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A portrait of a season - a journey through North Russia and Siberia, through the feelings and thoughts of the people who have to cope with one of the world's harshest climates; a reality where the boundary between life and death is so thin that is sometimes almost nonexistent, where civilization constantly both fights and embraces nature and its timeless rules and rites. In these remote places, people, animals and nature itself become elements of a millennial yet unpredictable script, in which physical and mental endurance play an important role as much as chance does, where life and death constantly embrace each other. A reflection on fate, adaptation and the immutable cycles of existence.

Cristina Picchi (Lucca, 1981) is an award winning Italian filmmaker, writer and artist based in London. As a filmmaker she has directed and edited the short documentaries Zima (2013), Eyes On The Ground (2012), Under Your Skin (2011), Fragments of a Dream (2011) and The Disassociated (2011); her films have been screened in festivals and galleries worldwide. Her written work includes short stories and contributions to award-winning books. She holds a degree and an MA in European Literature from the University of Pisa and and a master`s degree in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths University.

Let's start by closing our eyes. The 4/3 vertically divided screen teems with black and white pixels. There is something intense that we confusingly perceive in the breath and the noise. Progressively the pixels are going to diminish, most likely in favour of the little scene of a character. It is a short-cut and an extraction, a numeric zoom becoming optics, always in the rear. Like a vast inspiration, the city of Bamako grows at night, its lungs filled with heat and dust. " ...The picture is the result of an operation whose viewing is an instrument and not the preamble."* *Philippe-Alain Michaud, Sketches, page 67, Kargo and L'Eclat editions.

Stéphane Pichard was born in Nanterre in 1968. In 1993 he graduated from the ENSBA in Paris. He continued his studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, completing a Master in Fine Arts. He then pursued research at Paris VIII and at the INA. He subsequently participated in several exhibitions in France and abroad. As a professor of plastic arts, he developed the residency program "Synapse" at the ESA in Rueil-Malmaison.

FECAMPOISE réuni plusieurs notes qui peuvent-être vues indépendamment ou par assemblage, vous verrez ici « J`ai pourtant bien essayé de te voir » et « Dites-moi que je rêve ». FECAMPOISE est un « docu-fanfare » comme on dit « docu-fiction », une sorte de comédie musicale. Voir les couvertures de survies -« Sound of music » (Y. Duyvendak)- qui dégringolent du plafond poussant les danseurs vers le quatrième mur jusqu`à ne plus pouvoir danser. Fin. Nous incluant, fin. Comme ces gens -« La fièvre dans le sang » (E. Kazan)- qui en 29, à Wall Street, se jetaient des tours. J`ai pourtant bien essayé de te voir.

Stéphane Pichard est né en 1968 à Nanterre. Diplômé en 1993 de l’ENSBA de Paris, il continue ses études à l’University of British Columbia dans le programme Master of Fine Arts, à Vancouver Canada, puis poursuit ses recherches à Paris VIII et à l’INA. Stéphane Pichard vit et travaille à Paris.

This is a part of a developing series titles UAP (Unidentified Arial Phenomena). Looking to the sky can reveal both threats and salvation. This was shot and edited on a phone and is intended eventually to be presented on the intimate format of a phone. Shot and edited in summer 2021.

Pierce has been making films, video, and installations for over 3 decades with screenings at Cinematheque francais, Pompidou Center, Sundance, NYFF, Rotterdam, EMAF ad many other venues. Among others, he is recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Creative Capital Fellowships. For the past 8 years he has been living in LA where he was dean and is now faculty at CalArts.

Taverne Française est d`abord un espace, physique et social, comprenant des murs et des possibles. Son vocabulaire pourrait être d`aujourd`hui, sa musique d`hier, son énergie celle de la jeunesse. Ce n`est pourtant pas l`analyse d`une époque ni le portrait d`une génération. Peu importe la taverne, c`est une taverne : on y sent l`urine, l`alcool et la sueur, on y parle de désir et de mort. Il ne pourrait pas s`agir d`autre chose, car c`est précisément toutes les autres choses qui sont en jeu. Les corps ne connaissent pas d`histoires ; la seule histoire s`inscrit entre les corps. Dès lors qu`il n`y a plus de jugements de valeur, le besoin ne se distingue pas de l`ennui, ni la cruauté de la tendresse, et dans ce délire, sans humour ni gravité, se trame le délire du monde. On ne délire pas sur une affaire personnelle mais, comme le dit Deleuze de l`inconscient, "sur les races, les tribus, les continents, l`histoire et la géographie, toujours un champ social". Et la parole de corps désaffectés, si elle n`est pas la parole des morts, ressemble bien à celle de l`inconscient.

