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REVOLVER is an archive of pareidolia (a situation in which someone sees a pattern or image of something that does not exist) narrated by a descendent of Exodusters. Nicodemus (Kansas, USA) was deemed a refuge for Exodusters––Black people from the southern United States who fled violence and inequities following the Civil War. Two contradicting narratives about Nicodemus are difficult to hold at once: the lure of a potential utopia while also being exiled in one’s own land. Guided by memory, history, and rumor of a fabled Black utopia, REVOLVER pairs abstraction and perceptual inquiry with psychic conjuring. Sonic transitions forge this experimental documentary, a perpetual chronicle of witnessing and wayfinding.

Crystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descent. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets — fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Campbell’s works use underloved archival material to consider historical gaps and the optics of historical transmission –– questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks' “immortal” cell line to gentrification and cultural preservation via a 35mm film relic salvaged from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn. Campbell’s creative practice spans painting, sculpture, performance, film, writing, and installations that are often site-responsive. Campbell was the recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and a a 2022 Creative Capital award. Other honors include a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Award, MAP Fund, MacDowell, Skowhegan, Rijksakademie, Whitney ISP, and Franklin Furnace Award. Exhibitions and screenings include MOMA, Artists Space, Bemis, SFMOMA, Drawing Center, ICA-Philadelphia, REDCAT, MAG Rochester, SculptureCenter, MIT List Center, Block Museum, Walker Art Center, EMPAC, BAM, and DocLisboa. Campbell was a featured filmmaker at the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar. Their latest film, REVOLVER, received the Silver Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival and was featured in the 2023 Berlinale Expanded Film Forum. Campbell’s artwork and films are held by MIT List Center, Duke University, MAG Rochester, Harvard Film Archive, and other collections in the U.S. and abroad. Campbell’s writing is featured in two artist books published by Visual Studies Workshop Press, World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic. Campbell is a Visiting Associate Professor of Art and Media Study at the University at Buffalo and lives between New York and Oklahoma. Campbell will be in residence at Washington University in St. Louis this Fall as the 2023-2024 Freund Fellow and the fellowship will conclude with a solo exhibition at St. Louis Art Museum in 2024.

The film “ Counterlight ” by Artist Maya Zack is the 3rd part of her award-winning Memory Trilogy following “ Mother Economy ” and “ Black and White Rule”. “ Counterlight ” is a hypnotic journey into the depths of consciousness that follows the traces of poet Paul Celan, one of the greatest poets of the modern-postmodern era. A female archive researcher listens to extracts from original recordings by the poet and gradually changes from an archivist into an alchemist. She dissects in an almost surgical manner the archival materials“ photographs, maps, documents and poems ” that will enable her to reconstruct and resurrect the past and intervene in it till the boundaries between reality and documentation, past and present are blurred. In a surrealistic process, she penetrates the space of an old street photograph of 1937 Czernowitz and meets Celan’s mother who is baking challah bread in her kitchen, until her task transforms into female magic which leads to the creation of the “ memory-golem” In recent years, Zack researched Paul Celan’s world and creative process, through the actual as well as mythical female figures in his life. To these, she has interwoven images of death and birth and dedicated the film to the memory of her mother.

Maya Zack (B. 1976, Israel) is a visual artist and filmmaker working with video, computerized visualizations, installation and drawing. Her work ties together themes of memory, history, virtuality and metaphysics. Zack is a lecturer in Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem where she had graduated in 2000 .B.F.A Magna Cum Laude. She studied at the Tel Aviv University 2008-12 and in Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee Student Exchange Program.

Within the confines of a small south London flat, the filmmaker decides to finally say goodbye to her already lacking confidence and her friends come together to help her see this task through. Structured as a succession of informal conversations and exchanges between friends, 'Bye Bye Confidence' opens up a space for un-mastering and un-learning expected behaviours, letting free expectations of how one behaves in the world or even makes a film

M?d?lina Zaharia (b. 1985, Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania) is a Romanian artist and filmmaker who lives and works in London. Her film, TristxtOTL was screened at ICA London as part of the official selection for the 67th BFI London Film Festival and was the winner of the 'Best Experimental Award' at both Close:Up Reykjavik Film Festival 2024 and San Francisco Short Film Festival 2024. She was also a 2023 fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Past films include, Public Figure – made in collaboration with poet and performer Ryan Ormonde, which subsequently won 'The best film in the national competition' prize at Bucharest International Dance Film Festival 2021 and was also part of the official selection for SQIFF 2021 (Scottish Queer International Film Festival) in Glasgow and GRRL HAUS CINEMA 2021 in Boston, MA.

The footage for this work is taken from a ROV underwater camera, flying along the seabed, mapping Internet fiber cables. Images an offshore ROV pilot would see 12 hours each day on his shift. The worker, on various trips to open water, spends months at sea, connected to the rest of the world by the same cables that the ROV`s camera is tracking. Boredom and loneliness comforted by the immediacy and instant gratification of the net: Online shopping on open water. A virtual flow of money, earned and spent at the same time: Adidas Originals Gazelles red, Bosch Home Professional hover, 5m per 3m Persian rug, a knitted Fred Perry jumper, Philips flatscreen TV ambilight.

Daniela Zahlner is born 1986 in Austria, she lives and works in Vienna and Glasgow.

D'après les projets des nationalsocialistes, la station balnéaire Prora "La force par la joie" sur l'île de Rügen aurait du pouvoir accueillir 20 000 vacanciers. Mais les travaux ont été interrompu au début de la seconde guerre mondiale. Sur ce terrain en friche a eu lieu pendant l'été 2003 le "Jugendevent Prora03", début d'une campagne dénonçant l'émigration de jeunes gens de Mecklembourg-Poméranie occidentale et de l'ex-RDA. Sous la devise "Qui si ce n'est pas nous, àù si ce n'est pas ici" 15 000 jeunes sont venus pour trois jours à Prora. Le film montre à travers de longues prises de vue sans commentaire les préparatifs pour le festival.

