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The Zeppelin Grandstand on the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg is one of the most well-known architectural remnants of the Nazi era. Where the masses once gathered to cheer Hitler, today car races and various leisure activities take place. The film explores the tension between remembrance and neglect, use and responsibility - and poses the question: in a time of rising right-wing extremism, how do we engage with a place built for a criminal ideology that nonetheless remains woven into the fabric of daily life?

Saskia Kessler studied European Studies at Maastricht University and Sociology at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg before discovering her passion for filmmaking. Since October 2022, she has been studying documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich.

Bouchra Khalili

Bouchra Khalili is a French-Moroccan video-artist, born in 1975 in Casablanca. With a strong focus on the Mediterranean area (Italy, Spain, Morocco, Turkey ?), Khalili?s videos deals with nomadism and displacement, relations and distances between physical and imaginary geographies. The experimental character of her work problematizes traditional audiovisual formats, absorbing procedures from documentary films, fiction, and video art, and taking in productive contaminations from the visual arts field. Khalili`s imagetic constructions reveal the experiences of displacement typical of contemporary nomadisms, with their implications to the construction of identities. Since 2002, Khalili?s work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals, including The New York Video Festival (Lincoln Center), CCCB and Caixa Forum of Art (Barcelona), MACRO and Villa Médicis (Rome), The Biennial of The Moving Image (Geneva), La Force de l?Art (Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris). In 2006 and 2007, several monographic screnings has been focused on her work, as at The Caixa Forum Foundation (Barcelona), and at The Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (Salvador do Bahia, Brazil). Khalili studied cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and Fine Arts at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d`Arts de Paris-Cergy. She lives and works in Paris.

The crossing of Mediterranean cities. A lonely wandering in a city by the sea, a journey made to let the time pass away. A voice confirms the description of a mobile point of view : the contemplation of the skyline, the other side, the strollers wandering, the boats leaving, and an unlimitate border : the sea.

Bouchra Khalili. 1975. Born in Casablanca. Lives and works in Paris, France. She studied cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, and art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d`Arts de Paris-Cergy. Since 2000, she produce various installations and videos. Her work has been shown in numerous international exhibitions as well as at film and video festivals, including : New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center. VideoBrasil, Biennial of Electronic Arts of Sao Paulo, Brasil. Biennial of Moving Image, Geneva. West by East. Center of Contemporary Culture, Barcelona. New Arab Video. Foundation Caixa Forum for Art, Barcelone Rencontres Vidéo/Arts Plastiques. Center of Contemporary Art of Basse-Normandie.

Initié en 2008, The Mapping Journey Project est une série de vidéos en cours qui visent à « cartographier » des voyages clandestins. 3 vidéos ont déjà été tournées à Marseille et Ramallah. Filmées en plan-séquence, ces vidéos s?attachent à la confrontation entre un trajet singulier et la normativité de la cartographie. Mapping Journey # 1 suit le trajet d?un jeune Algérien parti illégalement d?Annaba pour Marseille, en passant par la Sardaigne, Naples, Milan, Nice, et Paris. A Marseille, n?ayant d?autre choix pour survivre que de vendre des cigarettes de contrebande, il songe à s?engager dans la Légion Etrangère dans l?espoir de régulariser sa situation, ou de reprendre la route, mais cette fois-ci pour la Suède.

Bouchra Khalili est une artiste Franco-Marocaine, née à Casablanca au Maroc, en 1975. Elle vit et travaille à Paris. Elle a étudié le cinéma à la Sorbonne Nouvelle, et est diplômée de l?Ecole Nationale Supérieure d?Arts de Paris-Cergy. Son travail, essentiellement en vidéo - monobandes et installations - explore les trajets migratoires contemporains et les zones frontalières. En se confrontant à la géographie physique et à la normativité du tracé des frontières, le travail de Bouchra Khalili tente de perturber la cartographie traditionnelle en révélant la complexité des trajets migratoires contemporains, les représentations que ces trajets produisent, et les récits qui les accompagnent. Depuis 2002, son travail a été exposé dans de nombreuses institutions en France et à l?étranger, notamment au Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), à La Fondation Caixa Forum et au CCCB (Barcelone), au Studio Museum (New York), au Musée National Reina Sofia (Madrid), parmi d?autres. Elle a également participé à plusieurs biennales et triennales, dont La Force de l?Art 01, triennale de l?art contemporain français (Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais), La Triennale de Guangzhou (Chine), La 2nde Biennale de Thessalonique (Grèce), et la Biennale de l?Image en Mouvement (Genève).

First part of a video triptych about wanderings in frontier zones, where physical and imaginary geographies become indistinguishable.

Bouchra Khalili is a French-Moroccan artist born in 1975 in Casablanca. Her videos explore the Mediterranean area which she believes to be a territory dedicated to nomadic and labyrinthine wandering. In her videos she explores the relations, plastic or conceptual, maintained by physical, imaginary or mental geographies. Focused on the theme of shift, she tries to disturb the boundaries between cinema and art, fiction and documentary and essay and experimentation. Her work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions, biennials, and festivals. Khalili studied cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and Fine Arts at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d`Arts de Paris-Cergy.

An aerial journey over an unspecified major western city. We see a large television screen that projects advertising images within a public space, a heavily urbanized architecture, and an inhabited coastline. At the same time, voices escaped from a film, call out meetings to take or to miss, speak of cinema as utopia, and discuss the "world as will and depiction."

Bouchra Khalili is a French-Moroccan video artist, born in 1975 in Casablanca and raised in Paris where she also lives and works. She is the co-programmer of the Cinémathèque de Tanger. Her videos has been shown at numerous international festivals, exhibitions and biennales, including the New York Video Festival (Lincoln Center); New Arab Video (Caixa Forum of Art, Barcelona); The Film-Laboratorio (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and Villa Médicis), The Biennale of The Moving Image (Genève, Switzerland), VideoBrasil (Sao Paulo, Brazil), Cinéma d`Avant-Garde (La Cinémathèque Française, Paris). In 2005, she was awarded the Louis Lumière - Villa Médicis Hors les Murs Prize. In 2006, several programmes focused on her work were curated, including: Instituto Itau Cultural (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), and Palacio das Artes (Belem, Brazil). Khalili studied Cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, and Fine Arts at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d`Arts de Paris-Cergy.

Watch with the Weary Ones is a short documentary that looks at the American urban landscape while the filmmaker quietly drifts back to memories of Iran. It places the surfaces of U.S. cities next to the feelings of someone living far from home, caught between two places. The film reflects on the sorrow carried by those who left Iran searching for another life, and those who stayed and continue to fight for theirs. It’s about holding two worlds at once, the one in front of you and the one that never leaves you, and trying to make sense of that weight

Sina Khani (aka Sina Ahmadkhani) is a Tehran-born, Los Angeles–based filmmaker, writer, and editor. His feature debut won Best International Experimental Feature at the Portoviejo Film Festival and earned awards, nominations, and selections at Regina IFF, Toronto International Nollywood FF, New York City Indie FF, and many other international festivals. He recently completed his MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University and continues to create bold, character-driven stories.

In a modern city, a boy is locked up in his room for some time. He insulates himself more and more in his universe ? even speaks with him, hears voices. He creates his own imaginary world. He defies the imperceptible.

Day Fly is based on the hikikomori phenomenon What is Hikikomori ? Hikikomori, which literally means "pulling away, being confined" (i.e., "acute social withdrawal") is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents and young adults who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives. The term "hikikomori" refers to both the sociological phenomenon in general and to individuals belonging to this societal group. In the film, the main actor wears a mask, which becomes a character in itself as he moves and plays with different perception. The mask is the means for a transference to occur between model and watcher. The speechless face, staring without emotion, becomes the face of a dweller of another world being watched in our own. such an eerie juxtaposition draws viewers in close to Khazem`s and Park `s silent innocents.

Berlin/Chalottenburg On Thursday March 20th, I was sitting in front of the TV screen, zapping through the channels in order to watch the beginning of the war on Iraq instead of having my first cup of coffee in the morning. I felt bewildered, powerless, and tense at the same time. The following weeks I found myself sitting in front of the TV screen every day, scraping my feet raw on each other until they were mutilated. Like a chained woman who cannot come to terms with the situation and is incapable of changing it. On a permanent quest for answers, I switched to and forth between news in German, English, French, and Arabic; and I went through online papers. I wanted to understand and felt a profound longing and craving for news, live ? broadcasts, confronting discussions. Everything was simply delivered right into the living room. Being an Arabic woman in Europe, I was often asked about the situation in the Middle East, especially at the beginning of the war. The question was part of the greeting at every phone call. I could sense caution or sympathy. Some consoled me with the hope that it would be over soon. I could very well understand their behavior, yet I felt tortured because people were constantly talking about nothing else. The never-ending discussions about the causes and effects of every new event and the feeling that I even have to justify myself, wore me down. And I asked myself how much longer this kind of occupation is going to last ? or rather when the awakening will take place. Everybody asked how I felt. ?Like that!? I responded.

1965 born in Damascus, Syria. Study at the University of Damascus and at the university for applied art in vienna. Painting, grafik, video performance, photography.

The flower carrier Version I 2000 to 2006 © 2006 performance video. Flower carrier is a performed sequence over a period of six years of the myself walking with a plastic flower through various streets in various cities. Each location is revealed both visually as well as acoustically, through the cacophony of road noises as the flower carrier moves fluidly between the streets of the small town of Modinagar, through the heavy-traffic streets of Delhi., through the hilly village of Rajpur, through the busy undergrounds of London and through the Badarur border, that neighbours Delhi, forever caught in messy states of [under] development. The simple act of a walk in the streets, while tenaciously looking at the tip of a flower [ : recycled plastic ] soon becomes a somewhat personalised ritual; a study of self in city very quickly transforms into an insurrection of turbulent city... There is no grand narrative. The narrative here is pursued in and through the act of making, almost as a form of psycho-visual enquiry.

S o n i a K h u r a n a abridged bio: Sonia Khurana?s studies in art include an M.A. in 1999 at the Royal College of Art, London, earllier art education in Delhi, a short course at the Film and Television institute in Pune, and in 2002, a 2-year Research residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. All of the above was pursued through sholarships and Awards, including the coveted INLAKS Award, in 1997. She now lives and works in New Delhi. « My art practice embraces areas in-between video, photography, elements of performance, text, drawing and installation. In my work I often makes psycho-sexual enquiries into two main areas of experience: interiority, or embodied experience, and the dynamics of identity. Recent body of work focuses on the poetics of inner experience mostly through performance-based videos that are often visually simple and understated Through deleberately poetic intimations, I strive to explore and re-define the space of the political. » During and beyond November 2007, Sonia?s works are currently showing at : ?Public places Private Spaces? - Newark Museum, ? Horn Please? - Kunstmuseum Bern, ? Tiger by the tail ? - Rose Museum, Boston, ?India-Art Now? Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Film Festival Roma, Rome, ?Performa 2007? ? Gallery Elga Wimmer, New York and ?Global Feminisms? - Davis Museum, Wellselly.

Do you believe in Superstitions? Commonality of Beliefs [Co:beliefs], is an interactive digital installation that delves into the intriguing world of superstitions through immersive real-world experiences; exploring their role in fostering cultural cohesion, and examining the persistence and relevance of superstitious thinking in modern society. This digital immersion offers an opportunity for meaningful interaction among individuals and communities with similar beliefs and presents a fresh perspective on how superstitions are formed; expounding on the emotions people harbour in the digital realm, especially those related to uncertain futures. Our journey began with a simple question: "Why do people still believe in superstitions?" This question piqued our curiosity and led us to delve into the narratives of superstitious thinking that exist today. The research has been brought together in a VR experience and a 360 film produced in a narrative game environment, that visually and artistically express the anxieties and fears of modern people through three realms. By rendering these complex emotions experienced in an uncertain world through digital media, we make them more palpable.

Junghyun Kim (Zoey Kim) is a Visual Designer and Creative Editor based in London. She specializes in digital media and creates immersive, interactive experiences that blend technology and humanity. Through tools like game engines and real-time content, she explores new ways of storytelling that engage audiences and spark social dialogue. Zoey’s work invites active audience participation, using digital interaction to offer fresh perspectives on contemporary life. Drawing inspiration from everyday rituals and evocative objects, she crafts narratives that reflect both personal and collective experiences in innovative visual forms.

A curator, "Amalia Pica" writes an SMS to "I", asking to make a short video out of the gum stuck on the pavement in Amsterdam. "I" wander off to think about how "I" was educated to chew gum, brush teeth, and wear clothes. Then "I" make comparisons to a girlfriend who wears clothes differently, chews gum differently, and would have made this video differently.

Born in 1975 in Seoul, Korea, the artist Sung Hwan Kim holds a Master of Science in Visual Studies from M.I.T, and was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. He has shown his works at such venues as the Gwangju Biennial, the Busan Biennial, the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, the Asia Society, D.U.M.B.O Art Center, Pacific Film Archive, Le Plateau (Paris), The Living Art Museum (Reykyavik), Mediamatic (Amsterdam), SMART Project Space, (Amsterdam), Objective-Exhibitions (Antwerp), and Leeum Samsung Museum of Art (Seoul) among others, as well as at various international film festivals. As a performer, he participated in Joan Jonas' "Lines in the Sand" at Documenta 11, Kassel; Tate Modern, London; and The Kitchen, NYC.

Loosely based on Korea in the 30?s, Vaudeville is a visual poem about despair, wandering and the loss of cultural identity.

Chansoo Kim studied animation in the Division of Animation and Digital Arts at the University of Southern California, and produced short animated films using various techniques, ranging from hand-drawn to stop-motion and CGI. His films, Woman in the Attic and Floating gained critical attention through the festival circuit. His new film, Vaudeville is currently touring the festivals since the spring of 2005. Chansoo recently finished the Animation Apprentice Program at Rhythm and Hues and is now working in CG animation.

The work is composed of two separate films followed by each other. Both films explore transcendental issues through archaeological and illegal excavations of tombs. "After Life" consists of a sequence of meditative short scenes picturing the ruins of a small Faliscan necropolis Cavone di Monte Li Santi in Italy and its surrounding natural elements. The rock-cut chamber tombs of the necropolis had been illegally excavated before they were archaeologically discovered in 2015 – a phenomenon still faced by many rural archaeological sites. At the center of "Red Impasto Jar" is a looted archaeological tomb object. In antiquity, the funeral was a significant ceremony where entombing of the body was just one component in the complex sequence of events. This ancient Faliscan tomb item dating back to the 6th century BCE was passed on to the archaeological museum (Mazzano Romano, Italy). The jar is radically altered and damaged by being cemented into the structures of a house as a decorative element. The film portrays the state of the pottery focusing on the detailed choreography and documentation of the object with a slow 360º rotation on a robust industrial motor against a monochromatic background.

Sound, perception and imagination are essential ingredients in the research and practice of Jonna Kina (b. 1984). Her work reveals the value of fictional viewpoints in non-fictional investigations. Kina’s works have been shown in the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg; Espoo Modern Art Museum EMMA; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn and in Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, among others. Kina has recently been awarded the Finnish Art Prize “Below Zero” (2018) and her film Arr. for a Scene was awarded as the “Best Nordic Short Film” at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival in Malmö (2017). She was also shortlisted for the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize in Florence (2017).

Filmed on a caravan park at the end of the season, this film reveals a landscape dramatically transformed by light and time, and resonating with the transience of human presence.

Brandenburg/GDR, 1979. In the custody of the East German Staatssicherheit, three battle-weary terrorists of the West German Red Army Faction design fictitious biographies in order to survive undercover in the socialist part of Germany. The conversation among the three about their false identities shifts to a requital of their own political past and an admission of moral defeat.

Author, stage manager, artist, Rainer Kirberg studied painting, cinema, art history, and philosophy at the Kunstakademie and at the University of Düsseldorf. Since the end of his scholarly period, in 1969, he has been making experimental short films, independent music clips (some bought by the 'Cinemathèque Française'), and is also the author and director of three feature-length films. It was in 1979 that he really started working in the artistic domain through cinema, scenic installation, and performance. In addition to his own projects, for which he has been in charge of production, scenery, architecture, filming, and editing, Rainer Kirberg works as an author for the German television and film industry. His prizes and achievements include the Prix du scénario de Rhénanie-Westphalie in 1991, and a nomination for Le prix du scénario allemand in 1996. Among the numerous artists that have collaborated on his work are: the star of French cinema, Tcheky Caryo ("Nikita"); renowned German actors Erwin Leder ("Das Boot"), Christopher Eichhorn ("Zuberberg" : "Montagne magique"), and Peter Lohmeyer; as well as such international personalities as Amanda Lear, a muse of Dali, and Kenneth Anger, a legend of underground film.

A bird carries us swiftly through empty lobbies and offices of a bank in Frankfurt, until it collides with a glass façade and falls to the floor. In this way, ‘Killing Kidding Colliding’ shows glass as both a material and an ideological symbol, moving between transparency and reflection, making things visible but impossible to touch. Moving mechanically between the different spaces of the bank, it draws attention to its own technique, while looking at the power and ideology of modern architecture, and how its immediate openness, transparency and smoothness also contain an underlying and invisible volatility.

Freja Sofie Kirk is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Working across video, photography and installation, and often in connection with each other, she looks at the inner mechanisms and contradictions of images. Her work takes the form of a continuous study of spatial and medial constructions, the violence they perform and the architecture they manifest. By utilizing the camera, Freja Sofie Kirk attempts to renegotiate the power relations inherent in both archi- tecture and image production.

Industries of Freedom portrays a group of dancers who work at the biggest EDM night club in the world - Privilege. The dancers are being lifted up in cranes, carried over a beach in the mouth of an inflatable shark, or are hovering under the ceiling in the club. We experience how their bodies transform into scenographic objects, that merge with the rest of the stage construction. In Industries of Freedom, the night club is presented both as a workplace with strictly defined roles and as a space wherein one can live out notions of freedom and ecstasy, which is nonetheless strictly choreographed by the commercial logics of the entertainment industry.

Esben Weile Kjær and Freja Sofie Kirk both work in visual arts with various medias including film, photography, sculpture and performance. For the past five years, they have collaborated on several film projects, exploring identity, pop culture and image production. Their work have been represented in The National Gallery of Denmark, ARoS Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthal Aarhus, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, The Factory for Art and Design and featured on platforms such as i-D, Tissue Magazine, Indechs and Out Magazine. Freja Sofie Kirk (born 1990) is an artist based in Copenhagen. Working with video, photography and sculpture, and often in combination with each other, her work explores narratives, popular culture and how images generate meaning in contemporary society. Freja Sofie Kirk has a background in film and photography and through the work with two-dimensional representations of the world, she has attained a sincere interest in the meaning of images and also an urge to dissolve or transform them into material qualities. Her works contain a constant interplay, between materiality and the mechanic, the sensuous and its absence, reality and the unreal. They are simultaneously both visually seductive and disturbing, but none the less, are they an image of the symptoms that our present reality leaves us with. Esben Weile Kjær (born 1992) is an artist based in Copenhagen. Spanning sculpture, video and performance, his work draws on the history of pop culture and pop music to investigate themes of nostalgia, authenticity, and generational anxiety. In an attentive though reckless visual language, he investigates today’s event economy, often focusing on marketing tactics and the aesthetics of the entertainment industry. Mainly to consider art’s relationship to its surrounding culture industries. As such, his work attempts to not only mimic other cultural modes of performance (such as those found in raves, protests, press conferences, and ballets), but become performative pop culture in its own right—often through interventions in public and commercial space, using props such as podiums, confetti canons, fences, and party lasers.

‘The End’ introduces Todd, an actor who has specialized in playing ill and dying patients in the context of medical practice situations for 30 years. Through documenting the scenography of a simulated hospital, a heart surgery on a plastic torso and Todd in an hotel room repeatedly falling to the floor - playing dead - ‘The End’ reflects on the way we use narratives to navigate reality. Layers of Todd’s voice and fragments from his scripts contribute to the blurring of lines between the fictitious and the actual, while elements of repetition in both speech and image remold ideas of linearity. In this way, ‘The End’ investigates the images, rituals and words associated with the certainty of death. It asks what space and shape it is granted — in the daily as well as on the screen - and how our emotional lives are continually shaped by the images we consume, leading us to turn to the language of fiction in the moments of our lives when we cannot find the words ourselves.

Freja Sofie Kirk (b. 1990) is a visual artist based in Copenhagen. Recent exhibitions includes Simian (DK), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (DK), Inter.pblc (DK), 5533 (TR), Copenhagen Contemporary (DK), Bianca D’Alessandro (DK), Kunstforeningen Gl. Strand (DK), Kunstverein Wiesen (DE). Her films have been screened at CPH:DOX, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival among others.

Ambiguous Landscapes (2003-2005) comprises large-scale ?dislocated? photo diptychs and a wall-mounted 5-screen video work. The subject matter of natural and man-made landscapes includes a granite stair, a grass field, a paved dyke, a scrubby hillside, and a snowy slope, all rendered unfamiliar and spatially ambiguous with the camera. These landscapes, made abstract by the analogue camera, are brought back into the realm of the real through temporal mechanisms involving the presence of a figure in the work. The figure registers and describes space and time, altering our perception of the depicted landscape, transforming it from a flat image into a three-dimensional space. In the videos, the movement of the figure traversing an otherwise empty and still landscape, reveals the shape of the depicted topography, as well as its expanse, and in the process registers both time and space. These moving images are endlessly repeating, looped with a built-in randomness that produces moments when the same landscape appears, at different points in time, across multiple screens. The videos are nevertheless largely still, setting up a situation of waiting and expectation. www.lisaklapstock.com

Lens-based artist Lisa Klapstock lives and works in Toronto and holds a Communication degree from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. With a focus on everyday places and their human occupation, Klapstock?s practice investigates the relationship between photographic depiction and visual perception. Since the late 90?s, Klapstock has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Canada, and in Europe where she has also participated in residencies: Stichting Duende Aktiviteiten, Rotterdam (2002); the Helsinki International Artist-in-Residence Programme, Cable Factory (2004); and the Danish International Visual Art Exchange Program, Copenhagan (2007). Klapstock?s work is in corporate and public collections including the Musée de la Photographie, Belgium; the Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark; the National Portrait of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery (CA); the Kamloops Art Gallery (CA), and the Art Gallery of Hamilton (CA). Between 2004 and 2006, Klapstock?s work toured Canada in a solo exhibition, Liminal, organized by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and accompanied by a monograph. She is represented in Canada by Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto and Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver.