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Noor Abed, Mark Lotfy
One Night Stand
Experimental doc. | mov | color | 24:0 | Palestine, Egypt | 2019
The film is based on the filmmakers’ actual encounter with an unknown European man, one night in a bar in Beirut. It was a fighter on the road to join the Kurdish militia fighting in the war against the Islamic State on the territory of Syria. The conversation was secretly recorded on a cellphone and serves as the script for animated modeled situations and performative reconstructions of that night. The film is also a formal polemic on the apparent authenticity of the documentary and the possibilities of representation of reality by means of simulations and modeled situations.
Noor Abed (b.1988 Jerusalem) is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker. She creates multimedia works on the boundary of performance, film and new media. Her practice examines notions of choreography and the imaginary relationship of individuals, creating situations where social possibilities are both rehearsed and performed. Her current research is concerned with the concept of Myth and the form of Magic Realism - and its close relation with colonial and post-colonial discourses. Mark Lotfy (b. 1981 Alexandria) is an experimental filmmaker. He explores the boundary between fictional narratives, documentary film, and media art. His practice questions the everyday, the contingent and the virtual. His current research is concerned with notions of nationalism, fundamentalism, emotionalism and heroism - not only through their ideological and performative mechanisms, but also technological ones. He examines framed structures in which new alienated subjectivities are being produced.
Yalda Afsah
Vidourle
Documentary | mov | color | 10:0 | Germany | 2019
Named after its setting, the French river Vidourle, Yalda Afsah’s film documents a strange and subtly unnerving choreography, capturing a group of young men performing what could be a ritual, a spectacle, a game, or a fight. In their collective movements as well as individual moments of concentration, anticipation and occasional forlornness, the adrenalin-fuelled adolescent protagonists seem to embody the frailty of the human condition awaiting an environmental change, much like an unexpectedly forceful current in a river.
Yalda Afsah explores how space can be cinematically constructed and the documentary character of her works often veers towards forms of theatricality. This formal characteristic of Afsah’s practice is conceptually mirrored in her documentary portraits of human-animal relationships that reveal an ambivalence between care and control, physical strength and broken will, instinct and manipulation. Afsah seeks to question and to dissolve these dichotomies, while carving out a space to reflect on the possibility of an overarching empathy between species.
Mauricio Arango
Seafarer
Experimental film | mov | color | 26:0 | Colombia, USA | 2020
Seafarer is an experimental narrative film. It combines an essayistic style with field recordings, fragments of visual studies, experiments with actors, and fictionalized reflection on artistic production rooted in personal experience. It presents a single monologue over mostly long-take shots depicting quotidian moments shot across New York City: a sunset over the Hudson River; people at the beach; a film projected in a movie theater; golfers at a course in Chelsea Piers, and so on. The visual montage is linked by a ruminative, first-person voiceover by Miami-based singer, Little Annie, who performs the character of an anonymous film director. Her haunting words, spoken with humor and earnestness, offer a meditation on the cracks in her life as an artist. They touch on a variety of topics, including our ambiguous relation with capital, the complex relationship between actors and directors, the experience of being in a cinema, and the periods when new ideas are scarce. Seafarer keenly elicits tensions between observer and creator, and what is scripted and what is captured by chance.
Mauricio Arango was born in Bogotá, Colombia and lives and works in New York City. He is an alumnus of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum and has participated in residences at Headlands Art Center in San Francisco, the MacDowell Artist Colony, USA; Museo El Barrio, New York. He earned and MFA from the University of Minnesota. His films have been screened at art and film festivals including New Directors/New Films at the Lincoln Film Society and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kino Der Kunst, Münich; VideoBrasil, Sao Paulo; FiD Marseille, Rencontres Internationales, Paris; IndieLisboa, Lisbon. He has received awards in the form of financial support from institutions including The Foundation For Contemporary Art, New York; RivieraLab Coproduction Fund, Mexico; Secretary of Culture, Colombia; Filmmakers Fund, Rooftop Films, New York; Matt Robert Arts, London; Bush Foundation For the Arts, Saint Paul, USA; The Jerome Foundation, New York; the National Fund for the Arts from the National Association of Latino Artists and Communities, USA; and The Minnesota State Arts Board, among others.
Anna ådahl
The Power of Flow. The Flow of Power
Experimental video | hdv | color and b&w | 18:0 | Sweden | 2020
Through an immersive experience, the film addresses how the notion and term of flow and ‘flow states’ have been monetised by our current economy and accelerated society of 24/7 consumption, production, and performance. The film navigates through the various flows from its origin in the Buddhist and Taoist traditions of inclusiveness and nature, through computerised blood vessels, fractal deepdream dogs, outer space, further into the charts of human flows of migrants to today’s online mindfulness of digital relaxation clips and ‘sleeptubes’, with their ongoing chat forums. These new modes of relaxation and mindfulness are an instrumental part in enabling the continuous flow linked to our current economic systems and accelerated production modes, acting as artificial breathing pauses for better corporal endurance and performativity. The notion of flow inherent to our bodily survival system of circulation of blood, oxygen, and nutrients are now hi-jacked by our current economic system. Ultimately, the notion of flow has been turned into a bio-political tool which intent is to optimise the efficiency and performativity of our individual and collective behavior.
Anna Ådahl is a visual artist and researcher working in various mediums such as film, installations and performance. She uses the editing tools of assemblage and montage where found footage meets newly produced images, where ready-mades are used as props in spatial narratives and the body is used as an investigative tool in staged performances. Over more than a decade the notion and politics of crowds has been central in her artistic practice. Her fine art practice-based research, Inside the Postdigital Crowds, at the Royal College of Art in London addresses the aesthetics and politics of the digital conditions in which contemporary crowds are operated and governed.
Saulius Baradinskas
Golden Minutes
Fiction | 16mm | color | 10:0 | Lithuania | 2019
Driven to the edge by a huge debt and his impending divorce, a poetic accountant decides to kill himself but is rescued by a heart attack.
Saulius Baradinskas (born on September 19, 1990) is a film, commercial & music video director from Vilnius, Lithuania. ?Saulius is noticed for directing music videos that already got recognition in the Baltic states. In 2018 annual music video awards Saulius was selected as a best director of the year and won best music video award for directing.
Gregory Bennett
Edifice I
Animation | mp4 | color | 8:35 | New Zealand | 2020
‘Edifice I’ is an 8:35 minute experimental 3D animation. The work is situated in an art practice that that embraces 3D computer animation and the digital body to explore themes and tensions around nature and culture, the utopian and the dystopian, through the rendering of complex digital ecosystems. The term ‘edifice’ can refer to both a large, imposing building, and a long-established complex system of beliefs. ‘Edifice I’ is the latest in an ongoing series of works by the artist that imagine infinitely revolving Babel-like tower structures situated in an infinite void. Homogeneous human figures appear only intermittently, precariously overwhelmed or trapped by the, at times, unstable superstructure. The tower simulates at times a machine in perpetual motion, without obvious purpose. Although resembling a fortress, it is rendered as a permeable and contingent structure, at times in a state of unstable flux, an embodiment the fragility of utopian desire and impermanence of human endeavour.
Gregory Bennett is a New Zealand/Aotearoa-born and based digital artist who explores conceptions of the utopian and dystopian through representations of the multiplied digital body. He uses 3D animation in a creative practice which encompasses video, motion capture, projection mapping, and virtual reality. Bennett has exhibited internationally in the USA, Hong Kong, China, Australia, and Europe. Exhibitions include ‘real-fake.org.2.0’ at the BronxArtSpace, New York; the 2019 ‘Rencontres Internationales, New Cinema and Contemporary Art’ in Paris and Berlin; the 2016 International Symposium on Electronic Art in Hong Kong; the ‘Supernova’ Digital Animation Festival in Denver, USA; and the Centre for Contemporary Photography in Australia. He was a finalist in the 7th Screengrab International Media Arts Award in Australia in 2015 and was selected for ‘Narracje 2013, Installations and Interventions in Public Space’ in Gdansk, Poland, and the Video Contemporary exhibition at the 2015 Sydney Contemporary International Art Fair. His work was paired with Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s ‘Imaginary Prisons’ print series for a show at AALA Gallery, Los Angeles in 2018. Bennett has a Masters degree from the University of Auckland, and is currently Head of Department for Digital Design and Visual Arts at the Auckland University of Technology.
Marine Bikard
Coulisses
Animation | mp4 | color | 4:9 | France | 2020
Un mouvement de caméra comme un balancement de tête, de gauche à droite. Si bien qu’il y a toujours ce qui sort et ce qui entre dans le champ. Dans ce trajet, l’œil caméra croise un papier, du papier peint, et plus loin encore, un miroir dans lequel se reflètent papier-peint et papier.
