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CONFLUENCE centers around Serbian pop singer and former child star Doris Bizeti. In a mixture between pop and lecture performance Doris’ biography is conflated with histories of architectures in Belgrade.

Stefan Ramírez Pérez (*1988) was a participant at the residency program Schloss Ringenberg in 2018. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2010 - 2017. His works have been screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Visions du Réel Nyon and Julia Stoschek Collection Düsseldorf, among others. He had recent Group and Solo shows at Artothek Cologne, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade and Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul. He received the Chargesheimer Scholarship by the City of Cologne in 2018, and the Graduation Award by the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2017. Benjamin Ramírez Pérez (*1988, Germany) lives and works in Cologne. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2009-2015 with Phil Collins, Matthias Müller and Julia Scher. He undertook the residency programme at de Ateliers from 2016 - 2018. His works have been screened at Locarno, Edinburgh, Toronto and Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others. He had recent Group and Solo shows at Artothek Cologne, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade and Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul.

"Le 9 avril 1948, l'asssassinat du libéral Jorge Eliécer Gaitan marqua le début de la période dite de la "Violencia" en Colombie : les conservateurs et les libéraux créèrent des groupes armés pour s'entre-tuer. Aujourd'hui, 54 ans plus tard, ELLE, à distance, et LUI, luttant contre Parkinson, raconte leur histoire, démontrant que les faits historiques n'interrompent pas uniquement la vie du pays mais aussi le cours des histoires personnelles d'inconnus."

In an initially deserted room objects slowly begin to move; they are manipulated from the off-screen space, being pulled and dragged by strings, cables or the carpet. Thus a ‘ghostly’ choreography emerges, with the objects taking on a life of their own, vanishing and reappearing. The control of these processes from the off-screen is made visible, by showing the strings attached to the objects as well as parts of the acting persons on the edge of the frame. This is accompanied by superimposed subtitles, which consist of a collage of existing film dialogue: Lines from the sub-genre of ‘gaslighting’ films are combined, taking the eponymous Gaslight (1944) as a starting point. A text assemblage on seduction and betrayal unfolds. At the same time the ambient lighting of the room gradually becomes increasingly colored, reaching an almost excessive saturation point as off- and on-screen space become reversed and a muffled pop music penetrates the room. A kind of karaoke video comes into being with the music – like many elements of the film – taking on the notion of a copy of something vaguely familiar.

Benjamin Ramírez Pérez, born in Hutthurm, Germany. Lives and works in Cologne. Studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2009–2015. His works have been screened at Locarno, Edinburgh and Toronto International Film Festival, among others. In 2013, he was awarded the Prize of the German Federal Association of Film Journalists for Best Experimental Short. In 2015, he received the Chargesheimer Scholarship for Media Arts by the City of Cologne.

Body Snatcher conflates new 16mm material and found footage from Barbara Loden‘s film Wanda (1970) into an abstract narrative. Loden‘s film shows a character that seemingly passively navigates the world, but at the same time fights for her own identity and challenges social norms through her refusal to function as expected: „Life is a mistery to her. She doesn’t know what she wants but she knows what she doesn’t want.“ Taking fragments of the film as a starting point, objects, props and surfaces from the film were recreated, visually isolated and filmed anew. In a kind of vacuum, an abstract and associative narration touching on emptiness, failure, and identity construction slowly unfolds. A sort of parasitic science fiction remake of Wanda emerges - a layer of meaning that lies behind the film‘s plot and surface is imagined and constructed, positioning disparate elements in relation to each other and forging connections between them.

Benjamin Ramírez Pérez lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2009 - 2015. He was awarded the German Film Critics’ Prize for Best Experimental Short in 2013. In 2015, he received the Chargesheimer Scholarship for Media Arts of the City of Cologne. Currently, he is a participant at De Ateliers in Amsterdam (2016 – 2018).

Reenactments of cinematic strategies, images and fantasies tied to sex work and stage performance are layered on top of each other, focusing on embellished surfaces of bodies, objects and architectures. They intertwine and form a new entity in a female drag performance referencing 1970s cinema, sex work activism and pop choreography, which was developed in collaboration with the performance artist Liad Hussein Kantorowicz.

