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Firedive is a short documentary about La Vallette Bathing Pools on the east coast of the Island of Guernsey. The film describes the Island`s collective memory of the tidal pools, focusing on the floodlit swimming galas and `firedives` that once made the pools a central part of the local community. Bowditch?s mother relayed the almost mythical personal tales of her childhood, which inspired the film. Contributors include locals who all have their own complimentary and contrasting tales adding to the visual portrait presented of the pools. The narrators talk about the decline in usage of the pools before going on to describe the ritualistic ceremony of the torch light processions and ?firedives? that once took place. The film is not a recreation of events but rather documents Bowditch?s own experience and involvement in adding to the collective memory of the location. By staging a floodlit torchlight procession based on the tales and accounts of the inhabitants he adds to the islands history and represents it for a new generation. Production dialogue, filming equipment and crew are therefore included in the edit, showing it was an exploration based on intertwined memories rather than a factual straight re-enactment.

Tim Bowditch (b.1986 Guernsey, Channel Islands) graduated from the University of Portsmouth in 2008 with a BA Hons Degree is Photography. Bowditch moved from his childhood home of Guernsey to begin a career as a photographer in London in the Autmn of 2008. He has kept his ties with Guernsey by annually applying and receiving funding to make new work incorporating the Island in someway. The last two years have been spent working on a project entitled Firedive (submitted as a multimedia piece). Firedive saw Bowditch follow the current trend of the digital SLR film makers to shoot a short documentary about the about La Vallette Bathing Pools on the east coast of the Island. The film describes the Island`s collective memory of the pools, focusing on the floodlit swimming galas and `firedives` that once made the pools a central part of the local community. This year the film was premiered at a special open air screening at the pools accompanied by a swimming gala and torch light procession. Three Artists were invited to the Island to make work in response to the screening and gala. The third phase of the project is a proposed exhibition at the greenhouse gallery in Guernsey next Spring. I will curate an exhibition from the work made at the screening.

Supercharger-blown collective offers ‘Easy Asylum Booth ‘Bundu Edition’’, a satirical and situation specific, modular presentation which interrogates European asylum policies, (and attitudes to immigration as a whole) by inverting hegemonic narratives. The collective uses provocative spectacle as a vehicle to facilitate social engagement, partying, shisha smoking, music and political dialogue. Easy Asylum Booth ‘Bundu Edition’ is another chapter in the shifting, magical-real vision derived from the fictitious nation of Botrovia. The booth is a ‘pop up embassy’ offering instant refugee status to anyone seeking asylum in Botrovia. Applicants just need to demonstrate their loyalty by offering 7 x 7cm of their skin for a tattoo specially chosen for them by Skin of our Skin (SooS®), the Botrovian Ministry of Immigration and executed by a flying robotic tattoo gun. Benefits to refugee status include a direct telephone connection with the Botrovian Leader (‘Our Leader is Available’); Training in ‘DASHT (Drone Asylum Seeker Herding Techniques)’ with a fully featured computer game; a lifetime subscription to ‘Botrovian Seeker (Your Guide to Asylum Success)’ plus access to numerous helpful and supportive infographics, interviews and seminars. The project and multicultural collective are formally partnered with Oasis Cardiff, an asylum seeker and refugee charity.

Supercharger-blown collective is a group of artists, scientists and thinkers from a range of cultural backgrounds. Formed and led by the artist Ric Bower their knowingly complex, multi-disciplinary practice often assumes the appearance of an elaborate practical joke and usually explores issues relating to European asylum policy through magical-real narratives. Supercharger-blown collective’s influences include the magical-realism of Murakami and Bulgakov: the satirical illustrator Heath Robinson and the 19th century history painter Thomas Cole. Bower says of Supercharger-blown collective’s approach: ‘...we do not want to make work that sits quietly, meekly waiting to be observed. We mean to make madness that follows you out of the gallery space, slithers into the back seat behind you and shanks you as you drive home.’

Le vice-président des Etats-Unis Dick Cheney dit enfin la vérité.

L'indien de San Francisco Bryon Boyce est un réalisateur-vidéaste dont les oeuvres ont parcouru le monde entier mais aussi dans des lieux tels que le Sundance, NY Underground, Cinematexas, RESfest, MTV et le Pacific Film Archive.

My Prisoner is a video work that reconstructs the event that occurred on 3 April 1994 in war-torn Bosnia by intermixing archival footage with contemporary reimagining of the occasion. It shows a young man being escorted by an army intelligence officer to visit his imprisoned father. As the men travel side-by-side in the back seat of a car Shine on You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd begins to play on the car radio. The young man acknowledges the music and tries to make conversation but the officer does not even recognize the track. A composite of autobiography, documentary and fiction, My Prisoner navigates through the space where the historical, the personal and the fictional simultaneously interfere with and enhance one another.

Velibor Božović grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. When he was in his twenties, the country of his youth became a war zone and he spent the duration of the siege of Sarajevo honing his survival skills. In 1999, Velibor moved to Montréal where he worked, for eight years, as an engineer in aerospace industry until he gave up his engineering career to devote his time fully to art practice. Subsequently, Velibor completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University. He is the recipient of the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art (2015), Concordia International Mobility Award (2014), the Bourse de Maîtrise en Recherche from FRQSC - Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture Quebec (2012) and Roloff Beny Foundation Fellowship in Photography (2011). His work has been exhibited in the United States, Cuba, Canada, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. His images appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Descant, International Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Granta, BH Dani and others.

?It is not the literal past that rules us, it is images of the past...? George Steiner Hotel Balkan is meditative and ambiental video which defines borders between futuristic memory of past and present thinking of future. I?ve been wondering about something: Why is it that images from the past - the actual past - often feel more futuristic than our current images of an imagined future? But if the future doesn?t look much like the future, the past often does. There are pictures from the past that, while you immediately recognize them as being from the past, nevertheless feel futuristic. It?s as though there?s something in your brain that wants to read them as images from the future. In this concept there is an idea that Tito?s nuclear bunker is equivavelnt for some kind of motel, or maybe even a hotel. Nowadays, Tito?s nuclear bunker wants sunshine instead of fluorescent lights, the sound of wind blowing through trees instead of the dull noise of its massive air-conditioning unit. It looks forward to the chatter of people and the sound of their footsteps instead of the noise produced by the closing of its steel antinuclear doors.

Born 1981 in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. Lives & work in Trebinje, Bosnia & Herzegovina. He is mainly working within the fields of film, video, concept, installation & photography. Also works as a video curator & freelance theoretician. Curently works as a asistant professor at Academy of Visual Arts in Trebinje. Education 2005 Academy of Visual Arts (BA) in Trebinje, Department of Painting 2006 Founder and the curator of the international namaTREba project biennial 2008 Interdisciplinary master (MA) studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Theory of Art & Media Department 2011 Interdisciplinary (PhD) studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade / Theory of Art & Media Department His works shows and exhibited at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Atopia Film & VideoKunst Gallery, Oslo, CAM Casoria, Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Kunst Museum, Bonn, Galleria d? Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, Museum of Contemporary Art RS, Banja Luka, Point Ephemere, Paris, Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin, Espacio Center Canarias, Tenerife, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Center of Contemporary Art, Plovdiv, Budapest Art Fair Mucsarnok, Budapest, Spazio Monitor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Tapetenwerk Halle C, Leipzig, A+A Galerie, Art Verona, Venice, Gallery Remont, Belgrade... more info: www.igorbosnjak.com

Memory Gate shows desolated Herzegovinian landscape with a forgotten monument dedicated to pilots of Yugoslav National Army during the Second World War. Critical deserted landscape followed by weird sound and music called ganga* which is typical for that region of the south part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This video confronts utopian modernistic Yugoslavian architecture with a traditional sound and landscape, creating a very disturbing and eerie cinematic experience. *Ganga - stands for old traditional folk music and singing which is usually played by a group of old men.

Igor Bošnjak (b. 1981 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) lives and works in Trebinje (Bosnia & Herzegovina). As an interdisciplinary artist, he works on visual, cinematical, geographical and documentary research addressing archives, maps, migrations, monuments, history and image-time relations as key refference in the experience of contemporary society. He is mainly working within the media fields of contemporary art: moving images, video, 3d animation, installation, objects, drawing & photography. In 2005 he finished Academy of Visual Arts (BA) in Trebinje, Department of Painting. From 2007 to 2008 he finished (MA) Interdisciplinary studies, Theory of Art & Media Department at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia. From 2006 to 2016 he was founder and curator of namaTRE.ba project biennial. From 2009 works as a professor at Academy of Visual Arts in Trebinje, University of East Sarajevo on courses of Intermedia art, Video art, Digital art. From 2019 to 2021 he was working as visiting lecturer on Faculty of Fine Arts, Cetinje, University of Montenegro.

An attempt on aesthetic-technological-ideological objectivity in non-objective reality. How can we see today, the monuments of the NOB (National Liberation War), what they represent to us in the context of the new division of fashion as well as changes in paradigm and ideology in the former Yugoslavia. Is a new reading possible without a nostalgic undertone? How to think about architectural and concrete structures in the 2000s? What is the relationship between monument and human, what is the relationship between monument and unbridled nature. What is the relationship between monuments and contemporary technology and contemporary art today? How much contemporary and how much tech addiction? How to reinterpret the artifacts of the anti-fascist struggle, but so that the monument of the NOB remains at the denotative level of meaning of the monument, that new meanings do not endanger the given basic meaning, the one that is. Creating narratives as a new reading and a new "seeing" and seeing of monuments and creating new visual realities.

Igor Bošnjak (b. 1981 in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia) lives and works in Trebinje (Bosnia & Herzegovina). He is mainly working within the fields of contemporary art: moving images, video, installation, objects, drawing & photography. From 2009 works as a professor at Academy of Visual Arts in Trebinje, University of East Sarajevo on courses Intermedia art, Video art, Digital art. From 2019 works as visiting lecturer on Faculty of Fine Arts, Cetinje, University of Montenegro.

Commençant avec un plan séquence de deux minutes sur le cadran d?une horloge, la vidéo a été réalisé en temps réel, dans un environnement conçu pour la vidéo. Les cadres furent imprimés individuellement sur papier et postérieurement redessinés, images par images au fusain et à la peinture à l?huile, scannées à nouveau, pour être enfin animées dans la vidéo finale. Cette vidéo a été commandé pour la compilation "Essays on Radio : Can I have 2 minutes of your time?" produite par le label media Crónica et qui proposa à tous les artistes de l'audio et du visuel de refléter la technologie et la culture de la radio dans le début de la pellicule 21ème siècle. Le but de cette vidéo fut ensuite d?explorer l?idée de temps dans l?analogie croisant les techniques digitales : en commençant en deux minutes, réduisant la vidéo à 6 images et les étirant à nouveau sur deux minutes, restaurant la perte de qualité induite par le procédé de recréation numérique/mécanique et par l?utilisation de diverses recréations analogues/manuelles dans chaque image, discrète. À la fin, la représentation symbolique du temps n?est plus lisible, mais les mécanismes qui le représentent et le capturent se font sentir tout au long du morceau.

Née en 1972, elle travaille et vit à Vienne, en Autriche où elle est étudiante en critique du théâtre et des médias mais aussi artiste et photographe. Videojockey et DJ, elle enseigne pour le moment la manipulation vidéo dans l?école multimédia privée de Vienne. En 1999, son travail est exposé pendant 3 mois, par "Cinemasonic-Lounge", un festival de vidéos expérimentales. Elle met de côté la photographie analogique pour se tourner vers la vidéo numérique. Avec son travail elle repense la géométrie et l?anatomie qui dominent les images de collection en un processus de composition récursif qui utilise un ensemble de vidéos. Avec ses vidéos elle essaie de produire des séquences émotionnelles provenant d?images fixes rassemblées (photographies, images, graphiques, sketches, etc..) en des trajectoires animées derrière leur contexte original.

Soft voices and soothing sounds will take the audience on a sensory audiovisual journey through a dystopian near future. The resulting work is based on the collaborative composition and exploration of intimate fears and tribulations related to current climate change narratives, and represented through the implementation of the experimental ASMR methods presented at the “ASMR for earthly survival” workshop held by the artists. “ASMR for Earthly Survival” explores the potential of ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) as a tool for the creation of intimate science fiction storytelling narratives.

S()fia Braga is an Italian transmedia artist who lives and works between Vienna and Linz, conducting artistic research that combines digital and post-digital practices. Her work is focused on exploring new technologies to create speculative fabulations that delve into themes such as transhumanism, human and non-human collaboration and non-human agency. S()fia’s identity constantly changes and goes hand in hand with the narratives she creates: over the last years she has been an artist, a transhumanist entrepreneur, an AI auteur, a cyberstalker, and has mutated several times into a monstrous creature. Matthias Pitscher works as an artist, designer, meditation teacher, barista, researcher, entrepreneur and bad influencer. The artifacts he produces deal with the constant changes we face in our transition to a technologically connected society. Analytical yet humorous, he demonstrates how digital media transforms our perception of reality. Fabricio Lamoncha is an artist, designer and researcher from Spain, currently based in Austria. Since 2018 he is lecturer and PhD researcher at the Kunstuniversität Linz. Also member of the Art|Sci Center at UCLA (Los Angeles) and co-founder and organizer of the Leonardo Laser Talks Linz. His practices explore the entanglements of media ecology and bioethics.

Of Stains, Scrap & Tires is a calm, documentary miniature that chooses the auto export business of three young Nigerians in the Erzberg region as a point of association and departure for formulating something more fundamental about the first and third worlds, movement and standstill, business, space, and freedom.

Sebastian Brameshuber studied scenography at the Vienna University of Applied Arts and contemporary arts at Le Fresnoy - Studio National des Arts Contemporains in France. His earlier films are in the tradition of Austrian avant-garde cinema and examine the nature of the moving image. In his documentary works, he maintains a strong interest in form, while emphasising human relationships and sociopolitical issues. His work has been presented at major film and media art festivals such as the Berlinale, Viennale, FID Marseille, BAFICI, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, EMAF Osnabrueck, Impakt Utrecht, Media Art Friesland, etc. He currently lives and works in Vienna.

La relation qu'entretiennent Tom et Jerry n'est pas claire. Sont-ils amis, ennemis, ou forment-ils un couple ? Peu importe, la vidéo montre l'amour, la haine, la tristesse et la tendresse qui existent dans leur relation si particulière.

Nicolas Branca Rosse est un artist visuel, un photographe, un artiste vidéo et un réalisateur né en 1972 à Montevideo en Uruguay. Parmi ses oeuvres les plus récentes on trouve "OVNI", une fiction de 21 mn, réalisée en 2002-2003. "Panamericano" est une oeuvre expérimentale, une boucle d'une minute exposée au Centre Culturel d'Espagne de Montevideo en 2004. En 2005 il fait "Victima", une oeuvre expérimentale de trois minutes exposée au Bar Tasende, une entreprise artistique. Il réalise également "Las Nuevas Aventuras de Tom y Jerry" (les nouvelles aventures de Tom et Jerry), une vidéo expérimentale de 18 mn montrée au Festival de Cine y Video Latino de Buenos Aires en 2005 où elle remporte le premier prix dans la catégorie "expérimental". En 2006, il est sélectionné pour l'exposition Zemos98 au Festival ACCION PARALELA et il réalise "El Teorico", une installation vidéo composée d'une boucle de 2 mn et exposée au Centre Culturel Ex Teresa, à Mexico au Mexique.

"Causality and Meaning" consiste en une séquence rapide de 635 fichiers images, qui - isolés sur fond blanc - montrent des logos, des symboles, des graphiques, des mèmes Internet, des illustrations et des images de produits. Sur le plan du contenu, cette œuvre questionne des sujets tels que le transhumanisme, la culture de droite liée à Internet et aux mèmes, le suprémacisme blanc, l'antiféminisme et le mouvement pour les droits des hommes, la culture machiste et le chauvinisme, des stéréotypes de masculinité ininterrompus, la consommation néolibérale et la culture du divertissement axée sur la violence. Sur le plan sonore, on peut entendre une composition du tromboniste et musicien expérimental originaire de Cologne Matthias Muche, accompagnée de mots du compositeur britannique Anthony Moore. Les sons produits par le trombone, combinés avec la voix masculine de Moore, distordue et parfois incompréhensible, semblent commenter la séquence d'images ou même en illustrer le contenu; parfois les sons y opposent à leur manière une résistance et s'affirment comme une partie autonome de l'œuvre.

Martin Brand est né à Bochum (Allemagne) en 1975, et a étudié l'art et la philologie allemande à Bochum et Dortmund (Allemagne) jusqu'en 2002. Il vit et travaille à Cologne. Dans son œuvre, il traite de questions sociales et politiques, qu'il explore par le film et la photographie. Le point de départ est souvent un phénomène qu'il trouve dérangeant, irritant et déstabilisant, mais qui, dans le même temps, l'attire et le fascine. À partir de la surface, il tente de révéler liens et structures, de regarder derrière la façade et, finalement, de confronter le spectateur à sa contrepartie, le mettant au défi d'une analyse critique. Des thèmes tels que la jeunesse et les subcultures, la quête d'identité, la violence, les stéréotypes de genre, le fait de s’orienter d’après des modèles, l'influence des médias et de la publicité, les hiérarchies et mécanismes de groupe sont au cœur de son travail. Ses œuvres ont été présentées dans de nombreuses expositions et festivals et font partie de diverses collections d'art telles que la collection Goetz à Munich (Allemagne), celle du musée Ostwall à Dortmund (Allemagne) ou celle du Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt (Allemagne). Il a reçu des bourses de projet et des bourses d’étude, et a été récompensé à plusieurs reprises pour son travail.

Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée – tout se transforme. L’héritage de l’esclavage dépouille ceux pris dans son cauchemar étouffant de la plénitude d’une vie. A travers des images tantôt en mouvement, tantôt statiques, la réalisatrice Charlotte Brathwaite en collaboration avec le photographe Malick Welli imagine les rêves et les cauchemars de l’érudit fait esclave Omar ibn Said. A travers des projections en mouvement et des photographies en grand format, l'œuvre se déploie comme une mélodie fantôme du cinéma. Elle fait le lien entre l’esprit volé de Said et la présence vivante de ses ancêtres, traversant l’océan, traversant le temps et l’espace. FORGOTTEN PARADISE transforme les ténèbres de la captivité en lumière : celle de la liberté, et d’une famille aimante.

Creator/Director CHARLOTTE BRATHWAITE is the recipient of a Doris Duke Award, Art Matters Award, Creative Capital Award, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship Grant, a United States Artist Fellowship, multiple Map Fund Awards and the Princess Grace George C. Wolfe Award amongst others. Brathwaite’s genre-defying work illuminates the realities and dreams of marginalized people; people whose stories have been silenced, disappeared, and ignored. Dealing with subject matter from the historical past to the distant future, her work brings to light issues of social justice, race, power, and the complexities of the human condition. A director of classical texts, multimedia, site-specific works, dance performances, operas, concerts, film, and installations - her trans-disciplinary inquiry manifests in spectacles of color and music. Her works – presented across the globe from North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia – live in the deep time of aural/oral history and create an immersive experience for audience and performer alike which offers new perspectives in both form and content. MFA from Yale School of Drama and BA Amsterdam School for the Arts (the Netherlands). As an educator, she has taught and mentored at several institutions including the University of Fortaleza (Brazil), Barbados Community College (the Caribbean), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Amherst College, New York University, Stanford University amongst others. www.charlottebrathwaite.com ________________ Malick Welli is a Senegalese visual artist who lives and works in Dakar, Senegal. His work addresses themes of duality, spirituality, history and the restitution of memory, pedagogy and displaced identity. Welli is interested in the convergence of religion and material influences, economics and power dynamics, and how these elements shape visual culture. There's a quest for ecology and interdependence, and how seemingly independent events coincide and influence each other. Welli contrasts these material concerns of the community with individual spiritual needs. Welli's work has been collected and exhibited worldwide: "In Brilliant Light" at the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal and MuseumVolkenkunde in Leiden, Netherlands (2023-2024); "Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection" at the Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, USA (2023); 1.54 Contemporary Art Fair, New York, USA (2023); "Sur le fil... " at 19M in Paris (2023) ; 1-54 African Contemporary Art Fair , Marrakech, Morocco (2023) ; Art x Lagos, Nigeria (2022), "Lightness of Being" a solo exhibition at Galerie Atiss Dakar (2022) ; "Les Invincibles" at the Biennale de Dakar (2022) ; Blackstar Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA (2022); 1- 54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York (2021); EXPO CHGO, Chicago, USA (2019); Cairo Biennale, Egypt (2019); "Saint-Louis to St Louis", Barret Barrera projects, Missouri, USA (2019); AKAA: Also Known As Africa fair, Paris, France (2018); "Pour les Noirs et pour les Blancs , Hierro Desvilles Gallery, Lille, France" (2016).

