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In `How to Make Money Religiously` (2014) two slightly altered versions of the same piece play sequentially in a loop, creating a moment of deja-vu. Centering on the problems as well as the possibilities of memory and forgetting, the piece addresses the arbitrary distinctions that can be ascribed to power and possession. Prouvost expands her multilayered investigation of the slippages between systems of communication, and conjures diverse interpretations dependent on how one perceives or remembers the story, while considering consumption, desire and the persuasive syntax of Internet scams.

Laure Prouvost was born in Lille, France and now lives and works in London. Her films and videos are distributed by LUX and she is represented by MOT International

Ses films sont des montages sensuels créés à partir de situations données. L’artiste développe en parallèle des clips à saynète réalisés de façon directe et spontanée, des oeuvres plus élaborées dans lesquelles elle produit des tissages visuels à partir de coupes franches et précises dans des séquences filmiques au long court. L’habillage, l’ornementation, la prise à partie du spectateur et la mise en difficulté du récit font parties intégrantes de ses créations. Lick In The Past a été réalisé dans le cadre de sa résidence à la Fahrenheit Flax Foundation (Los Angeles).

Laure Prouvost est née à Croix, en France. Elle vit et travaille à Londres. Lauréate du prestigieux Prix Turner en 2013 – la seule Française à l’avoir jamais gagné, s’empresse-t-on en général d’ajouter – Laure Prouvost est devenue l’une des artistes les plus reconnues et les plus en vogue de la scène internationale. Elle a déjà exposé à New-York, Pékin, Athènes, Mexico… et elle travaille officiellement entre Anvers et Londres.

“Re-dit-en-un-in-learning” emphasises and concludes the linguistic training. This film has been co-produced with Van Abbemuseum, where echoes of this installation will occur (from 28 November 2020 to 25 April 2021) and is a sequel to Prouvost’s earlier foray into her unconventional lexicon from 2017, entitled DIT LEARN (using the French for speak, thus pronounced ‘de-learn’ in English), produced for Walker Art Centre, in which the viewer was verbally harangued and visually disoriented by a strobing collage of words and images, translations and slippages that destroyed the edifices of meaning, recognition, voicing and seeing. In that work we were urged to remember that a hammer means ‘no’ and a lizard means ‘yes’ – “this shoe means car,” continues Prouvost in her voiceover, “You cannot find the words for the images you see… All becomes one.” Upon leaving the Re-Learning center, the induction is over and the real-world examination begins, with the ideographic effects of the technique now translating object and signs into Prouvost’s language.

Laure Prouvost was born in Lille, France and is currently based in Antwerp. In 2002, she received her BFA from Central St Martins, London and studied towards her MFA at Goldsmiths College, London. She also took part in the LUX Associate Programme. Solo exhibitions have been held at venues including ‘AM-BIG-YOU-US LEGSICON’, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium (2019) Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018); BASS Museum, Miami (2018); They Are Waiting for You, Performance for stage at the McGuire Theatre, Minneapolis (2018); SALT Galata, Istanbul (2017); Kunstmuseum Luzern (2016); Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2016); Museum Für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2016); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2016); Haus Der Kunst, Munich (2015); New Museum, New York (2014); Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2014); Max Mara Art Prize for Women, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia (2013); and The Hepworth Wakefield (2012). In 2011, Prouvost won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women and was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 2013. Prouvost was selected to represent France at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.

In 'DIT LEARN' the viewer is enticed into an abstract, pre-verbal condition from which to rediscover the learning of language, words and their associated meanings. With a fast-paced procession of objects and images, an accompanying aural and written narrative directly implicates the viewer.

