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The romantic landscape paintings often portrayed weather condition, topography of national landscape, religious themes, spirituality of nature and hunting scenes. Obsidian Blue Pearl is a minimalistic road movie mirroring the emotions of the driver through the landscapes (s)he has chosen to look at.

Jussi Eerola (b.1969) has worked as a cinematographer on many internationally rewarded short films, documentaries and tv-features since 1992. He has collaborated with many visual artist’s e.g. Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Mika Taanila, IC-98, Elena Näsänen and Anu Pennanen. His directional debut was a documentary about electro-hypersensitive people titled Refugees of Technocracy (2009). Documentary film The Return of the Atom written & directed together with Mika Taanila premiered at Toronto IFF 2015 and was given the NORDIC:DOX award at CPH:DOX in 2015. In 2014 he started a production company Testifilmi Oy together with Mika Taanila and visual artist duo IC-98 (Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää) and has produced several of company's films. Eerola's first short film Blue Honda Civic (2020) premiered at IFF Rotterdam and was awarded three times at international film festivals.

During the darkest hours of the night a small disco light appears and shines lights to empty business premises. A minimalistic musical.

Jussi Eerola has worked as a cinematographer on many internationally awarded films since 1992. His directional debut was a documentary about electro-hypersensitive people titled Refugees of Technocracy (2009). The Return of the Atom directed together with Mika Taanila premiered at TIFF 2015 and won the NORDIC:DOX Award at CPH:DOX in 2015. Eerola’s first minimalistic short film Blue Honda Civic premiered at IFFR in 2020 and continued to many international festivals receiving three awards. Eerola is a founding member of the production company Testifilmi Oy started 2014 together with Mika Taanila and visual artist duo IC-98 (Patrik Söderlund and Visa Suonpää). Testifilmi emphasizes the vast potential of cinematic possibilities over standard formats and storytelling.

Places of Articulation: Five Obstructions takes the spectator on a journey across borders, from Northern Ireland to Tibet, passing through Germany, Albania and Flanders. However, it explores a more deeply engraved border, the invisible border of our oral cavity, which marks and defines the sounds we can emit and the words we can pronounce. Since biblical times and up till nowadays asylum procedures, this border is exploited to discriminate and divide. Moving between territories – sonic, anatomical and political ones – this installation examines how voice and pronunciation are used as identifiers, eventually become mobile checkpoints, determining fates and sometimes costing lives. Employing different imaging methods and visualisations, it renders these checkpoints visible, while questioning the limits of identification and revealing blurred lines or zones of ambiguity that defy binary categorisation.

Effi & Amir, born and raised in Israel, are working as a duo since 1999 and have been living in Brussels since 2005. They studied fine arts at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem and The Sandberg Institut, Amsterdam and taught themselves, much later, how to make films. Their work, which employs audiovisual media, performance and participatory strategies, is located on the blurry border between documentary and fiction, and is dealing with mechanisms of construction – of identity, group belonging, history and the artwork itself. Effi & Amir's work was recently awarded prizes in documentary film festivals (docAviv, IndieLisboa, En ville !, Jean rouch festival) and they are laureates of the Scam's 2022 Prix de parcours for audiovisual documentary work.

Unscripted and magnificently improvised, CHANCE portrays the nocturnal attempt of four young Sudanese men to cross the canal from Belgium to the UK and seek asylum there. Filmed entirely within the trailer of a lorry, and based on the protagonists’ real life experiences, this docu-fiction is a rare, deeply human encounter with four individuals and with a reality that is too often invisible.

Effi Weiss and Amir Borenstein are an artist duo active since 1999 as Effi & Amir. Their projects span across several disciplines and combine video, performance and participatory strategies. Effi & Amir’s work is shown locally and internationally in museums, art centres and festivals. In parallel to their own practice they collaborate with other artists, filmmakers and choreographers as editors, cameramen and effect designers. They teach and conduct workshops with various audiences worldwide. CHANCE is their third full length film.

