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The Rooms looks back at the remnants of the 20th century through the eyes of the 21st. Watching the film is like wandering through a ghosted world. You find yourself in unfamiliar places as if arriving in a dream, suddenly and without direction, yet with apparent logical precision. A theatre operates by and for itself; a museum archives its own contents; a city attempts to replicate language; an unfinished embassy recalls political turmoil; an abandoned spy station collects fragments of historical data and re-programmes itself. These Rooms operate as quantum architectures, forming and collapsing by themselves, defying categorisation. With rich sound design and diverse formats, the film is a visually complex study of a world abandoned that somehow continues to operate. People exist only as echoes in the empty spaces. Filmed in Italy, Germany, Spain, the United States and Korea, the numerous locations become the interconnected sites of a post-human environment. Disparate fragments come together to form a whole through the film`s unique reading of time. The wages of human endeavour are leveled and treated as data. The perspectives of the past ? modernist, machine, space-age ? are scrutinized by a future that escaped prediction. The Rooms is a collaborative project by Paul Rowley and Tim Blue made with the support of a Projects Grant from the Irish Arts Council

BIO: Paul Rowley Paul Rowley is a filmmaker and visual artist. He began making experimental short films in 1995, and has presented his work internationally since. His films have received numerous awards over the years from the Irish Arts Council, New York State Council for the Arts, Irish Film Board, Culture Ireland, the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award (Irish Museum of Modern Art?s contemporary art prize), the Irish American Arts Awards, and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His recent documentary, Seaview premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award and received a Special Jury Mention at the DMZ Documentary Festival in Korea. Recently completed projects include a feature length experimental film, The Rooms, and a perma- nent public video art installation for LAX airport Los Angeles. He is currently in production on a new feature documentary commissioned by the Dublin Film Festival. BIO: Tim Blue Tim Blue is a film maker who also works in other diverse media. His videos have screened at many international festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, Oberhausen, Art Basel, Mix, Rencontres Internationales, and Darklight, among others. Based in Berlin, he also composes music for theatre and film, has conducted video workshops for youth, and has performed throughout Europe with his group, CHEAP. Tim?s recorded audio work is prolific, and includes several solo as well as collaborative works. The Rooms is his first feature film.

A collaboration between friends. Tim shot footage of his home town while visiting there after many years. The images were sent to Paul who worked with them combining the raw footage with animated abstractions of the shots. Full frame images became fractured. A sequence based on grammar was constructed. Within each section the rooms were imagined as fragments of a quantum architecture - discreet, finite, minute.

NB AUTHOR IS PAUL ROWLEY & TIM BLUE PAUL ROWLEY AN TIM BLUE MET IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1997. THEY HAVE COLLABORATED ON A VARIETY OF PROJECTS SINCE THEN INCLUDING A FEATURE LENGTH EXPERIMENTAL WORK `AS LATHAIR` (2002) AND THIS NEW WORK `THE ROOMS`. TIM IS BASED IN BERLIN WHERE HE MAKES EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND MUSIC. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE `CHEAP`. PAUL IS BASED IN DUBLIN AND BROOKLYN AND WORKS BOTH AS AN INSTALLATION ARTIST AND FILMMAKER. HIS FEATURE DOC `SEAVIEW` PREMIERED AT THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL IN 2008.

In an unknown near future and past, a filmmaker is trying to retrace the steps of Silvia. “Who is Silvia? What is Silvia?” Silvia has gone missing. In this filmic reconstruction, Silvia drifts with the forest, attempting to attune with its temporalities. In a quest for co-existence, Silvia bridges the supposedly opposing world-views of ‘Sequency and Simultaneity’, presence and duration. At the borders of not only the forest but also of science, the destructive powers of a proprietarian society only obey the laws of succession. Here, the socialists plans of the post war era are being demolished and cleared for new and profitable housing. But in Silvia’s archive, city infrastructure and forest root systems are being integrated. Silvia’s recordings are cut in intervals where time itself becomes unstable. Through a numbering system of repeating patterns, progression is broken. Silvia has abandoned the society of ‘means to an end’. In this movement lays the path to un-build the walls that have infiltrated all aspects of this world. In the film there are excerpts by: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics and The Dispossessed, 1974. Walter Benjamin, Painting, or Signs and Marks, 1917. Una Canger, What the Eye Sees, 1986. Prints, photographs, drawings and architectural plans by among others: Florence Henri, Lotte Stam-Beese, Alma Buscher and Silvia.