Laure Prouvost was born in Croix, near Lille, France, in 1978. After graduating from high school, she studied plastic arts and entered the Saint Luc de Tournai Institute, Belgium. In 1999, she went to London to study at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (CSM) and settled in the capital. She became the assistant of conceptual artist John Latham, who taught at CSM until 1966. She then then to Goldsmiths, University of London where she obtained her MFA. Winner of the Turner Prize, Laure Prouvost is known for her lush, immersive films and mixed-media installations. Interested in confounding linear narratives and expected associations among words, images, and meaning, she has said that in her works “fiction and reality get really tangled.” At once seductive and jarring, her films are composed of a rich, almost tactile assortment of pictures, sounds, and spoken and written phrases, which appear and disappear in quick, flashing cuts. They are often nested among installations filled with a dizzying assortment of found objects, sculptures, paintings, drawings, furniture, signs, and architectural assemblages, based on the themes and imagery in her films. Prouvost does not allow for passive viewing. Through her work, she often addresses viewers directly, pulling them into her unruly, imaginative visions. Her work was exhibited at the Tate Britain in 2011, then at the Whitechapel Gallery in Londonand the Images Festival in Toronto in 2012. In 2013, her work was presented at the Lyon Biennial and at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London. In 2014, she set up a display at the Grand Palais for the FIAC (International Contemporary Art Fair). Her work was also exhibited at Danspace in New York and at the Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City the same year. In 2016, her work wasdisplayed at the Kunstmuseum Luzern in Switzerland, the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) in Frankfurt, and the Red Brick Museum in Beijing. In 2009, she won the EAST International Award. For two consecutive years, she was the winner of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. In 2011, she won the Max Mara Prize for Women, thanks to which she obtained a residency at the British School in Roma and at the Pistoletto Foundation in Biella. In 2013, she won the Turner Prize with her film «Wantee».

Shed A Light shows us a space where nature is purported to have taken over from humanity. Inspired by global warming, the filmed environment invites us to explore and celebrate ambiguity by being at once intimate and expansive. The video is an ode to diagonal lines, the transcending of limits and the joy of slipping over a fence to discover a wasteland. Or, a now-abandoned but marvelous garden, in which the artist has discovered a forgotten dystopic biological laboratory.

Laure Prouvost was born in 1978 in Croix-Lille, France. She lives and works in London, UK and Antwerp, Belgium. After receiving the Max Mara Prize for Women [2011], Prouvost was the first French artist to win the prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary British artists and/or living in Great Britain. Prouvost was a LUX Associate Artist 2008/9. Upcoming exhibitions include a major touring solo exhibition between Consortium Dijon, MMK Frankfurt and Kunstmuseum Luzern [2016] in addition to solo exhibitions at the Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia, Gdansk; Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis; Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam [2017]; Hangar Biccoca, Milan; FRAC/Consortium, Dijon; and State of Concept, Athens [2016]. 2016 also includes residencies at Bogliasco Foundation, Genoa and at Fahrenheit for FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include A Way To Leak, Lick, Leek at Fahrenheit, Los Angeles [2016]; DER ÖFFENLICHKEIT: Laure Prouvost at Haus Der Kunst, Munich; Dear dirty dark drink drift down deep droll (in der dole) at carlier|gebauer, Berlin; Laure Prouvost: It, Heat, Hit, e-flux, New York; We Will Go Far, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart; Burrow Me, Rupert, Vilinus; L’écran: Entre ici et Ailleurs, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux. Other selected solo exhibitions include The Meeting at MOT International, Brussels [2014]; Polpomotorino at Morra Greco Foundation, Naples [2014]; For Forgetting at New Museum, New York [2014]; From Wantee to Some Signs at Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp [2014]; Laure Prouvost / Adam Chodzko at Tate Britain, London [2013]; Laure Prouvost at The Hepworth, Wakefield [2012].

A visual story that roughly puts on the scene the recent history of a nation. A group of young people are trying to climb a mountain, but they always get shot, they roll down and however they start again, on the rhythm of the gun shots. An horrible dream, that opens to hope, to the wish of living and change represented by the young people.

Since 1993 Galina Myznikova and Sergey Provorov have created a large number of projects, which demonstrate a wide range of the artists` interests and their inclination to creative experiments in sphere cinema and of contemporary art. Among them there are experimental films which took part in numerous international festivals around the world (such as Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Clermont-Ferrand, Milan, Hamburg, Montreal, Moscow, Pesaro. Sao Paulo and others). Many of films have won several awards and belong to the museum collections; a number of installations created as joint international projects and presented at some Biennale (such as Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art /Moscow/, The young artist?s Biennial/Bucharest/, KunstFilmBiennale/Cologne/, Biennial of Moving Images/Geneva/. In 2005, Myznikova and Provorov /PROVMYZA/ represented Russia with innovative project ?Idiot Wind? at 51st Venice Biennial. In 2007 they became nominees of Main National Premiums of Contemporary Art ?Innovation? and ?Kandinsky Award?.

