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Le marquis de Sade et ses écrits (sélectionnés parmi les diatribes philosophiques imprégnant sa correspondance et ses romans), associés aux dialogues critiques d'écrivains et d'académiciens influencés par son oeuvre : tout ceci est l'origine du parfum enivrant pénétrant les pensées et teintant les actes de trois membres d'une famille aristocratique. Leur résidence secondaire est une élégante demeure provençale au milieu de champs de lavande et d'oliviers, au-dessous de la forteresse étincelante du château du marquis au sommet de la colline. Errant dans les ruines des fortifications, autrefois châteaux, chacun des personnages joue une des facettes de la philosophie du marquis de Sade : ils s'adonnent à tous les plaisirs grisants de la chair et de l'abondance, avant de s'effacer (tôt ou tard, selon les lois de la Nature) devant leur inévitable destin. Le film est à voir et à comprendre selon deux niveaux : premièrement sous un angle narratif, dans lequel chaque personnage agit et réagit en fonction des autres et de son environnement, et deuxièmement, en tant qu'analyse des différents rôles au sein de la famille (en particulier la relation de la réalisatrice/fille avec sa famille). Dans les deux cas, le marquis de Sade et son écriture deviennent le terrain et le langage par lesquels toute communication est possible, faisant disparaitre toutes les barrières pesonnelles et sociales de la condition humaine et du secret.

Sabine Gruffat, artiste visuelle, vit actuellement entre Détroit et Paris. Elle a appris à faire des films à l'Ecole de Design de Rhode Island et à la School of the Art Institute de Chicago. Ses films et vidéos ont été projetés dans des galeries et des salles d'art et d'essai dont : AS220 à Providence (Rhode Island), PDX Film Festival à Portland (Oregon), Discount Cinema et The Ice Factory à Chicago (Illinois), et plus récemment Hull screen (Royaume Uni), The Gene Siskel Film Center, The Gramercy Theater, et Anthology Film Archives à New York. Ses photographies et installations vidéos ont été exposées à la galerie Zolla Lieberman à Chicago, Art in General à New York, Rochester Art Center et le centre culturel Telemar au Brésil Quand elle n'enseigne pas à Détroit, elle part en voyage, redécouvre les évènements et monuments historiques, et se déguise.

Katharina Gruzei combines a sociopolitical issue and a precise formal concept, which is rare in experimental film. Inspired by the Lumière brothers? first film, La sortie de l?usine Lumière à Lyon, which shows a large number of workers leaving their factory?s gate, Gruzei begins in the interior, in a passageway (made to seem incredibly long by the editing) that emerges from the darkness. More and more of them walk down the dark, flickering hallway. By these scenes the weirdness of the space and the menacing quality of a mass of people who could form a resistance movement becomes increasingly evident. All relevant questions concerning the on-the-job reality experienced by these workers, most of whom are women, can be formulated by means of association: Is it nighttime when they leave the factory? What kind of work do they have to do? What do female laborers earn these days? How long does it take them to get home from this monstrous factory, and when will it be moved to a low-wage country?

born 1983 Studies of Experimental Art and Cultural Studies at the University of the Arts in Linz, Austria. Studies abroad at the Art Department of the Universtiy of California Santa Barbara and at the University of Fine Arts Berlin for Visual Cultural Studies in the class of Katharina Sieverding. Katharina Gruzei works with photography, film, video, installations, media-performances, sound and objects. Working conceptually, she experiments between these disciplines and arrives at an unique crossover language.

Un psycho-physicien met au point une expérience paranormale avec un train électrique, tandis que son fils s`adonne à sa passion pour le football. Puis, soudain, après des milliers d`essais, alors que le scientifique est absent, son installation produit un effet significatif, indiqué par une simple ampoule. Du pur hasard ?

The filmmaker and artist Romeo Grünfelder (* 1968) MA in Music, Philosophy, Media and Visual Communication. He was a fellow of Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades and in 2008 he received a art grant from the city of Hamburg. He teaches drama and philosophy at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He lives and works in Hamburg. 
Grünfelder?s work was shown in exhibition context and at international film and media festivals. His awarded shortfilms are experimental documentaries in the broadest sense, oscillating between documentary and fine art. His main focus is on paranormal topics. Grünfelder?s work is represented by the Short Film Agency Hamburg, the Berlin gallery Kunstagenten as well as by the gallery Ruzicska-Weiss, Dusseldorf.

