the Ganzfeld (full field) Method. One of the two subjects involved would experience a state of sensory deprivation, induced by placing the two halves of a ping pong ball over the eyes, while indistinct (white) noise was played into the ears through headphones. Such condition would give the subject the necessary concentration to allow for the transmission of thoughts and images remotely, solely through telepathy, from the mind of the other subject, who would be situated in a `communicating` room. Suite is part of Zapruder`s project `SPELL`. Combinations of elements ?Spell? give rise to cryptic and solemn events whose expression is often uncertain, even suspected.

Since 2000, David Zamagni (b. 1971, Rimini) and Nadia Ranocchi (b. 1973, Rimini) have been working under the name Zapruder, in collaboration with Monaldo Moretti (b.1972, Recanati) and a rotating network of creative members. Since 2005, the group has been exploring the possibilities of digital, stereoscopic, 3-D cinematic techniques through short film, concerts and installations. zapruderie.com

COCK-CROW (51 min Hd stereoscopic film 2009) Every age spawns and feeds its dragon. Unknown and obscure powers under which simpliest and more ordinary gestures lapse. Men whose bodily existence becomes the place for implacable struggles. Depths impossible to plumb and therefore admitted to participate in the holy economy. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a tiny little boy who is blameworthy for what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images, in search of the dragon to fight against. Cock-Crow it`s a rite of passage from childhood to manhood.

DAVID ZAMAGNI & NADIA RANOCCHI David Zamagni (Rimini, 1971) e Nadia Ranocchi (Rimini, 1973), directors and filmmakers, they live and work in Roncofreddo (FC). Together they are the authors of ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup` projects (David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti). Zapruder?s work is difficult to define within the traditional disciplinary boundaries and may perhaps be placed in the interstitial area between visual, performance and cinematographic art to give form to what the group defines as ?chamber cinema?, a sort of incarnated and tactile cinema, as well as a form of immaterial theatre. Zapruder?s production is characterized by an entirely artisanal approach that leads to a personal language in which the means is a fundamental and inexorable part. Since 2005 the group explores the possibilities of anaglyphy and stereoscopy through a series of short films and installations exploiting the techniques of 3-D cinema, conceiving and constructing both the equipments for the stereoscopic shooting and those used for watching. A considerable part of Zapruder?s work has taken place within the context of Italian experimental theatre (collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio). Works by the Zapruder Filmmakersgroup have been screened and have won awards in prestigious festivals, including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (D), Biennale de l`image en mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (A), Transmediale (Berlin, D), TTV Performing Arts on Screen (Riccione, I), Netmage (Bologna, I), Rencontres Internationales Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Milanesiana (I), Santarcangelo Festival (I), Contemporanea Festival (Prato, I), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, B), Uovo Festival (Milan, I), Festival d`Avignon (F) Venice film festival (Venice Lido, I).

"Morning Smile" is Zapruder's first work of George Bataille?s Trilogy. It is reminiscent of something forgotten and lost in its time. As the upshot of a night spent together, Dirty and Troppmann find themselves in a Savoy hotel room. Dirty is in a drunken state, speaking drunkenly and talking a lot of nonsense. Alcohol dulls her mind and rouses fear, "fear corrects everybody" says Dirty and she wets herself. Troppmann is the witness of the young lady's agony. The hotel room "reserved" for the two lovers is not a sheltered, cosy place, it is an open place, it lets in another story, allows another room to come in: the nuptial room for which were commissioned Botticelli's four pictures representing a hunting scene where a young lady is the prey. The paintings evoke the fear of damnation. "Morning Smile" was inspired by Georges Bataille?s episode "Dirty" and is closely connected to Decameron's 8th tale, 5th day.

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is made up by David Zamagni (born in Rimini in 1971), Nadia Ranocchi (born in Rimini in 1973), and Monaldo Moretti (born in Recanati in 1972).Together they play any role involved in Zapruder'productions, writing, direction, shooting, photography, editing, sound... Living and working in Roncofreddo (FC) Italy, Zapruder devotes itself to moving images. Their filmography includes: 1998, "Tony the fireman" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Marylin and the K." (animation. D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Steak & Chips" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi). 1999 In collaboration with "Motus" company "O.F. ovvero Orlando Furioso impunemente eseguito da Motus", awarded at "Riccione TTV Performing Arts on screen Festival 2000; "H.O.L.Y." segnalato al Bellaria film festival 2000; "Revolver V.M. 18" (video installation in collaboration with writer Isabella Santacroce), shown at "Brescia Music Art 2000"; 2001, "J.G." (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi) awarded at "Iceberg Festival 2002"; "Totentanz" (D.Zamagni, N.Ranocchi, and M.Moretti); "Daysi dammi la mano son pazzo di te" (N.Ranocchi); "Nervi" (M.Moretti) awarded at "Bellaria film festival"; "SPRING ROLL" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), awarded at "48° Oberhausen Short Film Festival"; special mention at "Unimovie 2001", Pescara; "Fiaticorti Nuove Frontiere Award", Istrana (TV); "Doggy bag with Spring roll" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), special mention at "Premio D.A.M.S", 2002; 2003, "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" short film; 2003, Together with Fanny & Alexander company they started the Nabokovian project "ADA", made up by 6 theatral stages with video images (when present), realized by Zapruder; Ravenna Festival, the performance "Ardis I"; 2004, Kunsten festival des Arts di Bruxelles, "Ardis II"; Riccione TTV festival performing arts on screen, "Rebus per Ada", installation for 16mm, produced and realized by Zapruder and Fanny & Alexander; "Morning Smile" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi); 2005, Festival delle colline torinesi, "Vaniada"; 2006, "Morning Smile" wins the Riccione TTV award for the "radicals linguistic choices of work"; Santarcangelo '06 festival of Arts, Zapruder presents "Daimon. The laceretor", Anagliph Projection, 2nd work from the George Bataille 'Zapruder' trilogy; To be viewed with 3D glasses; Trento Contemporary Art Gallery, the 2nd issue of Daimon's serial story, "Daimon.XXX (Trente)" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi, Anaglyph Projection).