In the system of culture, eternity is perceived as something transcendental and which is beyond human understanding. Circumstances, that devour life, and beings, that are doomed to live, are metaphorically brought together in the ?Eternity?project. A metaphor of Eternity is a little girl who mentally withstands and resists destructive force and always wins a victory over it. This is the Eternity of an absolute and timeless being. The little girl finds herself in a number of deadly circumstances, it gradually turns into existential cycle, her ?life appears to be Eternity, and her death appears to be only an instant?.

The artists work in various genres of contemporary art: video art, experimental films, photography installations and opera theater. Their works were presented at the 51st Venice Biennale, Kunstfilm Biennale (Museum Ludwig, Cologne), Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Biennial of Moving Images (Saint-Gervais, Geneva) and other notable events. Over twenty films of the art group participated in international festivals and were awarded with: Tiger Award for Short Film (38th International Film Festival Rotterdam), Gran Premio (25th Asolo International Art Film Festival), Best Experimental Film (15th Chilean International Short Film Festival). In 2010 the ?Inspiration? film was a part of ?Orizzonti? program at the 67th Venice International Film Festival and in 2012 the ?Eternity? is invited by Roma International Film Festival to competition program ?Cinema XXI?. ?Three String Quartets For One Video? was a Grand Prix winner of the Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Awards.

A tale about an immigrant from Burkina Faso and his attempt to integrate in an alien culture, Norway. Exoticore is a touching film about people trying to find their place in the world. A film about being a foreigner, about solitude and contemporary insanity. A dark journey into exoticism.

Nicolas Provost is a visual artist and recently moved back to Belgium after a 10 years stay in Oslo, Norway. Now he lives and works in Antwerp. His work is to be seen worldwide on both film- and visual arts platforms. His films ?Papillon d?amour?, ?Bataille?, ?Oh Dear?? and ?EXOTICORE? have been awarded at prestigious festivals as among others The Sundance Film Festival, The San Francisco International Filmfestival, The Nashville Film Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, The Asian International Film Festival, Seoul, and Vila Do Conde Filmfestival? The work of Nicolas Provost balances between fiction and fine arts, the grotesque and the moving, beauty and cruelty and it intends to walk on the fine line between dualities. Time and again his phantasmagorias provoke both recognition and alienation and succeed in catching our expectations into an unravelling game of mystery and abstraction that impacts emotionally as much as intellectually. With manipulations of time and form, cinematographic and narrative language is analysed, accents are shifted and new stories are told. The extraordinary is elucidated in order to reveal the global. Apart from the use of film and visual language, sound is also a constant factor in Provost?s body of work, as a rhythmical spine or an emotional guideline. In some videos filmic memory and perception are stimulated by fragments from classic films by Akira Kurosawa, Igmar Bergman, Alain Resnais or Russ Meyers. But Provost is as likely to shoot films and videos with inspiration from obscure B-films aswell as from contemporary cinema. Provost recently wrote, produced and directed "EXOTICORE", his first fictionfilm.

Dans "Gravity", l`univers rassurant créé par un enchaînement de scènes de baisers est brisé par un effet stroboscopique qui nous perd dans le vertige étourdissant de l?étreinte où, comme souvent dans le cinéma de Nicolas Provost, l`amour devient une bataille passionnée dans laquelle les monstres finissent par être démasqués.

Artiste visuel, Nicolas Provost a vécu 10 ans à Oslo. Il vit et travaille actuellement à Bruxelles. Son travail est diffusé dans le monde entier dans des lieux de cinéma et d`arts visuels. Ses oeuvres ont reçu de nombreux prix et sont diffusées dans des festivals prestigieux comme le Festival du Film de Sundance, le Festival International du Film de San Francisco, Cinevagas, le Festival International du Film de Rotterdam, la Viennale, le Festival du Film de Locarno, le Ann Arbor Film Festival, le Festival de Clermont-Ferrand, Impakt Film Festival, The Asian International Film Festival (Séoul). Les oeuvres de Nicolas Provost sont à la fois des tableaux audiovisuels et des expériences cinématiques dans lesquelles il tente de s`accommoder des dualités et de trouver le ton juste entre grotesque et émouvant, beauté et cruauté, émotionnel et intellectuel, cinéma et beaux-arts. Ses fantasmagories provoquent à la fois reconnaissance et aliénation et répondent à retiennent notre attention avec une énigme mystérieuse et abstraite qui nous force à développer une réflexion sur le phénomène de l`audiovisuel. Le langage cinématographique est analysé via des manipulations de temps, de codes et de forme, l`angle d`approche est modifié, de nouvelles histoires sont racontées. Le son est, avec le langage filmique et visuel, une composante essentielle de l`?uvre de Nicolas Provost dont il constitue une charpente rythmique et un guide émotionnel. Dans son oeuvre faite de fragments de films récupérés, Nicolas Provost stimule la mémoire et la perception filmique. Il réalise également des films d`art contemporain. "Exoticore", un moyen métrage de fiction sur le cauchemar de l`intégration d`un immigré en Norvège, était en compétition au Festival du Film de Sundance en 2006. Son film "Papillon d`amour" a reçu de nombreux prix et une Mention Spéciale au Festival du Film de Sundance en 2004. "Induction", une déconstruction cinématique, était en compétition à Sundance en 2007. Il travaille actuellement sur "The Invader", un long-métrage sur le déclin psychologique d`un homme sur fond d`immigration clandestine à Bruxelles. Ce cauchemar poétique sur un thème universel offre une nouvelle fois une réflexion sur la question cinématographique et son impact émotionnel.