The magical-realist camera follows the trials and encounters of Jonathan as he attempts to fulfill his mother’s final wish: that her ashes be laid to rest at Alexanderplatz, Berlin. Carrying her blue urn and searching for a suitable location, he attempts to gain permission, assistance, and sometimes merely empathy from his fellow citizens. From bridges to construction sites, electronics megastores to public fountains, encountering a nun, an artist, and various figures he traces circles around the concrete epicenter of the busy metropolis, revealing a place where commerce, branding, bustle, and tourism overshadow historical landmarks and personal relations. The private pathos of a son mourning his mother encounters the cold and normalized absurdity of hypercapitalism, history, and everyday city life.

Ulu Braun (1976) lives in Berlin and Lieksa. Between 1996 - 2005 he studied painting and film in Vienna, Helsinki, and Berlin. He has been using the medium of video to explore the field between the visual arts and auteur cinema since 1997 and he is one of the key figures who have transferred painting into video art. His works are regularly shown at film festivals and exhibited in art institutions.

Südwest est une construction détaillée et utopique d'un paysage, qui unit des aspects de la tradition et de la globalisation. La vidéo combine des scènes idylliques de la culture européenne avec les promesses cataloguées de l'industrie du tourisme moderne pour créer un panorama qui recréé la mystique poétique de choses pourtant si courantes à nos yeux.

Bio: geboren 1976 in Schongau. Lebt in Berlin und Helsinki. 1996-2000 Studium der Malerei und Grafik an der Universität für angewandte Kunst in Wien. 2001-2006 Filmstudium an der HFF-Potsdam 1999 & 2007 Stipendium am Time & Space Department, University of Fine Arts Helsinki, seit 1997 Zusammenarbeit mit Roland Seidel als BitteBitteJaJa.

Westcoast is a panorama-video consisting of interweaved scenes mounted on a coastline - somewhere between Rotterdam and Sydney. Starting from a bubbling primordial soup the view pans along a waterfront in the style of a late transnational financial eclecticism and passes mystical spots such as a giant hippo eating carrots and hectically spinning rubber boats. After a dark spiritual waterway recalling Hieronymus Bosch atmospheres, the panorama ends in a cave with refuse-Jacuzzi in which a white woman gazes about herself melancholically.

Ulu Braun (1976) is belonging to a new generation of artists that entered the field of digital film with a background in visual arts and street art. In his works he integrates various production methods to form sceneries that play between Hollywood, Prado and periphery. In most of his works he observes the tragic of reality from different angles. Braun exhibits internationally including recent solo shows in Germany, Belgium, USA and group shows in Germany, Spain, France, Finland, Estonia and Greece. His works have been screened at the major experimental Film and Media Art Festivals. Collaborations with Roland Seidel as BitteBitteJaJa and finnish artist group YKON. He is currently living in Berlin. www.ulubraun.com

On connait cet art du détour que Sophie Roger pratique pour nous mener par des chemins inattendus avec l’amitié comme fil, déplié avec Le Point aveugle (FID 2012) ou Les Jardiniers du petit Paris (FID 2010). Ici ce sera, tissée tout en délicatesse à l’écran, l’amitié avec Mohamed, réfugié soudanais au Havre. Faite de partage, d’attention, d’écoute et de rire, et de vagues en vagues, celles du texte éponyme de Virginia Woolf qu’elle lui lit, à celle de Courbet au musée du Havre, qu’il animera de son regard. (FIDMarseille)

