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A video work, in which the daily routine of Les Milles is caught up by its past - a former brickyard in the town`s center was used as internment camp for Germans during World War II and served as concentration camp later on. With the use of montage cutting techniques the artist succeeds in letting the past burst into present.

Maya Schweizer was born in 1976 in Paris, France and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, and Berlin University of the Arts (with Lothar Baumgarten). Maya Schweizer works with diverse media: the focus of her work lies in the making of short films based on documentary material. „Identity, biography, politics, history and memory are recurring themes in Maya Schweizer’s photographs and videos... In general, the artist generates an incomplete tableau of collective memory and questions the way history is produced and visually recorded. „(Cynthia Krell). The artist approaches the relation of montage editing techniques with the concept of film and memorial and film as memorial — a relation which traces back to the very beginnings of montage as it does to research findings by French historian Pierre Nora. Recurring moments in Schweizer’s multiform art practice revolve around the examination of subtly treated processes of memory regarding historic-political events in public space. In the places, structures and situations she investigates, historical threads intersect. She received international grants and most recently Project grant "Lieux de Mémoire and Desire",Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS), 2015. The Exhibition sponsor from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), TCG Nordica, Kunming, China, 2013. The Robert Bosh Foundation, in Slovakia 2011, also in the Villa Aurora, Artist Grant from the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles 2008-2009. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she won the Prize of the German Competition at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen 2006. She recently had solo shows, such as; Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany 2015. Edith Seeshow’s Notes at the Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2013. Metropolis. Report from China with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2011. The Same Story Elsewhere at the Westfälisher Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, 2010. Schweizer was also involved in many international exhibitions, such as; Inside the City. Public Space and Free Space at the GAK, Bremen, Germany, 2015. Vot ken you mach ?, Muzeum Wspólczesne Wroclaw, Poland, 2015. Collection Alphabet at the Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig, 2014. The city that doesn´t exist at Ludwig Forum, Aachen, 2012. Ambigous Being, Hong Gah Museum,Taipei 2012. Take me to your leader!, Kunstmuseum Bergen, Norway, 2011. Here and There, at the Wallace Gallery, New York and at the Oonagh Young Gallery, in Dublin, 2011. 15 Jahre Villa Aurora. Transatlantische Impulse, AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2011. Of Other Spaces at the Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2011.

2004, 80 ans après la visite de Fritz Lang à New York et dans le même temps estimé des projections futuristes de son film « Metropolis »... Nous sommes venus en Chine pour trouver des lieux de tournages, pour parler à des travailleurs et des architectes, des scénaristes et des romanciers à Shanghai et Beijing pour rechercher si le film entier pouvait être remis en scène ici. Mais voulons nous que ce film ce répète, pour qu'il devienne réel? Peut être en chine avons nous vu une variante de « Metropolis », qui est déjà devenue réalité...

Maya Schweizer, née à Maisons-Alfort, en 1976. Débute ses études d´arts Plastiques à Aix-en-Provence à l´université, en 1998 obtient sa Licence. S´inscrit à l´école des beaux-arts de Leipzig, (HGB) puis entre en équivalence à l´école des beaux-arts de Berlin, (UdK) dans la classe de Lothar Baumgarten où elle est diplomée en janvier 2005. Residences, Bourses & Prix : 2006,Mai, Allemagne, Oberhausen Premier Prix du festival de film d´Oberhausen. en avril,Bourse du DAP (Délégation aux arts plastiques). 2005-2006, en Nov-mars, au Centre d´Art Contemporain de Brétigny (CAC de Bretigny /Orge, Bretigny). Réalisation et production avec Clemens von Wedemeyer du Film Rien du tout. Co-production; Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, CAC Bretigny, (Pierre Bal-Blanc), Château Rouge production(Gaelle Jones), Collection Giovanni Springmeier. Postproduction: bourse du NRW de Cologne

Tout commence dans l‘obscurité, on entend de l‘eau couler dans un tunnel ... Des voix résonnent dans ces égouts, on se croirait dans le gouffre de Munich sous l‘Isar. Ces voix racontent des fragments d‘histoires : sur des personnes disparues, la violence, la perte de mémoire ... Puis la caméra refait surface et scrute les façades de la ville, y compris celles du « Troisième Reich » . La ville est comme un corps qui serpente à travers le temps, le passé et le présent. En guise de leitmotiv, une spirale traverse les souvenirs: un escargot, un vortex, un escalier en colimaçon, les voix du passé qui se répètent à l’infini... Le film est un collage qui superpose les traces de l‘histoire et les formes de la nature, en réunissant sur un même plan des images et des sons de sources différentes.

