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This is a meta-filming attempt to represent a failure. Conceptual challenge of a cinematographer who had to deal with passionate archivist, who works in the Film archive, uncompromisingly Film archivist forgetting the cinematic result demanded by the filmmaker, An archivist who belongs to celluloid age, still works with celluloid, starts confronting about the medium and time. Does the spectator really realise the conceptual mistake, or are they decided to go with a flow designed by filmmaker?This film eternally about director`s turbulent relationship with the character Margarita sosa. The short movie is divided into 4 movements, every movement is dedicated to a specific moment of cinema, but it is also a metaphor of your relationship with your subject. Movement 1: creation. Margarita speaks about the birth of cinema. It is a metaphor of beginning of the film first approach to the director`s character. Movement 2: preservation. Margarita speaks about preservation. It is a metaphor of the director is trying to keep a good relationship with his character. Movement 3: destruction. Margarita speaks about censorship (that is a destructive force). It is a metaphor of destroying the director`s relationship with the celluloid woman.

Ananthakrishnan is deeply involved in cinematographic and photographic storytelling. He traveled across India for geographically exploration of the socio-political structure. He worked as cinematographer for Tehelka music project, in New Delhi, and also with a documentary curating initiative called magiclanternmovies. Finally, as a video volunteer he worked at Primitive Seed Movement in navdanya. His ambition is to contemplate on the borders of practice and theory of documentary and fiction. He started his study at Gandhigram Rural Institute in Tamilnadu. After doing Development Studies he received a Summer Fellowship from National Human Rights Commission nhrc.nic.in to do a short-term research on human rights violations in India. He went on to complete his studies in community media at Tata Institute of Social Science in Mumbai tiss.edu. Afterwards, Ananthakrishnan received a Camargo Foundation Residency Art Fellowship in France to work on his working progress feature documentary Shadows of gandhi. Then he got accepted in the Summer Travelling Film School Cinemadamare 2018 in Italy cinemadamare, where he shot five short films during the period of two months. Ananthakrishnan`s photography projects have been exhibited at STIGMART10 in , Video Focus Biennial Edition , International Art Exhibition Nord Art 2016 in Germany, Screengrab Award 2014 in Australia, and International Festival of Photography PhotoVisa in Russia. His short documentaries and short films were widely screened at many international film festivals. At the moment he is doing the DOC NOMADS Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree 2017-2019 (EMJMD) in Documentary Filmmaking delivered by a consortium of the University of Lusofona in Portugal, University of Theatre and Film in Hungary and St. Lucas School of Arts in Belgium. AWARDS Annanthakrishnan won the National Student Contest at the International Year of Planet Earth in 2018. He also won twice the Best Cinematography Awards during the tenth Cinemadamare edition in 2018. See https://ananthakrishnan.foliohd.com/contact for more info.

Après avoir manqué un appel tant attendu, une femme se réveille seule dans un espace vide. Par le geste et le son, elle s’adonne à un étrange rituel dans l’espoir d’une réponse qui l’aiderait à sortir de sa hantise. Sous la forme d’un huis clos somnambulique, Akousma propose une incursion dans la boîte crânienne d’un corps à l’affût, coincé entre le monde des vivants et celui des morts. Ce premier court-métrage du jeune artiste plasticien Geoffrey Badel met en scène la chorégraphe Mathilde Monnier pour laisser aux fantômes l’occasion de revenir.

Né en 1994 à Montélimar (France) Vit et travaille à Montpellier (France) Geoffrey Badel est un artiste qui explore les mondes silencieux à travers des installations immersives sous la forme de dessins, de films, d’installations et de performances. Il situe son travail dans des environnements surréalistes et leur confère des attributs magiques et analeptiques, avec une approche qui cherche à transformer les situations. Diplômé de l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Montpellier en 2017, Geoffrey Badel a remporté la Bourse Jeune Création MAIF du Drawing Room la même année. Il participe au post-diplôme Saison 6, créé en 2018 par le MO.CO. structuré en trois temps de résidences : Cochin (Inde), Venise (Italie) et Istanbul (Turquie). En parallèle de ces expériences, en France ou à l’étranger, il intervient dans les milieux scolaires et médico-sociaux afin de proposer des ateliers et de transmettre sa pratique. Depuis 2024, dans la continuité de ses recherches sur le langage, il s’engage dans la communauté sourde dans l’intention de contribuer à l’accessibilité dans l’art. De 2022 à 2024, ses expositions récentes individuelles ou collectives incluent : le MO.CO. de Montpellier, le FRAC – Occitanie de Montpellier, le Musée d’art contemporain de Sérignan, la Fondation Bullukian de Lyon, l’Atelier Blanc de Villefranche-de-Rouergue, le 67ème Salon de Montrouge et le Centre Pompidou de Metz.

Kucheipadar village in Odisha is a bauxite-rich block that since India’s economic liberalisation has been the subject of violent conflict between Adivasis and a mining venture. The singing of songs has come to articulate creative forms and political structures that steered the Kashipur resistance movement from subalternity, through solidarity and into dissolution. Blood Earth interweaves the efforts to record song, farming, village life and a political meeting to improvise a junction between voice, music, silence, sound and noise. Blood Earth is the second project of Word Sound Power, a New Delhi-based collective that constructs multimedia collaborations with South Asian artists on issues of social justice.

