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Like in a child?s dream, buildings from the Soviet era start leading their own life in a separate reality. Synchronisation has been compiled from free associations and small impossibilities. The slow tempo and spatial soundtrack give the film a compelling atmosphere and inner logic. Buildings from the Soviet era make the scenes monumental and suggestive.

Rimas Sakalauskas (b.1985) is youngest generation video artist from Lithuania. From early childhood he tend to visual arts and music and thereby was studying in National M. K. Ciurlionis School Of Art. In 2009 he received BA in audiovisual arts, department of photography and media art, Vilnius Academy of Arts. His diploma being awarded with special prize. From 1997 he successfully started to participate in various artistic competitions, shows, exhibitions, festivals and other events. Among most important of his achievements is Baltic Award for the Best Work in the Field of Visual Art in International video and contemporary art festival "Waterpieces 2009", held in Riga, Latvia. His bigest success as visual artist is first prize in International Art Competition "Sound and Vision" which took place in 1997  in Helsinki, Finland. Till now he is an active video artist.

Rally est un documentaire sur une performance réalisée à Istanbul. L'artiste participe à des manifestations publiques organisées par plusieurs groupes, de nationalistes, d?islamistes, de gauchistes, de femmes, etc. Il s?agit de manifestations publiques qui ont véritablement eu lieu et l'artiste y prend part en tant que « participante factice » (ce que le spectateur va comprendre après avoir vu une série de clips). On y voit les manifestations de neuf groupes choisis au hasard dans la scène politique d?Istanbul et de Turquie. Des intertitres sont utilisés pour donner des informations sur ces groupes.

Umut Sakalıoğlu Born: 16.06.1986 Ordu, Turkey. Resides: İstanbul. Studying: Marmara University, Fine Arts Faculty, Cinema-TV Department, 3rd grade. Works: in/on video- art, short-film, performance-art, cinema. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 - Fabrikartgroup 1.st International Modern Arts Festival, Sinasos, Turkey - Istanbul Urban Theaters, 22. Youth Days, Democracy Park of Machka, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 - Winds into Future I, Selected works for the 13th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2008 - 4th Kargart Performance Days, Istanbul, Turkey - 13th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and Mediterranean, Bari, Italy - Urban Jealousy, the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Istanbul, Turkey - 7th Strange Screen, Film and Video Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece. PUBLIC SPACE PERFORMANCES 2006 - To throw in the towel, Yard of Marmara University Fine Arts Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey - Animals, Democracy Park of Machka, Istanbul, Turkey - Ilovethefairychimnies, Sinasos Bazaar, Cappadocia, Turkey 2007-2008 - Motorway Speeches, E-5 Motorway, Istanbul, Turkey - Rally, Several squares in Istanbul, Turkey ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES 2006 - ?Chaos? , installation, video installation, solo exhibition in a classroom, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey 2007 - Screening and presentation of DVD; Avant-Garde, Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s, Kino Video®, Marmara University, Fine Arts Faculty, Department of Painting, Murteza Fidan Studio, Istanbul, Turkey JOB EXPERIENCE 2007-2008 - Asisstant cameraman and assistant editor in Karincalar Film Production Company, Istanbul, Turkey - First assistant editor in feature film ?Autumn? ,dir. Özcan Alper, Istanbul, Turkey WORKSHOPS 2008 - Bari lungoilmare, organisators; DEDΆ Studio, Francesco Marocco, Bari, Italy

D'après Nietzsche, la qualité d'un philosophe peut se voir à son rire et surtout à la façon dont il rit. Pour un visage fermé comme Hobbes il n'a, à juste titre, que du mépris. Le meilleur des rires, le plus long et le plus éclatant. Le pinacle étant le rire "doré", "olympien"; le rire des Dieux, le rire de Dionysos...Paul Sakpolsky engage le spectateur à tendre les bras et à tout étreindre.

Paul Sakoilsky. Né en 1964 à Norfolk, Angleterre. Elevé en Angleterre et dans le Sud-Est asiatique. Licence d'Art et de Philosophie (avec les Honneurs) à l'Université de Londres-Nord. Conservateur/ Programmateur pluridisciplinaire et Art Live, 30 Underwood St Gallery /underwoodaudio, 1995-2001. Artiste freelance basé à Londres et à Vienne, écrivain et conservateur.

