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A NEW NORMAL is a stereoscopic essay film that examines the question how to go on when everything has changed. A young man leaves his apartment in an old high-rise and wanders through deserted landscapes. Something is waiting for him out there, but what drives him forward is his desire to leave everything behind, even himself. A narrator recounts fragments and experiences of an everyday life following catastrophe. They bear no resemblance with the journey of the young man, but cannot be cleanly separated from them either. Stories start out as banal episodes about grocery shopping or commuting to work but reveal various strategies to engage with a profound crisis of identity. The 3D images are both an artistic and a narrative choice: they serve as a window into his thoughts and attempts to develop a new sense of normalcy.

Luzie Loose (born 1989) and Paul Nungeßer (born 1991) both grew up in post-wall Berlin of the 1990s. Luzie studied communications at Universität der Künste in Berlin while Paul majored in Photography and Architecture at Columbia University in New York. Their paths crossed for the first time in 2017 at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, where Luzie graduated in 2018, directing her first feature-length fiction film Swimming. The film premiered at Busan International Film Festival and won the Hof gold award for best directing debut. Paul is studying cinematography since 2016 at Filmakademie. His films have been shown at various festivals, including Dok.Fest & Filmfest Munich, Achtung Berlin and Max-Ophüls-Prize. A NEW NORMAL is the first collaboration between the two filmmakers and celebrated its world premiere at Filmfest Munich. Paul and Luzie live and work in Berlin.

"A New Normal" est un film-essai stéréoscopique, qui examine la question de savoir comment continuer, quand tout a changé. Un jeune homme quitte son appartement dans une vieille tour, et erre dans des paysages déserts. Quelque chose l'attend là-bas, mais ce qui le pousse à avancer, c'est son désir de tout laisser derrière lui, même lui-même. Un narrateur raconte des fragments et des expériences de la vie quotidienne après une catastrophe. Ils ne ressemblent en rien au parcours du jeune homme, mais ne peuvent pas non plus en être dissociés. Les histoires commencent comme des épisodes banals à propos des courses au supermarché ou des trajets entre le domicile et le travail, mais révèlent diverses stratégies pour faire face à une profonde crise d'identité. Les images en 3D sont à la fois un choix artistique et un choix narratif: elles servent de fenêtre sur les pensées et les tentatives du protagoniste pour développer un nouveau sentiment de normalité.

Luzie Loose est née en 1989 et Paul Sonntag en 1991. Ils ont grandi dans le Berlin d’après la chute du Mur. Luzie a étudié à la Universität der Künste Berlin (Allemagne), tandis que Paul a obtenu une licence à la Columbia University, New York (USA). Leurs chemins se sont croisés à la Filmakademie Baden Württemberg, Ludwigsbourg (Allemagne), où Luzie a obtenu son diplôme en 2018, avec son premier long métrage, "Swimming", qui a remporté plusieurs prix. Paul y étudie la cinématographie depuis 2016. Ses films ont été présentés dans divers festivals à travers le monde. "A New Normal" est leur première collaboration, et a été présenté en première mondiale au Filmfest München, Munich (Allemagne).

NEVADA: Of Landscape and Longing is a reminiscence of a journey to the desert state of Nevada in the summer of 2009. It is a portrait of contemporary Nevada, which documents the region as a place of extremes. On the one hand, it is a land of notorious desolation and silence, while on the other it is a capital of excess, artifice, and paragon of the American economic collapse. Through the voyeuristic camera of outsiders, the film explores the death of the American frontier through Nevada, a place where contemporary notions of progress are wrestling with the West?s wild landscape and mythology.

Ian Soroka is a filmmaker and multimedia artist who was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the mountains of western Colorado, USA. He studied cinema and philosophy at the University of Colorado in Boulder (2009) and at the Film and Television School at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic (FAMU Int. 2008). His work has previously exhibited at Rencontres Internationales (2008-9), the Albuquerque Film Festival (2009), Insideout Gallery (2009). In 2009, Soroka was awarded the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation fellowship. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

La nostalgie est une émotion faite d?un patchwork de souvenirs cousus ensemble, qui crée un passé idéalisé. Par le biais de réflexions sur la banalité de la vie quotidienne, « Nostalgia » s?interroge sur la création d?émotions et d?atmosphères cinématographiques. Cette ?uvre veut construire un environnement cinématographique, afin de faire allusion non seulement à quelque chose de foncièrement humain, mais aussi à une histoire émotionnelle collective.

