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“The night between Ali and I”, is a fictional reenactment of one of the key events that happened in Lebanese and Levantine contemporary History: the highjack of 39 hostages at the Bank of America in Beirut, on October 18th, 1973. In this event four armed young fellows from the Lebanese Socialist Revolutionary Movement entered the bank, in Downtown Beirut, and asked from the authorities ten million dollars for the Arab fight against Imperialism in the region and the release of a few Arab political prisoners. They also requested that their demands and manifesto be published in the newspaper. The installation displayed as a tryptich with three main voices: Amer Farrough, one of the 4 men, Mariam, Ali’s sister and our own narration of the events. The images evoke in a particular way what happened during the night of the 26 hours that lasted the hijack but very much as we imagine things happen during the assault, and how the interaction between hostages and guerrilla gunmen in our view with a particular dance, a “deconstructed” dabke.

A collaboration between Nadia Hotait and Laila Hotait. Nadia Hotait is a multimedia artist that has exhibited her work at different international venues among others the Zolla/Lieberman gallery in Chicago, the Biennial of Young art in Moscow, Isabel Igancio Gallery in Seville and Digital Marrakesh. Nadia is recipient of INJUVE art award and the Generaciones 2015 art award and previously she was funded by LaCaixa to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She studied her BA in audiovisual Communications in between Complutense University in Madrid and Waseda University in Tokyo. Laila Hotait is a filmmaker and artist with a PHD in audiovisual communications as a Fulbright grantee she studied filmmaking at San Francisco State University and her first film, Crayons of Askalan which was supported by AFAC in association with Sundance Documentary Institute, the DFI and Screen Instittute Beirut has played in over twenty international festivals.

In 1978, the Saudi-Lebanese contractor Rafiq Hariri who made his wealth at the service of the Saudi royal family after the 1970’s global oil crisis, returned to Lebanon at the beginning of the civil war to deploy, in the name of reconstruction, one of many transnational developments in the town of Kfar Falous. Petrodollar recycling is the allocation of incredible funds to the benefit of disputed or untimely developments. “New Sidon Sun” is a video installation that tries to interrogate this model of failed modernity by surveying absence in the the Kfar Falous Science Complex as a petrodollar spill.

Maxime Hourani (Beirut, 1982) is an artist and architect who works with time-based media. He explores in his work the poetics and politics of land transformation while locating affective encounters between the history of nature and the nature of history.

A complex mesh of custom software and hardware makes manifest underlying systematics in a highly immersive, intense performance; the digital made physical, audible, and visible through geological computing and complex code systems. Recoding data processing algorithms on the fly, ap transform the performance space into an open laboratory. Heavily improvised, playing with the collapse of massed, barely functional salvaged equipment and software systems made manifest in sound/noise and image, ap present a complex, process-driven constructivist performance; the symphonic rise of the attempt to piece together fugal systematics is played out against the noise of collapse and machine crash at the deserted border of control.

ap (martin howse +jonathan kemp) was founded in 1998 to investigate the future development of technological-systems-art using new descriptive means and functions in software and hardware fields and the wider political arena. ap is active in the creation of open physical digital systems and is involved in the free software movement. ap perform worldwide, develop hardware and software and host an international yearly speculative event in London (march 24 2006)

The Flood reframes a historic 1960s flooding event—one that submerged and partially destroyed a greenhouse nursery and adjacent property—within contemporary urban infrastructure and its ongoing debt to land intervention. As internal and external imagery collide, flooding takes on a double meaning: both physical inundation and psychic surfacing.

Ruth Höflich is a visual artist working in moving image and photography born in Munich and currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work as been screened and exhibited internationally including at National Gallery of Victoria, Gertrude Contemporary, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Images Festival, Pravo Ljudski Film Festival and Art Gallery of NSW. She is currently a research fellow at Powerhouse Museum Sydney where she is developing a new film. She holds an MFA from Bard College, New York.

