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A unique blend of Bauhaus and Art Déco, the marvellous Villa Empain has had many different lives since it opened in 1934. A story of survival. ____ VILLA EMPAIN draws a mental map of a space, as it goes through time. Concrete marble, brick and steel: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. To survive, they must become shapeshifters. VILLA EMPAIN compares the life of Louis Empain and his creation. It bears witness to how a fixed idea, an architect’s dream, has disappeared in favour of a living architecture. The work is activated.

Katharina Kastner is an Austrian filmmaker working in Vienna and Brussels. She studied directing at TISCH School of the Arts in NYC and LUCA, Brussels. Her experimental short film about a museum of contemporary art, VILLA EMPAIN, builds upon the concept of psychogeography and draws a mental map of a space as it goes through time. Katharina Kastner’s films combine documentary, essayistic and experimental elements. She is interested in fragile environments and the people behind these, using the camera to explore inner and outer transformations. Time and memory are recurring themes in her work.

A woman visits a prison in the village of Márianosztra (Hungary) to find out more about the ongoing production of barbed wire by the inmates of the institution for various European border fences. Subsequently, she engages in a research about those women who were imprisoned there for being communists and antifascists between 1920 and 1944 at a time when it was run by nuns as a place to "re-discipline" the sentenced person through labor and prayer. The voice of a ghost belonging to a female political prisoner follows her as she is trying to connect past and present through gestures of mourning.

Eszter Katalin (born 1991, Budapest) is an artist based in Vienna. She has recently finished her master`s degree in Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (2015-2018). In her works she focuses on the tensions between political struggles and their representation within a so-called critical artistic practice, departing frequently, but not solely, from Hungary’s social context as marked through its politics of memory and exclusion. Her latest works include her film MEGSZAKÍTÁS* Civil Aktivizmus Magyarországon (MEGSZAKÍTÁS* Civil Activism in Hungary, video in four parts, 76 min, 2017), Versammlung (Coming together, audio piece, 9 min, 2017) and Mária Vörösben (Mary in Red, video, 28:39 min, 2018).

In Breu (Pitch black), the recorded images present, in a non-linear montage, the semi-artisanal paving process of a rectangle arbitrarily drawn in the middle of a vacant lawn. The soundtrack brings a circular text that overflows in modal adverbial adjuncts (mainly right and wrong),without defining any clear object, the text builds the speech in an endless cycle, onto which the ideas of progress and evolution cannot be applied.

JULIA KATER | 1980 ‘ Paris, France Lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in Photography from the School of Advertising and Marketing - ESPM (Sao Paulo - Brazil). The research of the artist Julia Kater is guided in the elaboration of a body of work that can treat it from its visual improbability. Whether by the collage brought about by different overlaid photographic prints, which announces a watchful sky ‘ despite its invisible character ‘ or by videos that bring about the rearrangement of a set of actions and phrases, each work in its own way prioritizes the elaboration of bodies from everyday scenes that suggest simultaneous shared experiences with the persistent memory together with its struggle with forgetfulness, its ally and the cause of the gradual loss of a large part of the truths. Kater regularly participates in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, in countries like France, USA, Belgium and Portugal.

Patriarchal masculinity seems to catch its last breath in the sun. A story about a cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely.

Born in 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania, Vytautas Katkus graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in cinematography from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. He works as cinematographer in movies as well in video art projects. He won best young cinematographer award by Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers in 2014 and 2015. Since 2016 he is a member of Lithuanian Association of Cinematographers. ?Kolektyviniai sodai (Community Gardens), his debut short film, is selected at the 58th Semaine de la Critique.

The modifications that the inhabitants of a housing estate have brought to the standardized model of their house are revealed in a rhythmic way. The video camera opens a space of multiplicity and constant variability, using the schematic organization of the buildings. The architectural surface changes are depicted as swings. What is concrete dances - on the dance floor of the abstract.

Timo Katz was born in 1977 in Siegen. From 1999 to 2006 he has studied film design and photography at the College of Bielefeld, and graduated as a designer in February 2006. He lives in Bielefeld and works on experimental films projects as well as commissions.

The experimental video work ?Die Welt? concerns space-time perception in our visual experiment of the world. Our perception is not only defined by photography, but especially by the rules of the main perspective. This one shows and explains the visible world through a diagrammatic simplification. This work is interested in the widened use of the camera like prosthesis of observation for the discovery and the recognition of the visible one. The main perspective here is broken and disintegrated. The piece, under consideration through this process of disintegration, undergoes a shift in time and space. The edition, and only the edition, makes it possible to make visible an alternated Space-Time-Vision. It raises the question of the significance of technical widening growth of our tool of observation, and its consequences at the present and in the future. It underlines moreover our tendency to depend more and more on models of perception already built.