Ian Soroka est né à New York et a grandi au Colorado (USA). Il est diplômé de la Film and TV School de l?Academy of Performing Arts de Prague (République tchèque) et étudie actuellement l?Université du Colorado, à Boulder (USA).

Where is the end of Mexico and beginning of the United States? By means of a contemplative and experimental approach this documentary pose the present panorama and everyday life in northeast Mexico and south of Texas. A pursuit to find an own identity, through atmospheres and ambient states in a region whe a river divides the third and first world of a whole continent.

Jaiziel Hernández Máynez was born march 9, 1987 in Saltillo, Coahuila in a family of industrial workers. At age of 18, he entered the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico city, where he studied the cinematography bachelor. He has made the cinematography of short films like Felipe (2009) winner of Garcia Bross/Studio 5 de Mayo special prize in the Morelia int Film Festival 2009. Currently he is developing a documentary project about the affected people of the drug war that is happening right now in Mexico.

`How Beautiful Istanbul is Today` (a.k.a Poster People) A la veille des élections locales, Istanbul s´habille d´une combinaison d´affiches, de bannières et de drapeaux spécifiques. La ville en est recouverte, comme d´un uniforme. Les différentes caractéristiques architecturales et socio-culturelles disparaissent. Des bus de ralliement sillonnent la ville avec la musique de leur campagne. C´est une sorte de frénésie temporaire, un paradoxe: ceux qui promettent d´embellir la ville sont ceux qui la défigurent. Les acteurs sont indissociables de cette mise en scène. Ils s´affichent tout sourire- plastique et slogans, certains exigeant, certains émotionnels. C´est comme si on votait plus pour des portraits sur des affiches que pour des candidats réels. Les slogans ne recouvrent pas seulement les rues principales mais aussi les petites rues, les vitrines, les arbres, les sites de construction, les immeubles, les lampadaires, les poubelles et même les panneaux de signalisation.

`BUGUN ISTANBUL NE KADAR GUZEL`- `HOW BEAUTIFUL ISTANBUL IS TODAY` - les réalisateurs BELMYN SÖYLEMEZ Née à Istanbul. Elle a travaillé comme écrivain publicitaire, éditrice, réalisatrice et productrice. Ses courts métrages et ses documentaires ont été récompensés lors de nombreux festivals nationaux et internationaux, et ont été diffusés à la télévision (sur ARTE, SVT (Suède), YLE (Finlande), SBS (Australie)). Ses films ont également été projetés lors d´exposition : "Call me Istanbul" au ZKM de Karlsruhe, Allemagne (2004), et "Free Kick" - la 9ème biennale d´Istanbul, 2005. Elle est aussi membre du Collectif Filmiste. Actuellement elle travaille sur le script de son premier long métrage et sur un projet photo intitulé "Foam" (Écume). HASMET TOPALOGLU Né en 1968, Haþmet Topaloglu a étudié l´administration d´entreprise mais il a passé plus de temps dans les cinémathèques et à la réalisation de courts métrages qu´en salle de classe. En 1993 il commence à travailler en temps que journaliste TV sur ATV, chaîne turque. Il travaille pour trois chaînes TV turques différentes sur une période de dix ans comme: reporter, producteur et présentateur. Il se concentre essentiellement sur les histoires humaines, des films et des documentaires TV. Il rédige également des critiques pour des quotidiens au début des années 90 ainsi qu' en 2002-2003. Depuis 2002 il travaille comme réalisateur/producteur freelance. Actuellement il réalise un documentaire vidéo sur le groupe punk turc "Rashit".

A cast of clones are trapped inside a seminar room and subjected to a kind of presentation or slideshow. The slideshow features over a hundred images of board games, and seems to trigger, via a small mysterious ball of light, the audience of clones to sift through their notes and act out small, possibly internal or dreamlike, dramas. As the film progresses the identies start to get tangled and conflict arises, characters want to jump out of the system or structure, while some, seemingly in power, try to control the situation and preserve the order of things. The film unfolds and is driven trough the association and manipulation of symbols: One board game leads to the next and one identity refers to another in a sequential series of mind games that eats its own tail. The sub-stories of the film deal playfully and somewhat loosely with evolution, science, existentialism, and society, as well as mysticism and hierarchies. It is part of a larger artwork and film cycle begun in 2003 and scheduled for completion in 2007.