Born in Paris, she studied art and art history in Aix-en-Provence (1995-1998), moved to Berlin in 1998 and worked for a year as an assistant for artistic projects in Küntlerhaus Bethanien. From 1999 to 2002, begins art studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and continues in early 2003 in the class of Lothar Baumgarten at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she received her postgraduate studies degree (Meisterschülerin Abschluss) in 2007. Schweizer works with different media, with a particular focus on experimental video works. She has had numerous solo exhibitions (including Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster 2010, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2011, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2014, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2016, Kunstverein Leipzig 2018, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2020/21, Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2021) and has shown her work in group exhibitions and at biennials (including Berlin Biennale, 2006, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2013, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2016, Anren Biennale 2017, China, Manifesta 13, 2020, Neuen Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin 2020, Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2022, Forum expanded exhibition, Silent Green, Berlin 2022). Her videos have already been selected for numerous festivals and events, including Forum expanded during the 67th (2017) and the 72.nd (2022) Berlin International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival (2017, 2020), Gli Incontri Internazionali del Cinema, Sorrento, Italy (2019), at the 36. Kasseler Dokfest, (2019) and at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022), where L’étoile de mer was awarded the e-flux prize in 2019. Examples of grants, and artist residencies she has received include a grant from the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2008), Studio grant, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin (2008–2010), Toni and Albrecht Kumm Prize for the Promotion of Fine Arts, (2009), Artist in Residence, Lieu d’arts contemporains 3bisf, Aix-en-Provence, France (2010), Košice Artist in Residence (K.A.I.R.), Košice, Slovakia (2011), Artist in Residence, Museum POLIN, Warsaw, Poland (2016),work grant from the Berlin Senate (2019), the Funding programme for women artists in film/video, (2021), the Research Grant from the Berlin Senate as well (2017, 2021). So far, four monographs on her work have been published: Voices, Stimmen (Walther and Franz König, Köln 2121), Where Ivy Cracks The Wall (Naima, Paris / Berlin 2019), Lieux de Mémoire and Desire (Archive Books, Berlin 2015), Maya Schweizer?The Same Story Elsewhere (Spector Books, Leipzig 2010)

De retour à Berlin, j´essaie de reconstruire,à partir d´enregistrements que j´ai fait d´elle, une partie de l´histoire de ma grand-mère lorsqu´elle vivait à Lyon, pendant la seconde guerre mondiale.

Née à paris, Licence d´arts plastiques à L´université d´aix-en-provence. Études à l´école des beaux.arts de Leipzig (HGB), en photographie et vidéo puis Diplôme et post-diplôme à l´école des beaux-arts de Berlin(UdK). Vit à Berlin

The film begins with footage of a city of ruins, when the entire cityscape of Warsaw is covered with stones. It is 1945. Themed around stones as carriers of historical memory, the movie is so closely filmed that the viewer can never see the city`s memorials in their entirety. Special attention, though, is paid to the author of the Umschlagplatz Wall, a monument located in the former Ghetto. Hanna Szmalenberg is explaining the process of realization of the Umschlagplatz as the camera winds through a snow-covered sculpture garden.

Maya Schweizer, born in Paris studied art and art history at the university of Aix-en-Provence (1995-1998). She moved to Germany and studied at the School of Visual Arts in Leipzig (HGB) (1999-2002) and move in Berlin 2003 where she finished her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with Professor Lothar Baumgarten and graduated in 2006. She had solo shows in Westfalischen Kunstverein, Muenster (2010), Frankfurter Kunstverein, (2011) with Clemens von Wedemeyer, in the Kunstverein Langenhagen (2013), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2015), at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016). Schweizer was also involved in many international exhibitions, such as “Of Mice and Men,” Berlin Biennale (2006), “Storylines,” Kunstraum Munich, (2006), “Um-Kehrungen, Interaktion I - Speaker”s Corner,” Kunstverein Braunschweig (2007), “Magellaneous Cloud,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2007), “Urban Stories,” The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius (2009), “Auto-Kino!,” Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin (2010), “Ambigous Being,” exhibitions in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Taipei, tamtamART, Berlin / Kav16 Community Gallery, Tel Aviv / Hong Gah Museum, Taipei (2012), “Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt,” Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2012), “Vot ken you mach!,” Kunsthaus Dresden (2013), efa (Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA (2013). At “Villa Romana 1905”2013 Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz,” Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, (2013), “Gestern die Stadt von Morgen,” Kunstmuseum Mälheim an der Ruhr, (2014),. “Sammlungsalphabet,” Sammlungsausstellung, Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig (2014), and the forthcoming “Im inneren der Stadt. Öffentlicher Raum und Frei-Raum,” Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Bremen, (2015). At the Museum MWW Muzeum Wspó?czesne, Wroc?aw, Poland, (2015), Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, (2016), in VOX, Montreal (2016), and at POLIN Museum, Warsaw (2016).