"Lots" est une vidéo en 24 scènes. L'artiste développe son alter ego à travers une série d'esquisses reliées les unes aux autres, qui sont montrées tour à tour pour former la base d'une exposition. Les vidéos sont comme de petites capsules, traitant de sujets tels que les relations familiales, l'identité, la mythologie du soi, la maladie, la mort et la nature de l'effort créatif. Ses grandes réflexions sur la vie sont traversées d'anecdotes comiques et personnelles.

Milutin Gubash est né à Novi Sad, en Yougoslavie. Il vit à Montréal, au Québec, depuis 2006. Il a monté de nombreuses expositions au Canada, aux Etats-Unis et en Europe. Il utilise la photographie, la vidéo et la représentation, en faisant souvent participer des membres de sa famille ou des amis. Le fait d'être loin de sa propre culture l'oblige à questionner et à réinventer sa propre cosmologie. Les anecdotes autobiographiques, les potins et les insinuations forment le matériau réel et fantasmé qu'il utilise pour représenter les caprices de la vie d'artiste.

Language Lesson (2016) intercuts two tracking shots -- a shaky handheld approach to the Yugoslav dictator’s mausoleum, with a smooth following shot of my Yugoslav mother walking through her Canadian apartment corridor, and entering the small living quarters in which she will almost certainly pass the remainder of her days. If she’s not exactly an exile, she’s certainly cut off from her past, her friends, the sites where she grew up and feels most familiar, or so we may imagine just upon hearing her accent, which comes in the form of voiceover, where she gives us a little lesson in speaking Serbian. She says things like, “This is here, this is mine, this is shit, I don’t like this…”, alternating in English, then Serbian (subtitled in French). The thoughts expressed range from neutral, to (perhaps) happy, to disappointed or displeased. As she walks, her thoughts seem to change. Similarly, a change happens on the approach to the mausoleum, which at first appears lavish, in sparkling marble. We don’t know at first where we are, other than in a cemetery, the burial site of someone very esteemed, wealthy, important. After short bursts of the approach, we eventually see the name of Tito, which perhaps causes us to reflect on opulence in a land where there was seldom plenty. The camera drops quickly to the ground, where we apprehend a struggle between a colony of ants, which crawl in and out of the cracks in the marble base of the crypt, each fighting for the corpse of a fly. Notions of sacrifice and fellowship in the common pursuit of attaining a progressive, egalitarian social order, rapidly give way to an each-for-their-own, eat-or-be-eaten state of affairs.

Milutin Gubash est né à Novi Sad (Serbie) et vit à Montréal (Canada) depuis 2005. Il a présenté des expositions au Québec, au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe y compris au Musée d’art contemporain (2007) et une rétrospective coproduites par six institutions au travers le Canada (Rodman Hall Art Centre 2011, Carleton University Art Gallery 2012, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 2012, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 2012, Musée d’art de Joliette 2012 et Fonderie Darling 2013). Sa pratique englobe la photographie, la vidéo et la performance et inclut souvent la participation de sa famille et amis qui incarnent une version d’eux-mêmes dans des feuilletons maison, des réinterprétations historiques et de pièces de théâtre improvisées. Par des moyens simples et des gestes souvent absurdes, Gubash questionne nos suppositions au sujet des récits de nos propres identités, histoires et environnements.

In Vesna At the Monument (2016), a humble middle aged woman appears on the site of a dilapidated, in-the-middle-of-nowhere monument, erected likely in the time when she was youthful and at her most optimistic. The monument was commissioned in order to commemorate the heroic actions of common citizens in their struggle against fascism, and desire to promote and participate in a progressive, utopic state. She shuffles past the monument, and sits to smoke a cigarette. Off screen, a voice is heard, asking her questions such as what is the meaning of this place, this monument, this moment. She does not answer, as though she does not hear the question, even while acknowledging the camera, and the voice itself. It could, one supposes, be the voice of the cameraman or director, a voice in the subject’s own head, perhaps the voice of the monument itself, trying to ascertain the meaning of itself in this day and age. It gets no reply, and eventually (perhaps fed up with the question), she simply leaves, with the interlocutor left in his own uncertainty. The video seems to reject or deny a past, while expressing grave uncertainty to the future.

