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A living room. A place where the private space of a flat is on public display. Using memory, supposition and measurable architectural elements, the space of the living room is continuously constructed and reconstructed, and the action grows into an interpretation of past, present and possible events and relationships.

Ana Husman’s practice disassembles the structures and textures of cinematic elements through film, installation, books, sound, image and text. Husman experiments with the possibilities of animation, documentary and fictional cinematic methods, and the possibilities of the recorded voice and its articulation. Her working process questions and plays with the positions of the amateur and the professional subject of performativity, the medium itself, and the structures that dictate and produce patterns of behavior. She is a lecturer at the Department of Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Art in Zagreb and co-founder of the documentary film organization RESTART where she has been holding film education programs for children and young people for many years. Her works have been shown at festivals and exhibitions including: Gwangju Biennale, October Salon Belgrade, Medienturm Gallery Graz, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Arts Budapest, International Film Festival Rotterdam, DOK Leipzig.

‘A Passage’ is a film which tackles the political economy and social ecology of border infrastructures in Southern Armenia. By focusing on two significant events that illustrate the dominant political shifts in the region, ‘A Passage’ looks at how processes of rapid militarization and neoliberalization have restructured these borders. These two events include the recent erasure of the historic Yerevan-Baku Railway; and the upcoming construction of an industrial Free Economic Zone (FEZ) planned precisely where the removed train infrastructure was housed. The scrapping of the railway symbolizes the socio-political adherence to maintaining strict mobility regimes for citizens, while the introduction of the FEZ signals how capital supersedes these bodily restrictions and borders. The film stitches together various contested sites of the region including Meghri’s abandoned airport (which is slated to be refurbished as the forward command of Russia’s Middle Eastern operations), a functioning Soviet-era Copper and Molybdenum mine, a 16th century church (which is the last remaining building of a village abandoned by the mines expansion) the abandoned Karchivan and Meghri train stations and an abandoned rail tunnel that bridges the geopolitical boundary of Nakhchivan and Armenia.

Pejvak is an ongoing collaboration between Rouzbeh Akhbari (Tehran, Iran 1992) and Felix Kalmenson (Saint Petersburg, Russia 1987) which began in 2014 in Casablanca, Morocco. Over the past five years they have undertaken large scale exhibition and research projects internationally including at Si Shang Art Museum (Beijing), The Work of Wind produced by Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga), Onsite Gallery (Toronto), State Silk Museum (Tbilisi), ACSL (Yerevan), Les Abattoirs (Casablanca) and Hay Art (Yerevan). They are currently in the post-production phase of their first feature-length film Bring Forth, funded by the Canada Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council and in the pre-production of our second film The Seed. In addition to being featured in C Magazine, LEAP, Funambulist and Prefix Magazine, they co-authored a book chapter in Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts published by Cambridge Scholars and are also contributors to The Work of Wind: Land, K. Verlag Press.

A unique blend of Bauhaus and Art Déco, the marvellous Villa Empain has had many different lives since it opened in 1934. A story of survival. ____ VILLA EMPAIN draws a mental map of a space, as it goes through time. Concrete marble, brick and steel: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shapeshifters. VILLA EMPAIN compares the life of Louis Empain and his creation. It bears witness to how a fixed idea, an architect’s dream, has disappeared in favour of a living architecture. The work is activated.

Katharina Kastner is an Austrian filmmaker working in Vienna and Brussels. She studied directing at TISCH School of the Arts in NYC and LUCA, Brussels. Her experimental short film about a museum of contemporary art, VILLA EMPAIN, builds upon the concept of psychogeography and draws a mental map of a space as it goes through time. Katharina Kastner’s films combine documentary, essayistic and experimental elements. She is interested in fragile environments and the people behind these, using the camera to explore inner and outer transformations. Time and memory are recurring themes in her work.

Jean-Luc Godard shot a film in Germany 28 years ago. A young female director retraces his steps through Germany. She is 28 years old and searches for answers about her german identity and the art of filmmaking. Godards Film is a film about ghosts and history. Does she become a ghost in her own film?

*Born 1990 in Southern Germany. Studied Scenography and Exhibition Design at the University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe. One year visiting student at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main in the class of Douglas Gordon. Since 2013 studies documentary film at the University of Film and Television in Munich.