In recent years, Pia Rönicke has been investigating different botanical collections that show traces of colonial and geopolitical conditions. She is in her work concerned with problems of space and spatial transformations. She is interested in the connection between workspace and filmic space, and how we conceive historical matters in relationship to our daily activities. Rönicke often works with archives and the practice of collecting is a recurring theme in her practice. She works with film, prints, sculptures and objects, which together builds narratives. CURRICULUM VITAE Pia Rönicke Born: Denmark, Roskilde. 1974 Education 1995-1999 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art 1999-2001 California Institute of the Arts. Solo Exhibitions (selected): 2022: Drifting Woods, Munkeruphus, Denmark 2021: Drifting Woods, Deserted Forest, Gävle Konstcentrum, Sweden 2020 Astrid, Lotte og Florence, Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen 2019: one artist / 2 films / one week, gb agency, Paris 2018: Word for Forest, Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico 2017: the Cloud Document, Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art 2015: The Pages of Day and Night, gb agency. 2012: Aurora, Museo Tamayo, M?xico City. Dream and action find equal support in it, gb agency, Paris 2011: Dream and action find equal support in it, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen 2010: Scanning Through Landscapes, WALDEN AFFAIRS, Den Haag 2009: Facing, CENTRO CULTURAL MONTEHERMOSO KULTURENEA, Vitoria, Spain. 2008: A Usual Story from a Nameless Country, gb Agency, Paris Travel Stories, Casco, Utrecth, Holland. 2007: Rosa’s Letters - Telling a Story, croy nielsen, Berlin. 2006: Rosa’s Letters - Telling a Story, gb Agency, Paris Capitol Punishment, in collaboration with Olga Koumoundouros Glassell School of Arts, Houston. The Plan is Dictator. Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden.* 2005: Hoardings II, public project, Tate Modern. London Without a Name. Gallery Andersen’s, Copenhagen. Land/Documents. Display Gallery, Prague. 2004: Without a Name, Gallery gb Agency, Paris. Landscapes of Resistance,Trafo Gallery, Budapest. Six Architects – An Architectural Rorschach Test, •• A collaporation with Michael Bears. Lunds Kunsthal, Sweden. 2003: Seven Architects – An Architectural Rorschach Test, Schindler residency, The Makey Apartments, Los Angeles ••A collaporation with Michael Bears. 2002: ‘A Place Like Any Other’, Gallery Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark. Group Exhibitions (selected): 2022: Busan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan (MoCA Busan) Flowers, MAMAC, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice 2021: Acts of Listening: A Common Attempt to (Re) Articulate a Feminist Position, Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen Perspectives #01,Fonds regional d’art contemporain, Alsace The Secret Life of Plants, Casa da Cerca, Almada, Portugal 2020: The City, BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bergen 2019: Artistic Undressings of the Royal Seaport, Moss exhibitions, Stockholm Drawing Attention, DEN FRIE, Contemporary Artcenter. Kbenhavn I slipped into my metamorphosis so quietly that no one noticed, DEN FRIE This is Not An Apricot, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen 2018: Case of Emergency, public project, Gävle, Sverige 2018: Word for Forest, Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico 2017: AMIF, LUX Scotland. Tramway, Glasgow. Collaboration with Henriette Heise, Deirdre Humphrys, Mia Edelgart Conversation I: Family, work, art, surroundings, Tom Christoffersen. Pia R?nicke, S?nder Boulevard 88, 3.tv 1720 Copenhagen V. E-mail: piaronicke@gmail.com Mapping with Plants, book work and symposium, Hamborg Art Academy. DFU Kino, screening, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. 2016: Botany Under Influence, Apexart, New York. But Still Tomorrow Builds into My Face, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai. 2015: A story within a Story G?teborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.Old News, cneai, Paris. Kvinder frem. Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark. Lokale, Flensborggade 57, Copenhagen 2014: Photography and Architecture. Photographic Center, Copenhagen Human- Space-Machines. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK), Oslo. Buildering : Misbehaving the City, Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, Ohio 2013: Reports from New Sweden, Tensta Konsthall. Human- Space-Machines: Stage Experiments At The Bauhaus, Stiftung Bauhaus, Dessau Fokus, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen. 2012: Horizons persistants, Centre d’art le LAIT, Albi Cities of Light: Film Programme curated by Inheritance Projects, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India. Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, exhibition for the City of Mechelen, Belgium VISIT TINGBJERG, Artfestival in Tingbjerg. A Gathering, locus Athens, Athen Envisioning Buildings, MAK, Wien 2011: Ficciones Urbanas, Centro Cultural Koldo Mitxlena, San Sebastian. Community without Propinquity, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, UK Terms of Belonging (gaaafstand collaboration with Nis R?mer) Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. L'idee de nature, Mulhouse Kunsthalle, Frankrig 2010: hem ljuva hem, Konsthall C, Stockholm. THIS STORY IS NOT READY FOR ITS FOOTNOTES, Ex Elettrofonica, Roma. Danmark 2010 - en vejledning til nationen for 'verdens lykkeligste folk'. (gaaafstand collaboration with Nis R?mer) Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Wiels, Rehabilitation, Bruxelles – Brussel Both Before and After, gb agency, Paris Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona, Film festival, Barcelona. Where are yesterday's tomorrow? Film screening, Mus?e d'Art Contemporain de Montreal. Montreal. 2009: Changes in the contemporary city, Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR), Coolsingel cinema, Rotterdam. The Curve is Ruinous (film screening program), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz. After Architecture, CASM, Barcelona. In May (After October), Gallery TPW Toronto Gets Under the Skin (film screening program), The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York Os demos, Publik, Copenhagen 2008: Overcoming, Ernst Museum, Budapest After October, Elizabeth Dee gallery, New York Zero Gravity, The Week of Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copehagen The Map is not the Territory, Esbjeg Artmuseum, Denmark Technically Sweet, Participant Inc, New York Danskjävlar – A Swedish declaration of love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Copenhagen. A NEW STANCE FOR TOMORROW, The Gallery Sketch, London 2007: “The Other City”, Hungarian cultural center, New York. “Sue?o de casa propia”, La casa encendida, Madrid “Archaeologies of the Future, Sala Rekalde, Bilboa. ”Building Society”, Contemporary artcenter La Panera, Lleida, Spain. “Imagine Action”, Lisson Gallery, London. “A Number of Worlds Resembling Our Own”, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam. Habitat/Variations, B?timent d'art con temporain, Geneve “Anachronism”, ARGOS, Brussels. "Elephant Cemetary”, Artist Space, New York "Dibujos animados (Cartoons)", Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid 2006: Exportable Goods, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna Dreamlands Burn, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest Version Animee, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneve. Urban Appearances, video parcour at Rosa-LuxemburgPlatz, Berlin Closely Observed Plans, Transit workshops, Bratislava. Super nova, Pommery#3, Reims, France Esplanaden, The Frie, Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen. 2005: At the Same Time Somewhere Else, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinbourg gb Agency. Paris. Opening exhibition, Andersen’s Gallery, Copenhagen. Urban Cirkulation, public project, Berlin. 2004: Channel _0, CATV Project, Local TV-NETWORK, AIAV, Japan Non Standard Cities, Stadtkunstverein, Berlin. Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia, ACCA, Melbourne Architectual Adventures, Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Monument, an exhibition in the city of Copenhagen. 2003: Abcity, Trafo, Budapest. Plunder, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland. Feu de bois, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France. Rent a Bench, Trapholt Moderne Museum of Art, Kolding, Denmark. Coup de Coeur- a sentimental choice, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France. Video festival, Creating New Spaces, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany. Venice biennale, Utopia Station, Venice. gb agency, Present Perfect, Paris. GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Nomadic Structures, Cubiitt Gallery, London. Mursollaici, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. 2002: Home Scenes: 8 days of revision. The Schindler House, Los Angeles. Site-seeing: disneyfication of cities? Ku?nstlerhaus, Vienna. The Fall Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark. ••A collaporation with Johan Tiren. Rent-a-bench, in the street on bus benches, Los Angeles. Culture meets culture, Busan Biannale, Korea. Urbane Sequenzen, Kunsthalle Erfurt/Museum Schloss Hardenberg Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany* ’Concrete Garden’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 2001: ‘Dedalic Convention’, MAK – Austrian Museum for Applied Arts, Wien. ‘Blick’, Screening touring Nordic and international venues. ‘Exile Video’, Rum46, Aarhus, Denmark. ‘New Settlements’, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. ‘Take Off’, Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark 2000:‘Site Geist’, The Porter Troupe Gallery, SanDiego, USA. ‘No swimming’, org. by Heike Ander, Kunstverein Mu?nchen, Germany. ‘Use your illusion/part 3’, Duchamp's Suitcase, Arnolfini, Bristol, England. ‘Momentum’. Nordic Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway. ’Taenk om/What if?’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm,Sweden.

The Times, replayed unfolds in a time loop that is both enigmatic and very concrete. From an isolated room images of the world comes into appearance being both out of sync and in actuality with the news stream. The materiality of images are put into question, how they are contextualized and how they decompose, how rapidly the are rendered out of date or take one new meanings. Within this space an actual presence is slowly starting to emerge.

Pia Rönicke is an artist based in Copenhagen. In recent years, she has been investigating different botanical collections that show traces of colonial and geopolitical conditions. Her work is concerned with problems of space and spatial transformations. She is interested in the connection between work space and filmic space, and how we conceive historical matters in relationship to our daily activities. Rönicke often works with archives and the practice of collecting is a recurring theme in her artworks. Her artistic practice spans film, prints, sculptures, and objects, which together build narratives. Solo exhibitions, Drifting Woods, Gävle Art Center, Sweden, Word for Forest, Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico, 2018 The Cloud Document, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, 2017; The Pages of Day and Night, gb agency, Paris, 2015; Aurora, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2012. Group exhibitions, film festivals, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, 2018; FIDMarseille, 2018; Botany Under Influence, Apexart, New York, 2016; A story within a Story, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2015, Buildering: Misbehaving the City, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2014; Rehabilitation, WIELS, Brussels, 2012; After Architecture, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2010; Imagine Action, Lisson Gallery, London, 2008; Elephant Cemetery, Artists Space, New York, 2007; Anachronism, ARGOS, Brussels, 2007; GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2003

Agustín Pérez Rubio (Valence, Espagne 1972), historien d'art, critique d'art et commissaire d'exposition, est aussi conservateur en chef du MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (musée d'art contemporain de Castille y Léon). Il a été directeur du Jornadas de Estudios de la Imagen de Madrid de 2001 à 2004. Des contributions régulières dans des magazines internationaux comme NU : The Nordic Art Review (Suède); Art Journal (Philadelphie), Kalias (Espagne), Tema Celeste (Milan), Arts Mediterranea (Milan, Barcelone, Paris), Atlantica, (Espagne), Le Journal des Arts (Paris), entre autres. Il a organisé de nombreuses manifestations telles que Trasvases: artistas españoles en vídeo (Buenos Aires, Mexico D.F., Lima, 2000); Antro-apologías (Valence, 2001), Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset (Madrid, 2002); mais aussi BAD BOYS, la biennale off espagnole officielle au sein de la 50ème biennale de Venise; Cruising Danubio (Madrid, 2003), et Tobias Rehberger. "I die everyday. Cor I 15,31", (Madrid, 2005). Son poste de conservateur au MUSAC l'a amené être co-commissaire d'expositions de groupe comme Fusion. "Aspects of Asian Culture" dans la collection MUSAC en co-commissiariat avec Kristine Guzmàn, ou "Globos Sonda / Trial Balloons", en commissariat avec Octavio Zaya et Yuko Hasegawa; sans compter l'organisation et de montage d'expositions monographiques d'artistes comme Dora Garcia, Julie Mehretu, Muntean & Rosemblum, Pierre Huyghe ? avec Marta Gerveno-, ou l'équipe d'architectes japonais SANAA. Il a aussi été co-commissaire avec Octavio Zaya des Project Rooms de l'ARCO ?06 intitulé Curva de Persecución / Pursuit Curve, sans mentionner son projet Present-Future organisé avec Katerina Gregos pour Artissima -Torino´06.

Forever NL, installation, configuration 16`52? A number of well-dressed American women, lounging by the swimming pool in a deck chair or strolling in the garden, take turns in this double-screen installation. Each individually they tell us what matters to them, what makes them happy and how they see themselves. The women in `Forever` are mostly talking about their outer appearance. And yet, inner beauty is what is most important, says one of them, `although that is reflected by someone`s looks,` she adds. Does she mean that what it is about is the preservation of external beauty, which is after all the reflection of the unchangeable inner self? It is difficult to guess how old they are exactly. Nevertheless, the dark, slightly worn voice that we hear when we see a girlish figure with streaming hair sitting there in a little pink summer dress, betrays that this cannot possibly be a young woman of around thirty. They take photos of themselves with a self-timer. The camera of the filmmaker always cautiously keeps its distance. The carefully created illusion of the age of their choice is not undermined anywhere just to make the image `more realistic`. `Forever` is a portrait of the way these women want to see themselves, and of the way they want us to see them if a filmmaker should portray them. Rudelius graciously gives them the chance. Fifteen minutes of fame. Forever as young as they were then, with the promise of the future preserved.

