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M+M steht für die künstlerische Zusammenarbeit von Marc Weis, geb. 1965, und Martin De Mattia, geb. 1963. Das deutsch-luxembourgische Künstlerduo überschreitet in seinen Arbeiten die klassischen Gattungsgrenzen zwischen Film und Rauminstallation. Sie erhielten u.a. den Villa Massimo Preis Rom, das Stipendium Villa Aurora L.A oder den ADC Award. Einzelausstellungen fanden in den letzten Jahren statt u.a. im Museum für Fotografie, Berlin, im MAMBo - Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, im Casino - Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg, in der Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck oder im Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal/Canada. Zudem waren sie in zahlreichen Gruppenausstellungen vertreten: u.a. Museum Folkwang, Essen, Biennale Venedig, Emscherkunst, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Neue Galerie, Graz, Haus der Kunst, München, Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Heston`s Folly is based on the final iconic scene in Planet of the Apes (1968) when the protagonist - activist Margaretta D`Arcy (and the viewer) comes to the realisation that they have been living in the United States all the time. All our cities are nodes now. Mere switching addresses for the movement of capital to lightspeed. But the network architecture hides a cloaked hierarchy. We live in Empire’s feeder cities; our bodies moving in thrall to the packet data thirst of London and New York. Blind to our serfdom, we trace digital paths through the city; our clicking and swiping ever-feeding the foreign machines. Galway AD 3978. The space craft hurtles through time to crash. You disembark, to find a landscape ruled by silverbacks with monkey-mind. Humanity is a legend far left behind. Feature-length, you battle long and hard through sci-fi odyssey. Then, in your final scene - on a beach at the perimeter, you chance upon an Ozymandian ruin. Fall to your knees. In awe at the great reveal. This city too is built on Empire; and Empire, like its grand monuments, can always fall.

Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan (alongside other collaborators including John Buckley and composer and sound designer Philip Stewart) have been working together since 2012 under the name of Loitering Theatre. Loitering Theatre work across video, text, performance and site-specific installation. Loitering Theatre seek to make the intangible of networks manifest and their work often engages with the hidden structures and abstractions of accelerated networked capitalism. Loitering Theatre use varied techniques to decode and oppose current systems of consensus reality – recent projects have mobilised the affective power of the culture industry’s expanded Hollywood blockbuster; or created radical synapses between future-present sci-fi technologies and lost systems of ancient ritual power. Along the way, time is stretched and bent and technology no longer develops along its linear path.

A Guided Meditation on the Machines was our precursor to the ‘Wisdom 2.0’ event held at the Dublin European Headquarters of Google in Autumn 2014. Wisdom 2.0 is the premiere event for the promotion of corporate mindfulness. Welcome to the ghost realms of Buddhism-lite. ‘Be Here Now’ and ignore the past. ‘Be Here Now’ and never see your future. Every version of Empire needs a belief system to validate their rule. 
 From our rooftop vantage point we are guided on a meditation to help us spiritually contextualize the presence of the `stateless giants`: Google, Facebook, Twitter and more in our small Dublin town on the edges of Europe. We join together in meditation to trace the movement by these corporations of vast amounts of information and unseen capital through our bodies and
across the skies around us: 
 Feel the flow of data above the skies now. Karmic surge. 
Feel the search requests of one billion people pass overhead, as they filter into the Dublin gateway of knowledge. Be present with it now - the weight around your body of the whole world`s questioning 

A moving paper fantasy. Let the Sunshine in. Breathe. Meditate. Search inside yourself.

Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan have been working since 2012 under the name of Loitering Theatre (which is also the name of their first work). Loitering Theatre have a broad base of research interests that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their backgrounds in law, tech, landscape architecture, sculpture and film. Some principal current themes of their work are: network cultures, strange architectures, notions of the permitted, and sci-fi futures made real. Current projects seek to make the intangible of networks appear before the eye - a reversal of hypermodernity - where immaterial objects are given concrete value once more, but a value of their choosing. Along the way they examine notions of the private and public; and that which is permitted and assigned value by constructs of taste or the embedded systems, legal or otherwise, of networked capital. Loitering Theatre use Ireland`s unique position as a centre for cognitive capitalism as a springboard for critique of its emergent platforms. Their work has received mention in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired Magazine and featured widely across Irish media on and offline. It has been given coverage by Anonymous and been the subject of censorship by the Irish police

Loitering Theatre uses customized ipad controlled drones to fly beyond the normal street view to access and film previously inaccessible and unseen views of Dublin city. Some of the most prevalent alternative vantage points on our streets are the security cameras, police helicopters, traffic camera monitoring systems and high-rise boardroom views controlled by governmental authorities and corporations. These different and unusual viewing points are rarely accessible to the individual citizen or in our control. Loitering Theatre focuses on the democratisation of surveillance that drone flight affords. It instigates a simple but radical change of the view that arises from the detachment of the vantage point from the physical apparatus of the body. Loitering Theatre tries to imagine a more playful and poetic form of urban surveillance that might instead serve to critique the city`s structures and established systems from on high. Along the way we look statues of forgotten statesmen in the eye; discover an old lady`s house behind hoardings - her own island of resistance to Dublin?s property developers; and, in a reversal of fortune, peer in the European Headquarters of the data gathering Google and Facebook HQ?s.

Loitering Theatre is a collaboration between visual artist Nina McGowan and filmmaker Caroline Campbell, both of whom live and work in Dublin city Nina McGowan is an Irish artist based in Dublin. She holds an MA in Visual Arts Practices from DLIADT (MAVIS) and a H/Dip in Landscape Architecture (UCD). Architectural humanities, design and the hunt for a ?condensed contemporary visual currency? inform her position. Caroline Campbell works as part of the collective of filmmakers associated with the Irish based Still Films. She holds post-graduate qualifications in Contemporary Art Theory (NCAD) and Film Theory (TCD). Her work has screened both in gallery installation and in film festivals internationally.

Heston`s Folly is based on the final iconic scene in Planet of the Apes (1968) when the protagonist - activist Margaretta D`Arcy (and the viewer) comes to the realisation that they have been living in the United States all the time. All our cities are nodes now. Mere switching addresses for the movement of capital to lightspeed. But the network architecture hides a cloaked hierarchy. We live in Empire’s feeder cities; our bodies moving in thrall to the packet data thirst of London and New York. Blind to our serfdom, we trace digital paths through the city; our clicking and swiping ever-feeding the foreign machines. Galway AD 3978. The space craft hurtles through time to crash. You disembark, to find a landscape ruled by silverbacks with monkey-mind. Humanity is a legend far left behind. Feature-length, you battle long and hard through sci-fi odyssey. Then, in your final scene - on a beach at the perimeter, you chance upon an Ozymandian ruin. Fall to your knees. In awe at the great reveal. This city too is built on Empire; and Empire, like its grand monuments, can always fall.

Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan (alongside other collaborators including John Buckley and composer and sound designer Philip Stewart) have been working together since 2012 under the name of Loitering Theatre. Loitering Theatre work across video, text, performance and site-specific installation. Loitering Theatre seek to make the intangible of networks manifest and their work often engages with the hidden structures and abstractions of accelerated networked capitalism. Loitering Theatre use varied techniques to decode and oppose current systems of consensus reality – recent projects have mobilised the affective power of the culture industry’s expanded Hollywood blockbuster; or created radical synapses between future-present sci-fi technologies and lost systems of ancient ritual power. Along the way, time is stretched and bent and technology no longer develops along its linear path.

A Guided Meditation on the Machines was our precursor to the ‘Wisdom 2.0’ event held at the Dublin European Headquarters of Google in Autumn 2014. Wisdom 2.0 is the premiere event for the promotion of corporate mindfulness. Welcome to the ghost realms of Buddhism-lite. ‘Be Here Now’ and ignore the past. ‘Be Here Now’ and never see your future. Every version of Empire needs a belief system to validate their rule. 
 From our rooftop vantage point we are guided on a meditation to help us spiritually contextualize the presence of the `stateless giants`: Google, Facebook, Twitter and more in our small Dublin town on the edges of Europe. We join together in meditation to trace the movement by these corporations of vast amounts of information and unseen capital through our bodies and
across the skies around us: 
 Feel the flow of data above the skies now. Karmic surge. 
Feel the search requests of one billion people pass overhead, as they filter into the Dublin gateway of knowledge. Be present with it now - the weight around your body of the whole world`s questioning 

A moving paper fantasy. Let the Sunshine in. Breathe. Meditate. Search inside yourself.

Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan have been working since 2012 under the name of Loitering Theatre (which is also the name of their first work). Loitering Theatre have a broad base of research interests that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their backgrounds in law, tech, landscape architecture, sculpture and film. Some principal current themes of their work are: network cultures, strange architectures, notions of the permitted, and sci-fi futures made real. Current projects seek to make the intangible of networks appear before the eye - a reversal of hypermodernity - where immaterial objects are given concrete value once more, but a value of their choosing. Along the way they examine notions of the private and public; and that which is permitted and assigned value by constructs of taste or the embedded systems, legal or otherwise, of networked capital. Loitering Theatre use Ireland`s unique position as a centre for cognitive capitalism as a springboard for critique of its emergent platforms. Their work has received mention in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired Magazine and featured widely across Irish media on and offline. It has been given coverage by Anonymous and been the subject of censorship by the Irish police

Loitering Theatre uses customized ipad controlled drones to fly beyond the normal street view to access and film previously inaccessible and unseen views of Dublin city. Some of the most prevalent alternative vantage points on our streets are the security cameras, police helicopters, traffic camera monitoring systems and high-rise boardroom views controlled by governmental authorities and corporations. These different and unusual viewing points are rarely accessible to the individual citizen or in our control. Loitering Theatre focuses on the democratisation of surveillance that drone flight affords. It instigates a simple but radical change of the view that arises from the detachment of the vantage point from the physical apparatus of the body. Loitering Theatre tries to imagine a more playful and poetic form of urban surveillance that might instead serve to critique the city`s structures and established systems from on high. Along the way we look statues of forgotten statesmen in the eye; discover an old lady`s house behind hoardings - her own island of resistance to Dublin?s property developers; and, in a reversal of fortune, peer in the European Headquarters of the data gathering Google and Facebook HQ?s.

Loitering Theatre is a collaboration between visual artist Nina McGowan and filmmaker Caroline Campbell, both of whom live and work in Dublin city Nina McGowan is an Irish artist based in Dublin. She holds an MA in Visual Arts Practices from DLIADT (MAVIS) and a H/Dip in Landscape Architecture (UCD). Architectural humanities, design and the hunt for a ?condensed contemporary visual currency? inform her position. Caroline Campbell works as part of the collective of filmmakers associated with the Irish based Still Films. She holds post-graduate qualifications in Contemporary Art Theory (NCAD) and Film Theory (TCD). Her work has screened both in gallery installation and in film festivals internationally.

Heston`s Folly is based on the final iconic scene in Planet of the Apes (1968) when the protagonist - activist Margaretta D`Arcy (and the viewer) comes to the realisation that they have been living in the United States all the time. All our cities are nodes now. Mere switching addresses for the movement of capital to lightspeed. But the network architecture hides a cloaked hierarchy. We live in Empire’s feeder cities; our bodies moving in thrall to the packet data thirst of London and New York. Blind to our serfdom, we trace digital paths through the city; our clicking and swiping ever-feeding the foreign machines. Galway AD 3978. The space craft hurtles through time to crash. You disembark, to find a landscape ruled by silverbacks with monkey-mind. Humanity is a legend far left behind. Feature-length, you battle long and hard through sci-fi odyssey. Then, in your final scene - on a beach at the perimeter, you chance upon an Ozymandian ruin. Fall to your knees. In awe at the great reveal. This city too is built on Empire; and Empire, like its grand monuments, can always fall.

Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan (alongside other collaborators including John Buckley and composer and sound designer Philip Stewart) have been working together since 2012 under the name of Loitering Theatre. Loitering Theatre work across video, text, performance and site-specific installation. Loitering Theatre seek to make the intangible of networks manifest and their work often engages with the hidden structures and abstractions of accelerated networked capitalism. Loitering Theatre use varied techniques to decode and oppose current systems of consensus reality – recent projects have mobilised the affective power of the culture industry’s expanded Hollywood blockbuster; or created radical synapses between future-present sci-fi technologies and lost systems of ancient ritual power. Along the way, time is stretched and bent and technology no longer develops along its linear path.

A Guided Meditation on the Machines was our precursor to the ‘Wisdom 2.0’ event held at the Dublin European Headquarters of Google in Autumn 2014. Wisdom 2.0 is the premiere event for the promotion of corporate mindfulness. Welcome to the ghost realms of Buddhism-lite. ‘Be Here Now’ and ignore the past. ‘Be Here Now’ and never see your future. Every version of Empire needs a belief system to validate their rule. 
 From our rooftop vantage point we are guided on a meditation to help us spiritually contextualize the presence of the `stateless giants`: Google, Facebook, Twitter and more in our small Dublin town on the edges of Europe. We join together in meditation to trace the movement by these corporations of vast amounts of information and unseen capital through our bodies and
across the skies around us: 
 Feel the flow of data above the skies now. Karmic surge. 
Feel the search requests of one billion people pass overhead, as they filter into the Dublin gateway of knowledge. Be present with it now - the weight around your body of the whole world`s questioning 

A moving paper fantasy. Let the Sunshine in. Breathe. Meditate. Search inside yourself.

Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan have been working since 2012 under the name of Loitering Theatre (which is also the name of their first work). Loitering Theatre have a broad base of research interests that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their backgrounds in law, tech, landscape architecture, sculpture and film. Some principal current themes of their work are: network cultures, strange architectures, notions of the permitted, and sci-fi futures made real. Current projects seek to make the intangible of networks appear before the eye - a reversal of hypermodernity - where immaterial objects are given concrete value once more, but a value of their choosing. Along the way they examine notions of the private and public; and that which is permitted and assigned value by constructs of taste or the embedded systems, legal or otherwise, of networked capital. Loitering Theatre use Ireland`s unique position as a centre for cognitive capitalism as a springboard for critique of its emergent platforms. Their work has received mention in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired Magazine and featured widely across Irish media on and offline. It has been given coverage by Anonymous and been the subject of censorship by the Irish police

Loitering Theatre uses customized ipad controlled drones to fly beyond the normal street view to access and film previously inaccessible and unseen views of Dublin city. Some of the most prevalent alternative vantage points on our streets are the security cameras, police helicopters, traffic camera monitoring systems and high-rise boardroom views controlled by governmental authorities and corporations. These different and unusual viewing points are rarely accessible to the individual citizen or in our control. Loitering Theatre focuses on the democratisation of surveillance that drone flight affords. It instigates a simple but radical change of the view that arises from the detachment of the vantage point from the physical apparatus of the body. Loitering Theatre tries to imagine a more playful and poetic form of urban surveillance that might instead serve to critique the city`s structures and established systems from on high. Along the way we look statues of forgotten statesmen in the eye; discover an old lady`s house behind hoardings - her own island of resistance to Dublin?s property developers; and, in a reversal of fortune, peer in the European Headquarters of the data gathering Google and Facebook HQ?s.

Loitering Theatre is a collaboration between visual artist Nina McGowan and filmmaker Caroline Campbell, both of whom live and work in Dublin city Nina McGowan is an Irish artist based in Dublin. She holds an MA in Visual Arts Practices from DLIADT (MAVIS) and a H/Dip in Landscape Architecture (UCD). Architectural humanities, design and the hunt for a ?condensed contemporary visual currency? inform her position. Caroline Campbell works as part of the collective of filmmakers associated with the Irish based Still Films. She holds post-graduate qualifications in Contemporary Art Theory (NCAD) and Film Theory (TCD). Her work has screened both in gallery installation and in film festivals internationally.

The film was shot on location in Kilamba Kiaxi, a new underpopulated city outside Luanda, Angola built by Chinese construction company CITIC and financed by Hong Kong-based China International Fund. The film follows a young municipal worker who lives by night in the old city centre of Luanda and works by day as a groundskeeper at the new city of Kilamba Kiaxi far away.

Michael MacGarry is a multi-award winning visual artist and filmmaker, having exhibited internationally for ten years including TATE Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, 19th VideoBrasil, 62nd Short Film Festival Oberhausen, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Les Rencontres Internationales. He holds an MFA from the University of the Witwatersrand (2004). MacGarry has been researching narratives and histories of socio-economics, politics, forms and objects within the context of contemporary Africa for over a decade. Frequently focused on marking key registers of modernism – MacGarry creates sculptures, films, installations and photographs which look at the contextual specifics of things and their place; how they are simultaneously distributed both as ideas and as objects in the world. His sculptural work is formed through processes of grafting and mutation, to produce fictional hybrids principally designed to question systemic paradigms: sovereign nationality; logics of making and meaning; power relations; notions of value, equity and progress as well as the relationship between industrial technology and African resources. In his filmmaking and photographic work these macro concerns often take the form of micro narratives, personal memory and subtle identity politics in spaces where contemporary life is in a state of invention and flux.

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A poetic re-imagining of Death in Venice, featuring a West African immigrant to Italy who embarks on a journey from the Alpine mountains to the seaside and ultimately, on a doomed voyage home. SYNOPSIS
The form of the film is one of a fable, that grafts Thomas Mann’s 1925 novella, Death in Venice, to the contemporary issue of African refugees and immigrants in Italy. The film takes Mann’s book as a nexus point and expands upon a number of themes inherent in it. In Sea of Ash, Mann’s character Tadzio is an immigrant to Italy from West Africa (Senegal) who has survived the treacherous and often fatal journey by sea. While the lead character of the original – von Aschenbach – is embodied in the unseen filmmaker himself. The narrative of the film follows Tadzio on a short journey from the remarkable Brion Cemetery at San Vito in the mountains of Northern Italy to the coastal area of the Venetian lagoon. On Lido Island he visits the famous Hotel dés Bains as featured in Luchino Visconti’s 1971 film version of Death in Venice. The film concludes on the dés Baines beach, with Tadzio embarking on a doomed attempt to return home.

Michael MacGarry is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of the Witwatersrand. MacGarry is a fellow of the Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) at the University of Cape Town and recipient of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award 2010 (Visual Art). As a filmmaker he has written and directed five narrative short films, and five feature-length video artworks, and is a recipient of an El Ray Award - Excellence in Narrative Short Filmmaking, Barcelona Film Festival 2015 as well as a nominee for the Huysmans Young African Filmmaker Award 2015. As a visual artist Michael has exhibited internationally for more than ten years including TATE Modern, Guggenheim Bilbao, Kiasma Museum - and has published four monographs on his work.

"3 Months New York/Toronto" est la première oeuvre d'une série en cours qui utilise l'information GPS (Global Positioning System). Durant trois mois passés à New York et à Toronto, Gwen MacGregor a enregistré tous ses déplacements à l'aide d'un appareil GPS. On peut voir l'accumulation de trois mois de déplacements à New York (à gauche de l'écran) et à Toronto (à droite). Les lieux où l'artiste s'est rendue chaque jour font l'objet de dessins, puis ils s'effacent pour permettre en quelque sorte à chaque jour d'être considéré dans son unité avant de faire partie d'une accumulation. La strucure d'une telle accumulation, avec ses répétitions et ses changements au quotidien, est déterminée par les mouvements de l'artiste, eux-mêmes dictés par les rues des villes. Résultat de cette démarche, la vidéo condense trois mois d'activité à New York et à Toronto en trois minutes d'animation.

Gwen MacGregor, artiste établie à Toronto, évolue dans le domaine de la vidéo et de l'installation. Son travail reflète une observation précise du temps, dont l'écoulement fait naître de petits drames ou assombrit des situations familières. En 1998, son travail a été l'objet d'une exposition en solo à la Southern Alberta Art Gallery, puis en 2001 il a été présenté à travers la série 'Present Tense Project' à la Art Gallery of Ontario à Toronto. Gwen MacGregor a également pris part à de nombreuses expositions de groupe au Canada, à Mexico City, Londres, Prague, Venise, Shangai et Los Angeles. En 2003, elle a reçu le prix 'Friends of the Visual Arts' à Toronto, et l'année suivante, le prix 'Canada Council New York Studio'. Gwen MacGregor est représentée par Jessica Bradley Art et Projets à Toronto.

