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The narrator in the moving image work GALAXY is technology itself. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of the brief meeting of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe, an encounter of love and disappointment. Small deviations in the language and the narrative logic reveal our social imprint of how stories are expected to be told and how technology is programmed to follow these perceptions. The mise en scéne is a computer-generated galaxy of objects and images reminiscent of the organic, but dismembered and fragmented, reflecting on the possibility of creating new worlds and stories in digital space by following a subjective system of ordering.

Dagmar Schürrer is a media artist based in Berlin, Germany. The digital image, found and generated, is her material to form a visual language beyond analogue perception. She assembles found footage, digitally generated objects and animations, text, drawings and sound to form intricate video sound montages, presented on screen, as installations or combined with new technologies such as augmented reality. She holds a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin´s College in London, UK. Her work has been exhibited internationally, amongst others at the New Contemporaries at the ICA London, the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, at the Museum of Waste in Changsha, China, the Transmediale Vorspiel in Berlin and LUX moving image London. Her videos have been screened at numerous festivals: SUPERNOVA in Denver, Seattle Film Festival, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, the Horn Experimental Film Festival in Israel, Tricky Women Festival in Vienna, or the Diagonale Film Festival in Graz. In recent years she received the Goldrausch Scholarship of the Senate of Berlin and was shortlisted for the Berlin Art Prize and the Tenderpixel Award in London.

a logic sore lines drawn for structures, for community, for notes collected like anagrams. the radio sounds like an invitation to scramble all belongings and float them through the air as jets. or ?The Bridge Between Matter & Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit? (soleri) this film is part of an 11 film project ? treating each as a song ? an album totaling 331/3 minutes - referencing the note that 331/3rpm was created in conjunction with projected image to prolong sounds response time to image time ? prior, the phonograph needed to be turned over in middle of a film reel ? an interruption. An interruption; each of the 11 films are shot as in camera rolls (30.5 meters/no edits) ? then, sound is a response. Or an echo. a logic sore is an anagram for arcologies.

Jonathan Schwartz, (boston usa) works primarily in film and sound. He has made works culled from family audio recordings, travels to far lands, wonderings in familiar lands, collage materials, and exaggerated sound recordings. Some these works have shown in Europe, usa, and Canada in places such as bfi London Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, New York Film Festival, TIE ? experimental cinema exposition. The project of the 16mm film/ lp record in 11 parts/songs will be finished in the end of 2007.

an old photo of student teacher population - a transference of ideas -
language games/code phrases.
a song is sung - popular and bright -
borrowed by alex and the droogs - behavior modification-
found on the street, a man accompanies a cd player -
a cover up.
` I`m singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin`
I`m happy again
I`m laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun`s in my heart
And I`m ready for love
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initial conversation came via boston based `neptune` -
inquiring into a visual supplement to track 6, copper green.


jonathan schwartz- mostly boston (usa) based- works primarily in film and sound. some works have shown in new york film festival - views form the avant-garde, rotterdam film fiestival, recontres intl, bfi London Film Festival, ICA, TIE, Harvard Film Archive, Images Fetsival, and more.

all for the prevention of violence, check the manual, it might die in the seventies. the distance is now your compass so follow the shadows to your resting spot. or I was wondering if sincerity could override irony and flood out some emotions passed. of past situations: it was said that 331/3 rpm was created in conjunction with early cinema - to prolong sound for image. then- all for the extension of time, check the echo, it might disappear into the clouds. the photographs are now your compass so follow the land to your old imagined worlds. or I was wondering if this picture in my hand could conjure the past to emotions present. of present situations: this 3 minute film is one of 11 which create an album of films totalling 331/3 minutes ? to prolong connection to pasts. then- of future situations: all for the prevention of violence.

Jonathan Schwartz, (Boston, USA) works primarily in film and sound. He has made works culled from family audio recordings, travels to far lands, wanderings in familiar lands, collage materials, and exaggerated sound recordings. Some these works have shown in Europe, the USA, and Canada, in places such as bfi London Film Festival, TIE ? experimental cinema exposition, AntiMatter. He is currently finishing a 16mm film/ lp record in 11 parts/songs.