Kitty came back home from on the island But kitty came on home without a name. To speak in tongues’ means to have the gift for mastering an unknown language while also being passed through by someone else’s word. In this telescopic and panoramic film of fac-simile et exempla, circularity at first, leads us right into the 360° view of a battle scene where the past is frozen within a tourist museum-device and the viewers with their camera are the actual subject. In sequence, concentric holes open up: a horse is performing a dance stepping backward; a fortune teller takes guesses on future circumstances and retrospective ones; the bodies of two gymnasts extend through their tools of artifice and grace, then we are taken on a ride across a Little Venice in miniature empty like a movie set. This spiral comes full circle in the silence of a lonely hunter on a Apennines tromp-l’oeil, a simulation park with fake birds and a mimetic wildermann: a carousel of the artificial where solitude is sound and nature is impermeable.  Proceeding by aphorisms, this film unfolds into a number of articulations and dimensions, all exceptionally true and false, like in an almanac of vision.

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is a collective formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Founded in 2000 and based in the hills between Cesena and Rimini, the group is the author of film projects and art installations that have been shown in major international film and art festivals. Zapruder’s fervent production relies on a ferocious and comic analysis of the human condition whose tragic destiny becomes a metaphysical place where they explore the language of representation, forging a surreal and poetic portrait. The group film-projects are often flexible cinematic devices, which Zapruder defines as `Chamber Cinema` sort of incarnated environment and disembodied theatre, poised between visual and performing arts. Vision becomes experience of time, long shots prevail and draw a polycentric spatial scene that allow the eye to open on the enigma of vision rather than narrowing on the narrative anecdote. Zapruder’s projects are written and directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi. David Zamagni ( b. 1971, Rimini) During his cinema studies in Bologna at DAMS, in 1994 he joins the theater company ‘Motus’ to later become icon actor of the performance `Catrame` (1996). In 1998, with Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, is co-author of `Orlando Furioso` and in 1999 they are awarded the UBU prize as well as that of the magazine `Lo straniero`; in the same year he leaves Motus to pursue his interests in cinema. Nadia Ranocchi ( b. 1973, Rimini) After completing her studies in Psychology at the University of Bologna, in 1998 she starts working with David Zamagni on their movies and audiovisual projects. Monaldo Moretti (b. 1972, Recanati) joins them in 2000. He is David’s former classmate in highschool and later on over the DAMS years. As well as co-founder of the group Zapruder, he`s director of photography, actor and foley artist.

Experimenting in telepathy during the 1970s, American Parapsychologist Charles Honorton introduced what he termed the Ganzfeld (full field) Method. One of the two subjects involved would experience a state of sensory deprivation, induced by placing the two halves of a ping pong ball over the eyes, while indistinct (white) noise was played into the ears through headphones. Such condition would give the subject the necessary concentration to allow for the transmission of thoughts and images remotely, solely through telepathy, from the mind of the other subject, who would be situated in a `communicating` room. Suite is part of Zapruder`s project `SPELL`. Combinations of elements ?Spell? give rise to cryptic and solemn events whose expression is often uncertain, even suspected.

Since 2000, David Zamagni (b. 1971, Rimini) and Nadia Ranocchi (b. 1973, Rimini) have been working under the name Zapruder, in collaboration with Monaldo Moretti (b.1972, Recanati) and a rotating network of creative members. Since 2005, the group has been exploring the possibilities of digital, stereoscopic, 3-D cinematic techniques through short film, concerts and installations. zapruderie.com

COCK-CROW (51 min Hd stereoscopic film 2009) Every age spawns and feeds its dragon. Unknown and obscure powers under which simpliest and more ordinary gestures lapse. Men whose bodily existence becomes the place for implacable struggles. Depths impossible to plumb and therefore admitted to participate in the holy economy. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a tiny little boy who is blameworthy for what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images, in search of the dragon to fight against. Cock-Crow it`s a rite of passage from childhood to manhood.

DAVID ZAMAGNI & NADIA RANOCCHI David Zamagni (Rimini, 1971) e Nadia Ranocchi (Rimini, 1973), directors and filmmakers, they live and work in Roncofreddo (FC). Together they are the authors of ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup` projects (David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti). Zapruder?s work is difficult to define within the traditional disciplinary boundaries and may perhaps be placed in the interstitial area between visual, performance and cinematographic art to give form to what the group defines as ?chamber cinema?, a sort of incarnated and tactile cinema, as well as a form of immaterial theatre. Zapruder?s production is characterized by an entirely artisanal approach that leads to a personal language in which the means is a fundamental and inexorable part. Since 2005 the group explores the possibilities of anaglyphy and stereoscopy through a series of short films and installations exploiting the techniques of 3-D cinema, conceiving and constructing both the equipments for the stereoscopic shooting and those used for watching. A considerable part of Zapruder?s work has taken place within the context of Italian experimental theatre (collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio). Works by the Zapruder Filmmakersgroup have been screened and have won awards in prestigious festivals, including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (D), Biennale de l`image en mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (A), Transmediale (Berlin, D), TTV Performing Arts on Screen (Riccione, I), Netmage (Bologna, I), Rencontres Internationales Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Milanesiana (I), Santarcangelo Festival (I), Contemporanea Festival (Prato, I), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, B), Uovo Festival (Milan, I), Festival d`Avignon (F) Venice film festival (Venice Lido, I).

