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Dans "Anne (The assumption), les images d'archive sont un acte de mémoire, de mort et d'élévation physique. En insérant mon visage "natal" sur celui du personnage Anne du film Canadien par essence "Anne of Green Gables", le doux plaisir du film de télévision est transformé en déconcertant souvenir, tout autant fictionnel qu'historique.

Iso Chou est née à Kano, au Niger. Elle possède une double origine: chinoise/ mandchourienne et nigérienne/cap-verdienne. Elle a obtenu son Master of Arts à l'université de York, à Toronto.

Phnom Penh, Cambodge. Sur Diamond Island, joyau de modernité du pays, deux amis se racontent les rêves qu'ils ont faits la veille.

Davy Chou est un réalisateur français. Son premier long métrage documentaire, Le Sommeil d’or, fut sélectionné au Forum de la Berlinale 2012 et au festival international de Busan 2011. Il développe un long métrage de fiction intitulé Diamond Island.

"Bullfight" touche à des espaces qui sont psychiques, personnels, privés / déplacés ? où le corps est un fois cru et interposé comme un clown, et matador et un taureau.

Il est né et a été élevé en Afrique Occidentale et vit maintenant en Amérique du Nord.

Dans "anne", les images archives sont un acte de souvenir. En insérant mon visage (et par-là même, "mon corps"), sur l'un des personnages du film, "Anne of Green Gables", je démarre un processus de souvenir qui est autant romanesque qu'historique.

Est né et a grandi dans les pays de l'Ouest de l'Afrique. Vit actuellement en Amérique du Nord. Son activité comprend la peinture, le dessin, la vidéo et la représentation vidéo.

Dans ses films, Saddie Choua combine son propre matériel cinématographique avec des images trouvées, des documents d’archives visuels et textuels, provenant de diverses sources, telles que la télévision nationale, des programmes de loisirs, des vidéos musicales et des magazines. Dans sa pratique, Saddie Choua se concentre sur le rôle de l’image en mouvement dans les loisirs et la politique et leur influence sur l’image commune de l’Autre. Dans certains de ses projets, elle introduit du matériel autobiographique pour rechercher le rôle entre elle et cet Autre. Dans ses films et installations, Saddie Choua simule la conception des médias de masse vus du salon, créant ainsi une situation familière pour transmettre de nouvelles images qui suggèrent les complexités de l’Autre. Saddie Choua montre les structures de pouvoir derrière l’industrie de l’image actuelle et les préjugés et malentendus qu’elles provoquent.

Saddie Choua a étudié la sociologie à la VUB de Bruxelles. Elle participe actuellement au projet international de recherche et de discussion intitulé “Décolonisation perverse”, à l’Akademie der Künster der Welt à Cologne. Saddie Choua a été invitée pour les expositions personnelles suivantes (une sélection) : Le Joli Mois de Mai, Ten Weyngaert, Bruxelles, 2017 ; The Chouas - Work in Progress, MU.ZEE, Ostende, 2016 ; Great News. J’ai été élu félin de l’année, WIELS, 2014. Ses œuvres ont également été présentées dans les expositions de groupe, festivals et projections suivants (une sélection) : Festival Concreto, Fortaleza, 2017 ; Montrez-moi vos archives et je vous dirai qui est au pouvoir, KIOSK, Gand, 2017 ; Je crois qu’il y a une confusion chez vous. Vous croyez que moi je veux vous imiter, Kaaistudio’s, Bruxelles, 2017 ; The Chouas - A work in progress Episode #3, Human(art)istic festival, Beursschouwburg, Bruxelles, 2016 ; L’acte de fixer le soleil, Zwart Wild, Gand, 2016 ; Biënnale de Marrakech, Marrakech, 2016 ; Festival d’égalité, Vooruit, Gand, 2015 ; Été de la photographie, BOZAR, Bruxelles, 2014.