Milutin Gubash est né à Novi Sad (Serbie) et vit à Montréal (Canada) depuis 2005. Il a présenté des expositions au Québec, au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Europe y compris au Musée d’art contemporain (2007) et une rétrospective coproduites par six institutions au travers le Canada (Rodman Hall Art Centre 2011, Carleton University Art Gallery 2012, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 2012, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 2012, Musée d’art de Joliette 2012 et Fonderie Darling 2013). Sa pratique englobe la photographie, la vidéo et la performance et inclut souvent la participation de sa famille et amis qui incarnent une version d’eux-mêmes dans des feuilletons maison, des réinterprétations historiques et de pièces de théâtre improvisées. Par des moyens simples et des gestes souvent absurdes, Gubash questionne nos suppositions au sujet des récits de nos propres identités, histoires et environnements.

La vidéo « The Death of Peter Fechter » est un documentaire sur une performance live unique, une reconstitution de l'assassinat de Peter Fechter, un citoyen de la RDA âgé de 18 ans, touché par balle et mortellement blessé lors d?une tentative d'évasion au dessus du mur de Berlin le 17 août 1962. Même si Peter n'a été ni le premier, ni le dernier à mourir dans une telle tentative d?échappement, il s?agit là d?un moment important dans l'histoire du mur. Son histoire a fait la une de la presse mondiale, car, après avoir été la cible de nombreux tirs et frappes, il est retombé dans le no man?s land, où il est resté étendu pendant une heure en appelant à l'aide et en perdant lentement son sang jusqu?à la mort, tandis que la foule de Berlin-Ouest réunie contre le mur tentait de convaincre les gardes de l'aider. Des deux côtés du mur, les gardiens ne se sont pas déplacés pour lui porter secours.

Mark Gubb est né en 1974, il vit et travaille actuellement à Nottingham (Royaume-Uni). Il travaille avec toute une gamme de médias, notamment la sculpture, la vidéo, le son, les installations et la performance. Parmi ses récents projets et ses expositions, citons notamment « Out of Bounds: The 5 Codes Tours » ? une nouvelle commission pour la Cornerhouse de Manchester (Royaume-Uni) dans le cadre du lancement de l?Olympiade culturelle ?, « Here Today », « Gone Tomorrow », « The City Gallery », « Leicester » et « The Death of Peter Fechter » ? pour l?Institute of Contemporary Arts de Londres (Royaume-Uni). Il a été invité dans de nombreuses résidences artistiques, notamment par la Cove Park Production Residency de Cove Park (Écosse) en 2008, l?Arts Council England International Fellow, le Bunkier Sztuki de Cracovie (Pologne) en 2005, le Wheatley Fellowship du BIAD de Birmingham (Royaume-Uni) en 2004, et le Romantic Detachment du PS1 Contemporary Art Center du MoMA de New York (USA) en 2004.

The Guajira is a borderland peninsula between Colombia and Venezuela of resolute natives as well as disinherited adventurers. Some there take advantage of the peripheral territory to smuggle through isolated ports and over rugged landscape. They write their rebellious proclamation in the sands of crisscrossing desert paths and their rusted motors accompany their solitary voices with an unorthodox music, animating their indiscipline and adhesion to pure movement.

Chris Gude (1985, New York) studied geography and anthropology at Middlebury College. His first film, MAMBO COOL (2013), exhibited at FIDMarseille, Viennale, Punto de Vista, Mar del Plata, Cartagena, among others. His second film, MARIANA (2017), also premiered at FIDMarseille and won Best Director at the Ourense International Film Festival.

Portrait expérimental de la ville comme expérience d`elle-même : les images sont trop intenses et parfois le bruit infernal. Indie Lisboa. Festival de Cinema Indépendant de Lisbonne, 2004.

The images of a virgin Argentina, out from a private photographic archive, become present landscape: the river, the forest, the road: everything seems unchanged... except a ruined cotton factory, ghost of the collapse of a model of development imported from Europe, which is now a few teenager`s playground.

Caterina Gueli an italo-argentinean director/editor based in Paris. ?La Fabril? is a work in progress, through which she deepens the research engaged in her precedent two short films : Resistencia (Premio Avanti! Torino Film Festival 2007, Best Soundtrack Genova Film Festival 2008, etc.) and Somewhere (2009). She has participated to the realization of Il Canto dei Nuovi Emigranti (Best Documentary Torino Film Festival 2005) and In Attesa dell`Avvento (Best Short Film - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2011 ? Orizzonti) of Felice D`Agostino and Arturo Lavorato.