Places of Articulation: Five Obstructions takes the spectator on a journey across borders, from Northern Ireland to Tibet, passing through Germany, Albania and Flanders. However, it explores a more deeply engraved border, the invisible border of our oral cavity, which marks and defines the sounds we can emit and the words we can pronounce. Since biblical times and up till nowadays asylum procedures, this border is exploited to discriminate and divide. Moving between territories – sonic, anatomical and political ones – this installation examines how voice and pronunciation are used as identifiers, eventually become mobile checkpoints, determining fates and sometimes costing lives. Employing different imaging methods and visualisations, it renders these checkpoints visible, while questioning the limits of identification and revealing blurred lines or zones of ambiguity that defy binary categorisation.

Effi & Amir, born and raised in Israel, are working as a duo since 1999 and have been living in Brussels since 2005. They studied fine arts at the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem and The Sandberg Institut, Amsterdam and taught themselves, much later, how to make films. Their work, which employs audiovisual media, performance and participatory strategies, is located on the blurry border between documentary and fiction, and is dealing with mechanisms of construction – of identity, group belonging, history and the artwork itself. Effi & Amir's work was recently awarded prizes in documentary film festivals (docAviv, IndieLisboa, En ville !, Jean rouch festival) and they are laureates of the Scam's 2022 Prix de parcours for audiovisual documentary work.

Unscripted and magnificently improvised, CHANCE portrays the nocturnal attempt of four young Sudanese men to cross the canal from Belgium to the UK and seek asylum there. Filmed entirely within the trailer of a lorry, and based on the protagonists’ real life experiences, this docu-fiction is a rare, deeply human encounter with four individuals and with a reality that is too often invisible.

Effi Weiss and Amir Borenstein are an artist duo active since 1999 as Effi & Amir. Their projects span across several disciplines and combine video, performance and participatory strategies. Effi & Amir’s work is shown locally and internationally in museums, art centres and festivals. In parallel to their own practice they collaborate with other artists, filmmakers and choreographers as editors, cameramen and effect designers. They teach and conduct workshops with various audiences worldwide. CHANCE is their third full length film.

STATEMENT, my essentials I rub the words with the pictures In my family, we have always written to each other a lot we have always photographed and filmed a lot Letters, messages, a book with a color for each child Films, photos, texts, spaces through which I weave Trace images, anagrams of separation, loss and reunion. Architecting the vertigo of my travels Create a space of refuge among the skids of life Create visual precipitates to remove ailments Rediscover images through the loop, Don't toe the line... C.=

Writer, photographer, filmmaker. Chrystel Egal is a multidisciplinary artist. Her artistic practice oscillates between the exploration of borderline experiences and an introspective meditative approach. Her installations combine photography, film and text. They aim to “map human centralities”. They are part of an initiatory journey in which her “I” is a profound desire to come to terms with the Other. In 1993, she invented the “Portrait-fiction”. Her work revolves around bringing people together. On the one hand, this involves the body [material], and on the other, emotion [immaterial]. On the one hand, the body is probed through borderline experiences. Initiations as rituals of revelation: risk, cross-dressing, those left behind, drugs. The body is seen as a tool for perceiving the world. A field for experimentation. A testing ground. In 1993, she invented the “Portrait-fiction”. A self-portrait open to the other. On the other, emotion, vibration, energy and light are apprehended as a means of investigating what lies beyond the physical, revealing another language. The (my) mandalas series, white on black, is an expression of this. These calligrams are inner tattoos, palpitations of her existence. At the crossroads of different fields of contemporary art, she has been in turn : Writer Kovalam Beach - New York est mon excès - novels published by Actes Sud. Photographer and video artist, with over 40 films made since 1993. Some are part of the collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.

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Born 1970 Lives and works in Oslo In the project "Proportional, Integral, Derivative: Registration of an expanding perimeter around Kunstnernes Hus" I utilise the board´s room in Kunstnernes Hus as a base for drone flying inside and outside of Kunstnernes Hus. The structures and Neo Classicist ideals of the Royal Palace Park create a web programmed into the drone. The Functionalism in Kunstnernes Hus defines the framework of video based piloting.