"Morning Smile" is Zapruder's first work of George Bataille?s Trilogy. It is reminiscent of something forgotten and lost in its time. As the upshot of a night spent together, Dirty and Troppmann find themselves in a Savoy hotel room. Dirty is in a drunken state, speaking drunkenly and talking a lot of nonsense. Alcohol dulls her mind and rouses fear, "fear corrects everybody" says Dirty and she wets herself. Troppmann is the witness of the young lady's agony. The hotel room "reserved" for the two lovers is not a sheltered, cosy place, it is an open place, it lets in another story, allows another room to come in: the nuptial room for which were commissioned Botticelli's four pictures representing a hunting scene where a young lady is the prey. The paintings evoke the fear of damnation. "Morning Smile" was inspired by Georges Bataille?s episode "Dirty" and is closely connected to Decameron's 8th tale, 5th day.

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is made up by David Zamagni (born in Rimini in 1971), Nadia Ranocchi (born in Rimini in 1973), and Monaldo Moretti (born in Recanati in 1972).Together they play any role involved in Zapruder'productions, writing, direction, shooting, photography, editing, sound... Living and working in Roncofreddo (FC) Italy, Zapruder devotes itself to moving images. Their filmography includes: 1998, "Tony the fireman" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Marylin and the K." (animation. D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Steak & Chips" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi). 1999 In collaboration with "Motus" company "O.F. ovvero Orlando Furioso impunemente eseguito da Motus", awarded at "Riccione TTV Performing Arts on screen Festival 2000; "H.O.L.Y." segnalato al Bellaria film festival 2000; "Revolver V.M. 18" (video installation in collaboration with writer Isabella Santacroce), shown at "Brescia Music Art 2000"; 2001, "J.G." (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi) awarded at "Iceberg Festival 2002"; "Totentanz" (D.Zamagni, N.Ranocchi, and M.Moretti); "Daysi dammi la mano son pazzo di te" (N.Ranocchi); "Nervi" (M.Moretti) awarded at "Bellaria film festival"; "SPRING ROLL" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), awarded at "48° Oberhausen Short Film Festival"; special mention at "Unimovie 2001", Pescara; "Fiaticorti Nuove Frontiere Award", Istrana (TV); "Doggy bag with Spring roll" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), special mention at "Premio D.A.M.S", 2002; 2003, "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" short film; 2003, Together with Fanny & Alexander company they started the Nabokovian project "ADA", made up by 6 theatral stages with video images (when present), realized by Zapruder; Ravenna Festival, the performance "Ardis I"; 2004, Kunsten festival des Arts di Bruxelles, "Ardis II"; Riccione TTV festival performing arts on screen, "Rebus per Ada", installation for 16mm, produced and realized by Zapruder and Fanny & Alexander; "Morning Smile" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi); 2005, Festival delle colline torinesi, "Vaniada"; 2006, "Morning Smile" wins the Riccione TTV award for the "radicals linguistic choices of work"; Santarcangelo '06 festival of Arts, Zapruder presents "Daimon. The laceretor", Anagliph Projection, 2nd work from the George Bataille 'Zapruder' trilogy; To be viewed with 3D glasses; Trento Contemporary Art Gallery, the 2nd issue of Daimon's serial story, "Daimon.XXX (Trente)" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi, Anaglyph Projection).

Kitty came back home from on the island But kitty came on home without a name. To speak in tongues’ means to have the gift for mastering an unknown language while also being passed through by someone else’s word. In this telescopic and panoramic film of fac-simile et exempla, circularity at first, leads us right into the 360° view of a battle scene where the past is frozen within a tourist museum-device and the viewers with their camera are the actual subject. In sequence, concentric holes open up: a horse is performing a dance stepping backward; a fortune teller takes guesses on future circumstances and retrospective ones; the bodies of two gymnasts extend through their tools of artifice and grace, then we are taken on a ride across a Little Venice in miniature empty like a movie set. This spiral comes full circle in the silence of a lonely hunter on a Apennines tromp-l’oeil, a simulation park with fake birds and a mimetic wildermann: a carousel of the artificial where solitude is sound and nature is impermeable.  Proceeding by aphorisms, this film unfolds into a number of articulations and dimensions, all exceptionally true and false, like in an almanac of vision.

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is a collective formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Founded in 2000 and based in the hills between Cesena and Rimini, the group is the author of film projects and art installations that have been shown in major international film and art festivals. Zapruder’s fervent production relies on a ferocious and comic analysis of the human condition whose tragic destiny becomes a metaphysical place where they explore the language of representation, forging a surreal and poetic portrait. The group film-projects are often flexible cinematic devices, which Zapruder defines as `Chamber Cinema` sort of incarnated environment and disembodied theatre, poised between visual and performing arts. Vision becomes experience of time, long shots prevail and draw a polycentric spatial scene that allow the eye to open on the enigma of vision rather than narrowing on the narrative anecdote. Zapruder’s projects are written and directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi. David Zamagni ( b. 1971, Rimini) During his cinema studies in Bologna at DAMS, in 1994 he joins the theater company ‘Motus’ to later become icon actor of the performance `Catrame` (1996). In 1998, with Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, is co-author of `Orlando Furioso` and in 1999 they are awarded the UBU prize as well as that of the magazine `Lo straniero`; in the same year he leaves Motus to pursue his interests in cinema. Nadia Ranocchi ( b. 1973, Rimini) After completing her studies in Psychology at the University of Bologna, in 1998 she starts working with David Zamagni on their movies and audiovisual projects. Monaldo Moretti (b. 1972, Recanati) joins them in 2000. He is David’s former classmate in highschool and later on over the DAMS years. As well as co-founder of the group Zapruder, he`s director of photography, actor and foley artist.

