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Deux jeunes hommes sont installés dans le désert. Aucune âme à l’horizon. Ils attendent le retour d’un troisième homme parti en éclaireur. Les deux équipes restent en contact grâce à des radios. L’éclaireur explique le chemin qu’il accomplit, et l’étendue désertique toujours plus vaste devant lui. Il raconte l’espoir qu’il place dans chaque pas qu’il fait. Les deux jeunes hommes restés en arrière écoutent ; ils projettent leurs espoirs dans le futur et l’autre côté du désert. Mais la qualité du signal radio commence à faiblir. Des crépitements se font entendre sur la liaison. De plus en plus fortement. D’abord indéchiffrable, la voix finit par disparaître. Les deux jeunes hommes se retrouvent dès lors seuls et sans nouvelles. Doivent-ils se lancer en avant ? Rester où ils sont ? La réponse qu’ils imagineront est finalement un paradoxe : que croire est aussi essentiel qu’est la conscience que croire est vain.

Après deux années passées à la Faculté de théologie protestante de Genève, Romain Kronenberg étudie la théorie musicale, le Jazz et la composition électro-acoustique au Conservatoire Supérieur de musique de Genève. Entre 2001 à 2005 à l’IRCAM où il est compositeur et sound designer, il collabore avec des plasticiens tels que Ugo Rondinone, Pierre Huyghe, Melik Ohanian et Thierry Kuntzel qui l’ouvrent à la vidéo. En 2005, il présente sa performance Dérive à la Fondation Cartier et au Palais de Tokyo, à la fois concert et tournage de la vidéo éponyme au style contemplatif et hypnotique mettant en scène l’actrice Audrey Bonnet avec laquelle il travaille depuis régulièrement En 2007, il est artiste en résidence au Palais de Tokyo puis en 2009 à la Villa Kujoyama. Depuis son retour du Japon, il travaille comme réalisateur, compositeur et plasticien. Dans ses projets récents, à la fois rigoureux et ambigus, Romain Kronenberg travaille sur l’idée de renouvellement (et de renaissance) qui saisit un monde en plein changement de paradigme. Il imagine des récits où coexistent, sans manichéisme ni même rapport dialectique mais plutôt en surimposition, des notions opposées, incarnées soit par des territoires ou par des personnages.

The film follows the journey of Alex, an Ultras member, in his hometown Sfax,Tunisia, while visually representing his inner thoughts, feelings, frustrations and ideas to showcase the impact and influence of the Ultras movement on the city's urban scene and culture.

Youssef Ksentini is a film director and a visual artist from Sfax, Tunisia. In 2009, he started experimenting with street art, design and music production with his underground local Ultras group before starting studying film directing and screenwriting. He got his master degree in Tunis in 2015, won 48HFP Tunis twice in 2014 and 2016 and was involved in other projects as a film director before leaving in 2018 to NYC, USA on an art visa where he spent two years there and wrote and directed two short films. In 2021 he moved to Paris, France to get a professional master degree in contemporary art market at IESA.

A trip to Las Vegas and a hike down a red carpet of star trodden footprints highlights this glimpse of glamorous glitz as flash bulbs pop to ignite titans of tinseltown as they rub shoulders with brethren of lower voltage.

George Kuchar ranks among the most exciting and prolific independent videomakers working today. With his homemade Super-8 and 16mm potboilers and melodramas of the 1950s, ?60s, and ?70s, he became legendary as one of the most distinctive and outrageous American underground filmmakers. After his 1980s transition to the video medium, he remained a master of genre manipulation and subversion, creating dozens of brilliantly edited, hilarious, observant, often diaristic tapes with an 8mm camcorder, dime-store props, not-so-special effects, and using friends as actors and the ?pageant that is life? as his studio. In 1992, Kuchar received the prestigious Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists from the American Film Institute. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he makes many of his tapes in collaboration with his students. "The best for last, though: the filmmaker George Kuchar... When the day arrives--and it will--to appoint an official United States cultural ambassador to Outer Space, Mr. Kuchar is the obvious choice. I will say no more. See his films. He is beyond enigmatic. He is "it." I salute him." --Holland Cotter, Review of "Good Morning Midnight" exhibition at Casey Kaplan Gallery, The New York Times, July 27th 2007 All title descriptions courtesy of George Kuchar.