Gustav Sparr was born in 1977, grew up in the region of Stockholm, and currently lives and works in Umeå, Sweden. After having gradually shifted from sculpture, painting, and digital illustration, his work currently focuses on animation. References from popular culture, esotericism and scientific writings have been filtered through a rather direct visual language that hides many underlying and unorthodox connections of ideas. The most obvious framework or manifestation of these thought-experiments is through the both limiting and enriching world of board games and childlike acts, which are deciphered, re-interpreted and re-coded. The animations and images are concerned with questions about identity, self-image, structures, symbols, loops, surfaces, topology, vessels of information, lifeforms, and how thoughts and ideas are born and relate and mutate. Basically it's about the brain...

Die Hörposaune (The Hearing Trombone) film / installation by Isabell Spengler, Antonia Baehr, Jule Flierl, Germany 2022 filmed in a visual installation by Nadia Lauro short synopsis Through a floating camera motion, the film invites us to enter a world with its own logic, passing through sensitive membranes, liquefied borders and openings between inner and outer spaces. Here we attend a reading circle or vocal performance in memory of the counter tenor and queer icon Klaus Nomi, one of the first public figures to die within the AIDS pandemic. Daydream-like, as if to save them from oblivion, the film delves into the guts of fantastical, queer body imaginations - with spit, panting, oral sounds, singing, and vulva-like paper flower arrangements, whereby anatomical representations are reinterpreted.

Isabell Spengler (director) is a film/video artist from Berlin. In her films, installations and performances she analyzes and mediates diverging constructions of realities, imaginary worlds and their representation. Since 2005 she has created a series of conceptual Expanded Cinema works in dialogues with other artists. /www.isabellspengler.net Antonia Baehr (director) is a choreographer living in Berlin. Her pieces explore, among other things, the fiction of the everyday and the theater. She has worked with scores for many years - as a way to connect and collaborate. Baehr is producer of horse whisperer and dancer Werner Hirsch (performer in Die Hörposaune). /www.make-up-productions.net Jule Flierl (director) is a dance and voice artist from Berlin. She develops practices that conceive of the voice as a dancer. She revives the legacy of Valeska Gert, avant-garde dancer from 1920's Berlin, who first conceptualized the term ToneDance: to dance with one's voice. Her practice unsettles the relationship between seeing and hearing. /juleflierl.weebly.com Nadia Lauro (visual installation) is a visual artist and designer based in Paris, who works across contexts including scenic spaces, landscape architectures, museums. She conceived set designs, environments and visual installations with strong dramaturgical power, thus generating new ways of seeing and being together. /https://nadialauro.com

Le film "Permanent Residents" associe un design vestimentaire extrême à une mise en scène de la réalité des activités quotidiennes dans le paysage urbain de Los Angeles. Les costumes renvoient à un monde imaginaire collectif contenant les concepts flous des icônes-pop, des mythes et des fictions sociales. Les protagonistes du film communiquent dans un language non-verbal qui se joue des distances spatiales. Leurs mouvements simultanés à des endroits différents se fondent dans une chorégraphie attirant notre attention sur les aspects visuels musicaux et abstraits du design de notre environnement. Portrait de l'influence d'une ville sur ses habitants.

Isabell Spengler, est née à Berlin (Allemagne). Elle a étudié le cinéma expérimental à l'Université des Arts de Berlin(Meisterschülerin 1999) et au California Institute of the Arts Valencial (Master of Fine Arts 2001). Elle obtint une bourse du DAAD ainsi qu'une bourse Estman Kodak. Elle enseigne actuellement le cinéma à l'Université des Arts de Berlin. Appartiennent à sa filmographie : "Psychic Tequila Tarot" (1998), ?Transformation in the Land of Enchantment? (2003) et ?The Natural Life of Mermaids? (2004). Ses films ont reçu des prix, notamment au Festival NoBudget à Hambourg, au Festival international du court-métrage à Gera et au Göttingen Low Budget Film Festival. Son travail a récemment été présenté lors du Los Angeles Film Forum, Cirrus Gallery à Los Angeles, Australian Center for Photografy à Sydney, the Museum Ludwig à Cologne et au KunstWerke Institute for Contemporary Art à Berlin.