Experimenting in telepathy during the 1970s, American Parapsychologist Charles Honorton introduced what he termed the Ganzfeld (full field) Method. One of the two subjects involved would experience a state of sensory deprivation, induced by placing the two halves of a ping pong ball over the eyes, while indistinct (white) noise was played into the ears through headphones. Such condition would give the subject the necessary concentration to allow for the transmission of thoughts and images remotely, solely through telepathy, from the mind of the other subject, who would be situated in a `communicating` room. Suite is part of Zapruder`s project `SPELL`. Combinations of elements ?Spell? give rise to cryptic and solemn events whose expression is often uncertain, even suspected.

Since 2000, David Zamagni (b. 1971, Rimini) and Nadia Ranocchi (b. 1973, Rimini) have been working under the name Zapruder, in collaboration with Monaldo Moretti (b.1972, Recanati) and a rotating network of creative members. Since 2005, the group has been exploring the possibilities of digital, stereoscopic, 3-D cinematic techniques through short film, concerts and installations. zapruderie.com

COCK-CROW (51 min Hd stereoscopic film 2009) Every age spawns and feeds its dragon. Unknown and obscure powers under which simpliest and more ordinary gestures lapse. Men whose bodily existence becomes the place for implacable struggles. Depths impossible to plumb and therefore admitted to participate in the holy economy. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a tiny little boy who is blameworthy for what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images, in search of the dragon to fight against. Cock-Crow it`s a rite of passage from childhood to manhood.

DAVID ZAMAGNI & NADIA RANOCCHI David Zamagni (Rimini, 1971) e Nadia Ranocchi (Rimini, 1973), directors and filmmakers, they live and work in Roncofreddo (FC). Together they are the authors of ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup` projects (David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti). Zapruder?s work is difficult to define within the traditional disciplinary boundaries and may perhaps be placed in the interstitial area between visual, performance and cinematographic art to give form to what the group defines as ?chamber cinema?, a sort of incarnated and tactile cinema, as well as a form of immaterial theatre. Zapruder?s production is characterized by an entirely artisanal approach that leads to a personal language in which the means is a fundamental and inexorable part. Since 2005 the group explores the possibilities of anaglyphy and stereoscopy through a series of short films and installations exploiting the techniques of 3-D cinema, conceiving and constructing both the equipments for the stereoscopic shooting and those used for watching. A considerable part of Zapruder?s work has taken place within the context of Italian experimental theatre (collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio). Works by the Zapruder Filmmakersgroup have been screened and have won awards in prestigious festivals, including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (D), Biennale de l`image en mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (A), Transmediale (Berlin, D), TTV Performing Arts on Screen (Riccione, I), Netmage (Bologna, I), Rencontres Internationales Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Milanesiana (I), Santarcangelo Festival (I), Contemporanea Festival (Prato, I), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, B), Uovo Festival (Milan, I), Festival d`Avignon (F) Venice film festival (Venice Lido, I).

"Morning Smile" is Zapruder's first work of George Bataille?s Trilogy. It is reminiscent of something forgotten and lost in its time. As the upshot of a night spent together, Dirty and Troppmann find themselves in a Savoy hotel room. Dirty is in a drunken state, speaking drunkenly and talking a lot of nonsense. Alcohol dulls her mind and rouses fear, "fear corrects everybody" says Dirty and she wets herself. Troppmann is the witness of the young lady's agony. The hotel room "reserved" for the two lovers is not a sheltered, cosy place, it is an open place, it lets in another story, allows another room to come in: the nuptial room for which were commissioned Botticelli's four pictures representing a hunting scene where a young lady is the prey. The paintings evoke the fear of damnation. "Morning Smile" was inspired by Georges Bataille?s episode "Dirty" and is closely connected to Decameron's 8th tale, 5th day.

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is made up by David Zamagni (born in Rimini in 1971), Nadia Ranocchi (born in Rimini in 1973), and Monaldo Moretti (born in Recanati in 1972).Together they play any role involved in Zapruder'productions, writing, direction, shooting, photography, editing, sound... Living and working in Roncofreddo (FC) Italy, Zapruder devotes itself to moving images. Their filmography includes: 1998, "Tony the fireman" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Marylin and the K." (animation. D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Steak & Chips" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi). 1999 In collaboration with "Motus" company "O.F. ovvero Orlando Furioso impunemente eseguito da Motus", awarded at "Riccione TTV Performing Arts on screen Festival 2000; "H.O.L.Y." segnalato al Bellaria film festival 2000; "Revolver V.M. 18" (video installation in collaboration with writer Isabella Santacroce), shown at "Brescia Music Art 2000"; 2001, "J.G." (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi) awarded at "Iceberg Festival 2002"; "Totentanz" (D.Zamagni, N.Ranocchi, and M.Moretti); "Daysi dammi la mano son pazzo di te" (N.Ranocchi); "Nervi" (M.Moretti) awarded at "Bellaria film festival"; "SPRING ROLL" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), awarded at "48° Oberhausen Short Film Festival"; special mention at "Unimovie 2001", Pescara; "Fiaticorti Nuove Frontiere Award", Istrana (TV); "Doggy bag with Spring roll" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), special mention at "Premio D.A.M.S", 2002; 2003, "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" short film; 2003, Together with Fanny & Alexander company they started the Nabokovian project "ADA", made up by 6 theatral stages with video images (when present), realized by Zapruder; Ravenna Festival, the performance "Ardis I"; 2004, Kunsten festival des Arts di Bruxelles, "Ardis II"; Riccione TTV festival performing arts on screen, "Rebus per Ada", installation for 16mm, produced and realized by Zapruder and Fanny & Alexander; "Morning Smile" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi); 2005, Festival delle colline torinesi, "Vaniada"; 2006, "Morning Smile" wins the Riccione TTV award for the "radicals linguistic choices of work"; Santarcangelo '06 festival of Arts, Zapruder presents "Daimon. The laceretor", Anagliph Projection, 2nd work from the George Bataille 'Zapruder' trilogy; To be viewed with 3D glasses; Trento Contemporary Art Gallery, the 2nd issue of Daimon's serial story, "Daimon.XXX (Trente)" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi, Anaglyph Projection).