THE CRACK-UP “ the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise ” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, 1936) Glaciers take time and glaciers hold time immensely, with sorrow and not sorrow, worry and not worry. There is a light that casts on and cast out from within, `a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight` and slowly dissolving, it sounds enormous, urgent.

Jonathan Schwartz lives in Vermont (usa) where his creative practice includes 16mm films, things that look like list-making and collecting as a mode of research, and teaching film/associative thinking. He has had solo screenings Austrian Film Museum, UnionDocs, SF Cinematheque, Cinema Project, TIFF/Free Screen, and more. His work has been included in many film festivals including New York, Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, Toronto, Punto de Vista, Recontres Internationales, Exis, and more.

Mélange d'époques, karaoké:en 1968, Heintje chante la vieille chanson régionale "Mama"...Fondu enchaîné: un enfant de neuf ans regarde, maussade, quelque chose à la lentille, pendant que, dans la rue, les étudiants se révoltent. Un autre tube de cette époque, "Es fährt ein Zug nach Nirgendwo", conduit au groupe "Fehlfarben", qui montent sur scène en 2003 à Berlin et évoquent 1982: " Quand la réalité te dépasse, tu n'as plus d'ami, pas même l'alcool". Le punk allemand au meilleur de lui-même, qui dicte le tempo du film. Un voyage linéaire de 1945 à aujourd'hui avec de nombreux sauts dans le temps: les années 1848 dans le lied de Schuman, là-dessus un mirador qui rappelle le mur de Berlin - il se trouve près d'un container Toys'r us...des paysages allemands, symbole de la fin des utopies, chagrin d'amour, o Marie, jamais, plus jamais Auschwitz, mais des bombes sur Belgrade...du petit garçon à l'homme nu qui est allongé sur la plage dans la position de Christ...Es fährt kein Zug nach Nirgendwo...: (fr = "Il n'y a pas de train vers nulle part..."): Mélange d'époques. Karaoké. C'était au temps...

Herbert Schwarze, Allemagne né en 1959. De 1988 à 1993 études à la DFFB à Berlin. Cinéaste, dramaturge et régisseur. Membre de la commission de sélection des journées internationales du court-métrage d'Oberhausen, Allemagne. vit à Berlin. Filmographie DAS BLEIBT DAS KOMMT NIE WIEDER (1988-1992) GRETCHEN 2000 (1994) HUNGER NACH MEHR (mit Jutta Doberstein) (2001) UND IMMER WIEDER GEHT DIE SONNE AUF (2000-2005) und andere

Tanja speaks English and small talk. Thorsten likes to eat „pocket coffee“ Tillmann loves team building events. He recently found one of the three door openers needed to escape from the chamber of horrors while visiting an „escape room“ together. Thorsten is „top tax rate“ Tanja is „Veganuary“ Tillmann is the first to be dismissed. Seedless Fruits is about the founding of a new company whose product or service remains unknown. We glide through an imposing company headquarters that gradually becomes more and more cracked. It is a satirical commentary on the abysses of neoliberal office worlds and alienated labour in a self-perpetuating construct of value creation ­without content.

Stefanie Schwarzwimmer (*1990 in Linz) is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Berlin. From 2012 to 2018, she studied art and digital media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Constanze Ruhm. Her graduation film Silent Revolution was awarded the Academy Prize. Schwarzwimmer completed the Berlin Programme for Artists in 2017 and was a participant in the Goldrausch programme in 2022. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen (2020), at Deborah Bowmann in Brussels (solo exhibition, 2021), at Kasseler Kunstverein (2022), at Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein (solo exhibition, 2024) and in solo screenings at Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfahlen Düsseldorf as part of the ‘Another Eye’ series (2024) and at KW Berlin as part of a ‘Pogo Bar’ event (2024).

