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In their urban solitude, blue luminous characters come to temporize the night.

Christophe Beaucourt has been created fixed and animated images since 1997, the year in which he started to work as a cameraman for snowboarding videos and as a photographer in the press (snowboard, skateboard, bmx). In parallel with his activities as a television cameraman/editor, he has been working on road art since 2001, first at "Graff it!" as a photographer and journalist, then as a collaborator for two years with the agency "sipa". He has taken part in works such as "stencil project" and "graffiti urban wallpaper". He has also directed experimental documentaries on road art which have been selected at various festivals.

L'oeuvre rend visible une forme de résurgences de l'expèrience traumatique au sein de la création d'environnements 3D représentatifs de la vie domestique. Sans jamais montrer l'horreur des évènements, elle participe de processus de recontextualisation et réinterprétation d'archives web d'attentats terroristes, ceux survenus notamment à Paris (2016), Bruxelles (2016) et Istambul (2017). Elle engage l'expression d'une temporalité humaine écartelée entre la réalité de l'événement et sa médiation faisant signe quelque part entre la vie, le son et l'image.

Martin Beauregard est artiste professionnel et professeur-chercheur-créateur à l’Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Martin Beauregard est diplémé de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (PhD en études et pratiques des arts) et de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (PhD en arts plastiques et musicologie), ainsi que de l’école des Beaux-arts de Bordeaux (Master en arts et médias). Son travail artistique a été présenté dans de nombreuses institutions, notamment au Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (Montréal, Canada), Location One (New York, Etats-Unis), au Capc Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France) et à l’Asahi Art Square (Tokyo, Japon).

Une brève visite à Buffalo à l`occasion d`une projection de mes films invité par Paul Sharits. Quelques fragments initialement tournés en super 8 dans les années 80

Yann Beauvais est né en 1953, il vit et travaille à Paris et São Paulo. Il est cinéaste, critique et curateur. Il est l'auteur d'une trentaine de films courts et d'installations. Il est cofondateur de Light Cone, structure dédiée à la diffusion et la sauvegarde du cinéma expérimental qui est aujourd'hui, avec plus de 3500 films à son catalogue, la plus importante coopérative européenne de diffusion du cinéma expérimental. Il a enseigné l'esthétique et l'histoire du cinéma expérimental au Studio Le Fresnoy, à l'Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle et à l'Université de Floride. Il a été conservateur et programmateur à l'American Center et est intervenu au Centre Pompidou, au Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris ainsi qu'au Musée du Jeu de Paume. Ses articles, publiés dans diverses revues, ont été rassemblées dans le recueil "Poussière d?image, paru en 1998, aux Éditions Paris expérimental.

`Brief Encounter` (2006), TRT 2:50 min, three-channel PAL digital video, no audio `Brief Encounter` uses three simultaneous images to reflect on the fragility of current life in Lebanon. The central image was filmed in West Beirut. A couple is seen at a café table beyond a divide created by a dirty piece of plastic sheeting. The man is dressed in army uniform, the woman?s head is covered with a hijab. They face one another, talk and laugh, move ever closer and finally briefly hold hands. The left hand image shows a tethered hot air balloon slowly rising slowly until it can go no further, into a post-sunset sky beyond the Holiday Inn in Beirut. This high-rise building, close to the Mediterranean, still shows the scars of mortar fire from the civil war that ended in 1990. The right hand image shows a cedar tree, the motif of Lebanon that is present on the flag. In this shot the tree is a symbolically immature specimen, intermittently shrouded in a mist that undermines its materiality.

Sarah Beddington is a British artist based in London and New York whose multi-disciplinary work examines the intersection between the personal, the political and the social to be found at the periphery. None of her film and video works are staged, they are non-narrative observations, verging on the documentary, recorded from an unmoving camera. The works are characterised by meticulous framing, sensuous imagery and suspense reminiscent of film noir - a sensibility informed by her practise as a painter. Under her detached gaze, cultural and visual fragments coalesce into poetic tableaux. With seemingly disconnected sequences, Beddington builds an eloquent insight into a world that appears to run parallel to our everyday understanding of it. Solo exhibitions include ?Crossing?, DAC, New York (2008); `Places of Laughter and of Crying`, Bloomberg SPACE, London (2008); `Panoptiscope`, Petrie Museum, UCL, London (2006); `Parallel Lines and Other Stories`, Artlab, Berlin (2005). Group exhibitions include `Eastern Standards: Western Artists in China`, MASS MoCA (until March 2009); `Vanishing Point`, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; `About Time`, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark; `Panoramica`, The Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City. Her work is represented in a number of public and private collections including Arts Council England.