Translating a musical stage performance by the group "Larry Peacock" into the language of film, SYNCPOINT combines film images created directly on film leader with those created through normal exposure of 24 frames per second with a 16mm film camera. Central to this experimental music video is the image of the synchronization-point as a hole, derived from the film-technical synchronization method of punching a hole into the first exposed and keycode-numbered frame of a roll of film prior to its transfer to video. The image of the hole does not only mark a point in time, but is in connection with the photographically captured (percussion-) actions of the performers perceived either as a round mask of censorship or as a filled, dot-shaped image. Purposefully designed and random synchronicities between the visual and accustic events allow for a variety of interpretive connections. Larry Peacock is a feminist project with and about the performativity of electronic/pop music, reflecting gender politics and the role of the audience. The project not only destabilizes the normativity of binary gender categories, but also art categories such as ?high` and `low`, ?dance?, ?concert-performance?, and ?choreographic work?.

Isabell Spengler, born in Berlin, studied experimental film at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. She was a recipent of a DAAD grant and a Eastman Kodak stipend. She currently teaches film at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her filmography includes "Psychic Tequila Tarot" (1998), ?Transformation in the Land of Enchantment? (2003), ?The Natural Life of Mermaids? (2004) and ?Permanent Residents? (2005). Her work including films, video installations and photography has recently been exhibited at Los Angeles Film Forum; Cirrus gallery, Los Angeles; Cerealart, Philadelphia; Taxter & Spengemann, New York; KunstWerke - Berlin e.V. - Institute for Comtemporary Art; Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale 2007) and at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. distribution & further information: http://www.fdk-berlin.de/en/arsenal-experimental/kuenstler/isabell-spengler.html

Dans Spilliaert, la cinéaste Lisa Spilliaert explore son lien de parenté avec le célèbre artiste belge Le?on Spilliaert (1881-1946). Ce lien de parenté fictif – ou non – la prédestine-t-elle à une existence d’artiste ? Au rythme de son rap, elle lance la généalogiste fanatique en elle sur la trace de ses talents artistiques.

Lisa Spilliaert (°1990 à Tokyo) réside et travaille à Gand (BE). Elle est née à Tokyo d’une mère japonaise et d’un père belge. Après avoir vécu sa jeunesse à Tokyo, à 17 ans, elle a déménagé à Bruges. Sa fascination pour la généalogie et les interactions incessantes entre sa culture orientale et sa culture occidentale sont des motifs récurrents dans son œuvre, laquelle est principalement de nature autobiographique. Ses vidéos fusionnent vie et travail et confèrent à son histoire personnelle un fondement universel.

A silent film composed of digital scans and blow-ups of Guido Horn D’Arturo’s photographic plates depicting Bologna’s skies.

Giuseppe Spina is an Italian filmmaker based in Bologna. His films have been screened at numerous international festivals, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, EMAF and Annecy’s IAFF. He is the co-founder of Nomadica, an international network of artists and intellectuals focused on experimental cinema.

La guerre civile du Mozambique a vu des centaines de réfugiés fuir le carnage acharné de la post-indépendance, sautant les clôtures et traversant le Parc National Kruger vers l?Afrique du Sud. Presque deux décennies plus tard, les clôtures sont toujours une barrière physique et psychologique divisant les familles. Par l?utilisation de messages vidéos filmés et transportés entre les deux pays, Voice Across The Fence leur permet de voir un aperçu de la vie de ceux qui les ont quittés ou de ceux qui sont restés derrière. Il est extrêmement difficile d?organiser la communication par-delà la clôture entre les membres d?une famille en Afrique de Sud et au Mozambique et le bouche à oreille est le moyen de communication le plus utilisé. L?autre solution la plus répandue pour communiquer est de risquer sa vie pendant deux ou trois jours de marche au travers du Parc National Kruger. Ce voyage expose les personnes à de dangereux animaux sauvages, à la déshydratation et aux arrestations par la police. Avec ce programme, une autre possibilité de communication leur a été donnée. En août 2000 et novembre 2001, des messages vidéos ont été enregistrés parmi les réfugiés du Mozambique vivant dans la région du Bushbuskridge en Afrique du Sud. Les messages ont fait le voyage au delà de la frontière et ont été amenés jusque dans le district reculé de Massinger, au Mozambique. Ils ont été projetés sur écran et des réponses vidéos ont été rapportés en Afrique du Sud. Ce documentaire présente cet échange de messages entre les familles qui furent séparées autrefois par la guerre et maintenant divisées par les temps changeants.

The essay film "In this silence I believe" gives us an ambient impression of the nightlife in a city disco. The guests provide the focus for documentary observations and the resulting investigation of a subculture. With an alienated sound design, the familiar elements at the club are viewed in an experimental cinematic way.

Born 1988 in Vienna, Austria. After visiting Vienna Filmakademie, he started visiting Artuniversity/ Timebased Media in Linz. Besides his own films, he is also working for other directors in differen departments.

Un jour comme un autre, un garçon fait un voyage avec sa famille à l?usine de salpêtre de Chacabuco, dans la vieille ville « creusée » dans le désert d?Antofagasta. Il marche à côté des bâtiments anciens... les années ont passé et, tout comme le vent, les jours et les heures se sont effacés. Le garçon est maintenant un adulte, un vieil homme solitaire, et ce vieil homme décide de s'installer à Chacabuco.

Juan Diego Spoerer est réalisateur indépendant et professeur de cinéma documentaire au Chili. Håkan Engström est ingénieur du son à la Radio Nationale de Suède. Ensemble, ils ont réalisé une vingtaine de documentaires pour la Radio Nationale de Suède, Engström en tant que producteur et Spoerer comme réalisateur. En 1999, Spoerer a reçu le Prix National de Journalisme de Suède, pour sa série de documentaires sur le Chili, et il a obtenu la deuxième place au Prix Europe du Documentaire de Berlin (Allemagne).

What is the future of cinema? In 1982, in Cannes, Wim Wenders invited many moviemakers to answer this question. 26 years later, the question remains, but Wenders is now on the other side of the camera.

Inspired by his father, a cinemaniac, Gustavo Spolidoro started to explore the world of film early on and inspired by filmmakers like Rogério Sganzerla and Woody Allen started his career as a director.

A container ship is not an inanimate object. The ship that travels thousands of miles on the high seas is full of life, stories, tragedy and hope. The harbours reached, the industrial landscape one encounters, the cargo that floats in an endless ocean. Anina is a psycho-geographic film-essay, documenting the ethnographic tendencies of the industrial landscape and its malevolent stature over the individual. The shipping industry’s ever-shifting landscape, affecting even this interaction you are having with this text, crafts its own mythology.

Alcaeus Spyrou (b.1991, Elbasan, Albania) is a visual artist working with the cinematic image. He was born on the day the fall of the Hoxha dictatorship in Albania. The conflict that ensued, forced his family to seek refuge in Athens, Greece. The frequent displacement and oscillation between the two topographies, would focus Alcaeus’s gaze towards the shifting landscape of migration. In his practice, Alcaeus utilizes a psychoanalytical scope on cinema to deconstruct the inter-dependent nature of the medium. Through this process, he searches for new dialects of the cinematic language. By combining the two antithetical genres of fiction and non-fiction he establishes connections with the alienated environment. He informs the mythologies of contemporary migration that reveal collective trauma as the substance of our intricate relations to the other.

All the memory of the world is contained in an old Academy we don?t know the location and time. The quarrel between two men from two different generations is told through vocal notes as annotations for a possible story yet to be told. The argument stands in the chances History has to be written. How do these two persons can tell a story? How do they deal with what History already told and what is possible to add? How to tell something while is happening? A story telling method as an inheritance, to be passed on from Maestro to pupil in the aseptic spaces of an Academy. Looking for the right balance between tradition and the possible re-invention of it, as two different generations and their different approach to key words of the Historic Study. The voice leading us to these spaces has never a face, but her subjective eye has the right detach of the present on past issues. Shot for the double solo show of Antoni Muntadas and Giulio Squillacciotti in Rome (I) in 2011.

Giulio Squillacciotti (Rome, Italy 1982) studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome, where he got his BA from Sapienza University. He earned a Master?s Degree (hons) in Visual Arts from the School of Architecture in Venice in 2009, where he studied Philosophy, Semiotics and Anthropology. Once completed his studies he won, again in Venice, a one year residency at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation with the Ateliers Program. Never trained as an artist, neither a film maker, his work is mainly oriented on storytelling and cultural apexes and their possible reinvention in different contexts. He deals with the idea of tradition and the fictitious outlets of it, all spread through a system of layered meanings, which formally goes from film to documentary, from installation to live performing and talks. His works and talks have been shown and heard in New York and Boston (USA), Den Bosch (NL), Paris and Grenoble (FR), Istanbul (TR), Murcia (Manifesta 8, ES), Prague (CZ), Teheran (IR), Weimar (D); in Italy in Rome, Milan, Turin, Venice and Verona. He recently finished the editing of a feature documentary film (RMHC) on the punk/hardcore scene in Rome from the 80s and 90s.

Archipelago is a journey through ancient myths, exorcism rituals, sounds and spirits. In the south of Iran, on a group of islands of the Persian Gulf, humans and spirits coexist since centuries. The culture and traditions of these Islands are the result of the encounters between the African Diaspora, the Arab Countries and Iran, generating a unique system of syncretic beliefs. Spirits of different heritages and origins, called Bād, the Persian word for wind, moving through the air, take possession of the islanders bodies and can only be quieted through a music ceremony called the Zār Ritual. Thanks to an unprecedented access given to foreign film makers, the Film showcases stories and landscapes of the islanders daily life within the frame of the Rituals, giving, through pounding drum rhythms and wailing vocal chorus, a rare and unexpected glimpse of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Giulio Squillacciotti (Rome, Italy 1982). Artist, Film maker and researcher lives and works in Milan (I) and Maastricht (NL). He studied Medieval Art History in Barcelona and Rome. He owns a MA in Visual Arts from the University of Architecture in Venice IUAV, where he studied Art, Philosophy, Semiotics and Anthropology. His work is mainly oriented on storytelling, cultural apexes and the way traditions re- shape in new contexts. His research merges together ction and historical facts. Using lm, documentary, sound and performance, Squillacciotti produces research-based investigations that revisits history, crafting new stories from subjective perspectives, storytelling, religion and popular culture. His work has been exhibited and screened internationally at, among the others, Les Rencontres Internationales at Centre Pompidou and Gayte Lyrique in Paris, the Berlin Haus der Kultur der Welt and (D), the Manifesta 8 in Murcia (E), Le Magasin CNAC in Grenoble (F), Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture, the Beirut Art Centre in Lebanon, the New York Photo Festival, the Dumbo Video and Columbia University in New York City and in the Official Competition at the 33rd and 35th Torino Film Festival Camilla Insom (Rome, Italy 1983). Anthropologist lives and works in Rome, Italy and Sulaimaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan. After completing the MA in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Rome Sapienza, she’s currently a Phd candidate in Iranian Studies at University of Naples “ L`Orientale ”. Focus of her research is the modi cation of the category of sacred in different contexts through the analysis of ritual practices and their changing. In 2013 she researched the funerary practices of the Zoroastrian Parsi community of Bombay. Since 2014 her studies revolve around the Islam of the Kurds in Sulaimaniyah and Sangaw, Iraqi Kurdistan Kasnazaniyya, with particular reference to the Kasnazaniyya Su Brotherhood. She is in charge of the Anthropological Studies for the Italian Archaeological Mission in Iraqi Kurdistan (MAIKI) of “ Sapienza ” University of Rome, member of the Societas Iranologica Europea (SIE) and member of the International Institute of Kurdish Culture.

Le 7 février 1992, le traité sur l'Union européenne a été signé dans la ville néerlandaise de Maastricht. Des décennies plus tard, les représentants des trois derniers pays restants dans l’Europe se réunissent à nouveau dans la salle même où le traité fut signé, mais cette fois pour délibérer sur la dissolution définitive de leur Union. Dans ce qui ressemble à une séance de thérapie en boucle, les trois personnages - aidés par une interprète britannique qui s'improvise psychanalyste - tentent de gérer leur sentiment de perte. La conversation permet d’entrelacer métaphoriquement leurs liens politiques et personnels, les obligeant à faire face à leur crise d'identité et à reconnaître ce qui reste de leur Union, ce qu’elle n'est plus, et ce qu’elle pourrait encore devenir.

Giulio Squillacciotti (né à Rome, Italie, 1982) est artiste et réalisateur. Il vit et travaille entre Milan (Italie) et Maastricht (Pays-Bas). Il a étudié l'Histoire de l'art médiéval à Barcelone (Espagne) et à Rome (Italie), où il a obtenu une licence en sciences humaines à l'université Sapienza. Il a également obtenu un Master en arts visuels à l'université IUAV de Venise. Son travail s’oriente principalement sur la narration, les apogées culturelles et la façon dont les traditions se remodèlent dans de nouveaux contextes. Ses recherches mêlent fiction et faits historiques. À l’aide du film, du documentaire, du son et de la scénographie, il produit des enquêtes basées sur la recherche qui revisitent l'Histoire, créant de nouveaux récits à partir de perspectives subjectives, de la religion et de la culture populaire. Son travail a été exposé et projeté à l'international, notamment à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise – Pavillon néerlandais (Italie); aux Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin (France/Allemagne); au Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France); à La Fémis – École nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son, Paris (France); à Gaîté Lyrique, Paris (France); au Centre d'Art Contemporain de Brest (France); à la Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Allemagne); au Neues Museum Weimar (Allemagne); au Screen Space, Melbourne (Australie); à la Manifesta 8, Murcia (Espagne); au Magasin CNAC – Centre d’Art Contemporain et de Culture, Grenoble (France); à la AKV, Den Bosch (Pays-Bas); à Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture (Turquie); au Beirut Art Centre (Liban), au New York Photo Festival (USA); à Video_Dumbo, New York (USA); à la Columbia University, New York (USA); au Art Institute of Boston (USA); au Now Instant Image Hall, Los Angeles (USA); au OCAT Shanghai (Chine); au PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (Italie); à la Triennale de Milan (Italie); au MACRO – Musée d’art contemporain de Rome (Italie); au musée MAXXI, Rome (Italie); à la 16e Quadriennale de Rome (Italie); au MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologne (Italie); à la Fondation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (Italie) et dans la compétition officielle des 33e, 35e et 36e éditions du Torino Film Festival, Turin (Italie).

From the mid 80s until the end of the 90s, Rome was the scene of a local phenomenon linked to the music and lifestyle of American Punk/Hardcore. This is the story of those who were the first to import some musical and attitudinal features from the USA until they shaped a new tradition out of it in Rome. Shot in five years, following the Do It Yourself convictions, the film is a a socio-anthropological journey into the daily nowadays life of those who, back then, were struggling to set such spontaneous movement into the roman society and the already existing underground movement. An analysis on about 15 years of self-made life before the internet, featuring fanzines, early italian skateboarding, records, counter-culture, animalism, music, fashion, with a narrative structured through the juxtaposition of interviews and original footage. How notions of a foreign phenomenon can be imported before the internet, develop its own features based on the the local possibilities and become something else from the origin? How a tradition can be re-invented by moving the scenario of its happenings? www.rmhc-film.com

Giulio Squillacciotti was born in Rome (I) in 1982 and has been living in Ireland, Spain, U.S.A., and Turkey. He owns a BA in Medieval Art History from Rome University and a MA hons in Visual Arts from the Architecture School of Venice. He is an artist working mainly with film, video, photography, text and installations. This is his first feature documentary film. His work has been exhibited, presented and screened in various international locations like, among the others, the ENSBA in Paris and the Magasin CNAC in Grenoble (FR), the Columbia University in New York City, the New York Photo Festival 2012 and the M.I.T. in Boston (USA), the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and MAXXI Museum in Rome (I), the Haus der Kultur der Welt in Berlin and the Neues Museum in Weimar (D), the Manifesta 8 Venue in Murcia (E), the Prague Biennale (CZ). He lives between Milan (I) and Vienna (A).