White Terror ("Terreur Blanche") est le dernier volet d´une trilogie sur les skinheads, la haine et le racisme. En 2 ans d´enquête sur le groupe extremiste le plus actif, leurs liens internationaux, de Stockholm à Dallas en passant par Moscou, ont été révélés. Daniel Schweitzer, qui a réalisé des documentaires acclamés sur l´attitude des skinheads, enquête sur la force qui se cache derrière le "White Power" (Pouvoir blanc") et les slogans du "nouveau racisme".

Né en 1959 à Genève, il y étudie à l´ESAV (Visual Arts School) et obtient un double diplôme dans les départements d´expression graphique et d´audiovisuel. Il étudie ensuite à l´ESEC (Cinema Studies, Paris). Il est assistant directeur indépendant au Service de diffusion Suisse-Romand (TSR) et producteur indépendant entre 1983 et 1993. Il vit à Genève et Paris.

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Maya Schweizer was born in 1976 in Paris, France and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, and Berlin University of the Arts. She received international grants and most recently Project grant "Lieux de Mémoire and Desire",Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, 2015. The Exhibition sponsor from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, TCG Nordica, Kunming, China, 2013. The Robert Bosh Foundation, in Slovakia 2011, also in the Villa Aurora, Artist Grant from the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles 2008-2009. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she won the Prize of the German Competition at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen 2006. She recently had solo shows, such as; “Art | Memory | Place”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin Ireland, “Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles”, Kuns

PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS is an essayistic short film about love and storytelling, focussing on possible structures and forms of storytelling. The film is an experimental arrangement, a study of unconventional forms. Fragments of personal history, stories are woven together and reconstructed. An image within an image is shifted and repositioned. The cinematic narration of an experienced love is the starting point of PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS. But this narration is arranged in manifold ways and on several layers: the staging is arranged as a mise en abyme. The figure speak to a a friend of hers and sometimes also towards the audience; she talks about a desired subject which is absent throughout the whole film — it`s merely a blank. In his analysis of Marcel Prousts "À la Recherche du Temps perdu" Walter Benjamin speaks of "Penelope work". By this, he means not remembrance per se, but the interweave of memories. PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS is about the way how these memories could be interwoven by the means of narration. But unlike the ancient Penelope it`s not a carpet that is woven together with yarn, she’s weaving individual threads of narration together to one whole image of souvenirs, of memories.

*1970 in Linz, living and working in Vienna. Conceptual video artist mainly working with time-based media (film, video, sound). Studies of philosophy, history, history of the arts, dramatics and film theory in Vienna. Lecturer at Institute of Art and Design, Technical University of Vienna and at Film Academy Vienna. Cooperations with musicians on audiovisual projects and live performances in Austria and abroad. International screenings and exhibitions.

Dans le documentaire "Protocoles de rêves", Hanna Schygulla, figure emblématique du cinéma allemand et de l`?uvre de Rainer Maria Fassbinder, s`autofilme depuis 1977, expérimente, déconstruit et reconstruit sa propre image.

« Jeune comédienne, Hanna SCHYGULLA a provoqué l`impérieuse passion et les larmes amères de Petra von Kant dans le film de Fassbinder. Ensuite, elle a été sa Lili Marlène, sa Maria Braun, sa "femme allemande"... Héroïne d`une vingtaine de films phares de Fassbinder, emblème du renouveau du cinéma allemand, Hanna SCHYGULLA a tourné avec Schlöndorf, Wenders, von Trotta, puis Ferreri, Saura, Godard, Wajda, Scola, Deville... Elle vit aujourd`hui à Paris.»

In ‘PHX [X is for Xylonite]’, the first semi-synthetic plastics are considered through their relationship to the chemical and industrial development of photography and film, where cellulose nitrate was used as the base for film-stock until the mid-20th century and in props’ production. Against a collage of digital animation and hand-processed 16mm film, the soundtrack proposes a warped love song between the organic and synthetic, where human voices and recordings in shellac - lacquer obtained from the secretion of the Coccus Lacca insect - are transformed through a Vocoder. Scientist and laboratory technician, Dr. Miriam Wright, reads extracts from Roland Barthes? essay ?Plastics? (1957), colour experiments from a British Xylonite Company laboratory formula book (1888) and symptoms of plastics degradation; ?crazing?, ?yellowing? and ‘bloom’. Although Barthes suggests that plastic “embodies none of the genuine produce of the mineral world: foam, fibres, strata”, in ‘PHX’ plastics are proposed as strata; so that the layers that make up the film - its emulsion and plastic substrate - are made evident; like its material seams that will, in future sedimentary rock layers, signal our Anthropocene era and its flawed capitalist productions.

Frances Scott works with moving image, presented through screenings, installations, events and publications. Her work often considers material that exists around the periphery of the cinematic production and its apparatus, proposing films composed of their metonymic fragments. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: 'Projections', 57th New York Film Festival; New York (2019); Institute of Making, University College London (2019); Edge of Frame / London International Animation Festival, Close-Up Film Centre (2019); Nunnery Gallery, London (2019); Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium (2018); The Bower, London (2018); Tate St Ives (2018); Annely Juda Fine Art / The Russian Club, London (2018); Yorkshire Sculpture Park / Art Licks (2017); Whitechapel Gallery (2015 /2017); Peninsula Arts / South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth (2017); Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2016); and ‘Selected III’ videoclub FLAMIN screenings in the UK (2013) and USA (2014) including Anthology Film Archives, New York, Seattle International Film Festival, and LA Film Forum. Frances was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017) and associate artist at the Moving Image Research Centre (MIRC), University of East London (2018-2019). She is currently working on research towards her first long-form film, ‘Wendy’, a new film commissioned by TACO! (Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office), London.

In meteorology, the aureole is an atmospheric, optical phenomenon; the visible inner disc of a corona, produced by the diffraction of light from the sun or the moon, bright starlight or planet-light. Aureole brings together unused celestial images from Scott’s earlier film, Diviner (2017), with vocoder-readings from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), scored by Chu-Li Shewring’s remix of the House track Brighter Days (1992) by Cajmere featuring Dajae. Aureole is a transition between a ‘lost’ chapter from Diviner and Wendy (2022, forthcoming), a film fan-letter to composer Wendy Carlos, whose many interests include solar eclipse photography. Accelerating to a euphoric end, the film is the duration of the longest total solar eclipse, when the moon completely covers the sun.

Frances Scott (b. 1981) is a London-based artist working with moving image. Her work considers the narratives and histories at the periphery of cinematic production and its apparatus, to produce films composed of their metonymic fragments. Her projects are often made in exchange with other specialists, groups and publics, and developed through research using online and physical archives and collections. She associates and composites diverse materials, analogue and digital film media, to create intricate scenarios that are both scripted and improvised. Her film work, informed by this collaborative and research-led process, takes multiple forms, through exhibitions to installations, screenings, events, broadcasts and publications, including recent presentations at: transmediale x CTM, Berlin; 57th New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York; Edge of Frame & Close Up Film Centre, London; Het Bos, Antwerp; The Bower, London; Tate St Ives, Cornwall; Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks; South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth; and Focal Point Gallery, Southend. Frances Scott was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017), and is currently working on a new film commissioned by TACO!, London for a solo exhibition and publication in 2022.

"Valentina" est un prélude à "Wendy", à la fois portrait spéculatif de la compositrice et musicienne Wendy Carlos et message de fan adressée à celle qui se décrit elle-même comme "The Original Synth". Dans "Valentina", une bobine de 30 mètres de film 16mm, traitée à la main, tournée-montée lors de répétitions, sert de partition silencieuse à une lecture. La performeuse et danseuse Valentina Formenti se rappelle une partie de la retranscription d’une interview de Wendy Carlos, plus tard remontée pour être publiée dans le magazine "Playboy" en 1979. Alors que l'interview du magazine était considérée comme la première annonce publique de la transition de genre de Wendy Carlos, les passages absents, exclus du montage final, incluent ses intérêts connexes pour la cartographie, la physique, les transformations mathématiques, l'astronomie et sa pratique de la photographie des éclipses solaires. Les multiples voix de Valentina sont traduites par le Vocoder et collées avec la performance du musicien Tom Richards sur le "Mini-Oramics", projet inachevé de Daphne Oram, afin de suggérer une naissance par synthèse sonore. "... imaginer un monde sans genre, qui est peut-être un monde sans genèse, mais peut-être aussi un monde sans fin." (Donna Haraway, ’A Manifesto for Cyborgs’, Socialist Review, no.80, 1985)

Frances Scott (née en 1981) habite à Londres. Elle est artiste et travaille avec les images en mouvement. Son travail s’intéresse aux récits et aux histoires à la limite de la production filmique et de ses dispositifs, pour produire des films composés de leurs fragments métonymiques. Ses projets sont souvent réalisés dans le cadre d'échanges avec d'autres spécialistes, groupes et publics, et développés par le biais de recherches dans des archives et collections aussi bien physiques qu’en ligne. Elle associe et allie divers matériaux, des supports filmiques analogiques et numériques, pour créer des scénarios complexes, à la fois scénarisés et improvisés. Son travail de réalisation, qui s'inspire de ce processus de collaboration et de recherche, prend de multiples formes: expositions, installations, projections, événements, diffusions radiophoniques et publications. Des présentations récentes ont eu lieu notamment à la transmediale x CTM, Berlin (Allemagne); au 57e NYFF – New York Film Festival (USA); au Edge of Frame & Close Up Film Centre, Londres (Royaume-Uni); au Het Bos, Anvers (Belgique); à The Bower, Londres (Royaume-Uni); à Tate St Ives, Saint Ives (Royaume-Uni); au Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club, Londres (Royaume-Uni); à la Whitechapel Gallery, Londres (Royaume-Uni); au Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks, Wakefield (Royaume-Uni); à la South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth (Royaume-Uni); et à la Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (Royaume-Uni). Frances Scott a reçu le prix Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017), et travaille actuellement sur un nouveau film commissionné par TACO!, Londres (Royaume-Uni), en vue d’une exposition solo et d’une publication prévue en 2022.

"Trailer Truths III" est le troisème épisode d'une trilogie de court-métrages faits de textes découpés de bandes annonces de films. Des mots et des phrases sont collées pour créer un nouveau texte qui coordonne l'avancée d'une critique de société à une action directe fatidique, dans un film qui parodie la notion du style Hollywoodien et appelle aux armes. En utilisant souvent le langage réductif et émotif propre au divertissement, incarné par des bandes annonces, pour aborder des problèmes sensibles et complexes, ce film reflète la partialité des superproductions et des divisions manichéennes.

Erica Scourti est née à Athènes en 1980 mais vit à Londres depuis 1998 où elle vint pour étudier la Chimie. Après avoir obtenu sa Licence d'Art aux Beaux-Arts à l'Université de Middlesex, son travail a été projeté internationalement et surtout en Grande-Bretagne, et a été choisi comme démonstration itinérante pour la galerie online tank.tv. D'autres projections récentes comprennent le "Oberhausen Short Film Festival Lounge", "EMAF ?Smart Art? discussion and Pursescreen at Bureau gallery", Manchester. Elle entreprend actuellement un diplôme en Art & Philosophie à l'Université de Birkbeck à Londres.

Trailer Truths I is the first installment of a trilogy of short films made up of text taken from movie trailers. Words and phrases are collaged together to create a darkly humorous text about war, evil and propaganda. The work playfully addresses the representation of power and language in the media, and the role of belief in the popular consciousness.

Erica Scourti grew up in Athens, leaving at 18 to study Chemistry in London. After a year on the course she quit and, after a stint at London College Fashion and Goldsmiths, graduated from Middlesex University?s BA Fine Art course in 2003. She now lives and works in East London and Essex. Her work will be appearing in the 15th Mostyn Open Competition in March 2005. Recent film screenings include: The One Night of Video & Audio, Umbrella Arts Group, Cardiff, Wales; Max 5 Video Festival, Café Gallery Projects, London; 3rd RestCycling Festival, Berlin; tank.tv on-line (www.tank.tv); Shot By The Sea, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings; Winter Fantasia, Space Studios, London; and Trampoline ? Reactor, a live link-up to Berlin, held at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham in 2005. Courtesy Castlefield Gallery

Des fragments des plus grands discours de cinéma (sélectionnés par le site American Rhetoric) sont montés de façon à créer un morceau d'éloquence qui fait passer des messages mêlés sur la "condition humaine" et sur les dirigeants (réels et fictifs) qui essaient de la façonner. La bande-son originale du film est remplacée par une voix générée par ordinateur, ôtant ainsi aux discours leur pouvoir émotionnel en applanissant les différentes perspectives des orateurs pour qu'il ne reste qu'une seule voix. Le travail d'Erica porte souvent sur les clichés du langage dans la culture populaire et tente de leur redonner vie en les remixant et en les plaçant dans un nouveau contexte. Cette oeuvre poursuit ce projet en étudiant le langage utilisé dans les prises de paroles publiques, et le culte de la personnalité que cela implique souvent.

Erica Scourti est née à Athènes, en Grèce, en 1980. Elle vit à Londres depuis 1998, où elle a fait des études de chimie. Elle a également étudié les beaux-arts à la Middlesex University, où elle a obtenu son BA. Son oeuvre a été montrée au niveau international, par exemple à Videonale 11, Purescreen Artists Film & Video à Bureau gallery et aux Recontres Internationales 2006 à Berlin et Paris. Récemment, elle a effectué une résidence au premier festival d'art contemporain d'Anso, dans les Pyrénées. Elle montrera son oeuvre au musée Reine Sofia à Madrid et au Wewerka Pavilion pendant le Munster Sculpture Project 2007.

Dans un cimetière d'avions, des avions de guerre sont laissés à l'abandon ou mis à la casse.

Alexandria Searls enseigne la production des médias à l'Université de Virginie. Elle est également une photographe exposée dans le monde entier.

"An interrupted investigation of R" is an epistemological sci-fi detective short film. This project is an adaptation of Stanislav Lem`s “ The Investigation ”. The work pretends to contribute to the regime of Extra Science Fiction, as was developed by Quentin Meillassoux. A synopsis of the book that I found at Goodreads: "An officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate an eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues". I used that minimal narrative as an excuse to address some of this questions and ideas. What would happen if experimental science became impossible and cannot deploy its theories? What exactly guarantees for us, but also what convinces us that natural laws will still be valid in the next moment? How is the bound in between science and fiction? It seems like the science allows the construction of a storyline because stories happen in ordered worlds. The way the merger of the virtual and the digital elicits a context of indetermination. How will the construction of different models of representation affect our perception of a specific phenomenon?

Alan Segal (AR), born in 1985, he studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Program for Artist and Curators, Universidad Di Tella, and is currently completing his master in Fine Arts at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. He uses drawings, video, coding and sound to design works that reveal alternative systems of communicative convention. “Tutorial ” was his last solo show at Zmud. Recent group exhibitions include "A word is a shadow that falls on a lot of things" at Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel, Switzerland), “Praising the surface ”at the Hesell Museum of Art (New York, USA) and “ To push an ism ” at MAMBA (Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art). He also shows his work in international biennials; "Visual Resonances" at the BIENALSUR (the South America contemporary Art Biennial) and "Draft Systems" at The WRO Biennale (Wroclaw, Poland).

“Key, washer, coin” is a video piece that combines techniques from the reenactment, animation, music, and other fields to ruminates towards language and capitalist exchange. The formal and semantic languages of advertisements are dissected, breaking the marketing model down to its component parts, highlighting the complex capitalist infrastructure that fuels our economic reality. Advertisement shorts, graphic design pieces, marketing texts are rarely mistaken for art. That is due to a congenital wound: those forms cannot cover up their commercial nature, the evident and immediate presence of the money. The invisible hand of these disciplines is the labor of scientists, formal semantic researchers, cryptographers and engineers. By learning from these disciplines is it possible to create an original flowchart of resources; simultaneously critical, persuasive and disillusioning outcomes/pieces are expected.

