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A sensorial, left-field take on Thai political history that moves between a subdued past etched in the landscape of Khao Kho mountain, once a stronghold of communist insurgents, and a dynamic near-present marked by Bangkok’s 2021 anti-government protests.

Taiki Sakpisit is a filmmaker and visual artist working in Bangkok. His works explore the underlying tensions and conflicts, and the sense of anticipation in contemporary Thailand, through precise and sensorially overwhelming audio-visual assemblage using a wide range of sounds and images. His films produce heightened and uneasy modes of spectatorship that often relate to the tumultuous socio-political climate in Thailand. Taiki’s moving images and experimental shorts have been presented at numerous exhibitions and film festivals. His feature length film The Edge of Daybreak premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Tiger Competition and won the FIPRESCI award. His film, A Ripe Volcano was presented at Les Rencontres Internationales in 2014.

In the backyards there are sheds, a huge old tree, wild plants with wild offspring, waste scattered around. This is where they spend their time. A decaying building is about to be destroyed and someone may go beyond. Soon one of them becomes aware of the sea.

Ivan Salatic was born in 1982 in Dubrovnik and grew up in Herceg Novi. He finished the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Belgrade and graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje. He has directed several short films that have participated in festivals such as Venice Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Torino Film Festival.

"AFTER THE LAW" est un film court, où un tribunal d'humains et d'objets est contaminé par un virus impossible à trouver. Le verdict porte sur un accident inconnu, qui a fracturé la loi et érodé la parole. A travers une mutation toxique des rôles et des formes, des preuves, des gestes et des sensations haptiques, le tribunal perd sa capacité à délibérer. Tourné pendant une performance en direct, à l'aide d'un seul caméscope, ce tribunal a été conçu comme un dispositif cybernétique pour des réponses haptiques, où le mouvement collectif, la lumière, les vibrations, la reconnaissance des visages et l'empathie se heurtent à une voix synthétique. Tout le discours a été généré à l’aide de Google WaveNet, un modèle génératif utilisant des réseaux neuronaux pour simuler des voix humaines. Ce protocole a été exploré et accéléré pour trouver des moments où la voix de la machine se brise, bégaie et scande une glossolalie. En 2019, ces images ont été utilisées comme une partition visuelle pour qu'un groupe d'adolescents sourds les interprète dans une langue des signes étendue, explorant les lacunes de la description et les étendant à la description corporelle de cette cour aphasique. Les voix ont été enregistrées dans des états induits par l’hypnose, rendant floues les frontières qui séparent le corps de ses résonateurs spatiaux. Une voix cassée hante un paradoxe politique dans une bio-ingénierie inversée.

Jonathan Uliel Saldanha a étudié la sculpture à la Faculté des Beaux-Arts de l'Université de Porto (Portugal), et s'est consacré à l'étude du tabla – un instrument de percussion indien - avec le groupe musical hindou Jugalbandi. Il a fondé le collectif SOOPA, un laboratoire visuel, performatif et sonore, et le groupe Silorumor. Il est membre du Fujako duo, et est directeur du groupe HHY & The Macumbas. Depuis 2010, il a composé plusieurs œuvres sonores expérimentales, co-créé les pièces "Boca Wall", "Shark" et "King Trilogy", et réalisé "Jungle Machine", "Khorus Anima", "The Well" et "Oxidation Machine". Il a présenté ses œuvres dans divers lieux, notamment au musée Serralves, Porto (Portugal); au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal); au Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France); et au festival Accès(s), Billère (France). Il a collaboré avec des artistes tels que Carlos Zíngaro, Steve Mackay, Adrian Sherwood, Vera Mantero, Mark Stewart, João Fiadeiro entre autres. En tant que musicien, il s'est produit dans divers festivals, notamment au Nyege Nyege, Jinja (Ouganda); à Unsound, Cracovie (Pologne); à Sónar, Barcelone (Espagne); à Primavera Sound, Barcelone (Espagne); à Amplifest, Porto (Portugal); au Out.Fest, Barreiro (Portugal); Circular, Vila do Conde (Portugal); à Million Party; au Neopop, Viana do Castelo (Portugal); au Tapettefest, Campénéac (France); et à Elevate, Graz (Autriche). En 2019, il a présenté l'installation "Vocoder & Camouflage", dans "Vanishing Point: works from the António Cachola collection", Torreão Nascente Lisbonne (Portugal); la pièce "Scotoma Cintilante", pour chœur d'aveugles et sculpture-partition, à l’Université catholique de Porto (Portugal), au São Carlos Lisbon National Theater, Lisbonne (Portugal) et à la Biennale BoCa 2019 (Portugal); et "Broken Field Atlantis" un concert de nappes de lumière, a été présenté au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). Toujours en 2018, avant cette exposition, il a présenté la pièce "SØMA", où un groupe d'adolescents sourds traduit en gestes le tournage d'un tribunal animiste, à Culturgest Lisboa, Lisbonne (Portugal) et au Rivoli Teatro Municipal do Porto (Portugal). En même temps, il a présenté les expositions "Behemoth Republic", dans le cycle "Sonic Geometry" au Archipelago São Miguel Arts Center, Ribeira Grande (Açores, Portugal); et "Dismorfia" à l'Université Catholique de Porto (Portugal).

Kaliurang, à Yogyakarta, est situé près du volcan actif Merapi, un lieu où les fantômes des souvenirs et de l'histoire font partie du paysage. Il s’agit d’une vidéo subtile, créée spécialement pour 900mdpl en 2019, dans laquelle les habitants de la ville deviennent acteurs, dans le rôle de fantômes. De temps en temps, les habitants de Kaliurang voient un Hollandais à pied, ou un soldat japonais qui marche, ou une Javanaise portant une jarre d'eau, ou un animal sauvage ou un être surnaturel... passer comme s'ils étaient là, vivant parmi nous. Ils se cachent dans les arbres - comme si les arbres, la forêt et la montagne étaient les témoins nus de toute l'histoire du colonialisme, de la guerre et du processus néolibéral du développement. Une œuvre de fiction sans flux narratif. Les fantômes marchent-ils parmi nous ou sommes-nous les fantômes ?

Mark Salvatus (né en 1980) vit et travaille à Manille, aux Philippines. Il a étudié les arts publicitaires à l'université de Santo Tomas, à Manille. Ses œuvres ont été présentées lors de différentes expositions et dans différents lieux, notamment à la 2e Biennale de Lahore (Pakistan); au Kyoto Art Center (Japon); à l'ISCP, New York (USA); au Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin (Allemagne); à la 14e Biennale de Sharjah (Émirats arabes unis); au Mill6 CHAT, Hong Kong (Chine); à la Biennale de Gwangju - Pavillon PCAN (Corée du Sud); au Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Séoul (Corée du Sud); à l'Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong (Chine); au Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Japon); aux Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin; à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise - Pavillon des Philippines, (Italie); à la 6e Biennale de Thessalonique (Grèce); SONSBEEK International, Arnhem (Pays-Bas); à la 3e Biennale de Singapour; à la 4e Triennale de Guangzhou (Chine); aux 14e et 16e Biennale de Jakarta (Indonésie); au Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (Japon); à l’Hotel Inmigrantes, Manifesta 9; à la Brunei Gallery - SOAS, Université de Londres (Royaume-Uni); à Hasselt (Belgique) ; à la Biennale d’Honolulu - Exposition Prologue (USA); au Survival Kit Festival, Umea (Suède); à la Sharjah Art Foundation (Émirats arabes unis); à l’Asia Society, New York (USA); au Art Center Ongoing Tokyo (Japon) ; au Museum Baerengasse, Zurich (Suisse); à La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo (Australie); au Cultural Center of the Philippines et au Vargas Museum and Filipiniana Research Center (Philippines). Il a été artiste en résidence à l'ACC - Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (Corée du Sud); à la Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam (Pays-Bas); au IASPIS Umea (Suède); à la Art OMI, New York (USA); à la Common Room Networks Foundation, Bandung (Indonésie) et au Goyang Art Studio (Corée du Sud).

The Philippine Constabulary Band was a symphonic band formed in 1901 by African-American Lt. Walter Loving of the US Army’s 48th Volunteer Infantry during the American period in the Philippines. Since its first public performance on May 20, 1903, the band has brought the country international fame through its participation in international competitions, including the 1904 St. Louis Exposition in the USA, where the band placed second. In this infamous fair where live Filipinos were exhibited especially the dog-eating Igorot tribe, the band performed Rossini’s classical music ‘Willam Tell Overture’. Forward to the year 2015, the artist’s father’s has a vast vinyl record collection and one of them is a Philippine Constabulary band record that was released in the 70’s under the New Society period of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Creating a new narrative about the band and the collection, the current Philippine Army band played Rossini’s Willaiam Tell Overture after 100 years ago side by side by the vast collection of the artist’s father that were gathered slowly since the 70’s.

Mark Salvatus is a contemporary artist from Manila, Philippines. His works crosses various disciplines and media that deal with chance encounters and everyday politics creating his own narrative and visual language. Calling his works and practice as “Salvage Projects”, he has shown his projects in different international exhibitions including the Philippine Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2016); SONSBEEK International, Arnhem, The Netherlands (2016); Singapore Biennale (2011), Guangzhou Triennale (2011), Jakarta Biennale (2011/2015), Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama (2011), Hotel Inmigrantes, Manifesta 9, Hasselt, Belgium (2012), Prologue Exhibition: Honolulu Biennale (2014), Survival Kit Festival, Umea, Sweden (2014) and Next Wave Festival, Melbourne (2010). He had also presented his works in different museums and galleries including La Trobe University, Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo; Asia Society, New York; Museum Brengasse, Zurich; Center for Contemporary Art, Singapore; Ateneo Art Gallery; Cultural Center of the Philippines, Vargas Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Osage Foundation, Hong Kong; 1335 Mabini in Manila; Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo. Mark is a recipient of the 13 Artists Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2012) and Ateneo Art Awards (2010). In 2012 he founded and acts as the artistic director of 98B COLLABoratory, a multi-disciplinary site for creative sharing, discussion and collaboration.

??Once Dr. Dahesh referred to a painting made by Mrs Marie Haddad, and which showed a bird on a tree. The colours of the painting moved and took the form of flesh, blood and feathers and the bird in that painting was converted into a living bird, which was placed in a cage and remained there for several years. Its place on the linen remained white.?

Omar Fakhoury Artist, Beirut Born in 1979, Omar Fakhoury is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He holds a Bachelor in Painting and a Masters of Fine Arts Roy Samaha, Artist, Beirut Born in 1978, a video artist and photographer living and working in Beirut Lebanon where he completed a Masters degree in film studies.

Cette oeuvre se veut un outil de recherche dans son propre passé. Il s'agit de relier les lieux d'enfance, les rêves et les enregistrement VHS. Comment réaliser un autoportrait sans s'adonner aux clichés des archives historiques? Il a été dit : "Vous devez comprendre: la mémoire des objets enregistre et retient les actions humaines... de sorte que les générations futures en héritent... Mais on vous a aussi demandé de partir, de tout laisser derrière vous comme si vous n'étiez jamais venu. Les choses, les lieux possèdent une sorte de mémoire. Quand vous entrez dans un espace fermé, une partie de vous y reste attachée, vous perdez quelque chose. Vous devez apprendre à partir sans abandonner une parcelle de votre être... Apprendre à circuler sans laisser de trace."

Roy Samaha est né à Beyrouth en avril 1978. Il y vit et travaille comme vidéographe à ses heures. Il est diplômé en cinéma de la Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), au Liban.

This video explores childhood anecdotes heard around an apartment, which until 1989, when a major solar storm erupted, had been inhabited by a strange couple. Some suspected them of being undercover agents while others said they were just some new age sorcerers. The work addresses the relationship between layers of history, outstanding events in nature and ancient cyphering of language; how the cycles of the Sun’s unpredictable release of energetic flares affect the magnetic fields of the earth and influence radio transmissions, communication and reason on a mass scale.

Roy Samaha is a Lebanese artist, living and working in Beirut. He explores the boundaries of filmic language, perception of reality and the memory of personal objects.

??Once Dr. Dahesh referred to a painting made by Mrs Marie Haddad, and which showed a bird on a tree. The colours of the painting moved and took the form of flesh, blood and feathers and the bird in that painting was converted into a living bird, which was placed in a cage and remained there for several years. Its place on the linen remained white.?

Omar Fakhoury Artist, Beirut Born in 1979, Omar Fakhoury is a multidisciplinary visual artist. He holds a Bachelor in Painting and a Masters of Fine Arts Roy Samaha, Artist, Beirut Born in 1978, a video artist and photographer living and working in Beirut Lebanon where he completed a Masters degree in film studies.

Cette oeuvre se veut un outil de recherche dans son propre passé. Il s'agit de relier les lieux d'enfance, les rêves et les enregistrement VHS. Comment réaliser un autoportrait sans s'adonner aux clichés des archives historiques? Il a été dit : "Vous devez comprendre: la mémoire des objets enregistre et retient les actions humaines... de sorte que les générations futures en héritent... Mais on vous a aussi demandé de partir, de tout laisser derrière vous comme si vous n'étiez jamais venu. Les choses, les lieux possèdent une sorte de mémoire. Quand vous entrez dans un espace fermé, une partie de vous y reste attachée, vous perdez quelque chose. Vous devez apprendre à partir sans abandonner une parcelle de votre être... Apprendre à circuler sans laisser de trace."

Roy Samaha est né à Beyrouth en avril 1978. Il y vit et travaille comme vidéographe à ses heures. Il est diplômé en cinéma de la Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), au Liban.

Late 2010, I got commissioned by Leica to follow in the footsteps of James Bruce and document the Nile river from Alexandria to Aswan. I invited my friend Gheith El-Amine to join me on this trip. it was his first time in Egypt. December 10, 2010: we made plans to leave on February 1, 2011. He contacted two Egyptian friends of his, and we were supposed to meet them as soon as arrived there. January 25. The revolution started in Egypt. the only incoming images so far were made by protesters with cellular phones and uploaded on the net. They were much more efficient than the state-owned television station which was still doing the pro-regime propaganda in high definition resolution.

This associative stream of visuals, culled from the past, reflect on the roles of art, labor, and journalism in contemporary Sri Lanka, facing a dubious future ahead. Memory and ethnographic deconstruction cascade in an obliterated form, forging a dire and prescient assemblage.

Rajee Samarasinghe was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His filmmaking practice was born out of a desire to understand the circumstances around his childhood and his work often navigates the terrain of memory, migration, and impermanence within the framework of deconstructing the ethnographic image and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. Rajee is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka—the project has received support from the Sundance Institute, Berlinale Talents' Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False Film Festival’s inaugural PRISM program. Rajee was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, and had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2021. His short films have been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films presented by Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA, MoMA Doc Fortnight, BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM Festival, REDCAT, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, Vancouver International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival etc. He’s received the Tíos Award for Best International Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Film House Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, and an Honorable Mention Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival among others.

Retrouvant la trace du regard colonial à la fois dans l'image ethnographique et dans les formes des médias dominants, cette courte réalisation décrit une rencontre impressionniste avec une femme vue de très loin, qui cache son visage au téléobjectif curieux.

Rajee Samarasinghe est cinéaste. Originaire du Sri Lanka, il habite actuellement aux États-Unis. Il est titulaire d'une licence de la UCSD – University of California San Diego (USA) et d'un Master de CalArts – California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (USA). Il travaille actuellement sur son premier long métrage, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible", inspiré par ses expériences d'enfance pendant la guerre civile au Sri Lanka - le projet a reçu une bourse du Sundance Documentary Fund, Salt Lake City (USA), en 2019; a été invité à la Doc Station de Berlinale Talents, Berlin (Allemagne), ainsi qu'au Inogural PRISM Programm du True/False Film Festival, Columbia (USA) en 2020. Il a également été nommé comme l'un des 25 nouveaux visages du cinéma indépendant par le "Filmmaker Magazine" en 2020. Son travail a été présenté à l'international, notamment dans le cadre de la Tiger Short Competition du Festival international du film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas); du New Directors/New Films présenté par la Film Society of Lincoln Center et le MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA); du BFI London Film Festival, Londres (Royaume-Uni); du FIDMarseille (France); du Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montréal (Canada); des Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Allemagne); du Slamdance Film Festival, Park City (USA); du REDCAT – Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater, Los Angeles (USA); du SFFILM Festival – San Francisco International Film Festival (USA); du Media City Film Festival, Windsor (Canada); et du Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajato (Mexique). Entre autres prix, il a reçu le "Tíos Award for Best International Film" au Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor (USA); le "Film House Award for visionary filmmaking" au Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athènes (Grèce), et un "Audience Award" au festival CROSSROADS au SFMOMA – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (USA).

Shot improvisationally in 2010, shortly after the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, this film takes a lyrical approach to examining recent history and the process of reconstruction in the post-war era. The visions of an exile are carried through an immoral silence, to an end both dubious and bittersweet.

Rajee Samarasinghe is an award-winning Sri Lankan filmmaker and visual artist. Some of his recent work examines contemporary ethnographic practices through associations of family and heritage. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Rajee`s work has been exhibited at venues internationally.

Le déroulement de la pellicule se confronte à d’autres rouleaux manufacturés face à l’objectif. Le grain des images restitue, en noir et blanc, les habitants, les animaux, les paysages. La fabrication quotidienne voisine la vie domestique dans le découpage rythmé des gestes du travail. L’action semble accueillir quelques à côtés du labeur. Le film s’organise sous nos yeux, animé par de nouvelles itérations. L’absence de piste sonore n’annule que le bruit mécanique des projecteurs anciens. - Gilles Grand

Rajee Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan visual artist. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Rajee`s work has been exhibited at venues internationally.

Part of an ongoing series of American psychogeographies, this particular piece investigates the idea of "remoteness," as two people establish a curious rapport in a sleepy Southern Californian suburb.

Rajee Samarasinghe is a Sri Lankan visual artist. His work often examines consciousness and impermanence. Some of his recent work develops questions into contemporary ethnographic practices. Rajee attended the University of California San Diego and is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts.

A symbiotic collaboration in movie motion. After Muybridge.

Rajee Samarasinghe is a relatively young imagemaker, once upon a time Sri Lankan. He makes fake narratives and destructive formal experiments. He aspires to make videos of a respectable length and standard. Rajee attended the University of California, San Diego and is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts.

At the center of this film is a Sri Lankan woman accessing other places in digital form, while situated in her own physical reality. Navigating through a multitude of spaces from the natural world to man-made environments as well as virtual planes, traditional relationships between the creator, the tool, and the subject are questioned, shattered and reconstructed. Reflecting on my own practice as a filmmaker working in non-fiction, the film takes a collage-like approach to examining issues around representation, verisimilitude, the ethnographic image, and the limitations of the form itself. Shot on seven different cameras (and a video synthesizer) on both film and video over the course of a decade in Sri Lanka, China, and the United States, I delve into some of my fundamental curiosities as a filmmaker.

Rajee Samarasinghe was born and raised amidst the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka. He later left for the United States where he is now based. He received his BFA from the University of California San Diego and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. His filmmaking practice was born out of a desire to understand the circumstances around his childhood and his work often navigates the terrain of memory, migration, and impermanence within the framework of deconstructing the ethnographic image and the colonial gaze in contemporary media. Rajee is currently working on his debut feature film, "Your Touch Makes Others Invisible," which explores post-civil war Sri Lanka—the project has received support from the Sundance Institute, Berlinale Talents' Doc Station, Field of Vision, and True/False Film Festival’s inaugural PRISM program. Rajee was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2020, and had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival in 2021. His short films have been exhibited at venues internationally including the Tiger Short Competition at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New Directors/New Films presented by Film Society of Lincoln Center & MoMA, MoMA Doc Fortnight, BFI London Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Festival du nouveau cinéma, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Slamdance, SFFILM Festival, REDCAT, CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, Vancouver International Film Festival, Guanajuato International Film Festival, Media City Film Festival etc. He’s received the Tíos Award for Best International Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Film House Award for Visionary Filmmaking at the Athens International Film + Video Festival, and an Honorable Mention Award at the Thomas Edison Film Festival among others.

A détournement of Walter Benjamin`s "Theses on the Philosophy of History," reconfigured for an era dominated by the digital, the instability of the physical body, and the seeming triumph of technology over art and the virtual over the real. Is technology the handmaiden of art? Is art the handmaiden of technology? Or is the notion of a handmaiden so hopelessly obsolete, then it can no longer provide metaphors which provoke us to think?

Keith Sanborn is a media artist, theorist, translator, and curator based in New York.

This video was produced for an exquisite corpse project by Jason Simon to be screened on Bastille Day, 2012 in Narrowsburgh, NY. I added a title to my segment and kept the first second of picture from the previous video, the starting point for my work. The title was inspired by a remark of Paul Sharits. One of his assistants had just screened a test for him of an elaborate optical printer film. The title was his response. Also, the Stones played several times on the David Frost Show. Also James Brown was Black and Proud. Also I?m going to dye my hair black and you can?t stop me.

Keith Sanborn is a media artist, theorist, curator and translator based in New York.

Scènes de personnes en mouvement. Certains travaillent, d'autres profitent de leur temps libre. Le bruit des avions et des métros nous rappelle la ville située derrière ce bout de nature artificielle. Un court documentaire fait de scènes filmées dans les parcs de Stockholm, pendant une année.

Lucia Pagano est née en 1984. Elle est réalisatrice et artiste, et a été formée à la Lodz Film School, Lodz (Pologne) et au Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (Suède). Ses films s'intéressent aux détails de la vie quotidienne, souvent en observant, parfois jusqu'à l'absurde, des fragments de réalité en apparence insignifiants. Ils ont été projetés dans des festivals à l’international, notamment à São Paolo (Brésil); à San Francisco (USA), à Kiev (Ukraine) et à Varsovie (Pologne). Ils ont été récompensés ou ont reçu une mention honorifique aux festivals du film de Los Angeles (USA), Oberhausen(Allemagne), Stockholm (Suède), et au Nordisk Panorama, Malmö (Suède). Vanja Sandell Billström est née en 1983. Elle est réalisatrice et artiste. Elle a été formée au Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (Suède). Elle travaille à la fois la forme documentaire, des situations mises en scène, et des installations vidéo. Ses films portent souvent sur des situations quotidiennes, et présentent des personnages qui semblent réfléchir spontanément aux conditions de leur vie quotidienne ou aux situations du film lui-même. Vanja Sandell Billström a déjà été nommée pour le Prix Guldbagge du meilleur film court suédois, et a exposé au Göteborg Konsthall (Suède); à la Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm (Suède); à la Box Gallery, Göteborg (Suède); et Färgfabriken, Stockholm (Suède). "Park" est le premier film qu’elles ont réalisé ensemble. Il a été nommé pour le prix du meilleur film court suédois au festival du film de Göteborg (Suède); pour le Tempo Short Award, Stockholm (Suède); pour le 1KM Film; et a remporté le Tempo Sound Award, Stockholm (Suède) [2020].

A narrator takes you on a deep dive into the art world. What mechanisms are driving this ecosystem, or rather: which participants? The animation film "À la carte" takes a humorous look at the food chain in the art field and the challenges we face.

The artist duo consisting of Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard and Bror Sander Berg Størseth constantly serve up fresh perspectives on the world, tongue in cheek, jaws scraping off the ground. In their particular case form does not follow function, but function at least contains the word fun. The objects produced by the duo are caught in between form and function, art and design, discourse and disgust. For instance: portable paintings whose support structure doubles as shipping crates, and a mobile sculpture serving you social lubrication. Or high heeled shoes with built in brushes for an easy clean, and seats reserved for magazine covers. Aurora Sander reacts to the intrinsic structures of the art world, of socialization, distribution, value creation, judgement, and accruement, to turn some tables, but making sure the tables look damned good on the way round. The references in the work of Aurora Sander are plentiful, and the usual appropriation of low culture you traditionally would find in the art is repurposed with a refined knowledge of not just the art world, but also an interest in merchandizing and hanging out, dipping low. Their artistic strategies are closely linked to design, theater, and fashion; fields that art is struggling to keep at bay. Art historian Benjamin Buchloh describes this relationship as one where high art constantly appropriates images, strategies, and mechanisms from low culture, not in order to assimilate the two, but rather to reaffirm art's position in the hierarchy. Aurora Sander seems to confuse the hierarchy, and the identity of the duo, who might be mistaken for a singular artist, a case of mistaken identity, might range from a Disney princess to an emerging artist trying to make it in the cruel marketplace of the art world. Aurora Sander's strategy of confusion, fusion, fiction and friction, seems to be the duo's strength, making objects and creating characters that belong in the art world, but have no idea how they got there.

Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman of Butte, Montana, published her diaries in 1902 and 1917. As an out queer and proto-feminist at the turn of the century, MacLane became notorious upon the publication of her 1902 diary, I Await the Devil’s Coming. She was whisked away from the industrial hellscape of her copper mining Montana hometown to a life in the public eye as an author, journalist, female film pioneer and always a provocateur - sending up social norms throughout her career, with a special focus on staid notions about women and sexuality. Between my flesh and the world’s fingers is an experimental essay and diary film primarily based on her published diaries and her film work. Though the film is not directly a personal film, the production is founded in part in the act of a woman telling her own story through that of another woman, a trailblazing figure from the past.

Talena Sanders makes moving image works that explore the development of individual and collective senses of identity in affinity groups. Her films and videos are informed by an interest in presenting the many ways that social institutions can shape individuals lives on both the broader geopolitical level and the most intimate, personal scales. A common starting point for developing new projects begins with an interest in interrogating narratives from histories and how historical records can influence senses of identity, especially as it relates to ideas of national and regional character. She believes there are endless means to present and interrogate materials from the real on the spectrum from nonfiction to narrative production approaches. Her work often places historical found/archival footage and audio in dialogue with contemporary media captured on location to question constructs of privilege and power in who gets authorized to tell the story of a shared experience. She holds an MFA from Duke University’s Experimental and Documentary Arts program and a BFA from the University of Kentucky. Her work has been screened, exhibited, and collected internationally, including at the New York Film Festival`s Views from the Avant-Garde, FID Marseille, Montreal International Documentary Festival, Fronteira Festival, Viennale, DokuFest Kosovo, BFI London Film Festival, and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Her first feature documentary, Liahona, is distributed by Documentary Educational Resources and Doc Alliance. She has previously taught film and video production and film studies at Duke University and the University of Montana. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sonoma State University.

La Reprise (Dérive) is an exercise in continuity and distortion. This experimental film began on June 20, 2020. As of September 3, 2023, it is 168 min / weeks long. Every week, a subsequent minute is produced by combining scenes shot that week with archival material from the past years. Footage and sound are consistently recorded with the same single device (an iPhone). The film may distort, but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is what was recorded. The sequences are neither true nor false, they integrate various degrees of theatricality and authenticity. They become portraits of an agitated immersion in the perpetual process of being, of this unpredictable yet systematic gathering and indexing. They are the record of close observations. I am a passenger, a witness to recurrences and patterns. This continuous collage of archives is the tension. The narrative is disconnected from the sum of its parts and elaborates on successes and failures. In this regard, the film is in a constant state of being finished, rather than interminably in progress. While its length progressively evolves, it also always is its final duration. This work is meant to continue until my death.

Fette Sans is based in Zagreb and in Berlin. She has a conceptual and interdisciplinary practice that includes the production of images, writing, performances, online gestures, film-making, discussions, and installations. Games of dissociative identities and the stories we tell ourselves to collect evidence of what has happened are recurring components in her work. She is interested in the ambiguity of what constitutes an image’s residue. Concerned with social systems, representation, and technology, she develops obsessive rituals, collaborations, and speculative narratives to question these issues. Rituals are interesting because there are ways of expressing repetition and the longing for security while accepting the risks associated with the very act of ceremonial reiterations: boredom itself.

La Reprise is an ongoing exercise begun on April 21, 2013. Every week, a subsequent minute is produced consisting of scenes shot that week along with archival material from the past years. Footage and sound are consistently recorded with the same single device. 
The film may distort, but there is always a presumption that something exists, or did exist, which is what was recorded. 
The sequences are neither true nor false, they integrate various degrees of theatricality and authenticity. They become portraits of an agitated immersion in the perpetual process of systematic indexing and gathering, and of close observations. [I am a passenger, a witness to recurrences and patterns.] This continuous collage of archives is the tension. The narrative is disconnected from the sum of its parts, and elaborates on successes and failures. Each screening becomes a unique occasion to view the film as the succession of each 1min weekly film is added every time.

At the beginning of the work, there is writing - perhaps a story, then there are photographs, films, and installations. Fette Sans was born in France. She lived in Los Angeles for about ten years where she ran an artist space, then moved to Berlin in 2010. Her work aims at questioning authenticity and the precious. What is representation without narrative? What is the role of light in memory? Panic. Repeat. Overwhelm. Serendipity plays an important role in her interaction with the characters and materials she gathers. She collects and re-interprets, referencing previous gestures and leaving these traces available for more examinations.

Un chimpanzé se métamorphose en Ange de la Mélancolie et abandonne son île pour Saturne, la triste planète.

Gabriel Sanson, né à Paris en 1993, a réalisé plusieurs court-métrages présentés dans les prestigieux festivals de la Biennale de Venise et de Rotterdam.

"In Vitro" (Al Mukhtabar) se déroule après une catastrophe écologique. Sous la ville biblique de Bethléem, un réacteur nucléaire abandonné a été transformé en un énorme verger. À l'aide de graines de variétés anciennes, récoltées pendant les derniers jours précédant l'apocalypse, un groupe de scientifiques se prépare à replanter le sol à la surface. Dans l'infirmerie du complexe souterrain, la fondatrice du verger, Dunia, 70 ans, est étendue sur son lit de mort, tandis qu'Alia, 30 ans, lui rend visite. Alia est née sous terre, dans le cadre d'un programme de clonage complet, et n'a jamais vu la ville qu'elle est destinée à reconstruire.

Larissa Sansour est palestinienne. Elle est artiste et réalisatrice, et le tiraillement entre la fiction et la réalité est un élément central de son travail. Dans ses œuvres récentes, elle utilise la science-fiction pour aborder des questions sociales et politiques. Travaillant principalement le film, Larissa Sansour crée également installations, photographies et sculptures. Son travail est présenté dans des festivals de cinéma et des musées du monde entier. En 2019, elle représente le Danemark à la 58e Biennale de Venise (Italie). Elle a montré son travail à la Tate Modern, Londres (Royaume-Uni); au MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA); au Centre Pompidou, Paris (France); à la Biennale d'Istanbul (Turquie); à la Berlinale, Berlin (Allemagne); au Festival international du film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas); et au BFI London Film Festival, Londres (Royaume-Uni). Parmi ses récentes expositions personnelles, citons la galerie Bluecoat, Liverpool (Royaume-Uni); le musée Dar El-Nimer, Beyrouth (Iran); et le Nikolaj Kunsthal à Copenhague (Danemark). Larissa Sansour vit et travaille à Londres (Royaume-Uni). Søren Lind est né en 1970 et est d’origine danoise. Il est auteur, réalisateur et scénariste. Formé en philosophie, il a écrit des livres à propos de l'esprit, du langage et de la compréhension, avant de se tourner vers le cinéma et la fiction. Il a publié des romans, des recueils de nouvelles et plusieurs livres pour enfants. Søren Lind projette et expose ses films dans des musées, des galeries et des festivals de cinéma du monde entier, notamment à la 58e Biennale de Venise (Italie); au MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA); au Barbican Centre, Londres (Royaume-Uni); au Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhague (Danemark); à la Berlinale, Berlin (Allemagne), au Festival international du film de Rotterdam (Pays-Bas); et au BFI London Film Festival, Londres (Royaume-Uni). Il vit et travaille à Londres (Royaume-Uni).

Happy Days est une vidéo qui expose la vie de tous les jours des palestiniens sous l'occupation israélienne. Pendant la vidéo, un collage de métrages filmés dans les territoires occupés est accompagné par la bande son de la série des années soixante-dix, "Happy Days". Le passage montre des images différentes de celles des journaux télévisés. La musique crée un contraste avec l'apathie du public confronté aux conflits mondiaux. L'idée est de soumettre les politiques internationales à un format normalement associé au divertissement, et ainsi amener l'attention sur cette frontière floue entre les deux.

Née à Jérusalem en 1973, Sansour étudia les beaux arts à Copenhague, London et New York et reçu son MFA à l'université de New York. Ses travaux sont interdisciplinaires, immergés dans le dialogue politique actuel et se servent de l'art vidéo, photographie digitale, documentaires expérimentaux et internet. Le travail de Sansour a été montré de par le monde dans des galeries, des musées mais aussi dans des festivals de films. Ses expositions les plus notables comprennent, le Tate Modern de Londres, le Musée National de la Reine Sofia, Madrid et un show prochain au Arken Museum of Modern Art au Danemark. Sansur est membre international du comite de la nouvelle école de concept Chaos Pilots avec lequel elle contribue par ses écrits sur l'art, la politique et l'éducation. Elle vie et travaille a Copenhague, au Danemark.