The film observes human meetings staged in a context of lights and shadows. The series of portraits binds relationships in which glances are body movements.

Born in Stuttgart in 1977. Trained as a cook. Has been studying experimental creation using arts and media at the Arts University of Berlin since 2002.

Synopsis : Un serpent guidé par une main parcourt différents espaces. Un serpent guide une main et regarde plusieurs espaces. Plusieurs espaces bougent lentement derrière une « main à la tête de serpent » : le grenier, l`étagère des livres, le studio de montages vidéo, la salle des machines-contrôle? Le nid de serpents (en réalité des câbles non coupés) se cache au c?ur des machines. Le serpent est libéré et chassé à tour de rôles. La vidéo laisse entendre doucement une chanson de sirènes: qué sera sera?

Fabriquant : Francisco RUIZ DE INFANTE enfante@club-internet.fr ? Quelques Links : www.ruizdeinfante.org ? Forme : Fragiles constructions à habiter- dispositifs - parcours expositifs - images fixes et mouvantes - sons - dessins - textes. Ruiz de Infante a exposé au MNCA Reina Sofía de Madrid, à la Kunst-halle de Bonn, au PAC de Milan, au Musée Guggenheim de Bilbao, à l?ARC Musée d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, à la Biennal Site SANTA FE (USA), au Stedelijk Museum d?Amsterdam... Parmi les projets importants on peut signaler ?BlueSky / Laboratorio de laboratoiros? au EFT de Buenos Aires, ?Banquete? au ZKM de Karlshure, ?Zone 1 et 2? au festival Mirages et désirs de Izmir, ?3+4=8 mètres en tout? au CAC Le Plateau de Paris, un complexe parcours d?installations intitulé ?Trembling? au Musée de l?Université de Houston (Blaffer Gallery). L?installation ?Hymnes? (Art Statements / Foire Internationale de Bâle), ?L?âge des serpents? dans l?exposition Vidéo-Topiques au MAMC Strasbourg, ?Black Sky? (Salle La Gallera de Valencia), et les projets ?Tables amplifiées?, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, ?+Insectes? La Panera de Lleida. Certains de ses films sont visibles dans la collection permanente du Centre Georges Pompidou. ? COMPOSITION Excipients Quelques états éphémères (présent/passé/futur), quelques espaces instables, quelques paradoxes (mammifères aquatiques/mauvaises graines), plusieurs dualités faussement ressemblantes (réel/imaginaire), plusieurs journaux télévisés (ou pas) et d?autres complexes accélérateurs de l?inconscient. Catalogation Artiste hors-format, Ruiz de Infante appartient à une génération dont la sensibilité est marquée par la rencontre et la confrontation des machines audiovisuelles avec les matériaux les plus simples, voire les plus quotidiens. Jongler sans complexes entre la haute technologie et le bricolage d`urgence. Il reconstruit la manière dont fonctionne la mémoire lorsqu?elle nourrit le présent : par saccades pleines d?erreurs d?information, ou comme un torrent d`images qui recommencent sans fin. Tâches de recherche (objectifs, obsessions et terrains d?observation) 1. Retrouver les modes de construction (sans hiérarchies) de l?enfance. 2. Rendre visibles (sans les trahir) quelques lieux cachés. 3. Inventer des situations avec un désordre hautement sophistiqué.... et dessiner leurs cartographies. 4. Regarder fixement la diversité des EAHCI (Espaces et Actes Humains, Complexes et Inefficaces) 5. Tester les limites du dicton : ?on dit ce qu?on fait... on fait ce qu?on dit? 6. Comprendre et relativiser la notion ?d?interdit?... par l?invention de règles pour d?étranges jeux. 7. Construire des écosystèmes (dans lesquels la notion d?intrus, de catastrophe, de transformation et/ou d?évolution sont prises en compte) 8. Montrer, parfois d?une manière très physique, que la vie est une affaire de risques et qu?il faut être en alerte. Tâches d?ordre alchimique 10. Creuser la problématique de l?échelle. 11. Problématiser ?la chose non-finie? 12. Fabriquer les bouillons de culture inflammables qui génèrent des symétries inexactes. 13.Nourrir l?aquarium des idées cancérigènes à polysémie vertigineuse. (Cf. Projet INDEX) ? Co-opérateurs: Ermeline Le Mézo / Pierre Mercier / Christian Sebille / Eléonore Hellio / les BlueSkyers. ? Références: Les beaux mensonges de la tradition orale (enfantine et adulte), les déraillements violents de Nietzsche, le froid/chaud de Bob Wilson et ses organisations sonores, les grimaces de Kantor, les enfants de Kanevski, les aventures contrastées de Courrier International... et aussi les voyages de Tarkovski, Deligny, Savitskaya et Daumal. ? Dans quel cas utiliser ce produit : Quand le désir d?un voyage vers la zone molle devient grand. ? Mises en gardes spéciales : La trajectoire parabolique de ce produit peut produire des vertiges et états métaphoriques délirants.

