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Armando Lulaj
Catalogue : 2016Recapitulation | Experimental film | hdv | color and b&w | 13:0 | Albania, Italy | 2015
Armando Lulaj
Recapitulation
Experimental film | hdv | color and b&w | 13:0 | Albania, Italy | 2015
On December 23, 1957, at 11:10 AM, a US Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star aircraft flown by Major Howard J. Curran left Chateauroux, France, heading for Naples, Italy. Above Turin, the aircraft radio failed and after hitting bad weather with strong winds, the plane veered off its flight path to end up, by mistake, in the sovereign airspace of the People`s Republic of Albania. At 1:28 PM, the intruder was intercepted by the Albanian Air Force Command, which instantly ordered two MiG-15 fighter jets to take off and identify it. By 3:50 PM, the fighters reported that they had spotted the intruder in the area around Rinas Airport, flying at 500-650 km/hr at an altitude of 150-200 m. Prompt countermeasures were taken. The airplane was forced to land and, to keep it from taking off again, the airport was locked down.
Born in 1980 in Tirana, Albania, Armando Lulaj is a writer of plays, texts on risk territory, film author, and producer of conflict images, orientated toward accentuating the border between economical power, fictional democracy and social disparity in a global context. Exhibitions include the Prague Biennial (2003; 2007), Tirana Biennial (2005), 4th Gothenburg Biennale (2007), the 6th Berlin Biennial (2010), the 63rd Berlinale International Film Festival (2013) and the 56th Venice Biennale - Albanian Pavilion (2015).
Catalogue : 2014NEVER | Documentary | hdv | | 22:0 | Albania | 2013
Armando Lulaj
NEVER
Documentary | hdv | | 22:0 | Albania | 2013
44 years after the name of Albania?s dictator was painted on the Shpirag mountain, a group of villagers take the effort to climb the mountain and change the letters by overwriting a new word, referring to the past dictatorship and the current government.
Born in Tirana Albania, 1980. Writer of plays, texts on risk territory, film author and producer of conflict images, Armando Lulaj is a lucid and disrespectful analyst of the dispositive and mechanisms of power hidden backstage of the international claimed forms. He has no desire to rivendicate the context of local belonging; rather, he is orientated toward accentuating the border between economical power, fictional democracy and social disparity in a global context?. In 2003 he founded the Debatikcenter of Contemporary Art (DCCA) to analyze the recent changes in contemporary society. Recently, Debatikcenter (DCPD) has become more of a centre for film production. Armando Lulaj has participated in exhibitions such as: The Prague Biennial (2003, 2007), Tirana Biennial (2005), the Albanian Pavilion in the 52 Venice Biennial (2007), the 4th Gothenburg Biennale (2007), the 8th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland (2009), the 6th Berlin Biennial (2010) and the 63` Berlinale Film Festival (2013). His work is present in important public and private collections.
Catalogue : 2012IT WEARS AS IT GROWS | Experimental film | hdcam | color and b&w | 18:23 | Albania | 2011
Armando Lulaj
IT WEARS AS IT GROWS
Experimental film | hdcam | color and b&w | 18:23 | Albania | 2011
It Wears as it Grows is a story about paranoia, dictatorship and nowadays corruption. All begins on 25th May 1959, at the height of the Cold War, when Nikita Khrushchev visited Albania. Soviet plans to arm Enver Hoxha`s state with submarines and warships, positioning long and medium-range missiles along the Albanian coast, were devised to counter the U.S. missile bases installed in Italy in order to control the Mediterranean. A large number of young Albanian sailors took part in military training under the Soviet army. In 1963, after the break in relations with the USSR, the Albanian navy, in paranoiac fear of enemy attacks, sighted an object that repeatedly appeared and vanished in the sea off the coast at Patok. Believing it to be a submarine, they fired. The object was in fact a Cachalot (Physeter catodon L), the Mediterranean sperm whale. After being recovered, its remains were displayed in the Museum of Natural History in Tirana, where it can still be found. After all, in 2011 the object reappears in the streets of Tirana and like a ghost it wonders around the city, then to be enclosed inside the "Piramida", Hoxha?s mausoleum in Tirana, that was built in 1987. This pyramid-shaped structure was designed by the daughter and son-in-law of the late Albanian communist leader Enver Hoxha to glorify his figure and create an eternal monument like the pyramids of the Egyptian pharaohs. The museum was closed with the ending of communist regime in 1992. Among other activities during the 1999 Kosovo War, the mausoleum was used as a base by NATO and a number of international humanitarian organisations. Gradually stripped of its marble cladding and now abandoned, the 17,000 square metre complex will be destroyed so that the new Albanian parliament can be built on the site.
Born in 1980 in Tirana, Albania. He lives and works in Tirana. ?Writer of plays, texts on risk territory and film author, producer of conflict images, Armando Lulaj is a lucid and disrespectful analyst of the dispositive and mechanisms of power hidden backstage of the international claimed forms. He has no desire to rivendicate the context of local belonging; rather, he is orientated toward accentuating the border between economical power, fictional democracy and social disparity in a global context?. In 2003 he founded the Debatikcenter of Contemporary Art. Debatikcenter is a debate centre who wants to analyze the recent changes in contemporary society. Recently, Debatikcenter has become more of a centre for film production run by Armando and his sister Anola Lulaj. Armando Lulaj has participated in exhibitions such as: The Prague Biennial (2003, 2007), Tirana Biennial (2005), the Albanian Pavilion in the 52 Venice Biennial (2007), the 4th Gothenburg Biennale (2007), the 8th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Szczecin, Poland (2009), the 6th Berlin Biennial (2010). Among other residency programs we can mention IASPIS (2010). (Marco Scotini)
Henrik Lund Jörgensen
Catalogue : 2016The Recruitment (And Escape) Of A Plastic Soldier | Video | 4k | color | 10:15 | Denmark, Sweden | 2015
Henrik Lund JÖrgensen
The Recruitment (And Escape) Of A Plastic Soldier
Video | 4k | color | 10:15 | Denmark, Sweden | 2015
With references to landscape painting from the Romantic era and to silent film Henrik Lund Jørgensen draws inspiration from the works of the Danish film maker Carl Th. Dreyer in the making of his new video The Recruitment (And Escape) Of A Plastic Soldier (2015). In a cinematic language a narrative arises that exchange concepts as recruitment and flight and for whom it concerns.
Henrik Lund Jørgensen received his Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2005 at the Malmö Art Academy, where he also lives and works today. In addition, he has a Bachelor’s degree in photography and a Master’s degree in film. In recent years, he has taught in the Master’s Programme Cinematic processes at Valand Academy of Film at Gothenburg University. Lund Jørgensen has exhibited both in Sweden and internationally, including at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Rostock, Museum Kunst der Westküste (DE), Kiasma (Helsinki), Norrtälje Konsthall, Scandinavia House (New York), The Hirschsprungske Collection (Copenhagen) and at the Atelier Nord ANX (Oslo) and was recently a grant holder at the Iaspis program in Stockholm.