To make the moving-image work for Means the recently returned Australian-Bangladeshi artist Omar Chowdhury headed out into the Australian bush seeking a form of simple and focused sensing. Carrying stills and cinematic cameras, he ventured into the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, crossed the Great Dividing Range, and wandered out to the remnant Victorian gold towns, searching. Haunted by the ‘weirdness’ of the trees, the totemic termite mounds, the warbling creeks and dirt packed roads, he felt himself and his thinking seep into the darkening landscape. The traces of this spiritual ethereality inhere in his strange and occult video footage of animals, rocks, branches, burnings, machines and the silence of the isolate people. In it, somewhere, lie the means of his being.

Bangladeshi-Australian artist Omar Chowdhury makes moving-image, photographic, conceptual and textual installations based on immersions into contested spaces and their histories. Often mixing notions of ontology, political economy, and the spirit, they hold in uneasy tension various polarities: facts and the surreal, humour and melancholia, rhythm with chaos, weakness and power, and memory with forgetting. Out of these cohesions and frictions he produces densely woven languages and environments of moral and psychic inquiry. In 2016 he has an upcoming solo presentations at Bengal Gallery (Dhaka) and Dhaka Art Summit 2016 and screenings at the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane) for Asia Pacific Triennial 8. Recently he has had solo exhibitions at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Sydney), ALASKA Projects (Sydney) and MOMENTUM (Berlin). He was a finalist in the 2015 John Fries Award (Sydney) and the 2015 and 2016 Blake Prize Award (Sydney). He is the recent recipient of a Bengal Foundation Practice Grant, Keir Foundation/4A Commission, Australia Council Skills and Development Grant, Edward M. Kennedy Grant for the Arts, and an Australian Cinematographer`s Society Gold Award. He also founded and often programs the Bengal Cinematheque in Dhaka.

"Errant Waves" fait partie de la série "Inscapes", un recueil de compositions reposant sur les affinités entre les timbres de différents sons. Les micro-sonorités changeantes et leurs micro-ondulations au niveau de la 'texture' du morceau permettent l'émergence d'espaces auditifs dynamiques.

Thanos Chrysakis est un compositeur établi à Londres. Après avoir étudié la timbale, les percussions et la musique classique tout étant musicien(brièvement) dans des théatres d'Athènes, il se dirige vers l'étude des arts sonores et de la musique électronique. Il est actuellement étudiant en doctorat (PhD) au Goldsmiths College de l'université de Londres. Sa production musicale est faite de compositions microacoustiques, de musique instrumentale et d'installations/environnements féconds. Sa musique et son travail sonore se retrouvent sur différents labels indépendants et ont été présentés lors de d'évènements tels que le CYNETart - Dresde, Complexités -Chateâu de Linardie, Senouillac, Maison Populaire ?Art Numériques [Pulsations] ? Paris, ArtPool - Budapest. Son "Inscape 5" a été sélectionné pour participer au Concours international de musique et d`art sonore électroacoustiques de Bourges 2005 dans la catégorie '?uvre d`art sonore électroacoustique'. Bien qu'étant essentiellemnt intéressé par la musique et le son, il écrit également de la poésie et crée, de manière indépendante, des séquences d'images expérimentales. Ses poèmes sont publiés dans des journaux grecs et sur internet, quant aux séquences d'images, elles ont été présentées à l'occasion de festivals comme l'Island Art Film & Video Festival - Londres, la 2° Biennale Internationale de Ferrara et le SynchCinema Festival ? Athens, La Casa Encendida ? Madrid, Image Forum Festival -Tokyo.

By the time the zoo is closing, detained animals feeling frustrated and confused. The only thing they can do is retaining a slight degree of consciousness, waiting for the changing of time. `Demos` is a lyrical assemblage of the observational footage collecting from various places. The film is an attempt to depict the gloom, the oppression and the surreal reality under the military regime since the coup in 2014.

Danaya Chulphuthiphong lives and works in Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a BA in Archaeology and MFA in Visual Arts. She started her career as a documentary photographer for a newspaper and a magazine. She is interested in lens-based arts and works with both still and moving images. In 2014, Danaya made her first short film `Night Watch` which has been selected for participation in the International Competition of the 61st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Experimenta India and won the Special Jury Prize from Fronteira, The International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival. The film was also screened as part of the 28th Images Festival, Hors Pistes Tokyo, Arkipel, KLEX, Pori Film Festival and the 26th Singapore International Film Festival. In 2016, Danaya released her second short film, `Demos` which has been selected for participation in Southeast Asian Short Film Competition of the 27th Singapore International Film Festival and won the BACC award from the 20th Thai Short Film and Video Festival.

ATTRACTOR REPELLER is an audiovisual piece created by AUTOPOL (Pol Villasuso) & C03RA (Mathías Chumino) It explores the tension and duality of the aggregation and disaggregation phenomena; continous – discontinous of visual and sound particles. These dualities are easier to imagine if we think tof the valley – mountain topography. The energy attraction is in the valley and the energy repelling is at the top of the mountains. This piece intepellates the flat and striated fields through noise, rumors, whispers, silence, buzzing and trembling, as a path and audiovisual texture.

C03RA (Mathías Chumino) is a multimedia artist and musician, specialized in image post-processing, editing and visual art. His visual work is the result of continuous experimentation and bold image manipulation rendered through the minimal filter of polished aesthetics, His technical expertise and proficiency using state of the art software and hardware are put to the service of a poetic vision of the world to deliver dark and mysterious visual landscapes, always dwelling on primal and metaphysical concepts. The result is a synesthetic journey through new worlds, an experience that defy and cautivates the viewer. AUTOPOL (Pol Villasuso) is a self-taught musician, sound artist - investigator and Architect. He has been known as AutoPol since 2010, conducting research and presentations in the experimental sound field. AutoPol explores the analogical and digital synthesis in an environment of noise, a-synchrony and poly-morphic sound superposition, designing complex, confusing sound atmospheres and austere and shocking moments. His live performances are always different. Based almost exclusively on improvisation the categories and musical limits of (dis) harmony, (a) rhythm and tempo are often confused and fade into the sound/visual air. When the architecture waits for the event, sound and light appear.

?Framing the Space? was shot at the summer residency of former Yugoslavia`s president Tito. The Vila underwent numerous redesigns concurrent with national cultural and political imperatives throughout its life, culminating in its 1950s redesign by Tito?s official state architect, who had the task of translating the existing Austro Hungarian castle into a new, modernist architecture, fit to illustrate a new national formation. The film presents philosophical and architectural theories of purpose, form, function and aesthetic priorities through a staged interview between the architect and a journalist questioning his possible successes and failures. The script is based on documents from Slovenian Parliament?s archives from 1950s. The theoretical debate around ideological vision lies in opposite to the period/melodrama-style delivery and aesthetic and points to the exoticism that historical and geopolitical revisitations are subjected to in the eyes of the contemporary viewer. The recontextualising of issues around the ideas of national representativeness, dramatises not only the power paradigms inherent in systems of authority, but also the explicit contradictions present in the transmutation of a national identity from past to present, place to place. Framing the Space was produced specifically for Cibic?s project ?For Our Economy and Culture? representing Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial.

Jasmina Cibic was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1979. She completed her MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London in 2006. She has taught at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and regularly holds artist talks and lectures internationally. Jasmina Cibic?s recent projects and exhibitions include ?For Our Economy and Culture?, Slovenian pavilion, 55th Venice Biennial, ?Disturbances?, Musée national d`histoire et d`art, Luxembourg, 3oth International Graphics Biennial Ljubljana, ?October Salon?, Belgrade, ?U3 ? 7TH Triennial of Contemporary Art?, MSUM, Ljubljana, ?Monitoring?, Dokfest, Kassel, ?Borderline?, Joanneum Museum Graz, ?The Secret of the Ninth Planet?, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, ?Museum on the Street?, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, ?The Object of the Spectacle?, Galerija ?kuc, Ljubljana, ?Present State?, Five Years Gallery, London, ?Tourists Welcome?, Ljubljana International Airport and ?Landescape?, Künstlerhaus Graz. Her upcoming exhibitions include ?Fruits of Our Land?, LMAKprojects, New York and Ernst Museum (Capa Contemporary Photography Center), Budapest. Jasmina Cibic? s moving image work has recently been screened at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana and KORO, Oslo. Her upcoming screenings include 14th GOEAST - FESTIVAL OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM, Wiesbaden, ?Art and Power?, Museum of 25th of May, Belgrade.

Composed of quotes drawn from political discussions on German national representation at 20th Century’s World Expositions, The Exhibition creates an original conversation between three allegorical positions. The Curator, the Artist and Germania become a reflection of ideological deliberation facing a practical scruple: how to create an exhibition of the nation’s best artworks in order to affect society. Including words drawn from the opening address at the German Pavilion at Barcelona EXPO 1929, Goebbels’ ideas on casting out women from politics and post 2WW soft power deliberations, The Exhibition merges political rhetoric to arrive at what seems to be the only solution that guarantees the success of capital: banning the audience. Filmed within the villas Haus Esters and Lange, that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built for the Krefeld silk barons in 1920s, The Exhibition uses the architecture which itself served as soft power realised: a theatrical frame and pedestal that went on to establish Mies as the architect that paved way for the theatricality of the concept of nation state and its visual branding.

Jasmina Cibic (b. Ljubljana 1979) is a London based artist who works in performance, installation and film, employing a range of activity, media and theatrical tactics to redefine or reconsider a specific ideological formation and its framing devices such as art and architecture. Jasmina represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project “For Our Economy and Culture”. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at: DHC/Art Montreal, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead, Museum Haus Esters Krefeld, Aarhus 2017, Esker Foundation Calgary, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, MGLC Ljubljana and Ludwig Museum Budapest along with group exhibitions at MOMA NY, MUMA Monash Museum, CCS BARD, Guangdong Museum of Art China, Pera Museum Istanbul, La Panacee Montpellier, City Gallery Wellington, MSUM Ljubljana, MNHA Luxembourg, Joanneum Museum Graz and California College of the Arts. Cibic’s films have been screened at FIAC Paris, Pula Film Festival, HKW Berlin, CCA Laznia, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris, Dokfest Kassel and Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. Jasmina Cibic has been shortlisted for the Jarman Award (2018) and was the winner of the MAC International Ulster Bank and Charlottenborg Fonden awards (2016).

Jasmina Cibic’s film trilogy NADA draws parallels between the construction of national culture and its use-value for political aims. The first chapter Nada: Act I fans out from a biographical thread of architect and artist Vjenceslav Richter, one of the key figures in charge of the visual representation of the Yugoslav state and his first and unrealized design for the Yugoslav Pavilion at the 1958 EXPO in Brussels. Cibic traced this architecture through archives and recreated the pavilion’s initial design as a musical instrument. In the film, a violinist constructs and continually tunes the instrument according to the Miraculous Mandarin, a musical composition for ballet written by Béla Bartók. This artwork was the one chosen to represent Yugoslavia at the most important dates of the pavilion itself “its National Days” whose role was to maximise the attention and the number of visitors. Paradoxically, this work was since its conception in 1917 marred by state censorship due to its explicit subject matter: a plot of a prostitute, her pimps and the client’s roles which Cibic recasts in the following chapters of Nada into characters of Mother Nation, politicians and the artist in charge of national presentation.

Jasmina Cibic works in performance, instalation and film, employing a range of activity, media and theatrical tactics to redefine or reconsider a specific ideological formation and its framing devices such as art and architecture. She represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with the project “For Our Economy and Culture”. Her recent solo exhibitions include Esker Foundation Calgary, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, MGLC Ljubljana and Ludwig Museum Budapest along with group exhibitions at Hessel Museum, Pera Museum Istanbul, Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana, La Panacee Montpellier, City Gallery Wellington, MSUM+ Ljubljana, MNHA Luxembourg. Her films have recently been screened at Biennial of Moving Image Buenos Aires, Pula Film Festival, HKW Berlin, CCA Laznia, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris, Dokfest Kassel and Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. Cibic has been nominated for the Jarman Award (2016), Golden Cube Award (Dokfest 2016) and won the MAC International Ulster Bank Award (2016) and best International Artist at the Kunsthalle Charlottenburg(2016). Cibic’s upcoming solo exhibitions include NN Contemporary, Crawford Art Gallery Cork, Aarhus 2017, BALTIC Gateshead, Krefeld Museum and DHC Art Montreal.

