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A silent city, mysteriously devoid of inhabitants, is crossed by a man who has come from a faraway country. The anonymised architecture that composes the urban landscape guides the person into an inaccessible space, the city cemetery, which will make him reflect on his own identity.

Enea Zucchetti was born in Lugano in 1996. Since childhood he has developed a strong interest in cinema and visual arts. In 2017 he moved to Milan where, influenced by the language of documentary and photography, he began to experiment with the image through audiovisual projects. Currently his artistic research touches on the themes of architecture, urban planning and contemporary landscape. His first short film, "L?azzurro del cielo", was selected at the 72nd Locarno Festival and other national and international film festivals.

We stick out to almost two hours of the live of the neighborhood the 10th February 2006 afternoon to be precise, shot without interruption. The neighbors that have wished participate inviting us to their places, their houses, their garages, their daily occupations, explain us things of an any day in which we could guess the origin and the future of the city.

Claudio?s backround as a composer and his Doctorate in Aesthetics lead him directly towards the composition, creation and direction of a number of theatrical preformances (Varios efectos del Amor; Telediario; Macbeth, sempre; Fragor, Taxi, Fonia, Trenes de Marzo, Renacimiento.), all of these sharing one common characteristic: the application of new technologies in the service of the spoken word and expression. All of these performances were produced by Acteon and presentesd at national and international festivals. Work in the audiovisual area as well as the search for new forms of using the technical means available led Claudio to create audiovisual installations which were intended to be situated in art, cultural and conceptual centres (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla), Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Caixaforum (Barcelona) Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (santiago de Compostela), Espai d?Art Contemporàni de Castelló, Le cargo (Grenoble), La Casona (Panamá), Lille 2004). The materials produced for these projects have been developed hand-in-hand with documentary filmaking both for cinema and for television. In 2000 Claudio wrote his first complete film screeplay courtesy of a grant from the Ministry of Culture ICAA. In 2004 he directed and produced Beatriz/Barcelona and the documentary L?Avenir (The Future) and began to receive international awards (Leipzig, Mar de Plata (Chile), Tampere, Vannes...). In 2006 he directed the full film ?A través del Carmel? (The Shifting City) which was selected for the 2006 Sitges Film Festival where it was presented in the Catalan Focus section. In 2002 he published his first book ?Horas de la Ciudad? (City Hours, Ed. Calima) Claudio is also an Associate Professor attached to the Instituto Universitario del Audiovisual, at the Universitat Pompeu i Fabra de Barcelona. His theoretical activity includes lectures, courses, and publications in the course of which he has touched on such topics as the nature of art, the history of the performing arts and the means of communication in context.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute (Het Nederlandse Instituut voor Mediakunst), Montevideo/Time Based Arts(Montevideo/TBA) is assigned with the mission of promoting the development and distribution of new arts, as well as the development and application of new technologies in the area of visual arts. In 1978, René Coelho, an elder of television, opened his Singel house, on an Amsterdam channel, to art. He transformed it into a gallery called Montevideo. Fed up with his television experience, he tried to "humanize technology with the help of artists". In 1983, the small Singel gallery, specialized in video art, became Montevideo/Time Based Arts, under the impetus of the Association of Video Artists. Today, Montevideo/TBA supports artistic creation in three different domains; presentation, preservation, and conservation, and provides services to artists and artistic institutions. In its own exhibition space on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Institute currently organizes long-term collective and personal exhibitions often in cooperation with other institutions. In parallel, Montevideo/TBA also organizes short-term exhibitions, symposiums, screenings, and performances and installations by artists and students. Since its foundation in 1978, the Institute has accumulated an extensive collection of video and multimedia works. It includes more than 1800 references and works by Dutch and international artists, continually increas. It is a collection almost entirely available for exhibitions and festivals that the Institute preserves from the infringements of time in a dedicated centre, created 1992. But the institute is also a training and research centre. A centre where artists can explore new medias and their applications to artistic practices. A centre where artists can meet and collaborate, and where they can benefit from various post-production tools and advice.

Along with Joke Ballintijn, Theurs Zwakhal distributes the Netherlands' Media Art Institute collection.