From the classroom, is a split screen projection that consists of found images from YouTube. The left image shows dancing girls from the classroom that have apparently been filmed by their friends during their break. On the right image one sees a blackboard with a diary-style text written on it. The text describes the route a woman takes everyday to work.

http://www.mayaschweizer.com/site/DOWNLOADS/Mschweizerbio.pdf Born 10 january 1976 in Maisons-Alfort, France Lives in Berlin ----- February 2007 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany Master Degree January 2005 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany Diploma April 2003 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany Fine art School, Berlin In the class of Lothar Baumgarten and Katharina Sieverding. 2000-2002 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany School of visual arts, Leipzig June 1998 Licence, Degree of Visual arts 1998-1995 Université d ́Aix-en-Provence Visual arts. June 1995 Bachelor ́s degree, option Visual arts, Aix-en-Provence, France Residency Programm, Prizes : 2008 Villa Aurora, Artits Grant from the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles 2008-2010 Karl-Hofer Stipendium, Grant from the Karl-Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin 2006 First Prize of the German Programm Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2006 Grant from the DAP, (Department of the visual arts), Paris, France 2005-2006 Residency and Film Project with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Contemporary Art Center of in Bretigny, France Realisation and Production of the film Rien du tout (nothing at all) with Clemens von Wedemeyer.

“ A thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building, and into the adjacent lake” notes the narrator as he arrives at the House of Usher, thus opening up a parallel between the Irish setting of Maya Schweizer’s cinematic association and Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of horror. Orson Welles and other cinematic ghosts seem to lead the spectator of A Tall Tale onwards, passing through a landscape of ruins and films and ruins of films that evoke phantoms and fairies.

Maya Schweizer (b.in Paris, France) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the university, Aix-Marseille I, at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and Berlin University of the Arts, where she graduated. Maya Schweizer exhibited at Kunstverein Leipzig (2017-2018), Drawing Room Hamburg (2017-2018), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (2016); Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen (2016); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2015);GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig (2015); MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (2015). She recently screened at Videoart at Midnight, Berlin (2018), Traverses Vidéo, Toulouse (2018), Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada (2017), Cinema in viennacontemporary, Vienna, Austria (2017), in Oberhausen 63. International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2017) and at the 67. Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Berlin (2017). She received the Research stipends from the Berlin Senat (2017), Research grant from Goethe Institute Neapels and the Fundazione Morra-Museo Nitsch, Naples (2017), and the residency at the Watchtower, Flutgraben, Berlin (2016-2017).

A video work, in which the daily routine of Les Milles is caught up by its past - a former brickyard in the town`s center was used as internment camp for Germans during World War II and served as concentration camp later on. With the use of montage cutting techniques the artist succeeds in letting the past burst into present.

Maya Schweizer was born in 1976 in Paris, France and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, and Berlin University of the Arts (with Lothar Baumgarten). Maya Schweizer works with diverse media: the focus of her work lies in the making of short films based on documentary material. „Identity, biography, politics, history and memory are recurring themes in Maya Schweizer’s photographs and videos... In general, the artist generates an incomplete tableau of collective memory and questions the way history is produced and visually recorded. „(Cynthia Krell). The artist approaches the relation of montage editing techniques with the concept of film and memorial and film as memorial — a relation which traces back to the very beginnings of montage as it does to research findings by French historian Pierre Nora. Recurring moments in Schweizer’s multiform art practice revolve around the examination of subtly treated processes of memory regarding historic-political events in public space. In the places, structures and situations she investigates, historical threads intersect. She received international grants and most recently Project grant "Lieux de Mémoire and Desire",Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS), 2015. The Exhibition sponsor from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), TCG Nordica, Kunming, China, 2013. The Robert Bosh Foundation, in Slovakia 2011, also in the Villa Aurora, Artist Grant from the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles 2008-2009. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she won the Prize of the German Competition at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen 2006. She recently had solo shows, such as; Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany 2015. Edith Seeshow’s Notes at the Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2013. Metropolis. Report from China with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2011. The Same Story Elsewhere at the Westfälisher Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, 2010. Schweizer was also involved in many international exhibitions, such as; Inside the City. Public Space and Free Space at the GAK, Bremen, Germany, 2015. Vot ken you mach ?, Muzeum Wspólczesne Wroclaw, Poland, 2015. Collection Alphabet at the Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig, 2014. The city that doesn´t exist at Ludwig Forum, Aachen, 2012. Ambigous Being, Hong Gah Museum,Taipei 2012. Take me to your leader!, Kunstmuseum Bergen, Norway, 2011. Here and There, at the Wallace Gallery, New York and at the Oonagh Young Gallery, in Dublin, 2011. 15 Jahre Villa Aurora. Transatlantische Impulse, AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2011. Of Other Spaces at the Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2011.