GAS IS OVER, a boy's dreams revolve around one particular lake. His dreams seem as if they are about to come true when he sets off for the lake with his father. However, their journey is riddled with challenges and the boy’s father struggles to keep his promise.

Palestinian contemporary artist and filmmaker Shadi Habib Allah takes us with him on an unlikely journey of discovery ‘ at gunpoint across the Sinai Peninsula, led by Bedouins who will force us across an unmapped terrain whose only signposts are the small stories they tell about the stakes of living, dying, and moving through this mysterious space. Stories, itineraries, directions, and allegiances become as blurred as the status of the Bedouins themselves, who remain unrecognized non citizens of this no man’s land, through which Habib Allah is led ‘”behind the lines of military checkpoints, off the political, economic, and historical grid, a place where these desert outliers quietly continue their lineage with the help of snakes”.

The virtual installation undressing giants is a conglomerate of a shedding cycle’s remains. An abandoned shell of a past consciousness – an abstract organism of creation that is already left behind by its host. Visitors are the protagonists of the installation’s eerie space. They become players as they take a first-person point of view while cruising around the floating parts of this entropic, fragile yet solid, ultimately unknown body. Travelers, who – called by the sirens of this virtual landscape – are unable to resist the urge to seek action and look for treasures in the seductive, bottomless void of the installation’s reality.

T(n)C was founded in 2017 by Agnes Varnai and Tina Kult. They live and work in Vienna and experiment with a wide range of media, including virtual reality, 3D, installation and fashion. By combining the different disciplines, they are researching immersive experiences to connect the digital and physical levels of realities. T(n)C believes in the power of joint efforts. Their aim is to expand the practices of collective storytelling with a collaborative approach.

Family Maker is a computer application that uses the macOS interface to convey family dynamics across cascading sequences of gray application windows that users operate in order to unlock mysteries of being in a family. The application might be read as a portrait of the artist’s family, but it doubles as a working model of family life, populated by windows with names such as Ego and Trauma that prompt association-making. The work has been conceived as a puzzle box to unlock and explore, and as a poetic support that can give form to the unnameable. Family Maker is assembled using a runtime engine, and its dynamics are simultaneously built and enacted. As such, the creative process itself is akin to diagramming and inhabiting the family. A user of the application experiences much of how it was made. Each clickable button and slider is loaded with references to past states and future consequences. It is presented as a regular software application that can be multitasked with other tasks, such as monitoring email and scanning for viruses. As the family is a process, future versions may be created. The work is distributed by Left Gallery.

Ryan Kuo is based in New York and is currently a resident in the Queens Museum Studio Program. He received a Master of Science in Art, Culture and Technology from MIT in 2014. His work is often process-based and diagrammatic, utilizing techniques from video games, productivity software, web design, motion graphics, and sampling. It tends to invoke a person or people arguing. Among his current projects, Ryan is building an artist’s book about aspirational workflows, File: A User’s Manual, modeled after software guides for power users. His works and writing have most recently appeared at the Current Museum of Art (NYC), Equity Gallery (NYC), Front/Space (Kansas City), Spike Art Quarterly (Berlin), Goldsmiths (London), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge, MA), Boston Cyberarts (Boston), MIT Media Lab (Cambridge, MA), and Minibar (Stockholm). He was a resident artist at Residency Unlimited (NYC) in 2017.

Four communist agitators return from a successful mission in China to Moscow and are congratulated for their efforts by the Central Committee (The Control Chorus.) The four agitators, however, inform the committee that during their mission they were forced to kill a young comrade for their mission to succeed. The committee withholds its verdict until after the four agitators re-enact the events that led to the young comrade’s death. The agitators tell of how they were sent on a mission to educate and help organize the workers in China. The director of the party house (the last before the frontier) helps the four agitators and the young comrade in the obliteration of their true identities. They are told to keep concealed that they are communist, for their discovery would endanger the mission and their lives. However, once in China, the sights of injustice and oppression enrages the young comrade on several occasions, when he is time and time again not able to contain his passion, immediately acting to correct the wrongs he sees around him. As a result, he eventually exposes himself and proclaiming the teachings of the party. There, the agitators debate on what to do with him.

