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One of several videos made for the 2017 HIGHNESS performance and video series. Kolonie is an experimentation with the immobilising effects and machinations of the production of iconic images. Working with two bee-keepers and their bees to create a living crown on top of the artist`s head, Kolonie seeks to critically render visible the fact that a queen's image is often only fierce through the work of many hands. And a desire to rule can rot very quickly.

Melanie Jame Wolf is an Australian born artist who lives and works between Melbourne and Berlin. She makes work about economies. Sometimes solo, sometimes with friends. Always exploring systems of value and exchange, particularly as they occur in the murky field of immaterial capital… the social, the cultural, the affective. She investigates these flows as they are produced through ideas of ghosts, of gender, of pop, of myth, of morality, of sensuality, of class.

Unlike television comedies, many of our family conversations don`t make sense, but when my Father talks, we struggle to understand. U

Steven Woloshen was born in Montreal, Canada in 1960. For more than 30 years, he has passionately created over 50 award-winning, abstract films and time-based installations for festivals, galleries and museums. Twice nominated for Canada`s Governor General`s award, he has received numerous research and creation grants and, most recently, was awarded the 2016 René Jodoin lifetime achievement award, 2015 Wiesbaden Lifetime Achievement Award. Woloshen is a teacher, film conservationist, animator, craftsman and the author of two books, Recipes for Reconstruction: The Cookbook for the Frugal Filmmaker (2010), a hands-on manual for decay, renewal and other handmade, analogue film techniques, and Scratch, Crackle & Pop! A Whole Grains Approach to Making Films without a Camera (2015). Under his own banner, Scratchatopia, Woloshen has hosted solo retrospectives and taught handmade filmmaking techniques in Argentina, Morocco, USA, Slovenia, Australia, France, Great Britain, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Poland, Mexico, Serbia, Hungary, Austria and Canada.

Documentation of Rebecca Belmore?s performance VIGIL from the 2002 Talking Stick Festival in Vancouver . Performing on a street corner in the Downtown Eastside, Belmore commemorates the lives of missing and murdered aboriginal women who have dissapeared from the streets of Vancouver.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1964 to Chinese parents from Malaysia and Mauritius. Trained as a dancer for 3 years at the Central School of Ballet. Danced with Swedish ballet companies, London Festival Ballet, Hong Kong Ballet, Union Dance Company, The Featherstonehaughs, Lloyd Newson etc etc. Freelanced as a dancer and extra/actor in various productions. Trained as a journalist at the London College of Printing. Regular writer for City Limits, SiYu Chinese Times, Dance Theatre Journal, The Independent, Socialist etc Researcher and producer at London Weekend Television. Assistant Producer at the BBC.

A young woman works as a guard in a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar. She passes the time daydreaming about her father, a murderer who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother. In her imagination, her father becomes a mythical killer, wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his victims. Secretly, she yearns for the day he might turn up amongst the prisoners. When a new inmate arrives claiming to know her father, the young woman’s fantasies begin to turn to nightmares.

Maéva Ranaïvojaona is a French filmmaker with Malagasy origins. She graduated from the National Fine Art Academy of Dijon and Bourges, France. After couple of years working as an artist’s assistant ( among them Ernesto Neto?—?Brazil, and Kristina Solomoukha?—?France ), she worked as a first director’s assistant beside young filmmakers in Paris and Berlin. She wrote, produced and directed two short films, that have been shown and awarded at several international film festivals among them the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Cannes Film Festival. Since 2017 Maéva Ranaïvojaona works as a screenwriter, filmmaker and producer at Subobscura Films company. She currently lives and works in Paris and Vienna. After unfinished studies in philosophy and theater, Georg Tiller studied film and television with Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, film directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger at the Film Academy Vienna, and film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). He has worked as a freelance artist and filmmaker, a producer of his own work and that of friends, and with the artist collective naivsuper. He worked as a Senior Partner at the production company Mengamuk Films in Germany, and he is currently Managing Director of Subobscura Films in Vienna, Austria and Paris, France. His films have been shown and awarded at world-renowned festivals including the Berlinale, the IFF Rotterdam, and the Viennale Film Festival. He has also exhibited work at the Bienal de Såo Paulo, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Luleå Vinter Bienal, among many other places.