2004, 80 years after Fritz Lang?s travel to New York and exactly in the estimated time of the futuristic projections of his film ?Metropolis?? We had come to China to find film locations, to talk with workers and architects, screenwriters and novelists in Shanghai and Beijing. To investigate, whether the whole film could be re-staged here. But do we want this film to repeat itself, for it to become ?real?? ? Maybe here in China we have seen a variation of ?Metropolis?, which has already become true?

Clemens von Wedemeyer: Clemens von Wedemeyer was born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1974. He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts of Leipzig (prof. Astrid Klein). He received numerous international awards including the Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany (2005), the VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video?art, Munich Film Festival, Germany (2002), the Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig (2002). He lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany.

It opens in the dark, in a corridor; water is flowing ... Voices echo in these sewer tunnels; it is the abyss of Munich, under the river Isar. The voices tell fragments of stories: about vanished people, violence, memory loss—while the camera is now above ground, scanning the city’s façades, including those of the “Third Reich.” The city appears as a body winding its way through time, past and present. Like a thread through memories, a spiral runs through it: a shell, a whirlpool, the turn of a staircase, the ever-recurring voices of the past. The film is a collage: it jumbles traces of history and forms of nature, bringing images, voices and sounds from different sources to the same level. A story of living beings and living environments, of fossils which challenge our perception of time.

Born in Paris, she studied art and art history in Aix-en-Provence (1995-1998), moved to Berlin in 1998 and worked for a year as an assistant for artistic projects in Küntlerhaus Bethanien. From 1999 to 2002, begins art studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and continues in early 2003 in the class of Lothar Baumgarten at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she received her postgraduate studies degree (Meisterschülerin Abschluss) in 2007. Schweizer works with different media, with a particular focus on experimental video works. She has had numerous solo exhibitions (including Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster 2010, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2011, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2014, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2016, Kunstverein Leipzig 2018, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2020/21, Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2021) and has shown her work in group exhibitions and at biennials (including Berlin Biennale, 2006, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2013, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2016, Anren Biennale 2017, China, Manifesta 13, 2020, Neuen Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin 2020, Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2022, Forum expanded exhibition, Silent Green, Berlin 2022). Her videos have already been selected for numerous festivals and events, including Forum expanded during the 67th (2017) and the 72.nd (2022) Berlin International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival (2017, 2020), Gli Incontri Internazionali del Cinema, Sorrento, Italy (2019), at the 36. Kasseler Dokfest, (2019) and at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022), where L’étoile de mer was awarded the e-flux prize in 2019. Examples of grants, and artist residencies she has received include a grant from the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2008), Studio grant, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin (2008–2010), Toni and Albrecht Kumm Prize for the Promotion of Fine Arts, (2009), Artist in Residence, Lieu d’arts contemporains 3bisf, Aix-en-Provence, France (2010), Košice Artist in Residence (K.A.I.R.), Košice, Slovakia (2011), Artist in Residence, Museum POLIN, Warsaw, Poland (2016),work grant from the Berlin Senate (2019), the Funding programme for women artists in film/video, (2021), the Research Grant from the Berlin Senate as well (2017, 2021). So far, four monographs on her work have been published: Voices, Stimmen (Walther and Franz König, Köln 2121), Where Ivy Cracks The Wall (Naima, Paris / Berlin 2019), Lieux de Mémoire and Desire (Archive Books, Berlin 2015), Maya Schweizer?The Same Story Elsewhere (Spector Books, Leipzig 2010)

In Sans histoire, an epic river of thought, current fears of the end of civilization are both “without story” and “without narrative”. Disturbing images of animals in the night, visions of a technologized future and images of people dancing to excess or fleeing war combine to generate an apocalyptic atmosphere. Yet what seems dystopian at first conceals a utopian potential for a new beginning: time and again, Schweizer deploys images of waves, oceans and currents that sweep through what she shows, washing it away and absorbing it. Maya Schweizer draws our attention to oblivion as a reality determined by human life. In this paradox lies her proposal for confronting the existential fears of our time: Sans histoire is a space for honoring memory and a monument to oblivion.