The unexpected meeting of a shaman, a lonely woman, and a young boy, whose paths will cross and slip away. After magnifying suffering in "Exoticore" and "Papillon d?amour", and revealing wonder in "Oh Dear", Nicolas Provost dives into a world of anxiety and strangeness, questioning our fears for the invader and plunging us into the heart of a new emotional experience. Provost, just like his alter ego the shaman, plays tricks, working once again on the cinematographic matter and the sensorial shock it engenders, but also on its illusionary nature like white magic, manipulating time and narrative logic, finally leaving us alone with his latest creation's unfathomable mystery.

Nicolas Provost is a visual artist and recently moved back to Belgium after a 10 year stay in Oslo, Norway. He now lives and works in Brussels. His work is to be seen worldwide on both film- and visual arts platforms. His films "Papillon d?amour", "Bataille", "Oh Dear...", and "EXOTICORE" have been awarded at prestigious festivals such as The Sundance Film Festival, The San Francisco International Film Festival, The Nashville Film Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, The Asian International Film Festival Seoul, and Vila Do Conde Filmfestival... Nicolas Provost's work balances between fiction and fine arts, the grotesque and the moving, and beauty and cruelty, and it attempts to walk on the fine line between dualities. Time and again his phantasmagorias provoke both recognition and alienation and succeed in catching our expectations in an unravelling game of mystery and abstraction that impact emotionally as much as intellectually. With manipulations of time and form, cinematographic and narrative language is analysed, accents are shifted, and new stories are told. The extraordinary is elucidated in order to reveal the global. Apart from the use of film and visual language, sound is also a constant factor in Provost's body of work, as a rhythmical spine or an emotional guideline. In some videos filmic memory and perception are stimulated by fragments from classic films by Akira Kurosawa, Igmar Bergman, Alain Resnais, and Russ Meyers. But Provost is as likely to shoot films and videos with inspiration from obscure B-films as well as from contemporary cinema. Provost recently wrote, produced and directed "EXOTICORE", his first fiction film. In his own words, "My field of interest is to analyse and question the phenomenon of cinema, its various elements, its influence, and conventional rules. My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience".

Après avoir joué avec les émotions des spectateurs dans "Cinématics", sa précédente exposition, Nicolas Provost nous propose avec "Plot Point" un voyage en apnée. Si le choc sensoriel reste un élément majeur, l`artiste en appelle cette fois à nos capacités de narration. L`intuition est au centre de ces ?uvres que ce soit du point de vue de leur conception ou de la façon dont elles sont investies par les spectateurs. Sans jamais dévoiler leur essence et leur signification, ces films sont autant de puzzles mystérieux qui distillent ça et là des indices et réveillent notre imagination et nos pulsions les plus sombres. Dans "Plot Point", le célèbre univers de la police américaine avec ses sirènes, ses uniformes, ses ambulances et ses rues bondées se transforme rapidement en un décor de cinéma parfait. Le film pose la question des frontières entre réalité et fiction et des codes narratifs au cinéma (tension ascendante, climax, n?ud de l?intrigue). Mais "Plot Point", tout en jouant avec les attentes du spectateur, laisse le mystère entier.