A Ripe Volcano reflects Bangkok as a site of mental eruption and emotionally devastated land during the heights of terrors, primal fears, trauma, and the darkness of time. A Ripe Volcano revisits The Rattanakosin Hotel, the site where the military troops captured and tortured the civilians, students and protesters who were hiding inside the hotel during the Black May of 1992; and Rajadamnern Stadium, a Roman amphitheatre styled Muay Thai boxing arena, which was built in 1941-45 during the Second World War and since then has become the theatrical labyrinth of physical and mental explosions. The work builds around the recollections of human experiences that took place within these spaces and shifts through the mental space distilled from the possessed memory of wounded time.

Taiki Sakpisit is a visual artist and filmmaker living and working in Bangkok. Over the past years, he has been prolific as an experimental filmmaker in Thailand producing series of works that may have similar in narrative structures but vastly different in details of visual language that narrates the world of images and sound with a repetitive sense of enigmatic gloaming atmosphere. Sound has a big role in his films, by either working in collaboration with sound designer, or combining his cinematic languages with existing music, he paves to a unique situation to discover layers of meanings hidden in the stories. In latest work The Age of Anxiety (2013), he immerses into the world of sound and found footages from period Thai soap opera creating a textured and transforming experience. His works have shown in exhibitions and screened both in Thailand and many festivals abroad. (Bangkok Art and Culture Centre)

The Mental Traveller is a poetic reflection on the nature of remembrance. It navigates through the mental spaces of people consumed by memories of lost time. The film meditates on the passing of time, external behaviors, habitual patterns of thought and the sensorial realities of five mentally disordered men inside the psychiatric ward in Chanthaburi Province, east of Thailand, in which it is filmed. The film was conceived from the director’s connections to his parents and companions as they went through states of sickness, impending death, dementia, grief, and temporary insanity. At the same time it echoes upon the turbulent years of political upheavals and repercussions in Thailand, resulting the nation in a state of delirium, lunacy and trauma.

Taiki Sakpisit is a filmmaker working in Bangkok. His works explore the underlying tensions and conflicts, and the sense of anticipation in contemporary Thailand, through precise and sensorially overwhelming audio-visual assemblage using a wide range of sounds and images. His films produce heightened and uneasy modes of spectatorship that often relate to the tumultuous socio-political climate in Thailand. Taiki’s moving images and experimental shorts have been presented at numerous exhibitions and film festivals, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Images Festival, Yebisu International Festival for Art, Les Rencontres Internationales, Dallas Contemporary and Kunstverein Gottingen. His previous work A Ripe Volcano (2011) has been screened internationally at more than 40 film festivals and museums. His first feature film The Edge of Daybreak is currently in post-production.

A sensorial, left-field take on Thai political history that moves between a subdued past etched in the landscape of Khao Kho mountain, once a stronghold of communist insurgents, and a dynamic near-present marked by Bangkok’s 2021 anti-government protests.

Taiki Sakpisit is a filmmaker and visual artist working in Bangkok. His works explore the underlying tensions and conflicts, and the sense of anticipation in contemporary Thailand, through precise and sensorially overwhelming audio-visual assemblage using a wide range of sounds and images. His films produce heightened and uneasy modes of spectatorship that often relate to the tumultuous socio-political climate in Thailand. Taiki’s moving images and experimental shorts have been presented at numerous exhibitions and film festivals. His feature length film The Edge of Daybreak premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition and won the FIPRESCI award. His film, A Ripe Volcano was presented at Les Rencontres Internationales in 2014.

In the backyards there are sheds, a huge old tree, wild plants with wild offspring, waste scattered around. This is where they spend their time. A decaying building is about to be destroyed and someone may go beyond. Soon one of them becomes aware of the sea.

Ivan Salatic was born in 1982 in Dubrovnik and grew up in Herceg Novi. He finished the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade and graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje. He has directed several short films that have participated in festivals such as Venice Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Torino Film Festival.

"AFTER THE LAW" est un film court, où un tribunal d'humains et d'objets est contaminé par un virus impossible à trouver. Le verdict porte sur un accident inconnu, qui a fracturé la loi et érodé la parole. A travers une mutation toxique des rôles et des formes, des preuves, des gestes et des sensations haptiques, le tribunal perd sa capacité à délibérer. Tourné pendant une performance en direct, à l'aide d'un seul caméscope, ce tribunal a été conçu comme un dispositif cybernétique pour des réponses haptiques, où le mouvement collectif, la lumière, les vibrations, la reconnaissance des visages et l'empathie se heurtent à une voix synthétique. Tout le discours a été généré à l’aide de Google WaveNet, un modèle génératif utilisant des réseaux neuronaux pour simuler des voix humaines. Ce protocole a été exploré et accéléré pour trouver des moments où la voix de la machine se brise, bégaie et scande une glossolalie. En 2019, ces images ont été utilisées comme une partition visuelle pour qu'un groupe d'adolescents sourds les interprète dans une langue des signes étendue, explorant les lacunes de la description et les étendant à la description corporelle de cette cour aphasique. Les voix ont été enregistrées dans des états induits par l’hypnose, rendant floues les frontières qui séparent le corps de ses résonateurs spatiaux. Une voix cassée hante un paradoxe politique dans une bio-ingénierie inversée.

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha a étudié la sculpture à la Faculté des Beaux-Arts de l'Université de Porto (Portugal), et s'est consacré à l'étude du tabla – un instrument de percussion indien - avec le groupe musical hindou Jugalbandi. Il a fondé le collectif SOOPA, un laboratoire visuel, performatif et sonore, et le groupe Silorumor. Il est membre du Fujako duo, et est directeur du groupe HHY & The Macumbas. Depuis 2010, il a composé plusieurs œuvres sonores expérimentales, co-créé les pièces "Boca Wall", "Shark" et "King Trilogy", et réalisé "Jungle Machine", "Khorus Anima", "The Well" et "Oxidation Machine". Il a présenté ses œuvres dans divers lieux, notamment au musée Serralves, Porto (Portugal); au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal); au Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France); et au festival Accès(s), Billère (France). Il a collaboré avec des artistes tels que Carlos Zíngaro, Steve Mackay, Adrian Sherwood, Vera Mantero, Mark Stewart, João Fiadeiro entre autres. En tant que musicien, il s'est produit dans divers festivals, notamment au Nyege Nyege, Jinja (Ouganda); à Unsound, Cracovie (Pologne); à Sónar, Barcelone (Espagne); à Primavera Sound, Barcelone (Espagne); à Amplifest, Porto (Portugal); au Out.Fest, Barreiro (Portugal); Circular, Vila do Conde (Portugal); à Million Party; au Neopop, Viana do Castelo (Portugal); au Tapettefest, Campénéac (France); et à Elevate, Graz (Autriche). En 2019, il a présenté l'installation "Vocoder & Camouflage", dans "Vanishing Point: works from the António Cachola collection", Torreão Nascente Lisbonne (Portugal); la pièce "Scotoma Cintilante", pour chœur d'aveugles et sculpture-partition, à l’Université catholique de Porto (Portugal), au São Carlos Lisbon National Theater, Lisbonne (Portugal) et à la Biennale BoCa 2019 (Portugal); et "Broken Field Atlantis" un concert de nappes de lumière, a été présenté au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). Toujours en 2018, avant cette exposition, il a présenté la pièce "SØMA", où un groupe d'adolescents sourds traduit en gestes le tournage d'un tribunal animiste, à Culturgest Lisboa, Lisbonne (Portugal) et au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). En même temps, il a présenté les expositions "Behemoth Republic", dans le cycle "Sonic Geometry" au Archipelago São Miguel Arts Center, Ribeira Grande (Açores, Portugal); et "Dismorfia" à l'Université Catholique de Porto (Portugal).