In a ramshackle house full of memories, a grandfather cares for his grandson and must care for himself. One week passes and nothing is going to be the same again. With a esthetic inspired by the litheographs from Ars Moriendi - medieval manuals for a good dying, this documentry proposes disturbing, sometimes grotesque, sometimes harsh, vision of death, which aways - and in the most unexpected ways - nurtures life.

Aleksandra Maciuszek Born in Poland in 1984. Graduated in Social Sciences specialising in Latin American Studies, International Migration and Ethnic Minorities. She has worked in cultural institutions and NGOs in the area of Human Rights and Cultural Diversity in Poland, Spain, Mexico and Palastine. She has published articles for the commercial and academic press on issues concerinig Latin America and International Migration. In 2012 she graduated in Documentary Direction from The International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in San Antonio de Los Baños, Cuba, where she made various documentary and fiction short films. Among those is Eco Grafia (Scanning), which has screened at several international festivals and her thesis film, a documentary filmed in Cuba, titled Previous Scenes. Her documentary Opera Prima "Casablanca" premiered in 2015 received very good reviews from the critics and the public.

En exploitant des techniques de films mainstream, ce travail constitue un paysage cinématographique qui induit un récit. Telle une série de plans sans fin, la séquence illumine richement l'éclat vert de tables de billard et des ombres noires et profondes, comme la surface saturée d?un verni. Les longs travellings hypnotisent la dérive entre les joueurs. Les scènes apparaissent comme des décors sur-articulés, qui correspondent en réalité au déroulement de la vie réelle, donnant une aisance inhabituellement naturaliste, mais convaincante, aux habitants de cette enceinte crépusculaire et à leur monde cinématographique hermétiquement clos.

Macrae a obtenu son Bechelor of Fine Arts à l?Emily Carr Institute en 1999 et son MA au Goldsmiths College en 2002. Elle a été exposée dans tout le monde, et a remporté des prix à une échelle internationale. Elle a récemment eu des expositions monographiques au Musée d?Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne de Paris, au Center for Contemporary Photography de Melbourne et à la Fieldgate Gallery de Londres. Elle a été en résidence artistique à l'Université Monash de Melbourne. Elle travaille actuellement sur un projet de livre et présentera prochainement ses ?uvres au Festival Haip de Ljubljana et au Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Rijeka (Croatie).

Dallas joue avec la nature éponyme de la série TV, diffuse dans de nombreux pays, qui st devenu un image pour le glamour et la corruption aux Etats-Unis, attirant et séduisant les publiques dans le jeu et le cliché de cette série infinie. Macrae déconstruit cette fantaisie en remixant les épisode de 1980. En synchronisant les gros titres des séquences, les images translucides sont superposées et mélangées en utilisant des techniques habituellement associées au DJ. Les évènements notoires sont référencés et les lignes délivrées dans un collage d?images, créant une qualité hantante de disjonction. C?est une culture qui fut à un moment familière et désorientante, Dallas apparaît comme la vision d?un rêve do?rdre différent, plus un cauchemar qu?une échappatoire.

Sheena Macrae est née dans les Caraïbes et elle excelle dans la compression, la vitesse et la nostalgie. Elle a commencé à étudier à Vancouver, au Canada où elle a été diplômée d?un BFA en film. Tout en continuant à faire des films, elle a travailler en post production pour des studios comme la Warner Bros, la 21th Century Fox, Disney et Cartoon Network. Elle a déménagé à Londres pour étudier à Goldsmith College, diplômée d?un master en beaux-arts en 2002. Elle a exposé et fait des discours dans toute l?Europe, l?Amérique du Nord, l?Australie et la Nouvelle Zélande. Cet été, ses films ont été montrés au Moscow International Film Festival et au Imaginaria Internazionale di Cinema Libero, Conversaro en Italie, où son ?uvre à emporté le Best Video Art Prize. Elle travaille pour le moment pour un des spectacles collectifs et solo à Londres, Amsterdam Helsinki et Brisbane.

Inspirée et adaptée de la nouvelle de Marguerite Duras "La maladie de la mort" examine le parcours d?un homme dans sa quête d?amour. Il trouve une femme, dans un hôtel, dans une rue, dans un bar, dans un train. Elle viendrait avec lui. Peut-être pour plusieurs jours, peut être pour plusieurs semaines. Elle serait jeune et belle. Elle pourrait être n?importe quelle femme. Et ce sera elle qui découvrira qu?il est atteint d'une maladie incurable, cette maladie que l?on nomme la mort.

ASA MADER, (USA 1975) fut diplômé de la Brown University, où il a crée un diplôme indépendant d?études des Médias Visuels et Numériques. En 1997, il co-fonde un studio de design spécialisé dans les médias interactifs et numériques. Depuis 2002, Mader, a travaillé indépendamment comme réalisateur, partageant son temps entre New York et Paris. L?un de ses premiers films fut primé au Roberta Joslin Award for Excellence in Art. En septembre 2004, Mader a dirigé Anna Mouglalis dans ses débuts comme metteuse en scène au théâtre : "Héroïne" et Marguerite Youcenar ("Feux"). Programmé à l'ouverture du Festival d'Ortigia, à Siracuse dans le Castello Maniace, la performance se compose d'un film original et d'une vidéo de Mader avec une musique originale d?Emmanuel Deruty. La mise en scène et la lumière ont été pensé par A.J. Weissbard. En 2005, Mader a dirigé un docu-fiction de 52 minutes pour la télévision française ??Little Italy : Wiseguys, Bullets, Backrooms" sur la mythique disparition du voisinnage à New York, ce qui lui a donné l'occasion d'effectuer une seconde commande pour Paris Première, sur le voisinnage de Pigalle. ?La maladie de la mort? (2003) était le premier film présenté au Venice Film Festival . Mader prépare en ce moment son premier long métrage qui doit être tourné en 2006.

Shot in an arid landscape of extremes on the outskirts of Cairo, My Father Looks For An Honest City is a film about cynicism and a persistent search for a seemingly essential unknown. In a reenactment of Diogenes of Sinope?s philosophical statement of carrying a lamp in daytime, Magdy filmed his own father while walking through what seems like a no man?s land where human existence seems seldom, other players like petrified wood, doves, fake palm trees, stray dogs, abandoned glass buildings and a flashlight evolve as protagonists. Diogenese, a contemporary of Plato, was one of the founders of the Philosophy of Cynicism. Although considered by many as one of the greatest Greek philosophers, none of his writings were found. Only his philosophical stunt of carrying a lamp in daylight remains as evidence to his beliefs. When asked why he did that, he explained that ?he was looking for an honest man?.

