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A poetic view into the relationship of immensity, between man and landscape. We contemplate, from the distance, the activity of the skiers on the snowy mountain. The pictorial image and the dark and dreamlike atmosphere transforms the space into something unreal, imprecise, converting it also in a tactile experience.

Lois Patiño was born in Vigo (Spain) in 1983. He combined his Psychology studies in the Complutense University of Madrid with cinema studies at TAI School. He followed his cinema education at NYFA, in New York and with the Master in Cinema Documentary at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He has developed courses of videocreation in the UdK of Berlin, and in different ateliers with artist and filmmakers such as Joan Jonas, Donald Kuspit, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, José Luis Guerín or Daniel Canogar. He has worked in collaboration with the director Mercedes Álvarez in her second feature film ?Futures Market?. His works have been shown in art centres screens such as Centro Cultura San Martín (Buenos Aires), Casa Encendida (Madrid), MARCO (Vigo), Luis Seoane Foundation(A Coruña)... and in international festivals as Locarno, Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, BAFICI, Oberhausen, Rome, Vila do Conde, Media City, Viennale, Clermont-Ferrand, Punto de Vista... With his work "Mountain in Shadow" won a Prize at the Oberhausen IFF, and at the Locarno IFF he recieved the prize for the best emerging director with his work "Costa da Morte", among others.

A poetic journey through a primitive landscape, where the processes of formation of the Earth are present. The earth beats and vibrates. The human being, insignificant, is overwhelmed and reduced to a spectator of this natural force.

Lois Patiño was born in Vigo (Spain) in 1983. He combined his Psychology studies in the Complutense University of Madrid with cinema studies at TAI School. He followed his cinema education at NYFA, in New York and with the Master in Cinema Documentary at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He has developed courses of videocreation under the guidance of Katherin Sieverding and different ateliers with artist and filmmakers such as Joan Jonas, Donald Kuspit, Pedro Costa, Víctor Erice, José Luis Guerín and Daniel Canogar.

Distance-Landscape. The connection between observer and landscape at the contemplative experience. From the crossing of the proximity and the remoteness appears the notion of aura, following Walter Benjamin´s theories. The gaze is here building the landscape from the necessary distance. Defining it´s limits withLois Patiño Filmmaker and videoartist born in Vigo (España) in 1983. Currently he lives and works at Madrid. During his university years he combine psicolgy and cinema studies at Madrid. Subsequently he move to NY and Berlin to complety his training on cinema direction and videoart at the NYFA and the UdK respectively. In Barcelona he made a master´s degree in documentary films at the UpF. He have done workshops with filmmakers as Víctor Erice, Jose Luis Guerín, Isaki Lacuesta... and artists as Joan jonas, Bill Viola or Donald Kuspit. He collaborate with the cinema director Mercedes Álvarez in her second film. the total continuity of the Nature. An observer submerged in the trip of the look around the landscape. Resting the gaze on the details that makes up it´s totally. Focusing, approaching the look to the center of the image and coming back again with distance. In this doble way we aproach to the notion of aura.

Lois Patiño Filmmaker and videoartist born in Vigo (España) in 1983. Currently he lives and works at Madrid. During his university years he combine psicolgy and cinema studies at Madrid. Subsequently he move to NY and Berlin to complety his training on cinema direction and videoart at the NYFA and the UdK respectively. In Barcelona he made a master´s degree in documentary films at the UpF. He have done workshops with filmmakers as Víctor Erice, Jose Luis Guerín, Isaki Lacuesta... and artists as Joan jonas, Bill Viola or Donald Kuspit. He collaborate with the cinema director Mercedes Álvarez in her second film.

How do you shoot a documentary when you know that filming is not allowed? In 90 Seconds in North Korea, Ranko Paukovic filmed in slow motion, shooting secretly in 2-second intervals on a hi-speed camera that everyone else around him believed was an ordinary tourist stills camera. Each 2-second fragment created 20 seconds of slow motion footage. The result is a dreamlike yet breathtakingly normal montage of everyday street, road and beach life in a state that strictly controls what outsiders are allowed to see. A child plays with a toy car in the park, adults enjoy a game of cards in the park's picnic area; trucks drive along an empty road, the rays of the setting sun lend warmth to lush countryside, and a shower of rain falls on the streets of Pyongyang… As it was impossible to record any interviews or ambient sound, the soundtrack features a haunting and evocative sound design composed by the director, an accomplished sound editor. The pragmatic, necessary decision to shoot in slow motion lends the film a poetic quality: in Ranko's own words, "the form is born out of need".

Ranko Paukovic studied film at the Academy of Dramatic Art in his hometown of Zagreb, Croatia. After graduating, he worked as an assistant editor on large international co-productions. He moved to The Netherlands in 1991 and worked as a sound editor with prominent Dutch directors. In 1993 he set up his own sound studio, Editson, specialising in sound design, sound editing and film mixing for artistically ambitious projects. Still based in Amsterdam, Ranko is now in demand internationally. He has built up an impressive back catalogue of work including feature films, high-end television drama and documentaries. A few years ago, he made his debut as a director with the feature-length documentary Bijela Kuca (White House), about the unique white stone found on the island of Brac, Croatia and the people who earn a living from quarrying it. White House was shown at several international film festivals and broadcast by Croatian national television (HRT) and Al-Jazeera Balkans. His last documentary "The End of Darkness" about the last European female mine workers just premiered at Al-Jazeera Balkans Docs in Sarajevo. The film was supported by the Croatian Film Fund (HAVC). Ranko is also a visiting professor for the University of Zagreb, where he teaches sound design.

Six Artists respond to the work of Joanna Margaret Paul is a programme of short moving image works by Nova Paul, Rachel Shearer, Sonya Lacey, Miranda Parkes, Shannon Te Ao and the collective Popular Productions. A prolific film-maker, poet, photographer and painter, the work of Joanna Paul (1955-2003) quietly observed the intimate poetics of the domestic and the modest grace of her bucolic surroundings. This programme presents an ambitious range of new moving image commissions shot at home, in industrial space, nature and using a microscope within salt letter form – each film celebrating the resonance of Paul’s work and offering the catalyst for a collection of new work by a range of contemporary New Zealand artists.

Nova Paul teaches studio moving image and art theory in the Visual Arts Department. Her film-making practice draws from early cinema, experimental film histories and fourth wave film discourse to consider the poetics and politics of place, self-determinacy and the image and the role of story telling in talking back to neo-liberal hegemonies. Her writing practice has focused on lens-based media and its relationship to whenua (land). In 2008 she co-edited PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), a book that examines how on how long-held attachments to place are transforming in the new media context. In 2012 she published Form Next to Form Next to Form (Dent De Leone, UK and Clouds, NZ) this artist book won the 2013 Most Beautiful Book in Australisia (Monash University, Australia) Nova Paul`s 16mm films have screened nationally and internationally in film festivals and gallery programmes. This is not Dying (2010) has screened at Recontres Internationale, George Pompidou Centre, France, (2011), Rotterdam International Film Festival, (2011), New Zealand International Film Festival, (2010) City Gallery Wellington, (2010). Pink and White Terraces has screened at Whitechapel Gallery (UK) and was selected by Whitechapel Gallery for Artists` Films International at the Venice Biennale in 2013. The film has toured to Ballroom Marfa (USA), Fundacion Proa (Argentina), GAMeC - Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Italy), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway), The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks at the Koç Foundation (Turkey) from 2009-2010. Pink and White Terraces premiered at the Telecom International Film Festival, (2006) and was Telecom Prospect New Art, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2007. Other film commissions include Our Future is in the Air (2007) for Martini Shot; New Artists Show, Artspace, Auckland and the World of Interiors (2008) for New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington. Nova Paul is of Te Uri Ro Roi and Te Parawhau /Ngā Puhi descent.

Le chasseur ardennais part à la recherche d’images nocturnes grâce à ses pièges photographiques. L’astrophysicien au milieu du désert, utilise ses télescopes géants pour sonder les fins fonds du cosmos. Tous deux, à travers leurs territoires et leurs images partent à la quête de nouveaux mythes.

Thomas Paulot est né à Paris en 1991. Il obtient un Bachelor en fine art à Central Saint Martins de Londres lors duquel il développe une pratique interdisciplinaire principalement autour d’installations, de vidéos et de constructions scénographiques. Il dirige en 2016 un atelier avec des mineurs pluri-exclus à Paris durant lequel il réalise un film Au début du chemin de notre vie. Il coréalise le film Stardom lors de l’atelier Grand voyage à Bombay en Octobre 2016. il coréalise en 2017, Anarchie à Buchillon dans le cadre d’un atelier avec la Manufacture de Lausanne. Il sera diplômé du Master cinéma ECAL/HEAD en 2018 avec son film, Le ciel des bêtes.

A reconstructed assemblage of the opening title sequence from the feature film The Shining (1980) by Stanley Kubrick, “A View of Above” was shot in reverse perspective at the actual locations used in the feature film. The original viewpoint is now inverted, looking up, and back at the ominous "eye in the sky" which shadows the yellow Volkswagen as it winds its way up the American Rockies to the Overlook Hotel. The framing, movement, and pacing of the original, feature film sequence is replicated shot by shot in duration and in relationship to the sun and weather. The intent is to recreate the original, but from an altogether different perspective: the gaze defiantly flipped, the viewer is no longer a complicit voyeur of the hapless victim.

Michael Paulus is an interdisciplinary artist living in Portland, Oregon. USA Exploring potential connections between often disparate relationships, his video work often attempts to reveal the hidden, censored, or unassumed in culture, cartography, mechanisms and commonplace conventions. Films and videos have screened at the NW film festival, PDX film festival, various domestic and international film festival as well as the Taipai Biennial, Scope Basel, various gallery installations and recently as part of CORE, -the Nagasaki-Hanford project as part of an installation at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA in 2018

The story of a man who came to Germany 17 years ago. It’s the 31.12.2017, a day in the life of Niaz Ahmadzai from Afghanistan. A never ending story of work, existence, love, familiy and an unfulfilled personality. The perfect integration of a fully functioning machine.

Denis Pavlovic, born in 1987 in Stuttgart, presented his first film "Smoother in 350ml" at the No Budget Festival in Tubingen in 2008. Thereupon he studied 3 years Film & Video at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. After his graduation he worked as an interne at the Documentary Production Company "Kloos und Co. Medien" in Berlin. In 2011 Denis accomplished his first long movie called "Paranoid Places" and in 2013 his second full-length documentary „Wo tanzen wir morgen" which celebrated its Premiere at the 19th Filmschau Baden-Wurttember Festival. In order to its success it was distributed via Teamwerk Stuttgart. Today Denis is studying documentary direction at the Filmakademie Baden- Wurttemberg and works as a freelancer filmmaker and artist. The main themes his films are about modern society in the midst of globalism and industrialism.

There is a German Shepherd in Tepoztlan who guards a brick villa where the walls are painted white and the furniture is modern. In the kitchen there are people chatting, the TV is on and the German Shepherd is waiting by the door. The villa is enclosed by a wall and you can hear church singing from the mountains, especially in the garden, where there is a sprinkler, purple flowers on the lawn and a woman dressed in Baby Blue.

Temra Pavlovic was born in the Netherlands and received her BFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She combines documentary and fiction, and uses materials from her direct surroundings. Her work has shown in different contexts, i.e. at Otras Obras in Tijuana, the RedCat theater and Human Resources in Los Angeles and the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She is currently living in Mexico City, working on a series of narrative documentary scenes under the umbrella title `Soluciones,` and she is a member of the three-headed collective Oa4s.