Kush Badhwar is a filmmaker and artist interested in shifting definitions of traditional mass-media, collaborating with unorthodox actors and using artistic intervention for improvised and informal political engagement. He is currently undertaking India Foundation of the Arts Archival Fellowship in India’s newest state, Telangana.

“Can we imagine the universe from which we ourselves come as something physical, but at the same time as something virtual?” To portray the social circumstances of our contemporary society, characterised by a hybrid state of physicality and virtuality, choreographer Howool Baek combines body movement with technology. In “BETWEEN_in VR”, an imaginary and deeply 'immersive' universe emerges in which our body parts such as the hands, feet or navel lead us into an unfamiliar world. Using the overwhelming 360° VR spatial experience, we discover a new type of in-between space that merges the solid boundaries between the physical and the virtual, the body and the data, the analog and the digital, and the viewer and the performer.

Choreographer Howool Baek works on discovering individual body fragments without a face and proposing a different perspective of the body by deconstructing and transforming the body. Through breaking stereotypes about the body, she wants the audience to see society from a different perspective. Lately she has expanded her stage concept towards the digital space, carrying out new artistic experiments to transplant her choreographic method to the digital stage. Her first directed film Foreign body (2022) won the Best Film at Minimalen Short Film Festival - Multiplie Dance Film (Norway) in 2024. And VR film BETWEEN (2023) was awarded the Best Virtual Reality at Digital Media Fest (Italy) in 2023.

Une personne vêtue de blanc court à en en perdre haleine à travers Rotterdam. Elle escalade des sculptures d'artistes célèbres mises en scène dans toute la ville, évoquant un parcours de santé.

Ruth Baettig est née en 1964 à Lucerne en Suisse. Elle vit et travaille à Paris ainsi qu'à Lucerne. Etudiante à l'Atelier Médias-Mixtes de l?Ecole supérieure d?arts visuels de Genève, elle obtient en 1999 un complément de formation universitaire à l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Cologne, avant de s?inscrire au Programme de recherche de l?Ensba de Paris en 2000. Depuis 1995, elle participe à de nombreuses rencontres autour de la vidéo et expositions d?arts plastiques en Allemagne, en Suisse, en Belgique, en France, au Brésil, au Liban et en Arménie. Elle vient de publier VAGABONDAGE, disponible dans les librairies d?art parisiennes.

Un être blanc marche, se tient en équilibre, flâne, se glisse, saute, grimpe, s'agite sans aucun sens ni bût sur les ruines d'architectures alpines. Elle y croise des promeneurs de dimanche et d'autres touristes du week-end. Irrité et déconcerté, on voit partir l'être blanc... La vidéo a été filmée dans les montagnes suisses, à la frontière italienne. Les différentes composantes - panorama montagneux, figure artistique, mouvements ? créent un comique de l'image absurde.

Né le 7 avril 1964 à Sursee 1992-96 Ecole Supérieure d?Art Visuel, Atelier Medias-Mixtes Silvie & Cherif Defraoui, Genf (CH) 1997 ? 2000 Etudes supérieures à la "Kunsthochschule für Medien" à Cologne (D) 2000 ? 2002 Programme de Recherche, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris (F)

Pro(s)thetic dialogues is more like a recording of a theatre performance playing out on a computer desktop. Here the human operator creates the conditions for exploring the performativity of a philosophical zombie pieced together from neural networks. The operator/stage technician merely directs the flow of mathematical operations pretending thought and creates a space in which the philosophical discourses are dissolved

Since 2013 Alexandra Moralesova and Georgy Bagdasarov form a filming and experimenting duo Labodoble. We run an artistic and curatorial platform under the same name. We mainly focus on photo-chemical experimental film processes but we are interested in other kinds of media practices. We like to question media and to reshape the relation of machine-operator into machine-performer. We merge technical skills with media theory and philosophy. We do films, performances, installations and workshops.

One of the series of labodoble experiment of the natural(organic) film developers. The structure of the film is based on the chemical formula of the Rhus Typhina`s developer. The main protagonist of the film is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae which leaves and berries have been mixed with tobacco and other herbs and smoked by Native American tribes. We tried to apply the properties of the Rhus Typhina in the photochemistry. The film catches the research, experiments, harvesting and preparation of the film developer in which latter original negative was developed. The nonlinear structure of the chemical formula as well as nonlinear research of the process reflected in a order of the frames. There is no post-production except sound all editing work is made while film was loaded in camera before chemical development.

Alexandra Moralesová was born in 1989 to Czech mother and Argentinian father. She studied at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies at The Film faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). Beyond the inspiration by the practices of experimental film, she`s mainly interested in remediation of found footage and found objects. Through various ways of viewing it, those objects represent for her its own possibility of de/construction in order to cross the frontier between analog and digital media and so disrupt the spectacle and alternate existing narratives. It`s been several years that she explores the post-production tools as for example the editing table or film viewers. The output of her works is often a performance, film screening or installation. Georgy Bagdasarov was born in Armenian family in 1978 to the sounds of rockets taking off into space from Kazakhstan. He never boarded any of those rockets and spent all his life living in various locations throughout Eurasia. Now he lives and works in Prague. His work explores the space between analog and digital, and merges them together. His works are created under strong influence of structural films, cooking recipes and syntax of computer codes. He combines different media: digital and film stock as well as music and food.