Geboren 1967 in Heilbronn. Studium Literaturwissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Tübingen und Visuelle Kommunikation an der Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg. Lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg. Seit 2003 Mitglied der Filmemachergruppe "Abbildungszentrum" und des Künstlerhauses "Frise" in Hamburg.

Filmed in Tehran, Mardehak, Jiroft and Kerman, Iran, 2015 Edited and Produced in Tehran, Iran, 2015 First shown in February 2015, in Vista Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.

Ashkan "aschk" Zahraie Born in 1989, Tehran, Iran Visual Artist, Storyteller Education 2011. Bachelor’s Degree. English Language and Literature. University of Tehran. Tehran, Iran.

O.G.N. (Operación Gato Negro) From The Colombian Mountains is inspire by a legend that tells the story about a ?Shaman? that provides a power to a Guerilla Rebel to become in a black cat and camouflage himself from the enemy and the militaries forces. Is a leftist and rarely known Colombian story, although ?El Monojojoy? was a high-ranking member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and one of the most pursued objective in the guerrilla organization. In 2010 on 22nd of September, this Guerrilla leader was hunted down by the military tactic called ?Sodoma?, because the long and exhaustive mission called ?Operación Gato Negro? in english ?Black cat military operation? since 2001 through 2010 could not trapped him.

Tatyana Zambrano, born in 1982, Medellin-Colombia. Actually lives in Medellin Colombia, finishing the 9th semester of Visual arts in University of Antioquia, used to live and study cinema and videoart in Mexico City at the UNAM-Mexico. Graduated in publisher in 2006, has been working as a teacher and graphic/creative web designer. The artwork has been recognized with the major Colombian Culture National award in visual arts in 2011 and the major departmental award, student?s category in 2012 Colombia. Also, has been participating in a several expositions and international festivals of videoart. See more in http://cargocollective.com/tatyanazambrano/Bio.

The work follows the idea of the impossibility of perception. Basically, it is the memory which formulates reality and perception. Feelings of strangeness and the loss of security follow mankind on their way- or their search- to "a home". I understand "a home" as a place J.Derrida developed under the term Xora. The title of the video starts with the english word "movie", which used at the same time can be taken for granted as the polish word he/she says.

Set in the city of Ahlen, Germany, ?My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar?, is a server side generated movie that imitates an amateur?s film of the landscape framed at sunset. While the city strip is prerecorded the sky is captured in real time from a webcam shooting the sky of Naples (Italy) at sunset and as such, always changing. The website hosting the project renders a new movie every day and save it in an archive. The work, confronting themes such as exile, migration and border control, is enhanced by a poem by the esteemed author Ghada Samman and music by the international band Gotan Project and legendary composer Gabriel Yared.

Carlo Zanni (La Spezia, Italy, 1975) is among one of the pioneering New Media artists of his generation. Since 2000 Carlo Zanni`s practice involves the use of live Internet data feedback to create time based social consciousness experiences under the form of games, photos, films and installations. For the past eight years Carlo Zanni kept investigating a new radical approach to the art making that is the use of live material gathered from the Internet to shape forms reflecting topical issues of our life. This data can be eBay.com stock market charts like in "eBay Landscape, 2004", or a set of images gathered from daily top stories like in "Average Shoveler, 2005", or even weather forecasts in "Time-In, 2005" or UNESCO Indicators for the upcoming ?The 5th Day, 2009?. This use of live data, screening our society, lets the viewer be part of the piece even if he physically doesn`t interact with it. His work has been shown worldwide in galleries and museums including: MAXXI Museum, Rome (2007, 2006); New Museum, New York (2005); Gavin Brown`s Enterprise at Passerby, New York (2005); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001). ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts in London held his first retrospective in October 2005 and published the book "Vitalogy". In October 2006, "8-bit" a documentary by artist and director Marcin Ramocki featuring an interview with Carlo Zanni premiered at MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. With his latest project "My Temporary Visiting Position From The Sunset Terrace Bar" ? 2007 [www.FromTheSunsetTerrace.com] Carlo Zanni keeps investigating what he calls DATA CINEMA: a new way to approach filmmaking and narrative forms at large based on the use of live data feedback gathered from the Net, to create ever changing cinematic live environments. More info on the artist at http://www.zanni.org

WILD FRUITS recounts a series of episodes in the life of a fictional servant of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, Jean Aurand, against the backdrop of the 16th century colonial expansion and religious wars. After Jean's return to France from Brazil, he meets Montaigne and develops an intimate relationship with him. One day while walking they stumble upon a group of time travellers from a distant future, on a mission that will change the life of these two men forever.

Bernardo Zanotta (1996, Brazil) is a filmmaker and visual artist based between Amsterdam. His work explores the fusion of the familiar and the fantastical, creating characters who often find themselves escaping daily life, venturing into parallel worlds, or confronting history by reshaping it to their desires. His work has been exhibited internationally at art venues, cinemas, and festivals, including the British Film Institute, EYE Filmmuseum, FID Marseille, BAFICI, Pesaro and Locarno, where he was awarded the Pardino d'Argento for his film Heart of Hunger (2018).

Haunted by the ghost of a long-lost love, two friends travel by boat and play games of lust and sadism. Within this chain of lament and secret desires, new figures emerge. They lose each other, they find each other; the heart is a lonely hunter.

Bernardo Zanotta (1996, Porto Alegre) is a Brazilian visual artist and filmmaker. His films take shape as research-based projects where crossings within literature and the moving image are explored. Interests which gravitate around his practice are: the presence of the past in the future, the queering of canonical literary texts and the performativity of cinema. In recent years, he has screened and exhibited at festivals and venues such as the Locarno Film Festival, Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage, Fundación BilbaoArte and the Nieuwe Vide Foundation. He is based in Amsterdam and holds a bachelor degree in Moving Image from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

An image of the sea set on fire triggered a 3D dream with photographs of my father found in an oil plant in Patagonia. In that space, I begin a journey in relation to absences, marks on the body and the construction of masculinity of oil and gas workers.

Buenos Aires, 1993. Filmmaker, editor and 3D designer. He works in documentary and experimental cinema and researches about immersive narratives. Graduated as Image and Sound Designer from FADU-UBA. He directed the interactive experience "a_virus" (2019) and the short film "Fire in the sea" (Visions du Réel 2022) with which he has participated in more than 35 festivals such as FICIC (best international short film), Vienna shorts, Camden IFF, MIDBO, among others. He worked as editor on the film "Shady River" (2020), by Tatiana Mazú (Prix Georges de Beauregard FID Marseille 2020). He participated in Talents Buenos Aires 2021, La Bienal Arte Joven 2022 and ABC BAFICI. He is currently developing his feature film "Brick smoke" with the film collective Antes Muerto Cine.

Prima Vita is part of a series about mechanized landscapes. A short piece recorded in Barcelona´s container terminal from Montjuïc, a nearby hill overlooking the city. Huge tired cranes roll along aisles made of thousands of containers stacked on top of each other in an otherwise rigid matrix that provides for efficient storage and transport between large ships and trucks. The cranes are operated by a single driver assisted by computers in a carefully choreographed dance thru the meadows of invisible goods. Landscape is a machine part of larger machines, where humans, surface rolling vehicles and ships are gears in permanent interaction.

1974, photographer and architect. Graduated from the PUCMM in Santiago, Dominican Republic. I´m a founding member of Grupo Fotográfico de Santiago since 1996, a group of photographers from different backgrounds committed with promoting photography through exhibitions, lectures and workshops. I moved on to study architecture and urbanism at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam in 2000 focusing on recent urban transformations through the landscapes of Rotterdam and Zuid Holland and eventually went on to work for the photographer Francesco Jodice and Multiplicity, in projects like Secret Traces and Uncertain States of Europe at the Triennale di Milano. Among other distinctions is the Wilfredo García international photography prize, first prize at the 2005 Rotterdam Architecture Biennale (Al_Caribe with Supersudaca) and being selected for the XXIV Bienal Eduardo León Jimenes. I`ve taught at several institutions in Latin America and Europe while working in collaborative projects and workshops as an independent architect and visual artist in projects on architecture, landscape and photography.

Kitty came back home from on the island But kitty came on home without a name. To speak in tongues’ means to have the gift for mastering an unknown language while also being passed through by someone else’s word. In this telescopic and panoramic film of fac-simile et exempla, circularity at first, leads us right into the 360° view of a battle scene where the past is frozen within a tourist museum-device and the viewers with their camera are the actual subject. In sequence, concentric holes open up: a horse is performing a dance stepping backward; a fortune teller takes guesses on future circumstances and retrospective ones; the bodies of two gymnasts extend through their tools of artifice and grace, then we are taken on a ride across a Little Venice in miniature empty like a movie set. This spiral comes full circle in the silence of a lonely hunter on a Apennines tromp-l’oeil, a simulation park with fake birds and a mimetic wildermann: a carousel of the artificial where solitude is sound and nature is impermeable.  Proceeding by aphorisms, this film unfolds into a number of articulations and dimensions, all exceptionally true and false, like in an almanac of vision.

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is a collective formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Founded in 2000 and based in the hills between Cesena and Rimini, the group is the author of film projects and art installations that have been shown in major international film and art festivals. Zapruder’s fervent production relies on a ferocious and comic analysis of the human condition whose tragic destiny becomes a metaphysical place where they explore the language of representation, forging a surreal and poetic portrait. The group film-projects are often flexible cinematic devices, which Zapruder defines as `Chamber Cinema` sort of incarnated environment and disembodied theatre, poised between visual and performing arts. Vision becomes experience of time, long shots prevail and draw a polycentric spatial scene that allow the eye to open on the enigma of vision rather than narrowing on the narrative anecdote. Zapruder’s projects are written and directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi. David Zamagni ( b. 1971, Rimini) During his cinema studies in Bologna at DAMS, in 1994 he joins the theater company ‘Motus’ to later become icon actor of the performance `Catrame` (1996). In 1998, with Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, is co-author of `Orlando Furioso` and in 1999 they are awarded the UBU prize as well as that of the magazine `Lo straniero`; in the same year he leaves Motus to pursue his interests in cinema. Nadia Ranocchi ( b. 1973, Rimini) After completing her studies in Psychology at the University of Bologna, in 1998 she starts working with David Zamagni on their movies and audiovisual projects. Monaldo Moretti (b. 1972, Recanati) joins them in 2000. He is David’s former classmate in highschool and later on over the DAMS years. As well as co-founder of the group Zapruder, he`s director of photography, actor and foley artist.

Experimenting in telepathy during the 1970s, American Parapsychologist Charles Honorton introduced what he termed the Ganzfeld (full field) Method. One of the two subjects involved would experience a state of sensory deprivation, induced by placing the two halves of a ping pong ball over the eyes, while indistinct (white) noise was played into the ears through headphones. Such condition would give the subject the necessary concentration to allow for the transmission of thoughts and images remotely, solely through telepathy, from the mind of the other subject, who would be situated in a `communicating` room. Suite is part of Zapruder`s project `SPELL`. Combinations of elements ?Spell? give rise to cryptic and solemn events whose expression is often uncertain, even suspected.

Since 2000, David Zamagni (b. 1971, Rimini) and Nadia Ranocchi (b. 1973, Rimini) have been working under the name Zapruder, in collaboration with Monaldo Moretti (b.1972, Recanati) and a rotating network of creative members. Since 2005, the group has been exploring the possibilities of digital, stereoscopic, 3-D cinematic techniques through short film, concerts and installations. zapruderie.com

COCK-CROW (51 min Hd stereoscopic film 2009) Every age spawns and feeds its dragon. Unknown and obscure powers under which simpliest and more ordinary gestures lapse. Men whose bodily existence becomes the place for implacable struggles. Depths impossible to plumb and therefore admitted to participate in the holy economy. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a tiny little boy who is blameworthy for what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images, in search of the dragon to fight against. Cock-Crow it`s a rite of passage from childhood to manhood.

DAVID ZAMAGNI & NADIA RANOCCHI David Zamagni (Rimini, 1971) e Nadia Ranocchi (Rimini, 1973), directors and filmmakers, they live and work in Roncofreddo (FC). Together they are the authors of ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup` projects (David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti). Zapruder?s work is difficult to define within the traditional disciplinary boundaries and may perhaps be placed in the interstitial area between visual, performance and cinematographic art to give form to what the group defines as ?chamber cinema?, a sort of incarnated and tactile cinema, as well as a form of immaterial theatre. Zapruder?s production is characterized by an entirely artisanal approach that leads to a personal language in which the means is a fundamental and inexorable part. Since 2005 the group explores the possibilities of anaglyphy and stereoscopy through a series of short films and installations exploiting the techniques of 3-D cinema, conceiving and constructing both the equipments for the stereoscopic shooting and those used for watching. A considerable part of Zapruder?s work has taken place within the context of Italian experimental theatre (collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio). Works by the Zapruder Filmmakersgroup have been screened and have won awards in prestigious festivals, including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (D), Biennale de l`image en mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (A), Transmediale (Berlin, D), TTV Performing Arts on Screen (Riccione, I), Netmage (Bologna, I), Rencontres Internationales Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Milanesiana (I), Santarcangelo Festival (I), Contemporanea Festival (Prato, I), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, B), Uovo Festival (Milan, I), Festival d`Avignon (F) Venice film festival (Venice Lido, I).

"Morning Smile" is Zapruder's first work of George Bataille?s Trilogy. It is reminiscent of something forgotten and lost in its time. As the upshot of a night spent together, Dirty and Troppmann find themselves in a Savoy hotel room. Dirty is in a drunken state, speaking drunkenly and talking a lot of nonsense. Alcohol dulls her mind and rouses fear, "fear corrects everybody" says Dirty and she wets herself. Troppmann is the witness of the young lady's agony. The hotel room "reserved" for the two lovers is not a sheltered, cosy place, it is an open place, it lets in another story, allows another room to come in: the nuptial room for which were commissioned Botticelli's four pictures representing a hunting scene where a young lady is the prey. The paintings evoke the fear of damnation. "Morning Smile" was inspired by Georges Bataille?s episode "Dirty" and is closely connected to Decameron's 8th tale, 5th day.

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is made up by David Zamagni (born in Rimini in 1971), Nadia Ranocchi (born in Rimini in 1973), and Monaldo Moretti (born in Recanati in 1972).Together they play any role involved in Zapruder'productions, writing, direction, shooting, photography, editing, sound... Living and working in Roncofreddo (FC) Italy, Zapruder devotes itself to moving images. Their filmography includes: 1998, "Tony the fireman" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Marylin and the K." (animation. D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Steak & Chips" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi). 1999 In collaboration with "Motus" company "O.F. ovvero Orlando Furioso impunemente eseguito da Motus", awarded at "Riccione TTV Performing Arts on screen Festival 2000; "H.O.L.Y." segnalato al Bellaria film festival 2000; "Revolver V.M. 18" (video installation in collaboration with writer Isabella Santacroce), shown at "Brescia Music Art 2000"; 2001, "J.G." (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi) awarded at "Iceberg Festival 2002"; "Totentanz" (D.Zamagni, N.Ranocchi, and M.Moretti); "Daysi dammi la mano son pazzo di te" (N.Ranocchi); "Nervi" (M.Moretti) awarded at "Bellaria film festival"; "SPRING ROLL" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), awarded at "48° Oberhausen Short Film Festival"; special mention at "Unimovie 2001", Pescara; "Fiaticorti Nuove Frontiere Award", Istrana (TV); "Doggy bag with Spring roll" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), special mention at "Premio D.A.M.S", 2002; 2003, "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" short film; 2003, Together with Fanny & Alexander company they started the Nabokovian project "ADA", made up by 6 theatral stages with video images (when present), realized by Zapruder; Ravenna Festival, the performance "Ardis I"; 2004, Kunsten festival des Arts di Bruxelles, "Ardis II"; Riccione TTV festival performing arts on screen, "Rebus per Ada", installation for 16mm, produced and realized by Zapruder and Fanny & Alexander; "Morning Smile" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi); 2005, Festival delle colline torinesi, "Vaniada"; 2006, "Morning Smile" wins the Riccione TTV award for the "radicals linguistic choices of work"; Santarcangelo '06 festival of Arts, Zapruder presents "Daimon. The laceretor", Anagliph Projection, 2nd work from the George Bataille 'Zapruder' trilogy; To be viewed with 3D glasses; Trento Contemporary Art Gallery, the 2nd issue of Daimon's serial story, "Daimon.XXX (Trente)" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi, Anaglyph Projection).

Kitty came back home from on the island But kitty came on home without a name. To speak in tongues’ means to have the gift for mastering an unknown language while also being passed through by someone else’s word. In this telescopic and panoramic film of fac-simile et exempla, circularity at first, leads us right into the 360° view of a battle scene where the past is frozen within a tourist museum-device and the viewers with their camera are the actual subject. In sequence, concentric holes open up: a horse is performing a dance stepping backward; a fortune teller takes guesses on future circumstances and retrospective ones; the bodies of two gymnasts extend through their tools of artifice and grace, then we are taken on a ride across a Little Venice in miniature empty like a movie set. This spiral comes full circle in the silence of a lonely hunter on a Apennines tromp-l’oeil, a simulation park with fake birds and a mimetic wildermann: a carousel of the artificial where solitude is sound and nature is impermeable.  Proceeding by aphorisms, this film unfolds into a number of articulations and dimensions, all exceptionally true and false, like in an almanac of vision.

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is a collective formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Founded in 2000 and based in the hills between Cesena and Rimini, the group is the author of film projects and art installations that have been shown in major international film and art festivals. Zapruder’s fervent production relies on a ferocious and comic analysis of the human condition whose tragic destiny becomes a metaphysical place where they explore the language of representation, forging a surreal and poetic portrait. The group film-projects are often flexible cinematic devices, which Zapruder defines as `Chamber Cinema` sort of incarnated environment and disembodied theatre, poised between visual and performing arts. Vision becomes experience of time, long shots prevail and draw a polycentric spatial scene that allow the eye to open on the enigma of vision rather than narrowing on the narrative anecdote. Zapruder’s projects are written and directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi. David Zamagni ( b. 1971, Rimini) During his cinema studies in Bologna at DAMS, in 1994 he joins the theater company ‘Motus’ to later become icon actor of the performance `Catrame` (1996). In 1998, with Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, is co-author of `Orlando Furioso` and in 1999 they are awarded the UBU prize as well as that of the magazine `Lo straniero`; in the same year he leaves Motus to pursue his interests in cinema. Nadia Ranocchi ( b. 1973, Rimini) After completing her studies in Psychology at the University of Bologna, in 1998 she starts working with David Zamagni on their movies and audiovisual projects. Monaldo Moretti (b. 1972, Recanati) joins them in 2000. He is David’s former classmate in highschool and later on over the DAMS years. As well as co-founder of the group Zapruder, he`s director of photography, actor and foley artist.

Experimenting in telepathy during the 1970s, American Parapsychologist Charles Honorton introduced what he termed the Ganzfeld (full field) Method. One of the two subjects involved would experience a state of sensory deprivation, induced by placing the two halves of a ping pong ball over the eyes, while indistinct (white) noise was played into the ears through headphones. Such condition would give the subject the necessary concentration to allow for the transmission of thoughts and images remotely, solely through telepathy, from the mind of the other subject, who would be situated in a `communicating` room. Suite is part of Zapruder`s project `SPELL`. Combinations of elements ?Spell? give rise to cryptic and solemn events whose expression is often uncertain, even suspected.

Since 2000, David Zamagni (b. 1971, Rimini) and Nadia Ranocchi (b. 1973, Rimini) have been working under the name Zapruder, in collaboration with Monaldo Moretti (b.1972, Recanati) and a rotating network of creative members. Since 2005, the group has been exploring the possibilities of digital, stereoscopic, 3-D cinematic techniques through short film, concerts and installations. zapruderie.com

COCK-CROW (51 min Hd stereoscopic film 2009) Every age spawns and feeds its dragon. Unknown and obscure powers under which simpliest and more ordinary gestures lapse. Men whose bodily existence becomes the place for implacable struggles. Depths impossible to plumb and therefore admitted to participate in the holy economy. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a tiny little boy who is blameworthy for what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images, in search of the dragon to fight against. Cock-Crow it`s a rite of passage from childhood to manhood.

DAVID ZAMAGNI & NADIA RANOCCHI David Zamagni (Rimini, 1971) e Nadia Ranocchi (Rimini, 1973), directors and filmmakers, they live and work in Roncofreddo (FC). Together they are the authors of ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup` projects (David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti). Zapruder?s work is difficult to define within the traditional disciplinary boundaries and may perhaps be placed in the interstitial area between visual, performance and cinematographic art to give form to what the group defines as ?chamber cinema?, a sort of incarnated and tactile cinema, as well as a form of immaterial theatre. Zapruder?s production is characterized by an entirely artisanal approach that leads to a personal language in which the means is a fundamental and inexorable part. Since 2005 the group explores the possibilities of anaglyphy and stereoscopy through a series of short films and installations exploiting the techniques of 3-D cinema, conceiving and constructing both the equipments for the stereoscopic shooting and those used for watching. A considerable part of Zapruder?s work has taken place within the context of Italian experimental theatre (collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio). Works by the Zapruder Filmmakersgroup have been screened and have won awards in prestigious festivals, including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (D), Biennale de l`image en mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (A), Transmediale (Berlin, D), TTV Performing Arts on Screen (Riccione, I), Netmage (Bologna, I), Rencontres Internationales Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Milanesiana (I), Santarcangelo Festival (I), Contemporanea Festival (Prato, I), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, B), Uovo Festival (Milan, I), Festival d`Avignon (F) Venice film festival (Venice Lido, I).

"Morning Smile" is Zapruder's first work of George Bataille?s Trilogy. It is reminiscent of something forgotten and lost in its time. As the upshot of a night spent together, Dirty and Troppmann find themselves in a Savoy hotel room. Dirty is in a drunken state, speaking drunkenly and talking a lot of nonsense. Alcohol dulls her mind and rouses fear, "fear corrects everybody" says Dirty and she wets herself. Troppmann is the witness of the young lady's agony. The hotel room "reserved" for the two lovers is not a sheltered, cosy place, it is an open place, it lets in another story, allows another room to come in: the nuptial room for which were commissioned Botticelli's four pictures representing a hunting scene where a young lady is the prey. The paintings evoke the fear of damnation. "Morning Smile" was inspired by Georges Bataille?s episode "Dirty" and is closely connected to Decameron's 8th tale, 5th day.

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is made up by David Zamagni (born in Rimini in 1971), Nadia Ranocchi (born in Rimini in 1973), and Monaldo Moretti (born in Recanati in 1972).Together they play any role involved in Zapruder'productions, writing, direction, shooting, photography, editing, sound... Living and working in Roncofreddo (FC) Italy, Zapruder devotes itself to moving images. Their filmography includes: 1998, "Tony the fireman" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Marylin and the K." (animation. D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Steak & Chips" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi). 1999 In collaboration with "Motus" company "O.F. ovvero Orlando Furioso impunemente eseguito da Motus", awarded at "Riccione TTV Performing Arts on screen Festival 2000; "H.O.L.Y." segnalato al Bellaria film festival 2000; "Revolver V.M. 18" (video installation in collaboration with writer Isabella Santacroce), shown at "Brescia Music Art 2000"; 2001, "J.G." (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi) awarded at "Iceberg Festival 2002"; "Totentanz" (D.Zamagni, N.Ranocchi, and M.Moretti); "Daysi dammi la mano son pazzo di te" (N.Ranocchi); "Nervi" (M.Moretti) awarded at "Bellaria film festival"; "SPRING ROLL" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), awarded at "48° Oberhausen Short Film Festival"; special mention at "Unimovie 2001", Pescara; "Fiaticorti Nuove Frontiere Award", Istrana (TV); "Doggy bag with Spring roll" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), special mention at "Premio D.A.M.S", 2002; 2003, "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" short film; 2003, Together with Fanny & Alexander company they started the Nabokovian project "ADA", made up by 6 theatral stages with video images (when present), realized by Zapruder; Ravenna Festival, the performance "Ardis I"; 2004, Kunsten festival des Arts di Bruxelles, "Ardis II"; Riccione TTV festival performing arts on screen, "Rebus per Ada", installation for 16mm, produced and realized by Zapruder and Fanny & Alexander; "Morning Smile" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi); 2005, Festival delle colline torinesi, "Vaniada"; 2006, "Morning Smile" wins the Riccione TTV award for the "radicals linguistic choices of work"; Santarcangelo '06 festival of Arts, Zapruder presents "Daimon. The laceretor", Anagliph Projection, 2nd work from the George Bataille 'Zapruder' trilogy; To be viewed with 3D glasses; Trento Contemporary Art Gallery, the 2nd issue of Daimon's serial story, "Daimon.XXX (Trente)" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi, Anaglyph Projection).

Kitty came back home from on the island But kitty came on home without a name. To speak in tongues’ means to have the gift for mastering an unknown language while also being passed through by someone else’s word. In this telescopic and panoramic film of fac-simile et exempla, circularity at first, leads us right into the 360° view of a battle scene where the past is frozen within a tourist museum-device and the viewers with their camera are the actual subject. In sequence, concentric holes open up: a horse is performing a dance stepping backward; a fortune teller takes guesses on future circumstances and retrospective ones; the bodies of two gymnasts extend through their tools of artifice and grace, then we are taken on a ride across a Little Venice in miniature empty like a movie set. This spiral comes full circle in the silence of a lonely hunter on a Apennines tromp-l’oeil, a simulation park with fake birds and a mimetic wildermann: a carousel of the artificial where solitude is sound and nature is impermeable.  Proceeding by aphorisms, this film unfolds into a number of articulations and dimensions, all exceptionally true and false, like in an almanac of vision.

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is a collective formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Founded in 2000 and based in the hills between Cesena and Rimini, the group is the author of film projects and art installations that have been shown in major international film and art festivals. Zapruder’s fervent production relies on a ferocious and comic analysis of the human condition whose tragic destiny becomes a metaphysical place where they explore the language of representation, forging a surreal and poetic portrait. The group film-projects are often flexible cinematic devices, which Zapruder defines as `Chamber Cinema` sort of incarnated environment and disembodied theatre, poised between visual and performing arts. Vision becomes experience of time, long shots prevail and draw a polycentric spatial scene that allow the eye to open on the enigma of vision rather than narrowing on the narrative anecdote. Zapruder’s projects are written and directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi. David Zamagni ( b. 1971, Rimini) During his cinema studies in Bologna at DAMS, in 1994 he joins the theater company ‘Motus’ to later become icon actor of the performance `Catrame` (1996). In 1998, with Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, is co-author of `Orlando Furioso` and in 1999 they are awarded the UBU prize as well as that of the magazine `Lo straniero`; in the same year he leaves Motus to pursue his interests in cinema. Nadia Ranocchi ( b. 1973, Rimini) After completing her studies in Psychology at the University of Bologna, in 1998 she starts working with David Zamagni on their movies and audiovisual projects. Monaldo Moretti (b. 1972, Recanati) joins them in 2000. He is David’s former classmate in highschool and later on over the DAMS years. As well as co-founder of the group Zapruder, he`s director of photography, actor and foley artist.

Experimenting in telepathy during the 1970s, American Parapsychologist Charles Honorton introduced what he termed the Ganzfeld (full field) Method. One of the two subjects involved would experience a state of sensory deprivation, induced by placing the two halves of a ping pong ball over the eyes, while indistinct (white) noise was played into the ears through headphones. Such condition would give the subject the necessary concentration to allow for the transmission of thoughts and images remotely, solely through telepathy, from the mind of the other subject, who would be situated in a `communicating` room. Suite is part of Zapruder`s project `SPELL`. Combinations of elements ?Spell? give rise to cryptic and solemn events whose expression is often uncertain, even suspected.