Carlos PAZOS : Escenario vaciado The video "Emptied Setting" shows the transition of a setting with a storyline and of characters in an emptied and lifeless setting. On Christmas Eve 2006, on the first floor of a building on Pau Claris Street in Barcelona, Emilia Fox, the artist's wife's mother, passed away. She was ninety years old. When she settled down with her husband Claudi Cuchillo and their four children, at the end of January 1951, she was heavily pregnant. The author's wife was born in this apartment, at the beginning of spring. Just as mother and daughter were together when the latter one was born, they were also together when Emilia passed away. During all these years her apartment was fully decorated, sometimes crammed. The sudden death of her husband left her mute for some months, the furniture and the walls. When Emilia fell ill, spaces slowly became empty.

Carlos Pazos was born in Barcelona in 1949. He received the National Prize for Visual Arts in Catalonia in 2008, the National Prize for Plastic Arts from the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2004, and the City of Madrid Prize in 2003. He studied architecture at the Universidad Politécnica, philosophy at the University of Barcelona, and design at EINA School. He held his first individual exhibition on January 1970, at the age of twenty. In 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and the Reina Sofia Art Center National Museum in Madrid held the retrospective exhibition "Don't Say Anything," and he is currently preparing a version for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo for 2009. In 1987 he played the main character in the film "Es quan dormo que hi veig clar" by Jordi Cadena, based on the writings of Catalan poet J.V. Foix. In 1998 he directed and developed the scenography for the theater piece "El bell lloc" by Joan Brossa.

The encounter between an albinos chimpanze (dressed in black) and a black roman virgin (in white chocolate). Nouveau synopsis: «En blanc i negre, una vez mas » (En noir et blanc, encore une fois) Le spectateur se trouve dans une pièce de théâtre drôle et absurde basée en la rencontre de deux personnages: la «Dame de la montagne de Montserrat», vierge noire, «La Moreneta » (Brunette), patronne de la Catalogne et «Copito de nieve», (Flocon de neige), seul gorille albinos connu au monde. Son nom d?origine est Nfumu Ngi (White gorilla), il a été trouvé agrippé à sa mère, tuée le 1er octobre 1966 en Guinée Equatoriale. Un primatologue Catalan acquis l?orphelin et le conduisit au zoo de Barcelone, dont il devint la mascotte jusqu?à sa mort, a l?âge de 39 ans. Carlos Pazos a longuement travaillé sur l?association et la juxtaposition de ces deux symboles de la Catalogne dont surgit une autre histoire pas encore écrite. Le compositeur Tom Johnson a créé la musique, une déconstruction de la Macarena (vierge blanche, patronne de Seville) du groupe «Los del Rio», fameux tube des années 90. Dans le film, ce n?est pas Copito qui joue, mais un chimpanzé en négatif. Son image à l?envers, dans des teintes blanches et roses. La vierge est une reproduction en chocolat blanc, son image aussi à l?envers. À la fin du film, les couleurs redeviennent des couleurs réelles, avec le chimpanzé noir et la vierge blanche. L?artiste met à nu son artifice et démontre son processus comme pure fiction.

Please, see the catalogue of the exhibition "No me digas nada" ("Tell nothing"), 2007, cited below. Nouvelle biographie: Né à Barcelona le 23 décembre 1949. Prix National des Arts Plastiques, 2004, Ministère de la Culture espagnol et Prix Villa de Madrid, 2003. Fait des études d?architecture à l?Universidad Politécnica, philosophie à l?Universidad de Barcelona et design à l?Ecole EINA de Barcelona. Il a exprimé son amour pour la musique et la nuit avec la direction d?un salon de bal (Salón Cibeles, 1978-1983), d?un cocktail bar (Bijou, 1983-1986) et d?un bar musical (Je-rrix, 1994-1995). Dans ce dernier local il a établi le siège de son Club de Fans, le "C.P.FANS CLUB", fondé en décembre 1994. En 1987 il est le protagoniste du film « Es quan dormo que hi veig clar » de Jordi Cadena sur des textes du poète Catalan J.V. Foix. En 1998, il dirige et réalise la scénographie de la pièce de theatre "El bell lloc", de Joan Brossa, au Espai Joan Brossa de Barcelona. Cette même année est publié "El Mundo del Ritmo" (édité par Tabelaria + Antojos), en collaboration avec Eduardo Mendoza et il est le protagoniste du video "Pianito", de Jordi Colomer. L?année 2002 il publie le scénario du film, en attente de producteur, "Aquí en la tierra como en el infierno" et en décembre 2004 il publie son livre ?Garabatos y Zarpazos?, édité par l?Université de Barcelona, dans la collection ?Les arts i els artistes?, en 2007 il publie « Fidelidad Total », en collaboration Ramón de España, édité par Raina Lupa et en 2008 « Diodrama », avec textes d?Eduardo Lago, edité par Atelier Clot. Il a fait sa première exposition individuelle en janvier 1970, à l?age de vint ans. En 2007 il a fait l?exposition rétrospective «No me digas nada» au MACBA (Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona) et au MNCARS (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), dont il prépare une version pour le Musée d?Art Contemporain de Sao Paulo, en 2009. Pour son exposition rétrospective il a réalisé le film « Mnemocine. Film à découper », un collage audiovisuel constitué par 11 épisodes, d?une durée de 26 minutes.

In Cross003, an image resembling a cross is seen, first as a seemingly tangible manifestation - a glowing or burning cross ? but secondly as a crevasse in a curtain in a window. The cross consists purely of light, and is only manifest as an interpretation of dark surroundings, lack of visual information. When people ? shadows ? appear and block the light, the cross momentarily disappears and the scene changes character and meaning. In the act of trying to decipher and categorize the changing imagery the viewer must engage his own views on voyeurism and iconography.

Rune Peitersen was born in Denmark in 1971. He lives and works in Amsterdam Education 1999-2001 MFA, Frank Mohr Instituut, Groningen, www.mohr-i.nl 1995-1999, BA, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, www.kabk.nl Represented by: Gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects

Pelechian films with the camera over his shoulder men and women of different ages and ethnic groups on the train from Moscow to Erevan.

Artavazd Pelechian?s cinema ? who, Jean-Luc Godard assures us, is the greatest filmmaker in the world - remains still today not very known in the West. The film maker of Armenian origins got his formation with the VGIK between 1963 and 1968. He lives and works in Moscow, city that he very seldom leaves. His work, which is built film upon film, for the sake of research and experimentation implies what we have discovered, tired levels in movement of evolution. Pelechian films little and only short films. The density of any new opus is in fact every time a rare piece of work.

?The seasons? is a very beautiful poem evoking in a vast parable certain moments in Armenian history, from its volcanic origins, up to the industrial period.

Artavazd Pelechian?s cinema ? who, Jean-Luc Godard assures us, is the greatest filmmaker in the world - remains still today not very known in the West. The film maker of Armenian origins got his formation with the VGIK between 1963 and 1968. He lives and works in Moscow, city that he very seldom leaves. His work, which is built film upon film, for the sake of research and experimentation implies what we have discovered, tired levels in movement of evolution. Pelechian films little and only short films. The density of any new opus is in fact every time a rare piece of work.

The film is built on the idea of `` a relationship full of mankind with nature and animals. It deals with the attacks perpetrated by man against nature, and the threat of the destruction of the natural harmony.

`Artavazd Pelechian?s cinema ? who, Jean-Luc Godard assures us, is the greatest filmmaker in the world - remains still today not very known in the West. The film maker of Armenian origins got his formation with the VGIK between 1963 and 1968. He lives and works in Moscow, city that he very seldom leaves. His work, which is built film upon film, for the sake of research and experimentation implies what we have discovered, tired levels in movement of evolution. Pelechian films little and only short films. The density of any new opus is in fact every time a rare piece of work.

The profile of a woman, lying disfigured - as in pleasure ? in an ancestral gesture. The holding of the child which has just been born, magnified by an ideal, a contrast and abstraction of space which surrounds them, evokes a religious iconography just like the portrait of the mother and child.

`Artavazd Pelechian?s cinema ? who, Jean-Luc Godard assures us, is the greatest filmmaker in the world - remains still today not very known in the West. The film maker of Armenian origins got his formation with the VGIK between 1963 and 1968. He lives and works in Moscow, city that he very seldom leaves. His work, which is built film upon film, for the sake of research and experimentation implies what we have discovered, tired levels in movement of evolution. Pelechian films little and only short films. The density of any new opus is in fact every time a rare piece of work.

