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"In the beginning was the weave, and the transmission of its workings, a curse of mortality" — so ends Quantum Creole with the fabulous words of the Papel weaver, Zé Interpretador. While the Punch-card technology, designed for the textile loom was fundamental for the development of the computer, the binary code is closer to the ancient act of weaving than to that of writing. Quantum Creole is an experimental documentary film of collective research into creolization, addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces. Referring to the minimum physical entity in any interaction—quantum—the film utilizes different imaging forms to read the subversive potential of weaving as Creole code. West African Creole people wove coded messages of social and political resistance into textiles, countering the colonists’ languages and technologies. As the new face of colonization manifests itself as a digital image, upgrading terra nullius in the form of an ultra-liberal free trade zone in the Bissagos Islands, it also marks the continuation of the violence that erupted several centuries ago with the creation of slave-trading posts in the place then known as the Rivers of Guinea and Cape Verde.

Filipa César is an artist and filmmaker interested in the porous boundaries between the moving image and its reception, the fictional dimensions of the documentary and the economies, politics and poetics inherent to cinema praxis. Great part of César's experimental films have been focussed on the spectres of resistance in Portugal’s geo-political past, questioning mechanisms of history production and proposing spaces for performing subjective knowledge. Since 2011, César has been researching the origins of cinema in Guinea-Bissau, its imaginaries and potencies, developing that research into the collective project Luta ca caba inda (the struggle is not over yet). She was a participant of the research projects Living Archive (2011-13) and Visionary Archive (2013-15) both organised by the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin. César premiered her first feature-length essay-film Spell Reel (2017) at the Forum section of the 67. Berlinale, 2017. Selected exhibitions and screenings have taken place at: 29th São Paulo Biennial, 2010; Manifesta 8, Cartagena, 2010; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2011–15; Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2012; Khiasma, Paris, 2011–2015; Kunstwerke, Berlin, 2013; SAAVY Contemporary, Berlin 2014–15; Tensta konsthall, Spånga, 2015; Mumok, Vienna, 2016; Contour 8 Biennial, Mechelen and Gasworks, London; MoMA, New York, 2017.

One on One is a documentary video piece based on a site in New Malden, London which is shared by a South Korean food market and a group of North Korean defectors. At this site there is a small office for establishing the exile government of North Korea. It shows an ironic situation where an unexpanded democracy movement coexists with busy distributive trucks and people try to be their apolitical selves, then, this is a video about how capitalism surround their radical life. It focusses on their dream of establishing a government in exile whilst pursuing a day to day business distributing food. The film is composed of separate fragments and micro-narratives that function as a kind of bait. This open narrative is intended to lead the audience into creating their own sense of story.

Jeamin Cha was born in Republic of Korea in 1986, and studied fine art at Korean National University of Arts (BA) from 2005 to 2010. She also studied video at Chelsea College of Art and Design (MA), London. She researches the delicate conflict in significance between the individual and the social, visualising it in dramatic format. Her primary medium is video, she is making moving image works about the social and political dissension. She currently lives and works in Seoul.

It is not about a question but a balloon is composed of installation and video. Throughout the work, the artist focuses on making a way of experience to unforget and evokes the details of what happened during the summer of 1989 through Su-Kyung Lim?s narration. She participated in the recording after correcting the wrong statements of the articles. The script is corrected by Sukyung Lim?s testimony. As a result, the narration of the video transmits mixed tenses: the past, the present and the future were arranged for the incident in 1989. In order to withdraw the fixed trust from the recorded history, one should have one?s own belief in incidents from the past through personal experiences. Hence it was concentrated to make a way of experience. This video is only to show a little incident against the propaganda heading somewhere with a timer attached to it. - Su-Kyung Lim went to Pyongyang when she was twenty-one. In order to participate in the 13th annual World Student Celebration, she traveled secretly on June 30,1989 without South Korean governments? knowledge. After the visiting North Korea, she was put in the prison due to violating the National Security Law.

Jeamin Cha was born in Republic of Korea in 1986, and studied fine art at Korean National University of Arts (BA) from 2005 to 2010. She also studied video at Chelsea College of Art and Design (MA), London. She researches the delicate conflict in significance between the individual and the social, visualising it in dramatic format. Her primary medium is video, she is making moving image works about the social and political dissension. She currently lives and works in London.

Née à Tours en 1978, elle s`engage dans des études artistiques à l`Ecole supérieure des Beaux Arts de Tours, puis à l`Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg où elle valide un diplôme de communication évènementielle, option scénographie qui se poursuivra par un post-diplôme à l`atelier numérique.

Pitou, a young girl from Douala, a working-class neighbourhood in Cameroon, arouses respect and amazement after she was elected as the best player in a men's football championship. Standing as a symbol for a whole community, Pitou would like to become a world-famous football player.

Anne Chabert was born in Tours in 1978. She studied art at the art college of Tours and then at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg where she obtained a degree in Publicity Events with an option in scenography. She then attended a workshop in digital technology.

Un chant d’oiseaux nous, ouvrant sur une forêt verdoyante un jour de pluie. Une langue de brume s’insinue lentement dans l’image et s’enroule autour des arbres. Des silhouettes humaines la traversent, paisibles malgré les flammes qui lèchent leurs vêtements. Ces âmes errantes fuient-elles quelque catastrophe urbaine ou font-elles partie du bestiaire de créatures merveilleuses peuplant les forêts ? Sont-elles des messagers de l’Apocalypse ou des martyrs, après un geste ultime de protestation ? Le cheval qui les observe sans broncher, tapis dans les fougères, se contente de renforcer l’inquiétante tranquillité de la scène sans donner de réponse. Julie Chaffort connaît bien ce sentiment, pour avoir tourné dans les forêts nombre de ses vidéos, la figure animale y étant quasi omniprésente. Pour l’artiste, le cheval est le « témoin privilégié de quelque chose que l’on arrive plus à percevoir en tant qu’humain ». Un témoin dans une partition tragi-comique nous menant d’un univers « intemporel » et obscur propre aux contes.

Les vidéos de Julie Chaffort mirent le paysage, le toisent et le parcourent ; on y croise des hommes au destin tragique et des héros aussi beaux que les chants qui les accompagnent – peut être pour en donner la mesure. Les gestes accomplis sont tout à la fois drôles et absurdes, l’avenir toujours incertain et les paroles s’envolent, attrapées par les branches d’une forêt ou englouties dans les eaux d’un lac. Les plans fixent les branches ; ils convoquent les tableaux de l’école de Barbizon où les bruns apparaissent comme chargés de bitume et les lumières s’accrochent aux pâtes colorées. Les récits s’écrivent entre les longs plans-séquence et se devinent dans les détails que la lenteur permet d’observer comme l’on admire une nature morte. L’artiste ouvre des univers parallèles, atemporels et insituables, où le monde se signale à nous par ses infimes déplacements et l’infinité de ses signaux – étrangement menaçants. Pour Julie Chaffort, le cinéma est un médium dominant, naturel, qu’elle choisit très tôt de développer, à l’école des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux où elle étudie, puis auprès de Roy Andersson qu’elle assiste en Suède, et de Werner Herzog dont elle suit le séminaire à sa Rogue Film School à New-York. Elle expose en France et à l’international. Ses œuvres font parties de collections nationales et privées Julie Chaffort est née en 1982. Elle vit à Bordeaux et travaille partout.

"L’odeur des fauves en nous". L’oeuvre s’inscrit dans la démarche assurément poétique de Julie Chaffort qui imagine et fabrique des situations relevant de l’instant magique. Les ingrédients sont le vivant, le chant, la musique, la visibilisation de corps contraints à une trop grande discrétion. Au coeur de ces situations aussi fascinantes que troublantes, Julie Chaffort filme les relations qui existent entre les terrestres (l’ensemble des êtres vivants, sans hiérarchie), les éléments (eau, terre, air et feu), les voix, les sons et les musiques qui prolongent les corps. Le chant des oiseaux, la voix d’une humaine, la puissance d’une chorale, le râle du vent. Les animaux (humain.es compris.es) interagissent avec ferveur et tendresse avec les arbres, la neige, les rivières, les sols. Pensées comme des scènes refuges où les corps existent librement, exultent et s’expriment, les oeuvres réveillent des émotions et des sentiments profondément inscrits dans nos chairs terrestres : l’attention, l’inquiétude, l’écoute, l’amour, la perte, la sensibilité, l’absence, la jouissance, la vulnérabilité ou encore le réconfort. Un ensemble d’états qui nous attache les un.es aux autres et qui rythme les cycles d’une longue métamorphose commune aux êtres visibles et invisibles qui peuplent le vivant.

Pour Julie Chaffort, le cinéma est un médium dominant, naturel, qu’elle choisit très tôt de développer, à l’école des beaux-arts de Bordeaux où elle étudie, puis auprès de Roy Andersson qu’elle assiste, et de Werner Herzog dont elle suit le séminaire à sa Rogue Film School. Les vidéos de Julie Chaffort mirent le paysage, le toisent et le parcourent ; on y croise des hommes au destin tragique et des héros aussi beaux que les chants qui les accompagnent – peut être pour en donner la mesure. Les gestes accomplis sont tout à la fois drôles et absurdes, l’avenir toujours incertain et les paroles s’envolent, attrapées par les branches d’une forêt ou englouties dans les eaux d’un lac. Les récits s’écrivent entre les longs plans-séquence et se devinent dans les détails que la lenteur permet d’observer comme l’on admire une nature morte. L’artiste ouvre des univers parallèles, atemporels et insituables, où le monde se signale à nous par ses infimes déplacements et l’infinité de ses signaux – étrangement menaçants. En 2013, Julie Chaffort expose au Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de Vassivière, le film « Hot-Dog », moyen-métrage qu’elle y a réalisé la même année en résidence. L’année suivante, elle présente sa première exposition personnelle « Jour Blanc » au Centre Clark de Montréal, avec des installations vidéos et sonores créées in situ. En 2015 lors de sa résidence à Pollen à Monflanquin, elle réalise le moyen-métrage « La barque silencieuse » ; ce film, « aussi facétieux qu’émouvant, aussi déroutant que respectueux de tout ce qui s’offre à voir et à entendre » pour Jean-Pierre Rehm, est sélectionné en 2016 en compétition française et premier film au FID Marseille. Il est également projeté à la galerie Thaddaeus Ropac à Paris Pantin lors de l’exposition Jeune création 66ème édition et remporte deux prix indépendants, avec deux expositions à la clé, l’une pour la Progress Gallery, « Entre chiens et loups », et l’autre pour la galerie du Pavillon à Pantin, « Les cowboys », sélectionné également au FID 2017. Julie Chaffort remporte en 2015 le prix Bullukian et crée « Somnambules », une exposition personnelle présentée à la fondation. L’artiste a été lauréate du prix « Talents Contemporains » 2015 de la fondation François Schneider pour l’oeuvre « Montagnes Noires » et obtient la même année, le prix Mezzanine Sud et expose au Musée des Abattoirs de Toulouse. Le film « La barque silencieuse » entre en 2017 dans la collection du FRAC Aquitaine ainsi que la vidéo « Nostalgia » dans celle du FRAC Occitanie Toulouse. En 2018, Julie Chaffort est lauréate du prix Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète et obtient en 2019 la bourse de soutien à la création du CNAP pour l’élaboration de son projet vidéo « PRINTEMPS » dont une exposition monographie du même titre est présentée à l’ancien palais épiscopal des musées de Béziers avec le soutien de Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète en 2020. Son dernier film « Légendes » a fait partie de la compétition officielle française et la compétition CNAP du FIDMarseille 2020.

Une trentaine de personnes qui ne se connaissent pas acceptent de voyager ensemble pendant 5 jours et de tourner dans un film sans scénario préétabli. Chacun tiendra son propre rôle, vêtu de costumes choisi par la réalisatrice. Portraits de familles, blagues, danse, roller, chants se dévoilent aux spectateurs sous le regard d’un cheval tranquille et bienveillant.

Oeuvrant dans les champs du cinéma et de l’art contemporain, Julie Chaffort s’intéresse tout particulièrement à l’immensité et à la vacuité des territoires naturels, à leur aspect désertique et délaissé ; ses films et vidéos sont habités par une certaine lenteur, invitant à l’écoute et à la contemplation, mais jouant aussi sur les registres de l’absurde, de la chute, de la surprise et du décalage. Pour Julie Chaffort, le cinéma est un médium dominant, naturel, qu’elle choisit très tôt de développer, à l’école des beaux-arts de Bordeaux où elle étudie, puis auprès de Roy Andersson qu’elle assiste, et de Werner Herzog dont elle suit le séminaire à sa Rogue Film School. En 2013, elle expose au Centre International d’Art et du Paysage de Vassivière Hot-Dog, moyen-métrage qu’elle y a réalisé la même année en résidence. L’année suivante, elle présente sa première exposition personnelle Jour Blanc au Centre Clark de Montréal, avec des installations vidéos et sonores créées in situ. En résidence à Pollen à Monflanquin 2015, elle réalise le moyen-métrage La barque silencieuse ; ce film, "aussi facétieux qu’émouvant, aussi déroutant que respectueux de tout ce qui s’offre à voir et à entendre" pour Jean- Pierre Rehm, est sélectionné en 2016 en compétition française et premier film au FID Marseille. Il est également projeté à la galerie Thaddaeus Ropac à Paris Pantin lors de l’exposition “Jeune création 66ème édition” et remporte deux prix indépendants, avec deux expositions à la clé, l’une pour la Progress Gallery, Entre chiens et loups, et l’autre pour la galerie du Pavillon à Pantin, Les cowboys (également selectionné au FID en 2017). Julie Chaffort remporte aussi en 2015 le prix Bullukian et crée Somnambules, une exposition personnelle présentée à la fondation. L’artiste a été lauréate du prix "Talents Contemporains" 2015 de la fondation François Schneider pour l’oeuvre Montagnes Noires et obtient la même année, le prix Mezzanine Sud et expose au Musée des Abattoirs de Toulouse. Le film La barque silencieuse entre en 2017 dans la collection du FRAC Aquitaine et la vidéo Nostalgia dans celle du FRAC Occitanie Toulouse. Julie Chaffort vient d’être lauréate du prix Mécènes du Sud Montpellier-Sète. et d’obtenir une bourse à la création du CNAP pour la réalisation de son projet vidéo PRINTEMPS.

HUNT_ Figurant. Personne chargée de tenir un emploi secondaire, généralement muet, et, le plus souvent, dans un groupe tenant le même rôle. Par analogie Personne qui, dans la société, tient un rôle dont l’importance n’est qu’apparente et non effective. Ce qui caractérise le plus le travail de Julie Chaffort, c’est le refus des figurants. Même ceux qui nous tournent le dos, ceux qui marchent trop loin pour que l’on distingue leurs traits ou ceux qui se dissimulent derrière les fougères, ceux qui apparaissent masqués ou ceux qui conservent le silence, tous ceux-là sont des personnages et non des figurants. Et même le buisson aux reflets roux, qui rampe sous la pluie. C’est toute la grâce du film de Julie Chaffort de nous rappeler que chaque détail est signifiant : les frottements que les gants des boxeurs produisent quand ils s’entraînent à ne pas prendre de coups, le rythme doux des gouttes de pluie dans les arbres de la forêt, les gestes de goéland dans les violents rouleaux océaniques pour continuer à résister. "Hunt" est un film réalisé avec des jeunes en situation de rupture et des habitants du pays basque.

Les vidéos de Julie Chaffort mirent le paysage, le toisent et le parcourent ; on y croise des hommes au destin tragique et des héros aussi beaux que les chants qui les accompagnent – peut être pour en donner la mesure. Les gestes accomplis sont tout à la fois drôles et absurdes, l’avenir toujours incertain et les paroles s’envolent, attrapées par les branches d’une forêt ou englouties dans les eaux d’un lac. La vacuité des territoires impose à l’artiste des images qu’elle fait naître de façon sensible, voire irraisonnée. L’artiste ouvre des univers parallèles, atemporels et insituables, où le monde se signale à nous par ses infimes déplacements et l’infinité de ses signaux – étrangement menaçants. Aussi l’artiste réussit-elle l’exploit de ramener le sujet humain au même niveau que le paysage dans lequel il se trouve ; changeants et imprévisibles, l’un comme l’autre communiquent au-delà du langage, à l’aide de signes pluriels et non autoritaires que les films nous invitent à recomposer. Pour Julie Chaffort, le cinéma est un médium dominant, naturel, qu’elle choisit très tôt de développer, à l’école des beaux-arts de Bordeaux où elle étudie, puis auprès de Roy Andersson qu’elle assiste, et de Werner Herzog dont elle suit le séminaire à sa Rogue Film School à New-York. En 2015, elle réalise le moyen-métrage La barque silencieuse, sélectionné en 2016 en compétition française et premier film au FID Marseille. Il est également projeté à la galerie Thaddaeus Ropac à Paris Pantin lors de l’exposition Jeune création 66ème édition et remporte deux prix indépendants. Julie Chaffort obtient en 2015 le prix Bullukian, puis le prix «Talents Contemporains 2015 » de la fondation François Schneider. Elle obtient l’année suivante le prix Mezzanine Sud et en 2018, elle est lauréate du prix Mécènes du Sud Montpellier/Sète.

Against a backdrop of thick fog and snow, on the island of Vassivière, ?Hot Dog? follows the wanderings of Ignatius, pushing his hot dog cart along the lake shore, meeting other uncanny characters along his path. As outlandish situations unfold, the characters in ?Hot Dog? find themselves confronted with both nature and artifice. In the winter landscape, on lunar shores, strange, surreal and absurd scenes reflect a jubilant and decadent world. In the melancholy and mysterious atmosphere, we lose our bearings and the landscape becomes a source of contemplation and danger, the natural setting becoming transfigured into a dream theater or a hallucination.

“Pour la peau” is a very sensual film. The whole film is a love poem. A love poem to life. It's an ode to the animal, but also to the craftsman who works in the shadows to make his object. Julie Chaffort highlights man's relationship with animals, with their skins, and the delicacy they share with each other. It's a film that plays with the codes of cinema. It's not a documentary, but some of the images are. Sometimes the editing is clip-like, but it's not either. The soundtrack was composed by the Cabadzi duo. The film is edited like a slam, changing register and rhythm according to the characters, locations, songs, music and animals.

Julie Chaffort, born in 1982, lives and works in Bordeaux, France. Working in the fields of cinema and contemporary art, Julie Chaffort is particularly interested in the vastness and emptiness of natural territories, their deserted and abandoned aspect; her films and videos are inhabited by a certain slowness, inviting us to listen and contemplate, but also playing on the registers of the absurd, the fall, the surprise and the shift. For Julie Chaffort, cinema is a dominant, natural medium, which she chose early on to develop, at the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts where she studied, then with Roy Andersson whom she assisted, and with Werner Herzog whose seminar she followed at his Rogue Film School in New York. In 2013, she exhibited at the Centre International d'Art et du Paysage de Vassivière Hot-Dog, a medium-length film she had made there the same year during a residency. The following year, she presented her first solo exhibition Jour Blanc at Montreal's Centre Clark, featuring video and sound installations created in situ. In residence at Pollen in Monflanquin 2015, she made the medium-length film La barque silencieuse; this film, “as facetious as it is moving, as puzzling as it is respectful of everything that offers itself to be seen and heard” for Jean-Pierre Rehm, was selected in 2016 in French competition and first film at FID Marseille. It was also screened at the Jeune création 66ème édition exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin and won two independent awards, with two exhibitions in 2016, one at Progress Gallery, Entre chiens et loups, and the other at Galerie du Pavillon in Pantin, Les cowboys. Julie Chaffort has also won numerous other prizes, associated with exhibitions: the 2015 “Talents Contemporains” prize from the François Schneider Foundation for the work Montagnes Noires with an exhibition in 2017, the 2016 “Mezzanine Sud” prize from the Frac Midi-Pyrénées associated with the CIC Sud-Ouest with an exhibition in 2016-2017 at Les Abattoirs in Toulouse, and the 2016 Bullukian prize for which Julie Chaffort created Somnambules for an exhibition at the Bullukian Foundation in Lyon. In 2018, Hunt was shown at La Poudrière in Bayonne, and in the same year, she won the Prix Mécènes du Sud Montpellier/Sète. Most recently, she took part in the second edition of the biennial Movimenta festival in Bayonne, and in the residency for the Paysages en Mouvement exhibition (Médoc).

This film is about birds and dreams. Birds dream is shot using stop-motion technique, and its ‘actors’ are bird models handcrafted by the artist. Its concept derives from the artist’s own live performance the Sparrow and the Raven (2012). Story: A new-born sparrow entered a strange world. When curiously idling in this world, the sparrow found a young raven with which it began to explore the place together. They encountered all sorts of strange birds and mysterious geometric shapes of different colours. Their encounters have made them bewilder and fantasise, soon their body start to change as well…

Born in 1985, Chai Mi currently lives and works in Beijing as an artist. Chai Mi’s fine art practice involves a range of media, including painting, paper-craft, video and live performance. Her works have been shown at many art museums, cultural organizations, film festival and music festival nationally and internationally.

A housekeeper receives a film made by her daughter. Combining found footage of Thailand during the Cold War with present-day images of Bangkok, the film reminds her of anecdotes she heard from the woman she works for and it triggers a re-telling of her own story of coming to the capital. HERE WE ARE seeks to portray the present by reflecting on the past, how the legacy of colonization has survived and been normalized nowadays. - ("19th Forum Expanded: Distant Connections", 74th Berlinale).

Chanasorn Chaikitiporn is a filmmaker and moving image artist whose interest lies in exploration and interrogation of socio-political histories of Thailand. His works examine questions on culture, political thought, identity and personal historical memory through the lens of semi-coloniality. In combining fiction film and documentary film genre, he investigates on archival, found footages and declassified documents. Chanasorn is a member of ELSE, a moving image screening series based in Bangkok, Thailand.

The film aims to interrogate double-sided effects of how cinema itself has changed and developed through time, and how it affected both workers in film productions and its audiences along its journey.

Chanasorn Chaikitiporn is a filmmaker and moving image artist. Who is interested in exploring and interrogate socio-political histories of Thailand with questions of culture, political thought, identity and personal historical memory in perspective and relation to the semi-coloniality. In combining fiction film and documentary film genre, he investigates on archival, found footages and declassified documents. Chaikitiporn is a member of Rapid Eye Movement (REM), a experimental film and media screening in Bangkok, Thailand

"Hair done/ boots on/ tell me this ain`t the usa" Surreal portraits of americans. The contrasts and extremes in nowadays austin, Texas`s life.

Documentary filmmaker and photographer. I live and work in Paris. I`m currently working on two documentaries in Lebanon, detailing the life of two different but very inspiring figures, Abdulrahman Katanani a Palestinian visual artist that broke free from palestinian camps through art, and Therese Basbous, a poet often known as Michel Basbous` wife.

A woman follows a man through a man-made forest. Night falls and she narrates a tale that is at once distant yet familiar. The man she follows undergoes a transformation. Elsewhere we find a wanderer concocting a recipe and deep at night, in an empty amphitheatre a man performs with fire. Orphic Oracular, as it’s title suggests is a vision of a future that recalls the past.

Kent Chan (b. 1984) is an artist, filmmaker and curator based in Singapore and Amsterdam. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema that explore the links between aesthetic experience and knowledge production. The works and practices of others often form the locus of his works, which examines the ambiguity that lies at the interstices of art (making) and daily life. His works have taken the form of film, text, situations and exhibitions. Trained as a filmmaker, filmmaking forms the basis of his work. Not merely in terms of medium, the cinematic as aesthetic and methodology underpins and informs his practice. Kent uses text and the image medium to construct narratives that investigate the inherent conflicts and issues within the subject matter that he examines. Areas of interest that his works have explored include notions of cultural identities, myths and modernity. His works has been shown internationally in both film festivals and exhibitions in Asia and Europe. He has held his solo exhibition at The Substation in Singapore. Recent group exhibitions include the 4th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition 2014 and the Busan Biennale 2014.

In a future global tropics of eternal summer, a woman named Vicki realises she’s been receiving messages from her past life. Perspectives and narratives change as the film moves between different times and spaces, piecing together the herstory of the New and Old Tropics.

Kent Chan (1984, Singapore) is an artist, curator and filmmaker based in Netherlands and Singapore. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema that form a triumvirate of practices porous in form, content and context. He holds particular interest in the tropical imaginary, the past and future relationships between heat and art, and contestations to the legacies of modernity as the epistemology par excellence. His works have taken the form of moving-image, text, performances, and exhibitions. He is an upcoming resident at Art Explora and a former resident of Gasworks, Jan van Eyck Academie, Pivô Research, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Medialab Matadero. He has held solo and two-person presentations at Gasworks, Kunstinstituut Melly, Bonnefanten Museum, National University Singapore Museum, and de Appel. His works and films have been exhibited in institutions and festivals including Tate Modern, Liverpool Biennial, Videobrasil, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Seoul Mediacity Biennale, Times Museum, EYE Film Museum, Onassis Stegi, and Bienalsur. He is the 2023 winner of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Award and Impart Art Prize, and 2021 winner of Foundwork Artist Prize. His works are collected by the Kadist Foundation, the Rijkscollectie, Netherlands, Bonnefanten Museum, and Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig.

Chaplin essayait souvent de nouveaux rôles pour son personnage de vagabond. Dans "The Idle Class" , il joue deux rôles distincts : le Vagabond, et un jeune mari riche et alcoolique. A eux deux, ils représentent le riche oisif et le pauvre oisif ( d?où le titre original, The Idle Class, la classe oisive]. Tous les personnages du film partagent l?obsession dominante de l?Amérique d?alors : le golf. L?action se passe dans un hôtel de Miami, où les quiproquos s?enchaînent lorsque la belle Edna prend le Vagabond, étonné mais prêt à tout, pour son mari alcoolique distrait et négligent.

On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here excavates layers of myth, geology and technology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus contemporary processes of nation building and myth-making in Kazakhstan through an expansive journey across the remnants of Soviet technological infrastructures that haunt the landscape. Shot on 16mm, the camera is drawn across the Kazakh Steppe taking in locations that include mineral mines, the Eurasian Steppe, the STS decommissioned nuclear site and the newly constructed city of Nur-Sultan.

Emma Charles is a London based artist and filmmaker. Working with experimental approaches to moving image and sound, her research based practice navigates the field of non-fiction while engaging with recurring themes of technology, capitalism and landscape. Playing with the blurred lines between documentary and fiction, her work often reveals the artificiality of both the filmic environment and our lived experience. She has exhibited at Serpentine Galleries and ICA London; HKW, Berlin and Jeu de Paume, Paris. She has also screened her films at Sheffield DocFest, Vision du Réel, Dharamshala International Film Festival, Abandon Normal Devices and Impakt Festival. Emma was nominated for the New Talent Award for her film ‘White Mountain’ at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2017. She is the recipient of a 2015 and 2017 Arts Council England award, British Council UK- China Connections Through Culture grant and The Elephant Trust fund. Charles’ films are held in two museum collections at Guangdong Museum of Art in China and The ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany. Emma holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Ben Evans James is a filmmaker and curator whose work engages with narratives that lie outside landscapes constructed by global capital. He is the film curator at transmediale festival in Berlin, co-founded the London project space South Kiosk and is an AHRC funded PhD candidate under new media theorist Prof. Beryl Graham. His latest feature film On A Clear Day You Can See The Revolution From Here premiered at Visions du Réel in 2020. James is based between Vancouver and Berlin.

Fragments on Machines reveals the physical framework and materiality of the Internet, a vast network often thought and spoken about solely in abstract terms. Taking New York City as its central focus and interwoven with a fictionalised narrative, the film observes the evolution of architecture in the city to accommodate the material nodes and connectors that comprise the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. New York is home to many of the great buildings that symbolise nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial capitalism. Today, it is significant that a number of these Art Deco skyscrapers—located predominantly in the Financial District—have become the containers for the infrastructure of the Internet and virtual capital. These grand monuments of brick and steel are now homes to the servers and computers that drive post-industrial finance capitalism. Highly elusive yet pervasive in their nature, data centres consist of room upon room of copper and fibre-optic cables, computer servers and ventilation systems. With direct links to the companies they serve, these Internet hubs become a kind of unofficial space for trade.

Emma Charles is a London based artist. She studied MA Photography at the Royal College of Art (2011-2013) and BA (Hons) in Editorial Photography from the University of Brighton (2006-2009). Working with both photography and moving image, her work explores metropolitan spaces of productivity that are hidden from the public eye, primarily focusing on the more ethereal and abstract elements of industry and corporate environments. Charles was recently commissioned for solo show ‘Surfaces of Exchange’, Jerwood Visual Arts (2014). Recent Group exhibitions and screenings include Kassel Dokfest; Marl Video Art Award; Premio Celeste; ‘Neither Here Nor There’, FotoFocus Biennial; ‘Centralia’, South Kiosk; ‘Aesthetica Short Film Festival’; ‘Night Contact’, Contact Editions and ‘CAPITAL’, George and Jorgen Gallery. Her work has been discussed as part of the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennale symposium Visible Economies: Photography, Economic Conditions and Urban Experiences and published by Photoworks and was recently reviewed by Artsy, South London Art Map and Jotta. Charles was recently awarded a Jerwood Visual Arts Project Space commission, RCA Travel Bursary, Villiers David Bursary Award and Christopherson Foundation Grant.

On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here excavates layers of myth, geology and technology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus contemporary processes of nation building and myth-making in Kazakhstan through an expansive journey across the remnants of Soviet technological infrastructures that haunt the landscape. Shot on 16mm, the camera is drawn across the Kazakh Steppe taking in locations that include mineral mines, the Eurasian Steppe, the STS decommissioned nuclear site and the newly constructed city of Nur-Sultan.

Emma Charles is a London based artist and filmmaker. Working with experimental approaches to moving image and sound, her research based practice navigates the field of non-fiction while engaging with recurring themes of technology, capitalism and landscape. Playing with the blurred lines between documentary and fiction, her work often reveals the artificiality of both the filmic environment and our lived experience. She has exhibited at Serpentine Galleries and ICA London; HKW, Berlin and Jeu de Paume, Paris. She has also screened her films at Sheffield DocFest, Vision du Réel, Dharamshala International Film Festival, Abandon Normal Devices and Impakt Festival. Emma was nominated for the New Talent Award for her film ‘White Mountain’ at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2017. She is the recipient of a 2015 and 2017 Arts Council England award, British Council UK- China Connections Through Culture grant and The Elephant Trust fund. Charles’ films are held in two museum collections at Guangdong Museum of Art in China and The ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany. Emma holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Ben Evans James is a filmmaker and curator whose work engages with narratives that lie outside landscapes constructed by global capital. He is the film curator at transmediale festival in Berlin, co-founded the London project space South Kiosk and is an AHRC funded PhD candidate under new media theorist Prof. Beryl Graham. His latest feature film On A Clear Day You Can See The Revolution From Here premiered at Visions du Réel in 2020. James is based between Vancouver and Berlin.