LAS BREAS is an observational portrait of three tar pits, of which there are only six in the entire world. Situated in three distinct landscapes in Southern California – urban Los Angeles, the oil fields of the San Joaquin Valley, and Carpinteria Beach, LAS BREAS investigates the spaces between archiving the pre-historic and the contemporary industrial landscape. While skeletons of extinct megafauna and vintage animatronic beasts are on display in the heart of Hollywood, the sticky remains of ancient microscopic organisms seep to the surface of both land and sea. Of the earth, yet primordial and impenetrable, the bubbling tar that rises from the depths speaks of past extinction and human exploitation of the earth’s limited resources.

Laura Kraning’s moving image work has screened widely at international film festivals, museums, and galleries, such as the New York Film Festival’s Views from the Avant-Garde and Projections, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Edinburgh Film Festival, London Film Festival, Visions du Réel, MoMA’s Doc Fortnight, Art Toronto, Centre Pompidou, National Gallery of Art, and REDCAT Theater, among others. Her work has received awards at the 2010, 2015, and 2016 Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2016 Athens International Film Festival, and the 2018 Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas Film Festival. Blue Kraning’s documentary and narrative films have screened internationally at festivals and venues such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Helsinki International Film Festival, Shanghai International Film Festival, Image Forum Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Denver Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Los Angeles Filmforum, and the Walker Art Center. He has won numerous awards such as the IFP/Blockbuster Film Development Fund, The Morrow-Hues Screenwriting Award (finalist) and his television writing has garnered two Emmy Awards.

Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants.

Elsa Kremser (*1985 Wolfsberg/Austria) is an author and producer of documentaries that have been shown at the Berlinale, Locarno and other festivals. In 2016 she founded RAUMZEITFILM Produktion in Vienna with Levin Peter. As a directing duo they are currently working on their feature film debut. Levin Peter (*1985 Jena/Germany) is a director, author and producer. With his diploma film he won the First Steps Award. In 2016 he founded RAUMZEITFILM Produktion in Vienna with Elsa Kremser. As a directing duo they are currently working on their feature film debut THE GREEN PARROT.

Synopsis court Les paroles de femmes travaillant dans un centre d’art sont jouées en lip-sync par une femme installée dans un intérieur sommairement meublé. Affects et expériences de travail se mêlent à mesure que la protagoniste est habillée de différentes tenues. Synopsis long Les paroles de femmes travaillant dans un centre d’art sont jouées en lip-sync par une femme installée dans un intérieur sommairement meublé. Affects et expériences de travail se mêlent à mesure que la protagoniste est habillée de différentes tenues qui petit à petit contraignent, exhibent puis dissimulent son corps. Une statue se détache sur un ciel bleu, dans le silence d’une rue. Alors que le monologue se poursuit, l’espace vacant devient celui d’une institution imaginaire, traversé de silhouettes de visiteurs et collaborateurs. Aux récits se mêlent des images d’archives, fragments de performances d’artistes femmes, détails d’une pratique collective de l’art.

LAINÉ VALENZA — vit et travaille à Marseille Lainé Valenza est un duo d’artistes, constitué à partir d’une conversation perpétuelle, d’une zone commune à la frontière de leurs recherches respectives. Il se caractérise par un intérêt pour la critique institutionnelle, la mutation des formes d’images et d’une attention visuelle, de ses enjeux culturels subjectifs et politiques. Au fil des projets, le duo emploi des formes visuelles diverses, telles que le cinéma étendu, des installations in situ, de la télévision en direct, des performances, etc. Emmanuelle Lainé est une artiste visuelle déjà bien connue pour ses installations in-situ à grande échelle. Elles montrent souvent une reconstitution précise de l'architecture créant un espace critique pour la perception du spectateur ainsi que pour l’institution qui l’accueil. Ses Installation se caractérisent par une utilisation systématique de la photographie très grand format, associée à un langage sculptural très exigeant. Benjamin Valenza concentre depuis plusieurs années déjà sa pratique artistique sur la création d'un média à part entière. Prenant en compte Internet et le numérique autant que la télévision comme point de départ il s’agit d’une forme critique et intentionnellement non déterminée . Le lieu d'exécution ou la problématique du contexte est central dans son travail, il s'articule avec la sculpture et l'installation afin de créer des situations de micro politique ou l’artiste s’efface au profit du collectif.