Man: Sometimes in the night I lose my mind (2011) This work was part of the project ?Between Iloca and Dichato.? It tried to capture, by means of a trip, the marginal and unmediated consequences of the Chilean Tsunami, one year later. It´s a choral story of the experience from interviews with people who witnessed the wave. The video shows ideas, abstractions and derivations of what happened that night, putting the emphasis on the paradoxical perception of the people; between humor and tragedy. A fragmented narrative emerges naturally from the memory pieces of the people.

Rafael Guendelman, was born in Santiago of Chile, in 1987. Bachelor in Visual Arts and degree on Theory of Cinema from Catholic University, Chile. In the same University has been Teacher Assistant in the Video Art and Workshop classes for several years. Rafael works as a visual artist and video maker. He has participated in group exhibits and video screenings in Chile, the USA, France, Israel, Palestinian territories and others. This year he has been living in/between Middle East and Europe, filming in the Palestinian territories and Israel, and participating in the international residency program of ZK/U, The ?Center for arts and Urbanistics? in Berlin.

Landscape: My feet at night, the sea on my feet (2012) This work was born as a late work from the project ?Between Iloca and Dichato? which tried to capture, by means of a trip, the marginal and unmediated consequences of the Chilean Tsunami, one year later. The space reveals the weight of time, where in the year since the Tsunami things haven´t changed radically. Compared with ?Man?, this video focuses on the landscape using steady and long shots as a strategy to capture those ?after? spaces. The silence of the field, contrasted with the government speech; the Sea goes up and down, the man is just a viewer, or another piece from the picture.

Rafael Guendelman, was born in Santiago of Chile, in 1987. Bachelor in Visual Arts and degree on Theory of Cinema from Catholic University, Chile. In the same University has been Teacher Assistant in the Video Art and Workshop classes for several years. Rafael works as a visual artist and video maker. He has participated in group exhibits and video screenings in Chile, the USA, France, Israel, Palestinian territories and others. This year he has been living in/between Middle East and Europe, filming in the Palestinian territories and Israel, and participating in the international residency program of ZK/U, the ?Center for arts and Urbanistics? in Berlin.

PARAÍSO est une évocation poétique d'un pays et de sa mémoire historique, un portrait intime de la vie contemporaine en Colombie. Le grain doux du Super 8 fait vibrer la réalité d'un pays plongé dans une guerre sans fin.

Felipe Guerrero est né en 1975 en Colombie et vit à Buenos Aires. Il a étudié le montage au Centre Expérimental de Cinématographie de Rome et travaille comme monteur en Europe et en Amérique Latine.

Through the means of a still fixed camera and the rhythmic strengtht granted by on-camera editing; Corta is a film centered upon the hypnotic extenuation generated by the body movements of sugar cane cutters. A contemplation of the frenziness and softness of the performatic gestures of hand labour while the surrounding plantations act as an omnipresent backdrop as the canes disappear. Corta is a pure cinematic experience about the natural and everyday ritual of a timeless world.

Felipe Guerrero holds a degree in Film Editing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, in Rome, Italy. As an editor he has worked in internationally exhibited and award-winning films. In 2006 he made his directing debut with the documentary Paraíso, which was awarded at FID Marseille. Corta is his second film. He lives in Buenos Aires.

A mission in the middle of the Colombian jungle. Time seems to have stopped. There is something sinister in the air. The ambiance is tense. Hot and humid. A man surrounded by an environment that burns himfrom the inside. Power, poetry, violence. Everything happens in an instant, leaving everyone breathless.

Director and editor Felipe Guerrero was born in Colombia in 1975. His first film Paraíso(2006) received the Mention Spécial for First Films at FIDMarseille. Corta(2012), his second film, premiered in the BrightFuture Section at the Rotterdam FF 2012, and was exhibited in Festivals around the world (FICCICartagena de Indias, BAFICI Buenos Aires, JIFF Jeonju,FIDOCS Santiago de Chile, DISTRITAL México DF, SPLITCroacia, DOKLeipzig, La Habana). As an editor, he worked in films exhibited and awardedinternationally, among them: Los Hongos(2014), La playaDC(2012), El páramo(2011), El vuelco del Cangrejo (2009). In 2011 he founded his own production company Mutokino.