Can Kurucu is a filmmaker and artist focused on the sphere of the political image and its consequences. Can's work provides an insight into how digital images are made and what they represent, exploring the political and scientific elements that shape them, and reflecting on the image-making process and the deeper meanings behind the images within these broader contexts. Mariam Aslanishvili is an artist, photographer, and musician based in Berlin. Her artistic practice revolves around the exploration of human perception and the construction of realities, with a particular focus on translating personal experiences into the language of experimental cinema. Jack Hogan is a filmmaker from Waterford, Ireland. Their work focuses on the rich sociality of everyday life, foregrounding friendship and what constitutes good shared lives and places. Matthias Planitzer is a visual artist and doctor who explores scientific and political visual spheres and how they are rooted in their contexts.

In the emptiness of a landscape, a human being is climbing up the rocks testing her balance, three steps forward and three steps into nothing.

Antonella Kurzen was born in Switzerland in 1966. She started artistic studies in the USA and continued them in Switzerland, in Italia and in Germany. She then went on with cinema studies. Since 1998, she has been working as a freelance filmmaker and since 2002 as a video maker as well. Her last videos are elaborations of psychological conditions defined in natural environments, transformed according to intentions, in confined spaces.

The project is about the transforming cityscape of Kazan, the millennium old capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. With the brand-new buildings and anime costume characters “ Transformers ”, I visualized my impression of this fast-growing modern multicultural city, located in the middle Volga, about 600 km east from Moscow. In Kazan, newcomers would soon notice the futuristic bizarre architecture scattered around the city’s center. Those buildings are somewhat reminiscent of the contemporary but ambiguous glittering architecture in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana and Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat in Central Asia. In Kazan’s city center, visitors would also notice awkward-looking costume characters like ones from American-Japanese robot anime “ Transformers ” giving out leaflets or getting pictures taken with kids for money. Kazan is home to Tatars, a predominantly-Islam Turkic people, but it is more complex and unique, as Tatar, Russian and Soviet cultures have been intertwined in the past centuries there. Now, western capitalism gets mixed with this cultural melting pot, bringing even “ Transformers ”to the city and turning parts of the cityscape a little Disneylandish. Kazan is still in the process of this intricate transformation. This project demonstrates my vision of this transforming multicultural city located near the edge of geographical Europe.

After growing up in Japan, studying in journalism in the University of Missouri, Columbia, and living in Romania for a year, Ikuru Kuwajima has been living and working on visual documentary and art projects mainly with photography in various post-Soviet countries (Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia) in the past 10 years. After three years in Kazan, he now lives in Moscow, Russia, continuing personal projects. His artist books “ Tundra Kids ” and “ Oblomov ” were published in Vienna in 2015 and in Moscow in 2017, respectably.

Une silhouette féminine vêtue d?une très courte robe noire moulante à paillettes, se tient debout, devant un fond noir. La perruque noire qu?elle porte est à l?envers. De ce fait, les longs cheveux brillants et ondulés tombent vers l?avant et recouvrent ses seins. Un son techno cadencé démarre et se développe peu à peu. La silhouette soulève deux pompons et commence à se balancer en suivant le rythme. Le refrain répétitif « Control your body. Let the beat control your body - com?on dance with me » l?entraîne dans une agitation de plus en plus hypnotique. Au début, la silhouette paraît presque insignifiante et ridicule. Elle est un persiflage des filles techno : apparence voyante, cheveux ondulés, formes généreuses. Lorsqu?elle commence à bouger sur le rythme, ça a l?air bizarre. Mais petit à petit, on se laisse envoûter. Les paroles répétitives de la chanson semblent sortir de sa bouche et donnent l?impression que c?est elle qui les maîtrise et qu?elle ne fait pas que leur obéir. Tout à coup, elle nous balance des signes et des mots: extra, highlights, make up, generation, ultra, image, fondation, maximum, overdose, yeah. Ce sont les signes de la modernité, de la séduction, du masque. Ce sont les mots-clés de notre quotidien qui nous sont insufflés. En bougeant et en agissant ainsi, elle nous apparaît peu à peu comme une idole ; dans le sens archéologique du terme, autrement dit, comme un objet vénéré. Elle devient une vraie idole de la musique pop, une Vénus de Willendorf du disco. Les pompons qui servent habituellement à encourager les équipes dans les stades américains, elle les utilise pour nous coacher, nous hypnotiser. Elle nous répète sans cesse : contrôle-toi, laisse-toi contrôler.

1993-99 Etudes à l?Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués Saar avec les Pr. Ulrike Rosenbach et Pr. Bodo Baumgarten, Pr. Horst Gerhard Haberl 1997 Création du Duo d?Artistes Stoll & Wachall 1999 Diplôme et Conservatoire à l?ESAASaar 2001-03 Enseignement à l?ESAASaar

Television images of politicians being interviewed show us different worlds of perception. While the politician speaks to reporters, the bodyguard concentrates on potential dangers in the surrounding area. The viewer becomes witness to two parallel worlds, yet is inclined to pay more attention to the politician, who speaks outwardly to matters of public interest. The bodyguard brings to the situation a dramatically greater intensity, but one that is directed inward. He is deep in concentration, communicating through a small earpiece with a network that remains hidden from the viewer. The images are characterized by this contrast, which endows them with a particular tension. The video shifts the focus onto the bodyguard`s inner perception.

The spectator follows the protagonist through a city one dark winter night. Where is she going? Why do we follow her? The city in the dark and the woman in the night provokes an eerie atmosphere, - without the film giving any answers to why. This unsolved story is based upon how we are seen and interpreted in the public sphere. All images are from urban places and contain a subtle doomsday thematic as a sweeping tone through the film.

Kvalvik has exhibited her work internationally including Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art; Copenhagen, LOOP Film Festival; Barcelona, Center for Contemporary Art; Glasgow, GalleriBOX; Akureyri, Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic; Zagreb, Kunsthalle Exnergasse; Vienna, Parkingallery; Tehran, Västerås Konstmuseum, Høstutstillingen Kuntnernes Hus; Oslo and Abandoned Gallery; Malmö.

"Distant Landscape" consists of images of landscapes in which traces of movement of the film`s narrator are recognisable within the desolate surroundings. Short texts roll over the images, telling the story of someone in a close and sensual relationship with nature.

Kristina Kvalvik (b.1980) is a Norwegian visual artist currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She studied film and fine art in Norway, Sweden and Canada, and completed her MFA at Malmö Art Academy (SE) in 2008. Her work deals with matters relating to surveillance, the inexplicable and the threatening. She examines the limitations of sight and our ability to interpret what we see. Kvalvik has exhibited her work internationally including Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art; Copenhagen, LOOP Film Festival; Barcelona, Center for Contemporary Art; Glasgow, GalleriBOX; Akureyri, Galeria Miroslav Kraljevic; Zagreb, Kunsthalle Exnergasse; Vienna, Parkingallery; Tehran, Västerås Konstmuseum, Høstutstillingen Kuntnernes Hus; Oslo and Abandoned Gallery; Malmö.

"Scent" is a cinematic game installation in which the player, as a dog, roams a war-torn city, gathering souls from the dead. As you walk, run, and hide amid unfolding atrocities, the game draws you into a raw, sensory experience of fear, darkness, and fleeting moments of hope. Stripped of specific historical or geographic markers, "Scent" explores what it means to witness without power.

Working at the intersection of cinema and videogames, artist Alan Kwan creates immersive experiences that evoke feelings of heartbreak, fear, and the sublime. ? In June 2025, he premiered his latest videogame, “Scent”, at Tribeca Festival in New York and Animafest Zagreb. An earlier iteration of the project received an Honorary Mention Award at Prix Ars Electronica. In 2022–2024, he initiated and led the development of “The Eyes”, a VR cinematic experience created in collaboration with Kachi Chan, which was showcased at SXSW Sydney. ? His other projects have been exhibited internationally at venues including Ars Electronica Center (Austria), ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Germany), International Bauhaus Colloquium (Germany), Forum des images (France), Science Gallery Dublin (Ireland), Nam June Paik Art Museum (Korea), Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (China), M+ Museum (Hong Kong), and Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong), among others. His work has been featured in media outlets such as the Discovery Channel, Popular Science, and The Boston Globe. ? Originally from Hong Kong, Kwan earned his master’s degree at MIT and is currently based in Chicago, where he is an assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

“ 489 Years ” is transcribed according to the testimony of a former soldier in South Korea, Kim. It gives us access to the DMZ, and makes us immerse in the heart of the personal memory of a soldier. He tells us his experience in a research mission and the amazing discovery he made in the field full of mines (mines laid by South Korea with no record of where they were placed). He speaks of a place where people are forbidden, a place where nature has totally reclaimed its hold.

Hayoun KWON is a multimedia artist and documentary director.   South Korea born in 1981.  She graduated from the Fresnoy – Studio national des Arts contemporains in 2011 and  she lives and works in France and in Korea. The reflection on identity and borders is central to her previous works. She has focused more specifically on the construction of historical and individual memory and their ambivalent relationship to reality and fiction.

A village loosely inspired by a north korean propaganda village ,Kijong-dong. Hayoun KWON reveals a setting and 
invites us into a fiction ,carrying out the journey by proxy. this film testifies to this ghost town in its true state as a mechanism of fiction. the reality of a border confronted with its staging. this village can only be reached within our imagination.

Hayoun Kwon was born in Seoul (South Korea) in 1981. She first studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, and then graduated from the Fresnoy – Studio national des Arts contemporains in 2011. Her work revolves mostly around the notions of memory (wether individual or collective), boundaries and limits, questionning the blurred lines between intention and interpretation, construction and fiction, recollection and invention. She examines the ambivalent relationships between reality and fiction.

Sleepers manually scanned in 3D during a flight over the Atlantic Ocean. This project used a last generation of video game sensor camera turned into a 3D scan. The shooting device was exclusively made during the flight, in the tension of being catch by autority.

Eva L'Hoest (1991, Belgium), focuses primarily on the exploration of memory and its strange and minute lingering reality. She tracks the often blurred and non-specific ways in which reminiscence appears. Working on the outer edge of perception where it becomes affect and emotion; starting out with accidents of light like “the operator of a memory who interprets, distorts selects or sometimes saturates and alters the images”*, Eva L’Hoest is an artist whose intuition plays a decisive role. Intuition as a working method, a decisional process in the literal sense given that intuito, i.e. “the regard”, is its etymological Latin root. Her work defines “a single plastic modality which is that of a clouded form, a migratory form, as if the subjects in question had all been taken in a transitory state between construction and deconstruction, reconstruction and erasure”*.

The Inmost Cell is a new video work by Eva L’Hoest which takes its narrative from the traditional tales of the Daugava river and the ruins of its underwater islands, flooded on the creation of the Riga dam. Through the combination of various digital processes, L'Hoest turns her photographic reportage of the outskirts of Riga into three-dimensional fluid architectures. These lost elements of Latvian culture mark a site of synthesis between humans, nature and man-made ruins. In a fusion of the rural and the maritime landscape referencing the calenture, a maritime mirage where the sea becomes an inviting grassy field, the artist imbues the images with a shifting, hallucinatory quality. Across slow, contemplative tracking movements, its different realities merge as forms fall one after the other, and passageways are created between places and memory.

Eva L’Hoest (1991, Belgium) explores how all types of mental images, in particular memory and reminiscence, are able to reappear in a technological form.Piece by piece, the artist appropriates contemporary technology to reveal both their nature as extensions for capturing the world and their potential as an artistic medium. Her work was recently exhibited at FRAC Grand Large (Dunkerque), “Shapeshifters” at the Malmö Museum, the Riga International Biennial “And suddenly it all blossoms” curated by Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, the Lyon Biennale “Where Water Comes Together with Other Water” curated by Palais de Tokyo, Lyon (France); The triennale of Okayama Art Summit 2019 “IF THE SNAKE” curated by Pierre Huyghe, Okayama (Japon); “Suspended time, Extended space”, Casino Luxembourg.

0434 focuses on two boats anchored at sea which slowly move in uncanny synchrony, composing a casual choreography that suggests a dialog or a strange courtship ritual. The video is a one piece of the on going series VideoRhizome.

The video and sound artist Marcellvs L. was born 1980 in Belo Horizonte (Brazil), he lives and works in Berlin. His particular and radical production that gets into dialogue with the electronic arts? universe attracts attention by the intensity with which it associates philosophical concepts to the electronic images and sounds. His work places itself in a zone of undiscernibility, which turns it inapprehensible by this or that audiovisual genre creating its own discursive universe.