Romain Pierre est né en 1989 à Paris. Il suit une formation de comédien à l`école supérieure d`art dramatique du Théâtre National de Strasbourg. En 2013, il écrit et réalise son premier court-métrage, Taverne Française, inspiré de l`oeuvre de Georges Bataille et des Velvet Underground.

Alone at home, but haunted by other voices: six people is six rooms somewhere in London.

Vaughan Pilikian is a writer, director and artist who lives in London. His short films have screened in festivals around the world, and he is currently at work on his first feature.

FILM QUARTET / POLYFRAME is conceived as a small cinematographic bomb attempting to question the established definition of frame as the minimum unit of (cinematographic) time by dynamiting it in four fragments. A step further in the so-called sub-genre practice of found footage film -recycled material- is also put forward for consideration in this project. The appropriationism applied in this work makes use of material found in Hollywood cinema (Singin?in the rain, Stanley Donen, 1952); Pink Panther; Buster Keaton; etc., the first avant-garde period (Un chien andalou, Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí, 1929) and American experimental film (Wavelength, Michael Snow, 1966-1967). Such method makes possible, therefore, to maintain image ecology while it provides an analysis of the history of cinema. An explosive artifact has been inscribed as cinematographic notation on musical staffs in order to facilitate the interpretation and development of the piece beyond its mere projection. Such being the case, unchanging cinematographic would pushed for their reinvention-destruction-explotion. This piece celebrates the 50th anniversary of A Movie (1958), by Bruce Conner (1933-2008).

Box is based on photographs from Tunguska, Siberia, where a large area of land was destroyed when a huge meteorite exploded above the ground in 1908. The video is a slow composition, where landscape images go through several stages of transformation. The video material which was further developed into "Box" was originally made for a stage version of Stalker, produced by Circus Maximus at Helsinki City Theater in 2003.

The Finnish duo Pink Twins, the brothers Vesa and Juha Vehviläinen, started to work together in 1997. Since then they have been exploring visual and sonic noise combined in a most physical experience. Sampling the everyday images and tearing them apart to pixels then putting them together again to a chaotic and blasting unity. In Pink Twins` music and video works "the logical and analytic thematic developments surrender to the frenetic and non-repetitive information overflow.

A pre-apocalyptic midnight walk takes you through a burning forest to witness a looming destruction. A fire in the forest either marks an impending doom or serves as a metaphysical gateway between realities.

Helsinki based duo Pink Twins, Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen, have worked in the fields of media art, moving image and electronic music since 1997. The boundaries of human perception, immersion and physicality are central to their works. Pink Twins implement their complex animations through parametric design and programming. Their works are performed not only in exhibitions and festival screenings but also as live performances combining music and video projections. Pink Twins have been seen on all continents, and in all kinds of venues from concert halls, festivals, theaters to churches. In recent years, Pink Twins have also made audio and video works directly online, e.g. the sound piece Infinity for Kiasma’s online art collection.

A spectacle of grandiose spaces, monumental halls and majestic architecture. Overpowering architectural constructions disintegrate, deform and transform into a flowing stream of lava, creating new distorted spaces as building blocks of a new order.

Pink Twins, brothers Juha (b.1978) and Vesa Vehviläinen (b.1974) are Helsinki-based visual artists and musicians working with digital music and video. The video works by Pink Twins are usually processed on Framestein, a video software developed by Juha, and combined to a soundtrack of Pink Twins music. Live Pink Twins deliver improvised digital soundscapes, often with video screenings.

Pink Twins is a duo of musicians and video artists, brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen from Helsinki, Finland. Active since 1997, Pink Twins have played their music to audiences in Europe and Asia, in festivals, clubs, art museums, churches and outdoor events. Based on improvisation and the brothers` symbiotic collaboration, music of Pink Twins is a chaotic whole of intense soundbursts, melodies and infinitely detailed sounds. In their concerts Pink Twins create a constantly changing multilayered wall of sound and aim for a physical, mental and spatial experience. Pink Twins often incorporate video projections to their concerts. Mostly created with their self-made software, the video works are abstract and painterly, from formal compositions to extremely fast shapeless pixelstorms.

Pink Twins is a duo of musicians and video artists, brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen from Helsinki, Finland. Active since 1997, Pink Twins have displayed their video works and played their music to audiences in Europe and Asia, in festivals, art spaces, clubs, churches, and outdoor events. Mostly created with their self-made software, Pink Twins' video works are abstract and painterly, from formal compositions to extremely fast shapeless pixel storms. Music of Pink Twins, based on improvisation and the brothers' symbiotic collaboration, is a chaotic whole of intense soundbursts, melodies, and infinitely detailed sounds. In their concerts, Pink Twins create a constantly changing multi-layered wall of sound, and aim for a physical, mental, and spatial experience. The live music is normally accompanied by video projections. During 2005 and 2006 Pink Twins performed actively in Europe and Asia. Their most notable performances have been the Venice Biennial Music Festival and a tour in China. Pink Twins has also had several solo and group exhibitions, for example, in Sweden, Luxembourg, China, and Mongolia. Pink Twins have released five CDs on their own label Pink Twins Media. A double DVD compilation will have been released in late 2006.

Pink Twins are brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen from Helsinki. Their music and video work is a constant mass flow of abstract, electronic and concrete sound and visuals, where the logical and analytic thematic developments surrender to the frenetic and non-repetitive information overflow. The concert is a dynamic, improvised epic that follows an organic logic to build a dramatic unity out of seemingly opposing movements. The performance is backed by a live mix of Pink Twins` video works.

Pink Twins (brothers Juha and Vesa Vehvilainen from Helsinki) have been working together since 1997. Working as computer musicians and video artists, Pink Twins perform live as well as show video and sound installations in exhibitions.

Pink Twins work on the crossing of visual art and music. Their computer-treated imagery and sound, often processed on selfmade software, focus on human perception, its functionality and limits. For their live performances Pink Twins incorporate live electronic music and a live mix of video works. The music of Pink Twins is based on improvised live sound processing of concrete and electronic sounds, noises and musical elements. The mix of live sound and video projections creates a hyperactive, constantly changing and extremely detailed experience of time and space.

Pink Twins (musicians and video artists, brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen from Helsinki, Finland) build a tissue of connections between their sound work and their visual work, attempting to intimately join together mundane fragments usually disjoint. They work from fragments of images, sounds and sensations which our daily life is subjected to in order to break them down into small particles and reunite them once again in audacious constructions formed from chaos, pulverising and rendering them abstract, according to a unified artistic sensitivity. Their concerts are surprising chromatic combinations with strong sonic collusions which correspond to a deep need, with nothing superfluous. Active since 1997, Pink Twins have played their music to audiences in Europe, Asia and Americas, in festivals, art museums, clubs, churches and outdoor events, and displayed their video works on all continents.

"Splitter" is a macrocosmos of interleaving streams of colour, a digital mass of endlessly transforming surface. Created from simple satellite photos and transformed into a richly detailed, multi-layered landscape, the static motion of "Splitter" creates a sacramental space that carries the layers of our perception and consciousness.

Pink Twins is a duo of musicians and video artists, brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen from Helsinki, Finland. Active since 1997, Pink Twins have displayed their video works and played their music to audiences in Europe and Asia, in festivals, art spaces, clubs, churches, and outdoor events. Mostly created with their self-made software, Pink Twins' video works are abstract and painterly, from formal compositions to extremely fast shapeless pixel storms. Music of Pink Twins, based on improvisation and the brothers' symbiotic collaboration, is a chaotic whole of intense soundbursts, melodies, and infinitely detailed sounds. In their concerts, Pink Twins create a constantly changing multi-layered wall of sound, and aim for a physical, mental, and spatial experience. The live music is normally accompanied by video projections. During 2005 and 2006 Pink Twins performed actively in Europe and Asia. Their most notable performances have been the Venice Biennial Music Festival and a tour in China. Pink Twins has also had several solo and group exhibitions, for example, in Sweden, Luxemburg, China, and Mongolia. Pink Twins have released five CDs on their own label Pink Twins Media. A double DVD compilation will have been released in late 2006.

"Splitter 2" is an abstract sci-fi epic, where satellite photos from the surface of planet earth are reformed into a cosmic stream. "Splitter 2" shows a static, frozen, transforming, and moving space in which matter, light, and colour are interleaved with the darkness of the void to create a new universe.