`Lost in Space`, 2009, 16mm film in colour, 5:55 min, with sound `Lost in Space` was filmed at an abandoned U.S. nuclear missile base and is part of Beddington?s investigation into capsular architecture of the Cold War period. The strange flying saucer-like object, lying abandoned on an old baseball court, was part of a now defunct radar system used to pinpoint co-ordinates for a nuclear-charged missile launch during the 1960s. In the film the object is approached cautiously thus giving it a certain presence that is heightened by shots of moving clouds and swaying vegetation. Sarah Beddington makes films that often investigate environments from the past as a starting point from which to look at the present. With `Lost in Space`, as in all of her other work, there is a sense of anticipation of waiting for something to happen. The meticulously observed compositions of her shots from an unmoving camera encourage the viewer to slow down and observe details of stillness and watching, light and shadow that turn this object of surveillance, once part of a system of power and fear, into an abject one that is now being surveyed. This relic from a utopian future that never happened becomes a surreal sundial for another era.

Sarah Beddington is a British artist and filmmaker, currently based in Paris, whose work is documentary in nature and investigates the intersection between the social, the personal and the political. Working in a variety of media, she records unique social and aesthetic circumstances that can manifest themselves in unanticipated ways. Her work revolves around the juxtaposition of the historical and the contemporary, often in relation to specific places, journeys and migration. Whether using installation, film or video, Beddington constructs parallel moments which, existing within a non-linear, non-narrative time, often have a dream-like quality. Solo exhibitions include Places of Laughter and of Crying, Bloomberg SPACE, London (2008); Crossing, DAC, New York (2008); Panoptiscope, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL, London (2006); Parallel Lines and Other Stories, Artlab, Berlin (2005). Group exhibitions include Liverpool Biennale: Future Movements (2010); Les Rencontres Internationales, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2009); Eastern Standards: Western Artists in China, MASS MoCA (2009); Vanishing Point, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; About Time, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Denmark. Her work is represented in a number of public and private collections including Arts Council England.

A disused gas station offers a curious imperative: "Save". A riddle posed in the form of architecture: what is there to save? One more instalment in the history of Americans pointing their cameras at gas stations; an attempt to figure out something about where we've been, where we're headed, and what's been left behind. The first part of "S A V E" was edited entirely on camera.

Roger Beebe is a professor of film and media studies at the University of Florida. His work has been shown around the globe at such unlikely venues as McMurdo Station in Antarctica and the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square, and at more likely ones including Ann Arbor, NY Underground, and Rotterdam. From 1997-2000 he ran 'Flicker', a bi-monthly festival of small gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, and he is currently artistic director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival.

The background of the image is made of patterns of dots directly laser printed on clear leader. That background also doubles as an optical soundtrack with different pitches created by the different density of dots. The dots were inspired by the stockings Toni Basil (?Antonia Christina Basilotta?) wore in Bruce Conner?s ?Breakaway? in 1966, which also serves as the source footage for the dancer in the film. Toni Basil herself is a source of inspiration for all 30-somethings who haven?t yet made enough of their lives. (She was 39 when ?Mickey? was a hit in 1982.) This film was commissioned at Cinematexas in 2005 over a meal of pulled pork and peach cobbler. This film is also known as ?32.37? (the price of that meal). From the Lunchfilm series: curator Mike Plante has lunch with a filmmaker and then gets a film for the cost of the lunch in trade. Some rules are written on a napkin. Here are the rules for this commission: Reference dance. Reference Texas. Have an autograph in it. Mention Toni Basil.

Roger Beebe is a professor of film and media studies at the University of Florida. His work has been shown around the globe at such unlikely venues as McMurdo Station in Antarctica and the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square and at more likely ones including the Museum of Modern Art, Ann Arbor, NY Underground, and Rotterdam. From 1997-2000 he ran Flicker, a bi-monthly festival of small gauge film in Chapel Hill, NC, and he is currently artistic director of FLEX, the Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival.

Avalancha is the story of a group of people hidden in the woods, they start running out of it and try to trespass a fence with handmade ladders, they jump and run into the woods, and the loop starts, they are hidden in the woods? Based on the events that happened in the border of Morocco and Spain, when several big groups of people tried to trespass the border fence. The press called this event as "avalanche". The film was shot in Germany, in a former fence separating East and West Germany, with german actors, trying to mix equal situations but not being obvious, there is no information about all this in the video. This is just a choreography based on a situation. I filmed the action from 3 different points of view that we can see simultaneously in 3 screens, one for the fence, one for the woods and one for the whole action. The video is presented as a continuous loop as the real fences problem is also a loop.