Timo Katz was born in 1977 in Siegen. He studied the photo and film graphic design at the Higher School of Bielefeld where he obtained his diploma in 2006. He has been working since 2002 in the field of videos and experimental films. He currently lives and works in Leipzig. He started with Jan Fuchs the independent group of visual research Katz&Fuchs. Jan Fuchs was born in 1976 in Hamburg. He studied photo-and film graphic design at the Bielefeld School and obtained his diploma in 2004. HE has been working since 2002 in the field of videos and experimental films. He lives and works in Kassel. He started the independent group of visual research Katz&Fuchs with Timo Katz.

Haruto is driving around on the desert roads of Hokkaido and picks up a rabbit man hitch hiker who offers him a mask. Tetsu is looking for the part of himself he has lost. Sona is ignoring Tetsu?s bad feelings.Miwa is hesitating whether to follow the rabbit man in an unknown world. Some lives, blurred paths that connect and disconnect between the real world and an imaginary one.

Yuki Kawamura is born in Kyoto, Japan. After filming studies, he directs his first film in 1999 NUMERO 2 which is still sold at the Georges Pompidou museum in Paris and at the Hara museum in Tokyo. He begins a real approach on the light, the real and the imaginary world but also on the colors and the frame.

In this documentary film, the filmmaker Naomi Kawase, having becoming a mother, pursues her personal work of the interrogation of the world. Her son Mitsouki was born on April 24, 2004, at 10:40. His birth was a traditional one, without medicine, with only the assistance of a midwife in an old Japanese house on a tatami surrounded by her family. As the umbilical cord was cut, Naomi recorded this highly symbolic moment, as well as all the people that had affectionately been present. Day by day since then, she sees and films her son and her ninety year old grandmother in their old house of Nara. The film develops on two dimensions: one with the child growing up under the attentive watch of his mother and great-grandmother, and one of the artist's own infancy told in the first person.

One Saturday afternoon at an art school, Tania is immersed in preparations for a crucial exhibition. She anxiously awaits the arrival of visitors, especially Nathalie—her late brother's fiancée. Reconnecting after years apart, their conversations sway between the mundane and the intimate, tension and relief. Loosely inspired by Natsume S?seki’s novel "Light and Darkness", the film explores the subtle power of words that shape our emotions.

Born in 1993 in Miyazaki, Japan, Shoichiro Kawashima currently lives and works in Tokyo. A graduate of Beaux-Arts de Paris, the National School of Fine Arts in France, under the guidance of Clément Cogitore and Angelica Mesiti, he has been working as a director and producer in Japan since 2023.

We are constantly inundated by images of violence, and at the same time by images of lifestyle. The contrast is certainly great. Sentiments vary, but whichever way we look at it, both kinds exist so vividly as to be indispensable. In the morning of April 20, 1999 two young Americans, 15-year-old Eric Harris and 18-year-old Dylan Klebal, went to their school, the Columbine High School in Littleton, USA carrying guns and hand-grenades. They killed 14 of their fellow students and one teacher. Most of the victims were in the cafeteria of the school. The whole incident was recorded on closed-circuit TV. This event is so important in itself as to eclipse even the shine of a global symbol. The video starts with Mickey and Minnie Mouse at various poses, running and twirling amidst flashing colours. Is this a party or a bloodbath? The music form the song "My Cat Fell In The Well" (1983) by Manhattan Transfer accompanies them, carefree yet also persistent at the same time. The song tells in a cheerful way the dramatic story of a glamorous star-cat that fell down a well, and its owner"s distress until it was found. Suddenly, the music stops and the video shows the faces of the unfairly killed children, those who believed in the carefree innocence of Mickey Mouse or any other Mickey Mouse. For the rest of us relief does come in the end, as Mickey reappears and the music starts playing again. The issue is no longer our concern. This could never happen to us.

George Kazazis was born in Athens in 1958, where he lives and works. He has been teaching at the Athens School of Fine Arts since 1990. Was member of the Project Space, Athens, (artist -run space founded in 2000-2001)

NON HUMAN is a film made from poems written in collaboration with an Artificial Intelligence (recurrent neural network) and five artists — York Chang, Marcus Civin, Tia-Simone Gardner, Viet Le, and Yvonne Rainer. Inspired by poet Muriel Rukeyser’s technique for writing The Book of the Dead (1937), a poem in which she directly quotes workers’ voices from congressional testimony about the Hawk’s Nest mining catastrophe that killed nearly 2000 miners, 80% of whom were Black workers. NON HUMAN was filmed in rural Vermont in disused marble, quarries, hospitals, and local artists’ studios and it presents leisure time and creative space as conditions to excavate the unwritten histories of labor, racism, and environmental destruction in local American communities. The generative AI used to write the script was trained with Rukeyser’s Collected Poems, the congressional testimony of workers that she quoted, and contemporary critical race and eco-feminist theories of Kathryn Yussof, Tavia Nyong’o, Saidiya Hartman, and Hortense Spillers. In Hartman’s essay The Dead Book Revisited she asks “how do we attend to black death? How do we find life where only the traces of destruction remain?” NON HUMAN’s critical AI writing machine, fed by historic documentary materials, poetry that witnesses to extractive capitalism and anti-black racism, speculates on Hartman’s question. Live performers in NON HUMAN include: sound engineer Ben Arindell, singer/song-writer Patrick Sargent, physician Jeffrey Yucht, critic Marcus Civin, sculptor Fred X Brownstein, and sound technician Jack Schlandt.

David Kelley is an artist working in photography, video, and installation. His recent projects explore the impacts of global capitalism, resource extraction, and evolving landscapes, combining elements of experimental documentary, ethnography, and avant-garde cinema to offer a perspective that is both grounded and speculative. His work has been shown nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Fotofest Biennial in Houston, Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, The Bank in Shanghai, and the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok. Kelley holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and was a resident of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. He is based in Los Angeles, where he is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California.

Spiritual Myopia is a film dealing with the invisible labor and desire of the residents of the oil industry boom towns of Fort McMurray in the Canadian Tar Sands and the refining town of Port Arthur Texas. The two cities are terminal nodes of the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline which would span the United States. Fort McMurray is the third largest oil deposit in the world. Its rapid pace of growth has meant a dearth of housing for its migrant workers. Port Arthur boasts the world’s largest concentration of oil refineries and its town center has nearly disintegrated from economic decline. These twin cities are related spatially as nodes in the same energy infrastructure, and temporally in their different stages of a boom or bust economy. Borrowing its title from Alfred Stieglitz’s photo Spiritual America, Spiritual Myopia speaks to the nearsightedness innate to hypercapitalism.

Spiritual Myopia is a collaboration between artists David Kelley and Patty Chang Patty Chang (Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) Patty Chang is an artist working in performance, video, writing, and installation. Her work has a capacity to explore complex subjects nearly simultaneously, as does life. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and internationally at such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; BAK, Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht, the Netherlands; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Fri Art Centre d’Art de Freibourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England David Kelley (Lives in Los Angeles California, CA.) David Kelley’s work is a hybrid of experimental documentary and ethnographic practices that make use of imaginary, choreographic and performative strategies. His work has been shown in galleries throughout the world. Recently, he has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, White Box in Portland Oregon, and Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles. Other recent exhibitions include The Bank in Shanghai, New Art Center, the de Cordova Biennial in Boston, BAK in Utrecht, MAAP space in Brisbane Australia.

The Book of the Dead is an experimental documentary meditating on the American poet Muriel Rukeyser’s poem about the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In the 1930s in West Virginia, nearly 2,000 primarily Black migrant workers were sickened or killed by silicosis, a lung disease caused by breathing silica dust. Rukeyser travelled to West Virginia to meet workers and their families, in some cases, appropriating their words directly. The film revises her white characters to a predominately Black cast — more accurately reflecting the insidious racism prevalent in American society at the time. The film appropriates interviews with the poet, her unfinished screenplay, and worker’s testimony to U.S. Congress. Using actors, theatrical sets, and 3D generated backgrounds, the film produces a multisensory experience of Rukeyser’s process and the industrial tragedy. Unable to travel during the Covid-19 pandemic, Kelley designed the West Virginia mining sets in Unreal, a 3D gaming software and filmed actors at a green screen studio near his home in Los Angeles. The work's theme of failure to breathe poignantly resonates with the Covid-19 pandemic, and the final words turned protest chant of George Floyd: I can't breathe.

David Kelley (Born in Portland Oregon. Lives in Los Angeles California.) Kelley is an artist working with photography, video, and installation. His recent projects draw attention to the effects of global capitalism, resource extraction, and shifting physical and political landscapes. Influenced by a range of visual traditions, Kelley draws upon elements of experimental documentary, ethnography, performance, and avant-garde cinema. By working at the intersection of these strategies, he encourages an understanding of his subjects that is simultaneously direct and speculative. His work has been shown in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Fotofest Biennial, Houston. Other exhibitions include Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, The Bank in Shanghai, the de Cordova Biennial in Boston, BAK in Utrecht, MAAP space in Australia, and the Jim Thompson Art Center in Bangkok. Kelley received a Master of Fine Art from the University of California, Irvine, and was a 2010 -11 resident at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California, and is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California.

Marcel Duchamp talks about an absurd 'readymade'. An art dealer creates a discourse using the idea of the 'readymade'. An art historian talks about her long time relationship observing Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty. These personal micro-histories around paradigm shifting artists offers hidden knowledge around the common art historical narrative. While the artist turns over the rocks of the Spiral Jetty, bringing back the experiential quality to an artwork that is mostly known through images.

Skull Island is an ongoing series of lectures, films and installations that examine a hypothetical image environment as an introspective space that reflects the sociopolitical contexts of its audience. Using the fictional island from King Kong as an analogy, cultural and technological developments define a relative position from which the viewer can view and question their surroundings. Part III is structured around two artefacts found in the visual effects archive of Berlin’s Deutsche Kinemathek Museum of Film and Television. A cast of the skull of the original armature for the stop-motion model of King Kong (Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933) and a silicone mask constructed for Kevin Bacon’s computer-generated invisible character in Hollow Man (Paul Verhoeven, 2000) create a framework in which to discuss the surfaces and armatures or the skin and bones of moving images. The film examines the inherent hidden material and socio-political properties of moving images, the perpetuation of insidious ideological constructs in cinematic remakes or reboots, and traumas encapsulated in the sites and systems of moving image production.

Graham Kelly is a visual artist and filmmaker. His practice is situated in the interfaces between contemporary forms of images, physical bodies, and environments. By considering these interactions as engulfing and continuous states or effects, his work seeks to expose and dissect power structures that are cast, distorted or enforced within them. His works have been screened and exhibited in a number of international contexts that include: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Kino der Kunst, EYE Filmmuseum, TENT, Transmission, NEST, Recontres Internationales, and LUX. He was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in 2015/16 and at AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz in 2018.

Hello Joe was covertly produced overnight in a series of rented Airbnb accommodations. It is constructed entirely from elements found and filmed within a number of private homes that were accessed through the online service. Furnishings, ornaments and extracts from various personal book, CD and DVD collections act as a singular workable archive. The resulting film is comprised of a series of vignettes that examine the objects and media that we intimately live with and the ideologies that they preserve. Domestic spaces are merged together in this portrait of an emerging corporate territory within the declining value of privacy.

Graham Kelly is an artist, filmmaker and writer. His practice is situated in the interface between contemporary forms of image, the physical body and environment. By considering this interaction as an engulfing and continuous state or effect, his work seeks to expose and dissect power structures that are cast, distorted or enforced within it. His works have been screened and exhibited in a number of international contexts that include: Recontres Internationales, Kino der Kunst, Lo schermo dell’arte, EYE Filmmuseum, TENT, Transmission, Intermedia, Generator Projects and The Moscow Biennale for Young Art. He was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in 2015/16.

Skull Island is an ongoing series of video works, lectures and installations that use the fictional island from the various versions of King Kong as analogies for hypothetical image environments. Each island provides a means of manifesting and examining an introspective image space that reflects the sociopolitical contexts of its audience. The cultural and technological developments displayed within each version of the film define relative positions from which the viewer can question their current perceived surroundings. After being captured by a camera crew within this otherwise inaccessible territory, Kong escapes into the physical context to confront the audience with their internal fears and shared cultural constructs.

Graham Kelly (b. 1982, Ayr, Scotland) is an artist and writer based in Rotterdam and Brussels. Previous exhibitions, screenings and lectures include: Transmission Gallery (Glasgow), Intermedia (Glasgow), Generator Projects (Dundee), Kino der Kunst (Munich), TENT (Rotterdam), EYE Film Museum (Amsterdam) and the 2016 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. He graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2009 with a Masters in Research and with a Masters in Fine Art in 2014 from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. He was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht between 2015 and 2016 and is the recipient of the Mondriaan Fonds Werkbijdrage Jong Talent and Centrum Beeldende Kunst O&O subsidies and a Scottish Arts Council Creative and Professional Development Award.

"The Lie in Wait" incorporates digital compositing and home video documentary in a linked, episodic narrative that examines family stories. The work is comprised of animated scenarios and interviews with the artist?s parents that, when combined, often mark convergences between mythologies that are produced in the vernacular traditions of family storytelling and myths that are mediated by more widely recognized cinematic codes. Many of the anecdotes used in the telling of these stories incorporate metaphor to create meaning and a shared history. These stories are meant to be told and repeated, witnessed, and watched again. In the process, these tales become metaphoric in their own telling. Between each episode in the video, visual and linguistic metaphors repeat and reveal themselves as symptoms of what is repressed by the storytellers. In lie and wait beyond these symptoms is often something traumatic. When the metaphors in "The Lie in Wait" become unrecognizable, through both slippages in the storytellers? memory and the uncanny qualities of the animation, trauma returns to appear and reappear.

Jean-Paul Kelly, born in 1977, in London, Ontario, Canada, is an artist based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The primary focus of his practice is single-channel video and video-based installation, but his work also includes drawing, photography, and print-media. His most recent videos, "Give Up the Ghost" (2004) and "The Lie in Wait" (2005), incorporate a hybrid vernacular of digital compositing, animation, onscreen performance, and home video documents that examine anticipation, anxiety, and loss in storytelling. His work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals in North America, Europe, and Japan.

In this film about a falsified InterRail ticket, a chain of events and links arise which leads the filmmaker on a journey. Where fiction in a performative manner seems to materialize itself and create a piece of reality that seems to imitate fiction. The protagonist in the film is never to be seen, instead we follow her voice through staging and documents while the story is being mediated.

Eva Rocco Kenell (b. 1982 Växjö, Sweden) holds a BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and a MFA from Konstfack University of Arts and Craft, Stockholm where she graduated with the honorable Principal scholarship. Kenell’s artistic practice is based on a documentary ground, even though the intentions are rather to break down classical narratives and normative storytelling. Not only concepts surrounding fiction and reality are central, but also questions around which one of the two is creating the other. Kenell`s methodology consists of a research based practice with a focus on micro-histories, where she explores single events and where details in a story can become the new center and the place which the focus is transferred to. Kenell`s practice brings up notions concerning the role of the documentary, storytelling, concept of truth and imitation. And at the same time it opens up for questions around freedom of movement and counter-strategies.

The Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra, Portugal is a huge estate that has two wells for performing initiation ceremonies built into the ground. This film takes us into one of them.

Chris Kennedy (b. 1977 Easton, Maryland, raised Cambridge, Maryland) is an independent filmmaker, film programmer and writer based in Toronto. He is the Executive Director of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. He programmed for the Images Festival from 2003-06, Pleasure Dome from 2000-06 and for TIFF Cinematheque’s The Free Screen/Wavelengths from 2012-2019. He co-founded and co-programmed Early Monthly Segments from 2009 to 2018. His short experimental films have screened at over one hundred film festivals worldwide and have been featured in solo shows at the Canadian Film Institute, Los Angeles Film Forum, Nam June Paik Art Center, the La Plata Semana del Film Experimental and the Pacific Film Archive. His film “Watching the Detectives” won the Ken Burns Award for the Best of the Festival at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2018. He has presented the work of others in Belgium, Egypt, Germany, the US and Canada. He holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, where he was co-founder and host of a weekly film salon. His work as an artist and programmer operates in dialogue with the history of film as art, exploring the medium’s materiality in a contemporary context.

Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as a potential home? And how does that symbol function beyond the boundaries of its geographic limits?

Chris Kennedy is an independent filmmaker, programmer and writer currently living in Toronto. He programmed for the Images Festival from 2003-06, Pleasure Dome from 2000-06 and co-founded the ongoing screening series Early Monthly Segments in 2009. His short experimental films have screened at over one hundred film festivals worldwide and he has presented film programs in Egypt, Belgium, Germany, the US and Canada. He holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Hippopotamus synopsis A figure in a laboratory observers preserved specimens in jars Do they come to life? He begins to attend to the specimens The disks of a main frame computer begins to run He is now inside a container were many animals were housed many seem to be dead One animal a hippopotamus is still alive The figure plays and interacts with the hippopotamus in a pool among many dead fish The figure returns to the laboratory and his duty of attending the computers memory disks.

an irish artist graduated from uic with an MFA in studio art in 2012 resident at rijksakademie amsterdam 2001 2002

In a factory of the archipel of the modern ruins. Two silhouettes. Masculine and feminine. Hard and silky. Suspended to their shadows. Contemplate the time which passes, and sacrifice their bodies to the work. Fragments of day by their side

Djamel Kerkar was born in Algiers, in Algerie. He spent a part of his childhood in Tunis, and worked in Algiers for a cineclub as a curator and moderator. He graduates in Film Direction at the high school of the visual arts from Marrakesh in Morocco. He realizes his first work in 2012, the documentary short film "Archipel" followed by "Earth Is Full Of Ghosts" a Fiction freely inspired by Albert`s Camus Misunderstanding. He develops several projects in Algeria both in documentary and fiction