Benjamin Ramírez Pérez is currently a participant of de Ateliers Amsterdam (2016-2018). He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2009-2015. His works have been screened at Locarno, Edinburgh, Rotterdam and Toronto International Film Festival, among others. He had recent Group and Solo shows at Artothek Cologne, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade.

Created based on research conducted during a 2018 residency at LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto), SUMMER HEAT AN EARLY FROST combines the narrative structures of film, documentation, photography, cinematographic staging, and interview into a collage on the organizational principles of our perception. Similar to a stream of consciousness formed of constantly expanding recordings that proceed as the common denominator between a partially sensory, partially mechanically narrative voice and a screen text that fluctuates in intervals between narration, commentary, and subtitle, the image flow comprises a number of visual resources: arranged rhythmically behind an archival setup of vintage pornographic magazines from the University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation Collection, the marked text passages on film theory are taken from a collection of essays by Russian formalists. A multi-layered and narrative complement is present in the form of excerpts from “An Early Frost” (1985)—the first mainstream TV feature film to address the emerging public, social, and political crisis surrounding the spread of HIV/AIDS as part of the everyday life of a US family. Quietly and with an almost static austerity, set pieces from early silent films of the 1920s such as those from Jean Epstein and Dziga Vertov are superimposed across from sexually fetishized sequences of self-produced montages from tooth and mouth recordings, only to be expanded upon in the form of a new cut expounding on the pornographic industry’s digital infrastructure. Massed like a cluster of findings from a multimedia, multi-thematic search for the internal logics of filmic and documentary mechanisms of production and affect—whose focus potentially also stretches to include the representation and repression of queer desire, longing, and craving—the montage opens up a different access to images and their language; a language whose essence is concealed in the multiplicity of the information gathered and which, transferred via data-mining technology into the artistic process of the film, facilitates the recognition of patterns of regularity and of hidden interrelations.

Benjamin Ramirez Perez, is visual artist working primarily with film, video and installation based in Cologne, Germany. He was a participant at De Ateliers Amsterdam from 2016-2018 and studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2009–2015 with Julia Scher, Phil Collins and Matthias Mueller. His works have been screened at IFFR Rotterdam, Locarno, Edinburgh and Toronto International Film Festival, as well as Julia Stoschek Collection Du?sseldorf, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and Visions du Réel Nyon among others. He had group and solo exhibitions at Artothek Cologne, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, de Ateliers Amsterdam, Gallery Markus Luettgen Duesseldorf, and more. In 2015 he was awarded the Chargesheimer Scholarship for Media Art by the City of Cologne and in 2013 he received the Prize of the German Association for Film Journalists.

DESPAIR works with cinematic reenactments, which are connected in an associative collage-like layering into an experimental film, taking Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s film of the same title from 1977 as its starting point. Drawing on and digressing from various complementary sources such as Fassbinder’s contribution to "Germany in Autumn", David Cronenberg’s "Dead Ringers", the 1970s "Mission Impossible" TV-series as well as cel-animation, the theme of the cinematic double is explored and questions of identity, identification and alienation are raised alongside an inquiry into the political and cultural legacies of the German Autumn.

Benjamin Ramírez Pérez (*1988, Germany) lives and works in Cologne. He studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2009–2015. He undertook the residency programme at de Ateliers from 2016 - 2018. His works have been screened at Locarno, Edinburgh, Toronto and Rotterdam International Film Festival, among others. He had recent Group and Solo shows at Artothek Cologne, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade and Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul.

In 1974 communist authorities built the so-called ‘Memorial Home for WWII Resistance Fighters and Youth of Yugoslavia’ in Kumrovec, a tiny rural hometown of the legendary president Marshal Tito. In 1991, when Yugoslavia collapsed 11 years after Tito’s death and the Croatian War of Independence started, the Memorial Home was closed, and it remained closed until today. Several attempts to repurpose the building have failed. Still, some fighters remain...

Ivan Ramljak (born 1974) is a film critic, director and independent curator. He currently curates a short film program called Kratki utorak (‘Short Tuesday’) at cinema Tuškanac in Zagreb. So far, he has directed nine short films, four fiction ones in collaboration with Marko Škobalj, four documentaries and an experimental film. His most successful film so far was ‘Kino otok’ (Islands of Forgotten Cinemas) which was screened on more than 25 international festivals, and won 6 awards, including the FIPRESCI prize for Best Eastern European documentary at goEast FF in Wiesbaden. In 2016 he enrolled the master study of documentary directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. ‘Home of the Resistance’ is his first medium length film.

Le film nous présente Christian Lagny, un ancien forain du sud de la France, oncle du cinéaste. Il vit à Canet, un petit village aux environs de Montpellier, seul dans une caravane auprès de sa mère. Son beau-frère Luc Archer, forain en activité, est le second personnage du film. Le point de départ du récit sont leurs discussions à propos de la profession de forain, des changements intervenus et des particularités de cette vie sur les routes. Parallèlement sont reflétés les souvenirs personnels que le cinéaste garde de ses étés passés dans les foires. Il part des premières impressions ressenties dans les fêtes de village d'aujourd'hui et entreprend un voyage visuel dans le temps qui le ramène, au cours d'un tournage de trois ans, toujours à son oncle. On fait alors la connaissance plus intime de Christian Lagny au fur et à mesure que les conversations entrent dans une dimension personnelle. C'est avec une grande franchise qu'il parle de ses positions, de ses souhaits et de ses erreurs. Pourquoi a-t-il arrêté le travail? Pourquoi vit-il seul? Comment voit-il l'évolution de la famille? Considère-t-il qu'il a échoué? Comment redevenir maître de sa vie? C'est une vie marquée par la tradition et le travail qui se déploie ici peu à peu, pleine de contradictions et d'anecdotes, empreinte d'une grande chaleur.

Steffen Ramlow est né en 1974 à Berlin. Après son bac, il a travaillé comme éclairagiste et accessoiriste pour plusieurs théâtres de Berlin, Hambourg et Wolgograd (Russie). Il a débuté sa formation artistique à l'université des arts de Berlin, où il a étudié la vidéo et la photographie avec Maria Vedder, le cinéma avec entre autres Harun Farocki, Klaus Wyborny et Heinz Emigholz. En 2004, il obtient son diplôme en création expérimentale des médias. Il a co-édité ?Der Taktstock? aux éditions Zsolnay en 2001 et a participé à de nombreuses expositions et programmations cinématographiques. Il a travaillé comme éclairagiste, photographe indépendant et cinéaste à Berlin .

Je pars à la découverte de mon père, distant depuis des années, cherchant à rétablir notre relation boiteuse et longuement négligée.

Ayant étudiée le cinema à l'Université Saint Joseph de Beyrouth, Liban, je me présente comme étant une réalisatrice en herbe, qui cherche à communiquer sa propre perspective de la vie, à travers le documentaire.

Today, those who pass the old Estrada do Corredor (Corridor Road), on the way to the station or coming back from work, see bars, automobile repair shops and commercial shops. On the sidewalk there are people working, waiting for the bus, looking at the street or the screen of the smartphone. To see everyday life, that one full of gestures, we should suspend time, almost to stillness. This is how the minimal expressiveness is revealed and the street is no longer a place of passage and becomes something similar to a tissue, which incorporates everything and everyone, day and night.

Diego Ramos is a historian (Unifesp-2018) and a visual artist. His research on the audiovisual area focuses on experimental cinema and video art. Among his various works, the highlights were the short films at ASIFF - African Smartphone International Film Festival (2018); DOBRA - International Experimental Film Festival (2018); V Fotoativa Projection Exhibition (2019).

A film about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors, and a family who cannot agree on how to tell their own story. Family Fugue is a chase in three movements in pursuit of a white snake, a red duchess and a golden boy, spanning eight centuries and starting in a cave. Beginning with the family's origin story of Neish de Ramsay, a 13th century wizard who was said to have cured king Alexander II of Scotland using a potion from a white snake; it continues with Katherine Stewart Murray, Duchess of Atholl, a trailblazing female MP in the early 20th century who fell out of politics because she vocally opposed fascism; and concludes with David Ramsay, a polymath prankster whose life was terminated abruptly during action in World War II, suggesting his death was not final. Playing with these histories as a score to be interpreted, using documentary, reenactment and lush theatrical tableau, the film allows disagreement, criticism and self doubt to flow in and out. ‘Life is not the wick, nor the candle, it is the burning’ Katherine Stewart Murray

GF Ramsay (b. 1988, Dundee, Scotland) is an artist working with poetry, ritual and analogue filmmaking. In 2017 & 2018 he burned hundreds of people’s regrets inside volcanoes across Eurasia. His fake epic poem Raven’s Reprise (2020) tells of a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic and remaking the world to her better designs. His short film CASTOROCENE (2021) sees beavers re-build the world after humans have destroyed it. Mid length film Family Fugue (2022) is about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors. Forthcoming films Nursted from the sleep side (2023) and Flesh, Wax & Glass (2023) deal with the idea of a place falling asleep, and the impossibility of filming sacred rituals respectively. He is currently making plans to have his body thrown into a volcano after he dies. In 2023 Ramsay was shortlisted for the Margaret Tait Award. He has collaborated with artists and scientists such as CAConrad, Clive Oppenheimer, Alexander Hetherington, Coby Sey and Mica Levi.

Le récit constitue la caractéristique principale des animations de Marco Raparelli. Néanmoins, celui-ci n'est pas un point de départ, mais plutôt la conséquence d?une déviation de thèmes, provoqués par les sensations transmises à partir d'autres images ou dessins. Les animations sont des déviations d?images libres et improvisées, qui se relient les unes aux autres afin de créer des microcosmes infinis. L?animation la plus récente de Raparelli raconte l?histoire d?un chien abandonné qui, alors qu?il marche au bord de la mer, fait différentes aventures, rencontres des amis et ennemis et se confronte à de multiples situations abstraites. La vidéo fonctionne comme une sorte de métaphore de la vie dont le chien joue le protagoniste. Il est un paria qui doit faire face pour survivre au jour le jour. La bande-son de la vidéo consiste en une partition pour piano de Cosme McMoon. Dans les années 1940, McMoon a souvent accompagné la soprano américaine Florence Foster Jenkins, une riche héritière qui, tout en ayant des qualités vocales fort médiocres, a pu se produire grâce à sa richesse immense. McMoon et Foster Jenkins ont été de véritables phénomènes et leurs chansons absurdes ont servi comme bande-son aux images de la vidéo.

Marco Raparelli est né à Rome en 1975. Il a obtenu son diplôme à l'Accademia di Belle Arti de Rome (Italie) et a étudié l'animation au College of Art de Loughborough de Londres (Royaume-Uni). Il a collaboré à l'hebdomadaire satirique « Cuore », et travaillé ensuite pendant un temps comme auteur de bandes dessinées. Dans sa pratique artistique, il emploie la peinture, le dessin et les animations tridimensionnelles . De nombreuses expositions, tant collectives qu?individuelles, ont été consacrées à son travail, citons notamment « Clearly Invisible » à Consulta, Centre d?Art Santa Monica de Barcelone (Espagne) en 2007, « Animotion » à la Gallery F15 de Moss Norway (Norvège) en 2007, « Pina ti amo Catania » à Galerie Ugo Ferranti de Rome (Italie) en 2005, « As a drop of water on a K-way » au Careof de Milan (Italie) en 2007. Son livre « As a drop of water on a k-way », a été publié chez Fine Arts Unternehmen Books. Sa prochaine exposition individuelle aura lieu en janvier 2009, à la Galerie Umberto di Marino, à Naples (Italie).

La narration est la caractéristique principale de la vidéo d'animation de Raparelli. Cependant, plutôt qu'un point de départ, c'est la conséquence de la déviation thématique qui est représentée par des images précises et des dessins qui transmettent ou évoques des sensations. La narration est une déviation libre et intemporelle d'une image qui est connectée à d'autres pour créer des micros-mondes infinis. Ristorante Italia - 2007 animation 4 minutes 36 secondes Une suite d'évènement inattendus, parfois rébarbatif, prend place dans un restaurant insalubre. Le spectateur est témoin de l'occurrence du roulement et activités quotidiennes qui se passe sans début ni fin. Seul l'éventuel arrivée de la soirée suggère un possible relâchement ou d'une trêve.

Marco Raparelli was born in Rome on 12 July 1975. He graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and studied animation at the College of Art of Loughborough, London. He collaborated to the satiric weekly magazine ?Cuore?, and afterwards worked for a period of time as author of comics. In his artist practice he employs drawing painting and stop-motion animation. He has exibited widely. Group show include ?Emporio? Via Farini(2001) Milan, ?Lavori in corso? curated by Roberto Pinto (2002) Milan, ?3500 cm? Rialto S.Ambrogio, Rome curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Grand1th:Cult media ?Bastart contemporary, Bratislava (2006) , "Clearly Invisible", Consulta - Centre d`Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, (2007)curated by Filipa Ramos, ?Animotion? Gallery F15, Moss Norway curated by Bjorn Hegardt(2007), New Entry CareOf Milan curated by Chiara Agnello. Solo show include : ?Pina ti amo Catania? gallery Ugo Ferranti Rome, ?Restroom and other stories? gallery Sergio Tossi Firenze Curated by Raffaele Gavarro, ?As a drop of water on a K-way? Careof Milan, project with Norberto Dalmata and Scintilla Robina.

Filmed in the remote hamlet of Juan Antonio, Cuba, just before it was wiped out by a hurricane, El árbol de las fresas (The Strawberry Tree) tests the boundaries between anthropology, documentary and reverie while capturing the final sigh of one of Cuba`s last fishing villages. The villagers? ingeniousness and resilience, as well as their playful and irreverent relationship with the filmmaker, render a sensitive portrait of a unique culture into a reflection on documentary filmmaking and on humanity on the edge of time.

Simone Rapisarda Casanova is a former computer scientist. He grew up in rural Sicily and currently lives in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in film production from York University in Toronto. El árbol de las fresas is his first feature film.

??Verbatim?? A. Adjectif 1 direct, verbatim précisément les mêmes mots utilisés par un écrivain ou un locuteur ??un direct citation ?? ;??répété leur dialogue verbatim?? B Adverb 1 verbatim, mot à mot utilisant exactement les mêmes mots ; ??il répétait sa remarque verbatim?? ?verbatim? prend source dans le texte court de Marice Blanchot : ??La folie du jour??.

Paul Raposo est un artiste sonore et média basé à Lisbonne, au Portugal. Né en 1967, après des études de philosophie et de cinéma à Lisbonne, il a travaillé dans le médium de la performance live électronique et informatique, enregistrant et présentant ses ?uvres en France, en Allemagne, aux Etats-Unis, au Royaume-Uni, en Espagne, en Italie, aux Pays-Bas, au Portugal, dans les États Baltes. Il explore les déplacements ainsi que les interrelations entre les procédés numériques et les espaces architecturaux en utilisant des ordinateurs et des logiciels reconstruit par ses soins afin de créer des pédoncules sonores abstraits et délicats. Depuis la fin des années 90, il a commencé aussi à explorer les intersections entre le son et l?image et prenant avantage des possibilités du médium numérique Realtime aussi bien pour ses travaux individuels que pour ses ?uvres collectives. Il a "composé" des images pour de nombreux médias : installations, danse, performances, théâtre et projets intermédias. Raposo a réalisé des performances et collaboré avec de nombreux artistes dont Janel Schæfer, Jason Khn, Kaffe Mathews, Marc Behrens, Jgrwinch Zbiggniew Karkowski, Matt Rogalski, Carlos Santos, Carlos Zíngaro, Christopher Murphy, Koji Asano, Sara Kolster entre autres.

A refreshing antidote to the burgeoning genre of films that focus on illegal immigration and cross-border violence, Peter Bo Rappmund?s experimental portrait of the U.S.-Mexico boundary surveys this wide swath of land?s physical qualities and metaphysical quandaries with an artist?s gaze. The structure of Tectonics is dictated by the border itself, as Rappmund incrementally moves from the Gulf of Mexico bordering Texas, to the Pacific Ocean and California, capturing wide vistas of the American West, the Rio Grande, the monuments and memorials to (personal) histories, and, naturally, the fences and walls that have been escalating since the Bush Presidency. (The actual border appears in 95% of the shots.) Rappmund?s unique process involves shooting photos with a DSLR camera, usually one frame per second, then animating the images in post-production. This method yields jaw-dropping, high-resolution time-lapse photography, described by Thom Andersen as ?electronic Rothko.? (Rappmund shot Andersen?s Reconversão, showing later in the festival). At times, Tectonics resembles surveillance photography, and what?s present is just as important as what?s absent: the world?s most traversed border is also surely the most observed, with visible and hidden cameras, armed patrols, aerial surveillance, motion sensors, etc. Over his voiceover-less images, Rappmund lays a soundtrack that fills in the missing human presence, and deconstructs the sociopsychological image of the border in American society: though everyone has a view of the border, its reality remains unseen. [Mark Peranson, 04 | 08 | 2012]

Peter Bo Rappmund was born in Casper, Wyoming, and grew up in Golden, Colorado. He attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, Mills College, and holds graduate degrees in both music composition and film/video from CalArts. His work has screened at a variety of museums, galleries and festivals including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Anthology Film Archives; Ann Arbor Film Festival; New York Film Festival; Viennale; Locarno; REDCAT, White Box Gallery; Whitney Museum of American Art and the Vancouver, Bangkok, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals. This past summer, PBR held his first retrospective at the Laguna Art Museum, and completed work as principal photographer on Thom Andersen`s latest film about Pritzker Prize winning architect, Souto de Moura.

“In this exquisite study of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline—one of the world’s longest conduits for crude oil—Rappmund continues his experimentation with landscape and time-lapse photography. As the film follows the 800-mile pipeline from end to end, astonishing images and rhythms arise, capturing the complex intersections at which industrial and natural sublimes meet, and suggesting a new politics of the petro-image.” - MoMA Documentary Fortnight

Peter Bo Rappmund is a Texas-based artist whose practice relies on understanding both empirical and metaphysical properties of built and natural environments. He has exhibited his work at a variety of venues, including MoMA, New York; Anthology Film Archives; National Maritime Museum, London; REDCAT; the California Academy of Sciences; George Eastman Museum; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Locarno, New York, Vienna, CPH:DOX, Ann Arbor, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals. Rappmund held a solo exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum in 2012, and he is currently collaborating on Communion Los Angeles, a project about the 110 freeway in Southern California, with Adam R. Levine. PBR received his MFA from the school of music and school of film/video at CalArts.

"Underexposure, a title that refers not only to the outdated film stock that was used to make the film, but also to the generation of Iraqis that have been isolated from the world for decades, takes an unprecedented, uncensored look into the lives, hearts, and minds of those living in Iraq during the tumultuous days after the fall of Saddam. Director Oday Rasheed has created a vivid world set against a real backdrop of war and upheaval. Friends, lovers, strangers and family members are woven together by the complexities of their new reality. The past is only a moment behind them, with the presence of death a constant companion into the future. Maysoun, the object of her brother and lover`s affections, finds solace in her sexuality. Hassan finds comfort in the belief that his films will outlive the cancer taking over his body. Homeless and alone with only his sacks of brightly colored rags, Nassir experiences his first taste of companionship and responsibility with the discovery of a dying Iraqi soldier. The first feature length film shot on location in Baghdad after the war, Underexposure blends reality and fiction to create a lyrical and textured work that captures the dizzying atmosphere of life during war and fiercely illuminates a part of the world long left in the dark."

"The Year Without a Summer" tire son titre d'un phénomène qui s'est produit au cours de l'été 1816, pendant lequel de nombreuses régions du monde ont connu des conditions météorologiques extrêmes. Les orages spectaculaires et les ciels colorés ont inspiré l'art romantique, comme en témoignent les œuvres de J.M.W. Turner et de Casper Friedrich, tandis que les mauvaises récoltes, la crise économique et les troubles civils ont influencé Mary Shelley dans l'écriture de "Frankenstein", lors de son séjour estival au lac Léman. Un siècle et demi plus tard, on a découvert que l'éruption du volcan Tambora, sur l'île de Sumbawa, en Indonésie, était à l'origine de cette modification erratique des conditions météorologiques mondiales, provoquant une famine en Suisse et faisant craindre la fin du monde. Employant ce cadre historique comme point de départ, "The Year Without a Summer" réexamine les effets de cette anomalie environnementale, en trouvant des parallèles avec les crises climatiques actuelles, tout en entrelaçant les récits des journaux intimes de Mary Shelley et de son entourage, le folklore de Sumbawa, et mes propres réflexions, faites lors d'un voyage sur ce volcan et vers ce lac, pendant l'été le plus chaud jamais enregistré.

Elise Rasmussen est artiste et base son travail sur la recherche. Elle travaille avec les médias utilisant un dispositif optique de captation. Elle a exposé, présenté et projeté ses œuvres dans le monde entier, notamment au Brooklyn Museum, New York (USA); au Bronx Museum, New York (USA); à Pioneer Works, New York (USA); à la Night Gallery, Los Angeles (USA); à JOAN, Los Angeles (USA); au Belvedere 21, Vienne (Autriche); à la Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (Émirats arabes unis); au Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (Australie); à Dazibao, Montréal (Canada); à la Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (Canada); et à la Doris McCarthy Gallery de l'Université de Toronto (Canada). Elise Rasmussen a obtenu un Master en beaux-arts de la School of the Art Institute of Chicago (USA) grâce à une bourse de mérite, et a été artiste en résidence dans plusieurs institutions, notamment au Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (Irlande); à la Fondation Nirox (Afrique du Sud); à La Becque, La Tour-de-Peilz (Suisse); au LMCC – Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York (USA); au Shandaken Projects - Storm King, New York (USA); au SOMA, Mexico (Mexique); et au Banff Centre (Canada). Elle a également été boursière du programme "Art & Law", New York (USA), en 2016. Elise Rasmussen a fait l'objet d'articles dans des publications telles que Art in America, BOMB Magazine, Hyperallergic, Canadian Art et le New Inquiry. Elle a reçu des subventions et des prix de la Jerome Foundation, St. Paul (USA); du Conseil des Arts du Canada; du NYFA/NYSCA, New York (USA); du Contact Photography Festival, Toronto (Canada); et de l'American Austrian Foundation (USA/Autriche). Née à Edmonton (Canada), Elise Rasmussen vit actuellement à Los Angeles (USA).

A Poetic Truth in a Pathetic Fallacy considers ways in which human-kind has been fascinated by and has misinterpreted the rhinoceros, exploring the urgency to keep this genus from extinction while considering the lingering effects of colonialism and collection. Over the past decade the trafficking of rhino horns has gained popularity and both poaching and theft of vintage horns has risen dramatically. Horns were traditionally used in Eastern medicine and although scientists have concluded they have no health benefit, this has not dissuaded the market and its value has risen due to its newfound status as a luxury good. This is not the first time that the rhino has been misconstrued. In 1515 Albrecht Dürer created his famous woodcut based off of a written description of the rhinoceros. Although grossly inaccurate, his artwork served as the prototype for future depictions of rhinos up until the mid-19th century. In South Africa today, the lingering effects of colonialism and apartheid are at the root of poaching. In the male-dominated industry of wildlife protection, the Black Mambas [all female] Anti-Poaching Unit has been gaining international recognition for their efforts. Although beloved by the media, the Mambas risk their lives and struggle to support their families while protecting the wildlife that serves the interests of white landowners. This project is a multi-layered investigation into the link between globalization and extinction, using the poaching of the rhinoceros and its horn to speak about the relationship between bodies, labor, desire and the contested territory of representation.

Elise Rasmussen (born 1977, Edmonton, Canada; resides in Brooklyn, NY) is a research-based artist working in photography, video and performance. Her work has been exhibited, performed and screened at international venues including the Brooklyn Museum (NY), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), CCS Bard Hessel Museum (Annandale-on-Hudson), Night Gallery (LA), Pioneer Works (NY), and Erin Stump Projects (Toronto). Elise received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on a Merit Scholarship (2007) and is a 2017-2018 artist in residence at LMCC’s Workspace program in Manhattan.