Artiste visuel, Nicolas Provost a vécu 10 ans à Oslo. Il vit et travaille actuellement à Bruxelles. Son travail est diffusé dans le monde entier dans des lieux de cinéma et d`arts visuels. Ses oeuvres ont reçu de nombreux prix et sont diffusées dans des festivals prestigieux comme le Festival du Film de Sundance, le Festival International du Film de San Francisco, Cinevagas, le Festival International du Film de Rotterdam, la Viennale, le Festival du Film de Locarno, le Ann Arbor Film Festival, le Festival de Clermont-Ferrand, Impakt Film Festival, The Asian International Film Festival (Séoul). Les oeuvres de Nicolas Provost sont à la fois des tableaux audiovisuels et des expériences cinématiques dans lesquelles il tente de s`accommoder des dualités et de trouver le ton juste entre grotesque et émouvant, beauté et cruauté, émotionnel et intellectuel, cinéma et beaux-arts. Ses fantasmagories provoquent à la fois reconnaissance et aliénation et répondent à retiennent notre attention avec une énigme mystérieuse et abstraite qui nous force à développer une réflexion sur le phénomène de l`audiovisuel. Le langage cinématographique est analysé via des manipulations de temps, de codes et de forme, l`angle d`approche est modifié, de nouvelles histoires sont racontées. Le son est, avec le langage filmique et visuel, une composante essentielle de l`?uvre de Nicolas Provost dont il constitue une charpente rythmique et un guide émotionnel. Dans son oeuvre faite de fragments de films récupérés, Nicolas Provost stimule la mémoire et la perception filmique. Il réalise également des films d`art contemporain. "Exoticore", un moyen métrage de fiction sur le cauchemar de l`intégration d`un immigré en Norvège, était en compétition au Festival du Film de Sundance en 2006. Son film "Papillon d`amour" a reçu de nombreux prix et une Mention Spéciale au Festival du Film de Sundance en 2004. "Induction", une déconstruction cinématique, était en compétition à Sundance en 2007. Il travaille actuellement sur "The Invader", un long-métrage sur le déclin psychologique d`un homme sur fond d`immigration clandestine à Bruxelles. Ce cauchemar poétique sur un thème universel offre une nouvelle fois une réflexion sur la question cinématographique et son impact émotionnel.

Provost`s 2007 piece `Plot point` used a subtle combination of music, editing and photography to lead the viewer into a subconscious process of establishing and discovering a story. `Stardust` takes this a stage further, manipulating recorded conversations taken from films as well as background music. Provost moves from New York to Las Vegas, filming the public going about their daily business. He then uses these clips of people engaging in conversations, making phone calls, watching a screen or gazing into space, and adds film music and dialogue over the top. Provost is the master of exploiting the associations and reactions learned by the public through years of watching crime and action films and television programmes, using film music to build tension, to induce emotional responses, to alter the nature of what is seen or heard. He also uses parataxis to great effect, presenting two separate and unrelated things together, so that the audience generates links. For example, hearing gunshots while the camera shows only a closed door, we think that the shots have been fired in the room behind the door. Through his understanding of cinematographic language, Provost manipulates the audience into generating narratives and developing characters. As the piece progresses, the plots that must be built become more complex and less believable, exposing the tricks Provost is playing.

Nicolas Provost (b.1969, Belgium) is a filmmaker and visual artist living and working in Brussels, Belgium. His work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relationship between visual art and the cinematic experience. He has also written and directed several short and mid-length fiction films. His work has been broadcast, screened and exhibited worldwide on both visual art platforms and film festivals and have earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals including The Sundance Film Festival, The Berlinale, The Viennale, The San Francisco International Filmfestival, Cinevegas, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, and The Locarno Film Festival. Solo exhibitions include The Seattle Art Museum, USA, Musée d!art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, C-Space Gallery, Beijing, China, The International Media Art Biennale, Poland, Solar Galeria de Arte Cinematica, Vila do Conde, Portugal.

Provost most often makes use of the sister disciplines of video art as a reference for the viewer, most notably using those aspects that are etched in our collective cultural memory. For "The Diver", he chose the balcony scene from the theatre ? immortalised in Romeo and Juliet - as the setting for a lovers' tryst. He uses music for emotions that are too great to be described in words ? in a way that is familiar from film classics. The way in which colour and light determine the atmosphere is reminiscent of the art of painting. From modern dance he has borrowed the ability to express great yearning by the slightest physical change in posture, gesture or glance. The title of this work, "The Diver", evokes literary-dramatic associations, in so far as it remains unclear from the video whether the couple standing there on the edge of a tall building are not in fact experiencing a dreamed-up yearning. The distance between them could well be unbearable for one of them. With all these ingredients combined, Provost reaches an over-the-top effect, so that each still from this scene would serve very well as the cover of a pulp-fiction book. The music and the bang of fireworks in the background swell up in such a way that the loudspeakers become agitated, and the surroundings are basked in dramatic light. Passion is all around, and the viewer shares in what the two lovers must secretly be feeling.