Dans Untitled (Rhetoric that Preaches Revolution), je voulais faire une pièce qui se concentrerait sur la voix d’un groupe d’artistes et qui serait éclairée par les fondements structurels de leurs œuvres. L’accent est mis en partie sur ce qu’ils voudraient dire à la lumière des évènements mondiaux et régionaux. La pièce se base sur des enregistrements de journaux télévisés et des images assemblées des unes de la presse écrite relatant l’actualité, principalement de 1965 à 1968, comme Martin Luther King marchant vers Selma, Malcolm X en train de parler, des membres du Black Panther Party en confrontation avec les médias et la police, le soulèvement du Watts, des manifestants étudiants avec des revendications et des ouvriers en contestation. Lire ces images, d’un point de vue sympathisant, et les transformer en œuvres constituaient mon objectif général.

Adler Guerrier creates visual dialogue between a wunderkammer of materials and techniques. Guerrier improvises between form and function to nimbly subvert space and time in constructions of race, ethnicity, class, and culture. He calls upon the democratizing nature of collage and the authority of formal composition to designate to art history an axis of contemporary identity critique. Often chronicling the hybridity and juxtaposition in his immediate environs, Guerrier practices a contemporary flaneurie in an impending age of post-demography. Adler Guerrier was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and lives and works in Miami, FL, where he received a BFA at the New World School of the Arts. Guerrier recently had a solo exhibition at Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL. He has exhibited work at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, FL; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL; Harn Musem of Art, Gainesville, FL; and The Whitney Biennial 2008. His works can be found in public collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY. His work has appeared in Art Forum, Art in America, The New York Times and ARTNews, among others.

Fragments d'une rencontre avec le musicien américain Loren Connors. Frôler les pulsations du temps, palper la matière, s'attarder sur l'imperceptible fragilité du geste...

Né en 1976 à Saint-Denis, France. Parallèlement à ses recherches sur la texture de l’image, les thèmes développés à travers ses films/photos sont essentiellement liés au Temps, à la mémoire et au fragment.

21 décembre 2015. Les images d’une caméra de surveillance montrent un renard à proximité de la cuve de confinement du réacteur no.2 de la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima..

Né en 1976 à Saint-Denis, France. Parallèlement à ses recherches sur la texture de l’image (qu’elle soit en pellicule, ou numérique) et le son, les thèmes développés à travers ses films sont essentiellement liés au Temps, à la mémoire et au fragment.

Mr. Jocotot, a philosophy and ethics professor, has just collected final exams from his students and, unlike most other days, decides to take a taxi home. As he turns onto Avenida Progreso, a prominent street in Mexico City, he will come up against corruption and his ignorance will teach him a lesson.

Mauricio Guillén was born in México city in 1971. He studied at Parsons School in Paris, The Cooper Union in New York City and The Royal College of Art in London England. He currently lives in Frankfurt Germany where last summer, as part of an exhibition of his work, he presented the film AVENIDA PROGRESO at MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main).

Alexis Guillier’s film looks at the deadly fire that broke out at the Beirut nightclub "Purgatoire" on the set of the 1969 Lebanese movie "Kolouna Feda'iyoun" ("We are all fedayeen") by Gary Garabedian, a take on Palestinian resistance at the time. Guillier’s project delves into the complexity of the film’s context, the precariousness of Lebanese cinema, and the investigation of the accident. The narrative of the film is built through the stories of the main protagonists: Purgatoire’s owner Sami Ghosn, TV star and Gary Garabedian's good friend Salah Tizani (aka Abu Salim), actor Samir Abu Saeed, the last living actor to have appeared in the film and who was at Purgatoire the night of the accident, actor Samir Chamas, who played in the film and who arrived on the scene just after the accident, Mirvat Kousa, sister of the actress Mona Slim, who was seriously injured in the accident, Hussein Al Sayyed, special effects expert and Christiane Mallouk, sister of the extra Gaby Mallouk who died in the accident. "Purgatoire" is part of the larger project "La réalité éclatée / A many splattered thing, conceived as an investigative history of cinema through set accidents that have caused deaths and severe injuries. The whole project is interested in the tensions between production and representation, material reality and image carried on the screen. In this respect, the exploration of the accident in "Purgatoire" is marked by these questions and inhabited by the revealing power of the accident. The film also testifies to the evolution of Alexis Guillier's image work, which is illustrated here through the increased exploration of visual associations, layered editing and opacity, which are also reflexive tools on the context, the story, and the narrative of the accident, and which nourish a play with certain formal codes of documentary.

Alexis Guillier se consacre à des performances, des films, textes ou installations, qui sont des montages narratifs, nés d’investigations (documentaires et de terrain) dans l’histoire collective et les histoires individuelles. L’entraînant de la falsification à la déformation et la disparition des œuvres, d’un accident de tournage aux vaisseaux fantômes, ou à gravir les contours de la géante Notre-Dame de France, ses formes mêlent des documents très divers, qui coexistent dans l’histoire culturelle mais ne s’y associent que rarement. Ses sujets d’investigation le poussent à observer la circulation des images et des productions culturelles, les échos et les récurrences, la formation des imaginaires, les interactions entre les actions personnelles et les histoires souvent nationales, sous un angle tant esthétique qu’anthropologique. La transmission de ces récits s’interroge elle-même, restant toujours sur une ligne incertaine, entre subjectivité détachée et lyrisme documentaire, et participant de l’indétermination des objets investis. Ses recherches sont faites d’analogies, d’associations d’idées, s’intéressent aussi à la paranoïa comme méthode. Plus récemment, il cherche à mettre en perspective ses projets avec des « affaires », partant du constat que l’accident, la catastrophe et leur violence reviennent avec insistance. Les processus d'enquête et de montage semblent aussi témoigner d’un même rapport au corps, comme s’il s’agissait de recoller ensemble des morceaux découpés dans plusieurs histoires ou sources.

SOAP is a film in seven episodes following the infiltration attempts of a cluster of left-wing people in right-wing social networks. The tactic chosen by the group is the creation of a YouTube channel aimed at teenagers employing the apparently conservative language of religious devotion and self help through prayer. SOAP asks questions such as can a coalition of artists, writers and activists avoid tripping over their own assumptions and privileges to form something persuasive? Is the white left dead? Or rather, have the forms of appeal and address relied upon by the intellectual Lefts ceased to be effective? Is there a way out of the internal bickering and accusations - that continue to hamper political movements? In episode 'six and a half', Camila narrates the previous episodes, reflecting on the project's aims and fractures from the perspective of a post election moment in which the Left was re-elected to the presidency in Brazil.

Tamar Guimarães (b. Belo Horizonte, BR, lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin) is an artist working with film and installation. Her work has been included at the 33rd, 31st and the 29th São Paulo Biennial; the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial; the International Exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennial; the LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA); Baltimore Museum of Art (USA); 11th Sharjah Biennial (UAE); the Banff Centre, Alberta (CA); the Guggenheim Museum, NY (USA); the SculptureCenter (NY/USA); the 7th Gwangju Biennial (SK); the 3rd Guanghzhou Triennial (CN); Frac/Le Plateau, Paris (FR); CAC Synagogue de Delme (FR). Her moving image work has been screened at the Les Rencontres Internationales (2014, 2021, 2022); Berlinale Forum Expanded (2019); Blackout, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019); VIDEONALE, Bonn (2018); Anthology Film Archive, New York (2016); CPH:DOX (2013 and 2007); Images Film Festival and Experimental Media Congress, Toronto, Canada (2010); Architektur-Visionen # 1-6, Metropolis Kino, Hamburg (2015); TRAMWAY art film biennial, Glasgow (2012); Viennale Film Festival, Vienna (2011); and Oberhausen Film Festival (2009). Guimarães’ work is represented in the collections of the Tate Modern (UK); the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, N.Y. (USA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (ES); Kadist Foundation (SF); Frac Lorraine (FR) among others.

Isa, a young artist invited to propose a project for an exhibition, sets out to stage a dramatic adaptation of ‘The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas’, a satirical 19th-century novel by Machado de Assis. The rehearsal is marred by difficulties which the viewer must interpret as being due to the fact that Isa is a woman, young, black, all of the above, or as difficulties anyone would encounter. The novel delivers a mordant critique of Brazilian society in the guise of a satirical autobiography narrated by a dead protagonist. In 1880 its author foresaw the abolition of slavery that would happen in Brazil eight years later, but predicted that it would be a mere formal measure, informally everything would remain the same. The film was shot at the Ibirapuera pavilion designed by Oscar Niemeyer and its cast is made up of professional and non-professional actors, several of whom worked or currently work for the São Paulo Biennial Foundation. Featuring actors recast from another project Guimarães had worked on eight years earlier, O Ensaio is a film about the passage of time, about short lived revolutionary actions, about institutional memory, racism, and sexism in Brazil.

Tamar Guimarães (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, BR, lives and works in Copenhagen) is a visual artist working with film and other forms of time based media, exploring situations both residual and contemporary, of art, architecture and the institutions that present them. She often works with actors alongside non-actors in semi-fictional short films. Another, more documentary strand of her work has delved into spectral architecture, ritual effervescence, states of rapture and their intersection with the nation state. Recent solo exhibitions include Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Jeu de Paume Satellite, Paris; Gasworks, London and the IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Guimarães’ works have been included at the 33rd, 31st and the 29th São Paulo Biennial; the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial; the International Exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennial; at the LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA); Baltimore Museum of Art (USA); the 11th Sharjah Biennial (UAE); the Banff Centre, Alberta (CA); Malmö Museum (SE) and South London Gallery; the Guggenheim Museum, NY (USA); the SculptureCenter (NY/USA); the 7th Gwangju Biennial (SK); the 3rd Guanghzhou Triennial (CN); the Jumex museum, Mexico (MX); Frac/Le Plateau, Paris (FR); CAC Synagogue de Delme (FR).

"Soap" est un film en quatre épisodes, dans lequel un groupe de citadins de gauche isolés imagine comment créer une telenovela, un soap, pour infiltrer l'extrême droite conspiratrice, dans le Brésil de Bolsonaro. Une coalition de militants, d'artistes et d'écrivains peut-elle éviter de se prendre les pieds dans ses propres préjugés et privilèges, pour créer quelque chose de convaincant? Peuvent-ils unir leurs forces pour battre un système populiste à son propre jeu? "Soap" est une collaboration entre Tamar Guimarães, Luisa Cavanagh et Rusi Millán Pastori. Il a été filmé à Berlin et São Paulo pendant le premier confinement du Covid19, en 2020.

Tamar Guimarães est née à Belo Horizonte (Brésil) en 1967. Elle vit et travaille à Berlin (Allemagne). Elle est artiste visuelle, travaillant le film et d'autres formes de médias basés sur le temps. Elle collabore souvent avec des acteurs et des non-acteurs dans des films semi-fictionnels qui explorent les dynamiques sociopolitiques résiduelles ou contemporaines, ainsi que des problématiques dans l'art, l'architecture et les institutions qui les présentent. Son travail a été présenté aux 29e, 31e et 33e Biennales de São Paulo (Brésil); à la 56e Biennale de Venise (Italie) [Pavillon belge]; à la 55e Biennale de Venise (Italie); au LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA); au Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA); au SculptureCenter, New York (USA); à la Renaissance Society, Chicago (USA); à la 7e Biennale de Gwangju (Corée du Sud); au Frac - Le Plateau, Paris (France); et au Centre d’art contemporain - Synagogue de Delme (France). Parmi ses expositions individuelles, citons le Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (Espagne), et le Jeu de Paume - Satellite, Paris (France). Luisa Cavanagh est née en 1979 à Buenos Aires (Argentine). Elle est artiste visuelle, coloriste et directrice de la photographie. Elle a étudié la cinématographie à la Escuela Nacional de Realización y Experimentacioón Cinematográfica, Buenos Aires (Argentine). Intéressée par le travail collaboratif, elle a rejoint le "Grupo Mexa", afin de développer le film/performance "Cancionero Terminal 10Mg". Elle est co-fondatrice de Eterno work in progress, un ciné-club géré par des artistes qui explore les possibilités de l’exposition de cinéma, de la musique en direct et des images en mouvement. Rusi Millán Pastori est né en 1976 en Argentine. Il est écrivain, réalisateur et directeur de la photographie. Des scénarios politiques réels constituent le dénominateur commun de son travail, sous la forme de chroniques combinant différents personnages et situations. Il a étudié la réalisation à la Escuela Nacional de Realización y Experimentación Cinematográfica, Buenos Aires (Argentine). Il a réalisé des courts et moyens métrages qui ont été présentés dans divers festivals, notamment au BAFICI – Festival international du cinéma indépendant de Buenos Aires (Argentine) et à la 41e Mostra de São Paulo (Brésil).