Born in Assiut, Egypt in 1977, currently lives and works in Basel and Cairo. Magdy works with different media including drawing, painting, film, video, animation, installation, sculpture, sound and printed matter to investigate the broad space between fiction and reality in the construction, distribution and assimilation of media-based knowledge and global culture. His work appeared recently in solo and group shows at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel; Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York; Argos Art Center, Brussels; Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon; Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCa), North Adams; Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt; 1st D-O ARK Underground Biennial, Konjic/Sarajevo; 2nd Ateliers de Rennes Biennale d?art contemporain, Rennes; Neue Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen; DEPO, Istanbul, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León; MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Vigo, Spain; ACAF ? Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Alexandria; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; SAW Gallery, Ottawa; Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao; Townhouse Gallery, Cairo and Art in General, New York among others.

In his famous text titled "On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain", Palestinian writer Edward Saïd explores how the late style of certain composers, writers and artists constitutes a space of creative freedom unmoored from the conventions of their epoch that opens onto new horizons of artistic expression. Inspired by these thoughts, “Late Gestures” is a journey through scenes taken from the later, often neglected films of a number of great filmmakers that in their prophetic untimeliness look towards new possibilities for cinema and the moving image. Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson invite us to explore the hauntology of images through a shape-shifting montage of these “late cinematographic gestures”.

Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson are filmmakers and artists whose works explore the porous borders between fiction and documentary, the visible and the invisible, cinema and installation, theory and practice. Their production includes the creation of films (both features and shorts), mixed-media installations, sound works, performances, radio shows, vernacular technologies and books. The artists often make use of cinema to reactivate lost, forgotten, silenced or neglected archives and histories and to create new modes of collective vision and engagement with contemporary thought and politics. In constant dialogue with literature, philosophy, music, science and the history of cinema their projects are research-based, process-oriented and trans-disciplinary. Their work has been presented at film festivals, in museums and independent art spaces worldwide.

Deux Athéniens décident de fuir leur ville pour échapper à la dette. Guidés par de mystérieux appels de corbeaux, ils parcourent la ville, avant d’atteindre une zone de passage, où ils sont entraînés dans une forêt ancestrale: le Royaume des Oiseaux. Ils y rencontrent la Hoopoe, mi-oiseau mi-femme, qui devient leur traductrice. Au milieu des forces magiques de la forêt, les oiseaux vivent en partageant leurs ressources. La rencontre entre humains, oiseaux et forêt sera une révélation pour tout le monde. Plus de 2500 ans après la création de l’original, "Common Birds" est une adaptation expérimentale des "Oiseaux" d’Aristophane. Entre une Athènes contemporaine marquée par la crise et ce qu’il reste de la forêt primaire de La Gomera, entre grec ancien et Silbo (langue sifflée en voie de disparition, qui fait partie d'une longue tradition de résistance), une histoire de fuite, de perte et de réenchantement, dans un espace végétal époustouflant, où de nouvelles alliances inter-espèces peuvent émerger.

Silvia Maglioni et Graeme Thomson sont réalisateurs et artistes. Leur travail explore les frontières poreuses entre fiction et documentaire, cinéma et arts visuels. Leurs œuvres ont été projetées à l’international dans des festivals, notamment au FID-Marseille (France); au Festival international du film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas); à la Anthology Film Archives, New York (USA); aux Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin (France/Allemagne); au Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessalonique (Grèce); à la Berlin Critics Week (Allemagne); au BAFICI – Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente (Argentine); au Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava (République tchèque); au Festival Hors-Pistes, Paris (France); et à Docs Kingdom, Lisbonne (Portugal).

"Underwritten by Shadows Still" is a film composed of subtitled photograms drawn from a wide range of films and accompanied by an electronic soundtrack containing sound samples that originate from spaces between voices. As the succession of subtitled stills passes before our eyes, a soundless voice begins to speak through the words printed on the images, forming a discourse that links them together, while gathering the characters into a dispersed community of ghostly apparitions. The narrative that traverses them soon begins to bifurcate into other lines, other voices which are no more than underwritten shadows yet which speak to us and to each other of their imprisonment, their desire to live, their dreams of escape. 

: Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni are filmmakers and artists based in Paris. Their practice interrogates potential forms and fictions emerging from the ruins of the moving image and includes the creation of short and feature films, exhibitions, sound works, film-performances, radio shows, vernacular technologies and books. Their work often makes use of cinema in expanded form to reactivate lost or forgotten archives and histories and to create new modes of collective vision and engagement with contemporary thought and politics. Their work has been presented, screened and installed worldwide at international film festivals, museums, art spaces and alternative venues (including FID-Marseille, Bafici International Film Festival, Jihlava Film Festival, Festival Hors-Pistes, Doc`s Kinkdom, Il Vento del Cinema, Anthology Film Archives, European Media Art Festival, Eye Film Museum, Tate Britain, Serralves Museum, Centre Pompidou, MACBA, REDCAT, Ludwig Museum, The Showroom, KHOJ New Delhi, Museu de Arte Moderna de Bahia, Castello di Rivoli, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Whitechapel Gallery, Van Abbe Museum, CA2M). They are currently working on a new film, “Common Birds”.

In his famous text titled "On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain", Palestinian writer Edward Saïd explores how the late style of certain composers, writers and artists constitutes a space of creative freedom unmoored from the conventions of their epoch that opens onto new horizons of artistic expression. Inspired by these thoughts, “Late Gestures” is a journey through scenes taken from the later, often neglected films of a number of great filmmakers that in their prophetic untimeliness look towards new possibilities for cinema and the moving image. Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson invite us to explore the hauntology of images through a shape-shifting montage of these “late cinematographic gestures”.

Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson are filmmakers and artists whose works explore the porous borders between fiction and documentary, the visible and the invisible, cinema and installation, theory and practice. Their production includes the creation of films (both features and shorts), mixed-media installations, sound works, performances, radio shows, vernacular technologies and books. The artists often make use of cinema to reactivate lost, forgotten, silenced or neglected archives and histories and to create new modes of collective vision and engagement with contemporary thought and politics. In constant dialogue with literature, philosophy, music, science and the history of cinema their projects are research-based, process-oriented and trans-disciplinary. Their work has been presented at film festivals, in museums and independent art spaces worldwide.

Deux Athéniens décident de fuir leur ville pour échapper à la dette. Guidés par de mystérieux appels de corbeaux, ils parcourent la ville, avant d’atteindre une zone de passage, où ils sont entraînés dans une forêt ancestrale: le Royaume des Oiseaux. Ils y rencontrent la Hoopoe, mi-oiseau mi-femme, qui devient leur traductrice. Au milieu des forces magiques de la forêt, les oiseaux vivent en partageant leurs ressources. La rencontre entre humains, oiseaux et forêt sera une révélation pour tout le monde. Plus de 2500 ans après la création de l’original, "Common Birds" est une adaptation expérimentale des "Oiseaux" d’Aristophane. Entre une Athènes contemporaine marquée par la crise et ce qu’il reste de la forêt primaire de La Gomera, entre grec ancien et Silbo (langue sifflée en voie de disparition, qui fait partie d'une longue tradition de résistance), une histoire de fuite, de perte et de réenchantement, dans un espace végétal époustouflant, où de nouvelles alliances inter-espèces peuvent émerger.