A mound of coal, black dust dissipating into the air, a stone statue of a worker: These are the opening images of White Coal. Loosely inspired by Hermann Melville`s "The Confidence Man", the story of a blind passenger aboard a Mississippi steamboat, the first thread of White Coal follows the journey of a Polish coal transport ship and a male figure dressed as in silent movies of the proletarian heyday. Always seeming to appear as if someone had called for him, this man wanders around a disintegrating industrial town aimlessly. We see dogs barking, and the sounds of heavy industry linger in the air. He enters a ship furtively, apparently unaware that it is a coal ship set to travel on down a narrow river. It is as if the boat had the entire crew under a spell cast by its slow but steady motion. Only minimal movements are possible on board this ship, and the "blind passenger" becomes the spectator of this self-contained routine. The film`s second thread portrays the physical structures and environment in which coal is exploited at the world`s largest coal-burning power plant, located in Taychung, Taiwan. Here color enters the film, yet it feels like the present is falling behind the past, industrial landscapes, truck transports, giant chimneys burning coal, monitoring stations following their own beat. Computers out of order and people scooting around in chairs. The drone of the Polish coal ship is mirrored by the crushing din of industry, then cancelled out by an aseptic control room vacuum that swallows whatever might otherwise be a human gesture. This is Melville`s steamboat, chugging slowly and unstoppably down a river with no end, where human beings have no voice with which to speak and exist encapsulated in their own imagined present tense. Although the film uses the material as the primary source of its investigation, White Coal is less a film about coal than an exploration of industrial film motifs from the 1920s to the present.

After unfinished philosophy and theater studies, he studied film studies first with Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, then film directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger at the Film Academy Vienna and later film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Since early on he has been working as a freelance artist and filmmaker later also as a producer of his own and his friends work, initially with the artist collective naivsuper. His films have been shown at numerous film festivals around the world and he has exhibited his work at the Bienal de Såo Paulo, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Luleå Vinter Bienal among many other places. He is one of the co-founders of the production company Mengamuk Films and managing director of Subobscura Films. Georg currently lives in Vienna and Berlin.

A young woman works as a guard in a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar. She passes the time daydreaming about her father, a murderer who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother. In her imagination, her father becomes a mythical killer, wandering the countryside and rolling enchanted dice to decide the fate of his victims. Secretly, she yearns for the day he might turn up amongst the prisoners. When a new inmate arrives claiming to know her father, the young woman’s fantasies begin to turn to nightmares.

Maéva Ranaïvojaona is a French filmmaker with Malagasy origins. She graduated from the National Fine Art Academy of Dijon and Bourges, France. After couple of years working as an artist’s assistant ( among them Ernesto Neto?—?Brazil, and Kristina Solomoukha?—?France ), she worked as a first director’s assistant beside young filmmakers in Paris and Berlin. She wrote, produced and directed two short films, that have been shown and awarded at several international film festivals among them the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Cannes Film Festival. Since 2017 Maéva Ranaïvojaona works as a screenwriter, filmmaker and producer at Subobscura Films company. She currently lives and works in Paris and Vienna. After unfinished studies in philosophy and theater, Georg Tiller studied film and television with Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, film directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger at the Film Academy Vienna, and film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). He has worked as a freelance artist and filmmaker, a producer of his own work and that of friends, and with the artist collective naivsuper. He worked as a Senior Partner at the production company Mengamuk Films in Germany, and he is currently Managing Director of Subobscura Films in Vienna, Austria and Paris, France. His films have been shown and awarded at world-renowned festivals including the Berlinale, the IFF Rotterdam, and the Viennale Film Festival. He has also exhibited work at the Bienal de Såo Paulo, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Luleå Vinter Bienal, among many other places.

A mound of coal, black dust dissipating into the air, a stone statue of a worker: These are the opening images of White Coal. Loosely inspired by Hermann Melville`s "The Confidence Man", the story of a blind passenger aboard a Mississippi steamboat, the first thread of White Coal follows the journey of a Polish coal transport ship and a male figure dressed as in silent movies of the proletarian heyday. Always seeming to appear as if someone had called for him, this man wanders around a disintegrating industrial town aimlessly. We see dogs barking, and the sounds of heavy industry linger in the air. He enters a ship furtively, apparently unaware that it is a coal ship set to travel on down a narrow river. It is as if the boat had the entire crew under a spell cast by its slow but steady motion. Only minimal movements are possible on board this ship, and the "blind passenger" becomes the spectator of this self-contained routine. The film`s second thread portrays the physical structures and environment in which coal is exploited at the world`s largest coal-burning power plant, located in Taychung, Taiwan. Here color enters the film, yet it feels like the present is falling behind the past, industrial landscapes, truck transports, giant chimneys burning coal, monitoring stations following their own beat. Computers out of order and people scooting around in chairs. The drone of the Polish coal ship is mirrored by the crushing din of industry, then cancelled out by an aseptic control room vacuum that swallows whatever might otherwise be a human gesture. This is Melville`s steamboat, chugging slowly and unstoppably down a river with no end, where human beings have no voice with which to speak and exist encapsulated in their own imagined present tense. Although the film uses the material as the primary source of its investigation, White Coal is less a film about coal than an exploration of industrial film motifs from the 1920s to the present.