Fragments on Machines reveals the physical framework and materiality of the Internet, a vast network often thought and spoken about solely in abstract terms. Taking New York City as its central focus and interwoven with a fictionalised narrative, the film observes the evolution of architecture in the city to accommodate the material nodes and connectors that comprise the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. New York is home to many of the great buildings that symbolise nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial capitalism. Today, it is significant that a number of these Art Deco skyscrapers—located predominantly in the Financial District—have become the containers for the infrastructure of the Internet and virtual capital. These grand monuments of brick and steel are now homes to the servers and computers that drive post-industrial finance capitalism. Highly elusive yet pervasive in their nature, data centres consist of room upon room of copper and fibre-optic cables, computer servers and ventilation systems. With direct links to the companies they serve, these Internet hubs become a kind of unofficial space for trade.

Emma Charles is a London based artist. She studied MA Photography at the Royal College of Art (2011-2013) and BA (Hons) in Editorial Photography from the University of Brighton (2006-2009). Working with both photography and moving image, her work explores metropolitan spaces of productivity that are hidden from the public eye, primarily focusing on the more ethereal and abstract elements of industry and corporate environments. Charles was recently commissioned for solo show ‘Surfaces of Exchange’, Jerwood Visual Arts (2014). Recent Group exhibitions and screenings include Kassel Dokfest; Marl Video Art Award; Premio Celeste; ‘Neither Here Nor There’, FotoFocus Biennial; ‘Centralia’, South Kiosk; ‘Aesthetica Short Film Festival’; ‘Night Contact’, Contact Editions and ‘CAPITAL’, George and Jorgen Gallery. Her work has been discussed as part of the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennale symposium Visible Economies: Photography, Economic Conditions and Urban Experiences and published by Photoworks and was recently reviewed by Artsy, South London Art Map and Jotta. Charles was recently awarded a Jerwood Visual Arts Project Space commission, RCA Travel Bursary, Villiers David Bursary Award and Christopherson Foundation Grant.

Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.

From Haitian descent, Miryam Charles is a director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature films. She is also the director of several short films. Her films have been presented in various festivals in Quebec and internationally. She has just completed the direction of her first feature film This House. Her work explores themes related to exile and the legacies of colonization.

A few days before her wedding, a young woman learns that her fiancé is accused of sexual assault. She goes to Haiti to confront the alleged victim.

Miryam Charles studied film production at Concordia University. She is the director of the shorts films Fly, Fly Sadness, Towards the Colonies, A fortress, Drei Atlas and Second Generation. She produced and shot severals shorts films: Danger of death, The forge, Full Love, Bengal Light and the features A jazz fable, and Nouvelles, Nouvelles.

After the death of their adoptive daughter a couple goes to Haiti looking for her relatives. There, they meet with a DNA specialist who might have the power of resurrection.

Miryam Charles studied film production at Concordia University. She produced and shot severals shorts films: Danger of death, The forge, Full Love, Bengal Light and the features A jazz fable, and Nouvelles, Nouvelles. She is the director of Fly,Fly Sadness, Towards the Colonies, A Fortress and Three Atlas.

When a young girl is found off the Venezuelan coast, a medical examiner will try to determine the cause of death before the body is repatriated

Extract from the second part of the series "Les enfants de Roberto" (Roberto's children), self-produced in 2002 by Laurent Charles, the interviews with Adriano Apra constitute an introduction to the collective Mythologie(s) De Mon Voisin Through the experience of Roberto Rossellini and his many followers, Adriano Apra makes the postulate of our interrogations and processes, a "compared approach" of the economic and technologic data of independent cinema. Ten minutes.

I return to a small hamlet in the countryside, where a community of nuns welcomes orphaned or abused children. Among them is my childhood friend Jean-Pierre. In the midst of daily life, working the land, eating together and caring for each other, I put into practice my desire to make films.

Adrien Charmot studied cinema at the University of Paris 8 and then at Créadoc. His graduation film L'Innocence was selected and won awards at a number of festivals (Festival Jean Rouch, Traces de vie, Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois, etc.). He then directed Les Oiseaux de passage, produced by L'Atelier documentaire. He also set up L'Oeil lucide, an association that supports documentary filmmaking in south-west France. He was filmmaker-in-residence for four years at FEMA, Festival La Rochelle Cinéma, and supervises residencies at Ty Films in Brittany.

«Après la réalisation du film "from here to eau" réalisé en 2002 en collaboration avec Céleste Boursier-Mougenot lors de la présentation de l’oeuvre aux Beaux Arts de Paris, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot m’invite à développer librement mon travail personnel, une de mes actions filmées dans le cadre d’une installation considérée comme un environnement, un paysage. Les participants, qui ne sont pas des acteurs professionnels, répondent à une annonce publiée sur les réseaux sociaux. Pour chaque tournage, un groupe est constitué par des personnes de tous âges, de toutes appartenances sociales et de toutes apparences physiques (car je ne pratique pas le casting) qui s’impliquent bénévolement dans le projet pour des raisons qui leurs sont personnelles, multiples et variées. L’écriture, la scénarisation des corps se dessine au fur et à mesure de leur inscription dans le lieu et de leur relation avec les pièces de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot qu’ils découvrent comme des visiteurs, leur réceptivité et leur présence est intensifiée par le fait qu’ils soient nus. Je leur demande d’être à l’écoute des formes visuelles et sonores. Je n’ai pas d’autre projet que de capter ce qui advient dans ce moment de partage, une deuxième phase de mon travail consiste dans le montage d’un film qui doit aussi donner à voir et à entendre les oeuvres de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot d’une manière inédite.» Enna Chaton Au sujet de cette collaboration Céleste Boursier-Mougenot dit : «C’est un moyen de déplacer le regard sur mon oeuvre, de favoriser la démarche d’une artiste dont j’apprécie le projet, de garder une trace de l’installation en dépassant le stade du simple document filmé.» A ce jour il existe 4 films : "télescopages", "errances #1", "dérives", "errances #2". "télescopages" 7 min - mini DVCAM couleur, sonore, 2009. Collaboration avec Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Action filmée réalisée lors de l’exposition "from here to ear (v8)" de l’artiste Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, l’Estuaire, Nantes 2009 "errances #1" 11 min 54 s - HDV couleur, sonore, 2014. Collaboration avec Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. Action filmée réalisée lors de l’exposition "perturbation" de l’artiste Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse 2014. "dérives" 09 min 40 s - HDV couleur, sonore, 2015. Action filmée réalisée lors de l’exposition "acquaalta" de l’artiste Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2015. "errances #2" 12 min 28 s - HDV couleur, sonore, 2015. Action filmée réalisée lors de l’exposition "rêvolutions" de l’artiste Céleste Boursier-Mougenot et de la commissaire Emma Lavigne - Pavillon Français - 56 ème Biennale de Venise 2015

Enna Chaton travaille avec des hommes et des femmes de tous âges, de tous milieux, bénévoles, qui répondent à ses appels à participation par petites annonces. Après de nombreux échanges par mails, elle constitue des groupes, organise des rencontres et met en scène des performances au cours desquelles les participants explorent des territoires qui leur sont inconnus : ils inventent un vocabulaire, une langue, une façon de s’approprier le geste, le lieu, la nudité. Leur présence crée une forme singulière puisqu’Enna Chaton provoque une vaste mise à nu : une confrontation à la fois douce et brutale, frontale, avec soi-même, avec les autres et avec le public. La plasticienne, photographe et performeuse accompagne nue les participants, désireuse de partager leur fragilité. Avec eux, elle tente d’ouvrir un espace permissif, expérimental où l’être se révèle différent que dans son quotidien, où la nudité crée un univers décalé du monde actuel. Cette nudité, démocratique, balaie les normes et les stéréotypes. Elle collabore avec Stéphane Despax, plasticien sur le projet "le colier de perle", film, performance, installation ; avec Carole Rieussec sur le projet "Dégrafer l’espace", artiste sonore, film, performance, installation ; avec Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, musicien et plasticien, "Télescopages", "Errances #1", "dérives" et "Errances #2", actions filmées. Elle est performeuse dans le spéctacle "La bohémia éléctronica … Nuca derme" de la compagnie Kristoff K.roll. Depuis 2005 elle est membre de l’Association "Sonorités", participe à l’organisation du festival, s’occupe de la programmation du festival Sonorités - du texte au son avec Anne-James Chaton auteur et poète sonore, Carole Rieussec musicienne, Didier Aschour musicien, Jean-Kristoff Camps musicien, Emmanuel Adely auteur, Frédéric Dumond auteur. Elle est diplômée de l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy Pontoise option art en 1995. Elle enseigne la photographie et la vidéo en classe préparatoire à l’École des Beaux Arts de Sète depuis 2003.

This award winning work creates discursive situations to facilitate in-depth and contemplative observation of the environmental decay of transitive sites in India, using media intervention and interactivity. The project aims to delineate the processes of decay and destruction of pastoral landscapes in the developing economies and societies. Taking point-of-departure from a perspective in the personal experience of forgetting and loss, being a native of the area myself (the artist), this large-scale project intends to reflect upon the interpenetration between locative and global cultures, decay in environmental and climatic integrity, disappearance of indigenous traditions and lapses in collective memory within the landscapes, by production and showcasing of the inter-media installation work. With a media anthropological approach, the project frames the gradual transfiguration with the help of media convergence, staging augmented and site-specific interpenetration between sound, video and still images. The work has been developed through a meticulous collection of audiovisual materials from various Indian locations in extensive fieldworks supported by Prince Claus Fund Amsterdam. This collection has been forming a digital archive expended for realizing the work.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an Indian-born sound/media artist, researcher, writer and theorist, currently based in Europe. Chattopadhyay’s work questions the materiality, site-specificity and object-hood of sound, and addresses the aspects of contingency, contemplation, mindfulness and transcendence inherent in listening. His artistic practice intends to shift the emphasis from “object” to “situation” in the realm of sound. His sound-works are published by Gruenrekorder (Germany) and Touch (UK). Chattopadhyay is a Charles Wallace scholar, Prince Claus grantee and Falling Walls fellow, and has received several residencies and international awards, notably a First Prize in Computer and Electronic Music category of Computer Space festival 2014, Sofia, and an Honorary Mention at PRIX Ars Electronica 2011, Linz. Appearing in numerous exhibitions, concerts, conferences and festivals, Chattopadhyay’s sound and video works have been exhibited, performed or presented widely in Europe and Asia. Chattopadhyay has graduated from India’s national film school, specializing in sound, completed a Master of Arts degree in new media/sound art from Aarhus University, Denmark, and obtained a PhD degree in sound studies involving practice-based artistic research from Leiden University, The Netherlands.