Silvia Maglioni et Graeme Thomson sont réalisateurs et artistes. Leur travail explore les frontières poreuses entre fiction et documentaire, cinéma et arts visuels. Leurs œuvres ont été projetées à l’international dans des festivals, notamment au FID-Marseille (France); au Festival international du film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas); à la Anthology Film Archives, New York (USA); aux Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin (France/Allemagne); au Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessalonique (Grèce); à la Berlin Critics Week (Allemagne); au BAFICI – Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente (Argentine); au Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava (République tchèque); au Festival Hors-Pistes, Paris (France); et à Docs Kingdom, Lisbonne (Portugal).

"Underwritten by Shadows Still" is a film composed of subtitled photograms drawn from a wide range of films and accompanied by an electronic soundtrack containing sound samples that originate from spaces between voices. As the succession of subtitled stills passes before our eyes, a soundless voice begins to speak through the words printed on the images, forming a discourse that links them together, while gathering the characters into a dispersed community of ghostly apparitions. The narrative that traverses them soon begins to bifurcate into other lines, other voices which are no more than underwritten shadows yet which speak to us and to each other of their imprisonment, their desire to live, their dreams of escape. 

: Graeme Thomson & Silvia Maglioni are filmmakers and artists based in Paris. Their practice interrogates potential forms and fictions emerging from the ruins of the moving image and includes the creation of short and feature films, exhibitions, sound works, film-performances, radio shows, vernacular technologies and books. Their work often makes use of cinema in expanded form to reactivate lost or forgotten archives and histories and to create new modes of collective vision and engagement with contemporary thought and politics. Their work has been presented, screened and installed worldwide at international film festivals, museums, art spaces and alternative venues (including FID-Marseille, Bafici International Film Festival, Jihlava Film Festival, Festival Hors-Pistes, Doc`s Kinkdom, Il Vento del Cinema, Anthology Film Archives, European Media Art Festival, Eye Film Museum, Tate Britain, Serralves Museum, Centre Pompidou, MACBA, REDCAT, Ludwig Museum, The Showroom, KHOJ New Delhi, Museu de Arte Moderna de Bahia, Castello di Rivoli, Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Whitechapel Gallery, Van Abbe Museum, CA2M). They are currently working on a new film, “Common Birds”.

(Endless Wall) est un champ virtuel construit en VRML. Il peut être exposé simultanément comme une installation en espace d?exposition et comme pièce de net art. Quand on entre dans ce monde, on se trouve dans une vaste surface qui est contenue par un mur qui s?étend dans une distance aussi loin que l?on puisse voir. Au-dessus du mur, une belle et douce lumière grise émane du ciel et s?étire dans l?horizon. Le mur est infranchissable, et l?on peut marcher à sa base sans jamais trouver une faille ou moyen de le passer. Nous sommes (et nous avons toujours été) une société divisée. Nous avons construit depuis des millénaires, des barrières et des divisions qui ont segmenté la population du monde entre ceux « qui ont » et ceux « qui n?ont pas ». Depuis la terre et les richesses, jusqu?à la technologie et la liberté, nous avons socialement généré des déséquilibres entre les nations, les familles et les individus. Actuellement, alors que les technologies ont permis un potentiel énorme dans nos vies (à la fois physique et dans les mondes virtuels émergents), les mêmes technologies sont utilisées dans un renversement pour restreindre et contenir. Avec le mur de Berlin ou les firewall du DEC (En 1988 des ingénieurs du Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) ont développé le premier système de flitrage connu, comme « packet filter firewall »), les gouvernements et les entreprises nous ont entourés de barrières infranchissables, présentées comme des protections, ou des sécurités.

Michael Takeo Magruder est né en 1974 aux Etats-Unis. Il a étudié la biologie à l?université de Virginie. Il vit et travaille actuellement à Londres. Il travaille dans le domaine des nouveaux médias et des médias technologiques. Il est également chercheur à l?Université de Londres, au King`s College dans le département nouvelles technologies et visualisation, où il travaille sur la capture de mouvement, les espaces immersifs et les environnements virtuels. Son travail artistique a déjà été présenté dans plus de 175 expositions, dans 30 pays, notamment au Courtauld Institute of Art, à Londres, à l?EAST International 2005, au centre Georges Pompidou, au Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography et à la Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau. Son travail est également présenté dans des festivals internationaux de nouveaux médias, comme Cybersonica, CYNETart, FILE, Filmwinter, SeNef, Siggraph à Split, ou VAD et WRO en Pologne. Il a été soutenu par la Fondation Esmée Fairbairn, le Arts Council England, le National Endowment for the Arts, USA, et par de nombreux musées publics au Royaume-Uni et à l?étranger. Il est également connu pour la création de pièces en ligne, avec la réalisation de commande pour des portails dédiés au net art, comme Turbulence.org et Soundtoys.net. Il travaille actuellement sur l?utilisation simultanée et l?analyse des nouvelles technologies, comme moyen d?exploration des structures formelles et des paradigmes conceptuels du champs numérique. Il cherche à créer des ?uvres d?art dans lesquelles il n?y a plus de divisions entre les technologies, l?esthétique et les concepts.

Data_cosm examine les archives chronologiquement produites par les médias et la dynamique des structures d'information qui transmettent ce procédé. Chaque jour, l´oeuvre déconstruit et remonte les informations du service de la BBC fourni par internet en un royaume 3D en continuelle évolution ( crée en VRML - Langage Virtuel Réel Modelable) peuplé de différents points de vue.

Michael Takeo Madruger est un artiste américain qui vit en Grande Bretagne. Ses oeuvres été montrées dans plus de 150 expositions et 25 pays. Ses intérêts artistiques actuels de portent sur l'utilisation simultanée et la dissection des nouvelles technologies, comme moyen pour explorer des structures formelles et des paradigmes conceptuels du royaume de la technologie numérique. Il cherche à créer des oeuvres dans lequelles technologies, esthétique et concepts ne seraient plus séparés. Pour plus d'informations : www.takeo.org