After unfinished philosophy and theater studies, he studied film studies first with Harun Farocki at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, then film directing and cinematography with Michael Haneke and Christian Berger at the Film Academy Vienna and later film directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Since early on he has been working as a freelance artist and filmmaker later also as a producer of his own and his friends work, initially with the artist collective naivsuper. His films have been shown at numerous film festivals around the world and he has exhibited his work at the Bienal de Såo Paulo, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Luleå Vinter Bienal among many other places. He is one of the co-founders of the production company Mengamuk Films and managing director of Subobscura Films. Georg currently lives in Vienna and Berlin.

With my film film, Possessed. I had a strong, slightly illicit, urge to commandeer the original train sequence from the 1931 film Possessed and make it move in such a way as to give the girl (Joan Crawford) what she thought she wanted: a position on the inside. To do that, I had to create my own (all encompassing) vehicle. By my count, the original sequence provides three orders of motion: the motion (and stillness) of the passengers on the train, the motion of the train itself, and finally the motion of the girl (Joan) outside of the train. By injecting my own additional level of motion, I was able to move Joan from her position on the outside looking in (played melodramatically as desire?s longing for the just-out-of-reach) to a position inside, looking around (played as pure vision). But maybe that?s really just my fanciful imagining and, as such, pretty much situates me in Joan?s original position: projecting desire onto a handy passing vehicle. In the end, at least this much is true: we both love staring into this passing train. In fact, we never seem to tire of it.

Fred Worden has been making experimental film since the mid 1970?s. His films have been shown in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Museum of Modern Art , The Centre Pompidou, The Pacific Film Archive, The New York Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, The Hong Kong International Film Festival and numerous other experimental film venues.

Two associates undertake some impromptu physical experimentation on the streets of Greensboro, North Carolina. 1 part contact improv, 1 part parkour, 8 parts play.

Jason Workman b1970 New Zealand Lives Melbourne, Australia Workman is an artist,writer and poet. Workman`s film, writing and physical interventions focus on public space as a field of play and everyday creativity. www.everydaypress.net

Workman takes an unorthodox route down the stairs - Part parkour, part physical graffiti.

My practice is concerned with introducing gestures, texts and objects into public space. I am interested in the subtle intersection of these minimal and quiet interventions within the flux of everyday life. I refrain from differentiating `art-practice` from the `practice-of-living`. To this end, I have created interventions in my workplace, in retail spaces, on trains, in parks, on the sidewalk etc? The interventions are poetic, ephemeral and often of a diminutive scale, therefore, they may be noticed by only a few people. If the work elicits a smile, a pause, a moment of disorientation in a small number of people, I consider this worthwhile. Essentially, this type of practice is intuitive and exploratory. It seeks opportunities in which to playfully engage with aspects of our everyday reality.

In one place, a replica of the Democracy Monument is being built. Meanwhile, the actual Democracy Monument on Ratchadamnoen road was rioting with protests demanding the reform of the monarchy.

Suwaporn Worrasit (b.1987, Bangkok) is a cinematographer and a documentary filmmaker in Thailand. He utilizes the observation methods to create his works.

When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?

Run has lived in London and worked as a freelance animator since graduating from the Animation MA course at the Royal College of Art in 1990. He has produced several self-financed short films alongside commercials, titles and music videos (notably for Howie B and The Charlatans). For many years he contributed regular illustrations to NME magazine.

Everyday Vrealities is a virtual reality documentary about different kinds of families, homes and ways of life. The viewer can, using their VR-headset, walk freely around from home to home, and witness everyday scenes happening in front of them. The film consist of nine homes, each linked to another. The viewer can witness a father playing games with his daughter, a couple doing yoga, a mother helping her son do his homework, an elderly mother teaching her daughter how to make pottery, a kid doing somersaults, a family with their newborn etc. The viewer can also re-enter some of the rooms to see new scenes. In the film there are no interviews or backstories. It is not a film of big emotions, but more of reflections and observation. It is in a sense “slow tv”, with seemingly nothing much happening. We can using the free movement in the space to quietly observe an everyday event unfolding, and even revisit it later if we want. The combined length of all clips is around 50 minutes.