Pink Twins is a duo of musicians and video artists, brothers Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen from Helsinki, Finland. Active since 1997, Pink Twins have displayed their video works and played their music to audiences in Europe and Asia, in festivals, art spaces, clubs, churches, and outdoor events. Mostly created with their self-made software, Pink Twins' video works are abstract and painterly, from formal compositions to extremely fast shapeless pixel storms. Music of Pink Twins, based on improvisation and the brothers' symbiotic collaboration, is a chaotic whole of intense soundbursts, melodies, and infinitely detailed sounds. In their concerts, Pink Twins create a constantly changing multi-layered wall of sound, and aim for a physical, mental, and spatial experience. The live music is normally accompanied by video projections. During 2005 and 2006 Pink Twins performed actively in Europe and Asia. Their most notable performances have been the Venice Biennial Music Festival and a tour in China. Pink Twins has also had several solo and group exhibitions, for example, in Sweden, Luxemburg, China, and Mongolia. Pink Twins have released five CDs on their own label Pink Twins Media. A double DVD compilation will have been released in late 2006.

Jörg Pringler est né en 1974, et vit actuellement à Vienne en Autriche. Pringler est membre de l´institut pour la recherche trans-acoustique et du vegetable orchestra (l´orchestre de légumes/das erste Wiener gemüseorchester). Il a étudié à la Schule für Dichtung à Vienne, et a obtenu un Mastère en informatique. On peut le considérer comme un poète du son.

Wenn, wie Walter Benjamin behauptet hat, Gebäude auf doppelte Art, durch Gebrauch und Wahrnehmung rezipiert werden, d.h. taktil und optisch, dann könnte man Sasha Pirkers und Lotte Schreibers Exhibition Talks als Versuch verstehen, diese doppelte Rezeptionsweise ein Stück weit zu entkoppeln. Während auf der Tonspur vom Gebrauch der Ausstellungsräume des Tiroler Architekturforums aut die Rede ist, von den Gegebenheiten der einzelnen Räume und den Möglichkeiten, sie für eigene Bedürfnisse zu adaptieren, liefert die Bildspur fragmentarische, statische und in Schwarzweiß gehaltene Ansichten derselben Räume, die allein schon deshalb im optischen Register verharren, weil sie über die Montage zu keinem kohärenten Raumganzen verbunden werden. Anstatt die Größe der Räume und ihre gebaute Anordnung etwa über einen Rundgang durch das Gebäude zu "erzählen", fängt die Kamera Details der Fassade und der Innenräume ein, die zum einen mit ihren klar gezogenen Linien und den vielfältigen Gelegenheiten zu Ein-, Aus- und Durchblicken von der Formensprache der klassischen Moderne zeugen, zum anderen diese Formensprache einem optischen Spiel von Licht und Schatten, von Grauwerten und Schwarzweiß aussetzen, das die drei Dimensionen des Bauwerks grafisch auflöst. Bestand die Pointe der doppelten Rezeptionsweise von Gebäuden bei Benjamin in der Übertragung auf die Wahrnehmungsbedingungen am Ort des Kinos (Zerstreuung statt Kontemplation), scheint die experimentelle Entkopplung von optischer Wahrnehmung und taktilem Gebrauch in Exhibition Talks einer anderen Logik zu folgen. Obwohl vom Bild strikt getrennt, suchen die Möglichkeiten des Gebrauchs nach Wegen ins Sichtbare. "Normalerweise ist der Eingang hier": Zu sehen ist eine Öffnung, durch die Licht auf eine Wand fällt, während der übrige Raum im Schatten versinkt. Die Öffnung ist ein Fenster, sie könnte aber auch eine Tür sein bzw. ist sie gerade im Begriff, zu einer solchen zu werden. Von solchen Übergängen handelt Exhibition Talks: vom Offenen, vom Beweglichen und Veränderlichen des gebauten Raums. (Vrääth Öhner)

?Once at Miracle Mile? The Pearl M. Mackey Apartment House in Los Angeles, built in 1939 by Rudolph M. Schindler, is completely compelling to Sasha Pirker. In her work, she doesn?t strive to merely capture architecture on film, nor to simply record and document what she sees, but rather to work with the building itself (albeit in a restrained and respectful way), indeed to map it. Intriguingly, Sasha Pirker takes what would seem awkward in a conventional feature film and makes it her own: the idiosyncratic use of cross dissolves in this short film becomes in fact its main stylistic principle, and ? stunningly ? it works. In ?Once at Miracle Mile,? several calm, steady and yet at times even hesitant circular camera pans are intertwined, playing with the gaze and the expectations of the audience. Into the background of one pan enters a second, although this one refuses to displace the first ? at least not initially ? but rather, the two camera pans exist simultaneously, allowing the viewer?s attention to move between the coming and going of the images, jumping ? no, gliding ? back and forth. A slow-motion dance through the building, a dance with the building, a fusion of inside and out, a simultaneity of views ? as if we were passing the house and just happened to catch a glimpse of ourselves in one of the windows. Why not? Everything is possible at Miracle Mile on this mild Californian afternoon. This film is a declaration of love, made with solemn and tender affection for the house it?s also a remembrance of: Once ? (Bernhard Seiter) Translation: Janet Grau