Kaliurang, à Yogyakarta, est situé près du volcan actif Merapi, un lieu où les fantômes des souvenirs et de l'histoire font partie du paysage. Il s’agit d’une vidéo subtile, créée spécialement pour 900mdpl en 2019, dans laquelle les habitants de la ville deviennent acteurs, dans le rôle de fantômes. De temps en temps, les habitants de Kaliurang voient un Hollandais à pied, ou un soldat japonais qui marche, ou une Javanaise portant une jarre d'eau, ou un animal sauvage ou un être surnaturel... passer comme s'ils étaient là, vivant parmi nous. Ils se cachent dans les arbres - comme si les arbres, la forêt et la montagne étaient les témoins nus de toute l'histoire du colonialisme, de la guerre et du processus néolibéral du développement. Une œuvre de fiction sans flux narratif. Les fantômes marchent-ils parmi nous ou sommes-nous les fantômes ?

Mark Salvatus (né en 1980) vit et travaille à Manille, aux Philippines. Il a étudié les arts publicitaires à l'université de Santo Tomas, à Manille. Ses œuvres ont été présentées lors de différentes expositions et dans différents lieux, notamment à la 2e Biennale de Lahore (Pakistan); au Kyoto Art Center (Japon); à l'ISCP, New York (USA); au Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (Allemagne); à la 14e Biennale de Sharjah (Émirats arabes unis); au Mill6 CHAT, Hong Kong (Chine); à la Biennale de Gwangju - Pavillon PCAN (Corée du Sud); au Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Séoul (Corée du Sud); à l'Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong (Chine); au Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Japon); aux Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin; à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise - Pavillon des Philippines, (Italie); à la 6e Biennale de Thessalonique (Grèce); SONSBEEK International, Arnhem (Pays-Bas); à la 3e Biennale de Singapour; à la 4e Triennale de Guangzhou (Chine); aux 14e et 16e Biennale de Jakarta (Indonésie); au Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (Japon); à l’Hotel Inmigrantes, Manifesta 9; à la Brunei Gallery - SOAS, Université de Londres (Royaume-Uni); à Hasselt (Belgique) ; à la Biennale d’Honolulu - Exposition Prologue (USA); au Survival Kit Festival, Umea (Suède); à la Sharjah Art Foundation (Émirats arabes unis); à l’Asia Society, New York (USA); au Art Center Ongoing Tokyo (Japon) ; au Museum Baerengasse, Zurich (Suisse); à La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo (Australie); au Cultural Center of the Philippines et au Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center (Philippines). Il a été artiste en résidence à l'ACC - Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (Corée du Sud); à la Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (Pays-Bas); au IASPIS Umea (Suède); à la Art OMI, New York (USA); à la Common Room Networks Foundation, Bandung (Indonésie) et au Goyang Art Studio (Corée du Sud).

The Philippine Constabulary Band was a symphonic band formed in 1901 by African-American Lt. Walter Loving of the US Army’s 48th Volunteer Infantry during the American period in the Philippines. Since its first public performance on May 20, 1903, the band has brought the country international fame through its participation in international competitions, including the 1904 St. Louis Exposition in the USA, where the band placed second. In this infamous fair where live Filipinos were exhibited especially the dog-eating Igorot tribe, the band performed Rossini’s classical music ‘Willam Tell Overture’. Forward to the year 2015, the artist’s father’s has a vast vinyl record collection and one of them is a Philippine Constabulary band record that was released in the 70’s under the New Society period of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Creating a new narrative about the band and the collection, the current Philippine Army band played Rossini’s Willaiam Tell Overture after 100 years ago side by side by the vast collection of the artist’s father that were gathered slowly since the 70’s.

Mark Salvatus is a contemporary artist from Manila, Philippines. His works crosses various disciplines and media that deal with chance encounters and everyday politics creating his own narrative and visual language. Calling his works and practice as “Salvage Projects”, he has shown his projects in different international exhibitions including the Philippine Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2016); SONSBEEK International, Arnhem, The Netherlands (2016); Singapore Biennale (2011), Guangzhou Triennale (2011), Jakarta Biennale (2011/2015), Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (2011), Hotel Inmigrantes, Manifesta 9, Hasselt, Belgium (2012), Prologue Exhibition: Honolulu Biennale (2014), Survival Kit Festival, Umea, Sweden (2014) and Next Wave Festival, Melbourne (2010). He had also presented his works in different museums and galleries including La Trobe University, Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo; Asia Society, New York; Museum Brengasse, Zurich; Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore; Ateneo Art Gallery; Cultural Center of the Philippines, Vargas Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Osage Foundation, Hong Kong; 1335 Mabini in Manila; Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo. Mark is a recipient of the 13 Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2012) and Ateneo Art Awards (2010). In 2012 he founded and acts as the artistic director of 98B COLLABoratory, a multi-disciplinary site for creative sharing, discussion and collaboration.