Le désir de laisser une trace a toujours fait partie de la condition humaine. Depuis toujours, la société a cherché à concevoir une forme de mémoire qui pourrait survivre à nos enveloppes corporelles. L'adaptation du binaire, le langage universel et la pierre angulaire du système numérique, nous a ouvert un nouveau chemin qui pourrait nous permettre de toucher du doigt ce rêve insaisissable. Les systèmes binaires et les technologies qui en découlent s'infiltrent aujourd'hui dans toutes nos couches sociales. Ils coexistent avec nous, dans nos mains, à tout moment et partout. On sélectionne, on organise et on archive, créant ainsi des lieux de stockage pour nos vies enregistrées. On ditribue nos souvenirs numérisés, on échange des fragements de nos expériences les plus intimes avec des inconnus. La mémoire humaine est stockée dans la mémoire d'une machine et accessible en un instant, alors que les réseaux facilitent la juxtaposition et le mélange de ces récits bien définis. Est-ce que les individus cherchent intrinséquement à placer leurs récits personnels, qui sont tous éphémères et subtilement uniques, dans un contexte universel ? Est-ce que les instruments que nous créons afin de permettre ce processus sont intrinséquement imprégnés de ces intentions sous-jacentes ? Re_collection est le produit d'une de nos technologies les plus omniprésentes :le téléphone portable. Le matériau principal de l'oeuvre est un moment capturé, précieux et plein de signifaction pour nous. La séquence enregistrée, dépouillée de la résolution et de la profondeur apparente, n'a plus rien de personnel, elle est réduite à une esthétique minimaliste qui révèle les formes archétypales et les émotions inhérentes qu'elles évoquent. En retirant intentionnellement les détails, l'artiste remet en question les divisions entre personnel et universel. Il cherche à révéler la 'vérité' sous-jacente de nos souvenirs les plus intimes, qui existent entre rêve et réminiscence.

Michael Takeo Magruder est un artiste américain qui travaille en Grande-Bretagne et qui développe les nouveaux media et les media technologiques dans le contexte des beaux-arts. En 1996, il a obtenu l'équivalent d'une licence (BA(Hons)) en sciences biologique à l'université de Virginie. Il est depuis longtemps un memebre du King's Visualisation Lab dans le Centre for Computing Humanities au King's College de Londres. Grâce à cette organisation, il se charge de la recherche, du développement et de la mise en oeuvre des nouvelles technologies ; parmi lesquelles la capture du mouvement, l'espace "immersif" et la réalité virtuelle, pour les utiliser dans la pratique créative et académique contemporaine. En ce qui concerne l'art, il s'intéresse actuellement à l'utilisation simultanée et la dissection des nouvelles technologies en tant que moyen d'explorer les structures formelles et les paradigmes conceptuels du domaine numérique. Il cherche à créer des oeuvres d'art dans lesquelles il n'y aurait pas de divisions entre les technologies, les esthétiques et les concepts. Pour plus d'informations www.takeo.org.

`Encoded Presence` concerne la redétermination du téléphone mobile, outil trivial de communication vers un instrument cinématique. On a demandé à un sujet de générer un contenu cinématique interprétant le thème de ?l?auto portait? en utilisant seulement un Smart phone SPV C500 comme mécanisme d?enregistrement.

Michael Takeo Magruder est un artiste américain basé au Royaume-Uni et qui travaille dans le domaine des Médias Nouveaux et Interactifs. Il a reçu une formation formelle à l?Université de Virginie, aux Etats-Unis et a été diplômé avec mention en Sciences Biologiques. Pendant les 8 dernières années, sa performance artistique a reflété une société dirigée par les données informatiques et une existence saturée par les renseignements en examinant les communications des informations internationales. En combinant à nouveau les notions de média et d?art, il a analysé les interconnections entre l?individu et le réseau médiatique omniprésent ; un questionnement du produit contre le processus, de la connaissance contre la stimulation, des faits contre les perspectives. Sa production artistique a été exposée sur toute la planète et englobe un mélange électrique de formes, s?étendant du vitrail futuriste, des écrans lumineux numériques et des sculptures de lumières modulaires jusqu?aux manipulations architecturales, aux projections vidéos éphémères et des installations de réseaux interactifs. Ses recherches et explorations actuelles rassemblent des projections stéréoscopiques 3D, des environnements d?immersions multisensoriels et des narrations non-linéaires interactives pour des mises en scènes de galeries ou de réseaux. Son travail dans ces domaines reçoit en ce moment le support de Turbulence.org, de King?s Visualisation Lab : King?s College et du London and Arts Concil England.

Basir Mahmood (b 1985, Lahore) graduated in 2010 from Beaconhouse National University with a distinction. His interest in short films has won him various awards in the category of Best Director and Writer. ?Gheera Chaasma?, a short film, was nominated at the Zabist Film Festival in Karachi which was written, directed and produced by Mahmood. His one minute short film ?Dot in the line? was shortlisted in the Filminute Film Festival in 2011. Mahmood is the recipient of Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship for the year 2011-2012 in Stuttgart, Germany. He will represent Pakistan at the Asia Pacific Triennial 2012 (APT 7) at Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia and showing his video at the launch of Broad Museum at Michigan State University in April 2012. Besides being part of various private collections, Mahmood?s video works were recently acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery Collection in Brisbane, Australia.

Basir Mahmood (b 1985, Lahore) graduated in 2010 from Beaconhouse National University with a distinction. His interest in short films has won him various awards in the category of Best Director and Writer. ?Gheera Chaasma?, a short film, was nominated at the Zabist Film Festival in Karachi which was written, directed and produced by Mahmood. His one minute short film ?Dot in the line? was shortlisted in the Filminute Film Festival in 2011. Mahmood is the recipient of Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship for the year 2011-2012 in Stuttgart, Germany. He will represent Pakistan at the Asia Pacific Triennial 2012 (APT 7) at Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia and showing his video at the launch of Broad Museum at Michigan State University in April 2012. Besides being part of various private collections, Mahmood?s video works were recently acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery Collection in Brisbane, Australia.

The author intends to tell a story of another. The course of re-narration takes place in someone else’s setting of temporal and physical space. What had been carried through time is to be performed again from early morning into the late evening. Participants arrive remembering the performed sequences. The camera now observes recalling of a memory and then the process of forgetting the borrowed narrative. It witnesses a recreation and records it getting subsumed into the narrative that no one keeps but the non-participating initiator. As the narrative plays out, he stays and waits to observe a reconciliation. While waiting, he recalls a song he grew up listening to which had been written by his father for a film. Both the author and his father were and remain unaware of the settings in which the song was to be placed. The film was never made. -- Beginning in the closing years of the first decade of the new millennium, a new cinema began to emerge in Pakistan, which has inspired hopes of revival of the local film industry. The present author, however, disputes the “ newness ” of the reviving industry, arguing instead that the idea of a revival is implicit in a return to once was.. Lahore-based film industry, during its heyday was amongst the largest film industries in the world. However, beginning around 1977, the once vibrant film industry began a dramatic collapse into creative banality, intellectual decadence and popular irrelevance, marking its end. The new wave has clear differences from what once was. This new cinema wave is led, on the one hand, by a new generation of filmmakers, many of whom have been trained abroad; and on the other, by a generation of actors and technicians, most of whom began their careers on television, or have otherwise remained affiliated with the same. Yet, despite this recent influx of fresh talent, the broader industry itself remains beset by obsolete studios, equipment, cinematic techniques and, actors and extras. Even as the new cinema wave continues to blaze trails across Pakistani cinema skies, the old film industry has struggled to maintain its limited, almost peripheral, existence, with those affiliated with the Old Era now rendered redundant and without work. The author recollected the memories of actors, extras, writers, filmmakers and other associated with Old Era films. Today, many of whom live anonymously, and often carry other professions. With the collected recollections, the author has hoped to construct a narrative which explores ideas of abruptness, imperfection, resemblance, memory, and remembering and forgetting.