Timo Wright is a media artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Noteworthy exhibitions include e.g. Nakanojo Biennale, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki Design Museum, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Kunsthalle Helsinki as well as festivals such as IDFA, Slamdance, Nordisk Panorama and International Film Festival Rotterdam. His films have been shown at over 80 festivals and exhibitions worldwide.

Ex Nihilo is an experimental short documentary about life, death and our attempts to control them. It tells the stories of an advanced humanoid robot, a cryonics facility, where the brains of deceased people are held and of a ninternational seed vault, where crop seed from around the world are held frozen. The first film is about one of the most advanced humanoid robots, HUBO. It can walk on uneven terrain, drive a vehicle and operate different tools. The second film is about Oregon Cryonics, a cryonics organisation in Salem, Oregon, USA. At their facility human brains of deceased people are kept at very low temperatures. The third film is about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, which s situated on the island of Spitsbergen midway between Norway and the North Pole. The vault holds seeds of more than 4000 different plant species at '18 °C. The crates of seeds from all around the world are kept side-by-side deep inside the frozen vault.

Timo Wright is a media artist based in Helsinki, Finland. Wright has graduated with MA degree from the Aalto University School of Art and Design in Helsinki in 2014. He has participated in domestic and international exhibitions since the mid 2000s including Kunsthall Charlottenborg (2017&2018), Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie (2017), Galerie Anhava (2016), Helsinki Art Museum (2013), Helsinki Design Museum (2012), Amos Anderson Art Museum (2012), Kunsthalle Helsinki (2012, 2010, 2009) and Helsinki Art Museum's Kluuvi Gallery (2012), as well as festivals such as IDFA, Slamdance, Nordisk Panorama, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Japan Media Arts Festival. His films have been shown at over 70 festivals and exhibitions worldwide.

EVENT is a spin-off short film from Heli Meklin`s performance "Simple Events". What goes up, must come down.

Timo Wright is a media artist and documentary film director. His works are mostly political, ranging from photographing everything he owns to ?racist? computers. Recently he has been collaborating with several prominent choreographers working alongside them bringing new computer based content and interaction into dance performances. www.timowright.com

The work is a paper made video composed of digital image and physical material that delves into the essence of moving image. I divided the digital video into the film ratio of 24-frame-per-second. Through the process of digital transforming in printing and scanning, the re-composed video is in between movement and stillness, virtual and concrete, digital and material. The contrasts have thus been thus related to the Oriental philosophy of Taoism, "one body with two sides". With the video, I was trying to visualize the abstract natural law which denies description. Tao is empty yet inexhaustible, hidden but always present, a way of life yet not a locatable truth. darkness within darkness seeks, in the same way, to be comprises of the very contrast between the established (material) and the abstract (digital) through revealing the invisible time in image.

Wu Chia-Yun (b.1988, Taiwan) received an MA degree in Visual Communication from the Royal College of Art (London) and an MFA degree in Motion Picture from the National Taiwan University of Arts (Taipei). She is an artist and filmmaker based in Taipei, her work is a mixture of image, video, mixed media and installation, focusing on the topics of “human condition” and “the time of image”. Wu has been awarded as Emerging Artist Made in Taiwan by the Ministry of Culture (2017), First Prize of Kaohsiung Awards by the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (2019), and has had a solo exhibition at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2019). Her works have also been internationally selected to the European Media Art Festival (2020), The European Independent Film Channel (2015), Shanghai international Film Festival (2014).

The conception of the work is based largely on prehistoric cave paintings on Sulawesi Island, as well as fossils and remains undiscovered or still undergoing excavation in East Asia, Southeast Asia and other regions. The creation of cave paintings marks the dawn of the intelligent creature discovering images for immersive experience. Species of different lineages can develop similar functions because of being in similar environments— what we call convergent evolution; different ethnicity groups, too, are able to develop consistent cognitive ability in similar spaces. As one of the oldest cave paintings, the painting at Leang-Leang cave had witnessed the beginning of consciousness, which happened across different locations in human history. It illustrates the common ground of humans and how they gradually evolve to share more similarities.

Wu Chi-Yu born in 1986, is an artist based in Taipei, Taiwan. Chi-Yu’s work has long been focusing on re-establishing the connections among humans, things, animals, and the ruined world left by technic capitalism. His practice revolves around the moving image, looking for contemporary narratives in lost memory through the reproducing of oral history and myths. He is also involved in different collaboration projects of installation, video installation, and performance.   The exhibitions he once participated include: The Ouroboros (TheCube Project Space, Taipei/ Casino Luxembourg, 2019); Serious Games (HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, 2019); 12th Shanghai Biennale: Proregress (Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2018); Trans-Justice (MOCA, Taipei, 2018); Crush (Para Site, Hong Kong, 2018); Taipei Biennial (Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2016); The 2nd CAFAM Future Exhibition (CAFA Art Museum, Beijing 2015). His films have been screened at Short Film Program-Art Basel Hong Kong (2019); Beijing International Short Film Festival (2017); EXiS Festival (Seoul, 2017); Arkipel Festival (Jakarta, 2016). He had a solo show: 91 Square Meters of Time (TKG+ Project, Taipei, 2017) and was a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (2014-2015).

A chilling voice from the past falls in line with the current wave of divisiveness, anti-immigrant rhetoric and political turmoil in an America torn by violence and bloodshed.

Nancy Wyllie's films have screened throughout the world including The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, the 7th International Berlin Director's Lounge, Tribeca Cinemas Video Art & Experimental Film Festival in New York and the Aesthetica Film Festival (AFF), York, UK. "Moth Vitals" was one of 28 international selections screened at 'Now & After" International Video Art Festival at The State Darwin Museum in Moscow in 2017 where her work became part of their permanent collection. “Moth Vitals’ screened at 2020 jellyfest film festival at the AFI /American Film Institute, Mark Goodson Theater, Los Angeles. Also in 2020, ‘Inquest’ was selected for the Blow-up International Arthouse Film Festival, Gene Siskel Theater, Chicago, IL. USA. In 2018, her short gun violence film, ‘Reenactments’ won The Americas Award for Best Experimental Short at The Americas Film Festival New York. The Awards Ceremony took place at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on June 15, 2018. “Soaked Earth” was selected for the Extremely Shorts Film Festival 2020, Aurora Picture Show, Houston Media Arts and received Honorable mention for Best Experimental at the SENE Film Festival 2021 with an LA Premiere at the Super Shorts Los Angeles Film Festival at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, December 2021. Her film project exposing the underbelly of the global skin bleaching epidemic titled, “Getting Under Our Skin” was funded by The Puffin Foundation and screened at The Torpedo Factory in Through These Eyes July- September 2022. Also in 2022 her film “Inquest” was selected for screening at the International Portrait Film Festival (IPFF) in Sophia, Bulgaria and at “Diorama Room Presents: Tune Into Green,” 13 short experimental and expanded documentary films by international filmmaker, sound artists and musicians. 'Soaked Earth' screened at the New York Short Film Festival at Cinema Village, Manhattans oldest independent cinema, in 2022. In 2023, 'Twenty Square Feet' was a semi finalist at the Blow-up Arthouse Film Festival 2023 in Chicago. 'The Through Line' was a semi finalist at Berlin Shorts 2023 and received an Honorable Mention at the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival at Tribeca Cinemas. 'Soaked Earth' is part of Human Landscapes, a Loosenart International Art project, at Rome Art Week 2024. Wyllie holds Master’s degrees from RISD and Tulane University, New Orleans. She studied film at New York University and taught foundation art & design, digital media courses and video art at Ithaca College, RISD, Vermont College of Norwich University (MFA faculty) and at CCRI until 2018.

The chilling voice of 1960’s charismatic cult leader and mass murderer Charles Manson falls in line with the current wave of divisiveness, anti-immigrant hostility, antisemitism, misogyny and political turmoil in an America torn by the contagion of hatred and violence. The ultimate manipulator, Manson knew how cull the most inflammatory aspects of the zeitgeist during the tumultuous Vietnam era to fuel his own agenda. He alternately peddled fear and love and used his early exposure to Biblical teachings to stoke the fires of a deranged dogma that included an imminent race war that would be blamed on Blacks. Like a film director with the outward appearance of a peace loving hippie, Manson issued precise instructions to his followers as they set off to carry out grisly murders in the Hollywood Hills and beyond while he remained behind the scenes. Manson’s amalgam of white supremacy, the Dale Carnegie method and devotion to his twisted interpretation of Christian ideology strikes a dangerously familiar note in America in 2024.

Nancy Wyllie's films have screened throughout the world including The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, the 7th International Berlin Director's Lounge, Tribeca Cinemas Video Art & Experimental Film Festival in New York, Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF), York, UK. and the New Media Film Festival in Los Angeles. "Moth Vitals" was one of 28 international selections screened at 'Now & After’ International Video Art Festival at The State Darwin Museum in Moscow in 2017 where her work became part of the permanent collection. In 2018, her short gun violence film, ‘Reenactments’ won The Americas Award for Best Experimental at TAFFNY The Americas Film Festival New York sponsored by the Division of Interdisciplinary Studies CUNY. Wyllie spoke about the proliferation of gun violence in the US at the Awards Ceremony which took place at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. Her film about Marilyn Monroe’s personal library titled ‘Cover to Cover ‘was made with support from the Sam Shaw Family Archives and screened in 2022 at IPFF International Portrait Film Festival, Sophia, Bulgaria. ‘Soaked Earth’ screened at Human Landscapes, Rome Art Week 2024. Wyllie holds a Master’s degree from RISD and studied film at NYU.

Full of feeling and cheerful meeting with Elvis Rromano, a teacher in a Gypsy school somewhere in the countryside of Romania, a fellow country of the European Union. He looks and dresses like Elvis Presley. A guitar and the evergreen songs of Elvis are his permanent companions. Giving an insight into the life of Gypsy-people`s in an untroubled manner, Elvis actually points out the crucial issues of Gypsy roots, European Union identity-politics, the social mobility of Gypsy and his own Otherness in European society. `Hello I am Elvis Rromano. Elvis Rromano means Gypsy Elvis, it?s because I sing Presley?s songs in the Gypsy language. I love what I do, and I do it with passion. I?m unique, I sing in Gypsy. Why? The old Gypsies love Elvis, but they don?t understand his lyrics, many of them don?t know English. So it was a gift for them. Elvis in my very own way, with my own words, in my language, in Gypsy. My lyrics are deeper, more serious. I sing about my roots and my feelings, my own life, as well as the life of the Gypsies. There?s one more reason. I discovered that Elvis was half-Gypsy, from his mother site`

Robert Rumas (b. 1966) ? visual artist and curator, associated with the current of critical art.; a graduate of Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts; co-founder of Wyspa Gallery in Gdańsk. He creates installations, performances and actions in public space. His works use objects of religious cult, placing them in a non-religious context. His most famous projects include Termofory X 8 (Waterbottles X 8) and Manewry miejskie (City Maneouvers). Simultaneously to his artistic works he has been organizing space and set design in multimedia and theatre performances since 2004. He lives and works in Warsaw. Piotr Wyrzykowski alias Peter Style (b. 1968) - media artist, performer ans set designer. Studied interior architecture and media art at the Fine Arts Academy in Gdansk. He made his debut as a performer in 1990. In his practice he uses video, photography, Internet and sound - creating performances, installations, projects in public space, network projects and multimedia plays. Cofounder and artistic director of CUKT. The best known project of the group was ?Presidential Campaign of Wiktoria Cukt? that proposed a virtual candidate for the President of Poland. He`s work ?Beta Nassau? (1993) is in the collection of MoMA, New York. He lives and works in Gdansk & Kiev.

Cazarsa della Delizia, November 2011. A trip to the grave of a filmmaker, the discovering of the land of the grandfather, a country where people still speak a local language; is that what makes me an immigrant? The stories of the places mingle with those worn by the sea. But the sea is not a country. "I`m going to an unknown country. But I understand that this country is important. It attracts me like an indispensable thing. However a doubt remains. This journey is a crossing of a part of myself, to discover. When I am there, there might be nothing. Nothing, but seeing fascism. I`m not talking about politics, I mean the collapse of a thought, the clash with a reality without stories, without myths."

Born in Toulouse (France), 1987, Luca Wyss is a filmmaker based in Paris. He studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieur d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. For years, he is member of the experimental cinema workshop "L'ETNA", before founding the collective "Les Inquiets" with Félix Albert. The collective works on the mediterranean space, aiming to weave bonds of sense and images between the shores of this sea. This work led them to film in Pristina (Kosovo), Alger (Algeria), Belgrade (Serbia), Tehran (Iran), in a hybrid approach, between documentary and contemporary art. In parallel with this work of co-directing, Luca Wyss develops a work of narrative experimentation, looking for new ways of seeing the space of possible in mythical stories and and personal testimonies. This work led him to shot in Beyrouth (Lebanon), Toulouse (France), Bienne (Swiss), Cazarsa (Italy). He tries to make the myth a vision of the reality. His latest movie belongs to this research.