Provost shot this final part of the `Plot Point Trilogy` in Tokyo. He here presents the man in the street as a film protagonist whose reality lies somewhere between a dream and a nightmare. In these three aesthetic reinterpretations, Provost, using seemingly insignificant raw material, not only moulds mystical spaces that compellingly absorb the viewer, but also masterfully shows that the dream-world called ?cinema? is simply a constructed parallel reality comprising clichés, technical rules and dramaturgical conventions.

Nicolas Provost (° 1969, Belgium) is a visual artist who recently moved back to Belgium after a 10 years? stay in Oslo, Norway. Now he lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. His work is to be seen worldwide on both film- and visual arts platforms. His films have earned a long list of awards and screenings at prestigious festivals as among others The Sundance Film Festival, The San Francisco International Filmfestival, Cinevegas, The International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Viennale, The Locarno Film Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, Impakt Film Festival, The Asian International Film Festival (Seoul), ?? The works of Nicolas Provost can be seen as cinematic experiences as much as they are poetic audiovisual paintings. They intend to walk on the fine line between dualities and balance between the grotesque and the moving, beauty and cruelty, the emotional and the intellectual, between cinema and fine arts. Time and again his phantasmagorias provoke both recognition and alienation and succeed in catching our expectations into an unravelling game of mystery and abstraction forcing the viewer to reflect on the fenomenon of the audiovisual. With manipulations of time, codes and form, cinematographic and narrative language is analysed, accents are shifted and new stories are told. Apart from the use of film and visual language, sound is also a constant factor in Provost?s body of work, as a rhythmical spine or an emotional guideline.

I ritualize a lament through a performance to camera, the coming to terms with the loss of my partner, Sandra Lahire. A journey of mourning incorporates a staging both for myself and for the camera. The hallucinatory power of the phantom of memory is set alongside the nature of lens based material to carry ghosts. Textures of the skin and voice of the deceased are infused with the pixellation and grain of photograph, film and video. --S.P.

"Sarah Pucill is a Senior Lecturer of the Fine Art Mixed Media BA at University of Westminster. She studied Creative Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University (BA 1987) and Fine Art-Media at the Slade School of Art in London (Postgraduate Diploma 1990). She then did an MA in Visual Theory at the University of East London (1997). Her photographic work and films have been shown internationally in museums, film festivals and galleries. She has been nominated for awards at the Norwich Women`s Film Festival for Back Comb and Milk and Glass. Her film You Be Mother won the experimental award at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany, 1991) and the innovation award at the Atlanta Short Film Festival (USA, 1995). Sarah?s film Stages of Mourning will be premiered at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2004, on 29 March at 20.40pm and 1st April at 18.30 at the NFT. Sarah?s films: Backcomb UK, Mirrored Measure Australia, and You be Mother UK are to be televised later on in the year." source: luxonline

Two young girls are haunting the corridors of a deserted school building. A boy enters their space and becomes a prisoner of their game. Based on documents of the school archive the film tells a story about love, betrayal and endlessly returning. A ghost story.

Andreas Bolm is a german filmmaker who studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich. He directed and produced several films that have been screened at many festivals worldwide. Jaba (2006) was presented by Cinéfondation at the Festival de Cannes and won the ?Golden Mikeldi? for best documentary at the Zinebi film festival in Bilbao. In 2009 Andreas attended the Cinéfondation Residence Festival du Cannes, where he developed his film Die Wiedergänger/ The Revenants (2012). The film was premiered in 2013 at the 63th Berlinale, Perspektive deutsches Kino. Noëlle Pujol is a french artist and a filmmaker. Her practice spans documentary films, video installations, photography and drawings. Since 1998 Noëlle had numerous presentations of her work in contemporary art spaces and international film festivals. Her latest work consists in two films, Histoire racontée par Jean Dougnac (2010) and Le Dossier 332 (2012), meant as a two-part piece.

Mrs and Mr B. have been running the M. K. factory for 20 years. From a hundred twenty employes down to two, the firm has been approching its end for many years. Their main activity "perruquer" ("to go canny"). With their son, they use a `working time` in a roundabout way, they recycle their machines tools, some materials and files for household, artistic and various other purposes. "They hedge for pleasure to create free products,to make through their `work` known a peculiar skill and to reply with an expense in solidarity with the working-class and households..." (Michel de Certeau)

Noëlle Pujol was born in 1972 in Saint-Bosoms (France). She is a graduate from École Nationale Supérieure of the Art schools of Paris and National Studio of Contemporary arts Le Fresnoy, in Tourcoing. Her artistic work explores the fields of the documentary cinema and video installation. Her films were shown at the International Festival of Documentary Film of Marseilles, at the International Festival of Film of Belfort, at the Filmmaker Film Festival - Doc11 of Milan, at the International Festival of Locarno. In 2008, two personal exhibitions of the artist took place in the Gallery of the Triangle in Rennes and at the ERBA of Valence. The work of Noëlle Pujol was shown in many group exhibitions in particular ?Variations? at the Gallery the Girls of the Martyrdom of Paris in 2007 and at the World Fair of Aïchi, French house in 2005. She is currently preparing her first full-length film ?They were once monmon?.

A queer poem about gender transformations, hallucinogenic desires, and uncanny relationships. It’s past dawn, in an apartment inhabited by several figures. They are frozen in time, frozen in the movements they were making. They look at each other, caress each other, sleep, masturbate with VR helmets on their faces. In one magical moment, they come to life and start a languidly intoxicating party. In Wojciech Pu?’s essayistic 360° film, we follow several people of different genders and ethnic identities as they navigate a path through night, life, desire, and futility. Fragments of their stories are only fleetingly revealed in poetic speeches that resemble a verbal symphony rather than a narrative. The director builds the experience on hallucinogenic light work and uncomfortable camera movements. Will this party ever end, or have we found ourselves trapped with the characters in a labyrinth of existence that has no end?

Wojciech Pu? - filmmaker and artist. They work with moving images and sound. Their films/installations/live acts have been screened / exhibited / shown at Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin), ICA in London, Museé du Louvre in Paris (Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin), Foksal Gallery in Warsaw, Art Museum in Lodz, Urban Glass in New York, A:D: Curatorial in Berlin, Spike Art Magazine / Yvonne Lambert in Berlin and Exchange Gallery in Lodz. Professor at the Cinematography Department in Lodz Film School, Poland.

“Queer Landscapes | Segues from Endless” is an experimental portrait of the character in the state of transition. Through their research the different characters and voices form a multilayered essay about queer intimacy, loneliness and resistance. This daydream plot becomes a choir of an oppressed identities, which become revolutionary and free. The essence of the film is based on the informal community of performers of different social backgrounds, gender identities, nationalities and migration status (Chile, France, Mexico, Poland, Ukraine). The combination of their personal stories, alongside fragments of literary works, films, memoirs, and dream notes creates a mosaic structure, situated in the genre of queer abstraction.

Wojciech Pus is an artist engaged in various fields of art: film, theatre, visual arts, and opera. In his works he combines the aesthetics of experimental film with elements of light and video installations, giving them a cinematographic character. He has created an original, recognisable style, largely referring to rhythm, movement, and time, analysed by the artist using the medium of film. Pu? confronts the viewer with abstract representations having narrative potential, constructed with the use of montage and music. His works are on the verge of two realities – the actual one, and the one created by the film’s visuality.

Experimental documentation of three peculiar events that took place in three different forests. Audiovisual notation that is unravelling the moments of fear in the eternal process of transformation.

Joakim Pusenius (b. 1984) graduated (BFA & MFA) from Finnish School of Fine Arts in 2014. Before the arts school Pusenius studied in University of Helsinki theoretical philosophy, aesthetics and tv- and media studies (BA). Pusenius works mainly with moving image. In his artistic practise he is focusing on the means of the audiovisual medium by developing new ways of using camera and storytelling. He is interested in film making without a strict sense of storyline or the arch of drama. More likely he is interested in the dichotomy of the cinema: The possibility of cinemas metaphysical otherness and its capability of immersion. Eternal recurrence, existential solitude and disconnection by the modern technology are common themes in Pusenius` works. Last year Pusenius was working in Le Fresnoy - Studio National des arts Contemporains producing his most recent film work "Reste pour la nuit".