Welcome to Kempinski, The people of this mystical and animist place introduce it to us. "Today we have a space station. We will soon launch space ships and a few satellites that will allow us to have much more informations about the other stations and other stars. " The video has no script and the screenplay is caused by a specific game rule.

Neil Beloufa was born on 1985 in Paris. He is student in the Beaux-Arts and in the Art Decoratifs of Paris. He is in scholar exchange in Cooper Union in New York. In 2008 he ll be in CalArts in Los Angeles.

A cardboard decor and photographs reconstitute a luxury Californian-type villa in Algeria. Its inhabitants, neighbours and other protagonists imagine themselves there to explain why and how the latter was occupied by terrorists in order to hide whilst, paradoxically, it is entirely in glass. They even polished it clean so as to leave no traces. This improbable and irresolvable anecdote encourages the characters to invent images of anevent given media coverage without the images nor the story and thus missing the main point.

In a wannabe Hollywood-like scenery, cowboys, gang-members, activists, hippies and rebel-teenagers craft a philosophical tale that recycles the strongest stereotypes of our time. In this world where documentary and Sci-Fi collide, class warfare meets extra- terrestrial invasion.

Neil Beloufa (1985, Paris) studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts (ENSBA) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, and in Le Fresnoy - National Studio for Contemporary Arts. He received several awards, notably the Prix Videoforme of Clermont Ferrand 2009, the Grand Prix IndieLisboa 2009, the Arte Award for a European Short the Jury Price at the Oberhausen Film Festival in 2011. His work was shown in many solo exhibitions in Frankfurt, Los Angeles, Paris and New York, and selected for numerous group exhibitions and projects since 2007. His films were screened in international festivals for video and documentary. In 2012, he was awarded the Audi Talent Awards for his feature-film project TONIGHT AND THE PEOPLE, which premiered at FID Marseille in 2013. That same year, he was awarded the prix Meurice for his next film project. He lives in Paris.

Two architects hoped to build the ideal city: Oscar Niemeyer created Brasilia in the middle of the Brazilian mato (savanna); Corbusier went to India to build Chandigarh. Both cities raise above the landscape, like two futuristic memoranda of concrete, monuments to their builders, those rare inhabitants who are given to us. The film is bases on the respective geometrics of Brasilia and Chandigarh, while the dialogue takes place between the two cities.

Louidgi Beltrame, screen writer and artist, was born in Marseille in 1971. He presented his work at the Workshop of the Play of Palm, the Palais de Tokyo and the Museum Andre Malraux in Le Havre as well as the Festival of Film of Locarno and the International Documentary Festival of Marseille.

Située au large de Nagasaki au Japon, l?île de Gunkanjima est une colonie minière abandonnée depuis 1974. Objet d?une expérimentation urbaine verticale, extrême, et non planifiée, l?île rassemble aujourd?hui les vestiges archéologiques de l?architecture moderne japonaise. Ces formes vides, filmées comme des sculptures monumentales, sont néanmoins habitées par des histoires stratifiées - celles des conditions de production, des idéologies qui ont motivé ces chantiers et des hommes qui les ont bâti et exploités.

Louidgi Beltrame est un artiste français. Né à Marseille, il vit et travaille actuellement à Paris. Son travail se développe autour de la déconstruction des structures narratives et formelles du cinéma, considéré comme un médium avec sa syntaxe spécifique, mais également comme une force politique qui a influencé les développements du siècle passé, et qui constitue également une documentation de l?architecture moderniste et de ses vestiges. Le travail de Louidgi Beltrame est exposé dans des galeries, des musées et présenté dans des festivals de cinéma en France et à l?étranger, notamment au Musée d?Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg ; à Paris au Musée du Jeu de Paume, à la Fondation Ricard, au Palais de Tokyo, au centre d?art Le Plateau, au Centre Georges Pompidou. Ses films ont été diffusés au FID Marseille (festival international du documentaire), au festival international du film de Rotterdam, au festival du film de Locarno, à la Fondation Funarte de Rio de Janeiro, à LOOP, Barcelone ; au Japon à la Echigo Tsumari Art Triennal, à Niagata et à l?Hiroshima Art Document.

Louidgi Beltrame films in 16 mm a large banyan tree in the botanical gardens in Calcutta. This tree,
whose distinctive feature is the way it spreads rhizome-like over several hundred yards, is approached
like a forest of clones, a metaphysical space where histories re-surface: the history of the
invention and parallel development of photography and telegraphy in the context of colonized India,
Linnaeus’ dream according to Foucault, reminiscences of the films of Ritwik Ghatak and Satyajit Ray,
where reality and fiction met.

