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Isa, a young artist invited to propose a project for an exhibition, sets out to stage a dramatic adaptation of ‘The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas’, a satirical 19th-century novel by Machado de Assis. The rehearsal is marred by difficulties which the viewer must interpret as being due to the fact that Isa is a woman, young, black, all of the above, or as difficulties anyone would encounter. The novel delivers a mordant critique of Brazilian society in the guise of a satirical autobiography narrated by a dead protagonist. In 1880 its author foresaw the abolition of slavery that would happen in Brazil eight years later, but predicted that it would be a mere formal measure, informally everything would remain the same. The film was shot at the Ibirapuera pavilion designed by Oscar Niemeyer and its cast is made up of professional and non-professional actors, several of whom worked or currently work for the São Paulo Biennial Foundation. Featuring actors recast from another project Guimarães had worked on eight years earlier, O Ensaio is a film about the passage of time, about short lived revolutionary actions, about institutional memory, racism, and sexism in Brazil.

Tamar Guimarães (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, BR, lives and works in Copenhagen) is a visual artist working with film and other forms of time based media, exploring situations both residual and contemporary, of art, architecture and the institutions that present them. She often works with actors alongside non-actors in semi-fictional short films. Another, more documentary strand of her work has delved into spectral architecture, ritual effervescence, states of rapture and their intersection with the nation state. Recent solo exhibitions include Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Jeu de Paume Satellite, Paris; Gasworks, London and the IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Guimarães’ works have been included at the 33rd, 31st and the 29th São Paulo Biennial; the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial; the International Exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennial; at the LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA); Baltimore Museum of Art (USA); the 11th Sharjah Biennial (UAE); the Banff Centre, Alberta (CA); Malmö Museum (SE) and South London Gallery; the Guggenheim Museum, NY (USA); the SculptureCenter (NY/USA); the 7th Gwangju Biennial (SK); the 3rd Guanghzhou Triennial (CN); the Jumex museum, Mexico (MX); Frac/Le Plateau, Paris (FR); CAC Synagogue de Delme (FR).

SOAP is a film in four episodes in which a group of isolated, left-winger urbanites imagine how to create a telenovela, or soap, to infiltrate the conspiratorial far right in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Can a coalition of activists, artists and writers avoid tripping over their own assumptions and privileges to form something persuasive? Can they join forces to beat a populist system at their own game? SOAP is a collaboration between Tamar Guimarães, Luisa Cavanagh and Rusi Millán Pastori and was filmed in Berlin and São Paulo during the first covid19 lockdown in 2020.

TAMAR GUIMARÃES (b. Belo Horizonte 1967, BR, lives and works in Berlin) is a visual artist working with film and other forms of time based media. She often works with actors alongside non-actors in semi-fictional films exploring socio-political dynamics both residual and contemporary, and situations within art, architecture and the institutions that present them. Her work has been included at the 33rd, 31st and the 29th São Paulo Biennial; the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial; the 55th Venice Biennial; the LACMA (USA); the Guggenheim Museum, NY (USA); the SculptureCenter (NY/USA); The Renaissance Society (Chicago); the 7th Gwangju Biennial (SK); Frac/Le Plateau, Paris (FR); CAC Synagogue de Delme (FR). Solo exhibitions include Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and the Jeu de Paume Satellite, Paris. LUISA CAVANAGH (1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist, colourist, and cinematographer. She studied Cinematography at National Film School. Focused on collaborative work, she joined 'Grupo Mexa' to develop the film/performance 'Cancionero Terminal 10Mg'. She is a co-founder of 'Eterno work in progress', an artist-run cine-club that explores the limits of cinema exhibition, live music and moving images. RUSI MILLÁN PASTORI (1976, Argentina) is a writer, film director and director of photography. Actual political scenarios are a common thread throughout his work, as chronicles that combine different situations and characters. He studied cinematography at the National School of Experimentation and Cinematographic Realization in Buenos Aires. He has directed short and medium-length films which were shown in festivals such as the BAFICI in Buenos Aires and at the 41st Mostra in São Paulo.

For 30 years, Cao Guimara?es has documented fragments of his friendship with fellow artists. Friendship is a mosaic of domestic moments recorded in a variety of formats, from the computer screens, to Super8 and 35mm film to cassettes and old answering machine tapes. These audiovisual doodles are sometimes poetic, sometimes banal, and sometimes profound, mournful or uninhibitedly joyful. Above all, they are a celebration of spending time together and growing older.

Cao Guimarães works at the intersection between cinema and visual arts. With intense production since the late 1980s, the artist has his works in numerous prestigious collections such as Tate Modern (United Kingdom), MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Fondation Cartier (France), Colección Jumex (Mexico), Inhotim (Brazil), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), among others. He participated in important exhibitions such as the XXV and XXVII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, Brazil; Insite Biennial 2005, Mexico; Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, USA; Tropicália: The 60s in Brazil, Austria; Sharjah Biennial 11 Film Programme, United Arab Emirates and Ver é Uma Fábula, Brasil, a retrospective with a large part of the artist's works exhibited at Itaú Cultural, in São Paulo. He directed twelve feature films: Amizade (2023), Santino (2023), Espera (2018), O Homem das Multidões (2013), Otto (2012), Elvira Lorelay Alma de Dragón (2012), Ex Isto (2010), Andarilho (2007), Acidente (2006), Alma do Osso (2004), Rua de Mão-Dupla (2002) and Fim do Sem Fim (2001), which participated in renowned international festivals such as Cannes, Locarno, Sundance, Venice, Berlin and Rotterdam. He had retrospectives of his films at MoMA, in 2011, Itaú Cultural, in 2013, BAFICI (Buenos Aires) and Cinemateca do México in 2014. In September 2017, he opened the largest exhibition and retrospective about his work in Europe, at the Eye Filmmuseum, in Amsterdam. He is represented by Galeria Nara Roesler, from São Paulo and Galerie Xippas (Paris and Montevideo).