The Gift is a film about the use and abuse of culture in times of political and ideological crisis. It tells the story of a competition for a perfect gift that could heal a broken nation. The Gift is composed entirely of historical ready-mades that include some of the most perturbing examples of art, music and architecture deployed as trojan horses of political powers. The film’s locations include iconic buildings which were all political gifts themselves - including Oscar Niemeyer’s French Communist Party HQ in Paris, the Palace of Nations in Geneva, Mount Buzludzha in Bolgaria and the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw.

Jasmina Cibic is a Slovenian artist currently based in London, who works in film, performance and installation. She represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project “For Our Economy and Culture”. Her recent exhibitions include solo shows at: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, The Highline New York, macLyon, Museum Sztuki ?ód?, Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, CCA Glasgow, Phi Foundation Montreal, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art Gateshead, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Kunstmuseen Krefeld along with group exhibitions at MAXXI Rome, Steirischer Herbst ‘19, MOMA NY, Marta Herford and Guangdong Museum of Art China. Cibic’s films have been screened at the Barbican London, Whitechapel Gallery, CCA Montreal, Pula Film Festival, HKW Berlin, Louvre, Les Rencontres Internationales Paris, Aesthetica, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Dokfest Kassel and Copenhagen International Documentary Festival. Cibic was the winner of the MAC International Ulster Bank and Charlottenborg Fonden awards (2016), the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image Award (2020) and the Film London Jarman Award (2021).

NADA: Act II restages a reimagined performance of Béla Bartók’s pantomime ballet The Miraculous Mandarin - as performed inside the Yugoslav Pavilion at the Brussels EXPO in 1958. With its scope to represent the country’s new aesthetic direction on Nations Day almost sixty years ago, the ballet score is here traced through scarce archives and re-invented and overwritten with new purpose in collaboration with the choreographer Lea Anderson. Based on a story by Melchior Lengyel, The Miraculous Mandarin constituted a peculiar choice for the National Day given that it possessed something of a scandalous reputation owing to its prurient narrative: three pimps make use of a prostitute to lure passing men into a room with the intention of robbing them. The titular Mandarin arrives, doomed to be the next victim. His « miraculousness » stems from his ability to withstand beating, suffocation, and stabbing without perishing, persisting always in his lust for the woman. Finally, she embraces him and he dies, sated. Bartók’s original characters, the pimps, prostitute and exotic Mandarin are replaced with the archetypes of politicians, the ideal of Mother Nation, and that most easily abused of Modern practitioners: the Architect. In doing so, the ballet becomes an allegorical proposition through which to view European history: the thugs cast as the state’s bureaucrats and politicos, who deceive and enslave, destroying the desires of those who produce for the benefit of the nation or artistic idealism. Shot in the iconic Arne Jacobsen’s Aarhus City Hall NADA: Act II links across time and space various European models of statecraft, soft power and its framing.

Jasmina Cibic (b. Ljubljana 1979) is a London based artist who works in performance, installation and film, employing a range of activity, media and theatrical tactics to redefine or reconsider a specific ideological formation and its framing devices such as art and architecture. Her work draws a parallel between the construction of national culture and its use value for political aims, encouraging the viewer to consider the timelessness of psychological and soft power mechanisms that authoritarian structures utilise in their own reinsertion and reinvention. Jasmina represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennial with her project « For Our Economy and Culture ».

Composed of various quotes - belonging to political speeches, debates and proclamations that extract and emphasize the iconoclasm of architecture, art and monuments – the film creates an original conversation between four characters. A Nation Builder, a Pragmatist, a Conservationist and an Artist/Architect become a reflection of ideological deliberation facing a practical scruple. Including words drawn from Regan’s speech on the Berlin Wall, Prince Charles’s 1984 address at RIBA and Isis bloggers’ proclamation on the demolishment of temples, the film’s storyline uses language that endorses demolition and redesign, which were to aid the creation of new displays for ensuing nation-states or ideological positions throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. As the film’s narrative unfolds, the viewer is a witness to the final decision to demolish the fictitious building, the image of which is constructed in the spectator’s imagination through a collage of quotations on diverse, ideologically contrived and historically charged buildings, monuments, walls etc. that were to be or were knocked down - pointing to the universality and timelessness of the paradox of national and ideological representation and its icons.