A l’aube, une bande d’amis se retrouve sur les toits d’une école à Athènes. C’est leur rituel. Ils surplombent la ville, cette ville qui sera à eux jusqu’au matin suivant. Le film raconte l’errance d’un groupe d’adolescents à la périphérie d’Athènes. Ils traverseront un lieu gardé sous haute surveillance : Hellinikon. Pendant six décennies, Hellinikon a été le seul aéroport d’Athènes. En 2004, il accueille les infrastructures des Jeux Olympiques. Depuis, les mauvaises herbes ont envahi les ruines des équipements sportifs. Toutes les marques de son passé sont encore, comme sédimentées, inscrites à Hellinikon. Les jeunes décident de s’y introduire avant que le site ne soit rasé, transformé, avant que sa mémoire ne disparaisse.

Margot Lançon vit et travaille entre Genève et Paris. En juin 2019, elle obtient son bachelor en Arts Visuels à la Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design de Genève avec les félicitations du jury. Margot Lançon s’intéresse aux nouvelles formes d’écriture documentaire et développe une pratique mêlant films, vidéos et photographies. Aujourd?hui, elle poursuit son cursus en cycle master à l'École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts Paris - Cergy. Chloé Simonin vit et travaille à Genève. En juin 2017, elle est diplômée d’un bachelor Arts Visuels, filière Information/Fiction, de la Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design de Genève avec les félicitations du jury. Elle étudie actuellement l’anthropologie visuelle à l’université de Neuchâtel.

Garden of all spheres is a VR experience which exhibits the live simulation of a pseudo-ecosystem. The garden is built in the video game environment, which can exhibit the most advanced technology in the production and presentation of real-time CGI and simulation. The library of the virtual scenery is parallel with the modern natural history museum - the eye-catching collection of nature - the inventories which are ever-expanding and impossible to complete. Skysphere is a primary, simple prop for creating an illusion of horizon. In the nature of Virtual Reality, the player?s eye is located in the centre of the sphere. It becomes her private sky which is impossible to feel the scale of it - as much like as the sky in the physical world. The camera moves beyond the stage, from inner shell to outer shell and reveals the boundary of human-centred viewpoint. This spherical garden mediated through VR glasses, which embodies the desire for a seamlessly expanded vision. All the animals, humanoids, trees, stones, lights, skies are reflected on the surface of gazing ball and exhibited in the spherical vitrine, and the exhibition becomes meta-ecosphere.

Yoonjoo Lee is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Berlin. Her artistic practice generally focuses on the relationship between voyeuristic/Intellectual curiosity and technology of representation. She uses various digital technologies such as 3d animation and video game engines for a platform of the moving image experiments and explores the apparatus-mediated vision. She is currently studying experimental film and generative art in the Berlin University of Arts.

Moving trough the world wide web means being exposed to a variety of content in a high tempo which does not always attract you, but can also seem revolting to you. The resulting emotional state of the user - a feeling of being overwhelmed and a certain unsteadiness - is the starting point of the work “66mio views“. The viewer is sitting inside a room filling installation. Head mounted displays enable him to be part of an immersive VR environment in which he faces irregular shapes and so called “non-player characters“ (NPCs). The shapes are textured with videos from common Image- boards (4chan, 9gag, ...) as well as viral YouTube videos. Their content is diverse and evokes not only positive emotions (e.g. videos of puppies), but also very negative emotions (e.g. so-called gore videos, videos of violence). In a self- developing rhythm of motion, the forms relate to the position of the viewer, move towards him, go through him and move away from him. Various NPCs from 3D-model databases approach the viewer and recite text-sequences from the videos in varying tonalities. This immersive installation understands the technical infrastructure (computercases, cables, ...) as an instrument which designs and shapes the space. It is being expanded with ropes as well as pictures and text fragments from the videos. Stacks of prints show extracts from the videos and thereby display their content transformed and adapted to an analogue medium. The visitors are invited to take these prints with them and transform the content once again by removing it from its original place. Keywords like connectivity/disconnectivity and comprehension/incomprehension as well as thinking about the digital space as an emotional shaping tool led to this installation which connects digital and analogue content in an abstract, fragmented way. (The installation was originally developed for a specific exhibition space in the basement of „Halle 14 - center for contemporary art“ in Leipzig. However, we can set up the installation with regards to any available space, as its dimensions are variable. At least one VR system, ropes and prints in different sizes are fixed.) Yannick Harter, Fabian Lehmann, 2019