FLYING SHEEP SYNOPSIS The Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, Romance language speakers living south of the Danube, saw themselves persecuted and threatened with death in bloody territorial battles at the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the ensuing formation of nations. They can no longer rent grazing mountains and borders became a threat. Without a territory and a written language, they get banished from history and are in constant wandering. They march with the herds, having as their only certainty their own identity, an oral culture in an archaic dialect that the author spoke in her early childhood with her grandparents born in northern Greece. Scattered around the world, missing from cemeteries, this film cultivates the memory of the Aromanians passing into a permanent exile between mountains and seas inhabited by echoes of voices resounding loudly, bouncing off rocks and yet unheard. Their history is told from the subjective point of view of the artist, staging archives that passionately interpret this perpetual tragic wandering that is also full of courage.

Alexandra Gulea Lives and works between Berlin and Bucharest Alexandra Gulea (1970, Bucuresti, Romania) graduated in 1997 ‘cum laude’ Diplom at "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts " in Paris. After paticipating in several painting exibitions, she studied documentary film at Munich Film School and since 1999 directed Documentary Films, Shorts, Video Installations and a Feature Fiction. She also worked as an Editor on several movies.

Children of the Jiu Valley are familiar with roads. Theirs but especially those of the adults. Roads through the tunnel, the mountains or the Valley. All the roads seem made to leave as well as to return. The parents of these children, once the inhabitants of an old industrial area of Romania, take now long roads to reach the West, wherever they may find work. They return too seldomly. They send money. Their children are a lot like orphans. Many of them experience depression. Some choose to take the fatal road to Paradise or Hell. Maybe with the hope of coming back to a kinder vale.

ALEXANDRA GULEA (1970, Bucuresti, Romania), graduated in 1997 at ENSBA in Paris. She studied documentary film at Munich Film School and since 1999 directed Documentary Films: “Anonymous”- 11`, 2000 International competition Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Prize fff bayern, Munich Documentary FF, Minority Prize Mediawave, Hungary . “God plays Sax, the Devil Violin” 45`, 2004, German Short Film Prize, Golden Key, Kassel, Best Student Film, Molodist, Ukraine, DAAD Prize, Germany, Prix du Film Long, Les Ecrans Documentaires, France, Mention Henry Langlois, Poitiers. IFF Rotterdam, Cinema du Reel Paris, IDFF München, IDAFF Leipzig, IKF Oberhausen, MoMA. “Today I was Young and Pretty” 52`, 2008, Festival dei Popoli, Firenze, Italy , Cronograf, Moldova, IFF Györ, Ungary, TIFF, Romania, MNAC, Romania, Institut Culturel Francais, Romania. Short films : « Wooden Boy » 10’, 2017, Rencontres Internationales Paris - Berlin, IKF Oberhausen. « Valea Jiului - Notes » 13’, 2018, Bucharest Experimental FF, Astra Sibiu, Prize for the Best German Film, IKF Oberhausen. As Fiction films she directed and edited: “The fourth wall"- 17`, 2001 with Werner Schroeter, IKF Oberhausen. “Hacker”, 5 x 52 min. TV-fiction, 2003. She wrote, directed and co-edited her first feature “Matei Child Miner” 2013 Nominated for the “Big Screen Award” IFF Rotterdam, Premio “Lino Micciché”, “Young Critics Award” at Pesaro IFF Italy. Prize at Regiofun IFF, Katowice, Poland. Cinema Jove Valencia IFF Spain, Zlin IFF Czech Republic, TIFF Romania, Anonimul Romania, FF Edu, Evreux, France. IWFF, Köln. Werkstatt Kino, München.

C’est au bout du conte que la sympathique poupée Pinocchio, se transformait en homme après avoir renoncé à faire des bêtises et s’être conformé au bon sens de rigueur. D’abord il s’était réjoui de cette récompense. Mais un beau jour, Pinocchio vit une multitude d’animaux empaillés dans un musée. Des êtres du passe, mais qui en même temps représentent bien plus que ce qu’elles étaient. Plus libres que lui, Pinocchio, libres de peupler son imagination. Mais le garçon en bois réalisa cela bien plus tard, quand, à l’âge adulte, il se rappela ses larmes en rentrant du musée, où, loups et ours l’attendaient le regard fixé sur lui.

Alexandra Gulea Vit et travaille entre la France, l’Allemagne et la Roumanie 1970 - née à Bucarest, Roumanie FORMATION 1988 - Lycée des Beaux-Arts “ N. TONITZA” – Bucarest, Roumanie Baccalauréat « arts plastiques » 1990 - Académie Nationale d’Art – Bucarest, Roumanie 1992/1993 - Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts - Rouen 1993/1997 - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) - Paris Diplômé avec les Félicitations du Jury (Atelier J.M Alberola) 1999/2012 – Etudes Film Documentaire, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF) - München, Allemagne Diplôme

FLYING SHEEP SYNOPSIS The Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, Romance language speakers living south of the Danube, saw themselves persecuted and threatened with death in bloody territorial battles at the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the ensuing formation of nations. They can no longer rent grazing mountains and borders became a threat. Without a territory and a written language, they get banished from history and are in constant wandering. They march with the herds, having as their only certainty their own identity, an oral culture in an archaic dialect that the author spoke in her early childhood with her grandparents born in northern Greece. Scattered around the world, missing from cemeteries, this film cultivates the memory of the Aromanians passing into a permanent exile between mountains and seas inhabited by echoes of voices resounding loudly, bouncing off rocks and yet unheard. Their history is told from the subjective point of view of the artist, staging archives that passionately interpret this perpetual tragic wandering that is also full of courage.

Alexandra Gulea Lives and works between Berlin and Bucharest Alexandra Gulea (1970, Bucuresti, Romania) graduated in 1997 ‘cum laude’ Diplom at "Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts " in Paris. After paticipating in several painting exibitions, she studied documentary film at Munich Film School and since 1999 directed Documentary Films, Shorts, Video Installations and a Feature Fiction. She also worked as an Editor on several movies.