Pro(s)thetic dialogues is more like a recording of a theatre performance playing out on a computer desktop. Here the human operator creates the conditions for exploring the performativity of a philosophical zombie pieced together from neural networks. The operator/stage technician merely directs the flow of mathematical operations pretending thought and creates a space in which the philosophical discourses are dissolved

Since 2013 Alexandra Moralesova and Georgy Bagdasarov form a filming and experimenting duo Labodoble. We run an artistic and curatorial platform under the same name. We mainly focus on photo-chemical experimental film processes but we are interested in other kinds of media practices. We like to question media and to reshape the relation of machine-operator into machine-performer. We merge technical skills with media theory and philosophy. We do films, performances, installations and workshops.

One of the series of labodoble experiment of the natural(organic) film developers. The structure of the film is based on the chemical formula of the Rhus Typhina`s developer. The main protagonist of the film is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae which leaves and berries have been mixed with tobacco and other herbs and smoked by Native American tribes. We tried to apply the properties of the Rhus Typhina in the photochemistry. The film catches the research, experiments, harvesting and preparation of the film developer in which latter original negative was developed. The nonlinear structure of the chemical formula as well as nonlinear research of the process reflected in a order of the frames. There is no post-production except sound all editing work is made while film was loaded in camera before chemical development.

Alexandra Moralesová was born in 1989 to Czech mother and Argentinian father. She studied at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies at The Film faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). Beyond the inspiration by the practices of experimental film, she`s mainly interested in remediation of found footage and found objects. Through various ways of viewing it, those objects represent for her its own possibility of de/construction in order to cross the frontier between analog and digital media and so disrupt the spectacle and alternate existing narratives. It`s been several years that she explores the post-production tools as for example the editing table or film viewers. The output of her works is often a performance, film screening or installation. Georgy Bagdasarov was born in Armenian family in 1978 to the sounds of rockets taking off into space from Kazakhstan. He never boarded any of those rockets and spent all his life living in various locations throughout Eurasia. Now he lives and works in Prague. His work explores the space between analog and digital, and merges them together. His works are created under strong influence of structural films, cooking recipes and syntax of computer codes. He combines different media: digital and film stock as well as music and food.

Tembiapo Pyharegua (Night Work) is a cinematographic chronicle that follows the life of a Paraguayan Guarani-speaking community that settled in Cuenca, Spain. The title refers to those nights where the impossible is dreamed and lived, that time of life between working hours. That is where we stop and observe how they recover their time. And how they spend their leisure hours. During those nights they name the things they are willing to do when they return to their country. Desires, dreams, future projects: every day they say them out loud, as if it were a spell. A record of this future is slowly being made, night by night.

Christian Bagnat. Argentina 1971. Studied Art and later Film. Night Work, first feature film co-directed with Elvira Sánchez Poxon. It’s filmed in Cuenca over seven years, using a particular method of work that reflects on the changes and events that occur in a small town. He works creating a film archive about the Latin diaspora in Spain. Elvira Sánchez Poxon Madrid 1977. She studied Fine Arts at the UCM and developed works in the field of painting and experimental sound stories. In the meantime, she studied film, collaborating regularly with Christian Bagnat. They co-directed the short film Pablo and Night Work is their first feature film.

Des effets bons marchés ne peuvent pas faire qu'un performeur mélodramatique se sente mieux.

Jeremy Bailey poursuit actuellement son MFA d'Art Vidéo à l'Université de Syracuse dans Syracuse NY. Son oeuvre se base souvent sur la technologie et est fondamentalement liée à la question de l'autorité et de l'authenticité. Il est aussi programmateur vidéo pour SPARKVIDEO, une série vidéo à succès réalisée à l'Espace d'Art Contemporain Spark à Syracuse.

In a house isolated from the rest of the world, Léo and Nicolas are busy creating Vivarium, a video game in which we witness the rotting of an uninhabited house. A game that strangely echoes the place where the protagonists struggle to cohabit.

Born in Paris in 1991, Nicolas Bailleul is a plastic artist and researcher, with a diploma from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (Strasbourg) and a master's degree in anthropological and documentary cinema (Université Paris-Nanterre). Through his films and other narrative devices, Nicolas Bailleul explores the terrain of the interior in the age of connected networks. In particular, he is interested in new amateur practices (designated or claimed as such), using and diverting their captat ion tools and invest iting/infiltering their spaces of dissemination and encounter. Nicolas documents, fict ionnalizes and narrates his explorat ions. Since October 2020, he has been a doctoral student in research-creation at Université Paris 8 under the direction of Patrick Nardin and the co-direction of Gwenola Wagon.