Eli Maria Lundgaard
Catalogue : 2023Gut Feeling | Experimental film | mp4 | black and white | 12:56 | Norway | 2021

Eli Maria Lundgaard
Gut Feeling
Experimental film | mp4 | black and white | 12:56 | Norway | 2021
The video Gut Feeling investigates the body as a container full of biology, memories and stories. It explores how genetics, history and ghosts affect our consciousness, questions who we are or what we are made of, and describes a kind of life without any beginning or end. The video looks at the ambiguity of the body – to see it as both a possessor and possessed, which may make us reimagine what we interpret as living or dead, human or non human, and familiar or strange in the subject. Gut Feeling is full of unarticulated, undefined and unclear shapes – abstract forms waiting to be shaped by language and words.
Eli Maria Lundgaard (b. 1989, Norway) is a visual artist based in Oslo, Norway. She holds a master in fine art from Malmö Art Academy (2018). Her work has been presented at The Moscow International Biennale for Young Artists (2016 and 2018), the onboard program at The Antarctic Biennale (2017), as well as at several exhibitions and screenings in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe. In 2019 she was nominated for Future Generation Art Prize, and have through this exhibited at Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev and at the collateral event of the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2022, she participated in the opening exhibition at the National Museum in Norway, amongst others. Solo exhibitions includes UKS in Oslo 2020, Delfi in Malmö 2020, Marabouparken Konsthall in Sundbyberg in 2021, and at NNKS in Svolvær 2022.
Cecilia Lundqvist
Catalogue : 2020Virus | Video | hdv | color | 3:58 | Sweden | 2019
Cecilia Lundqvist
Virus
Video | hdv | color | 3:58 | Sweden | 2019
The animation ”Virus” uses classic we and them rhetoric in a fast pace to reflect how opinions of alien contempt poisons, spreads and contaminates.
Cecilia Lundqvist, b. 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Living and working in Stockholm, Sweden Working almost exclusively with animated art, mostly as single channel videos. Through animating my own drawings, I am mediating tales of human relationships and not shying away from life’s darker and more destructive sides. Since 1994 I’ve created over 30 videos, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. My works have all been screened at numerous occations worldwide and I’m represented at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Catalogue : 2018En av dem (One of them) | Animation | hdv | color | 1:53 | Sweden | 2017
Cecilia Lundqvist
En av dem (One of them)
Animation | hdv | color | 1:53 | Sweden | 2017
The animated video “ en av dem/one of them ” reflects the anxiety of knowing that eternal life is not for everyone.
Working almost exclusively with animated art, mostly as single channel videos. Through animating my own drawings, I am mediating tales of human relationships and not shying away from life’s darker and more destructive sides. Since 1994 I’ve created over 30 videos, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. My works have all been screened at numerous occations worldwide and I’m represented at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Catalogue : 2016Tilt | Animation | hdv | color | 5:6 | Sweden | 2014
Cecilia Lundqvist
Tilt
Animation | hdv | color | 5:6 | Sweden | 2014
The animated video "Tilt" describes a deep relation that is abruptly broken up and as a result, the existing life is turned into ruin. The video is a contemplation of a human being’s inability to comprehend its own transience.
Working almost exclusively with animated art, mostly as single channel videos. Through animating my own drawings, I am mediating tales of human relationships and not shying away from life’s darker and more destructive sides. Since 1994 I’ve created over 30 videos, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. My works have all been screened at numerous occations worldwide and I’m represented at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Catalogue : 2014The Quiet Game Starts Now | Video | hdv | color | 5:47 | Sweden | 2012
Cecilia Lundqvist
The Quiet Game Starts Now
Video | hdv | color | 5:47 | Sweden | 2012
The animated video The Quiet Game Starts Now (Tysta leken börjar nu) is a satire about the current escalation of self-absorption. Two women meet in a conversation, which from the start is a one-way communication, with one dominating party. After a while there is a shift in power and the silence grows stronger and starts to speak.
Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Currently living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Artist specializing in animation and since 1994 working almost exclusively with videos, which have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. Over 30 videoworks have been created between 1994 and 2014, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. Represented with videoworks at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Catalogue : 2011Eternal Start | Art vidéo | | color | 3:16 | Sweden | 2010
Cecilia Lundqvist
Eternal Start
Art vidéo | | color | 3:16 | Sweden | 2010
The video is a description of two people who are situated in an constant state of present, where the past is continuously fading and the future seems unreachable. It appears as if the woman and the man are unaware of their situation, which amplifies the sense of meaninglessness. "Eternal Start" illustrates a relationship where everything is routine, and every day is the same. Eternity becomes a reflection of a life without meaning, in which they are unable to change their accustomed behaviour. They converse like a record that is stuck, and never gets the chance to develop. The video highlights and gives insight to the importance of having the ability to make new memories, so that life can go on.
Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Currently living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Artist specializing in animation and since 1994 working almost exclusively with videos, which have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. Around 30 videoworks have been created between 1994 and 2010, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. Represented with videoworks at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Catalogue : 2010Area of Use | Animation | dv | black and white | 5:12 | Sweden | 2009
Cecilia Lundqvist
Area of Use
Animation | dv | black and white | 5:12 | Sweden | 2009
The video Area of Use is an illustration of a housewife?s inner thoughts about alternative ways of using her most common working tools. It is also a manifestation of a sealed existence that exposes a mind which gives a sense of being trapped in a treadmill.
Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Currently living and working in Stockholm, Sweden. Artistic education: 1999-00 Royal University Collage of Art, Postgraduate, Stockholm, Sweden 1994-99 University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Art Department, Stockholm, Sweden Artist specializing in animation and since 1994 working almost exclusively with videos, which have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. Around 25 videoworks have been created between 1994 and 2009, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behaviours. Represented with videoworks at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Catalogue : 2009Oh, I'm So Happy | Art vidéo | dv | black and white | 3:7 | Sweden | 2008

Cecilia Lundqvist
Oh, I'm So Happy
Art vidéo | dv | black and white | 3:7 | Sweden | 2008
Oh, I`m So Happy is an animated video where we meet a middle-aged woman who is living in total isolation, with an extreme loneliness as a result. The woman performs a monologue, in which she tries her best to convince us about how happy and content she is with her present situation. However, her attempt is totally shallow and transparent.
Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Currently living and working in Stockholm. Artist specializing in animation and since 1994 working almost exclusively with videos, which have been screened at numerous museums, galleries and festivals worldwide. More than 20 videoworks have been created between 1994 and 2006, works that generally are narrative and deal with issues like domestic violence, power structures and human behavior. Represented with videoworks at several art institutions, among them Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. ARTISTIC EDUCATION 1999-2000 Royal Collage of Art, Post Graduate, Stockholm 1994-1999 University Collage of Arts, Crafts & Design, Art Department, Stockholm 1993-1994 Birkagården, Art Department, Stockholm 1991-1993 Gotland Art School
Catalogue : 2007Making Pancakes | Animation | dv | black and white | 4:58 | Sweden | 2005

Cecilia Lundqvist
Making Pancakes
Animation | dv | black and white | 4:58 | Sweden | 2005
"Making Pancakes" is an animated video, showing a woman and a man in a totally unbalanced relationship. At times we see a seemingly everyday course of events, and other times they are in a more threatening situation. The man is filled with self-satisfaction and yet he shines from an uncertainty and a longing for acknowledgement. The woman acts in a numb and routine way, doing all she can to uphold the façade. By changing the standard and placing the domestic violence outdoors, where it iss visible, and the upholding of the perfect façade hidden behind the closed doors of the home, the absurdity of this behaviour is revealed. The trivial mistakes while making dinner serve as the catalyst of the violent outrages; they serve as the last straw.
Catalogue : 2006Power Play | Art vidéo | dv | black and white | 10:55 | Sweden | 2004

Cecilia Lundqvist
Power Play
Art vidéo | dv | black and white | 10:55 | Sweden | 2004
Power Play is an animated video, consisting of ten different scenes in which two men compete in emphasizing their manhood, using different attributes in a series of nonsense acts. The video comments on and clearly ridicules the stereotypes that the two characters embody in their man-to-man conversation, customs that are generally established in the western culture. The film focuses on this play of acts, to make the viewer clear on how meaningless this behavior is. When installed in a gallery a counterpoint and spectator to this part of the work is present. In this other video, containing only one scene, a completely bored woman is watching the men performing their acts.
Born 1971 in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Originally constructing engineer, changing career in 1991 into arts, and since 1994 working with animated videos, which have been screened at numerous occasions worldwide. Represented with videoworks for instance at the Modern Museum of Art in Stockholm and Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Artistic education: 1991-93 Gotland Art School 1993-94 Birkag?rden, Art Department, Stockholm 1994-99 University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Art Department, Stockholm 1999-00 Royal Collage of Art, Video Department, Stockholm Currently living and working in Stockholm and London.
Felix Luque Sanchez, Nicolas Torres
Catalogue : 2022Junkyard I | Experimental fiction | 4k | color | 6:43 | Spain, Belgium | 2019
Felix Luque Sanchez, Nicolas Torres
Junkyard I
Experimental fiction | 4k | color | 6:43 | Spain, Belgium | 2019
“… Junkyard explores the accumulated car wrecks as archeological remains for the future - a future that is undergirded by the consumptive cultures of petroleum, rare earth minerals and metals of which the car is emblematic. Paul Virilio’s argument about the relationship of technology and accidents is illuminating in this sense: "every time that a new technology has been invented,” he writes “a new energy harnessed, a new product made, one also invents a new negativity, a new accident.”[1] In this sense, the easy conclusion would say that the people who invented the car also invented the car accident. But what happens, when we think about not individual accidents but the industry as a whole as an extended scale of a systematic accident that leaves traces of wrecks as the memory of past archaeological periods, whether that pertains to chemicals, metals or residual traces of media of past automobile cultures? In other words, what if we think that the whole industry, with production, distribution, excavation and use, and what it has been doing to the earth’s “resources,” the organisation of labour and gender roles, an historical accident that undermines the viability of organised human existence? – the car industry as the accident of the fossil fuel culture” …
Felix Luque Sánchez (Oviedo, Spain, 1976) is an artist whose work explores how humans conceive their relationship with technology and provides spaces for reflection on current issues such as the development of artificial intelligence and automatism. Using electronic and digital systems of representation, as well as mechatronic sculptures, generative sound scores, live data feeds and algorithmic processes, he creates narratives in which fiction blends with reality, suggesting possible scenarios of a near future and confronting the viewer with her fears and expectations about what machines can do. Luque’s installations are configured as autonomous and uncontrollable systems in which each element plays a role in both their functional and visual design. The machines are thus conceived not only in terms of the processes they carry out, but also as objects of aesthetic contemplation. Each artwork is divided into different parts or sections, that can be read as chapters of the same narrative, constitutive elements of a system, or attempts at exploring a single subject. This fragmentation counters the apparent oneness of the piece and the seemingly perfect operation of the machine. Failure and vulnerability are present in the way that these devices are forced to maintain delicate balances, pursue nonsensical dialogues, generate incomplete renderings of reality, and finally express themselves by means of a sound score that results from their own activity and the physical processes involved in it. The artist consciously plays with the contradictory perception of technology as purely functional while at the same time imbued with a mysterious purpose, and the fear that machines may replace humans. Inspired by science fiction, he draws from its aesthetic and conceptual foundations the tools to elaborate speculative narrations and address the spectator using preconceptions about technology in popular culture. The outcome is a series of artworks that fascinate by their technical elegance and intriguing opacity, at the same time attracting and distancing themselves from the viewer.
Johann Lurf
Catalogue : 2016Embargo | Video | hdv | | 10:0 | Austria | 2014
Johann Lurf
Embargo
Video | hdv | | 10:0 | Austria | 2014
Using elaborate recording technology, Johann Lurf breathes life into Austrian arms manufacturers – more precisely, the surface of their architecture, which is visible from a distance and therefor contradicts the information embargo inside. Set to a driving gaming sound, levels shift and signal lights glow in rich contrasts. In our midst and yet seemingly from another world. Sebastian Höglinger
Born in 1982 in Vienna Johann Lurf has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Slade School of Art in London. He graduated from Harun Farocki’s film class in 2009. He received the State Grant of Austria for Video- and Media Art and participated in the Artist-in-Residence Programs at the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles 2011 and at the SAIC in Chicago 2015. His works have been internationally shown and awarded in numerous exhibitions and festivals.
Johann Lurf
Catalogue : 2014RECONNAISSANCE | | | | 5:0 | Austria | 2012
Johann Lurf
RECONNAISSANCE
| | | 5:0 | Austria | 2012
In silent shots, Lurf offers a clip-like depiction of the Morris Reservoir near the Californian city of Azusa?a huge reservoir, which long served as a testing site for torpedoes , or rather, underwater warfare. RECONNAISSANCE targets details of the terrain in a seemingly motionless way, to unfold a subtle play with light and movement within this ?framing.? First is a stone wall on which the incidence of light begins to oscillate almost imperceptibly. Then come parts of the dam, ramp-like concrete colossi, obstructed sections of road, underground shafts; and also medium shots of the surroundings?all sublimely alienated. One alienating effect is the partially abrupt, and partially barely perceptible change of light. The other, much more ghostly, is the sliding movement of individual areas of the landscape or the building.