1979, Ljubljana A London based artist working in installation, performance and photography. Cibic has begun making films in 2012 for her solo presentation of the Slovenian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennial. Cibic`s work is site and context specific, performative in nature and employs a range of activity, media and theatrical tactics to redefine or reconsider an existent environment and its politics. The basic gesture in Cibic’s artistic explorations is the dismantlement and careful analysis of the work of art, its representation, and its relationship to the viewer as she tries to operate inside the system she is investigating. The mechanisms and structures of the system thus often become integral parts of the practice, allowing the work to transcend the plane of art and the language of form. Her film works have been shown at Ludwig Museum Budapest, MSUB Belgrade, MGLC Ljubljana, Dokfest Kulturbahfhof – Kassel, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Les Rencontres Internationales - Gaîté Lyrique Paris, Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, Art Brussels Cinema Program and Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden. Her upcoming solo screenings include MSUM Ljubljana, Crawford Art Gallery Cork, the Artist Cinema at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.

Combining high definition and Super 8 footage, Lampedusa is composed of interwoven narratives based on a series of real events. In late 1831, a volcanic island suddenly erupted from the sea a few kilometers off the southern coast of Sicily. An international dispute ensued, during which a number of European powers laid claim to this newfound “land.” The island receded below sea level six months later, leaving only a rocky ledge under the sea...

Philip Cartelli Philip Cartelli is a filmmaker, critic, researcher, and doctoral candidate in Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. His film and video works have been shown in international festivals, conferences, and installation settings. Mariangela Ciccarello After studies in philosophy and visual art, Mariangela Ciccarello pursued a career as a curator in galleries and museums between Europe and South Africa. She has made a series of films over the past few years, most recently during a fellowship at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in Brooklyn.

The existence of a battleground implies a larger war going on and an inherent lack of a resolution. Even within a single battle, the balance can shift, things can change or evolve, and be regarded from a different perspective. Rules and roles can be surpassed. Gesture is crucial in this regard as "the process of making a means visible as such" (Agamben).

Mariangela Ciccarello is a moving image artist and filmmaker whose work has been exhibited at the Festival del film Locarno, Torino Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Film Society of Lincoln Center's "Art of the Real" and Harvard Art Museum. In 2017 she participated in the Mediterranea 18 Biennale. Her work has been supported by the Roberto Cimetta Fund, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Valletta 2018 Foundation.

There is something going on. People are moving, maybe going somewhere. Their cars lighting the way, out of the darkness, out of the night. Then, the day comes. People are moving, maybe going somewhere. Then there is the wind the sand and the animals. One, two three blue is a portrait of a place and the people who inhabit it, in a specific moment in time. It is about the relationship that exists between this space, what we can call the natural, and the people, and how they relate to it.

I was born in Buenos Aires Argentina. I have lived in San Francisco, USA and now live in Paris, France. Studied fine arts and experimental film.

The whole project is interested in the border of an urbanistic landscape, where the city meets the nature. It is using an artficial light (hand torch, car lights or a helicopter´s search light ) to enlight and discover a landscape. An artificial light paraphrases here not only quite invasive human activity, but also a searching human mind. Through giving an focused attention revaluates an relationship to this "normal" suburbian landscape and lifts up the landscape and its part into unique objects. The fundamental element here is a feeling - an emotion, which we get from some places minded to communicate with us.

Linda Čihařová has born on 2.7.1982 in Prague, where she is also living and working. She graduated at the University of Art, Archuitecture and design in Prague and also experienced studies on FAMU in Prague, University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and Academy Beeldene Kunste in Maastrichtu, Netherlands. Although Linda Čihařová is using different new media, her projects have base in land art and concept art. She is in a way an muliinstrumentalist of new media techniques, because she is formally not limited in means of expression. While working on her ideas, she is mostly using video, photography, drawing, painting, instalations, an interactivity with a viewer and their combinations. Unifying element and main inspiration source she almost always finds in landscape, nature and a point of reflection of a human energy on it. Recently she is focused on communication of humans and their surrounding. She is also inspired by scientifical methods, micro worlds and landscape deatils. By making the photography an abstract one, she gets into a inner world of landscape and creating a psychological portrait of the place. she finds creatures, stories and situations, which want to be made visible. The drawing is here an expression of a personal reading in particular place and the landscape an interactive personality.