El Brujo, which means "The Sorcerer" in Spanish, is also the name of a Mochica archeological site. It is on this Peruvian beach that Louidgi Beltrame shot a part of his movie. The curandero (shaman) José Levis Picón Saguma is performing a re-enactment of François Truffaut’s 400 blows (1959) last sequence. In that sequence, the young hero, Antoine Doinel, interpreted at the time by iconic ?nouvelle-vague? actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, is running away in direction of the ocean. Right performing a Mesa - a psycho-active San-Pedro cactus related traditional healing ceremony - José Levis Picón Saguma is taking care of the vacant space left into the cinematographic apparatus by the actor whom was sick at the time of the shooting and thus was forced to remain in France. Feeling better soon after this magical operation, Jean-Pierre Léaud has been shot drifting through the streets of Paris, following a trajectory which is superimposing his memories from the 400 blows original shooting with his own "Nouvelle-Vague" subjective history. Through these transpositions, Beltrame orchestrates a series of shifts, with a migration of characters, patterns and eras. The geometric lines of the pyramids and excavations of the Peruvian landscape are echoed in the structure of the film?s editing, with tracking and panoramic shots, and are highlighted by the synthetic modular music of the track Triangle (1979) by Jacno.

Louidgi Beltrame was born in 1971 in Marseille and now lives in Paris. He studied at the Ecole supérieur d’art et de design Marseille-Mediterranée, the Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, and la Villa Arson in Nice. Beltrame is a growing artist in the contemporary art scene and has won the SAM prize for contemporary art in 2014. His work is based on documenting modes of human organization throughout the history of the 20th century. He travels to sites defined by a paradigmatic relation to modernity: Hiroshima, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Chandigarh, Tchernobyl or the mining colony of Gunkanjima, over the sea off Nagasaki. His films - based on the recording of reality and the constitution of an archive - appeal to fiction as a possible way to consider History. The artist has exhibited in many places, namely at the Palais de tokyo (2006/2016), the Centre d’Art Contemporain de Chelles (2010), The Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg (2008), the Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (2007), l’Atelier de Jeu de Paume, Paris (2006), the Musée d’art conemporain de Val-de-Marne, France (2005), the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2005).

In the dim light, the hand emerges like a fragment of presence, suspended between appearance and disappearance. It becomes a sensitive territory, brushed by a silent intimacy, unfolding like an open landscape, a place that welcomes what passes through without ever fully allowing itself to be grasped. The video then becomes a space of slowing down, where the gaze encounters a partial yet inhabited presence, crossed by a world in motion.

Yosr Ben Messaoud is a visual artist working between France and Tunisia. She is currently studying at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, after completing a degree in contemporary art and the humanities at the University of Vincennes. Her work includes video, photography, drawing, and installations, as well as hybrid forms that move between these different modes of expression. The variety of operative forms conveys an aesthetics of openness and suspension, where one is called upon to become a bridge, to welcome alterity in order to allow a new form of communion to emerge. In her practice, she examines questions related to the displacement of narratives and their survival, beginning from the intimate, through the creation of dispositifs conceived both as systems of reception, containers of experience, and circuits of narration—structures that become inhabited by what surrounds them. The axes shift incessantly between lived experience and affective facts, collected images and those that persist, the intimate and the collective voice, in order to reflect on the human condition—understood not as humanity at the centre of the world, but as part of its sensitive order, material, and social

"Anonymous soldiers", the anthem of the "Shtern gang", an anti- British extreme Jewish Underground which operated in the forties, translated to French with spelling mistakes. The text is being recited by a man and a woman, the father and mother of the artist, who are not familiar with the text and who are trying to please their son who has come for a visit. The recitation is interrupted by their corrections of the spelling, by the mother insisting on giving her son something to eat, and other sounds and oriental rhythms. The sound is orchestrated to characters camouflaged by desert landscapes digitally sculpted onto their faces. "no johny no" is a virtual belly dance, with a dreamy French-Arab, for English soldiers from a family photo album.

Born in Jerusalem, Haim Ben Shitrit studied with Christian Boltonsky at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. He graduated with distinction from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Over the years he has been awarded grants from the Manet-Katz Foundation, America-Israel Fund, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York. His video installations and projects have been exhibited in Israel, France, England, Belgium, and Canada. Ben Shitrit is currently the director of the art department at the Israel Arts and Science Academy in Jerusalem.

Images de Tunisie reclaims and recontextualizes archival footage from 1940s newsreels produced by Les Actualités Françaises, combining it with new images filmed at the same sites, among the architectures that still remain.