What is the future of life in a world ever more dominated by Artificial Intelligence Can we develop a sense of connection and empathy towards highly elaborated machines? In a time when the lines between humanity and technology blur, "The Shape of Things to Come" takes audiences on a journey of human-AI interaction that challenges our perceptions of identity, love, and ethics. The film follows the activities of a team of pioneering researchers pushing the boundaries of AI technology, seeking to develop an AI with the capacity to feel and understand emotions. As they delve deeper into the mysteries of human emotions, they confront ethical dilemmas, technical challenges, and unforeseen consequences. Tensions rise as the project advances. Some believe that bestowing AI with emotions could revolutionize healthcare, therapy, and human-AI partnerships, while others fear the potential risks and moral implications. " The Shape of Things to Come " explores profound questions about the nature of consciousness, the essence of humanity, and the ethical responsibilities that come with playing the role of creator. As the project's success seems within reach, the researchers must confront their own humanity and the consequences of their ambition.

Pamela Breda is an artist, filmmaker and researcher living between Turin and Vienna. She holds a MA in Visual Arts from IUAV University (IT) and a PhD in Visual Arts from Kingston University (UK). She was appointed artist and fellow in residence at several international art institutions, including Max Planck Institute For Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt, DE), Pratt Institute (New York, USA), Cité Internationale Des Arts (Paris, F), PROGR (Bern, CH) Botin Foundation (Santander, E). She was recipient of several art awards and fellowships, including IMèRA Fellowship (Marseille, F), Cantica 21 (MibaC, IT), Italian Council Award (MibaC, IT), Kingston University Phd Scholarship (Kingston, UK), Moving’Up (Turin, IT), JRC, Joint Research Center, European Commission (Ispra, IT), ‘Love Me Tender’, Stonefly Production Prize (Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, IT), Italian Institute of Culture (Moscow, RU), Photography Award, IED, European Institute of Design (Venice, IT). Her film research explores the intersections of visual imaginaries, narratives, and stories that often remain on the fringes of mainstream consciousness. With a deep passion for shedding light on the voices and experiences of marginalized communities, her work dives into the complex web of human existence, particularly focusing on the clash between old and new technologies that shape worldviews.

"April" est un film court expérimental inspiré par la vie d'April Ashley, l'une des premières Britanniques à avoir subi une chirurgie de réattribution sexuelle, réalisée à Casablanca (au Maroc) le 12 mai 1960 par le docteur Georges Burou. Après son retour en Grande-Bretagne, elle a commencé à utiliser le nom d'April Ashley, et a eu du succès comme mannequin, apparaissant dans des publications telles que Vogue (photographié par David Bailey), et a décroché un petit rôle dans le film "The Road to Hong Kong" de Norman Panama. Après qu'un ami ait vendu son histoire aux médias, en 1961, sous le titre "'Her' secret is out", le Sunday People a révélé qu'Ashley était une femme transgenre. Elle est au centre de l’attention et de la controverse, et son nom est instantanément supprimé du générique. Le scandale la contraint à vivre à l'étranger pendant plusieurs années. Ce n’est qu’en 2006 qu’elle a été reconnue légalement comme femme.

Pamela Breda est artiste et cinéaste. Elle vit entre Londres (Royaume-Uni) et New York (USA). Elle a reçu plusieurs prix et bourses d'art, dont la bourse Sirovich Family Fellowship, au Pratt Institute, New York (USA), le Simultan Art Prize (Pologne); le Cantica21 (Italie); le prix du Conseil italien (Italie); le prix Moving'Up (Italie); et le prix Italian Institute of Culture (Russie). Ses films ont été projetés à l’international, et présentés dans divers festivals et lieux d’art notamment au ECRÃ Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro (Brésil); au Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Boston (USA); à la Digital Film Library; au Festival international du court métrage de Clermont-Ferrand (France); à la Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris (France); à Vision Du Réel, Nyon (Suisse), au Hazel Eye Film Festival, Nashville (USA); au The Bomb Art Factory Film Festival, Londres (Royaume-Uni); au Sohonya Art Center, Bangalore (Inde); à la Francesco Fabbri Foundation for Contemporary Art, Pieve di Soligo (Italie); et à la Fondation Bevilacqua La Masa, Venise (Italie).