This video explores childhood anecdotes heard around an apartment, which until 1989, when a major solar storm erupted, had been inhabited by a strange couple. Some suspected them of being undercover agents while others said they were just some new age sorcerers. The work addresses the relationship between layers of history, outstanding events in nature and ancient cyphering of language; how the cycles of the Sun’s unpredictable release of energetic flares affect the magnetic fields of the earth and influence radio transmissions, communication and reason on a mass scale.

Roy Samaha is a Lebanese artist, living and working in Beirut. He explores the boundaries of filmic language, perception of reality and the memory of personal objects.

??Once Dr. Dahesh referred to a painting made by Mrs Marie Haddad, and which showed a bird on a tree. The colours of the painting moved and took the form of flesh, blood and feathers and the bird in that painting was converted into a living bird, which was placed in a cage and remained there for several years. Its place on the linen remained white.?

Omar Fakhoury Artist, Beirut Born in 1979, Omar Fakhoury is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He holds a Bachelor in Painting and a Masters of Fine Arts Roy Samaha, Artist, Beirut Born in 1978, a video artist and photographer living and working in Beirut Lebanon where he completed a Masters degree in film studies.

Cette oeuvre se veut un outil de recherche dans son propre passé. Il s'agit de relier les lieux d'enfance, les rêves et les enregistrement VHS. Comment réaliser un autoportrait sans s'adonner aux clichés des archives historiques? Il a été dit : "Vous devez comprendre: la mémoire des objets enregistre et retient les actions humaines... de sorte que les générations futures en héritent... Mais on vous a aussi demandé de partir, de tout laisser derrière vous comme si vous n'étiez jamais venu. Les choses, les lieux possèdent une sorte de mémoire. Quand vous entrez dans un espace fermé, une partie de vous y reste attachée, vous perdez quelque chose. Vous devez apprendre à partir sans abandonner une parcelle de votre être... Apprendre à circuler sans laisser de trace."

Roy Samaha est né à Beyrouth en avril 1978. Il y vit et travaille comme vidéographe à ses heures. Il est diplômé en cinéma de la Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), au Liban.

Late 2010, I got commissioned by Leica to follow in the footsteps of James Bruce and document the Nile river from Alexandria to Aswan. I invited my friend Gheith El-Amine to join me on this trip. it was his first time in Egypt. December 10, 2010: we made plans to leave on February 1, 2011. He contacted two Egyptian friends of his, and we were supposed to meet them as soon as arrived there. January 25. The revolution started in Egypt. the only incoming images so far were made by protesters with cellular phones and uploaded on the net. They were much more efficient than the state-owned television station which was still doing the pro-regime propaganda in high definition resolution.

Part of an ongoing series of American psychogeographies, this particular piece investigates the idea of "remoteness," as two people establish a curious rapport in a sleepy Southern Californian suburb.

Rajee Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan visual artist. His work often examines consciousness and impermanence. Some of his recent work develops questions into contemporary ethnographic practices. Rajee attended the University of California San Diego and is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts.

Le déroulement de la pellicule se confronte à d’autres rouleaux manufacturés face à l’objectif. Le grain des images restitue, en noir et blanc, les habitants, les animaux, les paysages. La fabrication quotidienne voisine la vie domestique dans le découpage rythmé des gestes du travail. L’action semble accueillir quelques à côtés du labeur. Le film s’organise sous nos yeux, animé par de nouvelles itérations. L’absence de piste sonore n’annule que le bruit mécanique des projecteurs anciens. - Gilles Grand

Rajee Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan visual artist. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Rajee`s work has been exhibited at venues internationally.

At the center of this film is a Sri Lankan woman accessing other places in digital form, while situated in her own physical reality. Navigating through a multitude of spaces from the natural world to man-made environments as well as virtual planes, traditional relationships between the creator, the tool, and the subject are questioned, shattered and reconstructed. Reflecting on my own practice as a filmmaker working in non-fiction, the film takes a collage-like approach to examining issues around representation, verisimilitude, the ethnographic image, and the limitations of the form itself. Shot on seven different cameras (and a video synthesizer) on both film and video over the course of a decade in Sri Lanka, China, and the United States, I delve into some of my fundamental curiosities as a filmmaker.

Rajee Samarasinghe was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His filmmaking practice was born out of a desire to understand the circumstances around his childhood and his work often navigates the terrain of memory, migration, and impermanence within the framework of deconstructing the ethnographic image and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. Rajee is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka—the project has received support from the Sundance Institute, Berlinale Talents' Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False Film Festival’s inaugural PRISM program. Rajee was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, and had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2021. His short films have been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films presented by Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA, MoMA Doc Fortnight, BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM Festival, REDCAT, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, Vancouver International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival etc. He’s received the Tíos Award for Best International Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Film House Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, and an Honorable Mention Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival among others.

Retrouvant la trace du regard colonial à la fois dans l'image ethnographique et dans les formes des médias dominants, cette courte réalisation décrit une rencontre impressionniste avec une femme vue de très loin, qui cache son visage au téléobjectif curieux.

Rajee Samarasinghe est cinéaste. Originaire du Sri Lanka, il habite actuellement aux États-Unis. Il est titulaire d'une licence de la UCSD – University of California San Diego (USA) et d'un Master de CalArts – California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (USA). Il travaille actuellement sur son premier long métrage, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible", inspiré par ses expériences d'enfance pendant la guerre civile au Sri Lanka - le projet a reçu une bourse du Sundance Documentary Fund, Salt Lake City (USA), en 2019; a été invité à la Doc Station de Berlinale Talents, Berlin (Allemagne), ainsi qu'au Inogural PRISM Programm du True/False Film Festival, Columbia (USA) en 2020. Il a également été nommé comme l'un des 25 nouveaux visages du cinéma indépendant par le "Filmmaker Magazine" en 2020. Son travail a été présenté à l'international, notamment dans le cadre de la Tiger Short Competition du Festival international du film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas); du New Directors/New Films présenté par la Film Society of Lincoln Center et le MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA); du BFI London Film Festival, Londres (Royaume-Uni); du FIDMarseille (France); du Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal (Canada); des Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Allemagne); du Slamdance Film Festival, Park City (USA); du REDCAT – Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater, Los Angeles (USA); du SFFILM Festival – San Francisco International Film Festival (USA); du Media City Film Festival, Windsor (Canada); et du Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajato (Mexique). Entre autres prix, il a reçu le "Tíos Award for Best International Film" au Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor (USA); le "Film House Award for visionary filmmaking" au Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athènes (Grèce), et un "Audience Award" au festival CROSSROADS au SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA).

This associative stream of visuals, culled from the past, reflect on the roles of art, labor, and journalism in contemporary Sri Lanka, facing a dubious future ahead. Memory and ethnographic deconstruction cascade in an obliterated form, forging a dire and prescient assemblage.

Rajee Samarasinghe was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His filmmaking practice was born out of a desire to understand the circumstances around his childhood and his work often navigates the terrain of memory, migration, and impermanence within the framework of deconstructing the ethnographic image and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. Rajee is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka—the project has received support from the Sundance Institute, Berlinale Talents' Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False Film Festival’s inaugural PRISM program. Rajee was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, and had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2021. His short films have been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films presented by Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA, MoMA Doc Fortnight, BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM Festival, REDCAT, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, Vancouver International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival etc. He’s received the Tíos Award for Best International Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Film House Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, and an Honorable Mention Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival among others.

A symbiotic collaboration in movie motion. After Muybridge.

Rajee Samarasinghe is a relatively young imagemaker, once upon a time Sri Lankan. He makes fake narratives and destructive formal experiments. He aspires to make videos of a respectable length and standard. Rajee attended the University of California, San Diego and is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts.

Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history and the process of reconstruction in the post-war era. The visions of an exile are carried through an immoral silence, to an end both dubious and bittersweet.

Rajee Samarasinghe is an award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker and visual artist. Some of his recent work examines contemporary ethnographic practices through associations of family and heritage. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Rajee`s work has been exhibited at venues internationally.