Children of the Jiu Valley are familiar with roads. Theirs but especially those of the adults. Roads through the tunnel, the mountains or the Valley. All the roads seem made to leave as well as to return. The parents of these children, once the inhabitants of an old industrial area of Romania, take now long roads to reach the West, wherever they may find work. They return too seldomly. They send money. Their children are a lot like orphans. Many of them experience depression. Some choose to take the fatal road to Paradise or Hell. Maybe with the hope of coming back to a kinder vale.

ALEXANDRA GULEA (1970, Bucuresti, Romania), graduated in 1997 at ENSBA in Paris. She studied documentary film at Munich Film School and since 1999 directed Documentary Films: “Anonymous”- 11`, 2000 International competition Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Prize fff bayern, Munich Documentary FF, Minority Prize Mediawave, Hungary . “God plays Sax, the Devil Violin” 45`, 2004, German Short Film Prize, Golden Key, Kassel, Best Student Film, Molodist, Ukraine, DAAD Prize, Germany, Prix du Film Long, Les Ecrans Documentaires, France, Mention Henry Langlois, Poitiers. IFF Rotterdam, Cinema du Reel Paris, IDFF München, IDAFF Leipzig, IKF Oberhausen, MoMA. “Today I was Young and Pretty” 52`, 2008, Festival dei Popoli, Firenze, Italy , Cronograf, Moldova, IFF Györ, Ungary, TIFF, Romania, MNAC, Romania, Institut Culturel Francais, Romania. Short films : « Wooden Boy » 10’, 2017, Rencontres Internationales Paris - Berlin, IKF Oberhausen. « Valea Jiului - Notes » 13’, 2018, Bucharest Experimental FF, Astra Sibiu, Prize for the Best German Film, IKF Oberhausen. As Fiction films she directed and edited: “The fourth wall"- 17`, 2001 with Werner Schroeter, IKF Oberhausen. “Hacker”, 5 x 52 min. TV-fiction, 2003. She wrote, directed and co-edited her first feature “Matei Child Miner” 2013 Nominated for the “Big Screen Award” IFF Rotterdam, Premio “Lino Micciché”, “Young Critics Award” at Pesaro IFF Italy. Prize at Regiofun IFF, Katowice, Poland. Cinema Jove Valencia IFF Spain, Zlin IFF Czech Republic, TIFF Romania, Anonimul Romania, FF Edu, Evreux, France. IWFF, Köln. Werkstatt Kino, München.

C’est au bout du conte que la sympathique poupée Pinocchio, se transformait en homme après avoir renoncé à faire des bêtises et s’être conformé au bon sens de rigueur. D’abord il s’était réjoui de cette récompense. Mais un beau jour, Pinocchio vit une multitude d’animaux empaillés dans un musée. Des êtres du passe, mais qui en même temps représentent bien plus que ce qu’elles étaient. Plus libres que lui, Pinocchio, libres de peupler son imagination. Mais le garçon en bois réalisa cela bien plus tard, quand, à l’âge adulte, il se rappela ses larmes en rentrant du musée, où, loups et ours l’attendaient le regard fixé sur lui.

Alexandra Gulea Vit et travaille entre la France, l’Allemagne et la Roumanie 1970 - née à Bucarest, Roumanie FORMATION 1988 - Lycée des Beaux-Arts “ N. TONITZA” – Bucarest, Roumanie Baccalauréat « arts plastiques » 1990 - Académie Nationale d’Art – Bucarest, Roumanie 1992/1993 - Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts - Rouen 1993/1997 - Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) - Paris Diplômé avec les Félicitations du Jury (Atelier J.M Alberola) 1999/2012 – Etudes Film Documentaire, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF) - München, Allemagne Diplôme

A film shot during a period spent living and working in Berlin. The abandoned tower block where the film was made had a previous life in the GDR, as an administrative center for social services. The film documents the movements of plastic sheets, which I suspended from the windows on the top floor of the tower building. The lightness of the plastic sheeting means that its movements, generated by the wind are considerably slowed down. The day the film was shot, I set up a pirate radio station to broadcast a soundtrack that I recorded in the stairwell, which features an aural multiplex of rhythms and acoustic noises of the building. These sounds are mixed through a computer and broadcast from an FM transmitter at the top of the building

Stephen Gunning was born in 1974 in Limerick, Ireland 1992/1995 - Limerick College of art and Design. 1998/2000 - National College of Art and Design, Dublin. 2001/03 - MFA Virtual Realities, NCAD, Dublin.

We live in times of crises and failing economic systems. No wonder that questions of change are recurrent. Protest culture is having a revival. Every revolution has its icons. Nowadays, we see the mask show up. Wearing a mask is a carnivalesque strategy. Carnival is a ritual, temporarily dismantling social and political regimes, suspending norms and values. But after this limited period of allowed disorder and change, the order is restored. So the question arises: does the current wave of protests serve as an illusion of carnival? Or have we forgotten the function of carnival? Have we forgotten that the purpose of the ritual is to remember? To Each His Own Mask is a challenging artistic documentary by filmmaker and visual artist Tine Guns, linked to her installation Perpetual Moment of Pause.

Tine Guns (1983) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. Her videowork was screened at festivals like Jean Rouch Festival & Next Festival. She exhibited at Cinematek/BOZAR, Netwerk Aalst, Brakke Grond Amsterdam among others. Her photograpic work was selected for Voies Off Festival 2014, Encontras Da Imagem Braga, BruggeFoto & Salut d’Honneur de Jan Hoet. In 2015 she was selected for .tiff, Young Belgian Talent, Introduced by Fotomuseum (FoMu) Antwerp. She has self-published various photobooks such ass: Amoureux solitaire (2014), and The Diver (2014), After The Flood (2017), The Collector (2017). In 2015 “ The Diver ” was shortlisted as a finalist in the 2015 First Book Awards of MACK. “ To Each His Own Mask ”is her first Film In 2017 she received the First Price of Visual Arts, East of Flanders, Belgium

While observing an isolated event of an artificial, industry-facilitated disaster, Normalisation of A Disaster makes a reflective commentary on the psyche of people in the vicinity of the site of disaster, albeit not immediately affected by it. Exploring the ideas of nonchalance, sensitization and casual tourism towards sites of disaster in a region plagued by disasters, this reflection includes the self of the artist, and his family, and hordes of ‘tourists’ attracted towards the light of the morbid spectacle. The Baghjan Oil Blowout happened on 27th of May 2020, which caught fire through a massive explosion on 9th of June 2020 after leaking gas in the atmosphere for two weeks, continued to burn for 6 months, before being finally doused on 15th of November, 2020. This artificial disaster in an Oil-India Limited owned site has caused the displacement of more than 1600 families who were in the vicinity of the site of gas blowout, and were being sheltered in makeshift relief camps in nearby areas.