Marine Bikard est née en 1988 et diplômée de l’ENSBA - École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris (France) en juillet 2020. Avant et en parallèle de ce cursus artistique, elle a travaillé comme sociologue et poursuit la réalisation d’enquêtes de terrain. Pendant ces cinq années passées à l’ENSBA de Paris, elle a travaillé dans les ateliers de Pascale Martine Tayou, Emmanuelle Huynh, Aurélie Pagès et Jean-Michel Alberola, et a régulièrement participé à des workshops de danse qui ont marqué son parcours, notamment sa rencontre avec la chorégraphe américaine Lisa Nelson. Depuis 2019, elle imagine des rencontres collectives pour explorer par le dessin différentes manières d’être avec ce qui nous entoure. En 2021, elle a été artiste en résidence à l’Embac – École municipale des beaux-arts de Châteauroux (France).
Manuel Billi
Guardarla negli occhi (La Regarder dans les yeux)
Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 15:0 | Italy, France | 2020
A day in a life of a family. A story of hands : hands that act, hands that assist, hands that dance till the end of the day.
Manuel Billi lives and works in Paris. Film critic and director, he has authored several essays on contemporary cinema. Since the year 2000, he has been collaborating with different Italian and French film magazines. In 2014 he directs his first experimental short film, Battre, enlever. His first fiction short, Ghosts of Yesterday (2017) has been premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Then, he alternates between fiction (ENTER, 2018, selected in more than twenty international festivals; Ten Times Love, 2020) and documentary (Guardarla negli occhi - La Regarder dans les yeux, official selection at the Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema di Pesaro 2020).
Pia Bolognesi, Bursi Giulio
The Leaks of Venice
Experimental doc. | dcp | color and b&w | 17:0 | Italy, Germany | 2020
An old building in Venice hosts an exhibition, a visitor walks through empty rooms discovering a fictionalized architectural space that functions like an abandoned theatre set. While a city that is slowly drowning floods you with its obsessive presence on and off- screen, imagination can’t exceed reality. Inspired by Alexander Kluge’s oeuvre and his constellation of film and video works, the metanarrative framework of this exploration attempts to de-construct the subjective experience and liberate the cinematic energy from the horror vacui of the display.
Pia Bolognesi (PhD, b. 1981) is an independent curator, art historian and artist based in Berlin. With a background in Performing Arts, Film Theory and Visual and Environmental Studies, she has organized large scale installations, exhibitions and multidisciplinary projects for institutions including the Tate Modern London, MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, FNC Montreal, 56th Venice Biennale. Her works and installations have been presented at Wiels Bruxelles, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Kyoto and Tokyo Universities of Art and Design, Deutsche KunstHalle Berlin and Triennale di Milano, among others. Giulio Bursi (PhD, b. 1978) is an independent film curator, dramaturg and film-maker based in Berlin. Educated in Film Theory, he has been assistant director of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. He realized a documentary feature (J’écoute!, 2007) and different shorts and installations collaborating with international institutions and film festivals like Austrian Film Museum, 56th Venice Biennale, MoMA To Save and Project New York, Turin Film Festival, Il Cinema Ritrovato Bologna, Berlinale, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montreal, GAM Turin. Pia Bolognesi and Giulio Bursi work together as Atelier Impopulaire since 2012. Their installations have been exhibited at Centre Pompidou, La Triennale di Milano, Kunsthaus Bregenz, GAM Santiago, The Mix Place, West Bund Art Space and Power Station of Art in Shanghai, Volksbühne Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Tate Modern, Berlin Gallery Weekend, Rotterdam Film Festival. Atelier Impopulaire has developed site-specific projects internationally, collaborating with artists like Aldo Tambellini, Dries Van Noten, Morgan Fisher, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, Peter Tscherkassky, Margaret Honda, Experimental Jetset, Christopher Williams, Alexander Kluge.
Andrea Bordoli
Requerimiento
Experimental film | 16mm | color and b&w | 8:9 | Switzerland | 2020
The requerimiento was a declaration by the Spanish monarchy of Castile's divine right to take possession of the New World's territories and to subjugate, exploit and, if necessary, fight the native inhabitants. This experimental 16mm short film explores the aesthetics of a mythological time and its archetypical creatures and materialities. In particular, following the trajectories of a serpent and a meteorite's fragment, REQUERIMIENTO develops an interwoven narration questioning human and nonhuman alterities in different epochs and cultures.
Andrea Bordoli holds a BA in Anthropology and Philosophy from the Université de Neuchâtel (2015), and a MA in Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester (2017). He is currently based in Geneva, where he studies cinema at the Haute Ecole d'Art et Design (HEAD) while developing his own personal research at the intersection between anthropological theory, documentary cinema and visual art.
Gaelle Boucand
Voin
Documentary | mov | | 30:0 | France, Bulgaria | 0
Voin a grandi dans la Bulgarie communiste. Après vingt ans passés en Europe de l’Ouest, il retourne à Sofia sur les lieux de son enfance et de son adolescence. Son portrait se compose de lieu en lieu, de souvenir en anecdote. Du cou coupé du coq qui voulait l’énucléer aux rites d’initiation sexuelle dans la maison interdite, Voin campe les saynètes d’un roman d’apprentissage bataillien, cru et souverain. En racontant ses travestissements, il revendique aussi l’exercice d’une liberté, d’une agilité à se mouvoir dans le cours de l’Histoire. Voin l’imite, en hérite, et c’est l’Histoire qui transparaît dans une tonalité rafraîchie, une vitalité excentrique et mineure, loin des lieux communs du récit majoritaire. Et quand, penché sur le vide au 19e étage de la tour Tolstoï, le trentenaire contemple les barres d’immeubles du quartier Espoir de son enfance, son vertige est contagieux, et la sensation (dé)grisante. (Cyril Neyrat)
Gaelle Boucand est artiste et cinéaste. Sa pratique se concentre depuis dix ans sur la réalisation de documentaires au sein desquels les questions du portrait et du dispositif filmique tiennent une place centrale. En 2010, son premier film, "Partis pour Croatan", sur une communauté de raveur, est exposé, notamment au Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris (France). Son deuxième film, "JJA" — premier volet d'une trilogie — dresse le portrait d'un exilé fiscal en Suisse. Il reçoit la mention du Grand Prix de la compétition française au FIDMarseille (France) en 2012, ainsi que le Grand Prix expérimental au festival Coté Court de Pantin (France), et est également diffusé au sein de multiples institutions artistiques internationales (Kunsthalle Mannheim (Allemagne); MAST – Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia Bologna, Bologne (Italie); Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf (Allemagne). Depuis 2014, elle enseigne régulièrement à l'isdaT – Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse (France) et réalise des films avec différentes écoles. En 2015, elle termine "Changement de décor", deuxième volet de la trilogie initiée avec "JJA", présenté notamment aux États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas (France), et cofonde la société Elinka Films. En 2020, "J.A" — qui vient clore la trilogie — est en compétition à Cinéma du Réel, Paris (France), et son dernier film, "Voin", portrait d'un homme à travers son retour en Bulgarie, reçoit le prix Alice Guy au FIDMarseille (France).
Michael Busch
How Long is Now
Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 84:32 | Germany | 2020
The human being in the net, an image that is paradigmatic for the entire work: Laocoon, the warner in front of the Trojan horse, as a sculpture he is already constricted by the snake, the snake connects him with his sons, together they form an ensemble of powerlessness. The warner in front of the poisoned gift of the future repeats what Pandora’s box has brought over mankind. The future that points out from this present holds dangers and hopes in equal measure. In HOW LONG IS NOW the spider’s web appears in a variety of ways. It is the imperial railway network that spreads colonialism, it is the data cables that lie in the sea between the continents, it is the algorithms that dominate trade and stock exchange, it is the gps system, the face recognition software, the distorted maps of the world. The human being in it struggles with his mortality, struggles with language, the concepts that shape thought and action, struggles with morality and struggles with its expansion in the technosphere. The film makes shameless use of the image reservoir of the twentieth century, casually quoting the history of the moving image and the history of its progressive virtualization. The image plane sometimes nestles close to the spoken narrative of the lectures, then again it expands the space of discourse, adds associations and situations, and networks itself with the heritage of the expanded present. For four years I have been participating in these events and produced a series of short cinema trailers to promote them. The clips are 30 second long experimental films in a stream of consciousness manner. With the visual archive that was created along these productions and the possibility to use the HKW archive, the idea arose to develop a long, full-length work from it. I wanted to create a space of possibilities in which questions about our present can be articulated, beyond the quickly googled answer
studied applied theatre science at Universitiy Gießen and fine arts and experimental film at University of Fine Arts, Berlin. Makes films and film performances. Worked as a film curator for Volksbühne Berlin theatre between 2003 and 2017, held a professorship for experimental film at University of Art, Berlin from 2007 to 2013. his works have been shown at International Film Festivals like Berlinale Forum Expanded, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, at Reina Sophia, Madrid, at Art Biennale Sao Paulo, at Torino International Film Festival, San Francisco, Edinburgh.
Eneos Carka
The First Few Moments of the First of January
Experimental film | mov | color | 12:39 | Albania | 2020
A film is being projected in a bedroom where a woman sleeps. The character of the film speaks of the future of humanity and his words penetrate the woman's head invading her subconsciousness.
Eneos Çarka (1996, Albania) began his film education at University of Arts of Albania graduating in Film Directing. As a recipient of the Government Fund of Excellence Scholarship, he was awarded an MA degree in Film Studies with Distinction from University College London. He is currently part of the 8th generation of DocNomads, an Erasmus Mundus Conjoint Masters on Creative Documentary. His short documentaries focus on character studies and often deal with the themes of identity, migration and family relations. He pays particular attention to issues of representations experimenting with various approaches to documentary cinema. His first feature-length documentary is currently in post-production.
Agustina Comedi
Playback. Ensayo de una despedida
Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 14:32 | Argentina | 2019
In Córdoba, far away from Argentina’s capital city, the end of a military regime promises a spring that doesn’t last long. “La Delpi” is the only survivor from a group of transgender women and drag queens, who began to die of AIDS in the late 80’s. In a catholic and conservative city, the Kalas Group made their weapons and trenches out of improvised dresses and playbacks. Today the images of a unique and unknown footage are not only a farewell letter, but also a friendship manifesto.
Agustina Comedi (1986) Córdoba, Argentina. Screenwriter and Filmmaker. She studied Modern Literature. In 2017 her first film "Silence is a Falling Body" was premiered at IDFA. The film was multi-awarded and selected in more than 50 international festivals. Nowadays she's writing her second feature.
Jasper Coppes
Aasivissuit
Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 23:30 | Netherlands, Greenland | 2020
Recent footage of melting polar ice in Greenland as shown in the global mass media has represented the country as both the ground zero of climate crisis and a vast expanse for resource exploitation. The film Aasivissuit aims to provide a different view, showing instead the landscape and its inhabitants: focusing on people’s discussions about climate change and how they adapt in their complex relationship with the changing environment. The film follows two park rangers exploring the Greenlandic landscape. They exchange new and old knowledge of the land in their conversations. They talk about how ancient fertile sediment from Greenland is used to nurture exploited soil elsewhere and how microbes have found a way to deal with pollution. Drawing attention to the non-human presence within the landscape, the camera occasionally adopts the perspective of a fly or a raven, or dives into one of the holes in the melting ice cap where toxic metals collect. The film investigates how we can experience and perhaps understand these different perspectives.
Jasper Baldwin Coppes (1983, Amsterdam) is a visual artist who works in a diverse range of media such as films, sound performances, installations and writing. In these, Coppes explores the ways in which dominant narratives about the world and its inhabitants can be transformed. Controversial landscapes, other-than-human entities, silent objects and their presence have often been the core interests in his practice. Coppes graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2008 and was a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in 2010 and 2011. He has participated in international exhibitions, film festivals and conferences and is a tutor at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
Emanuele Dainotti
Prossimo
Experimental video | mp4 | black and white | 4:20 | Italy, Belgium | 2020
May 2020, Limburg (Belgium). A peasant family is vaccinating their animals.
Emanuele Dainotti (b. 1987 in Milano, Italy. Lives and works in Antwerpen, Belgium) is an artist and filmmaker. Recent exhibitions include: Museum of the Moving Image (USA); Louvre Museum (France); Reykjavík International Film Festival (Iceland); Rencontres Internationales Paris (France); Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); CGAI (Spain); Hudson Valley MOCA (USA); Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (Portugal); Festival Miden (Greece); FIVAC (Cuba). In 2018 he won the “International Competition for the Intermedia Artwork” organized by the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, The Faculty of Intermedia and the Foundation for Development of Intermedia Artwork. In 2019 a jury presided by Anish Kapoor and Anda Rottenberg awarded him with the “Now You See Me award” at Louvre Museum in Paris. In 2020 he is among the artists of Loops Expanded, an international network, dedicated to exhibiting and researching the concept and the form of the Loop.
Jérémie Danon
Plein Air
Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 26:30 | France | 2020
Surrounded by landscapes extracted from video games, people in rehabilitation testify. In front of the camera, they talk about their hopes, doubts and difficulties since leaving prison.
Michelle Deignan
Idiots
Animation | mov | black and white | 2:7 | Ireland, United Kingdom | 2020
Idiots combines words and beats into an apoplectic symphony. It's language is raw and jagged, stuttering onto the screen into rants, shouts and screams. This film is angry on your behalf.
Michelle Deignan makes moving image, photographic and print works, for gallery exhibition, for cinema and for other screening contexts. With moving images she creates factual and fictional narratives that present alternative experiences and understandings of identity and place. These films often feature the triumphs and failures of protagonists struggling to be seen, remembered or heard as they fight for agency. Michelle's moving image work is distributed by LUX. She is one of a group of international women artists who collectively produce The Crown Letter, online participatory art project that began in April 2020.
Shwan Dler Qaradaki
The Golden Wish
Video | mov | color | 5:29 | Norway, Iraq | 2019
The backstory for The Golden Wish is that the danish left government`s suggestion that the police could be able to seize jewelry and valuables from asylum seeker as they arrive in to the country. The jewelry and the valuables would finance board and lodging for the newcomers. In connection with this project I have been to Iraq and visited two large refugee camps outside of Suleimaniah. The refugee camps are Arbar and Barika and they are located 29 km southeast of the city Suleimaniah. In all their are 32 000 refugees in both camps together. I was on the lookout in their local markets and contacted jewelry dealers and private persons in the area. I then buyed their gold jewelry, melted and casted it to a text based installation, formed to the sentence: “Everything will be ok”.
I am a artist that works within drawing, painting, installation, video and film. Thematically in several of my work I have worked with my own experiences as a Kurdish refugee, but my experiences can provide knowledge of universal issues that can be linked to being a human being on the run. I am originally from Iraqi Kurdistan, I completed a five-year art education before fleeing due to persecution in 1997. After a challenging escape through 11 countries, I came to Norway in December 1999 and completed art education here as well.
Tommaso Donati
Cligne-musette
Experimental doc. | hdcam | color | 21:30 | Switzerland | 2020
Until the beginning of the 20th century in France, the game of hide and seek was called "cligne-musette". In a winter landscape, the film follows five kids and a young man who wanders alone between the desolate buildings of the Valibout neighbourhood, located in the province town of Plaisir. They will not cross paths but seem destined to meet the same fate, that of being abandoned to themselves; to hide and not to be found.
Born in 1988, Tommaso Donati lives and works in Lugano, Switzerland. His work combines a narrative approach with documentary cinema and is structured around the theme of marginality.
George Drivas
Empirical Data 2.0
Experimental fiction | hdv | black and white | 30:0 | Greece | 2019
Empirical Data 2.0” is based on the personal experience of the georgian actor David Malteze as an immigrant in Greece, and his trajectory from entering the country to taking up acting. The protagonist of the film David Malteze, impersonates himself, at his first professional steps 10 years ago in one half of the screen. The reenactment of the actor’s real life is contrasted with a monologue held by himself, presented at the other half of the screen.
George Drivas was born in Athens, Greece. He has represented Greece at the 57th Biennale di Venezia, 2017. George Drivas’s work has been featured as a Solo Show at AnnexM / Megaron, Athens (2020), the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2018 and 2009) and La Galleria Nazionale, Rome, Italy, (2017) , as a tribute to him at the Lumen Quarterly Festival, Beijing, China (2017/18) and Athens’s International Film Festival (2014), and as part of a group exhibition or festival among others in “back forward rewind”, Media Art Lab, Moscow, Russia, “Imagined Communities”, 21st Biennial of Contemporary Art_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil (2019-20), “Resilient Futures”, Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (CACT, 2018), “ANTIDORON- the EMST Collection”, documenta 14, Kassel, Germany (2017), “As Rights Go By”, Q21 International, MuseumsQuartier Vienna, Austria (2016), Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal, Canada, (2015), “future past – past future”, Transmediale Festival, Berlin, Germany (2014), “Art Projections”, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013), “Hybrid Stories”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2013), “Melancholy in Progress”, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan (2012), “FILE”, Electronic Language International Festival, FIESP Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, ?razil (2012), Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA (2012), “Polyglossia”, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece (2011), “Digital Wave”, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece (2009); “Young Greek Artists – In Present Tense”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece (2008)and Media Art Forum, XXVII Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia (2006)