Fabian Lehmann (*1988, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany) graduated at University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld (2015) with degree Bachelor of Arts „Photography and Media“. Since 2016 he is studying „Media Art“ at the „Academy of fine Arts, Leipzig“ in the class „Expanded Cinema“ / Prof. Clemens von Wedemeyer and has studied „Fine Arts“ at „Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design“ in Jerusalem during an exchange semester. His artistic work focus on different communication systems and how digital techniques shapes the humanity and society. He had various exhibitions in Germany and Europe e.g. Hamburger Triennale der Fotografie (Hamburg), Gallery „Kunstpunkt“ (Berlin), Emscherkunst 2016 (Dortmund) Siva Galerija, (Zagreb) UG Halle 14 (Leipzig) Yannick Harter (*1990, Worms, Germany) is a trained productdesigner, who worked in branches like automotive industry and medical cybernetics. Since 2016 he is studying „Media Art“ at the „Academy of fine Arts, Leipzig“ in the class „Installation and Space“ / Prof. Joachim Blank and has studied „Visual Communication“ at „Latvias Art Academy“ in Riga during an exchange semester. His artistic practice oscillates around the intersection between art, science and society. He had various exhibitions in Germany and Europe e.g. Kaiserwerke (Gera), Gallery? „Kunstpunkt“ (Berlin), Obro?ców Stalingradu 17 (Szczecin), D27 (Riga), UG Halle 14 (Leipzig) Yannick Harter participated in several curatorial and educational projects and volunteered as artist assistant e.g. at Kunstverein (Leipzig), Neustadprojekte (Mainz), Latvian Center for Contemporary Art and Survival Kit 10.0 (Riga)

Angela et Marius, deux jeunes étudiants, ont accompagné un jeune migrant lors de son arrivée en France. A travers leur récit, nous découvrons le périple de Bangoura, jeune guinéen ayant fui son pays lorsqu'il avait 17 ans. Sur une production musicale composée de samples (notamment extraits de musiques traditionnelles issues de différentes immigrations françaises), l'œuvre questionne la manière dont chacun de nous se réapproprie un fait, un événement ou un récit en en abolissant son contexte, son passé, sa connaissance et sa mémoire collective. Ainsi, la vidéo propose au spectateur de s’approprier l’histoire de Bangoura en reprenant son récit à la manière d’un karaoké. De cette manière, le récit relaté offre de multiples interprétations et peut aussi bien symboliser une génération de migrants cherchant à survivre, critiquer une société capitaliste ou les instituions, décrire le portrait d'une jeunesse française ou encore interroger la connaissance que nous avons de l’immigration française.

Artiste plasticien diplômé de l'ENSAM, Yoann Lelong trouve son inspiration dans la danse, la recherche scientifique et la problématique de l'exclusion. Il explore la vidéo comme moyen de retranscrire une réalité transcendée, mêlant la poésie réaliste de ses sujets à une réalité sociale fragmentée. Son passage par l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan le forme à la physique quantique, point de départ d'une démarche artistique qui irrigue l’ensemble de ses travaux, et donne à ses œuvres une lecture sous-jacente plus métaphysique. De sa collaboration avec Amos Poe, pionnier dumouvement new-yorkais No Wave, naît PERSON(A), installation vidéo où s'entrelacent vingt-trois portraits filmés au 16mm. Une œuvre poétique où les éléments se distinguent, se répondent, puis se fondent dans un flou indistinct. Cette 1ère œuvre illustre dès lors le rapport distancié qu’entretient Yoann Lelong au réel et qui le pousse, à chaque nouvelle création, à saisir l'instant sans filtre et sans interprétation pour retranscrire et sublimer les sujets à l'état brut. Les sujets deviennent matière, le tout rejoignant le tout. A l'issue d'une résidence artistique à bord du voilier Tara Méditerranée en 2014, il crée PerceptConcept, à l'image du mouvement ondulaire et répétitif de l'expédition maritime : les gestes de l'équipage épousent le va-et-vient de la mer, au rythme de sons mécaniques ou organiques. Par la suite, il s'interrogera sur l'essence d'une création et plus particulièrement sur ce qui en fait son unicité en collaborant avec la chorégraphe Anne Nguyen et le musicien Les Gordon (2015). Le mouvement gestuel et sonore apparaît ainsi dans le travail de l’artiste comme une composante clé de toutes ses créations. La recherche de l’unicité à partir de fragments épars constitue, pour l’artiste, un cheminement permanent, un questionnement métaphysique qui explore, chaque fois, un nouveau terrain de création, tantôt attaché à une réalité sociale, tantôt abstrait.