Il y a cinq ans, Amr a quitté la Syrie pour s'installer à Madrid. Au cours d'une promenade dans le Jardin botanique royal de son nouveau chez-lui, entouré de plantes et d'arbres du monde entier, il réfléchit à ce que cela signifie pour lui d'être l'Autre. "And yet I rise" vise à transformer l'échange de pensées et de conversations entre Amr et le réalisateur en une synergie organique entre Amr, le spectateur et son esprit réflexif. Il en résulte une mosaïque d'images de plantes qui souligne leur caractère classifié. Le jardin devient ainsi une métaphore de l'immigration, un sujet très dense, tout en demeurant un environnement paisible, propice à la réflexion.

Florinda Ciucio est née en 1993, en Belgique. Fille d'un père argentin et d'une mère belgo-néerlandaise, elle s’est toujours intéressée aux thèmes de la culture et de l'identité. Ainsi, elle a rapidement pris conscience de l'importance et de la beauté de la compréhension interculturelle. Cela se reflète également dans son travail, où elle recherche un langage commun à travers les images et les métaphores. Elle a obtenu en 2018 un Master en arts audiovisuels à la LUCA school of Arts, Bruxelles (Belgique), avec une spécialisation en images documentaires. Depuis, son travail voyage grâce à des plateformes multidisciplinaires, comme des centres d'art, des festivals de cinéma et des expositions. En 2019, elle a été sélectionnée pour participer à un programme de stage lancé par les Nations Unies, le UN Flanders trainee program, dans lequel elle participé à la construction d’un langage audiovisuel pour une agence espagnole de l'ONU. Elle s'est ensuite concentrée sur le développement de sa propre pratique artistique, ce qui lui a permis de réaliser "And yet I rise" et de recevoir une subvention de production de la part de l'organisation Breedbeeld, pour un futur projet d'installation vidéo. Cette œuvre portera sur les vieilles images tournées en Super 8 par son grand-père, qui était marin en Europe pendant les années 50.

El Tiempo is a collaboration with the volunteers of the Reina Sofía Museum, a group of pensioners that play an active role in the museum’s educational programmes. Through the creation of a collaborative experimental film, El Tiempo examines the intangible, explores personal and collective memories, and delves into the relationship between this group and the Museum, representing a symbiosis of bodies and artworks. The project started in 2019, with the idea of making a film set in a dystopian present, where the Museum is closed to the public as a result of the collapse of modern society. Western culture has therefore lost its hegemonic role, causing the abandonment of the institutions that sustained it. In this context, the volunteers appear to be the only people who inhabit the Museum. The framework of this fictional thread, facilitated the development of group and individual performative actions, and allowed a series of encounters of bodies, space and artworks. This work was shot just before the pandemic and the editing and post-production process took place during the confinement. This experience deeply redefined the project and those images that were created as a vision of an imagined present, began to represent a plausible reality.

Claudia Claremi (Madrid, 1986). Visual artist and filmmaker. Graduated in Documentary Film from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) and in Fine Arts from University of the Arts London (UK) and the Instituto Superior de Arte de La Habana (Cuba), and she has participated in alternative programmes of study and critical practice such as VISIO (Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Florence), P.O.P.S. (Colectivo Ayllu, Matadero, Madrid), Campus (Latitudes, Barcelona) and La Práctica (Beta Local, Puerto Rico). Her films Firefly, Bat and The woodland, among others, have been shown and awarded at international film festivals such as Raindance, Ann Arbor, Ji.hlava, FIC Guadalajara, Documentamadrid or Márgenes. Her work has been part of many exhibitions and she has also obtained the XXI Generación 2021 award, XXXI Circuitos award, the Matadero CREA grant. In 2020-21 she has completed El Tiempo, a film in collaboration with the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid.