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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).

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.

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.

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.