Alan Segal is a Buenos Aires-based artist whose work has been shown nationally and internationally. Segal’s video work has been presented at film festivals such as the New York Film Festival, Viennale, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin and, Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Among his recent group exhibitions are include Praising the surface at the Hesell Museum of Art (New York, USA), To push an ism at MAMBA (Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Argentina), The Kitchen (New York, USA), A word is a shadow that falls on a lot of things at Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel, Switzerland), Desarticulaciones at Blau Projects (São Paulo, Brazil) and Variaciones sobre lo no mismo at MACBA (Buenos Aires Museum of Contemporary Art, Argentina). He also shows his work in international biennials; Visual Resonances at the BIENALSUR (the South America contemporary Art Biennial) and Draft Systems at The WRO Biennale (Wroclaw, Poland). As a film editor, Segal teamed up Gastón Solnicki for the films Kékszakállú (Argentina/Uruguay, 2016) and Introduzione all ‘Oscuro (Argentina/Austria, 2018). For his work in this film, he won the FIPRESCI award for the Best Editing at the Venice Film Festival. Segal studied at ENERC (Argentine National Film School), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (USA) and, UTDT Program for Artists (Argentina). He received his MFA from Bard College (USA).

F begins to follow two young anarchists who sporty usurp abandoned commercial storefronts and apartments. These three strangers will become closer after subtle acts of trespassing and sporadic forays into civil disobedience. The longing for exile and the fantasy that a promising future is somewhere else contaminates F. The city is immersed in an eternal holding pattern, becoming into a singular artifact, as melancholy as uncanny.

Alan Martín Segal was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an artist and filmmaker whose work has been presented in various international institutions, galleries, and biennials including the Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art; BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires; The Kitchen, New York; and SculptureCenter, New York and Dia, New York. His films have been featured in film festivals such as the New York Film Festival; Vienna International Film Festival; FIDMarseille; Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin; Jeonju International Film Festival, Korea; and Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Segal lives in New York.

Dans cette oeuvre, une série d´événements socio-politiques est analysée, entre liens hypothétiques et théories de conspiration. Conspiranoia (2004) tente de représenter ce qui serait l´ultime conspiration, non sans humour et sarcasme : en effet, la principale source d´inspiration pour cette oeuvre est la culture populaire, dont les bandes-dessinées, les séries télé, la littérature d´esbrouffe et le journalisme sensationnel "d´enquête". Mais une fois encore, qui sait? Tout ce que vous savez n´est peut-être bien qu´un mensonge ...

JOAQUIN SEGURA (Né à Mexico city, 1980), Artiste visuel. Il vit et travaille à Mexico City. Son travail, ses installations, interventions et oeuvres photographiques ont été exposées dans des expositions solo ou de groupe au Mexique, aux Etats-Unis et en Europe, par exemple à La Panaderia, au Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, au Centro de la Imagen et Ex-Teresa Arte Actual à Mexico City, mais aussi Outpost for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia à Madrid et Palace Adria à Prague, Republique Tchèque. Il a également réalisé des films et été commissaire d´exposition à l´occasion de plusieurs projets. Ses oeuvres sont actuellement représentées par Arena México Arte Contemporáneo, Mexique.

Single-channel video in which a recurring dialogue is formed by fragments extracted from two seminal public addresses by Václav Havel, former dissident and essential player of post-soviet politics in Eastern Europe. Both of the lines used in this work are the closing arguments of Havel`s New Year Addresses of 1990 and 1991, respectively. This persistent question posed by an individual in continuous doubt alludes to the extreme changes in global geopolitics once the Soviet Bloc fell in Czechoslovakia, but also alludes to the sociopolitical crisis nowadays, both in the region and other parts of Europe. It aims to present the essential contradictions present between discourse and socio economical realities in a context shaken by extreme political happenings: a laconic invitation to reflect on the nature of power and ideology.

Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico. His highly diverse work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, USA, Europe and Asia. Some spaces that have featured his work include Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, La Panaderia and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, along with El Museo del Barrio, Anthology Film Archives, White Box and apexart (New York), LAXART, MoLAA (Los Angeles) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow) and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX. His work has been widely reviewed & featured in local and international art publications & major newspapers such as Flash Art, Adbusters, Art Papers, Código, Art Nexus, Discipline, Celeste & The Washington Post, among many others. In 2008/09, Segura was an artist-in-residence at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, NY and at the 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA. In 2012/13, he undertook artistic residencies and research stays at Hangar ?Centre de Producció i Recerca d?Arts Visuals (Barcelona), MeetFactory ? International Center of Contemporary Art (Prague) and Impakt Foundation (Utrecht). He?s a founding member and board advisor of SOMA, Mexico City.