Basir Mahmood (b. 1985 Lahore, Pakistan) studied in Lahore at the Beaconhouse National University, and received a yearlong fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2011. In order to engage with situations around him, he ponders upon embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary, as well as his personal milieu. Using video, film or photograph, Mahmood weaves various threads of thoughts, findings and insights into poetic sequences and various forms of narratives.

?Thank You For Coming? strives to explore social identities and human behavior by analyzing the aesthetics of social activities which, in themselves, may be regarded as banal in everyday life. In this project, I am working with the idea of a social gathering, within the context of a celebration, where individuals gather in a certain manner, and form a structure that is identical to the social structure we live in. Within these parameters I am working with a visual vocabulary that is derived from the imagery of little, everyday gestures, to form various narratives of an event, and to build a larger superstructure of my work. For this project, I worked in collaboration with a person from a different background to set-up a situation that treads the thin line between fiction and reality. He brought in his relatives, friends and acquaintances, none of whom I knew and all of whom were alien to me, for a celebration, the name or title, occasion and purpose of which is never revealed.I accorded my contact who had gathered these people together the role of an architect who led much of the direction of what was being done by the gathered people and how it was being done. The end result of this project was unexpected; initially I wanted to put a social gathering together to study the interaction between individuals. Probably by positioning myself with camera I broke the structure, I wanted to build. What appeared on camera is a group of aliens, together, who were even unknown to each other.

Basir Mahmood (b. 1985 Lahore, Pakistan) studied in Lahore at the Beaconhouse National University, and received a yearlong fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2011. In order to engage with situations around him, he ponders upon embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary, as well as his personal milieu. Using video, film or photograph, Mahmood weaves various threads of thoughts, findings and insights into poetic sequences and various forms of narratives. Since 2011, his works has been widely shown, including: The Garden of Eden, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012; III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia, 2012; Inaugural Show, Broad Museum, Michigan State University, 2012; Asia Pacific Triennial (APT 7) at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2012; and Sharjah Biennial 11. (2013). Besides being part of various private collections, Mahmood?s video works were acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery Collection in Brisbane, Australia.

?A message to the sea? was developed during my stay in the old fishermen?s area near by the sea. Men on the land have always been dependent on the sea for fishing and trade. The intention behind the piece was to create a dialog between men and the sea, by sending a message back to the sea. The ship in the work is not a subject but an object, which holds a message.

Basir Mahmood (b 1985, Lahore) graduated in 2010 from Beaconhouse National University with a distinction. His interest in short films has won him various awards in the category of Best Director and Writer. ?Gheera Chaasma?, a short film, was nominated at the Zabist Film Festival in Karachi which was written, directed and produced by Mahmood. His one minute short film ?Dot in the line? was short listed in the Filminute Film Festival in 2011. Mahmood is the recipient of Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship for the year 2011-2012 in Stuttgart, Germany and ARCUS Project, Japan. He will represent Pakistan at the Asia Pacific Triennial 2012 (APT 7) at Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia and showing his video at the launch of Broad Museum launch at Michigan State University in April 2012. Mahmood is a part of III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, 2012. Besides being part of various private collections, Mahmood?s video works were recently acquired by the Queensland Art Gallery Collection in Brisbane, Australia.

“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”

Born in Vila do Conde (Portugal). Based in Berlin. Portuguese filmmaker working predominantly with 16mm and 8mm film, pushing the boundaries between analog, digital and live cinema. His work has been presented and exhibited at renowned places like The Barbican Center, Serralves Museum, The Centre Pompidou, Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum, Mostra São Paulo, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Eye Film Museum, amongst others. Maia has contributed to projects to Patti Smith, Soundwalk Collective, Danny Elfman and Lucrecia Dalt and has presented solo performances as well collaborations with musicians such as Vessel, Shackleton, Holy Other, Kevin Richard Martin, Craig Leon, Lee Ranaldo, Raul Refree, and many others, with presentations of these worldwide in leading festivals like Sonar, Unsound, Berlin Atonal, Ars Electronica, All Tomorrow’s Party, Mutek Montreal, Mutek Mexico, Red Bull Music Academy, among many others.

Arise (Zona) has as starting point the feature film A Zona, by Sandro Aguilar and emerges up from all the cinematic dirtiness inherent to the film material. These images in the wasted film, doomed to emptiness and total forgetting, lead us to the ambiguity and indetermination between life and death, in which narrative and temporal logic are suspended.

Born in 1983. Graduated in Audiovisual Comunication at the Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Works as a freelance professional in cinema, multimedia and audiovisual. Videoart Course at Fundação Caloute Gulbenkian. Since 2004 he has been exploring the concepts of live cinema and live manipulation of images and its relation with sound.

synopsis: our lights shows us the way (or, the night is time to struggle) presentation: The film tell this to those who say we’ve been defeated stems from a collective process of organization and development in whose nature lies the instrumental excellence of words. However, what we address here is a different moment in this process, in which the layers of sound, resulting from concrete body actions, lead us, by means of what is unseen, to a greater sensorial understanding of the issue at hand—it is the exchange of meaning for feeling as the path to hearts and minds. To this end, we pored over MLB’s archive for about six weeks to better understand the latent aesthetic powers of that heterogeneous amalgam of images and sounds. By imposing a few rules on the archive research, we were able to first define the material that would compose the film, to then shape it as idea and gesture.

Recife (BR), 1990 Lives and works in Recife and Belo Horizonte, in Brazil. Filmmaker and visual artist, studied Film Direction at the Fundación Universidad del Cine (FUC-Argentina), but then dropped out of it, attending the Documentary Practice and Video at the Centro de Formación Profesional of the S.I.C.A. (Union of the Argentine Film Industry). His interests are in the intersections between documentary practices, archive, performativity and theater applied to contemporary cinema and media supports. It has been lately relating it to the resistance communities of popular struggles and social movements. Is artistic director and curator of the Transterritorial Films Festival, in Recife – BR. Also works as cinematographer, film editor and film researcher. His work has been exhibited and awarded in several festivals such as the Contemporary Art Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil, Brasília, Nantes, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Recife, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Concepción, Ciudad de Mexico. In 2018, was awarded with the prize of the 13th Rucker Vieira Documentary Screenplay Contest and in 2019 with the Sesc Award for Contemporary Art at the 21st Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil.