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Among others, Kai Kaljo(1877-1906) lives on in my video "Even the Name is Sometimes the Same"(1877-2017). I don´t know if we are related or not, but does it really matter? The video was made in cooperation with the photo collection of the Tallinn town museum. In the corner of a very old photograph (made in 1877) of the Tallinn Old Town Harbor, there is a person sitting, very tired. For some unknown reason, I was overwhelmed by that person. She (or he) had no idea that photography existed so she never suspected being accidentally captured by someone´s camera, neither did she suspect that, for some reason, she would become so important for somebody after 140 years.

Kai Kaljo is an artist living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. She studied painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Since 1997, when she completed her first video "Loser", she mainly works in video. In 2006 and 2017, she used to work at Tallinn University as a professor for contemporary art. Her video work was often described as poetic, social, humorous/tragic. In recent years, she had been working with archival images and texts.

Lava is a love letter to things that cannot be written about: love, exciting piles of twigs, longing, a disappearing landscape, memories you can’t trust. Either writing hurts, or it is impossible to find the words. Lava is a continuation of the working group’s previous work Magma (2020). Both works deal with human relationships and ecology. The wishes for transformation, non-monogamy and boundless love, which were still partially smouldering under the surface, erupt in Lava, a video dealing with the end of a relationship.??

Jade Kallio is working with a variety of media including experimental cinema, performance and installation art. Their personal and collaborative works mix speculative fiction with everyday life. Kallio's works have been presented at festivals and institutions such as Europian Media Art Festival (2019, 2017), Beursschouwburg Art Center Brussels (2019), Kunsthalle Osnabrueck (2019), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019, 2017), CCA derry (2016), HAM gallery (2017), Turku Art Museum (2017), Gallery Sinne (2017).

On the world`s roof (Pamir) has remained the most ancient ceremony to this day. A woman wants very much to marry, but her husband dies before. The next enamored man is careful to take such woman. She must first marry a tree. The bride, in a specially appointed term, goes to the tree where her relatives prepare the wedding ceremony. While guests have fun, the bride remains with the new spouse-tree for a while. According to customs after such a wedding the person is safe. The woman can marry once again only when the tree drys up. If a tree continues to turn green, the woman marries another tree until her relatives achieve the necessary result. By means of ancient ceremonies the woman is released from a bad aura.

Mumtoz Kamolzoda born in 1987 in Tajikistan. Educational background:2008-2009 University of Delhi, major: Indian culture.2006-2007 Beijing University of Language and Culture,major: Chinese language.2003-2008 Russian-Tajik Slavonic University,major: Linguistic and intercultural communication.1996-1999 Art School by M. Olimov Major:painting. Working Experience:2007-2008 ? Teacher of Chinese language, Russian-Tajik Slavonic University.2005-2006 ? Correspondent and photographer, Tajik Society of Friendship and Cultural Relations.2003-2008 ? editor, Department of Cultural Programs, Tajik Television. Languages: Tajik- fluent Russian- fluent English ? fluent Chinese ? fluent German ? read and translate with dictionary French ? read and translate with dictionary Hindi ? read and translate with dictionary Seminars: Seminar ?Museum exposition: modern practice and possibilities? Tajikistan 2007 Seminar ?Role of curator in contemporary art process? Tajikistan 2008 Seminar ?Modern art history? Tajikistan 2008 Web-site: www.mumtoz.blogspot.com

A room in a Qajarid house of a woman (Zinat-ul-Molk). A mirror-work room shining at night like a starry sky. Despite its ambiguity, the relationship between the man and woman in the room indicates tensions after separation. The woman in white can also be considered as a spirit or as the tension that remains after the turnings and burnings.

Born in 1968 Shiraz/ Iran Education 1995 B.A/ Painting/ Fine Arts/ Tehran university 1999 M.A / Painting/ Art University PhD/ Art research/ Art University

One by one, Seven women, all naked and deathly pale, desire to enter the claustrophobic world of a man who has just enough space for himself and a goose. Lovingly, unsecurely swaying or dancing they try in vain to reach the toilet, while the man seems to despair of this female intrusion.

Bidzina Kanchaveli was born in 1974 in Kutaisi, Georgian. He lives in germany since 2000. At the age of 20 he successfully staged his first play ?At first was the word?. Then Followed 4 other Theaterstaging, which received public acknowledgement. In 1999 he realised his first short film ?Novice No21?, which found an impressive resonance on numerous European film festivals and among other things was distinguished on the Noir Film festival in Rome as the best short film. Besides, "Novice No21" was the Georgian contribution to the Academy Awards 2000. On an invitation of the Ludwigsburg film school (Germany), SWR Channel and arte, he realized his next short film ?7½ women?. Now Kanchaveli works on his next project, a science-fiction feature film about a mankind, which live behind Homo sapiens after, undergone a new step in the evolution.

In the heart of Burundi, rivalries and ethnic extremism have caused thousands of deaths since independence. Amidst the murderous madness we have endured, there have been those who protected life. At the risk of their own lives, they hid and protected friends and neighbours from other ethnic groups.

For 15 years, Diane KANEZA has been combining cinema, audiovisual communication and journalism. Passionate about images, she uses them to tell stories from her homeland. She graduated with a Master's degree in Creative Documentary Film, producing the film ‘Mon Identité’ (My Identity). This work encapsulates all her expertise in documentary filmmaking and her ability to create from real life. She co-founded and has directed the communications agency MIKADIE Production since 2012, which produces institutional/auteur films and communication tools. She was in charge of programming for the Burundi International Film and Audiovisual Festival from 2013 to 2015 and was the festival's director in 2016. Since 2020, she has combined the production of audiovisual and cinematographic works with the management of the television channel ‘Burundi News Publication Television’ (BNP TV). Communicating and sharing have always been her leitmotif through the magazines Événement Culturel de la Semaine, Bonne réponse and Notre Terre, Notre Héritage, which she developed while working for National Television from 2006 to the end of 2011 as a TV producer and presenter. A visiting professor at two universities in Bujumbura (Université Lumière de Bujumbura and Université du Lac Tanganyika), she teaches Documentary Production in the Faculty of Communication Sciences, specialising in communication and audiovisual design.

Spektaakkeli (The Spectacle) is a short experimental documentary about memory and history. It tells the story of one young man who saw Stanley Kubrick's film Spartacus in Teheran in 1962 and how it changed the direction of his life. It is a film about the history of Hollywood, the empire of Roma, Iran and one indivual student who loves Cinema.

Born Feb. 9th 1975 in Jyväskylä, Finland. Lives and works in Helsinki. CEO of Janmik-Films Ltd. Works in fields of documentary, fiction and experimental film. Studing in University of Art and Design, Helsinki (Department of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design / Documentary Film).

Numinous tracings of beautiful light on the sea, augmented by the artifice of video.

Born 1974, Tokyo, Japan. Graduate from Musahino Art University (Tokyo, Japan) in 1997. Studied at the institute of Image Forum in 1997-1999. Making films, video and video installations since 1996.

In Grandma, Gautam, and Ghalib, the artist?s Grandmother translates classic Hindi and Urdu love songs. Using the first person to utter a passionate rendition of the lyrics, she often addresses Gautam as though he were her lover, weaving together the realities of memory and lived experience. The viewer bears witness to an emotional outpouring of love and loss where the boundaries of fiction and reality become blurred, confused and ultimately irrelevant.

Gautam Kansara was born in London in 1979 and is currently based in New York. His Videos and Photographs have been shown at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Platform Garanti in Istanbul, Smack Mellon Gallery and Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn, The Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia, Gallery Demain and Dukwon Gallery in Seoul, Korea, and LMAK Projects in Manhattan among others. In 2006 Gautam was a Fellowship Artist at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, and also received a Swing Space award from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Most recently Gautam was awarded a solo exhibition from Real Art Ways in Hartford, Connecticut as part of their GO! series that will be on view in 2008. Gautam is also a faculty member at Manhattan College?s Department of Fine Arts teaching Digital Photography and Video Art.

"I'm Leaving" revolves around the fusion of humour and sentiment as the viewer is confronted with the repeated perspective of Gautum Kansara's Grandfather, who goes on and on stating his displeasure, disbelief, and pain concerning Kansara's impending departure. Having greater and greater difficulties hearing, his grandfather's is very much stuck in his own world, engulfed in a cycle of his inability to come to terms with the inevitable. Seemingly good intentions turn confused and irrational, and highlight the eccentricities of family.

Gautam Kansara was born in London in 1979 and is currently based in New York. His videos and photographs have been shown at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Platform Garanti in Istanbul, Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn, The Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Bolivia, Gallery Demain and Gallery The Space in Seoul, Korea, and Transplant Gallery in Manhattan, among others. Most recently Gautam's video work has been included as part of the inaugural exhibition of Mumbo Jumbo Gallery in New York City. Gautam is also a faculty member at New York University's Department of Art and Art Professions.

Misdirected Impulse shows deserted natural and park landscapes in long, static shots. Picturesque arrangements of trees and bushes unfold quietly, until the sudden appearance of a smoking light ruptures the calm. The following staccato of short shots, in which the light is directed equally at the camera and the viewer, is an attack on gaze and perspective, dissolving romanticized notions of nature.

Eginhartz Kanter (*1984, Leipzig) studied Fine Arts, Cultural Studies and Photography at the University of Arts and Design Linz, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the E?cole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. In his artistic approach he questions the boundaries and conventions of everyday life and living environments. His (sub)urban interventions negotiate aspects of the public and often have a direct relation to architecture. Previous films: Conveyor (2025); Prelude (2022); Taking Away (2018); Aufstieg (2016); Transient II (2013) Downloads

Namdeo has learnt to live off the forest from his father. He stares at the treetops, searching for honey. The wind blows and afternoon descends on the small village by the jungle. Women of the village, whisper little secrets of their lost loves. Never seen, and only heard. A strange smoke emits from the ground, like a dream of a time gone by.

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai based filmmaker and artist. She studied Film Direction at the Film & Television Institute of India. Her work deals with that which is not easily visible, hidden somewhere in the folds of memory and dreams. It is between minor, ephemeral feminine gestures where she tries to find the truth that makes up her practice. Her much acclaimed short film Afternoon Clouds was India’s sole official selection in Cannes film Festival, 2017. This year, her experimental short And what was the Summer Saying had its world premiere at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival (2018). It also received the prestigious Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (2018). Kapadia’s experimental short The Last Mango Before Monsoon was premiered at Oberhausen International Film Festival (2015), where she was awarded FIPRESCI award and Special Jury Prize. The film got her acclaims around the world including awards like Best Film and Best Editing at Mumbai International Film Festival (2016), Toto Award for Young Indian Artist, and Special Mention at Filmadrid.

The video is an artist’s momentary personal reaction on the events of August 2022, which took place in Estonia, in Narva, Maria’s home town. Since the war in Ukraine escalated, the removal of Soviet monuments in Estonia became intensively debated topic followed by the government’s decision to demolish any Soviet attributes and monuments from the public spaces. The tank monument in Narva became a stumbling block between the views of different communities within the country. It has especially became symbolic and problematic because it stood right at the border with Russia, on a riverbank of Narva river, facing Estonia. In the final scene the artist stands on that riverbank facing Russia. As Kapajeva grew up on that border, she felt an urge to speak up about the situation with the monument. As the artist states, the video helped her not just to scream out everything what accumulated for the first half a year of the war, but, also, it helped her to regain meaningfulness in her own art practice that she lost since the full invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

Born in the Soviet Union, raised in an independent Estonia and educated in the UK, Maria Kapajeva has found herself in an involuntary position of ‘the other’ everywhere. A position, she has embraced and employs as datum in her artistic practice, leads her to explore a diverse spectrum of cultural identity and gender issues within historical and contemporary contexts. Being originally from a borderland region, border within postcolonial and post-Soviet geopolitical conditions becomes to be the core in her work. She uses various mediums, such as video, photography, textile and installations, to bring to the focus what is often left invisible or stays in peripheral vision. Kapajeva’s works exhibit internationally including some of the solo exhibitions at Estonian National Archive (2013), Estonian Museum of Art KUMU (2022), Finnish Museum of Photography (2021), Lithuanian Gallery of Photography (2020) and Tallinn Art Hall (2020). Her video works were screened at various venues and festivals including Art Viewer (2023, Spain), VAFT: Visual Art Festival (2020, Finland), Luminocity Video Art Festival (2018, Canada), Berlin Feminist Film Week (2017, Germany) and others. Her video work ‘Test Shooting’ received Runner-Up Award at FOKUS Video Art festival (2018, Denmark). Kapajeva is a member of Estonian Artists’ Association.

In the video A-05 the artist worked with the footage from a home video filmed in a coffee shop, when a kamikaze blew himself up. The images before and after the explosion were removed, only the sound being kept, and presenting only the crucial seconds of the explosion. Like a lamp that suddenly turns on and off in the dark, like a flash.

Philippos Kappa was born in 1977 in Athens, Greece. He earned a B.A in Fine Art from Middlesex University, London, England in 1999, and a M.A in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, England in 2000.

Synopsis Figures Dans ?Figures? on assiste à une danse de silhouettes qui évoluent lentement dans un espace dont les repères se perdent dans la brume de sable et de poussière du Sahara mauritanien. Des gamins s?agitent ; ils apparaissent et disparaissent du cadre sans nous dévoiler vraiment la raison de leur présence ou de leur rencontre. Vont-ils quelque part ? s? amusent-ils ? se disputent-ils ? ou jouent-ils tout simplement une pièce de théâtre d?ombres? Jason Karaïndros 2007

Né en 1963 à Athènes, il vit et travaille à Paris. Il a étudié l'art à l'E.N.S.B.A. de Paris dans l'atelier multimédia de Piotr Kowalski et il est également diplômé de l'École du Louvre où il a suivi une formation en histoire de l'art. Jason Karaïndros a obtenu de nombreux prix, bourses et commandes publiques, et plusieurs de ses ?uvres ont été acquises par de importantes institutions (Fond national d'art contemporain, Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, FRAC Haute Normandie). Durant cette dernière décennie, il a réalisé plusieures expositions personnelles et a participé à un grand nombre d'expositions collectives à travers le Monde (Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norvège ; Reykjavik Art Museum, Island ; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japon ; Centre d'Art Contemporain de Sète ; Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris ). Plusieurs publications rendent compte de son travail (dont le catalogue personnel " Take Your Time ", Éd. De la Direction des Affaires Culturelles de la Mairie de Paris, textes St. Carrayrou et D. Truco, 2001). Son intérêt pour une pratique artistique prenant largement en compte les domaines de la science et de la technologie l'a amené à travailler avec les techniques multimédias et à enseigner depuis 5 ans à l'École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.

For her video BOYS, Irini Karayannopoulou sticks to her Old -Skool- DIY- Drawings- Only- Animation- Method in an attempt to illustrate her own cover version of Sabrina s 80 s hit "Boys". In the video, the heroine,- a little girl with a murderous desire for love- drinks cocktails in a swimming pool, takes her bikini off, rides a crocodile, wets her 18 th century bed, flirts with super hero Joseph Beuys and after all "she`s looking for a good time..."A copy of BOYS was stolen during Athens Artfair, most probably by a group of ultra conservative let`s say art lovers who were extremely shocked by its content.....

Irini Karayannopoulou is a visual artist;she studied Fine Arts in Saint Etienne, France. Her work has been shown in solo shows and major art fairs in Greece, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Egypt, USA... She lives and works in Athens and Skopelos island.

In Immaterial, sharp angled stars, magicians? hats and supernatural landscapes transform perpetually into fantastic abstractions. Based entirely on works on paper, IK s manic animation reveals disparate elements thrown together as if they were meant to be. Like a vision emerging from the mist, this dazed mix of enigmatic scenes engages the spectator in a particularly addictive way. The film s aggressively seductive, constantly changing forms can be compared to a succession of suspended dreams. Yannis Saxonis? music (1 film, 22 soundtracks) envelopes into a familiar yet surprisingly improbable environment with its own unique, undefined logic. As well as, it determines and transforms in a mysterious, almost alchemical way, the impact of images, enriching it at the same time with a metaphysical notion; -as if it was all exercised in a cosmic dimension, in 22 different ways.

Irini Karayannopoulou (born 1973 in Thessaloniki) lives and works in Athens, Greece. Her work consists of video animation, painting, drawings and music (that is, of course, when Yannis Saxonis -who composes the music for most of her video works- allows her to. IK is represented by Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center and Lola Nikolaou gallery.

I sing and I shout and I do what I want in the haven of my room this is my room its fascinating treasures would seduce you sucker this is my room and I won't let you in.

Irini Karayannopoulou lives and works in Athens, Greece.

SINGLE STREAM takes a close look at the problem of waste, through a visual and sonic exploration of a recycling facility. The title refers to the “single stream” method of recycling in which all types of recyclables are initially gathered together, and sorted later at a specialized facility. With SINGLE STREAM, viewers enter one of the largest of these materials recovery facilities in the US. Inside a cavernous building, a vast machine complex runs like clock-work, sorting a steady stream of glass, metal, paper and plastic carried on conveyor belts criss-crossing the space, dotted with workers in neon vests. The interwoven movements of human and machine produce sounds and images that are overwhelming, but also beautiful, and even revelatory. Blurring the line between observation and abstraction, SINGLE STREAM is a meditation on our society's culture of excess and its consequences.

Paweł Wojtasik (b. 1952, Łódź, Poland) creates poetic reflections on cultures and ecosystems in the form of short films and large-scale installations. His investigations into the overlooked corners of the environment have led him to pig farms, sewage treatment plants, wrecking yards and autopsy rooms. His work has shown in venues such as PS1/MoMA, Reina Sofia Museum, Berlinale and New York Film Festival. www.pawelwojtasik.com/ Toby Lee (b. 1980, Los Angeles) is an artist and scholar based in New York, working across video, installation, drawing and text. She holds a PhD in Anthropology and Film & Visual Studies from Harvard University, and she is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Ernst Karel (b. 1970, Palo Alto) works between experimental nonfiction sound and electroacoustic music. He composes and performs with location recordings and/or analog electronics, often for multichannel environments. As a Lecturer on Anthropology at Harvard University, he teaches a production course in sonic ethnography. http://ek.klingt.org/