The creative idea for this piece comes from the word “ Plasma ” that is often called the "Fourth State of Matter". Plasma is a distinct state of matter containing a significant number of electrically charged particles, a number sufficient to affect its electrical properties and behavior. Plasma also refers to the liquid component of blood that holds the blood cells in suspension. Energy, thunder and blood inspired my composition process. I started by recording some sounds with a new percussion instrument, called “ Sinori ”, a thunder-sheet, that have been processed with these images in my mind.

DARIA studied piano, classical composition and electronic music. Her compositions have been played in theaters and concert halls throughout the World and broadcast by several Radio stations (Holland National radio, France,Portugal, UK, USA etc). She also owns a degree in “Classical Literature” from the University of Bologna (Italy).

Jetty SCOUR, suggests the physical markings left behind from a ships arrival and departure. Here is the present day ‘arrival’ of the “human-transporter”, a replicated 19th century cane-woven basket or ‘lift’ to a harbour in South Africa. The original would have been used off the coast of Algoa Bay in South Africa from 1890-1920 to lift colonial settlers to and from ships at sea before the development of harbours. Here the artist works with the object as historical witness, to engage with contested sites and legacies linked to the arrival of her own ancestors, a British settler family, to that same bay in 1820. The film, whilst documenting a contemporary working harbour within the economy of international trade, marks this space and place with historical encryptions, the smallest tensions, that refuse a “blanking out” of history.

Bridget Baker lives and works in London and Cape Town (b.1971, East London, South Africa). Her work is situated at the intersection of documentary and myth creation, forming a series of complex visual fragments realised through filmmaking, installation and performed re-stagings. Baker’s practise and visual language, whilst based on in-depth research into personal and public modes of representation within colonial and postcolonial narratives remains characteristically speculative, nomadic and estranging. Occupying the realm of the imaginary, the characters in her films, installations and photographs are spliced into roles as presences / witnesses / mirrors that enact lost memory within those peripheral places blind spotted by “official” history making.

The Remains of the Father: Fragments of a Trilogy (Transhumance) is an experimental film and installation. It considers marginally remembered Italian colonial history in Eritrea and Ethiopia between 1930 and 1941. An Eritrean researcher Lula Teclehaimanot discovers an archive of non-official ethnographic literature collected by a Bolognese couple Giovanni Ellero and Maria Pia Pezzoli who had worked for the ?Ministry of Italian Africa? in Eritrea and Ethiopia during that period. Lula has been tasked by the municipality of Asmara to translate from Amharic into Tigryna: A contribution to the birth of the colonial style, an unpublished manuscript written by Ellero promoting the rationale of a modernist Ethiopian architectural vernacular. While she works Lula listens to a radio interview conducted in Italian, Tigryna and Amharic about the contemporary relevance of proverbs in Eritrean and Ethiopian societies. Set within a single room of a derelict house in Bologna which had been built for retired fascist army officials, is also the imagined office of Ellero. Many of the documents laying about the office; Eritrean and Ethiopian proverbs, hand drawn maps, and family emblems and curiously amongst these are the traces of her own family history, collated by Ellero before she was born.

Bridget Baker is an artist from South Africa. She is based in London and Cape Town. Baker?s work is situated at the intersection of documentary and myth creation, forming a series of complex visual fragments realized through film making, installation and documented re-stagings. Baker`s practice and visual language, while based on in-depth research, is often speculative and nomadic, seldom offering a finite position on events or histories. Her work has been exhibited extensively but also at The Museum of African Art (NYC), MAMbo (Bologna, Italy) Centro des Artes Contemporanea (Burgos, Spain), Palazzo delle Papesse (Siena, Italy), Neue Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (Cape Town), Bow Arts Centre (London), Glasgow Film Festival (Scotland), Dak?art 2012 (Senegal), Wapping Project (London), South African National Gallery (Cape Town), the South Africa National Arts Festival (Grahamstown, South Africa), and the Oberhausen Short Film Festival (Germany).

A surreal take on two people longing to bond through movement. The setting is a bygone velodrome, the Albert Richter track in Cologne. Without words, VELODROME evokes a poetic and eerie liminal space. It portrays a pursuit of communication, a permanent interruption. A moment of encounter without meeting.

Pariya Bakhshi, (they/she) born 1997 in Hiroshima, is an Iranian filmmaker and artist. Pariya lives in Germany and has been studying film at the 2019 studying film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She grew up in Iran, Tehran and studied design at the Tehran University of Fine Arts. One of her main themes is freedom and exile, which she explores in her autobiographical essay film Displaced in Time. For her, the act of making art and film becomes political, among other things by breaking conventions and media boundaries. In her feature films, she translates the unspoken from our reality into a surreal film world, through the expression of the body, beyond language. Pariya therefore works mainly with dancers, as in Katzenbellen, L , VELODROME and ANAMORPHOSIS. Blanca Barbat : I am a multidisciplinary artist. My creative praxis can take the form of films, installations, drawings, performances, and more. I'm particularly intrigued by the concept of 'bodies,' often exploring their boundaries, especially their thresholds, and their role in the ever-evolving narrative of our transforming reality. I perceive myself as both an expression of the world and a spectator within it. I connect with concepts like the rhizome and the collective unconscious.

Les visiteurs sont invités à s?asseoir dans des fauteuils ou dans des canapés alors qu?autour d?eux des femmes s?adressent à quelqu?un d?autre. Leurs interlocuteurs sont des proches, des parents. Pourtant elles ont cessé d?avoir des liens avec ces personnes à cause de l?émigration de leurs enfants : un petit-fils qu?une des femmes n?a pas vu grandir; un beau-fils qu?une autre n?a pas choisi ou dont elle n?a pas approuvé le choix; un enfant qui a émigré; dans un des cas apparaît trois générations. Une certaine intimité, mais parfois également un léger malaise, est caractéristique de la situation. On peut quelquefois entendre la voix de la deuxième personne, d?autres fois, non. L?intimité dans les films est accentué non seulement par le sujet traité (le départ d?un enfant parti pour l?Europe de l?Ouest) mais aussi parce-que ces mères parlent à une personne qui leur est chère. Par ailleurs, la réalisatrice prépare sa prise de vue, allume sa caméra et sort de la pièce, et revient seulement après le temps imparti. Cette renonciation d?autorité, le fait de laisser le hasard faire, et la relation entre les deux personnes rendent le film particulièrement éfficace. Quelque chose se passe entre les deux interlocuteurs, grâce aux conditions du tournage et non aux indications de la réalisatrice. Cet aspect performatif met en avant l?intérêt du procédé, lequel est également mis en question lors du visionnage.

Mieke Bal, critique culturel et théoricienne, occupe le poste de Professeur de Sciences à la Royal Dutch Academy (KNAW). Elle est également Professeur de Théorie Littéraire et directrice de la Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (ASCA) à l?Université d?Amsterdam. Ses domaines de prédilection sont les théories littéraires, la sémiotique, l?art visuel, les théories post-coloniales, les théories féministes, la langue française, la Bible hébraïque, le 17ème siècle et la culture contemporaine. C?est également une artiste vidéo. Elle a publié de nombreux livres : A Mieke Bal Reader, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006,Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2002; Louise Bourgeois? Spider: The Architecture of Art-writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2001; Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999; Reading "Rembrandt": Beyond the Word-Image Opposition, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991. Un Mieke Bal Reader vient de paraîtreaux éditions Chicago University Press. Son installation vidéo Nothing is Missing est actuellement présentée à travers le monde.

Ihab (31 ans), un universitaire palestinien vivant à Amsterdam, se prépare à un voyage pour rendre visite à sa famille à Gaza, pour la première fois depuis quatre ans, et pour faire des recherches sur le terrain. Gary (28 ans), un artiste irlandais vivant également à Amsterdam, compte accompagner Ihab et filmer la réunion de celui-ci avec sa famille, les interviews avec les informateurs, et l'évolution du projet d'Ihab : étudier le souvenir culturel en Palestine d'Al Nakba, la catastrophe de 1948. Alors qu'ils se préparent pour le voyage, Ihab et Gary se rapprochent. Mais, une fois arrivés à l'aéroport du Caire, l'arrestation et l'expulsion d'Ihab les séparent. Dès lors, le film alterne des panoramas des voyages des deux hommes. Tandis qu'Ihab mène ses recherches avec détermination et engagement, Gary est dépassé par sa première rencontre avec la culture arabe. Il tourne en rond, n'ayant rien d'autre à faire qu'attendre de pouvoir rentrer à Amsterdam. Ihab, au contraire, travaille frénétiquement, mais ne peut partir à la date prévue, Israël ayant fermé les frontières. Ce film utilise les métaphores du voyage et des rencontres manquées comme réflexion méditative sur les rencontres interculturelles entre Arabes et habitants de l'Ouest désireux, mais pas toujours capables, de se comprendre.

Mieke Bal, critique culturel et théoricienne, occupe le poste de Professeur de Sciences à la Royal Dutch Academy (KNAW). Elle est également Professeur de Théorie Littéraire, et directrice fondatrice de l'Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (ASCA) à l'Université d'Amsterdam. Parmi ses centres d'intérêt, on peut citer : la théorie littéraire, la sémiotique, l'art visuel, les études culturelles, la théorie post coloniale, la théorie féministe, le français, la Bible hébraïque, le XVIIe siècle et la culture contemporaine. Elle est aussi artiste vidéo. Parmi ses nombreux livres on trouve : Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide, Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2002; Louise Bourgeois? Spider: The Architecture of Art-writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2001; Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History, Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1999; Reading "Rembrandt": Beyond the Word-Image Opposition, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1991. La parution d'un recueil est prévue par la Chicago University Press.

Inauguré fin 2004 à Bucarest en Roumanie, le MNAC (Musée National d`Art Contemporain) occupe les 16000m² de l?aile E4 de l?immense Palais du Parlement, deuxième bâtiment le plus grand du monde après le Pentagone. Connu aussi sous les sobriquets de "palais du peuple" ou de "palais de Ceausescu", le Palais du Parlement est une véritable projection pornographique du pouvoir, une érection mégalomaniaque. Lieu marqué par une histoire totalitaire, le Palais, après avoir accueilli le Parlement roumain et un centre international de conférences, accueil aujourd?hui un espace dédié à la dynamique des idées et au dialogue artistique. Le MNAC est un projet ambitieux. Un projet pris au piège de la situation roumaine, instable et toujours proche de la régression. Un musée d?art contemporain gigantesque, le plus grand de l?Europe de l?Est, avant-gardiste et novateur qui doit réussir à faire le lien entre une population "provinciale", qui reste à éduquer, et sa programmation ambitieuse. Le MNAC est le fruit de l?opiniâtreté de quelques personnalités roumaines d?envergures, Mihai Oroveanu, Directeur Général du musée qui a porté pendant plus de dix ans le projet, et Ruxandra Balaci, sa Directrice Artistique et Scientifique. Aujourd?hui, le conseil d?administration du musée est peuplé d?une véritable dream team internationale, où siège Ami Barak (conservateur et Président de l?International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art), René Block (Directeur de la Kunsthalle Fridericianum de Kassel), Nicolas Bourriaud (Co-Directeur du Palais de Tokyo à Paris), Heiner Holtappels (Directeur du Netherlands Media Art Institute ? Montevideo/TBA à Amsterdam), Anders Kreuger (Conservateur indépendant et ex- directeur du Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art de Stockholm), Enrico Lunghi (Directeur du Casino Luxembourg, Forum d`Art Contemporain à Luxembourg) et Catherine Millet (Directrice d`Artpress). Le MNAC se voit comme un espace vivant, malléable et polémique, un espace animé par un réseau d?intellectuels dans lequel l?Est et l?Ouest sont des partenaires, un laboratoire ouvert à la recherche dans le domaine du visuel.

Critique et commissaire d?expo, Ruxandra Balaci a dirigé la Galerie Gad à Bucarest, en Roumanie. Aujourd?hui, elle est co-rédactrice de la revue Artelier et la directrice adjointe, ainsi que la directrice scientifique et artistique, du Musée National d?Art Contemporain(MNAC) de Bucarest.

Un homme vit reclus depuis trente ans dans une forêt en France. Il creuse en solitaire de profondes galeries souterraines qu?il orne de gravures archaïques. Elles doivent résister à la catastrophe planétaire annoncée et éclairer, par leurs messages clairvoyants, les futurs habitants. Le film raconte cette expérience en marge de la société moderne, affectée par la misère humaine et la perte définitive d?un monde parfait.

Antoine Boutet est basé à Montreuil, France. Artiste et réalisateur, ses films récents incluent les documentaires ZONE OF INITIAL DILUTION (2006) et CONSERVATION-CONVERSATION (2005) ainsi que les vidéo expérimentales UTOPIA (2005) et PLUS OU MOINS (2003). Il développe actuellement un projet de long-métrage documentaire intitulé VOIES DE TRAVERSE qui se tournera en Chine en 2010. Ses récentes vidéo-installations et oeuvres dans l`espace public ont été présentées à la Pratt Manhattan Gallery/ New York, Biennale de Selest`Art, Galerie des Filles-du-Calvaire/ Paris, Kunstraum Walcheturm/ Zürich, Lianzhou International Photo Festival/Chine, Ateliers des Arques, Musée d`Art Contemporain les Abattoirs/ Toulouse, Festival Estudio Abierto/ Buenos Aires. Il participera en 2009 à la manifestation Le Printemps de Septembre à Toulouse avec le film LE PLEIN PAYS.

A travers la vidéo « Continuum », Raphaël BALBONI cherche a déceler la réalité. Son intention est de ne pas réduire celle-ci à une valeur d?usage, en créant des décalages par des séparations des éléments, des scissions, dans un espace dit naturel. Une route traversant une forêt implique une vide central entre les deux parties de la forêt que cette route traverse. Un vide qui se divise en quatre pour rejoindre l?intérieur de quatre troncs évidés ; eux-même en mouvement. En partant du mouvement des quatre troncs évidés, repartir sur quatre arbres dans quatre forêts où l?on accède par quatre routes différentes. La vidéo ici travaille le regard dans le mouvement continuel, des trajectoires sans commencement ni fin. Ce pour rendre le regard actif. Filmer en prenant comme point d?appui quatre troncs, quatre lunes, quatre routes différentes, pour délocaliser le regard. Un exotisme en mouvement qui ne ramène pas à une unité de lieu, donc de regard mais pousse celui-ci en continuum à l?intérieur de l?univers dont il est parti. L?auteur travaille ici sur la segmentation : les troncs segmentés en bûches évidées, - pour inclure le regard immédiatement dans le monde par des séquences, des interstices et ainsi petit à petit le regard s?éprouve comme immergé, intégré dans un univers dans lequel il circule tout comme le fait la caméra tout au long de la vidéo. Un regard, une ?uvre qui ne se constituent plus à partir du paysage, un regard, une ?uvre où l?horizon est mis a distance. Une regard, une ?uvre où les vitesses de rotation d?une voiture (par les tournants), de rotation du monde (gravitation, cycle lunaires et végétaux), de rotation d?un tronc segmentés en bûches évidées (cycle de croissance propre à l?arbre qui se dessine en spirale, par la double action de la gravitation et de la photosynthèse) sont captées par des images en mouvement. Quelque chose qui opère de façon juste et nécessaire parce que seule à ce jour, la vidéo permet une telle saisie de la réalité en mouvement. En devenir consistant?