Maya Schweizer, born in Paris, studied art and art history in Aix-en-Provence, at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste Leipzig (HGB), where she completed her pre-diploma, and at the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin in the class of Lothar Baumgarten, where she graduated in 2006 and was awarded the title of Meisterschülerin in 2007. Schweizer works in a variety of media (including photography and textiles), although her focus is on experimental video works. She has had numerous solo exhibitions (including Jewish Museum Berlin, 2023, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin - Exhibition winner of the HAP Grieshaber 2022 award, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2020/21, Kunstverein Leipzig, 2018, Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2013, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2016, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2014, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2011, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, 2010. She has shown her work in group exhibitions and at biennials including Neuen Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin 2020, Manifesta 13 Marseille, 2020, Anren Biennale China, 2018, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2016, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2013, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007,Berlin Biennale, 2006. Her videos have already been selected for numerous festivals and events, including Forum expanded during the 67th and the 71.rst Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale (in 2017 and 2021), the Vancouver International Film Festival (2017, 2020) and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen several times. Examples of the Awards, project grants and residencies, include; Funding programme for women artists in film/video, 2024, Dagesh Art Award 2023, HAP-Grieshaber-Prize, 2022, e-flux film award, 2019, Artist in Residence, La Non-Maison, 2014, Studio grant, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, 2008–2010, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2008). So far, four monographs on her work have been published: Voices, (Walther and Franz König, 2121), Where Ivy Cracks The Wall (Naima, Paris / Berlin 2019), Lieux de Mémoire and Desire (Archive Books, Berlin 2015) and Maya Schweizer?The Same Story Elsewhere (Spector Books, Leipzig 2010). Schweizer works in Germany and France.

The film begins with footage of a city of ruins, when the entire cityscape of Warsaw is covered with stones. It is 1945. Themed around stones as carriers of historical memory, the movie is so closely filmed that the viewer can never see the city`s memorials in their entirety. Special attention, though, is paid to the author of the Umschlagplatz Wall, a monument located in the former Ghetto. Hanna Szmalenberg is explaining the process of realization of the Umschlagplatz as the camera winds through a snow-covered sculpture garden.

Maya Schweizer, born in Paris studied art and art history at the university of Aix-en-Provence (1995-1998). She moved to Germany and studied at the School of Visual Arts in Leipzig (HGB) (1999-2002) and move in Berlin 2003 where she finished her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with Professor Lothar Baumgarten and graduated in 2006. She had solo shows in Westfalischen Kunstverein, Muenster (2010), Frankfurter Kunstverein, (2011) with Clemens von Wedemeyer, in the Kunstverein Langenhagen (2013), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2015), at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016). Schweizer was also involved in many international exhibitions, such as “Of Mice and Men,” Berlin Biennale (2006), “Storylines,” Kunstraum Munich, (2006), “Um-Kehrungen, Interaktion I - Speaker”s Corner,” Kunstverein Braunschweig (2007), “Magellaneous Cloud,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2007), “Urban Stories,” The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius (2009), “Auto-Kino!,” Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin (2010), “Ambigous Being,” exhibitions in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Taipei, tamtamART, Berlin / Kav16 Community Gallery, Tel Aviv / Hong Gah Museum, Taipei (2012), “Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt,” Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2012), “Vot ken you mach!,” Kunsthaus Dresden (2013), efa (Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA (2013). At “Villa Romana 1905”2013 Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz,” Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, (2013), “Gestern die Stadt von Morgen,” Kunstmuseum Mälheim an der Ruhr, (2014),. “Sammlungsalphabet,” Sammlungsausstellung, Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig (2014), and the forthcoming “Im inneren der Stadt. Öffentlicher Raum und Frei-Raum,” Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Bremen, (2015). At the Museum MWW Muzeum Wspó?czesne, Wroc?aw, Poland, (2015), Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, (2016), in VOX, Montreal (2016), and at POLIN Museum, Warsaw (2016).