Younès Ben Slimane is a Tunisian visual artist and filmmaker. He graduated in architecture from the National School of Architecture and Urbanism in Tunis before completing postgraduate studies at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (FR). His work has been showcased at the Mucem in Marseille (FR), the Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain in Dakar (SN), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (MK), the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris (FR), the Beirut Art Center (LB), ETH Zurich – gta exhibitions in Zurich (CH), the Versailles Architecture Biennale in Versailles (FR), the Art Explora Museum Boat, and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio (US), the Zaha Hadid Foundation in London (UK) and the Galeria de Arte Cinemática in Vila do Conde (PT). His films have been selected for international festivals including the Locarno Film Festival (CH),CPH:DOX (DK), Black Star Film Festival (US), DokuFest (XK), EXiS Seoul, (KR) and Prismatic Ground New York (US), among others. He has received numerous awards, including Loop Barcelona Award (2022, ES). His work is part of art collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) Print and Kadist Paris–San Francisco.

A lone figure digs a grave in the dead of night. With no dialogue – and no sound other than the wind, the crackling of a fire and the scrape of a shovel against dry earth – we are confronted with a dark and mysterious, possibly cursed, universe where every object seems haunted by a meaning we barely sense, but which seem to confirm our anxieties. The head of an old doll, a comb, a lipstick. Relics whose silent language speaks of the end of their former owners. At sea, in the desert. Younes Ben Slimane’s disturbingly beautiful and melancholic imagery is bathed in darkness and in a golden chiaroscuro, lit only by the stars and the lone grave diggers’ headlamps.

Younes Ben Slimane: Tunisian artist and filmmaker, graduated from Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in 2022. His films have been selected in international festivals such as Locarno Film Festival, CPH:DOX, DokuFest, Festival dei Popoli. His work is part of the collections of art institutions and museums including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (IAC), France and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, MACBA - Barcelona, Spain.

In 2012, Mohamed had seen his best friend shot dead by an armed militia on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria; the blood spilled in the lake contaminated his memory. Ten years on, the reflections on the Laurentian waters revive Mohamed's trauma. I ask him if he'd like to dredge up the memories, repair the pain by retreating for a few days to the most distressing calm he can find. He talks about death, immigration and anger. We wonder how and why we should recount this story.

Samy Benammar is a filmmaker, photographer, and art critic based between Montreal and Marseille. Drawing from his Algerian roots and working-class upbringing, his work blends a reflective documentary approach with tactile experimentation. He seeks a form of visual reconciliation while underscoring the irreparable fractures left by fantasies of the past. Often hovering on the edge of disappearance, his images explore the tension between physical and imagined space, between memory, identity, and stone. He has served on the editorial boards of Hors Champ, 24 images, and Panorama-cinéma, and is currently pursuing a PhD on colonial photography in the Aurès region of Algeria.

The principal topics of this film are isolation and sickness. The way of recording them, voluntarily fragmented, differentiates film from documentary and also from a conventional narration. It was carried out and taken from a text written by a psychiatric nurse who plays her own part in film. It was not filmed in a real hospital but in the Dutch college of Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris. The author chosen for her plastic qualities, the purity of her lines which truly guide the spectator. She wanted to show how space and architecture represent a form capable of constraining bodies. More than the bars, it is the look which constrains the other, takes care of it, and supervises it. It is without question honoring a place within the law, an institution. The title takes up this idea; it evokes a place (like a clinic) and a mode of representation of a fragmentary world.The principal topics of this film are isolation and sickness. The way of recording them, voluntarily fragmented, differentiates film from documentary and also from a conventional narration. It was carried out and taken from a text written by a psychiatric nurse who plays her own part in film. It was not filmed in a real hospital but in the Dutch college of Cité Universitaire Internationale de Paris. The author chosen for her plastic qualities, the purity of her lines which truly guide the spectator. She wanted to show how space and architecture represent a form capable of constraining bodies. More than the bars, it is the look which constrains the other, takes care of it, and supervises it. It is without question honoring a place within the law, an institution. The title takes up this idea; it evokes a place (like a clinic) and a mode of representation of a fragmentary world.

Laetitia Benat is an artist born in 1971 who works mainly three mediums: video, photography, and drawing. She deals with the rewriting of a story inspired by the daily newspaper. But the daily newspaper becomes bewildered by the attention paid to these details usually invisible where one is protected by not looking too closely. The abyss is the place, the room, a generally closed space where only loneliness takes place. A window frame shadow which appears on a wall. Her videos are characterized by depicting women who faint, some who are sad, hypnotically empty according to others. But, through all these pale faces, which she want to express it is nothing more than the pursuit of the original portrait, bringing everybody together.