An African legend: It has been a few years since a stranger brought a stone to the village. The stone was found among the debris of a vertical city. The stone was introduced in the aquarium of a tribe, an aquarium that suppressed all the secrets of generations. Since that time, the animals seem less familiar, and accelerations in time have not stopped being produced. Structured as a schizophrenic experience, the video succeeds in evoking an apocalyptic landscape of a drowned earth. The soundtrack creates a feeling of anxiety that three months later begins to produce its fruit: a mud of shapeless little organisms. The inherent domestic reality is interpreted as other realities, other landscapes, and other cultures. An imaginary journey where we ask ourselves about the displacement, about the encounter with other cultures and other customs. Searching for the enigma of the other in an introspective reflection aroused by the powers of displacement. A place explored without mediation through signs, symbols, the traces of time, and its conditions. Francisco Ruiz de Infante works with the tension of the constant menace exploring the natural behaviours and the unconscious in all their destructive and transformative effects, a genuine interior agitation. A structure that reacts in a fashion unhoped for in the face of the other, an agitation that contributes to the progress of the natural system.

Francesco Ruy was born in 1966 in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz in Holland. He currently lives and works in Paris, Auberive, and Strasbourg, where he has been teaching at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts since 1999. He received his master in fine arts from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1992, and a diploma in painting and audiovisual studies from the Faculté des Beaux-Arts du Pays Basque in 1991. A varied artist, he has taken courses in cinema, video, photography, theatre, dance, and plastic arts. He has produced individual exhibitions in Europe and the United States; installations and collective exhibitions in the European capitals, as well as in Mexico and Brazil; and has realized shows, performances, and public interventions. His film work has been exhibited at festivals around the world. Since 2002 he has been the co-director at the "Centre des Rives", a contemporary art and documentation centre in the rural medium in Haute-Marne, and since 2001 he has been the co-director of the Transmedia and Chaufferie Festivals (ESAD of Strasbourg).

Simo RUOHIAINEN nous offre dans son court métrage d`une minute un fantastique spectacle d`une nature déchainé d`eclairs dans le ciel. Cette compilation d`images fortes dans les couleurs sombres de la nuit est accentuée par un montage réussi, ce qui donne l`impréssion d`assister à une danse.

Words shape our impressions and form our history. In ?Scene Shifts, in six movements? a journey through historical layers of various locations on several continents unfolds. However, it is primarily an intellectual journey. The locations, images, texts and music hold references to a long history of cross-cultural misinterpretations.

Jani Ruscica (b.1978) is an artist working with film, video, photography and other media. Ruscica works collaboratively, his interest lies in how one defines one?s location, one?s placement in the world, and how this definition changes ? continuously, if necessary ? according to personal, cultural, representational or even scientific factors. Ruscicas works explore the intersection between cinema, video art, theatre and performance. His recent exhibitions include 6th Liverpool Biennial, 2010, 5th Momentum Biennial, Moss, Norway 2009, ?Life Forms? Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, 2009, ?Tracking Traces...? Kiasma, Helsinki as well as screenings in institutions such as Centre Pompidou, Paris, TATE Modern, London and MoMA, New York. His film Evolutions was awarded the main prize at at the prestigious KunstFilm Biennale in Cologne in 2009, in 2010 Ruscica was awarded the AVEK prize for important achievements in audio visual culture. Ruscica is based in Helsinki and was educated at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

