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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 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.

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.

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.

During February 2010, Jerusalem born artists Oreet Ashery and Larissa Sansour had twenty meals in twenty falafel eateries in London, one on each day. The meals were open for the public to join in eating and debate, and functioned as art events, laboratories, performances, therapy sessions and oral history hubs. All the meals were filmed with a small Flip camera on a rotating cheeseboard and were edited together into one-hour of raw and immediate film. Ashery and Sansour opened each meal with the question: Did Israel steal the falafel from the Palestinians? This seemingly silly and controversial question, was a precursor to an investigation into the intentional and systematic hijacking and eradication of Palestinian cultural history by the state of Israel.

Oreet Ashery is a Jerusalem born, London based visual artist, cultural activist and educationist, engaged in solo and collaborative practices. Ashery works across performance, still and moving image, objects and facilitation to create situations that explore the relationships between politics, culture and representation. Ashery?s work is presented extensively in an international context, and discussed in numerous publications and books, in various languages. Recently Ashery had published three books: The Novel of Nonel and Vovel, with the artist Larissa Sansour, Charta; the monograph Dancing with Men, Live Art Development Agency; and the Artangel commission Staying, dream, bin, soft stud and other stories. Sansour?s work is interdisciplinary and borrows heavily from the language of film and pop culture. References and details ranging from sci-fi and spaghetti westerns to horror films converge with Middle East politics and social issues to create intricate parallel universes in which a new value system can be decoded. Sansour?s work has been exhibited worldwide in international biennials, galleries, museums, film festivals and on the internet and is featured in many art publications. Larissa Sansour was born in Jerusalem and lives and works in London, UK.

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.

"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).

In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity. A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.

Larissa Sansour Larissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and studied fine arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilises video, photography, installation, the book form and the internet. Central to her work is the tug and pull between fiction and reality. Recent solo exhibitions include Turku Art Museum in Finland, Photographic Center in Copenhagen, Galerie Anne de Villepoix in Paris, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Lawrie Shabibi in Dubai, Sabrina Amrani in Madrid and DEPO in Istanbul. Sansour’s work has featured in the biennials of Istanbul, Busan and Liverpool. She has exhibited at venues such as Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; LOOP, Seoul; Al Hoash, Jerusalem; Queen Sofia Museum, Madrid; Centre for Photography, Sydney; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Townhouse, Cairo; Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah, UAE; Empty Quarter, Dubai; Galerie Nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris; Iniva, London; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou , China; Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; House of World Cultures, Berlin, and MOCA, Hiroshima. Sansour currently lives and works in London, UK. Soren Lind Soren Lind (b. 1970) is a Danish author. He writes children’s books and literary fiction. With a background in philosophy, Lind wrote books on mind, language and understanding before turning to fiction. He has published a novel and two collections of short stories as well as four children’s books. In addition to his literary production, Lind is also a visual artist and writes short film scripts. Lind lives and works in London, UK. Sansour/Lind Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind have worked together on numerous occasions. Lind usually provides the scripts for Sansour’s films, just as he contributed a sci-fi story for Sansour’s 20

Six avenues, in south-central Montreal, revisited.

Since completing his studies in film production at Concordia University, Roberto Santaguida’s films and videos have been shown at more than 400 international festivals, including Tampere Film Festival (Finland), CPH: DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark), Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (Brazil), Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (United States), transmediale (Germany), and Message to Man (Russia). Roberto is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.

Ruben Santiago 1974 born in Sarria (galicia), Spain Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain

Sous des couches de poussière et de souvenirs oubliés, je cache une époque qui arrive. Je la cache ? Je ne le sais toujours pas. Je retrouve peut-être seulement ces choses qui n'arriveront jamais.

Ruben Santiago est né en 1974 en Espagne. Son travail est varié puisqu'il comprend des installations à grande échelle, des projets Internet, des interventions artistiques dans des endroits publics, des travaux basés sur le développement, des enregistrements et des publications. durant ces dernières années, l'utilisation d'images et de sons mobiles a été le fil conducteur de sa recherche artistique, soit en les combinant à d'autres disciplines, soit en les concevant de manière autonome. Son travail a été exposé dans plusieurs galeries et institutions internationales. Il est actuellement artiste en résidence au Hangar Centre de Producció de Barcelone. 'Exception', 'mémoire' et 'crime' sont les mots-clé de son travail.

De mon ancienne cuisine, je me mets face à toi 1800 allumettes dans la tête.

Ruben Santiago est né en Galice (Espagne) en 1974. Il travaille et vit entre Barcelone et Porto (Portugal). Formé à la base comme sculpteur grâce à des études à la Universidad Complutense, à Madrid et la Escola Massana de Barcelone, la carrière de Rubben Santiago a évolué avec des projets qui ont dérivés vers les images en mouvements, avec la vidéo et la projection de films.

Une petite rue étroite de Barcelone. C'était mon quartier pendant un moment. 1800 allumettes dans ma tête. Ainsi fut ma première monogamie.

Ruben Santiago est né en Galice (Expagne) en 1974. Il travaille et vit en Barcelone et Porto (Portugal). Formé à la base comme sculpteur grâce à des études à la Universidad Complutense, à Madrid et la Escola Massana de Barcelone, la carrière de Rubben Santiago a évolué avec des projets qui ont dérivés vers les images en mouvements, avec la vidéo et la projection de films.

Le corp d`une femme devient un voyage, paysage qui coule; le temps marque et transforme un visage: une vie se passe et s`enfuit.

Mauro Santini est né à Fano (Italie) en 1965. Après avoir achevé des études artistiques , il se consacre à la photographie et la vidéo. Depuis 2000, il a composé une série de vidéos-journal intime, sans scénario, qui parlent à la première personne du temps, de la mémoire et de la recherche de lui-même. Ces vidéos ont participé à de nombreux festivals à Locarno, Jeonju (Corée du Sud), Oberhausen, Montpellie, Pesaro, Bellaria (Italie), aux Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid, à Cinémas Différents de Paris, à Doclisboa de Lisbonne.

`Desalento` is the story of a love lost in a Lisbon hotel and of a journey to Rio de Janeiro. It`s a diary about absence and solitude; about something that is missing, always and everywhere.

Mauro Santini was born in Fano in 1965. Since 2000 he has composed a series of video-diaries ? without any screenplays, narrated in the first person, that deal with time, memory and the search for self ? that have participated at numerous festivals (Locarno, Jeonju, Oberhausen, Torino, Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Montpellier, Annecy, DocLisboa, Pesaro).

“ Vaghe stelle ” is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possible narrations. The “ songs ” are seven as the principal stars of the Ursa Major. It will be a nocturnal wandering with the starry sky as a reference: an earthly pilgrimage looking for epiphanies or the drift of a hypothetical interstellar trip.

Since 2000, Mauro Santini (Fano, Italy, 1965) has composed a series of video diaries, stories told in the first person about time, memory and the search for oneself. One of these, “ Da lontano ”, won the Italian competition at the 2002 Torino Film Festival. He has participated at the international film festivals of Locarno, Venezia, Oberhausen, Jeonju, Annecy, Rencontres Paris/Berlin, DocLisboa, Cinémas Différents Paris, Montpellier, Pesaro etc In 2006, he made the feature film Flòr da Baixa and participated in 2008 with different works at “ La cité des yeux, une saison italienne ”, about Italian avant-garde cinema from 1968 to 2008, which was organized by the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and curated by Nicole Brenez and Federico Rossin.

“Vaghe stelle” is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possible narrations. The ‘songs’ are seven as the principal stars of the Ursa Major. It will be a nocturnal wandering with the starry sky as a reference: an earthly pilgrimage looking for epiphanies or the drift of a hypothetical interstellar trip.

Since 2000, Mauro Santini (Fano, Italy, 1965) has composed a series of video diaries, stories told in the first person about time, memory and the search for oneself. One of these, ‘Da lontano’, won the Italian competition at the 2002 Torino Film Festival. He has participated at the international film festivals of Locarno, Venezia, Oberhausen, Jeonju, Annecy, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, DocLisboa, Cinémas Différents Paris, Alchemy, Montpellier, Pesaro etc In 2006, he made the feature film Flòr da Baixa and participated in 2008 with different works at “La cité des yeux, une saison italienne”, about Italian avant-garde cinema from 1968 to 2008, which was organized by the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and curated by Nicole Brenez and Federico Rossin.