Kitty came back home from on the island But kitty came on home without a name. To speak in tongues’ means to have the gift for mastering an unknown language while also being passed through by someone else’s word. In this telescopic and panoramic film of fac-simile et exempla, circularity at first, leads us right into the 360° view of a battle scene where the past is frozen within a tourist museum-device and the viewers with their camera are the actual subject. In sequence, concentric holes open up: a horse is performing a dance stepping backward; a fortune teller takes guesses on future circumstances and retrospective ones; the bodies of two gymnasts extend through their tools of artifice and grace, then we are taken on a ride across a Little Venice in miniature empty like a movie set. This spiral comes full circle in the silence of a lonely hunter on a Apennines tromp-l’oeil, a simulation park with fake birds and a mimetic wildermann: a carousel of the artificial where solitude is sound and nature is impermeable.  Proceeding by aphorisms, this film unfolds into a number of articulations and dimensions, all exceptionally true and false, like in an almanac of vision.

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is a collective formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Founded in 2000 and based in the hills between Cesena and Rimini, the group is the author of film projects and art installations that have been shown in major international film and art festivals. Zapruder’s fervent production relies on a ferocious and comic analysis of the human condition whose tragic destiny becomes a metaphysical place where they explore the language of representation, forging a surreal and poetic portrait. The group film-projects are often flexible cinematic devices, which Zapruder defines as `Chamber Cinema` sort of incarnated environment and disembodied theatre, poised between visual and performing arts. Vision becomes experience of time, long shots prevail and draw a polycentric spatial scene that allow the eye to open on the enigma of vision rather than narrowing on the narrative anecdote. Zapruder’s projects are written and directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi. David Zamagni ( b. 1971, Rimini) During his cinema studies in Bologna at DAMS, in 1994 he joins the theater company ‘Motus’ to later become icon actor of the performance `Catrame` (1996). In 1998, with Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, is co-author of `Orlando Furioso` and in 1999 they are awarded the UBU prize as well as that of the magazine `Lo straniero`; in the same year he leaves Motus to pursue his interests in cinema. Nadia Ranocchi ( b. 1973, Rimini) After completing her studies in Psychology at the University of Bologna, in 1998 she starts working with David Zamagni on their movies and audiovisual projects. Monaldo Moretti (b. 1972, Recanati) joins them in 2000. He is David’s former classmate in highschool and later on over the DAMS years. As well as co-founder of the group Zapruder, he`s director of photography, actor and foley artist.

Experimenting in telepathy during the 1970s, American Parapsychologist Charles Honorton introduced what he termed the Ganzfeld (full field) Method. One of the two subjects involved would experience a state of sensory deprivation, induced by placing the two halves of a ping pong ball over the eyes, while indistinct (white) noise was played into the ears through headphones. Such condition would give the subject the necessary concentration to allow for the transmission of thoughts and images remotely, solely through telepathy, from the mind of the other subject, who would be situated in a `communicating` room. Suite is part of Zapruder`s project `SPELL`. Combinations of elements ?Spell? give rise to cryptic and solemn events whose expression is often uncertain, even suspected.

Since 2000, David Zamagni (b. 1971, Rimini) and Nadia Ranocchi (b. 1973, Rimini) have been working under the name Zapruder, in collaboration with Monaldo Moretti (b.1972, Recanati) and a rotating network of creative members. Since 2005, the group has been exploring the possibilities of digital, stereoscopic, 3-D cinematic techniques through short film, concerts and installations. zapruderie.com

COCK-CROW (51 min Hd stereoscopic film 2009) Every age spawns and feeds its dragon. Unknown and obscure powers under which simpliest and more ordinary gestures lapse. Men whose bodily existence becomes the place for implacable struggles. Depths impossible to plumb and therefore admitted to participate in the holy economy. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a tiny little boy who is blameworthy for what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images, in search of the dragon to fight against. Cock-Crow it`s a rite of passage from childhood to manhood.

DAVID ZAMAGNI & NADIA RANOCCHI David Zamagni (Rimini, 1971) e Nadia Ranocchi (Rimini, 1973), directors and filmmakers, they live and work in Roncofreddo (FC). Together they are the authors of ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup` projects (David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti). Zapruder?s work is difficult to define within the traditional disciplinary boundaries and may perhaps be placed in the interstitial area between visual, performance and cinematographic art to give form to what the group defines as ?chamber cinema?, a sort of incarnated and tactile cinema, as well as a form of immaterial theatre. Zapruder?s production is characterized by an entirely artisanal approach that leads to a personal language in which the means is a fundamental and inexorable part. Since 2005 the group explores the possibilities of anaglyphy and stereoscopy through a series of short films and installations exploiting the techniques of 3-D cinema, conceiving and constructing both the equipments for the stereoscopic shooting and those used for watching. A considerable part of Zapruder?s work has taken place within the context of Italian experimental theatre (collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio). Works by the Zapruder Filmmakersgroup have been screened and have won awards in prestigious festivals, including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (D), Biennale de l`image en mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (A), Transmediale (Berlin, D), TTV Performing Arts on Screen (Riccione, I), Netmage (Bologna, I), Rencontres Internationales Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Milanesiana (I), Santarcangelo Festival (I), Contemporanea Festival (Prato, I), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, B), Uovo Festival (Milan, I), Festival d`Avignon (F) Venice film festival (Venice Lido, I).

"Morning Smile" is Zapruder's first work of George Bataille?s Trilogy. It is reminiscent of something forgotten and lost in its time. As the upshot of a night spent together, Dirty and Troppmann find themselves in a Savoy hotel room. Dirty is in a drunken state, speaking drunkenly and talking a lot of nonsense. Alcohol dulls her mind and rouses fear, "fear corrects everybody" says Dirty and she wets herself. Troppmann is the witness of the young lady's agony. The hotel room "reserved" for the two lovers is not a sheltered, cosy place, it is an open place, it lets in another story, allows another room to come in: the nuptial room for which were commissioned Botticelli's four pictures representing a hunting scene where a young lady is the prey. The paintings evoke the fear of damnation. "Morning Smile" was inspired by Georges Bataille?s episode "Dirty" and is closely connected to Decameron's 8th tale, 5th day.

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is made up by David Zamagni (born in Rimini in 1971), Nadia Ranocchi (born in Rimini in 1973), and Monaldo Moretti (born in Recanati in 1972).Together they play any role involved in Zapruder'productions, writing, direction, shooting, photography, editing, sound... Living and working in Roncofreddo (FC) Italy, Zapruder devotes itself to moving images. Their filmography includes: 1998, "Tony the fireman" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Marylin and the K." (animation. D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Steak & Chips" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi). 1999 In collaboration with "Motus" company "O.F. ovvero Orlando Furioso impunemente eseguito da Motus", awarded at "Riccione TTV Performing Arts on screen Festival 2000; "H.O.L.Y." segnalato al Bellaria film festival 2000; "Revolver V.M. 18" (video installation in collaboration with writer Isabella Santacroce), shown at "Brescia Music Art 2000"; 2001, "J.G." (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi) awarded at "Iceberg Festival 2002"; "Totentanz" (D.Zamagni, N.Ranocchi, and M.Moretti); "Daysi dammi la mano son pazzo di te" (N.Ranocchi); "Nervi" (M.Moretti) awarded at "Bellaria film festival"; "SPRING ROLL" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), awarded at "48° Oberhausen Short Film Festival"; special mention at "Unimovie 2001", Pescara; "Fiaticorti Nuove Frontiere Award", Istrana (TV); "Doggy bag with Spring roll" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), special mention at "Premio D.A.M.S", 2002; 2003, "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" short film; 2003, Together with Fanny & Alexander company they started the Nabokovian project "ADA", made up by 6 theatral stages with video images (when present), realized by Zapruder; Ravenna Festival, the performance "Ardis I"; 2004, Kunsten festival des Arts di Bruxelles, "Ardis II"; Riccione TTV festival performing arts on screen, "Rebus per Ada", installation for 16mm, produced and realized by Zapruder and Fanny & Alexander; "Morning Smile" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi); 2005, Festival delle colline torinesi, "Vaniada"; 2006, "Morning Smile" wins the Riccione TTV award for the "radicals linguistic choices of work"; Santarcangelo '06 festival of Arts, Zapruder presents "Daimon. The laceretor", Anagliph Projection, 2nd work from the George Bataille 'Zapruder' trilogy; To be viewed with 3D glasses; Trento Contemporary Art Gallery, the 2nd issue of Daimon's serial story, "Daimon.XXX (Trente)" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi, Anaglyph Projection).

At a novel workshop of the gods, Greek theater masks with Hollywood features are setting up a love engine. Phoenix. Amore brucio is the 7th of 12th episodes that Zapruder dedicates to the myth of Hercules.

ZAPRUDER is a group formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. It was founded in 2000 in Roncofreddo (Italy), where the collective’s headquarters still are. The group experiments in film, merging figurative, performative and cinematographic arts to provide a total visual experience, in the direction of a total visual experience. That’s the case with their ’chamber cinema’: video-installation projects where cinema and object are fused together, drawing on the technique of stereoscopic film ( or the illusion of three dimensions), as well as on expanded cinema. In 2011, Zapruder’s work received the 3D Persol Award at the Venice Film Festival. Along the years, the group has met Italian experimental theatre with productions in collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander, Romeo Castellucci and Santarcangelo Festival. A large amount of their artistic process is dedicated to the sound design of their movies: the main soundtrack is made by performing foley effects and recording environmental sounds in order to produce a more dynamic and complex experience for the viewer. Their video installation Zeus Machine/Salita all’ Olimpo ( Zeus Machine/The conquering of Olympus) was awarded the Premio MAXXI 2016. Zapruder’s work has been presented internationally in festivals and performing arts venues: Venice Film Festival; Rotterdam Film festival; Rome Film Festival; Kurtzfilmtage Oberhausen; Biennale de l’image en mouvement, Geneva; Transmediale, Berlin; Netmage, Bologna; Triennale, Milan; Centre Pompidou, Paris. Among their solo exhibitions: Careof, Milan (2013); Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ferrara (2014); Marsèlleria, Milan (2014); Raum, Bologna (2014); Artopiagallery, Milan (2015); Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich (2015); Mega, Milan (2018), Gucci Garden, Firenze (2018). Among group exhibitions: Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna (2013); WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw (2013); Aula Bunker, Rome (2014); PAC, Milan (2014); MAG Museo Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (2015); OCAT, Shanghai (2015); MAXXI, Rome (2016).

A Vocal Landscape is a hyperrealistic VR experience that explores the strange anatomy of a conversation between two people. In a dreamlike journey, the spectator travels through an ever-changing room depicting their associations and unspoken interactions.

Omid Zarei is a French-Iranian artist and XR producer on the quest to explore alternative ways of storytelling. He creates projects that blur the boundaries of different platforms, creating a space for collaboration between artists from a diverse range of disciplines. In 2015 he developed VR filmmaking workshop in Helsinki, one of the first VR focused workshops in Europe. He is the creator of the project Songs of Future Past, a re-imagined VR take on Opera. Anne Jeppesen is a Copenhagen-based producer with a focus on audio documentaries. She has produced audio productions for national radio, as well as immersive audio experiences for museums and theatre. With a background in classical music and musicology, Anne is driven by a never fading fascination for the richness of the human voice and is constantly seeking out new ways to work with vocal expressions. Their latest joint project “A Vocal Landscape” won an EPIC MegaGrants and a special prize in Vancouver International Film Festival for a collaboration with Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studio.

A boy longing to become part of a motorcycling group leads us into a silver horizon, where through an array of moving images of dust, remote landscapes, and boys dressed in fragrant leather, we witness visual portrayals of what it means to feel ‘foreign’.

Vukan Žarkovic (1997, Serbia) is an up-and-coming filmmaker based in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Nicosia (Cyprus), and Belgrade (Serbia). He was born in Belgrade but grew up in Cyprus, where his inspiration and storytelling come from. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam with a B.F.A. in Audiovisual Arts. During his studies, he spent one semester in Jerusalem at the School of Visual Theatre. In 2022, he made the short film Aromana.

THE TANGIER 8 In June 2009, Tamaas, an international non-profit arts organization, invited eight poets and filmmakers coming from France, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, and the United States, to Tangier, Morocco. These four poet-filmmaker pairs collaborated using Super 8 film and writing original text to create these experimental ?film-poems.? Working under tight time constraints-they had just four days to film, four days for sound, and four days for editing, the artists took inspiration from the city of Tangier-its history, architecture, people, politics, as well as from each other, to produce these short film-poems. Here are the finished film-poems, along with a "making of" documentary about the artists who created them. Each work is independent and can be viewed alone or otherwise shown as a whole. Ivan Boccara (France/Morocco) + Carla Faesler (Mexico) Akram Zataari (Lebanon) + Liliane Giraudon (France) Natalia Almada (Mexico)+ Peter Gizzi (USA) Jem Cohen (USA) + Luc Sante (Belgium/USA) Running time: :41 minutes (not including ?Making Of?) Languages: English, Spanish, French + Arabic with English, French, Arabic subtitles Sound, Script, Editing and Filming all done by the 8 Artists A Tamaas production Hosted by the Cinémathèque de Tanger www.tamaas.org

1. Ivan Boccara (France/Morocco) He studied Berber history and civilization and some of his work has focused on the lives of Berbers, and the environment of the Atlas Mountains. AND Carla Faesler (Mexico) She is the author of such works as Anábasis Maqueta, 2004 (Awarded the National Prize in Literature Gilberto Owen?), No Tú sino la Piedra, 1999) and the collection, Ríos sagrados que la herejía navega, 1996). 2. Akram Zataari (Lebanon) is an artist preoccupied with the production, collection and study of documents. His work reflects on the shifting nature of borders particularly in the Middle East. AND: Liliane Giraudon (France) Projects have included, co-founder of the Journal, Banana Split (1980-1990), with J.J. Viton; Co-founder of the revue If, (1992), co-editor of Action Poétique. 3. Natalia Almada (Mexico). Directing credits include Al Otro Lado, her award winning debut feature documentary about immigration, drug trafficking and corrido music; and EL GENERAL, a family memoir and portrait of Mexico past and present. AND Peter Gizzi (USA) Attended Brown University, NYC and SUNY Buffalo. His books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum (Avec Books, 1992). 4. Jem Cohen (USA) His films are usually built from his own archive of images and sounds, combine documentary, narrative, and experimental approaches. AND Luc Sante (Belgium/USA) is a writer and a cultural critic with a focus on art, films, photography, books, cities. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College, in the Hudson Valley in New York.

Based on the 8mm footage my grandmother shot during a trip to Armenia and the images I took during my journey there 36 years later, Dear Victoria investigates notions of belonging and alienation through an encounter between two worlds. I only recently discovered my grandmother?s footage and never thought we would be exchanging views across temporalities one day.

Familiarly dull and generic, the environment of unappreciated places offers a perfect backdrop for a zoo of ideas, artifacts and machines. They inhibit a technologically more and more explicit world, where human transport seems to be the least objective for them. Instead, they are part of an ever evolving stream of becoming, of development, accident, recombination and distorted proliferation. Their busy self-perpetuation creates gentle monstrocities and monstrous poetry. It shows that the merging nano-, bio-, and information technologies have rendered the concept of human authenticity and originality obsolete, that artificial materials create their own artifacts and their future shape. Do they demand their own form of (trans-)human rights anytime soon? If they signed this new Magna Carta already, would we be the last to know?

Zeitguised was founded in 2001 by Jamie Raap and Henrik Mauler in Stuttgart, Germany, where they are still based today. Jamie, who holds a degree in Fine Art and a Master in Media Art, had worked and studied in Chicago as a sculptor and fashion designer. Henrik has a degree in Architecture and teaches Experimental Digital Design at the University of Stuttgart, he previously worked for Segura/T26 in Chicago. When they first joined their skills, graphical and dimensional animation was their common denominator. A few international exhibitions, festivals, publications, nominations and awards later, animation has become one of their major fields of occupation. While architecture and fashion are still the main interests and sources of inspiration, well-known clients are especially seeking their motion graphics. Recent work has been completed for MTFG Plaza Bank and TV Asahi in Japan, MTV Europe, Toonami Cartoon Network in the UK, German electronic music duo Funkstoerung and Popular Mechanics magazine, USA.

"El Tenista" (tennis) employs video game images of tennis as a reflection of reality. Ready to win back the game, the player - the narrator - feels that something isn't right and questions his existence. The play metaphor of Winner and Loser appears as a pure product of the crisis that suffers the politico-social model of competition predominant in society. "El Tenista", a video from the collective Zemos98, resorts to this metaphor to denounce the system that forces people to disguise themselves, to be something they're not, and that pushes them to inertia, to lose their control of the present. At the end of the video, the player decides to leave the field. Is the game won or lost?