With the installation ARCHIVAL GRID, Charlotte Eifler and Clarissa Thieme present a filmic analysis in three parts. The work explores the tools of evidence production, the legal impact of cartographic surveys and the social processing of collective traumata and war crimes, as well as the criticism of it by those affected. The source materials are videos from one of the most extensive publicly accessible archives on war crimes: the archive of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In 2001, the ICTY conducted site visits with witnesses in Sarajevo to prepare indictments related to the 1992–1996 siege of the city. The purpose of these site visits was the detailed reconstruction of war crimes, particularly the targeted shelling of civilians. Interviews with the local witnesses at the original sites were documented on video, combined with 360-degree photographs and geographical surveys. The first part of ARCHIVAL GRID combines the forensic materials gene- rated from the ICTY evidence documents with transcripts from the court proceedings and interviews conducted today with witnesses and former employees of the ICTY. These recordings of different surveying practices in the fictitious setting of a future archive architecture shape the cinematic discursive framework. This reflects close parallels of perspectives in the technologies of witnessing, evidence and testimony and juxtaposes them with the demands of the affected people for recognition of their suffering. In a second part, ARCHIVAL GRID analyses the historical backdrop of tools of inquiry and their database logic as well as their entanglements with governmentality and coloniality. Algorithms collect data from digital archives and constantly create, combine and re-organize existing and emerg- ing databases. Through historical surveying instruments, maps and globes from the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden collected und used by the Electors of Saxony, Augustus (1526– 1586) and Augustus II the Strong (1670–1733), Eifler and Thieme reflect on the historic interplay between survey and data collection, its visual representations and absolutistic claims to power. A third part turns once again to the archival ICTY videos to reflect on the specific forms of image production. Juxtaposing the processes and practices of the ICTY film team and the artistic methods that were used in the production of ARCHIVAL GRID, Eifler und Thieme engage with their own positions as filming artists and their role in the interrelation with witnesses of the war.

Charlotte Eifler is an artist and filmmaker spanning performance, video, installation, XR, and sound. Her works address the politics of representation, abstraction, and computation, and are characterized by interdisciplinary forms of collaboration. Focusing on feminist approaches and elements of science fiction, she explores processes of image & history production and imaginations of alternative futures. Charlotte is co-founder and/or member of the networks Digital Critique Leipzig, G-Edit, cobratheater.cobra, FACES – gender,art,technology und feat.Fem. Since Nov 2020, she’s teaching in the department of Media Art/ Film at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). Eifler’s works have been presented at ACM Siggraph Art, Los Angeles (US); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden (DE), Le printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (FR); Sapporo International Art Japan (JN); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE); IMPAKT Utrecht (NL); Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and RENCONTRES INTERNATIONAL Paris among others. Residencies and scholarships facilitated her research in Moskau (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation), New York (KdFs Foundation) and Mexico City (Institutio Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura). /// Clarissa Thieme works with film, performance, text, and installation, combining documentary and fictional methods to explore processes of memory and historical translation as well as their identity implications. For this purpose, Thieme often deals with subjective testimonies in the context of collective traumas and their reconstruction with technical and legal means to trace the fissures that open up between the languages of individual memory and their translation into processes of historical objectification. Her practice is research-oriented and takes a collaborative approach. In series, many of her works link together to form long-term studies that span several years. Since the early 2000s, various artistic projects have taken her to the post-Yugoslav space, where she has collaborated with various archival collections and initiatives.

Two thieves are in an ambiguous room, lights cast a security grid.? How do patterns of dominance shape our bodies and actions? Grids secure, grids order, grids categorize and evaluate. The logic of the grid is not only found in (colonial) geography, but also in digital evaluation systems. Diverse information about bodies, landscapes and situations are fed into binary systems to be classified. The thieves in the video intend to bend, deform and discard the grids - to create space for new disorder.

Charlotte Eifler is an artist and filmmaker. Her works address the politics of representation in relation to technology. Focusing on feminist approaches and elements of science fiction, she explores processes of image production, computation and imaginations of alternative futures. Currently she lectures at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) in the department of Media Art/Film. Charlotte has presented work at Ann Arbor Filmfestival; ACM Siggraph Art, Los Angeles; Museum Würzburg; Le printemps de Toulouse; Sapporo International Art Japan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; IMPAKT Utrecht; Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and ARD Mediathek among others.

"Slow Space" takes the viewer on a visual trip through structures of glass architecture in Chicago. Filmed entirely within the urban constructed environment that makes up this contemporary North American city, "Slow Space" is a visually arresting investigation into how space is described, defined, and ultimately experienced. Berlin filmmaker Klaus W. Eisenlohr commutes this relationship with the outside 'world' via an array of constructed transparencies in the glass domes and atriums that formed so much of architecture?s modernist preoccupation for a constructed inside/outside dialectic. Descriptions, and ultimately opinions, on the status of public space in Chicago form part of the film's identity via a series of interviews conducted from the participant's private domains. Street scenes with performers complement this film essay. In this project, Klaus W. Eisenlohr has investigated the relationship between the body and the urban architectural environment over a three-year time period.

Klaus W. Eisenlohr works as a freelance artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. He received his MA in photography, filmmaking, and conceptual projects from the Berlin University of the Arts in 1996. He received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the USA. He was a part-time faculty member at the University of the Arts in Berlin, the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As an art curator he is a founding member of the media art festival "Directors Lounge in Berlin". Selected exhibitions and projects include: 2006, Artist-in-Residency at HIAP, Helsinki, Finland; 2006, "Standlinien", Lines of Reference, two artists show at Bank House Merck Finck & Co. Berlin; 2006, "Slow Space" Premiere at Arsenal; Friends of German Kinemathek, Berlin, 2004; "Match" group show, Kunsthalle Faust Hannover, and Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan, Poland; 2004, "Stadt der Plätze", City of Plazas, personal show at Foro Artistico, Hannover; 2004, Project "Stadtrandzone Mitte", Center of Urban Periphery, funded by the film grant "Cast & Cut" awarded by Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover und Nordmedia Fonds GmbH, Hannover; 2003, "Slow Spaces" personal film show at San Francisco Cinematheque, USA; 2001, Artist-in-Residence at Künstlerhaus Hooksiel, Wangerland, on the North Sea coast of Germany; 1999-2001, Project "Slow Space" in Chicago, USA, partly funded by the Airlift Memorial Fellowship, Berlin; 1999, "Cupola", personal show at the Municipal Gallery of Tuttlingen, Germany; 1997, Work grant by Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, Art Foundation of the State of BW, Germany.

Performance artist Jeroen Eisinga is seated at a small table in front of a wall, which is entirely covered by bees. The pulsating, squirming bee mass gradually covers the artist?s body and face as well. In this gruesome, yet beautifully filmed performance the artist balances on the border between life and death. A claustrophobic image of fearlessness and patience.

Jeroen Eisinga began to work in performance art and film in the early 1990s. He made a series of controversial films in which the idea of suffering and personal danger as artistic expression were central. In his first performance (40-44-PG, 1993) a Volkswagen Beetle without a driver, circles mechanically in circles around the blindfolded artist who walks in circles in the opposite direction. Eisinga`s work deals increasingly with death and transience.

The black-and-white 8mm film of the abandoned facilities of Turku County Prison (1835–2007), documents the layers of messages drawn, scratched and burned on the cell walls. The markings are passages to the shadow of an individual’s psyche, and expose an underbelly which a society simultaneously both generates and hides. The film becomes a codex of a collapsed civilization and evidence of a forbidden zone in the centre of the city. On top of the inmates’ messages, a second layer of graffiti by building squatters, trespassers and other participators has emerged, turning the walls into thickets of obscure visual information and indecipherable communication. The flow of images is punctuated by John Cage’s (1912–1992) composition “Perilous Night” (1964), described as a journey to the nocturnal side of the soul.

Saara Ekström works in film, photography, text and installation. Chronotopes where time and place densify, time that nurtures and erodes, the ambivalent desire to both remember and forget are at the core of her art. Ekström’s work has been shown extensively in various museums and festivals in Europe, the Americas and Asia. She received the Finnish media art prize AVEK-award in 2018 and the prizes of SW Finland in 2017, Finnish Art Society in 1995 and the Aboa prize in 1994. She has been the Helsinki Festival Artist in 2005 and was nominated for both Ars Fennica and Carnegie Art Award prizes in 2010.

Trough «2 avenue M», Hakima El Djoudi depicts the scenes of implicated conflicts and breakup which looks like passionate but very controlled and elliptic between bourgeois upper class man and woman in a very intensive way. The development of sequence inside of a luxurious apartment without artificial lightings and the dialogie between two characters intensifies the suffocating tension between the man and woman deepened conflicts too late to go back. Manu Park

lives and works in Paris and Corsica

Ces images avec leurs couleurs et leurs esthétisme formelles, les rythmes, les sonorités, lorsqu?elles sont combinées évoquent et suggèrent des sensations, des mots et des émotions. Mesure vague, un poème. Mais la naïveté n?est pas de mise. Derrière ces belles images, ces couleurs, toutes ces formes (de casiers gris, de machine pleine de graisses?), cette sonorité de western, tous ces éléments qui m?ont toujours attiré, séduits, tous ces moments réunis qui m?ont ému, finalement m?entraînent, vers ceux que j`avais rejetés en premier lieu, le labeur quotidien des marins pêcheurs, mais filmé, monté, cadré et montré différemment de ce que l?on peu imaginé ou attendre. Mesure vague est un film vidéo ambigu. Derrière ce poème qui se voulait paisible, se trouve une violence d?une constance inaltérée.

Mesure vague, est une vidéo réalisée lors d?une résidence à la Villa Saint Clair de Sète, avec le soutien de la Collectivité Territoriale de Corse en 2006.

Evoking the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila conquered the African continent’s first gold medal, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and a symbol of the Africa that was freeing itself of colonialism, Fischer & el Sani have recontextualised amidst Rome’s controversial rationalist architecture, a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to their freedom of movement. Fischer & el Sani are examining the complexity of ideological, political and architectural implications of Bikila’s 1960’s Olympic gold medal run to this day.

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani are visual artists and filmmakers, based in Berlin. They have been working together since 1995. From 2007 until 2010 they have been Associate Professors for Film and Media Art at Sapporo City University, Japan. Since 2015 Nina Fischer is Professor for Experimental Film and Media Art at Uninversity of the Arts, Berlin. International art exhibitions and film festivals they have participated in include Berlinale - International Filmfestival Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Istanbul Film Festival, Sydney Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Media City Seoul Biennale, Aichi Triennale, and solo exhibitions e.g. at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima, K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Maxxi Museum, Rome.

Exploring hybrid spaces that have been created through strategy games which reflect the relationships between the virtual and physical world. In these spaces, you have the opportunity to explore a different world or create your own with tools available within this space. This is how the controversy ended over how novelist Jules Verne extraordinary journeys were the end of its era, where it was said that it was no longer possible to travel to unknown places on earth. In “ other spaces ” man became wandering with space-time scenarios of different and unusual premise in the virtual worlds or redesigning the place with the concept of hybrid spaces in the virtual world but in reality. The project came through walking around the sites and places that got the trait of the hybrid space with the same hypothesis and tools of these spaces in the virtual world of strategy games in which i found several points that have this particular trait.The starting point was a refugee camp in Calais, northwestern France and the site of the Atlantic Wall in Dunkirk. The first part of the project has been carried out in France and the second part in cairo

Born in 1981, Ahmed El Shaer is a multi-disciplinary artist with a particular interest in digital technologies. His videos combine Machinima, stock footage, 3D animation and experimental soundscapes. His work has been highlighted in numerous exhibitions and festivals, among which; Art Game Demos -Festival Nuage Numérique Curated by: Isabelle Arvers Lyon-France 2017, 56th Venice Biennale, "In the Eye of the Thunderstorm" Collateral Event, Curated by: Martina Corgnati, Venice, Italy. “ Experiments in Arab Cinema ” at (Simon Fraser University) “ SFU ”, Vancouver, Canada, 2013 and (Rochester University) New York, USA, 2014. Bamako Biennale, Bamako National Museum, Bamako, Mali (2011). He is the recipient of numerous awards and has participated in several residency programs, such as: Cité internationale des arts Invited by Institut Francais, Paris-France 2016. Art Omi Artist-in-Residence New York, USA, the Pro Helvetia Artist-in-Residence cycle (Zurich, Switzerland, 2009) and the Summer Academy of Fine Arts (Salzburg, Austria, 2006 and 2007) and lately Fulbright Grant for 2018-2019.

Since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution, which is not over yet, repeat of the scenes and actions and demands in different ways suggest to you that the scenes are repeated, and acts similar to the chosen scene is composed of fine-conversation is about an act of revolution in the case of repeated systematic and careful with the small increase in the course of the event and we find it in the last minute, and this has turned into two minutes and the same actions but at the same time periods.

Ahmed El Shaer Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1980; lives and works in Egypt. Ahmed El Shaer is a multi-disciplinary artist (installation, photography, sound, video), with a particular interest in digital technologies. His videos combine Machinima, stock footage, 3D animation and experimental soundscapes. He is Co-Founder of ?CAIRO DOCUMENTA? an independent event and he started to establish ?TOLON STUDIO FOR CONTEMPORARY ART? - as an Individual Company, a non-profit organization devoted to contemporary arts. His work has been highlighted in numerous exhibitions and festivals, among which: (2012) Cairo Documenta, Cairo, Egypt, (2011) After the Rage, Beton7 Art Center, Athena, Greece, (2011) Disconnect , the Town House Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, (2011) Bamako Biennale , Bamako National Museum, Bamako, Mali, (2011) The Changing Room, Group Exhibition, Torino-Italy, Presidents Remix, SALT Beyo?lu, Istanbul, Turkey (2011); The Oakland Standard, Contemporary Arab Video Encounter (CAVE), Oakland Museum, California, USA (2011); Cairo Documenta, Cairo, Egypt (2010); Sanctioned Array, White Box, New York, USA (2010); Living Spaces The 2nd AllArtNow Festival for Contemporary Arts, Damascus, Syria (2010); Awkward Conversations, The 17th New York African Film Festival, New Museum, New York and Axis Gallery, New York, USA (2010);Under Current: Contemporary Art from Egypt, SAWA Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2009); Fugitive Video Project 2009 (International Festival for Alternative Film and Video, Dublin and Mantua, 2009); Under Current: Contemporary Art from Egypt (SAWA Gallery, Dubai, 2009); Orebro International Video Art Festival (Orebro, Sweden, 2008); International Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Bari, Italy (2008). He is the recipient of numerous awards and has participated in several residency programs, such as the Pro Helvetia Artist-in-Residence cycle (Zurich, Switzerland, 2009) and the Summer Academy of Fine Arts (Salzburg, Austria, 2006 and 2007).

Spacious landscapes, a cloudless sky decorate the walls surrounding the little zoo in Palestine: Screaming illusoric allegories of freedom. The humans feed the animals and speak to them. A usual day. If it were not for the Giraffe, which was shot dead by the Israeli military; or for the Lions who are only allowed to be imported sterilized. Timidly the workers start talking about what it means to live and work under occupation.

Pary El-Qalqili is a writer, director and curator, based in Berlin. She studied Directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. Her first feature documentary THE TURTLE`S RAGE was released in German cinema in 2012 and won several awards on international film festivals, such as the Dubai International Film Festival, Visions du Réel in Nyon and the Al Jazeera Documentary Festival. The short documentary „ZOOLAND“ is her Diplom movie. For her artistic work she got support and scholarships by the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung and Künstlerinnenförderung Film/Video of the City of Berlin.

A unique slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling madly in love. Over the course of one year, the artist couple Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh gathered photographs from real-life events such as their first kiss, meeting each other's parents, long-distance thirst traps, a beach wedding, and top surgery and its subsequent recovery. A sweet and steamy celebration of T4T love with life and art all tangled up.

Samira Elagoz is a Finnish/Egyptian transmasculine artist. He has toured in various international film, visual art, and performance contexts, and won several awards, including Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale Teatro in 2022. Elagoz combines performance art and film, creating his unique brand of “docu-fiction”. Z Walsh is a Brooklyn-based transmasculine artist focusing on photography. Z is known for his raw, intimate depictions of his subjects and himself. Throughout his work, Z is dedicated to elevating trans voices and combating transmasculine erasure.

In and around the historical ruins of Fustat in Old Cairo, tensions simmer between the site’s government-appointed guards and residents of a nearby informal settlement, al-Izba. The guards chase away looters and confiscate their equipment, while locals infuriate them by taking shortcuts through the site, occasionally stopping for a smoke. For the guards it would be easiest to keep the site closed until further notice.

Ahmed El Ghoneimy, born in 1986 in Alexandria, Egypt, is a filmmaker and artist currently living between Alexandria and Cairo. His work revolves around interpersonal tensions between the different protagonists presented in his films, such as sons and fathers (Tripoli Tide, 2018), victims and perpetrators (Bahari, 2011), bullies and friends (The Cave, 2013). Alternating between fiction and documentary, his films follow associations and use moments of collision as an opportunity to investigate notions like victimhood, power, and masculinity.

A character is passing time in a desolate beach town. Slowly, the loneliness and alienation she experiencesin theforeign town makes her enter into an uncanny delusional realm, that blurs the memory of her own experiences with that of female protagonists from film history.

Sara Eliassen (b 1977) is a filmmaker based between Oslo and San Francisco. Her film Still Birds premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 and has later screened at several other international film festivals, amongst them Sundance 2010. Eliassen holds an MFA in filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute and was a studio fellow at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2011.

An unexpected encounter on the staircase threw the young man out of his regular routine.

Was born in Tomsk, Siberia. Moved in Moscow in childhood. Studied phylology in "Russian State University for the Humanities", then stuied in "Moscow School of New Cinema" (editing department). Is living in Tel-Aviv since August 2022.

From 1884 to 1914, a small belt of land between the British Gold Coast Colony and French-governed Dahomey was part of the German overseas empire in Africa. "Togoland", the later Togo and the eastern part of today`s Ghana, experienced the first German capitulation in the early days of WWI. European rule left its marks on people`s minds, even more than a century after the forced pull-out of one of the major European players in the competitive "great colonial game" and more than half a century after the African Independences. Lomé - Adibo and Yendi (Ghana) - Kamina - Wahala: present-day glimpses of a journey into the past. Original languages: Dagbani, English, Ifè

1985-1997, freelance work and author/producer for German and French public radio companies. 1995-2004, documentary program manager for public and private TV companies in France and Germany.

Despite the didactic promise of its title, Carl Elsaesser’s new film will not teach you how to complete this obscure action. The phrase itself, at once ridiculous and noble, is pleasure enough, and its tone fits perfectly on a work that walks a thin, dandyish path down the border of farce and elegy. Another pleasure: it isn’t about anything, though it’s of quite a lot. Of fathers (who might teach one how to run a trotline, or sit on a porch, or disappear); of other films (particularly a pair by adopted fathers Michael Snow and William E. Jones); of at least two kinds of cruising; of the winter in Maine and the streets in New York and the many kinds of light to be found in and around both (ranging from snowy diffusion to snare-hit clarity). But one needn’t know these films or Maine or New York, not any more than one need know what a trotline is, to be hooked by the ongoing oddness of Elsaesser’s rhythms, which move gently, languidly toward new raptures of illumination. (Text: Phil Coldiron)

Carl Elsaesser is an experimental filmmaker who mixes genres and materials to critically investigate the overarching presence of the historical without losing sight of individual experiences of human connection. His works have screened regularly at festivals including The Berlinale, The New York Film Festival, Cinema Du Reel, European Media Arts festival where he won the German Film Critics award for best film, and the Ann Arbor film festival where his debut film won the award for most promising emerging experimental video artist. He's had the honor of receiving grants and residencies throughout his career including a Minnesota Arts Council grant, a fellowship with Macdowell and residencies with the Ellis Beauregard Foundation, Hewnoaks and The Squeaky Wheel Media Center. His work has been written about in publications like the LA Review of Books, Millennium Film Journal and FilmExplorer by Kevin B. Lee.