Devadeep Gupta B. 1989 Guwahati, Assam, India I frame my artistic process as an exploration of regional ecological uncertainties through a critical examination of associated mainstream perspectives. Inspired by site-specific and vernacular occurrences, I delve into the intricate relationship between people and their land. My artistic practice encompasses the realms of film and sculpture, bridging the gap between conceptual and documentary approaches. Within this intersection, I am particularly interested in narratives that emerge from the convergence of mythology and contemporary experiences. Grounded in the rich cultural landscape of Assam, I draw inspiration from pragmatic practices, oral traditions, and folklore. Central to my artistic endeavors are performative processes that pay homage to meta-cultural practices. Through visual and conceptual stimuli, I incorporate elements of local community-led actions to portray the environmental changes specific to each site. Everyday rituals that have organically evolved as meta-cultural actions inspire the forms and expressions within my artistic practice. The outtakes of my process, realized as rhythmic sculptural forms are expressed through mediums of film, image and sculpture to illustrate these outcomes. ?

"It`s like you`ve got yesterday, today and tomorrow in the same room. There is no telling what can happen" This line from the Award-winning film "I`m not there", about the life of Bob Dylan, conveys the same sense of a melding of time and place, and the uncertainty of what may happen, that defines Crispin Gurholt`s Live Photo... (Selene Wendt)

born 1965 in Oslo, Norway. Norwegian photo, installation and video artist. Education: Einar Granum Art School, Oslo Drawing and painting school. Was apprenticed to Odd Nerdrum (1992). Educated at the National Art Academy (1993-98) and New York University (Film School 1996). Gurholt is best known for his vivid tableaus "Live Photo", in which he problematized the relationship between reality and what`s beyond what we see. He makes use of the media`s language and exposes the often unpleasant situations, emotions and conditions. His works have been exhibited in Venice, Rome, Madrid, Paris, the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Art Copenhagen, Stenersen Museum, Vigeland Museum, the North Norwegian Art Museum and Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum. He has also produced a series of music videos, including for the rock band Turbonegro.

There is an electric silence. We are witnessing a frozen moment in a staged drama with the suspense of a detective film. A real tableau presents two living, breathing and thinking human beings located in the narrow confines of an emergency exit. The man has just shot the woman. Is this the future, the present and the past rolled into one single moment? We feel confused. What is happening? (From the introduction to Gurholt`s book "Live Photo II" Written by: Benedikte Sunde)

Crispin Gurholt, Born 1965 in Oslo, Norway Education from: The Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, 1998 New York University, School of Continuing Education - Film School,1996

I walked along the road with two friends ? the sun was setting ? I felt a wave of sadness ? suddenly the sky turned blood-red ? I stopped, leaned against the fence, deathly tired ? I saw the clouds flaming like blood and swords, over the deep blue fjord and the city ? My friends walked on ? I stood there trembling with angst and fear ? I felt a great endless scream echo through nature. From Edvard Munch?s diary, 22 January 1892, Nice Five dark figures enclosed in a bushy piece of greenery. A rusty car door, a bicycle wreck, some planks. They are serious and concentrated, like grieving or as if lost in an endless waiting for Godot, gathered around an object that could be the root of a tree, a sculpture or a gravestone. Around them high-rise buildings are shooting up, dark clouds are hanging over the cranes. A threating storm is rolling in over the city and the fjord. One of the figures is holding a scythe; his face is like a dark empty hole, the mask frighteningly dead. Nature has lost its voice. The photograph By Ekebergåsen is a dystopian manifestation of the marginalised position of art and artists in society. The artist, rejected and hunted, has gone into hiding. The shelter is a small patch of uncultivated ground squeezed in between capitalistic and populist political forces. From here they fought their guerrilla war, and lost. Between Bjørvika and Christian Ringnes?s future sculpture park, a small group of art students have gathered. An old bunker serves as their gallery. No one knows they are there.

Crispin Gurholt (f.1965 in Oslo) is a graduate of the National Art Academy in Oslo (1993-98) and New York University Film School (1996). He has had exhibitions in Venice, Rome, Turin, Madrid and Paris, the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Art Copenhagen, Stenersen Museum, Vigeland Museum, the North Norwegian Art Museum, Lillehammer Art Museum and Haugar Art Museum. Gurholt is participating in the 11th Havana Biennial. He has also been a set designer for several films and stage productions, and produced and directed numerous music videos, including videos for the Norwegian band Turbonegro.

The film Please Kill Me is a personal expression of my own account around the time we live in, pointing out one of our greatest challenges: The market and capital domination in the world. When economic growth is the strongest driving force, we experience increasing economic, social, cultural and, not least, enormous environmental challenges. It is no longer human, ideological or religious ideals that govern, but material growth. The feeling is this: We find ourselves not in a crisis resulting in radical restructuring, but are caught in a loop of repetition and denial, where genuine change appears impossible. In no way whatsoever does art stand outside this static situation. It stands in the midst of it and has no power to act as a genuine opposing force. The constant striving for ‘the new’ cannot expel the feeling that things are at a stand-still; the admonishment to establish micro-utopias in the increasingly sleek art institutions proves merely to repeat the imperative that each and every person should tend his or her own garden – or network; the mantra to summon ‘critical discourse’ does not hinder one’s thoughts from first and foremost revolving complacently around oneself. We know we are sitting in the same boat, and since we all know it is sinking, we try to sit as still as possible, so that at the very least it sinks slower. This is the artist`s confrontation with himself, the art scene and a world gone crazy spinning around itself, trapped in an eternal loop of repetition. In Please Kill Me the staged models have been assigned the same roles as they play in reality: In the gallery space you find the artist, curator, critic and gallerist frozen in a position where they are confronted with the allegation that art is dead.