Huatung Village was located in Sijhih City in Taiwan and populated by the Amis people. In 1985, there were three Amis families farming vegetables by the Dakeng River Bridge along Provincial Highway No. 5. The next year, about ten Amis families built cabins and stayed there. That is how Huatung Village started. By 1996, it became a village of 215 families. It was a huge block of illegal buildings. The villagers used abandoned iron sheets and wood to build their houses. They also used those materials to build the traditional tribal lookouts, community meeting rooms, and churches. In 1997, the government evicted the whole village and moved them to subsidized government housing. Now, the site is covered by grass, and one can only find a few ruins left behind. My work was videotaping the actual site. Juxtaposing separate audio and video tracks, the chieftain?s voiceover talks about the village?s history, while the video track shows what the village looks like nowadays. Gradually, as day turns into night, the video?s structure changes from documentation to another approach: I wanted to constantly blend the layers between the location (documentation) and the scene (narrative).

1983 Born in Taichung, Taiwan, live and work in Taipei, Taiwan. 2005 graduated from Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts 2010 graduated from Graduate School of Plastic Art, National Taiwan University of Arts My method is a specific kind of ?Narrative? -- a way of documenting that interferes with the reality of the text, by focusing on a site?s specific and peculiar characteristics, such as memory, imagination, or identification. With these characteristics in mind, I develop a narrative, and between the reality of the text and the fictional narrative, I construct a myth or a legend. I am also one of the members from Open-Contemporary Art Center in Taipei, Taiwan. This art space consists of numerous young artist and runs over 9 years. Through practicing organizing exhibitions and writing, I try to expand art influences to the society.

Narrated by Chinese Malaysian singer Fish Leong, the project ?March 14, Hong Kong Coliseum? follows her tour through different cities in Asia, including Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Malaysia, Beijing, Guangzhou, Kunming, and Chengdu. In Chinese world, almost everyone knows Fish Leong and her voice. Here was a huge entertainment industry with a pan-Asian approach. The tour moved from city to city, and wherever it went, the stage, lighting, and songs at each event were similar, and each concert scene was also a confrontation between globalization and local cultures. In this exhibition, I present a single-channel version and make two images juxtaposed. The video shows an empty concert scene with neither the singer nor audiences. The real event becomes an enormous and fictional scene. Here, the concerts represent globalization, but the video work makes this connection drift apart.

I live and work in Taipei, Taiwan. I am now a full-time artist. My method is a specific kind of ?Narrative? -- a way of documenting that interferes with the reality of the text, by focusing on a site?s specific and peculiar characteristics, such as memory, imagination, or identification. With these characteristics in mind, I develop a narrative, and between the reality of the text and the fictional narrative, I construct a myth or a legend. I am also one of the members from Open-Contemporary Art Center in Taipei, Taiwan. This art space consists of numerous young artist and runs over 8 years. Through practicing organizing exhibitions and writing, I try to expand art influences to the society.

Starting from a gunman involved in a murder case, I seek to reflect the collective unconscious within society and politics through the gunman's multiple peculiar roles—a filmmaker, a killer, a gangster, and a patriot. In 1984, when Taiwan was still under Martial Law, a Taiwanese American writer Henry Liu was shot to death in his own house in the US by a Taiwanese assassin. Afterward, due to the intervention and investigation of the US government authorities, this case was eventually confirmed to be a political murder jointly committed by the Military Intelligence Bureau and the biggest mafia United Bamboo Gang in Taiwan, as the government paid the mafia to kill Henry Liu. The protagonist of this work, Wu Dun, is the assassin who fired the shot at the time. After the case was exposed, the Taiwanese authorities were pressured by the US, and Wu Dun was thus sentenced to life imprisonment. However, he was given amnesty and discharged from prison after six years. After he got out of prison, Wu Dun remained an important member of the United Bamboo Gang, and he established a film company as a producer with the support of his mafia influence, making several “wuxia films” – refers to specific traditional Chinese swordplay films. In this work, I revisited the film studio that was once used by Wu Dun and is now deserted to recompose the fragments of the political assassination and the scenes of wuxia films, and I cooperated with a 3D scanning team—their job is to provide forensic scanning service at crime scenes—to make a digital double of Wu Dun.