Sheet No4 examines the outlines and borders of a photograph -and a human being. How to look, how to see, how to move. Using repetition and reinterpretation to both construct and deconstruct the image and its boundaries. A Conflict between outlines and content. One of the starting points of the work was the dialogue between Pelkki and the four multidisciplinary artists, whom she invited to collaborate; Emma Hammarén, Magnús Logi Kristinsson, Johan Jonason and Keiko Yamamoto. The interaction and diverse interpretations embodied in those exchanges becomes the core of Sheet No4. The name of the work refers to a contact sheet, a proposal for a photograph, where all the options are there with possible re-framing and remarks.

Sini Pelkki (b. 1978 Helsinki) works with photography and moving image. She is interested in the subjectivity of seeing, introspective lives of spaces within spaces. In her works landscapes, figures and objects turn into layered narratives that lead to various paths and ambiguous readings. Recent years her work has been going towards different kind of collaborations. Her first work in book form Arranged Lines was released in 2018. Sini Pelkki (b. 1978 Helsinki) works with photography and moving image. She is interested in the subjectivity of seeing, introspective lives of spaces within spaces. In her works landscapes, figures and objects turn into layered narratives that lead to various paths and ambiguous readings. Recent years her work has been going towards different kind of collaborations. Her first work in book form Arranged Lines was released in 2018. Pelkki gained her Bachelor degree in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (UK) in 2002 and MA from the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki in 2008. Her works have been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally.

Embarkation is a moving image that is framed like a photograph. Through repetition it builds up into a single image, like a photograph that consists of countless images. With simultaneous presence and absence, the work explores the realtionship between still and moving image.

Sini Pelkki is an artist working with photography and moving image. Her work derives and evolves around photography and the photographic image. Her film works are often based on photographic images. Focusing on the subjectivity of seeing and the relation between a human and different physical and psychological environments and spaces. Her work has been shown across Europe in exhibitions and festivals. Pelkki was born 1978 in Helsinki, Finland. She studied fine art in Chelsea College of Art and Design in London (UK) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. She is currently based in Helsinki.

OBLIQUE (Texte de Gabrielle Reiner) Oblique est un documentaire expérimental sur un groupe d'astronomes. L'artiste filme ces chercheurs d'étoiles et entrecoupe ces plans avec ceux des «objets » (le nom donné aux étoiles par les astronomes) observés au travers de l'oculaire. La prise de vue adopte les caractéristiques de la caméra de surveillance(1) et une voix-off évoque les techniques utilisées pour améliorer la vision scotopique (2). Les astronomes se documentent avec des photographies d'astres génériques ce qui leur permet à l'observation de mieux discerner les détails des astres. On peut parler d'« expérience améliorée ». Le spectateur est invité à une « expérience esthétique » (Cf. Jauss) paradoxale qui oscille entre deux points de vue: l?exploration optique des observants répond à celle sensible et relative de l'?uvre artistique. En confrontant théories scientifiques et théories esthétiques de la perception, la vidéaste interroge de manière critique la normativité de l'expérience perceptive. 1. Le night shot est le procédé qui permet de filmer la lumière infra-rouge, invisible à l'?il nu. Fait à l ́origine pour les caméras de surveillance, il a été transposé sur les caméras amateurs. 2. Il faut en effet entre vingt et quarante cinq minutes à l'?il pour basculer en scotopique, perception qui sollicite des cellules appelées bâtonnets situées non pas au centre de l'?il mais en périphérie. A cause de cette répartition des cellules ayant la plus grande sensibilité, les astronomes utilisent un regard « oblique » ou décalé, c'est à dire qu'ils visent à coté de l'objet qu'ils veulent voir afin d'obtenir une perception plus détaillée.

BIOGRAPHIE Vit et travaille à Saint-Ouen (France) née en 02/02/1984 en France