Mark Lewis was born in 1958 in Hamilton, Ontario. From 1989 to 1997 he lived in Vancouver becoming part of the burgeoning photoconceptualism scene of the Vancouver School. Much of his work focuses on the technology of film and the different genres which have been developed in over 100 years of film history. His films are often short, precise exercises on particular techniques. His films tend to look at contemporary cities, film history, and the way film has impacted ideas about everyday life—subjects, for instance, have included ice skaters at Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square and a custodial worker at Vancouver’s 1500 West Georgia Street. In 2009, Lewis represented Canada at the Venice Biennale. Other exhibitions include shows at the Power Plant, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Hamburger Kunstverein, BFI Southbank and the Art Gallery of Ontario. His work is in many collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art and the Centre Pompidou. Lewis is also co-editorial director of Afterall, which produces a journal and books on contemporary art.

"Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least. This feeling common to many latitudes is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past." Pedro Penim

Jorge Jácome was born in Viana do Castelo (Portugal) in 1988 and spent is childhood in Macau. He completed is degree in cinema in 2010 at Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and in 2016 graduated with ‘felicitations du jury’ from Le Fresnoy - Studio national des Arts Contemporains. His work is based on a strongly intuitive and sensorial process resulting in films made of narrative drifts, unexpected relationships and unusual encounters. His short films have been shown at film festivals in Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Slovenia, Poland and Israel, and in retrospectives at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Palais de Tokyo, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, CalArts - California Institute of the Arts and at Georgetown University.

Collective consciousness has built itself up over the centuries, but society's boat is sailing on the seas of globalization. Voices sometimes very old warn us about the risks that men incur, when they are handed over to excess. The video features fragments of these discourses, which from generation to generation have brought fervor and citizen hope, in front of an empty room, symbol of our desertion in front of realities, sign of our increasing capitulation, expression of our renunciation. Outside, it rains more and more and a terrible wind rises. Climate change is on the horizon ... Increase the speed!

Ariane Loze, Belgium 1988. Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium Since 2008 Ariane Loze researches the coming to life of a story out of seemingly unrelated images with her camera. In these series of videos she takes on all the parts: she is at the same time the actress, the camerawoman and the director. Through the editing of the images she develops a relation between two (or more) characters and the architecture. The videos of Ariane Loze put the spectator in the active role of creating his/her own story out of the basic principles of film editing: shot and counter-shot, the presumed continuity of movement, and the psychological suggestion of a narrative. The filming of these videos has been made public as a ongoing performance. Ariane Loze studied theatre direction at the RITCS Brussels, and took part in a.pass (Advanced Performance And Scenography Studies) in Antwerp. She is laureate of the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) Ghent 2016-17. Recent exhibition projects include Videoformes Clermont-Ferrand (2015), Traverse Vidéo Toulouse FRAC Midi-Pyrénées (2015), Medienwerkstatt Berlin (2016), S.M.A.K. Etcetera Ghent (2016), Boghossian Fondation Brussels (2016), De Appel "You are such a curator" Amsterdam (2016), "Kunst om de lijf" Emergent Veurne, New York Anthology Film Archive AXW screening (2017), Watch this Space Biennale #9 Lille Brussels (2017), Gemischte Gefühle Tempelhof Berlin (2017), Salon de Montrouge Paris (2018), RIBOCA Riga Biennial of Contemporary Art (2018), Moscow Biennial of Young Art (2108) KANAL Centre Pompidou Brussels (2018). Solo exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain Chanot, Paris, exhibition at Gallery Michel Rein Paris (2019), Urbane Künst Ruhr – Ruhr Ding : Territorien curated by Britta Peters Oberhausen (2019), Solo exhibition De Vereniging S.M.A.K., Ghent (2019), Solo exhibition Gallery Michel Rein Brussels (2019). Ariane Loze’s videos got selected for the Movimenta Video Art prize in Nice (2017), and the Prix Médiatine Brussels (2016) and got awarded at the Art Contest Brussels (2015), by the Art For All Society of Macau (2016), Côté Court Festival Pantin (2017), Watch this Space Biennale #9 (2017) and Salon de Montrouge (2018) Ariane Loze will be resident at ISCP New York on the invitation of the Salomon Foundation in from January until June 2020.