Sasha Pirker, artist, born 1969 in Vienna/Austria. Studied linguistics and architecture in Vienna. She lives in Vienna. Since 2006 she is a teaching member of the department ?Video and Videoinstallation? at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Factory and office?these two architectural poles characterize Sasha Pirker?s Paperwork. On the one hand is the paper factory in the Italian town of Verzuolo whose largely automated processes the film captures in its first and final thirds in mainly static takes. On the other hand, Paperwork leads us into, around, and through the company headquarters of the Burgo Group, located in San Mauro near Turin, whose production sites include the aforementioned paper factory. The administrative building, which has largely been preserved in its original state, was built in the late 1970s according to plans drawn up by Oscar Niemeyer, a star architect in today?s terms. The building sits in the landscape like an elegant, curved, circular space ship, bearing witness to an era in which the administrative and service sector began to overtake industrial work.

Born in Vienna in 1969. Studied Linguistics. Artist and Filmmaker.Born in 1969 in Vienna, studied linguistics. Teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Video and video installation THINKING THE FORM at the Viennale in 2011. Sasha Pirkeris not just a filmmaker but a philosopher of space: Her architectural explorations of public and private buildings by eminent architects, such as Lautner, Schindler and Niemeyer aren?t documentaries on buildings but dialogues with these structures? social, political and societal dimensions. Pirker?s close look at detail speaks for the whole: with a downright affectionate understanding of space, she looks out from the inside (less often the other way round), foregoes the big picture of overall views for a gaze into interiors, as if into the bowels of utopias and sanctuaries cast in stone. The power of her films is frequently due to the interplay of images and sounds, when, for instance, the weird and wonderful stories told by people off camera make the architectural space come alive with astonishing tales.

The face is usually the expressive surface which marks a person`s identity. "Face" does not, however, just refer to the human face, but could also mean the face of a building: the façade that "adorns" a building. In Sasha Pirker`s so-named short film, shot on 16 mm using a hand-held camera, these two meanings come at one another from diametrically opposed positions. On one hand Pirker is trying to show the building as a whole, plucking out individual fragments in an entirely subjective manner; fragments which the viewer then has to piece together. One clue to this interpretation is a quote by the artist Birgit Baldasti which flashes up right at the start: "If I was a poet I?d say that pleasure lies in other people refining your own imagination." On the other hand Pirker selects the clips of the building such that the individual faces of the passers-by remain hidden. In THE FACE all entities, both architectural and human, exist without their primary identifying feature: their face. Metaphorically only the eyes, mouth, nose and ears of the architecture can be seen, while people are generally cut off, or are filmed in silhouette from behind. The framing means that each image in the film just shows a clipping: here, there is no longer any suggestion of anything being shown as a whole. In Sasha Pirker`s view, the architectural elements are also given sculptural accents. At the same time, Pirker juggles with views from within and without, bringing out the limited, snippet-like view and precisely thus firing the imagination. Almost incidentally she also succeeds in connecting the gallery space and the street ? the primary aim of the two men of action Vito Acconci and Steven Holl when they renovated the façade of the Storefront for Art and Architecture (NYC) in 1993. (Dietmar Schwärzler) Translation: Anne Koth

Sasha Pirker, artist/filmmaker, born 1969 in Vienna, Austria. Studies in Linguistics in Vienna/Austria. From 1995-2000 she worked as a curator of contemporary architecture at the Architecture Center Vienna (Az W). Since 2006 she is a teaching member at the department ?Video and Videoinstallation? at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Her films are distributed by sixpackfilm Vienna, www.sixpackfilm.com (selection) 2011 Retrospective ?Philosopher of Space? at the VIENNALE - Vienna International Filmfestival 2010 67. Mostra Internazionale d?Arte Cinematografica, La Biennale di Venezia/I