Raphaël Balboni est né à Troyes (France) en 1978 et réside actuellement à Bruxelles (Belgique). Il est actuellement étudiant. Il obtient en 1998 une licence en Arts du spectacle et cinéma à Paris. De 2001-2005 il étudie à l?IDA (Institut des Arts et de la Diffusion). En 2002-2003 il suit également des cours à l?Académie Royale des Beaux-arts de Bruxelles. Depuis 2000 il a réalisé et monté nombreuses ?uvres et documentaires, présentés en Europe, par exemple le Centre d?Art Contemporain Passage, le Centre Culturel Canadien à Paris, la galerie Cour Caché à Paris ou encore à l?Institut Supérieur de l?Etude du Langage Plastique à Bruxelles. En 2004 il réalise avec Cécile Masart une vidéo, "Le site de Soulaines-Dhuys", sur le site de traitements de déchets nucléaires de l?ANDRA. En 2004 Raphaël Balboni réalise avec Anne Herbaut un film d?animation en 16mm, "Et Jean s?est perdu dans ses pensées".

Filmed on the former grounds of Black Mountain College, Looking Backward is a brief elegy to the legacy of a utopian college and other impossible projects.

Ben Balcom is a filmmaker and educator currently living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is the co-founder and programmer of Microlights Cinema, an artist-run microcinema which has been operating since 2013 and has hosted artists from around the world. Recently, his films have taken a lyrical approach to documenting the spaces and legacies of now-defunct experimental schools. Prior to that he made a series of introspective landscape films that engaged with Milwaukee’s progressive political past and contemporary anxieties about the future. Earlier films used abstraction to explore the tensions between perception and communication, with a reflexive attention on the medium itself. These films have been exhibited around the world at venues and festivals such as The Museum of Moving Image, European Media Arts Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, IndieLisboa, Media City Film Festival, Alchemy Film, and Slamdance. The films have received awards at Onion City Film Festival, Athens International Film & Video Festival, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. Recently, Balcom was a fellow at the Center for 21st Century Studies at UW-Milwaukee.

Inspired by the story of British serial killer Dennis Nilsen, Loverboy operates as a meditation on the dark side of human intimacy. The project’s approach rejects moral simplifications, offering a narrative that is less a linear story than an immersive dissection of isolation and obsession. Recurring dialogues, eerie distortions, and environmental shifts that envelope the viewer in a claustrophobic cycle of increasingly fractured reality. Designed to linger like an emotional imprint, Loverboy challenges viewers to exit the refuge of orderly modern life and confront the fragility of human empathy and connection.

Nicholas Baldas is a writer, director, and producer whose creative work utilises cutting-edge technology to explore the prohibited boundaries of human experience through psychological immersion. The Heraclitian principle "life is flux" is the only constant in his creative pursuits, his collaborator Michael Plumb is a writer, filmmaker and performer. He has a Phd in Econometrics from University of Oxford. His creative focus is on the art of storytelling, drawing on his background in academia and public policy to explore questions about society and humankind. Michael is fascinated by exploring different media - old and new - to bring stories to life and reach new audiences.

Concrete Heart Land exposes the social cleansing of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, South London. It marks the moment that the estate was finally lost as social housing to make way for an unjust `regeneration` scheme. Assembled from 12 years of archive materials the film charts the struggles of the local community to keep their homes, stay living in the area, and maintain communal benefits in the face of the advance of this now notorious `urban redevelopment programme`. Throughout the film we hear the community engaging in some of the crucial battles with elected officials, planners, and barristers in municipal planning meetings, public enquiries, and interviews. Weaving through these recordings is a performance staged in 2012 on the then still inhabited estate. An assembled group of past and present residents, community activists, and critics of the Heygate plans chant texts composed from phrases used in the Regeneration Masterplan. The performances parody the technical language of regeneration and the aspirational language of gentrification. Over the course of 2012 and 2013 we filmed panoramic video images of the estate and interiors of some of the Heygate flats, all of which feature in the film.

Steven Ball`s current practice engages with landscape and spatial representation, in local and global, social, political and post-colonial spheres. He also writes about contemporary and historical moving-image related practice, and curates screenings and exhibitions. Since 2003 he has been Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where he was instrumental in developing the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection. He is also a member of the legendary post-punk DIY group Storm Bugs. www.steven-ball.net Rastko Novaković used to be a filmmaker. He has made over 30 moving image works, from one minute to feature-length videos, panoramas, open-air cinemas, documentaries, lyrical films, campaigning videos, documented performances, interventions in histories and spaces. His works include April Showers (2011) a docu-fiction about a student terrorist group at University College London and lebensraum | living space (2009) which stages a Yugoslav war diary on the streets of London. He now spends most of his time organising at his workplace and with different communities. www.rastko.co.uk

The War on Television est réalisé presque entièrement à partir d?images diffusées à la télévision, et plus particulièrement, provenant de problèmes d?interférences dans les transmissions utilisant la technologie numérique. Ces interférences sont retravaillées et manipulées de manière aléatoire, au moyen de différentes techniques d?altération numérique, qui accentuent encore la fragmentation par à coup. La vénération pour la perfection numérique, l?autorité et la fiabilité des informations 24 heures sur 24 à la télévision deviennent des abstractions, maltraitées dans le flot de bruit discordant et de balbutiement incohérent. Une célébration d?une antiesthétique numérique, de l?entropie de l?excès et de la faillibilité.

Steven Ball réalise des films, vidéos, du son et des installations depuis le début des années 80 A la fin des années 80, il a migré par mégarde vers Melbourne, en Australie. Il y a poursuivi son travail faisant de nombreux films et vidéos, a fait des travaux sonores et des installations. Il y a exercé diverses activités dans l?art militant, en tant que conservateur, dans l?administration, dans l?enseignement et l?écriture. Depuis son retour au Royaume-Uni en 2000, il travaille principalement la vidéo numérique, en réalisant une série de travaux qui, parmi d?autres choses, sont particulièrement liées aux processus numériques et à la représentation spatiale. Steven Ball est actuellement chercheur attaché à la AHRB British Artists` Film and Video Study Collection (Recueil pour l?Etude des Films et Vidéos d?Artistes Britanniques), au Central Saint Martins College of Art and design de Londres. Ses vidéos ont été projetées notamment au Festival d?Oberhausen, aux Pays-Bas, au World Wide Video Festival d?Amsterdam, à Impakt, Utrecht ; en Suisse à Videoex, Zurich; à Viper, Bâle. Les Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin présentent depuis plusieurs années le travail de Steven Ball.

Concrete Heart Land exposes the social cleansing of the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, South London. It marks the moment that the estate was finally lost as social housing to make way for an unjust `regeneration` scheme. Assembled from 12 years of archive materials the film charts the struggles of the local community to keep their homes, stay living in the area, and maintain communal benefits in the face of the advance of this now notorious `urban redevelopment programme`. Throughout the film we hear the community engaging in some of the crucial battles with elected officials, planners, and barristers in municipal planning meetings, public enquiries, and interviews. Weaving through these recordings is a performance staged in 2012 on the then still inhabited estate. An assembled group of past and present residents, community activists, and critics of the Heygate plans chant texts composed from phrases used in the Regeneration Masterplan. The performances parody the technical language of regeneration and the aspirational language of gentrification. Over the course of 2012 and 2013 we filmed panoramic video images of the estate and interiors of some of the Heygate flats, all of which feature in the film.

Steven Ball`s current practice engages with landscape and spatial representation, in local and global, social, political and post-colonial spheres. He also writes about contemporary and historical moving-image related practice, and curates screenings and exhibitions. Since 2003 he has been Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design where he was instrumental in developing the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection. He is also a member of the legendary post-punk DIY group Storm Bugs. www.steven-ball.net Rastko Novaković used to be a filmmaker. He has made over 30 moving image works, from one minute to feature-length videos, panoramas, open-air cinemas, documentaries, lyrical films, campaigning videos, documented performances, interventions in histories and spaces. His works include April Showers (2011) a docu-fiction about a student terrorist group at University College London and lebensraum | living space (2009) which stages a Yugoslav war diary on the streets of London. He now spends most of his time organising at his workplace and with different communities. www.rastko.co.uk

The War on Television est réalisé presque entièrement à partir d?images diffusées à la télévision, et plus particulièrement, provenant de problèmes d?interférences dans les transmissions utilisant la technologie numérique. Ces interférences sont retravaillées et manipulées de manière aléatoire, au moyen de différentes techniques d?altération numérique, qui accentuent encore la fragmentation par à coup. La vénération pour la perfection numérique, l?autorité et la fiabilité des informations 24 heures sur 24 à la télévision deviennent des abstractions, maltraitées dans le flot de bruit discordant et de balbutiement incohérent. Une célébration d?une antiesthétique numérique, de l?entropie de l?excès et de la faillibilité.

Steven Ball réalise des films, vidéos, du son et des installations depuis le début des années 80 A la fin des années 80, il a migré par mégarde vers Melbourne, en Australie. Il y a poursuivi son travail faisant de nombreux films et vidéos, a fait des travaux sonores et des installations. Il y a exercé diverses activités dans l?art militant, en tant que conservateur, dans l?administration, dans l?enseignement et l?écriture. Depuis son retour au Royaume-Uni en 2000, il travaille principalement la vidéo numérique, en réalisant une série de travaux qui, parmi d?autres choses, sont particulièrement liées aux processus numériques et à la représentation spatiale. Steven Ball est actuellement chercheur attaché à la AHRB British Artists` Film and Video Study Collection (Recueil pour l?Etude des Films et Vidéos d?Artistes Britanniques), au Central Saint Martins College of Art and design de Londres. Ses vidéos ont été projetées notamment au Festival d?Oberhausen, aux Pays-Bas, au World Wide Video Festival d?Amsterdam, à Impakt, Utrecht ; en Suisse à Videoex, Zurich; à Viper, Bâle. Les Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin présentent depuis plusieurs années le travail de Steven Ball.