The collective Zemos98, organizer of one of the most innovating audiovisual festivals in Spain, learns from its works and its errors, and renews itself daily in its structures and approaches. It is a group open to multiple modality narratives - short films, documentaries, video creations... - but which all present a common point, they are all micro-histories. Over the years, Zemos98 has integrated and developed a series of parallel activities that have won presence and importance.

Nutsigassat reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. The Danish names imposed on Greenland’s spaces and landscapes have historically been a part of Denmark’s engagement in the vast country in the North. A process, through which the mountains of Sermitsiaq and Kingittorsuaq that surround Nuuk were detached from both their semantic and geographical meaning. But also the physical signs of the fatal interventions of the past are legible in the concrete high-rises that replaced the small communities of the bygds along the coasts which were closed down by the Danish government in the 1960s and 70s. Even the manual mass production of tupilaks (sacred amulettos made of bones and horns) describe a cultural mutation of the mythical figure into a tourist object. Through a complex juxtaposition of text, voice and her beautiful 16mm film imagery, Zenner has created a critical work in which the majestic and vast vistas of Greenland defy the history imposed on them

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with analogue film, 3D-animation and spatial installation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. Her work has been shown at a number of international film festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Projections at New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS in South Korea, and exhibited internationally at Reykjavik Art Museum, Nuuk Art Museum, Gothenburg Kunsthal, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts Brussels as well as at Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen. Zenner is a co-founder and member of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London and Copenhagen working between the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual arts.

In the GDR Opposition Archive in Berlin, Anna Zett traces known and unknown fears of her childhood. The artist interweaves samizdat and archival footage with a stirring collage of underground music from the late GDR (composed by Matti Gajek). Video recordings by activists from the Environmental Library, the New Forum and the punk scene in East Berlin, fragments of the televised revolution, and highly condensed voices from a poetry cassette recorded in 1986 combine to create an associative and intimate narrative. In ceaseless escalation, the archive thriller leads to the second occupation of the Berlin Stasi headquarters with hunger strike in September 1990 – a political event that is barely known today despite its far-reaching consequences. There is fear. There is anger. There are people who, despite profound experiences of violence, insist on emotional connection and political self-determination. The short film ES GIBT KEINE ANGST opens up a pulsating resonance space that keeps vibrating long after.

Anna Zett is a Berlin-based artist and writer. Rooted in poetry, collage and improvisation, their transmedia practice seeks to host, witness and experience new connections at sites of loss and damage. This work results in films, books, radio plays, installations and live-formats, most recently f.ex. the participatory research ‚Postsocialist Group Improvisation‘. Since their first film release in 2014, Zetts work has been shown in international contexts of contemporary art, film, performance and discourse, such as Berlinale Forum Expanded, Serpentine Gallery London, Whitney Museum New York, Berlinische Galerie, Or Gallery Vancouver, HKW Berlin. Zetts publications include two experimental radio plays for the German public broadcast and the literary text collection ‚Artificial Gut Feeling‘ (Divided Publishing, 2019). Since 2024 Anna Zett co-teaches the class for Performative Arts at HGB Leipzig.

?Broken Threads? is the manipulation of a ?70s Albanian noir movie so as to transform it into its trailer, by collating footage and using as a soundtrack Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? ?The Curse of Millhaven?, from album Murder Ballads. This project aims at tackling the phenomenon of crime and revolution starting from the earliest jesuit conspirations, showing revolution is nothing but the infamous motto: my work starts when yours is done. For this reason the movie wasn?t digitalized through usual processes, but was instead filmed with a handicam for the whole of its duration, so as to respect the project?s concept. ?Broken Threads? elaborates Cave?s track with Albanian noir movie ?Broken Threads?, revolving around a bunch of Albanian agents ? former nazi collaborators during WWII ? operating against the socialist system, suddendly coming back to their homeland to sabotage and destroy some important objectives in the country?s secret industrial plans. The movie stresses the relationship between memory and actuality, old and new enemies, adding up in a noir spy story showing international plots and conspiration finally failing, as usual, in the best of ways.

Fani Zguro born in 1977 Tirana. Lives and works in Milan EDUCATION 1996-1997: Polytechnic of Athens (Greece - outsider) 1998-2002: Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera Milano (Italy) 2008-2010: Laurea Specialistica, Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera Milano (Italy) ART RESIDENCES 2003-2004: Citè International des Arts Paris (France) 2009-2009: Kultur Kontakt, Vienna (Austria) 2009-2009: La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres Paris (France) 2009-2009: Taller Siete, Medellin (Colombia) WORK EXPERIENCE 2004-2005: Independent Curator, The National Gallery of Arts Tirana (Albania) 2007- : Project Director, Tirana Art Center (Albania)

An experimental portrait of love and quiet sadness in the corners of Los Angeles. Zhang`s non-linear editing creates an intimate and poetic representation that flows in and out of narrative and documentarian conventions.

Charlotte Zhang (b. 1999) is a filmmaker and occasional writer from Vancouver Island, currently studying Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts.

City Scene is a series of snapshots taken in the streets and squares of a Beijing preparing for the Olympic Games. The filmmaker captures everyday reality in static shots: leisure activities, street scenes, latent violence. The long, continuous and carefully framed shots draw attention to places and details, to the way the people there move and interact. Zhao Liang makes impressive use of cinema?s capacity to make reality visible as it is.

Zhao Liang was born in 1971. He lives and works in Beijing, China. He belongs to a generation of artists creating a new aesthetic combining documentary filmmaking and popular culture (TV, music video, advertisement). He merges the emphasis on historical, social, and political testimony of the former with the narrative structure and style of the latter, fusing language of the political avant-garde with that of the commercially oriented entertainment industry. With the inescapable flavor of Western, if not American, hegemony marking that industry, Zhao?s work appears to combine not only two aesthetics but also two cultures and political identities on the verge of change.