A tone-poem in blue and red by US artist and experimental filmmaker Ben Russell, Against Time is a visually staggering kind of cine diary, shot on various locations between 2019 and 2022. Trying to find a way through the fog of recent years, the piece plays with dissolving images, non-linear montage, modular synthesis, and a variety of looping techniques to reflect on how we experience time as a fragmented phenomenon. It results in hypnotic and beautiful experimental cinema that seems to mirror life in all of its interpersonal intricacies. (Rewire Festival 2023)

Ben Russell (1976) is an American artist, filmmaker and curator whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and psychedelia. Russell was an exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017) and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art Chicago, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale, among others. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize (IFFR 2010, Gijón 2017), and premiered his second and third feature films at the Locarno Film Festival (2013, 2017). Curatorial projects include Magic Lantern (Providence, USA, 2005-2007), BEN RUSSELL (Chicago, USA, 2009-2011), and Hallucinations (Athens, Greece, 2017). He is currently based in Marseille, France.

“ Modern Props ” joins a pair of actors as they shop for furnishings and objects to decorate their character’s new home. The department store, in which they shop, is in fact a TV and Film props warehouse; the objects are devoid of their original function, existing only to be photographed. As the couple traverses a multitude of environments; ancient Greek, British colonial, medieval, they begin to experience aesthetic disharmony. Conflicts around etymology, authenticity and concepts of perfection abrade at the relationship until eventually our couple breakup.

Approaching film from an art background, Ruaidhri entertains a distinctly humorous view on hyper-real, self-aware constructs, perpetually chasing a notion of authenticity that does not exist. Often disclosing methods of production and combining the sincere with the ironic, Ruaidhri continues to develop conceptually driven, narrative films for gallery and film festival exhibition.

ANTIDATAMINING is based on the recovery and the viewing/visualization of web-extracted data. It aims at creating audiovisual environments written, fed and updated in realtime. The goal of this project is to make emerge and to identify, using the Data Mining processing, several social and economic imbalance ?phenomenas?. ADM seeks to visualize these phenomenas, and to tries to establish a global imbalance cartography. www.antidatamining.net

RYbN : A multi-field artistic collective based in Paris (2000) and specialized in realisation of installations, performances and interfaces by refering as well to the codified systems of the artistic representation (painting, architecture, counter-cultures) as to the human and physic phenomenas (geopolitics, socio-economy, sensory perception, cognitive systems). Their axe of research : the construction of a « semantics of the convergence », via the coupling, the diversion and the perversion of writing and formalization tools connected to the technologies of communication, information and sensory ? webs, data flows, smell, surveillance, audiovisual, interaction, real time. www.rybn.org

The End is unreadable titles created by a neural network and endlessly running on a black screen. The project is part of a series of works in which the authors experiment with symbols generated by StyleGAN and other networks. The artists train neural networks on letters of different alphabets, and the language they create is immersed in the context of familiar forms: manifestos, posters, and now titles. These projects continue the tradition of experiments in text and visual media started by Russian Futurists who used abstruse language in poetry (Alexei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, etc.) and Moscow Conceptualists with their interest in poetic experiences (Lev Rubinstein, Dmitry Prigov, Andrei Monastyrsky, etc.). In The End it is impossible to read the text created by the neural network, but the appearance of symbols, their sequence and general layout allow us to perceive a set of meaningless signs as the closing credits of a movie. It is important that in movies we rather recognize titles by their appearance than by their content. The credits are the final part of any movie, but usually no one reads them. The irony is that in The End project there are only credits, here they are a work in their own right, impossible to read. Nor is it possible to wait for it to end.

Andrey Rylov is a new media artist who works in a field of sound sculptures and installations using materials from hardware stores and DIY electronics. He performs with experimental music, creates video works using neural networks, as well. Andrey Rylov is a graduate of the New Media Laboratory, participant of multiple collective exhibitions and festivals: NUR festival (Kazan, 2021), Prepared Surroundings festival (Moscow, 2020 and 2021), Blazar fair (Moscow, 2021), Morpho festival (St. Petersburg, 2021), Adaf.gr (Greece, 2019), Ars Electronica (Austria, 2019), Pixels festival (Yekaterinburg, 2019). Maxim Mezentsev is a graphic designer, visual artist and VJ from Izhevsk, Russia. He works with interfaces, fonts, animation and makes video for experimental theater. He constantly collaborates with the Center for Contemporary Dramaturgy and Directing in Izhevsk, Russia. Maxim Mezentsev participated at the Pixels festival (Yekaterinburg, 2019), Intervals festival (Nizhny Novgorod, 2019 and 2021), Night of Light festival (Gatchina, 2019), Adaf (Athens, 2020), METAXIS festival (St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yerevan, 2022).

The source for the "Outwards" are the fragments of the found footages of the manifestations and conflict situations. There are plenty of them in the Internet now and sometimes difficult to understand what is going on. For the animation I choose the moments of aggression, it is not clear whether it is a defense or an attack, but all gestures directed from itself. Media is a reality where gesture, protest, and violence also take place. The similar, even equivalent acts we observe not always the evidences of equality of situations. So the question is not only about the limits of the screen, but also about the limits of understanding what we see.

Sabakar Sergii is born in 1982 in Sumy, Ukraine. From 1997 to 2001 he studied at the Sumy College of Art and Culture And from 2001 to 2007 he was student of the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture at Kiev. Since 2007 he has been attending a post graduate course there. He is based in Kiev.

“Loss Less” is a site-specific audiovisual work recorded inside of the defunct nuclear cooling tower Satsop. In the 1970’s, the U.S. was more than 20 years into its nuclear power program. In Washington State, a consortium of public utilities began what was to be the largest single nuclear power project in the country’s history. The construction was suspended shortly before the facility was completed and what remains is a structure 129 meters across at the base, and rising to a height of nearly 152 meters. Kamran Sadeghi used its natural acoustics to compose and reshape sound, capturing the architectural integrity and holistic immediacy of the nuclear cooling tower, while symbolically removing its entire existence. Maintaining an emphasis on the sound, Sadeghi created a 3D abstraction from a still taken on location. The title ‘Loss Less’ is derived from the term lossless compression - a process that allows for the preservation and perfect reconstruction of data (audio). In this case the audio was not preserved, but intentionally degraded. The title also expresses the reality of catastrophic loss and destruction caused by nuclear energy, and the cry for less.

Kamran Sadeghi is an Iranian American musician, composer, record producer and interdisciplinary artist based in New York City. Recent solo album on LINE was recorded inside a defunct nuclear cooling tower, followed by a collaboration with installation artist Zimoun. Sadeghi’s diverse body of work can be attributed to his use of sound as a sculptural material.  An alchemist who is guided by thematic research, controlled experimentation and intuition while working with synthesis, acoustics and sound recording / processing technology. Sadeghi’s performances, soundtracks, collaborations and installations have been experienced at the ICA (Boston), DTW (NY), Corcoran Gallery of Art (DC), CTM Festival (DE), KW Gallery (DE), K11 Museum (Shanghai), MUDAM (Luxembourg), MuCEM (Marseille), Centre Pompidou (FR), Berghain (DE), KOW (DE), and Berlin Biennale (DE). Distinguished collaborators include American singer and poet Patti Smith, Ethiopian Jazz musician Mulatu Astatke, American photographer Nan Goldin and French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard and choreographer Sasha Waltz. Recordings and productions are published on such labels as Sternberg Press, Vinyl Factory, LINE, Dragons Eye Recordings, Sacred Bones, Apollo Records and more.

Experimental video work in which the artist explores how art and culture become tools of military propaganda, working for the authorities. And how in modern Russia, they are trying to start a second wind of Soviet monumental propaganda, justifying and supporting the war in Ukraine. The film is built on alternating long, slow shots of Soviet architecture of the 30s. One place in Moscow is shown - the VDNH park, built by Stalin in the 30s as a utopia for the Soviet people, as a future city in which we were never destined to be. Here architecture is seen as monumental propaganda before World War II. The use of baroque elements, massive columns, and other details of unthinkable dimensions was supposed to inspire horror and a sense of the worthlessness of a person before the authorities. And that means complete submission.

Katherina Sadovsky (1985) is a Russian contemporary artist, now based in Yerevan, Armenia. Her diverse approach to art practice encompasses art media such as video, CGI, 3D, sculpture, photography, AI, installation, sound, site-specific practices.