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The face is usually the expressive surface which marks a person`s identity. "Face" does not, however, just refer to the human face, but could also mean the face of a building: the façade that "adorns" a building. In Sasha Pirker`s so-named short film, shot on 16 mm using a hand-held camera, these two meanings come at one another from diametrically opposed positions. On one hand Pirker is trying to show the building as a whole, plucking out individual fragments in an entirely subjective manner; fragments which the viewer then has to piece together. One clue to this interpretation is a quote by the artist Birgit Baldasti which flashes up right at the start: "If I was a poet I?d say that pleasure lies in other people refining your own imagination." On the other hand Pirker selects the clips of the building such that the individual faces of the passers-by remain hidden. In THE FACE all entities, both architectural and human, exist without their primary identifying feature: their face. Metaphorically only the eyes, mouth, nose and ears of the architecture can be seen, while people are generally cut off, or are filmed in silhouette from behind. The framing means that each image in the film just shows a clipping: here, there is no longer any suggestion of anything being shown as a whole. In Sasha Pirker`s view, the architectural elements are also given sculptural accents. At the same time, Pirker juggles with views from within and without, bringing out the limited, snippet-like view and precisely thus firing the imagination. Almost incidentally she also succeeds in connecting the gallery space and the street ? the primary aim of the two men of action Vito Acconci and Steven Holl when they renovated the façade of the Storefront for Art and Architecture (NYC) in 1993. (Dietmar Schwärzler) Translation: Anne Koth

Sasha Pirker, artist/filmmaker, born 1969 in Vienna, Austria. Studies in Linguistics in Vienna/Austria. From 1995-2000 she worked as a curator of contemporary architecture at the Architecture Center Vienna (Az W). Since 2006 she is a teaching member at the department ?Video and Videoinstallation? at the University of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. Her films are distributed by sixpackfilm Vienna, www.sixpackfilm.com (selection) 2011 Retrospective ?Philosopher of Space? at the VIENNALE - Vienna International Filmfestival 2010 67. Mostra Internazionale d?Arte Cinematografica, La Biennale di Venezia/I

In Amsterdam, there once was a zoo, lions, elephants, people and Nazis. The elephants, who never forget, tell the story to the young lions. During the Second World War, the story goes, eighteen Jews hid above the lion’s cages. The Nazis, who loved the zoo, cared about the lions and bought them the best meat, usually lamb. The old lions couldn’t eat all they were given, so they left some of it to their new “roommates” for three years.

Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron’s collaborative work creates links between film, visual arts and theatre. At the center is the individual person as part of a human community, oscillating between resignation and hope. Karolina Markiewicz studied political science, philosophy and theatre and works as a film and theatre director. Pascal Piron studied visual arts and works as an artist and film director. Both work as teachers. Their cooperation started in 2013, with an exhibition for Aica Luxembourg entitled Everybody should have the right to die in an expensive car. In 2014, they made a first documentary called Les Formidables, which tells the story of five young migrants in Luxembourg. In 2014, they found the video blog kulturstruktur.com. In 2015 they worked on the project Philoktet, which includes the homonymous play by Heiner Müller and an exhibition relating the Greek tragedy to Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb. At the same time they released their second documentary Mos Stellarium, produced by Tarantula and supported by Film Fund Luxembourg. Part of this project is the installation of Mos Stellarium, which offers different parts of the movie simultaneously, thus giving a non-linear reading of the film. Their current work includes a video series entitled Side-effects of reality. It consists in a number of short films and video installations. Our reality is a vague and imprecise thing, hardly accessible. The core idea of Side-effects of Reality is to push this inaccessible reality to a poetic level, thus creating through video and text a new image of reality. This image is not the same as its content, it has its own mythology, and by this offers a different take on understanding our reality.

Documentaire sous forme d`extraits de témoignages autour des peurs et des angoisses de cinq jeunes. Quatre d`entre eux sont demandeurs d`asile et doivent conserver l`anonymat (prénoms d`emprunt). Ils ont entre 18 et 21 ans et ont tous endossé les enjeux de la vie d`adulte. Par hasard, ça se passe au Luxembourg. Il y a plus de 90 nationalités différentes qui se croisent, au Luxembourg, dans nos écoles, nos lycées, nos foyers, avec toutes ces histoires bien particulières : de guerre, d’après-guerre, de manque d’argent, d’exil. Ce sont ces couloirs des exilés auxquels fait référence le sociologue français, Michel Agier. Le documentaire, en trois chapitres donne la place à quelques uns de ces couloirs - quelques uns de ces récits.

Karolina Markiewicz (1976), diplômée en sciences politiques, philosophie et théâtre, et Pascal Piron (1981) diplômé en arts plastiques, travaillent tous deux dans l’enseignement au Luxembourg. Parallèlement, ils développent des travaux artistiques (peinture pour Pascal et mise en scène et écriture pour Karolina) - indépendamment jusqu’en 2013, où démarre leur parcours commun avec l’exposition Everybody should have the right to die in an expensive car réalisée pour le Kiosk de l`Aica Luxembourg. La collaboration qui en découlera permettra aux deux d’envisager leurs travaux artistiques différemment. Pascal ne verra plus l’image de façon bidimensionnelle et reprendra des travaux portée sur la vidéo, quant à Karolina, elle se tournera vers un théâtre d’images, plus abstrait. Tous deux s’intéressent désormais à l’image comme trace qui évolue dans le temps. Ainsi, les travaux s`axent autour de l`installation, la vidéo, du théâtre et des arts plastiques. Plusieurs projets en découlent, notamment le documentaire Les Formidables ainsi que Kulturstuktur /audio+video blog (le projet d’entretiens). Ces projets observent l`individu comme faisant partie d’une communauté humaine, quelque peu résignante d`apparence, mais qui aux travers de certains événements ou objets: film, œuvre d`art, pièce de théâtre, réalisation architecturale ou composition musicale, s`avère être lucide et forte.

Europa im Herbst - Polska Rodzinka (Europe in Autumn - Polish family) is a short portrait of a tormented Poland, a tormented and conflicted Europe in 2018. Not only populists raise their brutal voices but also right extremists reappear in a very quick rhythm like in the 30s. This experimental short documentary is the result of a journey through Poland where several families co-exist and argue: our own family, the one of the anti-fascist and pro-European protesters, the one of the police, the one of the musicians... The last ones reinterpret old pre-Second World War songs, written by polish Jews, in which people dance and die. Europa im Herbst - Polska Rodzinka is a short merry-go-round ride of our stay in Poland and in Europe in the summer of 2018.

Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron's collaborative work creates links between film, visual arts and theatre. At the center is the individual person as part of a human community, oscillating between resignation and hope. Karolina studied political science, philosophy and theatre and works as a film and theatre director. Pascal studied visual arts and works as an artist and film director. Both work also as teachers. They are currently working on several cinematographic projects. Sublimation "an interactive installation based dance VR piece developed in collaboration with Yuko Kominami" butoh dancer, this project is selected among 12 international projects by the Mostra di Venezia for the the festival and the College Biennale Cinema VR. The duo works also on My Identity is this expanse! an installative VR piece on exile and resilience through poetry and The Living Witnesses, a documentary about anti-Semitism. Their former short films and films: Les Formidables, 2013 Mos Stellarium, 2015 - selected for the 56. Biennale di Venezia di Arte to represent Liechtenstein Side Effects of Reality (2016 - ongoing) - a series of short films on history and contemporary myths: De Rerum Natura, Artis, Kostas, Okopowa-Warszawa, La Figurine, Eos+Aeneas, To not be destroy by powder to the powder and the fist, Here Be Dragons, Europa im Herbst - Polska rodzinka.

FEVER (8-10 minutes) is an experience in virtual reality. For both adults and children, a high fever can mean hallucinations — mainly auditory and visual, lucid and in dreams. As a VR experience, FEVER refers to this brief hallucinatory state, acknowledging and interpreting the metaphysical process that occurs when one is within and yet removed from one’s own body, and the limits presented herein vis-à-vis body/environment and self/other. FEVER is also a virtual poem about illness and body fictions. FEVER is written and created by Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron, in technical collaboration with Fabrizio Palmas, Antoine Thiry and Stefan Laimer (D). The music is created by Kevin Muhlen (L) joined by the voice of Ásta Fanney Sigurdardottir (IS) and by the narration of Elisabet Johannesdottir (L/IS).

Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron’s collaborative work creates links between film, visual arts and theatre. At the center is the individual person as part of a human community, oscillating between resignation and hope. Karolina studied political science, philosophy and theatre and works as a film and theatre director. Pascal studied visual arts and works as an artist and film director. Both work also as teachers. They are currently working on several cinematographic and artistic projects. Sublimation – an interactive installation based dance interactive VR piece with butoh dancer Yuko Kominami, was part of College Biennale Cinema VR by the Mostra di Venezia in 2019 and had its premiere at the festival. The duo also works on My Identity is this expanse!, a location based VR piece on exile and resilience through poetry. The Living Witnesses, a feature documentary about anti-Semitism is currently in post-production and will be released this year.

METAMORPHOSIS is a location based experience in virtual reality. It thematises the state of fear, astonishment and need for human exchange, as well as the the new comprehension and the physical reduction of the world during an ontological rupture such as the Coronavirus pandemic. In History (from the Antique with the first plague to Modern times with the Spanish flu) every kind of epidemic or pandemic has brought significant changes in societies, people had to adapt and reinvent their lives exchanging as they could. The experience refers to this kind of societal metamorphosis that imply on one hand the awareness of a reduced and different environment as well as related to the exchange of different ideas about the future . For METAMORPHOSIS, different nature and urban places (outside and inside) have been scanned and recreated as 3D scenes in a point cloud aesthetic. These eight scenes form a large corridor that brings the visitor slowly through different stories and ideas. From naive, stunned to more elaborate projections about the future of existence.

Since 2013 Karolina Markiewicz (born in 1976 in Luxembourg, lives and works in Luxembourg) and Pascal Piron (born in 1981 in Luxembourg, lives and works in Luxembourg) have been developing a collaborative body of work that stretches across cinema, visual arts and theatre. At its centre lies the individual as part of the human community, torn between resignation and hope. In their poetically charged investigations, the two artists question contemporary myths and construct metaphorical narratives based on past events.

Among the insurgents of Warsaw, there is Kazia. A young Jewish woman whom the Nazis ended up killing. She now wanders in the cellars of the old ghetto, the Jewish cemetery, on Okopowa Street and tells bits of her memories. Memories that haunt.

Karolina Markiewicz (1976, Luxembourg) and Pascal Piron (1981, Luxembourg) work as an artist duo since 2013. Their collaborative work creates links between film, visual arts and theatre. At the center is the individual person as part of a human community, oscillating between resignation and hope. Karolina Markiewicz studied political science, philosophy and theatre and works as a film and theatre director. Pascal Piron studied visual arts and works as an artist and film director. Both work as teachers.

The great voyages to the "New World" were seen as expanding the frontiers of the visible and displacing those of the invisible. Therefore maps from that time render the real and imaginary. The film follows a voyage of the Brazilian Military in search of an imaginary island with the same name as their country. In the myth from 1483 Brazil, or Hy-Brazil, is known to exist to the west of Ireland and above the Fortunate Islands. ‘Visão do Paraíso’ is an examination of the capacity of the human imagination and computer simulations to construct environments. Amidst the fine threshold of the real, simulated, and imagined, the film analyzes the contemporary ideas of virtual reality and their ambition to expand the frontiers of the physical world into a "New World."

Leonardo Pirondi is a Brazilian filmmaker based in Los Angeles, São Paulo, and Porto. His films explore the infinite abyss between the multiple derived versions of reality through documentary, experimental, and narrative modes. Much of his work uses analog and digital manipulations on celluloid to examine the sociopolitical unfoldings of the intersections between imagination, science, myth, and technology. His films have been exhibited at various film festivals, institutions, and venues internationally, such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, BFI London, Melbourne, Edinburgh, True/False, Ambulante, Curtas Vila do Conde, Guanajuato, Wexner Center, REDCAT, and others. Some of his work exists in the collection of Cinematheque of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro and The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York. He holds a Film/Video degree from CalArts, is a Sundance Ignite Fellow, and is the recipient of the Allan Sekula Social Documentary Fund and the Tim Disney Prize for Excellence in the Storytelling Arts.

Be a Pattern for the World is acollaboration between artist group Piscine (consisting of Mark Tholander, Jens Settergren & Ida Thorhauge) and the artist duo Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas. Be a Pattern for the World circulates around the concept of the chameleon. The chameleon as an abstract machine: "The chameleon, maybe. It hovers, as a turbine. An object can be monitored better by the turbine. These days anything can be imitated." The chameleon most of all stands for shape-shifting and adaptability. Adapting patterns of a given environment, while at the same time creating new patterns in the given space. The ability of changing one's appearance as a response to one's surroundings. What can be seen and what cannot; blending in and standing out; becoming distinct while also becoming part of the given space. The chameleon is the abstract machine which initiates a production of subjectivity in the relation between the individual and the surroundings, the figure and the background, the shape and the pattern, as well as the singular and the univocal.

Piscine is an exhibition phenomenon that handles solo, group and collaborative situations: a hybrid apparatus that sometimes acts as an artist group and at other times acts as a curatorial unit. Current members are: Mark Tholander, Ida Sønder Thorhauge, and Jens Settergren. Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas are an artist duo who co-founded Institute for New Connotative Action: an artist run initiative, and INCA Press.

La Moderna Galerija (Musée d?Art Moderne) est l?institution nationale slovène pour l?art moderne et contemporain. Un musée qui a une double vocation, explorer et présenter l?art moderne slovène et sa tradition depuis le début du XXème siècle, explorer et exposer l?art contemporain, sa pratique et son contexte. Situé dans la ville de Ljubljana, la capitale de la Slovénie, La Moderna Galerija opère sur trois sites différents, un bâtiment principal, la Moderna Galerija proprement dite, une ancienne caserne de l?Armée Yougoslave, le Metelkova et la Mala Galerija. Une telle organisation, une telle délocalisation géographique, permet à la Moderna Galerija de spécialiser chaque bâtiment. Le Metelkova est un haut lieu de la culture alternative slovène. La Mala Galerija est un espace d?innovation où sont réalisées des expositions personnelles. Quand au bâtiment principal, il héberge la collection permanente du musée, des expositions temporaires, une bibliothèque et un centre de formation. La Moderna Galerija se voit comme un intermédiaire entre le national et l?international, entre local et global. Un lieu où se cristallise les réalités de la société moderne, à mi-chemin entre les différentes réalités géopolitiques et culturelles de l?Europe contemporaine, entre Est et Ouest, entre Nord et Sud.

Née en 1970, Bojana Pi?kur a étudié à la Faculté de Philosophie de l?Université de Ljubljana, en Slovénie, et à la Charles University de Prague, en République Tchèque, où elle obtenu un PhD en Théorie Artistique. Elle est commissaire d?exposition à la Moderna Galerija, le Musée d?Art Moderne de Ljubljana et elle effectue des recherches sur le phénomène de l?art contemporain.

Les enfants s?en tapent de l?hiver qui arrive A se marrer sous les grands chats, à s?embrasser Sous de pauvres abris Il fera nuit de plus en plus tôt L`hiver tombé comme une sentence, Ça y?est faut allumer. J?aurais voulu que Mimi soit intact, rien n?aurait dû l?atteindre... Ni l?hiver.

Marianne Pistone et Gilles Deroo Vivent et travaillent à lille

Yutupis starts off with the filmmaker undertaking a ritual. It evokes images, memories of a village in the Peruvian rainforest. From felling trees and fishing during the day to dancing and drinking at night. Influences from the past and contemporary times are clear: the colonization of the 16th century initiated the cross-cultural mixture that is further amplified by the ongoing of globalization.

The director, Luis Pizarro, is originally from Lima, Peru. He studied Communication Science (in Lima) and went to film school (in Ghent, Belgium). He made several short films and contributed (direction, editing, sound) to various productions (short films, documentaries, video clips etc.)

"In a more Cagean mode, the sound collage "Rethinking the Raven" presents echo-treated field recordings of a suburban smart guy spouting increasingly ridiculous, palsied nonsense syllables into fast-food driveup intercoms. ("Sir, can you drive to the window so we can take your order, we can`t understand you.") The track is funny on a mean spirited Jerky Boys level, but also seductive, with the sound manipulations turning the baffled or bored utterances of the franchise employees into quasi-world music. One clerk`s digitally twinned "I don`t know/I don`t know (I don`t understand what you`re saying)" becomes poignantly melodic through repetition, resembling an eerie call-and-response chant. In "Dr. Octobongopus" a bored lounge MC introduces the stage act of a polyrhythmic, multi-armed, but basically lame bongo player in a routine that is pure deadpan surrealism."

The Old Fashion, is an adventure in humour, love, loss and longing for something more? a mélange of The Third Man, an advertisement for Prince Barrack Hussein?s sports water/ penis combo, strip club dance montages, mysterious villains and co-conspirators, and a certain fast food restaurant on Asstropolis. It pays homage to movie remakes and sequels, franchise food, dumbed-down politics, and mundane beauty. It is a portrait of contemporary South Africa, through the eyes of a deranged cat dictator bent on world domination.

Cameron Platter (born 1978 Johannesburg) His work is an intoxicating vision of Good vs. Evil, documenting contemporary morality through the telling of simple stories drawn and appropriated from the media, TV, films, art, history, pornography, battle scenes, politics, music, and religion. His targets and influences include Lamborghinis, Kawasakis and beautiful women in fishnets; megalomania and the mass media; James Bond and Richard Pryor; corrupt politicians; penis extension machines and strip clubs; children?s stories, crime fiction and gangster films; Southern African woodcut and craft masters; tabloid horror stories; wildlife, real life and things falling apart? Mixing traditional and new mediums, Platter creates a tableau that is a sincere homage to historical themes, an ironical take on contemporary Africa, and an ultra primitive, anti-aesthetic view on what it means to be alive today in South Africa. Recent projects include: Hard Times Great Expectations, Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town; I Am Lonelyness, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna; The Old Fashion, Volta NY, New York; Black Up That White Ass II, Youngblackman, Cape Town; Dak?Art, Biennale de Dakar, 1910-2010: Pierneef to Gugulective, South African National Gallery and Art 39 Basel, Switzerland. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York.

A video made up of a collage of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome?s sermon on the ?Power of Thoughts? as well as use sources such penis extension advertisements, visionary fast food chicken outlets, sex websites, eternal happiness, instant cash, waterfalls, abdominal machines, life solutions international, dancing dolphins, mass builder, fireworks, slogans, sub-tropical bondage, and celestial landscapes; all directed in my crude, minimalist filmic technique. The video should be viewed as an expanded, absurdist, collage; part documentary and part commentary.

Cameron Platter was born in 1978, Johannesburg. Recent exhibitions include ?Imaginary Fact, Contemporary South African Art and the Archive?, 55th Venice Biennale; ?Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now,? Museum of Modern Art, New York; Le Biennale de Dakar 2010, Dakar, Senegal; ?Coca- Colonization,? Marte Museum, El Salvador; and ?Absent Heroes,? Iziko South African National Gallery. Platter fills the ordinary and marginal, with incendiary new meaning. Working from everyday experience with subjects overlooked or considered delinquent, sordid and lowbrow, he reconnoiters notions and concepts on the outside fringes of South Africa?s popular culture. His work appears in the permanent collection of MoMA, New York; The FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France; and the Iziko South African National Gallery. His work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vice Magazine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Artforum, and Art South Africa.

The topological narrative follows the routes of an itinerant photographer and a young philosophy student, their searching movements in-between the fractures and folds of the spatio-temporal fabric of the contemporary city. These fragments started with a rereading of Andrei Tarkovsky and the brothers Strugacky’s concept of the zone, as depicted in their late 1970s science fiction script Сталкер (Stalker). We suggest that the zone — a structure outside and closed off in Сталкер — has now entered the very heart of the urban fabric. We aim to explore the precarity, porosity and violence of this biopolitical space-time, as an immanent part of the city, our bodies and desires. The narrative presents itself as an open structure, in which staged miniatures, image and sound collages, dialogue, and different searching movements meet each other; open, rampant, unresolved and contradictory — oscillating constantly between poetic meditation and discourse, diversion and gravity, quotation and philosophical speculation.

Michael Poetschko explores narratives of living/laboring/traveling/resisting within post-fordist and transnational realities, working with experimental forms of filmmaking and installation. His work has been exhibited and projected internationally, most recently at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, the Uferhallen in Berlin and Temp Art Space in New York City.

REFRAMING THE ARTIST deals with the stereotypical representations of visual artists in movies. The role of the artist both in fictional films and in biopics, classics of the twentieth century or recent popular films, is focused on the artist?s idiosyncratic behavior, his love affairs, his self-destruction associated with a mystification of his creative production or on encounters with other protagonists of the art world such as the collector, the art dealer, the model or the art student. Artists are almost solely painters, which reconfirms a predominant inadequate representation of visual artists in movies. In the video REFRAMING THE ARTIST fragments from approximately 50 different movies such as ?The Moderns? ?Surviving Picasso? or Vincent and Theo? are reset in the Dafen Oil Painting Village. Dafen, situated in Shenzhen, China, is the world`s largest producer of mass-produced handmade oil-on-canvas copy paintings supplying a global market. The video takes place in unmodified settings of the painters` own homes, studios, shops or galleries. There we see Dafen painters re-enacting movie scenes, in which they take over the role of a Picasso, a Van Gogh, a Pollock or several fictional artists, art collectors, critics, muses and lovers. In the ?Reframing the Artist? mass reproduction of oil paintings from Dafen and the recurrent use of artist stereotypes in the mass media film converge to a new narrative overlapping fiction and documentary. The Chinese painter is neither represented as a mere copyist nor does he apply to the notion of the ?original? artist according to our predominant definitions. REFRAMING THE ARTIST raises questions about authenticity in the context of global cultural exchange and it challenges the view of the ?exotic? Other, both the visual artist and the Chinese copy painter. The video is structured into five chapters: Artist and Authenticity, Artist and Market, Artist and Crisis, Artist and Student, Artist and Model. Painting props taken from the same original movies re-appear as copies in REFRAMING THE ARTIST.

Education 2002 B.A. Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule), klasse Ayse Erkmen, Frankfurt am Main, DE 2007 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, NL (Selected) solo exhibitions 2013 Rongwrong, Amsterdam, NL 2012 Art space Apguyeong, open in November en gecureerd door Ji Yoon Yang (De Appel CP 2008/09), Seoul, KR, (aanstaand) (exhibited works: Noire et Blanche + new production) 2012 Lothringer_13_Halle, gecureerd door Felix Ruhöfer, München, DE (exhibited works: Noire et Blanche, Statues Also Die, German Indian, Reframing the Artist, The Mad Masters) 2012 Gallery Weingrüll, Karlsruhe, DE (exhibited works: Noire et Blanche, Reframing the Artist, Statues Also Die) (Selected) group exhibitions 2013 ?Transfer Korea-NRW?, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunstmuseum Bonn, National Museum of Korea, Arko, (upcoming) - new production: Ornaments of Property 2012 Monitoring/ Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, (upcoming), DE - Statues Also Die 2012 ?Generation Loss?, Green Papaya Art Projects, Manila, PHL 2012 ?Signals: For Real?, IFFR, 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam, gecureerd door Edwin Carels, NL - Reframing the Artist 2011 Museum der Moderne Salzburg, ?role models-role playing?, AUT - The Mad Masters 2010 Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, ?Villains and Heroes?, Sascha Pohle/Marco Pando, NL - German Indian 2010 Dafen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, ?Convection? Dafen Sub-Venue, Shenzhen Case Pavillion, 2010 Shanghai EXPO, CN - Reframing the Artist 2010 Taipeh International Art Center, Urban Nomad Video Art Section, TW - Reframing the Artist 2010 ?works?, basis, Frankfurt, DE 2008 PARA/SITE art space, ?Terminus?, gecureerd door Christina Li (De Appel CP 2008/09), Hong Kong - The Swimmer 2008 ?Beyond Paradise?, SMBA Stedeljik Museum Bureau Amsterdam, gecureerd door Delphine Bedel and Ayako Yoshimura , NL - The Swimmer 2008 ?Vertrautes Terrain?, ZKM - Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, gecureerd door Gregor Jansen and Thomas Thiel - German Indian 2008 Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, DE, `All-Inclusiv A Tourist World - The Swimmer (Selected) Filmfestivals 2012 BIEFF, Bukarest, RO, Reframing the Artist 2012 58. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, DE, Reframing the Artist 2012 41st International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL, Reframing the Artist 2011 HomeShop, Jue Festival, Beijng, CN, Reframing the Artist 2009 Videonale 12, Bonn, DE, The Mad Masters¬ 2008 International Film Festival, 16th Curtas Vila do Conde, PT, If I were you ? LAS VEGAS NEW YORK BLACKPOOL, The Mad Masters 2008 37th International Filmfestival Rotterdam, NL If I were you ? LAS VEGAS NEW YORK BLACKPOOL Residencies 2006-2007 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, 2009 Meetfactory, Prague, CZ 2011 Incheon Art Platform, KR 2012 Changdong Studios, Seoul, KR (upcoming) Prices, Awards 2012 Principal Price, 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, for Reframing the Artist, Netherlands, 2010 Fellowships/stipends 2011/12 The Netherlands Film Fund, research subsidy on DVD movie piracy 2011/12 Fonds BKVB, standard werkbudget for Noire et Blanche in combination with a residency in Incheon Art Platform, Korea 2010 Fonds BKVB, werkbudget for Detective project ? The Student of Prague 2009 Fonds BKVB, standard werkbudget for MeetFactory artist residency 2009 The Netherlands Film Fund, NL for Reframing the Artist 2008 Fonds BKVB, basis stipend, NL 2007 Hessische Kulturstiftung, DE, for The Mad Masters and If I were you ? LAS VEGAS NEW YORK BLACKPOOL 2006 DAAD, Berlin, DE 2006 Kunststiftung NRW, DE 2003 Kunststiftung NRW, DE, for Safety Hour 2003 Kulturstiftung Dresden der Dresdner Bank, DE, studio stipend `dynamo.eintracht`

Solution bien pratique au problème de l?orientation dans une salle de théâtre ou de cinéma, de petites lampes dissimulées ça et là montrent aux gens où mettre les pieds et où ne pas les mettre, leur indiquant leur fauteuil ou la sortie. Imagine maintenant l?obscurité totale. Entre. Arrête d?imaginer et regarde . ..... .:.:...:::ccccoCCoooo:: Alors qu?on regarde, la question se pose de ce que c´est regarder. Les petites balises de guidage nous reviennent à l?esprit. D?habitude, c?est en regardant que nous nous orientons. En réaction à cela, ou peut-être par conséquence, maintes formes d?art se proposent de nous désorienter. Mais la question de l?essence même du « regard » reste sans réponse. Or cette question est au centre de l??uvre de Ben Pointeker. Pour y répondre, tout en gardant ses distances vis-à-vis du langage conventionnel du cinéma et de la photographie, il renoue néanmoins avec celui-ci. La manière dont il procède rappelle la poésie concrète. Mais il ne s?agit ici que d?une réminiscence. La poésie concrète n?était dans l?ensemble qu?une réaction à quelque chose d?autre : ce que nous connaissions déjà. Et de ce fait, elle était limitée sur le plan dialectique à ce que nous connaissions déjà. Dans son approche cinématographique, Pointeker sait comment sortir de cette ornière. Mais il ne le montre pas. Ce qu?il montre, c?est ce qui apparaît. Nous nous trouvons dans l?obscurité totale. Une lumière brille. Plusieurs lumières brillent : une voiture se fraie son chemin. Au sens littéral du terme : une voiture se fraie son chemin. Cette voiture n?amène personne de A à B. En projetant sa lumière, elle se fraie son propre chemin. D?autres images suivent, qui se fraient leur propre chemin. Nous regardons, captivés par la lumière de ce qu?on nous montre, et nos sens commencent à deviner ce que c´est regarder. (Frans-Willem Korsten)

Ben Ponteker studierte u.a. Literaturwissenschaft und Kunst in Wien, Kopenhagen und Rotterdam, zuletzt MA Fine Art, Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam; experimentelles Kino und filmische Installationen, Textpublikationen; daneben Bühnenvideos für Theater- und Tanzproduktionen und dramaturgische Beratung; in der Beschäftigung mit suggestiven Bildsphären interessiere ich mich für Rhetorik und Substanz des visuellen Erzählens

Impassenger présente un espace de résonance émotionnelle et, ce faisant, permet au cinéma de devenir haptique. Ce film explore la relation entre la proximité et la distance, et permet à l’objet de l’enquête de figer sa soumission.

Ben Pointeker is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. His work often sets in between film and photography and is concerned with poetics, patterns of narrative cinema, the notion of time, ambiguous realities and fantasy. Previously based in The Netherlands he graduated from Piet Zwart Institute and won the Prix de Rome basic award. He is also a graduate of the University of applied arts Vienna and was artist in residence at Wiels in Brussels, in Shanghai and most recently at Bòlit in Girona in the framework of The Spur. He has exhibited at institutions such as Secession Vienna, Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Filmmuseum Amsterdam and major film festivals.

Julien Blaine est poète « performer » il écrit, il hurle, il agit : « L?acte comme poème. Ce film est une rencontre avec deux de ses performances : « la chute dans les escaliers de la gare Saint Charles » et sa première « l?interview des éléphants. » Ce film est l?interprétation de sa création, de ses actions par sa fille. Ici , elle confronte le passé et le présent, elle invite le spectateur à déchiffrer, à ressentir, à créer du sens.

Après une formation aux Beaux ? Arts de Cergy et une formation aux métiers de l?image à la fémis, j?ai participé en tant que chef opératrice à plusieurs court métrages : Le ravissement de Raphaël Jacoulot ; Enceinte jusqu?aux dents de Marie Donnio ; A bright Interval d?Emilie Lamoine? J?ai été cadreuse sur plusieurs documentaires : Arthur Penn ; Jean François Laguioni, un cinéaste animé de Jean Jacques Bernard pour ciné cinéma classic. Et Résistants de la première Heure de Pholippe Costantini. J?ai réalisé plusieurs films vidéos accompagnant des lectures de poètes : Jacques Sivan et Vanina Maestri. Ainsi que des vidéos pour une compagnie de théâtre Alzhar et des musiciens Diabolicus. J?ai réalisé trois films sur la performance : Last Festival ; Bye bye la perf et ce dernier sur Julien Blaine. J?ai dirigé la lumière pour la compagnie Alzhar à la friche de la belle de mai et pour Diabolicus au théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

?Blisko? (?Close?) ? about alienation in the big city. The artificial light inside the night trams creates a new reality.

I was born in 1979. Between 1998 and 2004, I studied at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In 2004, under the tutelage of prof. Grzegorz Przyborek, I obtained the certificate and title of Master of Fine Arts in asvertising photography. Since 2003, I have also participated in multimedia workshops held by prof. Konrad Kuzyszyn and Łukasz Ogórek, MFA. I was a post-graduate, free participant there. Since that time, my interests hav revolved around film and video. In 2007, I went on a three-month scholarship to France, organised by the Strasbourg Klub, the City of Strasbourg as well as the CAAC.