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Maya Schweizer was born in 1976 in Paris, France and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, and Berlin University of the Arts. She received international grants and most recently Project grant "Lieux de Mémoire and Desire",Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, 2015. The Exhibition sponsor from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, TCG Nordica, Kunming, China, 2013. The Robert Bosh Foundation, in Slovakia 2011, also in the Villa Aurora, Artist Grant from the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles 2008-2009. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she won the Prize of the German Competition at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen 2006. She recently had solo shows, such as; “Art | Memory | Place”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin Ireland, “Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles”, Kuns

In the documentary called "Protocoles de rêves," Hanna Schygulla, who is an emblematic figure of the German cinema and of the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, has filmed herself since 1977 and experiments, deconstructs and reconstructs her own image.

"As a young actress, Hanna SCHYGULLA provoked the imperious passion and the bitter tears of Petra von Kant in the film of Fassbinder. Then she became his Lili Marlène, his Maria Braun, his "German woman"... Heroine of about twenty major films directed by Fassbinder, and standing as a symbol of the revival of the German cinema, Hanna SCHYGULLA worked with Schöndorf, Wenders, von Trotta and then with Ferreri, Saura, Godard, Wajda, Scola, Deville... She now lives in Paris."

In meteorology, the aureole is an atmospheric, optical phenomenon; the visible inner disc of a corona, produced by the diffraction of light from the sun or the moon, bright starlight or planet-light. Aureole brings together unused celestial images from Scott’s earlier film, Diviner (2017), with vocoder-readings from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), scored by Chu-Li Shewring’s remix of the House track Brighter Days (1992) by Cajmere featuring Dajae. Aureole is a transition between a ‘lost’ chapter from Diviner and Wendy (2022, forthcoming), a film fan-letter to composer Wendy Carlos, whose many interests include solar eclipse photography. Accelerating to a euphoric end, the film is the duration of the longest total solar eclipse, when the moon completely covers the sun.

Frances Scott (b. 1981) is a London-based artist working with moving image. Her work considers the narratives and histories at the periphery of cinematic production and its apparatus, to produce films composed of their metonymic fragments. Her projects are often made in exchange with other specialists, groups and publics, and developed through research using online and physical archives and collections. She associates and composites diverse materials, analogue and digital film media, to create intricate scenarios that are both scripted and improvised. Her film work, informed by this collaborative and research-led process, takes multiple forms, through exhibitions to installations, screenings, events, broadcasts and publications, including recent presentations at: transmediale x CTM, Berlin; 57th New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York; Edge of Frame & Close Up Film Centre, London; Het Bos, Antwerp; The Bower, London; Tate St Ives, Cornwall; Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks; South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth; and Focal Point Gallery, Southend. Frances Scott was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017), and is currently working on a new film commissioned by TACO!, London for a solo exhibition and publication in 2022.

‘Valentina’ is a prelude to ‘Wendy’, a speculative portrait of, and film fan-letter to, composer and musician Wendy Carlos – self-described as “The Original Synth”. In ‘Valentina’, an unedited 100ft reel of hand-processed 16mm film, shot in rehearsal, is used as a silent score for a reading. Performer and dancer Valentina Formenti recalls part of a transcribed interview with Carlos, later edited for publication in ‘Playboy’ in 1979. Whilst the magazine interview was seen as the first public announcement of Carlos’ gender transition, these absent passages, excluded from the final edit, include her connected interests in cartography, physics, mathematics’ transformations, astronomy, and her practice in solar eclipse photography. Valentina’s multiple voices are translated through Vocoder, and collaged with musician Tom Richards’ performance on Daphne Oram’s unrealised ‘Mini-Oramics’, to suggest a coming into being through sonic synthesis. “…imagining a world without gender, which is perhaps a world without genesis, but maybe also a world without end.” (Donna Haraway, ’A Manifesto for Cyborgs’, Socialist Review, no.80, 1985).

Frances Scott (b. 1981) is a London-based artist working with moving image. Her work considers the narratives and histories at the periphery of cinematic production and its apparatus, to produce films composed of their metonymic fragments. Her projects are often made in exchange with other specialists, groups and publics, and developed through research using online and physical archives and collections. She associates and composites diverse materials, analogue and digital film media, to create intricate scenarios that are both scripted and improvised. Her film work, informed by this collaborative and research-led process, takes multiple forms, through exhibitions to installations, screenings, events, broadcasts and publications, including recent presentations at: transmediale x CTM, Berlin; 57th New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York; Edge of Frame & Close Up Film Centre, London; Het Bos, Antwerp; The Bower, London; Tate St Ives, Cornwall; Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks; South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth; and Focal Point Gallery, Southend. Frances Scott was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017), and is currently working on a new film commissioned by TACO!, London for a solo exhibition and publication in 2022.

"Trailer Truths III" is the third instalment of a trilogy of short films, made up of text taken from movie trailers. Words and phrases are collaged together to create a new text that charts the crossing over from a critique of society to ominous direct action in a film that parodies the notion of a Hollywood-style call to arms. By using the often reductive and emotive language of multiplex entertainment, embodied by trailers, to address sensitive and complex issues, this film reflects the heavy-handedness of blockbusters and the moralistic divisions between right & wrong/ good & evil represented within them.

Erica Scourti was born in Athens, Greece in 1980 but has lived in London since 1998 when she went to study Chemistry. Since graduating with a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University, her work has been screened extensively in the UK, as well as internationally, and has been chosen as the touring show reel for the online video gallery "tank.tv.". Other recent screenings include Oberhausen Short Film Festival Lounge, EMAF 'Smart Art' discussion, and Pursescreen at Bureau gallery, Manchester. She is currently pursuing a diploma in Art & Philosophy at Birkbeck University, London.

Trailer Truths I is the first installment of a trilogy of short films made up of text taken from movie trailers. Words and phrases are collaged together to create a darkly humorous text about war, evil and propaganda. The work playfully addresses the representation of power and language in the media, and the role of belief in the popular consciousness.

Erica Scourti grew up in Athens, leaving at 18 to study Chemistry in London. After a year on the course she quit and, after a stint at London College Fashion and Goldsmiths, graduated from Middlesex University?s BA Fine Art course in 2003. She now lives and works in East London and Essex. Her work will be appearing in the 15th Mostyn Open Competition in March 2005. Recent film screenings include: The One Night of Video & Audio, Umbrella Arts Group, Cardiff, Wales; Max 5 Video Festival, Café Gallery Projects, London; 3rd RestCycling Festival, Berlin; tank.tv on-line (www.tank.tv); Shot By The Sea, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings; Winter Fantasia, Space Studios, London; and Trampoline ? Reactor, a live link-up to Berlin, held at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham in 2005. Courtesy Castlefield Gallery

Snippets of the greatest hits of movie speeches (as chosen by American Rhetoric website) are collaged together to create a piece of oratory that sends mixed messages about the ?human condition? and the leaders- real and fictional- who try to shape it. The original movie score is replaced by a single computer generated voice, robbing the performances of their emotive power while flattening the many different perspectives of the speakers into one voice. Erica?s work often focuses on playing with clichéd and overused language found in popular culture and attempts to reinvigorate it through remixing it and placing it in a new context. This work continues that interest by investigating the language used in public speaking, and into the cult of personality that often accompanies it.

Erica Scourti was born in Athens, Greece in 1980 but has lived in London since 1998 when she came to study Chemistry. Since graduating from BA Fine Art from Middlesex University, her work has been screened internationally and extensively in the UK, for example at Videonale 11, Purescreen Artists Film & Video at Bureau gallery, and Recontres Internationales 2006 in Berlin/ Paris. She has recently completed a residency at the 1st international Festival of Contemporary Art in Anso, Pyrenees and will be showing work at the Museo Reine Sofia in Madrid, and at the Wewerka Pavilion during the Munster Sculpture Project 2007.