Hsu Che-Yu (b. 1985) is an artist based in Taipei and Amsterdam. Previously, Hsu obtained a master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts (Taiwan). Since 2019, he had participated in the residency program in HISK (Ghent, 2019–2020) and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing, 2020–2022). In 2022, he begins his two-year art residency in Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Hsu has solo exhibitions at Liang Gallery (Taipei, 2022), Vanguard Gallery (Shanghai, 2020), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2015), Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts (Taipei, 2012), SAT Society for Arts and Technology (Montreal, 2012). He has participated in the Theater der Welt (Frankfurt, 2023), Bienal de São Paulo (2021), Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021), Sonsbeek20?24 Quadrennial public program (2021), Techniques of Becoming (Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2021), VIDEONALE.18 (2021), Shanghai Biennale (2018), London Design Biennale (2018), Asian Art Biennial (Taichung, 2017), and film festivals IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023, 2022, 2020, 2018), NYFF New York Film Festival (2020)and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2020, 2019, 2018). He was awarded the Videonale Award of the Fluentum Collection (Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2021), the Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award (Han Nefkens Foundation, 2020), the Taishin Annual Grand Prize (Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, 2016), and was a finalist for HUGO BOSS ASIA ART (2019).

?The Story of Hoping Island? was shot in a shipyard on Hoping Island in Keelung, which has 88 years of history. During the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, it was the Japanese government?s southernmost shipyard, and as such, it supported Imperial Japanese, southward expansion. After the retrocession of Taiwan, the shipyard played a key role in Taiwan?s economic takeoff. This shipyard represents a highly compressed, symbolic timeframe, from WWII to now. The shipyard reflects how the locals identify themselves based on their specific, local histories, and at the same time, how the national government encodes and directs history. To support this history, complicated traditions and myths are continually developed and developing. So Hsu, Chia-Wei shot this shipyard, a real space, and responded to the shipyard?s other historical side: the legend. The whole scene of ?The Story of Hoping Island? was shot in the shipyard in Hoping Island. Artist invited his grandmother to describe the situation in Japanese (She had received Japanese education). Through the process of narratives, this place seems remote and deserted caused of no people appeared in the video. (Actually, there are usually numerous of workers) In this work, artist regarded this shipyard as a memory crystal to develop the narratives. Through the complexity of place and memory, this place becomes an effective instrument to reproduce memory. In this video, an artist-created creature?Ni-Ku is the only element to connect to the narrative. It has weightless science-fictional characteristic: both the military detector and the luminary. Artist also put electronic music with shattered rhythms in the background. Through this tiny creature, this work responds to the grand era and so do the fictional narratives respond to the politics statement. It also permeates through history, memory and dream. Or we could say that history itself seems like memory and dream to some extent. There is many usage of ?light? in this work, including the luminous Ni-Ku in the narratives, sparkling gem-like light in the shipyard, the lighting in the end of the video, and also the physics light from projector in the space. In the illusory dimension, with its light-like non-material characteristic, this work transits the immense and heavy history to a legend. ?The Story of Hoping Island? lies in constantly-overlapped process of history and dream, image space and physical space, reality and fiction. While national governments continuously constructed its own identification, this work becomes a weightless, fictional space, and provides a breathing break.

My method is a specific kind of ?Narrative? -- a way of documenting that interferes with the reality of the text, by focusing on a site?s specific and peculiar characteristics, such as memory, imagination, or identification. With these characteristics in mind, I develop a narrative, and between the reality of the text and the fictional narrative, I construct a myth or a legend. I am also one of the members from Open-Contemporary Art Center in Taipei, Taiwan. This art space consists of numerous young artist and runs over 11 years. Through practicing organizing exhibitions and writing, I try to expand art influences to the society.

In 1995, there was a human-shape balloon on the top of Chongxing Bridge in Taipei, and there was also the attempt of suspending all kinds of items in the air, such as washing machine, boiling hot pot, the statue of Chiang Kai-shek, and sex doll, trying to crash them to the ground. But the plan failed eventually; nothing was destroyed. Before everything started, it ended because of the self-explosion of the human-shape balloon. The same year under Chongxing Bridge, there was also a large scale fight. The people present there that day slashing each other with iron rod or sashimi knife. When we found the people invovled, however, they told us it was actually a fight between political factions. Re-rupture assembles two seemingly unrelated historical fragments: "People`s Taxi riot" and "Taipei Breaking Sky." I invited five drivers who participated in the fight at the time to return to the event site, while hanging a guitarist Li Na-shao on the top of Chongxing Bridge to play music.

Hsu Che-Yu was born in Taipei in 1985.Earning his master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts. Hsu Che-Yu works as an artist who primarily creates animations, videos and installations that feature the relations between media and memories. What matters to the artist is not simply the history of events traceable through media, but also the construction and visualization of memories, be they private or collective.

I deploy the technique of 3D scanning on the body of the first conjoined twins in Taiwan and use it as materials to reenact their memory from the youth. In this work, I explore the layer of biopolitics and the demonstration of one’s memory. The first conjoined twins underwent the separation surgery in 1979 and the whole surgeon process was broadcast on TV. In that period, Taiwan was under martial law. Therefore, this surgery was often interpreted as a metaphor for the relationship between Taiwan and China. Forty years later, I revisit the iconic figures and reconstruct the narration of their memory within personal and public experiences. Back in 1979, in order to rehearse for the separation surgery, the hospital invited an artist to make a cast of the conjoined twins. However, because it was difficult to control the babies during the molding process, the attempt to make a cast was unsuccessful. In this project Single Copy, I have re-casted the body of the now 43-year old Chang Chung-I, and also use 3D scanning technology to archive his body. The data from the archive are then used as sources for capturing memories from Chang’s earlier life.

Hsu Che-Yu was born in Taipei in 1985. Earning his master’s degree from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts. From 2019 to 2020, he began to join the post-academic research programme HISK (Higher Insititute for Fine Art). Hsu Che-Yu works as an artist who primarily creates animations, videos and installations that feature the relations between media and memories. What matters to the artist is not simply the history of events traceable through media, but also the construction and visualization of memories, be they private or collective. The exhibitions he once participated include: 2020“International Film Festival Rotterdam”(Rotterdam), 2019 “HUGO BOSS ASIA ART” (Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai), “Pre-biennale screening program- Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2020” (Seoul Cinema, Seoul), 2018 “Shanghai Biennale: Proregress” (Power Station of Art, Shanghai), “London Design Biennale: Emotional States” (Somerset House, London), “Osmosis Audiovisual Media festival” (CCI Fabrika, Moscow), 2017 “Asian Art Biennial: Negotiating the Future”(National Taiwan Museum, Taiwan), “EXiS, Experimental Film And Video Festiva” (Sonje Art Center , Seoul), “ifva Festival” (Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong), 2016“Public Spirits” (Center for Contempoary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw), “Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition” (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing)

The soldier's mind was a turbulent sea of anxiety and resolve as he arrived at the abandoned battle camp, where the hasty departure of others left him grappling with solitude and the weight of his duty.

Lin Htet Aung (1998, Myanmar) is a self-taught filmmaker based in Myanmar. In his earlier days, he wrote avant-garde poems and published underground poetry books. In 2020, his experimental short film Estate won the Silver Screen Award for Best Director at the Southeast Asian Short Film Competition at the 31st Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF). In 2023, his short film Once Upon A Time There Was A Mom won the Silver Screen Award for Best Screenplay at the 34th SGIFF. His same short film won the Principi Award at Lago Film Fest and the Jury Prize at Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival (BAFF). His short films have been selected at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, LINOLEUM Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, among others. In 2024, he received a Script Development Fund for his debut feature project, Making A Sea, which won the Fellowship Prize at the Southeast Asian Film Lab at the Singapore International Film Festival 2023. He is one of the directing fellows for the CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy 2023. He has also been nominated twice for SEA AiR Studio Residencies Cycle 1 and Cycle 2. He is also one of the Prince Claus Seed Awardees 2023 and a Locarno Filmmakers Academy 2024 participant.

In the houses, after parting, Mothers were made up of tears. Sons were transformed into empty glass cups. And the lullabies became a curse. The film examines the suffering and resilience of the Burmese people by using the distinct political elements that have floated for several years on the ocean of political opera under repetitive military dictatorships in Myanmar. The visual composition draws on the colors of Myanmar’s national flag, adopted in 2010 during the country’s so-called transition period. This flag, rooted in the 2008 Constitution forced upon the country by a former military dictator, contrasts sharply with the earlier 1974 State Flag Law, as it includes a formal definition of the flag. The film deconstructs and questions the existing definition of the flag by playing with the colors, objects, and sequences, by using a form of Government Propaganda Television Footage showing different generations under repetitive military dictatorships, by mixing the chilling voice of the current dictator, Min Aung Hlaing, narrating haunting lullabies through AI technology. The film also revisits the song which was sung from the last footage of actual footage of a birthday party celebration for Myanmar’s former dictator, General Ne Win, held at Sedona Hotel in Yangon on March 21, 2001, one year before his death.

Lin Htet Aung (b. 1998) is a filmmaker from Myanmar. He began with avant-garde poetry before transitioning to filmmaking in 2017. His short films have been selected at several international film festivals, including New York Film Festival, Vancouver, Tirana, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam and won several awards, including the TIGER SHORT AWARD at International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR. An alumnus of TIFF Directors’ Lab, Berlinale Talents, Locarno Filmmakers Academy, Asian Film Academy, and a Prince Claus Seed Awardee 2023, he is now developing his debut feature, Making A Sea, which received the Asian Cinema Fund and Red Sea Award at Asian Project Market (APM). After the coup in 2021, he joined the CDM (Civil Disobedience Movement) for his Engineering study in Myanmar, and currently studying at Städelschule art School, Germany.

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant offer to photograph some Tibetan nomads in front of various backgrounds.

HU Wei, born in Beijing (China) in 1983 and currently live and work between Paris and Beijing.Diploma of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2011 and Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts in 2013. works through the cinema, installation, sculpture and drawing.

A house takes flight and strolls off on foot into the landscape Description > A house/set is installed in a housing estate at Fontaine-les-Dijon on the northern edge between town and countryside. All of a sudden, this house/set is raised up. Carried aloft by a dozen porters, whose legs we can see beneath, the house makes off in a straight line, crosses the housing estate, and ends up in the country, finally vanishing over the skyline.

Séverine Hubard (born 1977) studied Fine Arts at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Dunkerque and Nantes in France. She already held scholarships in Aomori Art Center in Japan, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec / Canada, FRAC du grand EST, Dijon / France and AFAA programme, Montréal / Cananda.Her works were shown in solo shows in Canada, France, Germany and The Netherlands and in group shows like at the Izmir Biennial, FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais, Lille / France, Kunst Ambassade, Rotterdam / The Netherlands, Aomori Art Center / Japan and Sirus Art Center, Cobh co Cork / Ireland.

Video graphic poem. Adaptation of drawings on Leporello paper of 20 pages. Since HUMAN CHAOS (NOUTRES/Little girls must be warned) 2020, I transpose the drawings into video poems. This is another way of reading this story of the movements of the fairy Utopia in the process of graphic writing. This is episode 2 of his escape. Utopia has secretly left its place of life. Wandering, thoughts and daydreaming is going towards “you”

Visual artist, vj-dj, teacher, organizer of artistic events and collectives, (B&b unlimited, the core, the Inapproprié.e.s, Femn'Furious) In the Jerk Off Festival team since 2019. Mixed race and feminisms are gradually materialize through his choices of various mixed techniques: audio-visual, performances, live mixing, graphic writing and in their incessant connections. The sources can be iconic or literary, sociological or poetic, past or current, historical or banally believed. It has featured fictional characters since 1996, such as the fairy UTOPIA who is found in performances, burlesque situations, in drawings, photographs, editions, installations or videos. The main role of his approach remains the absurdity of our self-centered and anthropocentric human comedy.

The Utopia Fairy in four parts: her sung angers, her spontaneities and magic somersaults accompanied by social fairness and mysterious music. The story´s background: "We are complex and we are deceived by what we see/What do you know of me when looking at me? I could be a terrorist, a nurse, an astronaut? I smile at you but you disgust me. The anger of being small and full of hopes in front of mediocre fatality. Even blue fairies making bubbles can be wasted, but tomorrow i'll feel better...

v.hubert, was born in 1970. She lives and works in Alfortville/Paris and is represented by the Galerie Quang, Paris. "For a decade, Véronique Hubert has been elaborating a complex work which can not be confined to the agitated humor that we can find in it. Working with numerous skills, her eclecticism contrasts with the seriousness of her themes. Her works takes form with the superposition of her means of expression: video, flyers, drawings, photographies and writings (since 1995). A strong knowledge of art history, cinema, the medical field, electronic music as well as an endless curiosity give to the artist a very rich structure that she shows in her fictional constructions, short stories or sketches interpreted by characters who are falsely childish "pretexts", and displaying paranoiac drifts."Extract from "La bonne position", France, Valliccioni 2004.

Chez les Yéniches, communauté de gens du voyage, le respect des aînés et la ferveur religieuse côtoient indifféremment le vandalisme. Fred Dorkel est l'un d'entre eux : craint et estimé par les siens, il vit du vol de voitures. Une nuit, sa vie bascule : un ange lui apparait. Pour Fred, c'est le signe d'une seconde chance qu'il doit saisir. Il décide de se ranger, mais ce choix va l'opposer à sa famille...

Jean-Charles Hue (né en France en 1968) vit et travaille à Paris. Après des etudes à l'École Nationale d'Arts de Cergy-Pontoise, l'artiste est sélectionné pour la résidence "Villa Medicis Hors-les-murs" à Monterrey au Mexique, où il tourne plusieurs films, dont Carnaval Pitbull qui reçoit le premier prix au festival Loop Barcelona en 2006. En 2009, il retourne au Mexique pour tourner une serie de films. Il a été récompensé par le "Golden award" du festival de film Impakt à Utrecht, le prix Mulhouse 002, et nominé pour le prix Gilles Dusein. Ses films sont souvent projetés dans des programmations et festivals du monde entier (Festival Hors pistes - Centre Pompidou-Paris, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Art Forum - Berlin, festival Courtisane - Gent, Impakt Film Festival - Utrecht...). Jean-Charles Hue a déjà réalisé huit expositions personnelles en France, en Hollande et au Mexique (Ricard Foundation, Galerie Michel Rein, Alliance Française in Mexico, Villa Steinbach of Mulhouse...) et ses travaux ont étés présentés dans de nombreuses expositions collectives.

On the Dorkel's grounds (a family of gypsy travellers) time goes by as always between thieving and poaching. Nothing would have changed for the eldest called Fred, if he hadn't met an angel, his angel.

Born June 22 1968 in Eaubonne, he lives and works in Paris. He has a degree from the Cergy-Pontoise Art School. It is through diverse mediums; objects, writings, and films, that he tries to create a life journey. Principally it is the one of the gypsy (traveller) world that has held his interest for more than ten years. But it is also the attempt to construct a memory that like a kaleidoscope would reflect a multitude of lived or desired images. On the good days the images achieve a certain enchantment that betrays well a naive desire to see the piece of meat that we are fly away elsewhere. In this, the artist's gypsy cousin Fred gave him one of the most beautiful occasions of his life to re-transcribe in a film ("Un Ange") the quasi-desperate attempt of the flight.

Aequador is an alternate history built as a travel account without words: an equatorial dystopia evoking the excesses of a progressist and modernist dream in Latin America during the twentieth century. We imagined a bygone era where an extremist ideology would tried to conquer the Amazon territory. The film describes in a composite and voluntarily fragmented way this parallel present, where fake ruins and relics of utopian architecture in 3D coexists with vernacular constructions and daily lifes of human beings.

The fabrication ritual of the green coca powder (called mambe or "Jiíbie") unveils an ancestral myth of kinship. In the Muiná-Muruí community, the coca plant is not a product, but a sacred interlocutor, the beating heart of a collective body.

Laura Huertas Millan is a French-Colombian filmmaker and visual artist, whose practise stands at the intersection between cinema, contemporary art and research. Selected in cinema festivals such as the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival and Cinéma du Réel, her films have earn prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Doclisboa and Videobrasil, among others. More than twenty retrospectives and focus of her work have been organised around the globe, in cinematheques such as Toronto ?s TIFF Lightbox, Harvard ?s Film Archive or Bogota ?s cinematheque, and leading film festivals as Mar del Plata and Rencontres du Documentaire de Montreal. In the art field, her latest solo exhibitions were held at the MASP Sao Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff and Medellin ?s Modern Art Museum. Her films have also been exhibited and screened in art institutions (Centre Pompidou Paris, Jeu de Paume, Guggenheim Museum NY, Times Art Berlin) and biennials (Liverpool, FRONT Triennial, Videobrasil, Videonnale). They are part of private and public collections (Kadist, CNAP, Banco de la República de Colombia, CIFO, FRAC Lorraine, and others). Huertas Millan holds a practise-based PhD on “Ethnographic Fictions” developed between PSL University (SACRe program) and the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard University). She works as an educator in academic and alternative spaces. Since 2019, Huertas Millan is part of a research-based duo with curator and writer Rachael Rakes on critical anthropology and the aesthetics and politics of the encounter.