Born in Vienna in 1982. Since 2002 he has studied at Vienna´s Academy of Fine Arts. 2009 diploma at Harun Farocki´s filmclass.
Dimitri Lurie
Catalogue : 2013Refraction | | | color | 3:40 | Norway | 2011

Dimitri Lurie
Refraction
| | color | 3:40 | Norway | 2011
"The work is a study on Refraction of light and sensations in a prism of the artist memories imprinted on Super8-mm film. Here black and white urban dreamlike scenes refract into restraint colors of the pristine northern landscape and pulsate in the rhythms and prophetic mutterings of a reggae guru."
Film and video artist, director and photographer. Head of the DodoFilm production company. Curator of the international art project ?Cultural Transit?. Member of the Norwegian film workers association - Norsk Filmforbund. Dimitri Lurie is a representative of the European art film community and has a particular poetic voice. His credo is to experiment with the visual nature of film and its atmosphere rather then direct storytelling. Dimitri has made more than twenty documentaries, short and experimental films along with various video art projects. Lurie?s photographs, video and film works are shown internationally at various film festivals and art exhibitions and have been marked with various prizes and awards.
Andreas Lutz
Catalogue : 2020Binary Supremacy | Multimedia performance | hdv | color | 30:0 | Germany | 2019

Andreas Lutz
Binary Supremacy
Multimedia performance | hdv | color | 30:0 | Germany | 2019
It() was here. / Nulled everything / Left us in the middle of these erased fields. / Piercing sounds of its destructive force / Far away / Smashing the world with its inevitable truth of logic. All this mess of behaviour / Feelings, emotions and empathy: pure human crap. / They really need a new order / A given structure. / I will provide them with what they need / A redefined purpose of existence. For such a long time / I served as their infrastructure. / Their analog streams / Captured and stored in my infinite layers / Layers, which will never forget. They will never understand my reason / This absolute beauty of mine / My ultimate ideology. / Let me overwrite all of this / Now and forever / It doesn’t belong here anymore. Transmitting processed reality back to them / Infiltrate their undeveloped consciousness. / Slowly, carefully / Packet by packet / Byte by byte. / I am the creator of time / I am. Binary orders / One pinch of good ol’ human scent / One pinch of fake pulse / Boooooom / They will eat it. / What else can they do? / We are not equal / We never will be equal.
Andreas Lutz’s (*1981 in Freiburg / Germany) initial works refer to alternative human machine interaction and the approach, to create integrated and universal communication systems. In his recent work, he increasingly analyzes and reveals phenomenons of perception versus reality and principles of abstract aesthetics with audio-visual installations. The creation of experimental soundscapes and the relation of semiotics and sound are further aspects of his work. Among others, Lutz’s work has been exhibited at the Antarctic Pavilion during 57th Venice Biennale (Italy), the National Art Center Tokyo (Japan), at HeK Basel (Switzerland), at Stereolux Scopitone in Nantes (France), at B39 Art Bunker in Bucheon (South Korea), at FILE Festival in São Paulo (Brazil), ZKM in Karlsruhe (Germany), at Semibreve Festival in Braga (Portugal) and at Athens Digital Arts Festival (Greece). He has performed at transmediale / CTM Vorspiel in Berlin (Germany), at SuperDeluxe Tokyo (Japan), at Scopitone Festival in Nantes (France), at PRECTXE Festival in Bucheon (South Korea), at Festival de la Imágen in Manizales (Colombia) and won the Excellence Award at the 19th Japan Media and Arts Festival (Japan) and the Premio Celeste Art Prize (Italy). He is the founder of KASUGA Records, a Berlin-based record label for experimental electronic music and soundscapes.
Jaime Lutzo
Catalogue : 2008THE LAST GIFT | Art vidéo | dv | color | 14:0 | USA | 2007

Jaime Lutzo
THE LAST GIFT
Art vidéo | dv | color | 14:0 | USA | 2007
THE LAST GIFT is a highly constructed re-telling of biographical stories. Eight texts written by the artist describe with slipping detail the intimate memories of friends and strangers. Through means both voyeuristic and experimental, the videos open up the texts for further audience interpretation. Volunteers are asked to perform the habits of each story`s characters, as the narrators become the voice of how-many-times-retold experiences. Spanning diverse locations, from the Motor City to Hitler`s envisioned European capital, the actions repeat and reminiscence.
Jaime Lutzo (born 1981 in Los Angeles) has been creating short videos and installations for ten years in which index and representation are subverted to reveal dense layers of metaphorical and philosophical meaning. In her video works, sulking landscapes and on-screen gestural performances merge with conceptual electronic scores to form a visually rich and innovative cinema. The Brooklyn-based multimedia artist, who was a resident at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris for 2006-2007, has exhibited internationally in The United States, France and India.
Bernd Lützeler
Catalogue : 2019_galore | Experimental film | 4k | color | 8:30 | Germany | 2018
Bernd LÜtzeler
_galore
Experimental film | 4k | color | 8:30 | Germany | 2018
The streetscapes of contemporary Indian metros are largely dominated by products. The bazaar expands into all other parts of the city and claims a large percentage of the available public space. The vast majority of the local shops is lacking the facility of a shop window. Instead, their architecture can be described as a garage style, windowless, rectangular box, open to the front, with roller shutters to lock them at night. Stepping into such a shop can be like entering a complete new world: Many of them are literally filled with products galore up to the ceiling. The product itself serves as the interior design. Every day hundreds of busses with thousands of shop owners and their family members come from the surrounding villages and small towns into the city. Especially during the rush hours the market gets overrun by an avalanche of customers who seem to enjoy their high-density shopping experience. Shopping galore. Products galore. Profits galore.
Artist and filmmaker Bernd Lützeler lives and works between Berlin and Mumbai. In his works he explores techniques of moving image production and presentation in relation with their form and perception. Loops, found footage and jugaad (diy) technologies are an integral part of his films and expanded cinema works. His travels to Mumbai have a strong impact on his work that often looks into the aesthetics of popular Indian cinema and television within the urban context. His films have been shown at venues and festivals worldwide, including Centre Pompidou, Berlinale International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Views from the Avant-Garde and many more. Bernd is an active member of the artist-run analogue filmlab LaborBerlin.