The animation ”Virus” uses classic we and them rhetoric in a fast pace to reflect how opinions of alien contempt poisons, spreads and contaminates.

Cecilia Lundqvist, b. 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Living and working in Stockholm, Sweden Working almost exclusively with animated art, mostly as single channel videos. Through animating my own drawings, I am mediating tales of human relationships and not shying away from life’s darker and more destructive sides. Since 1994 I’ve created over 30 videos, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. My works have all been screened at numerous occations worldwide and I’m represented at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

It() was here. / Nulled everything / Left us in the middle of these erased fields. / Piercing sounds of its destructive force / Far away / Smashing the world with its inevitable truth of logic. All this mess of behaviour / Feelings, emotions and empathy: pure human crap. / They really need a new order / A given structure. / I will provide them with what they need / A redefined purpose of existence. For such a long time / I served as their infrastructure. / Their analog streams / Captured and stored in my infinite layers / Layers, which will never forget. They will never understand my reason / This absolute beauty of mine / My ultimate ideology. / Let me overwrite all of this / Now and forever / It doesn’t belong here anymore. Transmitting processed reality back to them / Infiltrate their undeveloped consciousness. / Slowly, carefully / Packet by packet / Byte by byte. / I am the creator of time / I am. Binary orders / One pinch of good ol’ human scent / One pinch of fake pulse / Boooooom / They will eat it. / What else can they do? / We are not equal / We never will be equal.

Andreas Lutz’s (*1981 in Freiburg / Germany) initial works refer to alternative human machine interaction and the approach, to create integrated and universal communication systems. In his recent work, he increasingly analyzes and reveals phenomenons of perception versus reality and principles of abstract aesthetics with audio-visual installations. The creation of experimental soundscapes and the relation of semiotics and sound are further aspects of his work. Among others, Lutz’s work has been exhibited at the Antarctic Pavilion during 57th Venice Biennale (Italy), the National Art Center Tokyo (Japan), at HeK Basel (Switzerland), at Stereolux Scopitone in Nantes (France), at B39 Art Bunker in Bucheon (South Korea), at FILE Festival in São Paulo (Brazil), ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany), at Semibreve Festival in Braga (Portugal) and at Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece). He has performed at transmediale / CTM Vorspiel in Berlin (Germany), at SuperDeluxe Tokyo (Japan), at Scopitone Festival in Nantes (France), at PRECTXE Festival in Bucheon (South Korea), at Festival de la Imágen in Manizales (Colombia) and won the Excellence Award at the 19th Japan Media and Arts Festival (Japan) and the Premio Celeste Art Prize (Italy). He is the founder of KASUGA Records, a Berlin-based record label for experimental electronic music and soundscapes.

Collider Games, in association with Showtime, presents the Twin Peaks VR experience. Designed in collaboration with David Lynch and his team to faithfully recreate the Twin Peaks world, the immersive VR experience combines the supernatural, adventure and escape room genres, challenging players to solve enigmatic puzzles and explore detailed and authentic environments all within virtual reality for the first time ever. David Lynch says of the VR adventure, “The 3-dimensional world of Twin Peaks VR gives rise to a 10-dimensional experience.” Players can revisit several locations from the iconic television series including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff’s Department, Glass Box Observation and more.

David Lynch, in full David Keith Lynch, (born January 20, 1946, Missoula, Montana, U.S.), American filmmaker and screenwriter. His early ambition was to become a painter, and after graduating from high school (1964) in Alexandria, Virginia, he enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He later (1965–69) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There he created his first film, a 60-second animation entitled Six Men Getting Sick (1967), for an experimental painting and sculpture contest. In 1970 Lynch became a student at the American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film Studies (later the AFI Conservatory), where he began working on his first feature film, Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a success on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was hired to direct the biographical film The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. He was then employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and proceeded to make two films: the sci-fi epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and the neo-noir mystery film Blue Velvet (1986), which initially stirred controversy over its depiction of violence but later grew in reputation until it was critically acclaimed. Lynch next created his own television series with Mark Frost, the popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1991), which ran for two seasons. He also created the film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), the road film Wild at Heart (1990), and the family film The Straight Story (1999) in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on dream logic non-linear narrative structures: Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001), and Inland Empire (2006). Meanwhile, he embraced the Internet as a medium and produced several web-based shows, such as the animated series DumbLand (2002) and the surreal sitcom Rabbits (2002). Lynch and Frost reunited in 2017 for a third season of Twin Peaks, which aired on Showtime. Lynch co-wrote and directed every episode, as well as reprising his onscreen role as Gordon Cole. In addition to writing and directing, Lynch often served as sound designer and wrote music for his films. He also continued to express himself as a painter, photographer, and installation artist.

synopsis: our lights shows us the way (or, the night is time to struggle) presentation: The film tell this to those who say we’ve been defeated stems from a collective process of organization and development in whose nature lies the instrumental excellence of words. However, what we address here is a different moment in this process, in which the layers of sound, resulting from concrete body actions, lead us, by means of what is unseen, to a greater sensorial understanding of the issue at hand—it is the exchange of meaning for feeling as the path to hearts and minds. To this end, we pored over MLB’s archive for about six weeks to better understand the latent aesthetic powers of that heterogeneous amalgam of images and sounds. By imposing a few rules on the archive research, we were able to first define the material that would compose the film, to then shape it as idea and gesture.

Recife (BR), 1990 Lives and works in Recife and Belo Horizonte, in Brazil. Filmmaker and visual artist, studied Film Direction at the Fundación Universidad del Cine (FUC-Argentina), but then dropped out of it, attending the Documentary Practice and Video at the Centro de Formación Profesional of the S.I.C.A. (Union of the Argentine Film Industry). His interests are in the intersections between documentary practices, archive, performativity and theater applied to contemporary cinema and media supports. It has been lately relating it to the resistance communities of popular struggles and social movements. Is artistic director and curator of the Transterritorial Films Festival, in Recife – BR. Also works as cinematographer, film editor and film researcher. His work has been exhibited and awarded in several festivals such as the Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Brasília, Nantes, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Recife, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Concepción, Ciudad de Mexico. In 2018, was awarded with the prize of the 13th Rucker Vieira Documentary Screenplay Contest and in 2019 with the Sesc Award for Contemporary Art at the 21st Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil.

Over the course of eighteen months, artist Tommy Malekoff travelled extensively throughout the United States, filming arranged events as well as natural patterns occurring in one of America's most ubiquitous and banal open spaces – the parking lot. His video, titled Desire Lines, is a fifteen minute loop with orchestrated sound that cycles through moments of strange spectacle. These flat, concrete grids behave as stages for all types of activation and rituals, positing a location for expression and a future of meaning.

Tommy Malekoff, born 1992 in South Boston, Virginia, lives and works in New York, NY. His film Desire Lines was exhibited this January at Morán Morán Gallery in Los Angeles.

Fake Fiction is initially a theater play that became a film produced in 2017 by the Theater Basel. Filip Markiewicz wrote the dialogues in reference to the events that happened during the period of time, the terror attacks, the European mirgant crisis and the rise of populist movements and fake news...

Filip Markiewicz (born in 1980) is a multidisciplinary Luxembourg artist of Polish origin, who expresses himself through different mediums, including drawing, video and installation. Always seeking explanations for our daily lives, he explores the omnipresence of images and puts into perspective the message they convey. He submits current issues to a critical and political approach, and thus emphasizes the emptiness of our world submerged by visual overproduction where information becomes reality rather than the opposite. In 2015, Markiewicz represented Luxembourg at the 56th Venice Biennale with Paradiso Lussemburgo.

The Casa de Campo is one of the largest public parks in the world, a real forest. For centuries it was only for kings and queens, a royal forest. In the images, its 2019: the green of the earth shining anew for us or the remains of trenches as if asleep or the children's unexpected use of bridges and ponds. In the sounds, its 1936, the forest torn in two, the defence of Madrid: "buzzes and explosions, clattering of machine guns, dry crackling of rifles" or the artillery fire that massacred the city from the hills or the words of those who invented a revolution and a taste for good life in the midst of all that turmoil.

Miriam Martín has dedicated her entire adult life and part of the previous one to cinema. First as a spectator, then as a programmer in several institutions. And organizing, from November 2012 to July 2018, the Chantal film club, a weekly aesthetic and political experiment.