A man. A road. A river.

Marcellvs L. has an extensive background, including an academic education, music lessons since his childhood, and lots of reading. Even nowadays, the artist dedicates a few hours a day to studying the piano. His preferences range from Hungarian composers Béla Bartók (1881-1945) and Gyorgy Liget (1923) to Erik Satie (1866-1925) and Claude Debussy (1862-1918). His interest in music is not restricted to the universe of instrumental and classical music, as it includes more popular genres, such as rock and experimental music. His reading preferences are literature and philosophy, especially Nietzsche and Deleuze. Marcellvs? ongoing interest in music and intense reading pace comprise his initial background, after which it also includes cinema and video. This dual interest in music and image, in addition to an old friendship with the members of the pexbaA band, have led Marcellvs closer and closer to image production. Thus, over approximately four years, from 2000 until 2003, the artist presented himself along with the band. In some of the gigs, band members were hidden behind a front stage screen. Marcellvs presented himself together with pexbaA in the Projeto Rock Contemporâneo (Contemporary Rock Project) at SESC Ipiranga, São Paulo (2002), in the III Festival Eletrônika Telemig Celular at Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (2002), in the SXSW Festival ? South by Southwest, Austin, Texas, USA (2002), and in the Projeto Rumos Itaú Cultural ? Cartografia Musical Brasileira (Itaú Cultural Pathways Project ? Brazilian Musical Cartography) at Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2001), among others. During his college days at PUC-MG?s Faculdade de Comunicação e Artes (Communication and Arts College), the artist began researching videorhizomes as part for his graduation project, under the guidance of Professor André Brasil. With his videorhizomes, Marcellvs participated in a series of festivals and exhibitions such as ?Brésil, Brésils?, in the Videoformes Festival, at Clermont-Ferrand, France (2005); ?Abre Alas?, at Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro (2005); ?Do micro ao macro: novas políticas e imagens? (From micro to macro: new policies and images), exhibited during the 6th Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, in Belo Horizonte (2004); Laboratorio Arte Alameda, in Mexico City (2004); ?Uma mágica por minuto? (One magic per minute), Universidade de Passo Fundo, in Rio Grande do Sul (2004); Laisle.com Video Art Exhibition, Museu de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Museum), in Rio de Janeiro (2004); ?Investigações Contemporâneas? (Contemporary Investigations), exhibition at the 14th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival), in São Paulo (2003), ?Entre a casa e a metrópole? (Between the house and the metropolis), at the XXVI Intercom Congress, in Belo Horizonte (2003), among others. The Deleuzian thematic is also present in another enticing piece of work: the video ?Deleuze while a living model? (2003). In this piece, the image of Deleuze in a TV monitor is smeared with red lipstick. The video took part in the Southern Competitive Show at the 14th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, in São Paulo (2003); in the Muestra de Cortometrajes de Minas Gerais (Minas Gerais Short Film Exhibition), at the Auditorio de la FUNCEB, Fundación Centro de Estudos Brasileiros (Brazilian Study Center Foundation), in Buenos Aires (2004); in the Cine Esquema Novo (New Scheme Cinema), at Usina do Gasômetro, in Porto Alegre, (2004); in the 7th Tiradentes Cinema Exhibition, at Centro Cultural Yves Alves, in Minas Gerais (2004), among others. The video also won the main prize at Festival do Livre Olhar (FLO ? Free Look Festival), at Santander Cultural, in Porto Alegre (2003), as well as the best video award at the 5th Competitive Exhibition of Images in Motion, at Casa do Conde de Santa Marinha, in Belo Horizonte (2003). Of all videorhizomes, ?Man.Road.River?, also know as ?Rizoma 0778?, is the most widely known, winning awards in several exhibitions and festivals. The video won the Grand Prize at the 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (2005), the Best Experimental Film award at the Mostra do Filme Livre 2005 (Free Film Exhibition), at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, and the award in the Ousadia e Risco category (Daring and Risk) in the Festival do Livre Olhar (FLO), at Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre (2003). Recently, the artist has also received a scholarship fund from the Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Pampulha Art Museum), Belo Horizonte, and will be featured in an exhibition in the second semester of 2005 at Paço das Artes, in São Paulo. (by eduardo de jesus, dossier videobrasil marcellvs l.)

Commencé en 2014, FILM NOIR est un projet en évolution, en plusieurs parties, qui explore une fascination à long terme de La Ribot: la figure de l'extra, "surnuméraire" ou l'acteur de fond. Les pièces de La Ribot 40 Espontáneos, 2004, et PARAdistinguidas, 2011, par exemple, invitaient des extras (des bénévoles locaux, normalement avec peu ou aucune expérience théâtrale) au centre de la scène dans de nouvelles œuvres d’art vivant pour le théâtre. En revanche, FILM NOIR regarde en arrière dans l'histoire du cinéma et utilise la vidéo pour explorer la dynamique cinématographique du monde des extras. Premier de la série, FILM NOIR 001, 2014, se penche sur les extras dans Spartacus (1960) et El Cid (1961) - "papier de tournesol" humain dont les actions et les attitudes révèlent les idéologies contrastées des deux productions. Actuellement en cours, FILM NOIR 002 et 003 élargissent l'enquête sur d'autres films et d'autres questions.

L’artiste et chorégraphe La Ribot est née à Madrid. En 1986, elle co-fonde le groupe Bocanada Danza et le co-dirige jusqu’à sa dissolution en 1989. Deux ans après, elle commence à travailler sous le nom de La Ribot et elle inaugure le « striptease » humoristique Socorro! Gloria!, une pièce qui attire un nouveau public et qui lui inspire sa série solo intitulée 13 Pièces distinguées. Más distinguidas, la seconde série des Pièces distinguées, est inaugurée à Madrid à la fin de l’année 1997. Suivi d’autres série des pièces : Still Distinguished, 2000 et PARAdistinguidas, 2011.   Panoramix, la version anthologique de trois heures rassemblant les trente-quatre premières Pièces distinguées, est inaugurée en 2003 à la Tate Modern et a voyagé ensuite dans d’autres galeries européennes, telles la Reina Sofía de Madrid ou le Centre Georges Pompidou à Paris. En 2000, La Ribot amorce son travail vidéo, et expérimente plus particulièrement l’utilisation du plan-séquence, tourné du point de vue du corps impliqué dans une performance. Cette approche a irrigué de nombreuses œuvres depuis les années 2000, dont l’installation Despliegue, 2001, et le travail complexe mené avec la pièce Mariachi 17, 2009. La même année, elle prend comme base Mariachi 17 afin de mettre en place Llámame Mariachi, un nouveau travail mêlant vidéo et performance live des trois interprètes. En 2004, La Ribot arrive à Genève, en Suisse. Elle y fonde et co-dirige entre 2004 et 2008 Art/Action, un département destiné à l’enseignement et à la recherche du live art basé à la Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD) de Genève. Les années 2000 voient aussi le développement de la pièce participative de grande envergure 40 Espontáneos, 2004 ; lancée en 2006 à l’Art Unlimited de Bâle, la pièce Laughing Hole ; et Gustavia, 2008, un duo conçu et joué avec la danseuse, chorégraphe et directrice du Centre National de la Danse de France, Mathilde Monnier. En 2011, elle lance PARAdistinguidas, une nouvelle série des Pièces distinguées conçue pour cinq danseuses et vingt « figurants » volontaires ; en 2012 elle achève EEEXEEECUUUUTIOOOOONS!!!, une commande chorégraphique majeure du Ballet de Lorraine à Nancy, en France. Également en 2012, le MUAC (Mexico City’s Contemporary Art University Museum), a inauguré son espace d’exposition de live art en proposant une exposition monographique sur son œuvre. Le travail vidéo de La Ribot est présenté au sein de collections privées et publiques dans toute l’Europe et elle continue à développer et présenter son travail à l’internationale. Elle a participé à des exhibitions au Japon, Seoul, Korée du Sud et Mexico: en 2012, le MUAC (Mexico City’s Contemporary Art University Museum), a inauguré son espace d’exposition de live art en proposant une exposition monographique sur son œuvre. En 2014, aux côtés du compositeur et pianiste Carles Santons, elle a produit Beware of Imitations!, un vidéo hommage à la danseuse américaine Loie Fuller. Elle poursuit son travail à l’international depuis sa base située à Genève, en Suisse, où elle vit avec le chorégraphe suisse Gilles Jobin.