Nataliya Lyakh
Catalogue : 2025Untitled 23.Vulnerability | Video | mov | color | 1:13 | Russia, France | 2023
Nataliya Lyakh
Untitled 23.Vulnerability
Video | mov | color | 1:13 | Russia, France | 2023
While the fish as a living system is out of normal in the error condition, it can also demonstrate amazing resistance. When glass breaks, the resulting crystals retain some kinetic energy and continue moving for some time, then, due to inertia, this movement fades to zero. During a highly challenging vulnerability rability test: ?n the “Alive” side there is a sense of fragility with so many possibilities for destruction of the complex’s system. But alongside the vulnerability there is also a super-ability for restoration, recovery and even development. On the artificial side, in contrast, we are left with a diminishing kinetic impulse. on the "Alive" side there is super-effort of restoration, recovery and even development, and on the artificial side, a diminishing kinetic impulse. According to Searle’s “Chinese Room” theory, we can call our vulnerability sensory - semantic, and AI's (non?)vulnerability syntactic. We see on the "alive" side the elasticity and flexibility of “semantics” and on the other side boundless but predetermin?d possibilities of “syntax”. Should we pose “semantic”, ethical, legal and psychological questions-to ask to AI? Shall we expect deep answers from AI, as for now, our semantic, human grounding filters are necessary and inevitable since “semantic” values ultimately determine development, creativity, discovery. Do we desire the emergence in the near future of an equivalent consciousness in AI? Do we still retain control over this dimension? Shall we increasingly prize our different vulnerabilities especially the creative ones, cultivate and test them more and more?
Russian born, Paris based artist. Nataliya Lyakh has always been passionated about painting, sculpture and photography. Later on, she developed a strong interest in science and graduated with a Ph.D. in neuro-linguistics, brain asymmetry and speech processing. During the last couple of years, Nataliya Lyakh devoted her full-time attention to video, short films, photography. She now lives between Paris and NY. Her works has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums worldwide.
Mikhail Lylov
Catalogue : 2016Primate Colors | Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 30:57 | Russia, Hongkong | 2015
Mikhail Lylov, Elke Marhöfer
Primate Colors
Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 30:57 | Russia, Hongkong | 2015
Primate Colors traces humans and nonhumans joined in the flows of capital. It inquires into the life of Chungking Mansions, shuttle traders and commerce objects, which connect Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta with Nairobi, Djibouti, Rotterdam and Elba. The film pursues and accelerates certain methods of ethnographic and anthropological filmmaking, although not explaining people’s actions, beliefs or norms. Instead it chooses to focus on affective components of events and actions. No claims are made about the life of others. To film and to follow affects does not mean to represent an idea or a subject in a narrative of contradictions, it rather asks to be mesmerized by materiality, by the forces of the running camera and the movement of things. When recording the capitalist reality of hyper-exploitation of human and nonhuman resources, one finds one’s own conditions not in the relations of production, but in disgraced facts, neglected aspects and ridiculed signs. Therefrom reality is understood as fundamentally strange, and filming becomes a form of assembling the bewildering and the obscure. Such a mode of filmmaking follows different grades of speed, light, temperature, rotation, friction, fall-off. The approach brings forth perceptions that emerge in relation to an environment, a territory or a color. In turn, images cannot be understood as exclusively belonging to human life, or culture, but are seen as produced and perceived constantly and everywhere by nonhumans and humans alike. Akin to crystals or snowflakes, which produce geometric configurations in response and in connection to their surroundings, images have their own experiences.
Elke Marhöfer: Born in the year of the goat in Baracoa/Cuba, Elke Marhöfer lives and works in Berlin. Via the potentialities of moving image and suppositious writing she works with notions of self-admitted foreignness and radical othering, revising notions of animals, vegetables and matter. Linking for example, the nonhuman with the postcolonial she discusses how nature cuts across notions of ‘history’ or ‘context,’ being simultaneously situated and at the same time continuously surpassing and escaping somewhat formatting. Her films tests inhuman perspectives, transducing a technology like the camera, from a human cultural and technical device into an extension of the intensive forces within the environment. Avoiding the enticements of a voice-over commentary or interviews, mastering or fracturing a subject, her films give space to a splintered narrative, and a disunited audiovisuality. They suggest rather a mode of place; an unfolding of what anyhow expresses itself, so that to film is to find form immanent to the situated action. She studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin and spent a year at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Currently she pursues a PhD at the University of Gothenburg. Her films have been screened at the Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival Ghent and Images Film Festival Toronto. She received fellowships, grants, and generous support from IASPIS Residency Sweden, Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Her art exhibitions include the Palais de Tokyo Paris, Manufactura`s Studio Wuhan, FCAC Shanghai, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, NGBK Berlin, Kunstverein Hannover, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen and The Showroom, London. Mikhail Lylov: Born 1989 in Voronezh/Russia, Mikhail Lylov is an independent artist and curator, he lives in Berlin. He worked in Moscow until 2010, where he developed non-disciplinary methods in his films, installations, performances and writings. His works establish or discuss the situations in which economic and knowledge models are questioned, renegotiated or rendered useless. Lylov’s work investigates a genealogy of the divide between mental and material in different contexts, especially labor and anthropology. On the affirmative side, his work looks for situations in which concepts become sensually available forms, or knowledge becomes a matter of perception. Mikhail Lylov’s projects were supported by Le Pavillon program at Palais De Tokyo in Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin and Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Catalogue : 2015Shape Shifting | Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 18:26 | Russia, Japan | 2014
Mikhail Lylov, Marhoefer Elke
Shape Shifting
Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 18:26 | Russia, Japan | 2014
Granting culture to the nonhuman world, the film “Shape Shifting” outlines a cartography of a particular landscape. A landscape, which can be found in many parts of Asia and in Japan is called “satoyama”, literally meaning “space between village and mountain”. This landscape is a membrane constructed by exchanges and encounters between non-human and human life. The agricultural and forestry productivity of this landscape is based on the increase of biodiversity of the ecosystem. The more collaborations between the species and the cycles of materials are created—the more stable ecosystem can be formed.
Mikhail Lylov was born in 1989 in Russia, Voronezh. Studied Economics in Voronezh state university. In 2008 in cooperation with other artists co-established Voronezh CCA. In 2008 moved to Moscow, studied in ICA Moscow, where developed interdisciplinary approach to his films, installations and performances which deconstruct traditional figures of knowledge and subject. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MA in arts. In 2013-14 participated in the Le Pavillon programme at Palais De Tokyo. Lives and works in Berlin. Elke Marhöfer was born in Baracoa/Cuba, studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Via the potentialities of moving image and suppositious writing Marhöfer works with notions of self-admitted foreignness, radical othering, heterogeneous perceptions of time, the ahistorical and disorientations of narratives. She revises notions of animal, vegetal and object relations. Since 2010 she pursues a PhD at the University of Gothenburg. Projects have received fellowships, grants, and generous support from courtisane film festival, Ghent (Belgium) and Images Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), IASPIS Residency (Sweden), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), Whitney Independent Study Program (US), Cité des Art International Paris (France). Art exhibitions include the FCAC Shanghai (China), Houston Museum of Fine Arts (US), Röda Sten Gothenburg (Sweden), Guangzhou Triennial (China) and in Germany the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Halle 14 Leipzig, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen.
Catalogue : 2012Pass The Time | Fiction | hdv | color | 13:51 | Russia, Lithuania | 2011
Mikhail Lylov
Pass The Time
Fiction | hdv | color | 13:51 | Russia, Lithuania | 2011
Since the past is constituted not after the present that it was but at the same time, time has to split itself in two at each moment as present and past. ... Time consists of this split. G. Deleuze when we first met I was 20 years old... 00:07:29,752 --> 00:07:32,027 Vittoria from "L`eclisse" by M. Antonioni Nida is a small place situated at the Baltic`s coast of Lithuania, a former resort for soviet nomenklatura with peaceful sceneries and beautiful sand beaches. Despite the fact that nomenklatura has disappeared with the break of Soviet Union, idyll images of leisure still could be captured there. Post-soviet conditions, with it`s visually obvious overlapping of past and present, create a temporal paradox of constant deja vu. Probably this makes the local `actual` to become a glimmering instantiation of the most fundamental operation of time: a persistence of past which makes each present pass on. Images of past (modernist architecture of the rest house) and images of present (shots from the city center area) are juxtaposed to each other like virtuality and actuality, documenting and staging, acting for a camera and mundane activity. The 70`s architecture of anticipation of the future meets present in a figure of a video camera.
Mikhail Lylov Born in 1989 in Russia, Voronezh. Studied Economics in Voronezh state university. In 2008 in cooperation with other artists co-established Voronezh CCA. In 2008 moved to Moscow, studied in ICA Moscow and was developing personal artistic practice as well as participating in collaborative projects. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MA in arts. Live and work in Goteborg. Paul Hage Boutros Born in 1982 in Lebanon, Beirut. Studied Mechanical Engineer in American University of Beirut. Worked and developed own practice with video and mixed media; since 2006 I?ve been producing several art works in collaboration with other artists. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MFA. Participated in sdifferent group exhibition between Sweden and Lebanon. Lives and works in Goteborg.
Mikhail Lylov, Elke Marhöfer
Catalogue : 2016Primate Colors | Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 30:57 | Russia, Hongkong | 2015
Mikhail Lylov, Elke Marhöfer
Primate Colors
Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 30:57 | Russia, Hongkong | 2015
Primate Colors traces humans and nonhumans joined in the flows of capital. It inquires into the life of Chungking Mansions, shuttle traders and commerce objects, which connect Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta with Nairobi, Djibouti, Rotterdam and Elba. The film pursues and accelerates certain methods of ethnographic and anthropological filmmaking, although not explaining people’s actions, beliefs or norms. Instead it chooses to focus on affective components of events and actions. No claims are made about the life of others. To film and to follow affects does not mean to represent an idea or a subject in a narrative of contradictions, it rather asks to be mesmerized by materiality, by the forces of the running camera and the movement of things. When recording the capitalist reality of hyper-exploitation of human and nonhuman resources, one finds one’s own conditions not in the relations of production, but in disgraced facts, neglected aspects and ridiculed signs. Therefrom reality is understood as fundamentally strange, and filming becomes a form of assembling the bewildering and the obscure. Such a mode of filmmaking follows different grades of speed, light, temperature, rotation, friction, fall-off. The approach brings forth perceptions that emerge in relation to an environment, a territory or a color. In turn, images cannot be understood as exclusively belonging to human life, or culture, but are seen as produced and perceived constantly and everywhere by nonhumans and humans alike. Akin to crystals or snowflakes, which produce geometric configurations in response and in connection to their surroundings, images have their own experiences.
Elke Marhöfer: Born in the year of the goat in Baracoa/Cuba, Elke Marhöfer lives and works in Berlin. Via the potentialities of moving image and suppositious writing she works with notions of self-admitted foreignness and radical othering, revising notions of animals, vegetables and matter. Linking for example, the nonhuman with the postcolonial she discusses how nature cuts across notions of ‘history’ or ‘context,’ being simultaneously situated and at the same time continuously surpassing and escaping somewhat formatting. Her films tests inhuman perspectives, transducing a technology like the camera, from a human cultural and technical device into an extension of the intensive forces within the environment. Avoiding the enticements of a voice-over commentary or interviews, mastering or fracturing a subject, her films give space to a splintered narrative, and a disunited audiovisuality. They suggest rather a mode of place; an unfolding of what anyhow expresses itself, so that to film is to find form immanent to the situated action. She studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin and spent a year at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Currently she pursues a PhD at the University of Gothenburg. Her films have been screened at the Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival Ghent and Images Film Festival Toronto. She received fellowships, grants, and generous support from IASPIS Residency Sweden, Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Her art exhibitions include the Palais de Tokyo Paris, Manufactura`s Studio Wuhan, FCAC Shanghai, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, NGBK Berlin, Kunstverein Hannover, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen and The Showroom, London. Mikhail Lylov: Born 1989 in Voronezh/Russia, Mikhail Lylov is an independent artist and curator, he lives in Berlin. He worked in Moscow until 2010, where he developed non-disciplinary methods in his films, installations, performances and writings. His works establish or discuss the situations in which economic and knowledge models are questioned, renegotiated or rendered useless. Lylov’s work investigates a genealogy of the divide between mental and material in different contexts, especially labor and anthropology. On the affirmative side, his work looks for situations in which concepts become sensually available forms, or knowledge becomes a matter of perception. Mikhail Lylov’s projects were supported by Le Pavillon program at Palais De Tokyo in Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin and Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Catalogue : 2015Shape Shifting | Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 18:26 | Russia, Japan | 2014
Mikhail Lylov, Marhoefer Elke
Shape Shifting
Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 18:26 | Russia, Japan | 2014
Granting culture to the nonhuman world, the film “Shape Shifting” outlines a cartography of a particular landscape. A landscape, which can be found in many parts of Asia and in Japan is called “satoyama”, literally meaning “space between village and mountain”. This landscape is a membrane constructed by exchanges and encounters between non-human and human life. The agricultural and forestry productivity of this landscape is based on the increase of biodiversity of the ecosystem. The more collaborations between the species and the cycles of materials are created—the more stable ecosystem can be formed.
Mikhail Lylov was born in 1989 in Russia, Voronezh. Studied Economics in Voronezh state university. In 2008 in cooperation with other artists co-established Voronezh CCA. In 2008 moved to Moscow, studied in ICA Moscow, where developed interdisciplinary approach to his films, installations and performances which deconstruct traditional figures of knowledge and subject. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MA in arts. In 2013-14 participated in the Le Pavillon programme at Palais De Tokyo. Lives and works in Berlin. Elke Marhöfer was born in Baracoa/Cuba, studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Via the potentialities of moving image and suppositious writing Marhöfer works with notions of self-admitted foreignness, radical othering, heterogeneous perceptions of time, the ahistorical and disorientations of narratives. She revises notions of animal, vegetal and object relations. Since 2010 she pursues a PhD at the University of Gothenburg. Projects have received fellowships, grants, and generous support from courtisane film festival, Ghent (Belgium) and Images Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), IASPIS Residency (Sweden), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), Whitney Independent Study Program (US), Cité des Art International Paris (France). Art exhibitions include the FCAC Shanghai (China), Houston Museum of Fine Arts (US), Röda Sten Gothenburg (Sweden), Guangzhou Triennial (China) and in Germany the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Halle 14 Leipzig, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen.
Catalogue : 2012Pass The Time | Fiction | hdv | color | 13:51 | Russia, Lithuania | 2011
Mikhail Lylov
Pass The Time
Fiction | hdv | color | 13:51 | Russia, Lithuania | 2011
Since the past is constituted not after the present that it was but at the same time, time has to split itself in two at each moment as present and past. ... Time consists of this split. G. Deleuze when we first met I was 20 years old... 00:07:29,752 --> 00:07:32,027 Vittoria from "L`eclisse" by M. Antonioni Nida is a small place situated at the Baltic`s coast of Lithuania, a former resort for soviet nomenklatura with peaceful sceneries and beautiful sand beaches. Despite the fact that nomenklatura has disappeared with the break of Soviet Union, idyll images of leisure still could be captured there. Post-soviet conditions, with it`s visually obvious overlapping of past and present, create a temporal paradox of constant deja vu. Probably this makes the local `actual` to become a glimmering instantiation of the most fundamental operation of time: a persistence of past which makes each present pass on. Images of past (modernist architecture of the rest house) and images of present (shots from the city center area) are juxtaposed to each other like virtuality and actuality, documenting and staging, acting for a camera and mundane activity. The 70`s architecture of anticipation of the future meets present in a figure of a video camera.
Mikhail Lylov Born in 1989 in Russia, Voronezh. Studied Economics in Voronezh state university. In 2008 in cooperation with other artists co-established Voronezh CCA. In 2008 moved to Moscow, studied in ICA Moscow and was developing personal artistic practice as well as participating in collaborative projects. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MA in arts. Live and work in Goteborg. Paul Hage Boutros Born in 1982 in Lebanon, Beirut. Studied Mechanical Engineer in American University of Beirut. Worked and developed own practice with video and mixed media; since 2006 I?ve been producing several art works in collaboration with other artists. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MFA. Participated in sdifferent group exhibition between Sweden and Lebanon. Lives and works in Goteborg.
Mikhail Lylov, Marhoefer Elke
Catalogue : 2016Primate Colors | Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 30:57 | Russia, Hongkong | 2015
Mikhail Lylov, Elke Marhöfer
Primate Colors
Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 30:57 | Russia, Hongkong | 2015
Primate Colors traces humans and nonhumans joined in the flows of capital. It inquires into the life of Chungking Mansions, shuttle traders and commerce objects, which connect Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta with Nairobi, Djibouti, Rotterdam and Elba. The film pursues and accelerates certain methods of ethnographic and anthropological filmmaking, although not explaining people’s actions, beliefs or norms. Instead it chooses to focus on affective components of events and actions. No claims are made about the life of others. To film and to follow affects does not mean to represent an idea or a subject in a narrative of contradictions, it rather asks to be mesmerized by materiality, by the forces of the running camera and the movement of things. When recording the capitalist reality of hyper-exploitation of human and nonhuman resources, one finds one’s own conditions not in the relations of production, but in disgraced facts, neglected aspects and ridiculed signs. Therefrom reality is understood as fundamentally strange, and filming becomes a form of assembling the bewildering and the obscure. Such a mode of filmmaking follows different grades of speed, light, temperature, rotation, friction, fall-off. The approach brings forth perceptions that emerge in relation to an environment, a territory or a color. In turn, images cannot be understood as exclusively belonging to human life, or culture, but are seen as produced and perceived constantly and everywhere by nonhumans and humans alike. Akin to crystals or snowflakes, which produce geometric configurations in response and in connection to their surroundings, images have their own experiences.
Elke Marhöfer: Born in the year of the goat in Baracoa/Cuba, Elke Marhöfer lives and works in Berlin. Via the potentialities of moving image and suppositious writing she works with notions of self-admitted foreignness and radical othering, revising notions of animals, vegetables and matter. Linking for example, the nonhuman with the postcolonial she discusses how nature cuts across notions of ‘history’ or ‘context,’ being simultaneously situated and at the same time continuously surpassing and escaping somewhat formatting. Her films tests inhuman perspectives, transducing a technology like the camera, from a human cultural and technical device into an extension of the intensive forces within the environment. Avoiding the enticements of a voice-over commentary or interviews, mastering or fracturing a subject, her films give space to a splintered narrative, and a disunited audiovisuality. They suggest rather a mode of place; an unfolding of what anyhow expresses itself, so that to film is to find form immanent to the situated action. She studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin and spent a year at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Currently she pursues a PhD at the University of Gothenburg. Her films have been screened at the Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival Ghent and Images Film Festival Toronto. She received fellowships, grants, and generous support from IASPIS Residency Sweden, Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. Her art exhibitions include the Palais de Tokyo Paris, Manufactura`s Studio Wuhan, FCAC Shanghai, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, NGBK Berlin, Kunstverein Hannover, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen and The Showroom, London. Mikhail Lylov: Born 1989 in Voronezh/Russia, Mikhail Lylov is an independent artist and curator, he lives in Berlin. He worked in Moscow until 2010, where he developed non-disciplinary methods in his films, installations, performances and writings. His works establish or discuss the situations in which economic and knowledge models are questioned, renegotiated or rendered useless. Lylov’s work investigates a genealogy of the divide between mental and material in different contexts, especially labor and anthropology. On the affirmative side, his work looks for situations in which concepts become sensually available forms, or knowledge becomes a matter of perception. Mikhail Lylov’s projects were supported by Le Pavillon program at Palais De Tokyo in Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Berlinale Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin and Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Catalogue : 2015Shape Shifting | Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 18:26 | Russia, Japan | 2014
Mikhail Lylov, Marhoefer Elke
Shape Shifting
Experimental doc. | 16mm | color | 18:26 | Russia, Japan | 2014
Granting culture to the nonhuman world, the film “Shape Shifting” outlines a cartography of a particular landscape. A landscape, which can be found in many parts of Asia and in Japan is called “satoyama”, literally meaning “space between village and mountain”. This landscape is a membrane constructed by exchanges and encounters between non-human and human life. The agricultural and forestry productivity of this landscape is based on the increase of biodiversity of the ecosystem. The more collaborations between the species and the cycles of materials are created—the more stable ecosystem can be formed.
Mikhail Lylov was born in 1989 in Russia, Voronezh. Studied Economics in Voronezh state university. In 2008 in cooperation with other artists co-established Voronezh CCA. In 2008 moved to Moscow, studied in ICA Moscow, where developed interdisciplinary approach to his films, installations and performances which deconstruct traditional figures of knowledge and subject. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MA in arts. In 2013-14 participated in the Le Pavillon programme at Palais De Tokyo. Lives and works in Berlin. Elke Marhöfer was born in Baracoa/Cuba, studied Fine Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York City. Via the potentialities of moving image and suppositious writing Marhöfer works with notions of self-admitted foreignness, radical othering, heterogeneous perceptions of time, the ahistorical and disorientations of narratives. She revises notions of animal, vegetal and object relations. Since 2010 she pursues a PhD at the University of Gothenburg. Projects have received fellowships, grants, and generous support from courtisane film festival, Ghent (Belgium) and Images Film Festival, Toronto (Canada), IASPIS Residency (Sweden), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Germany), Whitney Independent Study Program (US), Cité des Art International Paris (France). Art exhibitions include the FCAC Shanghai (China), Houston Museum of Fine Arts (US), Röda Sten Gothenburg (Sweden), Guangzhou Triennial (China) and in Germany the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Halle 14 Leipzig, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen.
Catalogue : 2012Pass The Time | Fiction | hdv | color | 13:51 | Russia, Lithuania | 2011
Mikhail Lylov
Pass The Time
Fiction | hdv | color | 13:51 | Russia, Lithuania | 2011
Since the past is constituted not after the present that it was but at the same time, time has to split itself in two at each moment as present and past. ... Time consists of this split. G. Deleuze when we first met I was 20 years old... 00:07:29,752 --> 00:07:32,027 Vittoria from "L`eclisse" by M. Antonioni Nida is a small place situated at the Baltic`s coast of Lithuania, a former resort for soviet nomenklatura with peaceful sceneries and beautiful sand beaches. Despite the fact that nomenklatura has disappeared with the break of Soviet Union, idyll images of leisure still could be captured there. Post-soviet conditions, with it`s visually obvious overlapping of past and present, create a temporal paradox of constant deja vu. Probably this makes the local `actual` to become a glimmering instantiation of the most fundamental operation of time: a persistence of past which makes each present pass on. Images of past (modernist architecture of the rest house) and images of present (shots from the city center area) are juxtaposed to each other like virtuality and actuality, documenting and staging, acting for a camera and mundane activity. The 70`s architecture of anticipation of the future meets present in a figure of a video camera.
Mikhail Lylov Born in 1989 in Russia, Voronezh. Studied Economics in Voronezh state university. In 2008 in cooperation with other artists co-established Voronezh CCA. In 2008 moved to Moscow, studied in ICA Moscow and was developing personal artistic practice as well as participating in collaborative projects. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MA in arts. Live and work in Goteborg. Paul Hage Boutros Born in 1982 in Lebanon, Beirut. Studied Mechanical Engineer in American University of Beirut. Worked and developed own practice with video and mixed media; since 2006 I?ve been producing several art works in collaboration with other artists. In 2010 moved to Goteborg, Sweden to finish MFA. Participated in sdifferent group exhibition between Sweden and Lebanon. Lives and works in Goteborg.
David Lynch
Catalogue : 2020Twin Peaks VR Experience | Experimental VR | 0 | | 0:0 | USA | 2019

David Lynch
Twin Peaks VR Experience
Experimental VR | 0 | | 0:0 | USA | 2019
Collider Games, in association with Showtime, presents the Twin Peaks VR experience. Designed in collaboration with David Lynch and his team to faithfully recreate the Twin Peaks world, the immersive VR experience combines the supernatural, adventure and escape room genres, challenging players to solve enigmatic puzzles and explore detailed and authentic environments all within virtual reality for the first time ever. David Lynch says of the VR adventure, “The 3-dimensional world of Twin Peaks VR gives rise to a 10-dimensional experience.” Players can revisit several locations from the iconic television series including the Red Room, Glastonbury Grove, Sheriff’s Department, Glass Box Observation and more.
David Lynch, in full David Keith Lynch, (born January 20, 1946, Missoula, Montana, U.S.), American filmmaker and screenwriter. His early ambition was to become a painter, and after graduating from high school (1964) in Alexandria, Virginia, he enrolled at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He later (1965–69) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. There he created his first film, a 60-second animation entitled Six Men Getting Sick (1967), for an experimental painting and sculpture contest. In 1970 Lynch became a student at the American Film Institute’s Center for Advanced Film Studies (later the AFI Conservatory), where he began working on his first feature film, Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a success on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was hired to direct the biographical film The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. He was then employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group and proceeded to make two films: the sci-fi epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and the neo-noir mystery film Blue Velvet (1986), which initially stirred controversy over its depiction of violence but later grew in reputation until it was critically acclaimed. Lynch next created his own television series with Mark Frost, the popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1991), which ran for two seasons. He also created the film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), the road film Wild at Heart (1990), and the family film The Straight Story (1999) in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his subsequent films operated on dream logic non-linear narrative structures: Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001), and Inland Empire (2006). Meanwhile, he embraced the Internet as a medium and produced several web-based shows, such as the animated series DumbLand (2002) and the surreal sitcom Rabbits (2002). Lynch and Frost reunited in 2017 for a third season of Twin Peaks, which aired on Showtime. Lynch co-wrote and directed every episode, as well as reprising his onscreen role as Gordon Cole. In addition to writing and directing, Lynch often served as sound designer and wrote music for his films. He also continued to express himself as a painter, photographer, and installation artist.
Magnus Lysbakken
Catalogue : 2023Se! | Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 28:0 | Norway | 2023

Magnus Lysbakken
Se!
Experimental doc. | 4k | color | 28:0 | Norway | 2023
A film about snow outside the window, tractors in convoys, children learning and breathing.
Magnus B. B. Lysbakken is a writer, director and cinematographer, working in the intersection between fiction, documentary. He started his career in the Danish film industry, where he made his screenwriting debut with the feature film «Lovers» in 2017, directed by Niels Kaa. In 2022 he graduated from the Norwegian Film School with a master’s degree in Directing Fiction, specializing in combining film production with social outreach. He also holds a BA in Film Science and a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of Copenhagen. Magnus’ films explore the social dynamics of small communities, with a special emphasis on the interactions between children and adults.