Crispin Gurholt (b. 1965) is a Norwegian artist based in Oslo and Berlin. The density of his work reflects his versatility and the range of his studies, which in turn are essential to the creation of the highly composite universes of his Live Photos. Gurholt studied at the National Academy of Art in Oslo and The New York Film School SCE. He also has a background in scenography and directing. Since 2012 he has been teaching at The Art School of Rogaland in Norway. His Live Photos represent the sum of a wide-ranging expertise that, combined with social comment, presents a compelling picture of our time. Crispin Gurholt has an international reputation. His work and installations have been shown in Venice, Rome, Paris, Berlin, London, Copenhagen, Turin, Madrid, Cologne and Havana, as well as a number of major Norwegian art institutions. Gurholt is a receiver of the Norwegian Artist Grant since 2010.

In twilight we see a French limousine parked in front of a doorway next to a cash machine. In the back seat of the parked car is a middle-aged businessman. The private chauffeur is withdrawing money from the cash machine, and the driver`s car door is open. Next to the driver is a transvestite prostitute who is suggestive in his communication. Another transvestite prostitute leans against the limo`s rear window and is looking at the man in the back seat. In the dark doorway in the background we see the shadow of an elegant, masculine, Arab man, the pimp of the two prostitutes. Thematically the film points to the relationship between power, politics, money and sex, suggesting identity conflicts, double standards and hidden desires. The theme is archetypal, Machiavellian, and refers to a tacit acceptance of a system that helps to sustain an outdated patriarchy. As long as you don`t get caught everything is allowed! Recent sex scandals linked to European politicians, does not make the thematic less relevant. An intricate relationship between political and criminal groups is insinuated. The film is open and suggestive and apparently simple, but beneath the surface a complex communication pattern is unfolding.

Crispin Gurholt (f.1965) is a Norwegian artist based Berlin. He is a graduate of the National Art Academy in Oslo (1993-98) and New York University Film School (1996). He has exhibited in Havana, Venice, Rome, Turin, Madrid and Paris, the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Lillehammer Art Museum, Art Copenhagen, Stenersen Museum, Vigeland Museum, the North Norwegian Art Museum and Haugar Art Museum.

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Crispin Gurholt (f.1965 in Oslo) is a graduate of the National Art Academy in Oslo (1993-98) and New York University Film School (1996). He has had exhibitions in Venice, Rome, Turin, Madrid and Paris, the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Art Copenhagen, Stenersen Museum, Vigeland Museum, the North Norwegian Art Museum, Lillehammer Art Museum and Haugar Art Museum. Gurholt is participating in the 11th Havana Biennial. He has also been a set designer for several films and stage productions, and produced and directed numerous music videos, including videos for the Norwegian band Turbonegro.

There is an electric silence. We are witnessing a frozen moment in a staged drama with the suspense of a detective film. A real tableau presents living, breathing and thinking human beings located in the hills of Ekebergaasen in Oslo, Is this the future, the present and the past rolled into one single moment? We feel confused. What is happening. is the group of people lost or are they trespassing, Are they a part of the development we see in the background of the greenery, or are they forced out and away from the development? Are they passive or active?

Crispin Gurholt (b. 1965) is an artist working in the fields of photography, installation and video. He was educated at the Einar Granum Art School, Oslo Drawing and Painting School and was an apprentice to master painter Odd Nerdrum in 1992. He then attended National Academy of the Arts (1993-98), and the New York University Film School in 1996. Gurholt is best known for his vivid tableaus Live Photo, in which he problematized the relationship between reality and what`s beyond what we see. He makes use of the media`s language and exposes the often unpleasant situations, emotions and conditions. His works have been exhibited in Venice, Rome, Madrid, Paris, the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Art Copenhagen, Stenersen Museum, Vigeland Museum, the North Norwegian Art Museum and Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum. He has also produced a series of music videos, including for the rock band Turbonegro.

we see a family in a hospital with a nurse, the scene is frozen in a moment, maybe in real time, maybe from memory, there is noting telling what has happened or what is going to happen, they are all captured in the same moment, they are remote and at the same time together, multiple stories in a shared moment. are we! with our objective view seeing all the truth in the given scene and moment? or are there multiple stories to be told as we float through everyday life.

Crispin Gurholt, born 1965 in Oslo, Norway. Norwegian photo, installation and video artist. Education: Einar Granum Art School, Oslo Drawing and painting school. Was apprenticed to Odd Nerdrum (1992). Educated at the National Art Academy (1993-98) and New York University (Film School 1996). Gurholt is best known for his vivid tableaus "Live Photo", in which he problematized the relationship between reality and what`s beyond what we see. He makes use of the media`s language and exposes the often unpleasant situations, emotions and conditions. His works have been exhibited in Venice, Rome, Madrid, Paris, the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Art Copenhagen, Stenersen Museum, Vigeland Museum, the North Norwegian Art Museum and Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum. He has also produced a series of music videos, including for the rock band Turbonegro. http://www.snl.no/Crispin_Gurholt

The search for the underlying, essential message during the realization of an increasingly impossible seeming project becomes a reflexive, trance-like loop: the video piece rigorously rehearses artistic processes of creation and reflection, the conditions of production and the fear of failure. In a circular movement, as if the artist where spinning on her own axis in the studio, the camera scans the studio and all the objects, sketches and open processes it contains. Spaces open up – sometimes more distant, sometimes closer to the object of attention – as the camera traces a picture frame or traverses an urban landscape. Between old works pictured and image-like notes, cross-references emerge between image and text. The loop is repeated and constantly refined: at each screening the film is overwritten and thus becomes infinite and unfinished, continuously expanding and re-inscribing itself. Through this process, the artist repeatedly questions herself, thus highlighting her own as well as the general conditions of production.

Maia Gusberti *1971 born in Bern (CH) Lives and works in Brussels, Bern and Vienna 1986-93 Graphic Design Studies, Schule für Gestaltung, Biel (CH) 1996-02 MA Media Arts, Univ. f. applied Arts, Vienna (AT) 2096-10 Lives in Vienna (AT) Artist in residence in Sofia/Interspace, (EU) Artist in residence Paris/Cité des Arts (BMUKK), Artist in residence Cairo (PRO HELVETIA) 2006-11 Lives in Vienna(AT) and Cairo(EG) 2009 Artist in residence at PROGR Bern (CH) 2010-16 Lives in Bern (CH) and Vienna (AT) 2010 Main Award Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium (CH) 2011 Photography Award of Canton Bern Distinction (CH) 2012 Work Grant Photography 2012 of Canton Bern (CH) 2010-16 Artist in residence in Rome/IT (BMUKK) Artist in residence Amman/JO (PRO HELVETIA) Artist in residence Brussels/BE (Bains Connectives) Artist in residence Rotterdam/NL (Kaus Australis) Co-Initiant of Das Lehrerzimmer, Space for Books, Art and Cooking in Bern Member of RE-P.ORG, collective for visual and art concepts in Vienna & Bern Website: www.maiagusberti.net Email: m.gusberti@re-p.org Contact: (Postal adress) Maia Gusberti, Nydeggstalden 22, 3011 Bern Atelier: Atelier 311, PROGR, Waisenhausplatz 30, 3011 Bern (CH) Atelier: 24-26, Rue Lambert Crickx, 1070 Brussels (BE)

Lazy Nigel explores the small industrial town of Nigel in the East Rand of Johannesburg during weekends. The video starts with its landscapes of industrial complexes and factories, devoid of employees. As the film and my filming -which took place over a number of weekends- progress, a variety of local activities are revealed. Many of the town industry employees leave to return to their families, who often lived elsewhere. I wanted look at what remained. The film explores laziness as a construct. I am interested in unpacking the fact that work is traditionally seen as the major locus of our identity. Time off from our jobs allows us to engage in other activities that may not be seen as productive in a traditional sense. These activities can be social, political or creative, allowing us to think of our value in different ways and, as such, offer new ways to think about our identity.

Simon Gush (b.1981, Pietermaritzburg), living in Johannesburg. He was a 2011 Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, University of Cape Town, and completed postgraduate studies at the Hoger Instituut van Schone Kunsten in Ghent, Belgium, in 2008. Solo shows include After Work at Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin and 9 o`clock, at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown (both 2015), Red at the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg (2014); 1st and 3rd at Galerie West, The Hague, and 4 for Four at SMAK, Ghent (both 2010), in addition to six previous exhibitions at Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Group shows include Artists Engaged? Maybe at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2014); the 2nd Montevideo Biennial, Uruguay (2014); My Joburg at La Maison Rouge, Paris, and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (2013); Halakasha at the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (2010); 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2010) and the 2009 Luleå Summer Biennial, Sweden. In 2015 the academic workshop Red Assembly, with African Critical Inquiry Programme was held in East London around his exhibition Red. Gush was awarded the Jury prize at the Bamako Encounters Biennale (2015).

The title of the film, Iseeyou, comes from the slogan of the first multi-racial trade union in South Africa. It is a meditation of the relationship of visibility to work. Exploring public monuments to work and workers in Johannesburg, it looks at how these have been celebrated in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa through public art. The film suggests that this celebration is a way in which the conditions of work, and often the abuse of the rights of workers, is justified through the promotion of a work ethic.

Simon Gush was born in 1981 in Pietermaritzburg, and is currently based in Johannesburg. He was a laureate at the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent, Belgium, in 2007/8 and a Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts Fellow at the University of Cape Town in 2011. Solo exhibitions have taken place at the SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent (2010); and West, Den Haag, the Netherlands (2010); in addition to Stevenson Cape Town (2009, 2010 and 2013) and Johannesburg (2009 and 2011). Notable group exhibitions include My Joburg at La Maison Rouge, Paris,and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2013); Present Unlimited, Sofia Contemporary, Fabrica 126, Sofia, Bulgaria (2012); Mind the System, Find the Gap, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (2012); Connections, Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland(2011); the 2009 Luleå Summer Biennial, Sweden; and .za: Young Art from South Africa at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (2008). Alongside his artistic practice, Gush has collaborated in founding and facilitating a number of alternative temporary exhibition platforms, most notably the Parking Gallery, Johannesburg.

Distance, presents the absence of belief, where labour is estranged and invisibly services ?lifestyle?. Helen stays at a hotel for a conference, and has invited her sister and her nephew (Grant) to join for the weekend. After Helen leaves for the day?s session, Grant grows bored and listless after playing while his mother sleeps and wanders off into the hotel. He amuses himself for a number of hours playing in the corridors and spaces of the hotel, while occasionally voyeuristically watching the staff at work. He returns to the room to find Helen also at the door, her conference finished for the day. They sit in the room and Helen waits for Grant?s mother to return who is not there when they enter. The mother does return briefly, but only to change into something more suitable for dinner, and leaves again, to the silent frustration of Helen. Helen then also abandons Grant to his own devices while she goes off to her evening function.

Simon Gush (b.1981, ZA) is a South African artist currently based Johannesburg. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2003. Gush was a laureate at the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent, Belgium, in 2007/8 and a Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts Fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2011. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally and locally and has held solo shows at the SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent (2010), West, Den Haag, the Netherlands (2010), and the Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town (2009 & 2010) and Johannesburg (2009 & 2011). Gush has been included in two international publications surveying young contemporary artists: the Younger Than Jesus Directory published by the new Museum in New York, USA (2009); and 100 New Artists by Francesca Gavin, published by Laurence King Publishing (2011). Alongside his artistic practice, Gush has collaborated in founding and facilitating a number of alternative temporary exhibition platforms, most notably the Parking Gallery in 2006, which was relaunched in 2012.

Lazy Nigel explores the small industrial town of Nigel in the East Rand of Johannesburg during weekends. The video starts with its landscapes of industrial complexes and factories, devoid of employees. As the film and my filming -which took place over a number of weekends- progress, a variety of local activities are revealed. Many of the town industry employees leave to return to their families, who often lived elsewhere. I wanted look at what remained. The film explores laziness as a construct. I am interested in unpacking the fact that work is traditionally seen as the major locus of our identity. Time off from our jobs allows us to engage in other activities that may not be seen as productive in a traditional sense. These activities can be social, political or creative, allowing us to think of our value in different ways and, as such, offer new ways to think about our identity.

Simon Gush (b.1981, Pietermaritzburg), living in Johannesburg. He was a 2011 Fellow at the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, University of Cape Town, and completed postgraduate studies at the Hoger Instituut van Schone Kunsten in Ghent, Belgium, in 2008. Solo shows include After Work at Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin and 9 o`clock, at the National Arts Festival, Grahamstown (both 2015), Red at the Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg (2014); 1st and 3rd at Galerie West, The Hague, and 4 for Four at SMAK, Ghent (both 2010), in addition to six previous exhibitions at Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Group shows include Artists Engaged? Maybe at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon (2014); the 2nd Montevideo Biennial, Uruguay (2014); My Joburg at La Maison Rouge, Paris, and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (2013); Halakasha at the Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg (2010); 1910-2010: From Pierneef to Gugulective, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town (2010) and the 2009 Luleå Summer Biennial, Sweden. In 2015 the academic workshop Red Assembly, with African Critical Inquiry Programme was held in East London around his exhibition Red. Gush was awarded the Jury prize at the Bamako Encounters Biennale (2015).

The title of the film, Iseeyou, comes from the slogan of the first multi-racial trade union in South Africa. It is a meditation of the relationship of visibility to work. Exploring public monuments to work and workers in Johannesburg, it looks at how these have been celebrated in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa through public art. The film suggests that this celebration is a way in which the conditions of work, and often the abuse of the rights of workers, is justified through the promotion of a work ethic.

Simon Gush was born in 1981 in Pietermaritzburg, and is currently based in Johannesburg. He was a laureate at the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent, Belgium, in 2007/8 and a Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts Fellow at the University of Cape Town in 2011. Solo exhibitions have taken place at the SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent (2010); and West, Den Haag, the Netherlands (2010); in addition to Stevenson Cape Town (2009, 2010 and 2013) and Johannesburg (2009 and 2011). Notable group exhibitions include My Joburg at La Maison Rouge, Paris,and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2013); Present Unlimited, Sofia Contemporary, Fabrica 126, Sofia, Bulgaria (2012); Mind the System, Find the Gap, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (2012); Connections, Kunsthalle Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland(2011); the 2009 Luleå Summer Biennial, Sweden; and .za: Young Art from South Africa at Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena (2008). Alongside his artistic practice, Gush has collaborated in founding and facilitating a number of alternative temporary exhibition platforms, most notably the Parking Gallery, Johannesburg.

Distance, presents the absence of belief, where labour is estranged and invisibly services ?lifestyle?. Helen stays at a hotel for a conference, and has invited her sister and her nephew (Grant) to join for the weekend. After Helen leaves for the day?s session, Grant grows bored and listless after playing while his mother sleeps and wanders off into the hotel. He amuses himself for a number of hours playing in the corridors and spaces of the hotel, while occasionally voyeuristically watching the staff at work. He returns to the room to find Helen also at the door, her conference finished for the day. They sit in the room and Helen waits for Grant?s mother to return who is not there when they enter. The mother does return briefly, but only to change into something more suitable for dinner, and leaves again, to the silent frustration of Helen. Helen then also abandons Grant to his own devices while she goes off to her evening function.

Simon Gush (b.1981, ZA) is a South African artist currently based Johannesburg. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2003. Gush was a laureate at the HISK (Higher Institute for Fine Arts) in Ghent, Belgium, in 2007/8 and a Gordon Institute of Performing and Creative Arts Fellow at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2011. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally and locally and has held solo shows at the SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent (2010), West, Den Haag, the Netherlands (2010), and the Stevenson Gallery in Cape Town (2009 & 2010) and Johannesburg (2009 & 2011). Gush has been included in two international publications surveying young contemporary artists: the Younger Than Jesus Directory published by the new Museum in New York, USA (2009); and 100 New Artists by Francesca Gavin, published by Laurence King Publishing (2011). Alongside his artistic practice, Gush has collaborated in founding and facilitating a number of alternative temporary exhibition platforms, most notably the Parking Gallery in 2006, which was relaunched in 2012.

MAP OFFICE started many years ago to elaborate a series of works regarding production in China, and more specifically a textile factory that became our laboratory and model to experiment with the `harmonious society`. Started in 1968 in Hong Kong, the `City of Production` moved in 1989 to a large site located at the border between Shenzhen and Dongguan. Since then, it has constantly developed a fabulous environment to challenge a `positive capitalism` through landscape engineering and social benefits for its 10,000 workers.

MAP OFFICE is an interdisciplinary design and research platform conceived by Laurent Gutierrez (1966, Casablanca) and Valérie Portefaix (1969, Saint-Etienne). Based in Hong Kong since 1996, both epitomize a new breed of architects who are rethinking the socio-political agencies of architecture. Their projects focus on territorial strategies of global spaces, involving a critical analysis of spatial and temporal anomalies and documentation of the ways in which human beings subvert and appropriate spaces for their own uses. Today, MAP OFFICE works with parallel practices across visual art, publishing, writing, design, exhibition design, teaching? A sense of play exists in much of their collaborative work, through a practice including text, drawing, photography, video and the creation of new platforms of communication. MAP OFFICE projects have participated in major international art and architecture events including; the 7th and 11th Venice Architecture Biennale (2000, 2008); 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008); 10th Istanbul Biennale (2007); 52nd Venice Art Biennale (2007); 15th Sydney Biennale (2006); 1st Paris Triennial (2006), 2nd Guangzhou Triennial (2005); 1st Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (2003) where they won an award for the best ?Inspiration?. Their publications includes City of Production: a Fabulous Opportunity to Experiment with Positive Capitalism (2008); Unreal Estates of China (2007); The Parrot?s Tale (2007); My PRD Stories (2005); HK LAB 2 (2005); Gary Chang: Suitcase House (2004); Yung Ho Chang: A Chinese Practice (2003); HK LAB (2002); Mapping HK (2000); among many others publications on the ?Made in China? phenomenon and other, related issues. - Laurent Gutierrez is an Associate Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he leads the Environment and Interior Design discipline and the Master of Strategic Design as well as Innovation Design Management (IDM/MBA). He is also the co-director of SD SPACE LAB. He is currently doing a PhD on the ?Processes of Modernization and Urbanization in China focusing on the Pearl River Delta region?. Valérie Portefaix is the principal of MAP OFFICE. She received her Master of Architecture degree from School of Architecture Paris-Belleville and a PhD in Urbanism from University Pierre Mendes France. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. www.map-office.com

In the crying room the pain from the girls? damaged lives erupts in all its brutal, unprocessed intensity, and Gutierrez?s piece combines an immersion into this space of trauma with a reflective dimension of social criticism and a denunciation of the social contexts of sexual abuse. Primal Therapy- controversial in many Western countries - creates an intimate, sheltered space where abused girls can face their traumas and start their personal journey toward healing. CRYING ROOM/PATCH_WORKED DREAMS addresses one of the issues that the globalized world is increasingly confronted with: abuse, violence and sexual trafficking of girls and women. Gutierrez?s piece is based on a perspective of hope and resistance.

Sally Gutierrez is a visual artist whose work is situated between contemporary art and documentary practise, in a hybrid field informed by different disciplines such as film, gender studies, urbanism, anthropology, poetry and literature. After finalizing her M.A Art studies in Madrid Complutense University Gutierrez moved to Berlin, participating fully in the art movement in the Mitte district of East Berlin. In 1998 she moved to New York with a Fulbright grant, completed a Masters in Media Studies at the New School University and was later a participant of the Whitney Study Programme, New York. In 2001 she received a residency grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at the World Trade Center. Back in Madrid Gutierrez has travelled to the Philippines twice with different grants and has developed several projects in the country. Apart from her own projects she works in collaboration with her sister, documentary director and producer. Their latest film, TAPOLOGO, is currently being screened in film festivals and art centres all over the world and has received several prizes. Her work has been shown in national and international galleries, art centres, TV channels and Film / Video Festivals. She has taught in the New School University, has given many talks and workshops and has been a jury member for several Art Grants and Film / Video festivals.

Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive.

Marinthia Gutiérrez is a filmmaker from Tijuana, Mexico. She graduated from the UCLA Theater, Film, and Television School in 2018 with a Bachelor’s in Film, emphasizing in narrative directing. Marinthia is drawn to tell stories that are character-driven and introspective in an almost surreal way, visualizing raw emotions through highly stylized images. Her tone can be described as atmospheric magical realism. Marinthia's debut short film, “Ella se queda” (She stays), was the recipient of the 2022 Standard Fantastic Fellowship and it world premiered at Semaine de la Critique - Cannes Film Festival in 2024.

A major figure in the American experimental film movement of the 1960s and '70s and a widely published theorist, Hollis Frampton made such acclaimed and influential films as "Zorns Lemma", the "Hapax Legomena" series, and the unfinished "Magellan". Retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere. The journal "October" twice devoted whole issues to Frampton, and the entire body of his film work is preserved in the Royal Film Archive of Belgium. Frampton taught at the Cooper Union, Hunter College, and the State University of New York in Buffalo. In January 1977, Hollis Frampton appeared on "Screening Room" to discuss his work and to screen "Lemon", "Pas De Trois", excerpts from "Maxwell?s Demon", "Surface Tension", "Critical Mass", and footage from what ultimately became "Magellan".

"Screening Room" was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, who at the time was Director of Harvard's Visual Arts Center, and Chairman of its Visual and Environmental Studies Department. His own films include "Dead Birds" (1964), and "Forest of Bliss" (1986).

In March 1977, Yvonne Rainer appeared on "Screening Room" with film scholar and author Deac Rossell to screen and discuss excerpts from her film "Kristina Talking Pictures". Relentless exploration of the nature of performance, the construction of meaning, and the relations of the sexes has guided Rainer?s long career, first in avant-garde choreography and dance and then in filmmaking. Her honours include Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships along with numerous exhibitions of her work, including recent retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Her other films include "Lives of Performers" (1972), "Film About a Woman Who?" (1974), "The Man Who Envied Women" (1985), "Privilege" (1991), and "MURDER and murder" (1996).

"Screening Room" was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, who at the time was Director of Harvard's Visual Arts Center and Chairman of its Visual and Environmental Studies Department. His own films include "Dead Birds" (1964), and "Forest of Bliss" (1986).

Caroline Leaf?s animated work springs from her expert storytelling and pioneering animation techniques. One significant contribution to filmmaking is her technique of manipulating sand on a light-box, which she began as a student at Harvard. She later worked as an animator and director at the National Film Board of Canada. Her film "The Street" garnered an Academy Award nomination in 1976. On this occasion, she screens the remarkable "The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend" and parts of "The Street" and "The Metamorphosis" of Mr. Samsa which were works-in-progress at the time. Mary Beams? hand-drawn films carry themes of memory, erotic fantasy and feminism. She taught animation at Harvard from 1972 to 1977, and by 1988, she was a partner in Media Ink, Inc., with a weekly animated political spot on NBC?s Sunday Today Show. She has also taught at the University of South Florida and Northern Illinois University. Here, she screens "The Tub", "Solo Film", "Going Home Sketch-book", "Piano Rub", and her work-in-progress, "Quilt Film".

"Screening Room" was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, who at the time, was Director of Harvard's Visual Arts Center and Chairman of its Visual and Environmental Studies Department. His own films include Dead Birds (1964), and Forest of Bliss (1986).