Since 2000, David Zamagni (b. 1971, Rimini) and Nadia Ranocchi (b. 1973, Rimini) have been working under the name Zapruder, in collaboration with Monaldo Moretti (b.1972, Recanati) and a rotating network of creative members. Since 2005, the group has been exploring the possibilities of digital, stereoscopic, 3-D cinematic techniques through short film, concerts and installations. zapruderie.com

COCK-CROW (51 min Hd stereoscopic film 2009) Every age spawns and feeds its dragon. Unknown and obscure powers under which simpliest and more ordinary gestures lapse. Men whose bodily existence becomes the place for implacable struggles. Depths impossible to plumb and therefore admitted to participate in the holy economy. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a tiny little boy who is blameworthy for what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images, in search of the dragon to fight against. Cock-Crow it`s a rite of passage from childhood to manhood.

DAVID ZAMAGNI & NADIA RANOCCHI David Zamagni (Rimini, 1971) e Nadia Ranocchi (Rimini, 1973), directors and filmmakers, they live and work in Roncofreddo (FC). Together they are the authors of ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup` projects (David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti). Zapruder?s work is difficult to define within the traditional disciplinary boundaries and may perhaps be placed in the interstitial area between visual, performance and cinematographic art to give form to what the group defines as ?chamber cinema?, a sort of incarnated and tactile cinema, as well as a form of immaterial theatre. Zapruder?s production is characterized by an entirely artisanal approach that leads to a personal language in which the means is a fundamental and inexorable part. Since 2005 the group explores the possibilities of anaglyphy and stereoscopy through a series of short films and installations exploiting the techniques of 3-D cinema, conceiving and constructing both the equipments for the stereoscopic shooting and those used for watching. A considerable part of Zapruder?s work has taken place within the context of Italian experimental theatre (collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio). Works by the Zapruder Filmmakersgroup have been screened and have won awards in prestigious festivals, including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (D), Biennale de l`image en mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (A), Transmediale (Berlin, D), TTV Performing Arts on Screen (Riccione, I), Netmage (Bologna, I), Rencontres Internationales Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Milanesiana (I), Santarcangelo Festival (I), Contemporanea Festival (Prato, I), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, B), Uovo Festival (Milan, I), Festival d`Avignon (F) Venice film festival (Venice Lido, I).

"Morning Smile" is Zapruder's first work of George Bataille?s Trilogy. It is reminiscent of something forgotten and lost in its time. As the upshot of a night spent together, Dirty and Troppmann find themselves in a Savoy hotel room. Dirty is in a drunken state, speaking drunkenly and talking a lot of nonsense. Alcohol dulls her mind and rouses fear, "fear corrects everybody" says Dirty and she wets herself. Troppmann is the witness of the young lady's agony. The hotel room "reserved" for the two lovers is not a sheltered, cosy place, it is an open place, it lets in another story, allows another room to come in: the nuptial room for which were commissioned Botticelli's four pictures representing a hunting scene where a young lady is the prey. The paintings evoke the fear of damnation. "Morning Smile" was inspired by Georges Bataille?s episode "Dirty" and is closely connected to Decameron's 8th tale, 5th day.

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is made up by David Zamagni (born in Rimini in 1971), Nadia Ranocchi (born in Rimini in 1973), and Monaldo Moretti (born in Recanati in 1972).Together they play any role involved in Zapruder'productions, writing, direction, shooting, photography, editing, sound... Living and working in Roncofreddo (FC) Italy, Zapruder devotes itself to moving images. Their filmography includes: 1998, "Tony the fireman" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Marylin and the K." (animation. D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Steak & Chips" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi). 1999 In collaboration with "Motus" company "O.F. ovvero Orlando Furioso impunemente eseguito da Motus", awarded at "Riccione TTV Performing Arts on screen Festival 2000; "H.O.L.Y." segnalato al Bellaria film festival 2000; "Revolver V.M. 18" (video installation in collaboration with writer Isabella Santacroce), shown at "Brescia Music Art 2000"; 2001, "J.G." (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi) awarded at "Iceberg Festival 2002"; "Totentanz" (D.Zamagni, N.Ranocchi, and M.Moretti); "Daysi dammi la mano son pazzo di te" (N.Ranocchi); "Nervi" (M.Moretti) awarded at "Bellaria film festival"; "SPRING ROLL" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), awarded at "48° Oberhausen Short Film Festival"; special mention at "Unimovie 2001", Pescara; "Fiaticorti Nuove Frontiere Award", Istrana (TV); "Doggy bag with Spring roll" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), special mention at "Premio D.A.M.S", 2002; 2003, "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" short film; 2003, Together with Fanny & Alexander company they started the Nabokovian project "ADA", made up by 6 theatral stages with video images (when present), realized by Zapruder; Ravenna Festival, the performance "Ardis I"; 2004, Kunsten festival des Arts di Bruxelles, "Ardis II"; Riccione TTV festival performing arts on screen, "Rebus per Ada", installation for 16mm, produced and realized by Zapruder and Fanny & Alexander; "Morning Smile" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi); 2005, Festival delle colline torinesi, "Vaniada"; 2006, "Morning Smile" wins the Riccione TTV award for the "radicals linguistic choices of work"; Santarcangelo '06 festival of Arts, Zapruder presents "Daimon. The laceretor", Anagliph Projection, 2nd work from the George Bataille 'Zapruder' trilogy; To be viewed with 3D glasses; Trento Contemporary Art Gallery, the 2nd issue of Daimon's serial story, "Daimon.XXX (Trente)" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi, Anaglyph Projection).

Kitty came back home from on the island But kitty came on home without a name. To speak in tongues’ means to have the gift for mastering an unknown language while also being passed through by someone else’s word. In this telescopic and panoramic film of fac-simile et exempla, circularity at first, leads us right into the 360° view of a battle scene where the past is frozen within a tourist museum-device and the viewers with their camera are the actual subject. In sequence, concentric holes open up: a horse is performing a dance stepping backward; a fortune teller takes guesses on future circumstances and retrospective ones; the bodies of two gymnasts extend through their tools of artifice and grace, then we are taken on a ride across a Little Venice in miniature empty like a movie set. This spiral comes full circle in the silence of a lonely hunter on a Apennines tromp-l’oeil, a simulation park with fake birds and a mimetic wildermann: a carousel of the artificial where solitude is sound and nature is impermeable.  Proceeding by aphorisms, this film unfolds into a number of articulations and dimensions, all exceptionally true and false, like in an almanac of vision.

ZAPRUDERfilmmakersgroup is a collective formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. Founded in 2000 and based in the hills between Cesena and Rimini, the group is the author of film projects and art installations that have been shown in major international film and art festivals. Zapruder’s fervent production relies on a ferocious and comic analysis of the human condition whose tragic destiny becomes a metaphysical place where they explore the language of representation, forging a surreal and poetic portrait. The group film-projects are often flexible cinematic devices, which Zapruder defines as `Chamber Cinema` sort of incarnated environment and disembodied theatre, poised between visual and performing arts. Vision becomes experience of time, long shots prevail and draw a polycentric spatial scene that allow the eye to open on the enigma of vision rather than narrowing on the narrative anecdote. Zapruder’s projects are written and directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi. David Zamagni ( b. 1971, Rimini) During his cinema studies in Bologna at DAMS, in 1994 he joins the theater company ‘Motus’ to later become icon actor of the performance `Catrame` (1996). In 1998, with Enrico Casagrande and Daniela Nicolò, is co-author of `Orlando Furioso` and in 1999 they are awarded the UBU prize as well as that of the magazine `Lo straniero`; in the same year he leaves Motus to pursue his interests in cinema. Nadia Ranocchi ( b. 1973, Rimini) After completing her studies in Psychology at the University of Bologna, in 1998 she starts working with David Zamagni on their movies and audiovisual projects. Monaldo Moretti (b. 1972, Recanati) joins them in 2000. He is David’s former classmate in highschool and later on over the DAMS years. As well as co-founder of the group Zapruder, he`s director of photography, actor and foley artist.

Experimenting in telepathy during the 1970s, American Parapsychologist Charles Honorton introduced what he termed the Ganzfeld (full field) Method. One of the two subjects involved would experience a state of sensory deprivation, induced by placing the two halves of a ping pong ball over the eyes, while indistinct (white) noise was played into the ears through headphones. Such condition would give the subject the necessary concentration to allow for the transmission of thoughts and images remotely, solely through telepathy, from the mind of the other subject, who would be situated in a `communicating` room. Suite is part of Zapruder`s project `SPELL`. Combinations of elements ?Spell? give rise to cryptic and solemn events whose expression is often uncertain, even suspected.

Since 2000, David Zamagni (b. 1971, Rimini) and Nadia Ranocchi (b. 1973, Rimini) have been working under the name Zapruder, in collaboration with Monaldo Moretti (b.1972, Recanati) and a rotating network of creative members. Since 2005, the group has been exploring the possibilities of digital, stereoscopic, 3-D cinematic techniques through short film, concerts and installations. zapruderie.com

COCK-CROW (51 min Hd stereoscopic film 2009) Every age spawns and feeds its dragon. Unknown and obscure powers under which simpliest and more ordinary gestures lapse. Men whose bodily existence becomes the place for implacable struggles. Depths impossible to plumb and therefore admitted to participate in the holy economy. Cock-Crow materializes the dreams of a tiny little boy who is blameworthy for what he sees. It is the fall into an anterior world, a place of non-consolatory object-images, in search of the dragon to fight against. Cock-Crow it`s a rite of passage from childhood to manhood.

DAVID ZAMAGNI & NADIA RANOCCHI David Zamagni (Rimini, 1971) e Nadia Ranocchi (Rimini, 1973), directors and filmmakers, they live and work in Roncofreddo (FC). Together they are the authors of ZAPRUDER Filmmakersgroup` projects (David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti). Zapruder?s work is difficult to define within the traditional disciplinary boundaries and may perhaps be placed in the interstitial area between visual, performance and cinematographic art to give form to what the group defines as ?chamber cinema?, a sort of incarnated and tactile cinema, as well as a form of immaterial theatre. Zapruder?s production is characterized by an entirely artisanal approach that leads to a personal language in which the means is a fundamental and inexorable part. Since 2005 the group explores the possibilities of anaglyphy and stereoscopy through a series of short films and installations exploiting the techniques of 3-D cinema, conceiving and constructing both the equipments for the stereoscopic shooting and those used for watching. A considerable part of Zapruder?s work has taken place within the context of Italian experimental theatre (collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander and Romeo Castellucci/Societas Raffaello Sanzio). Works by the Zapruder Filmmakersgroup have been screened and have won awards in prestigious festivals, including Oberhausen Kurzfilmtage (D), Biennale de l`image en mouvement (Geneva, Switzerland), Graz Biennal on Media and Architecture (A), Transmediale (Berlin, D), TTV Performing Arts on Screen (Riccione, I), Netmage (Bologna, I), Rencontres Internationales Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Milanesiana (I), Santarcangelo Festival (I), Contemporanea Festival (Prato, I), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, B), Uovo Festival (Milan, I), Festival d`Avignon (F) Venice film festival (Venice Lido, I).

"Morning Smile" is Zapruder's first work of George Bataille?s Trilogy. It is reminiscent of something forgotten and lost in its time. As the upshot of a night spent together, Dirty and Troppmann find themselves in a Savoy hotel room. Dirty is in a drunken state, speaking drunkenly and talking a lot of nonsense. Alcohol dulls her mind and rouses fear, "fear corrects everybody" says Dirty and she wets herself. Troppmann is the witness of the young lady's agony. The hotel room "reserved" for the two lovers is not a sheltered, cosy place, it is an open place, it lets in another story, allows another room to come in: the nuptial room for which were commissioned Botticelli's four pictures representing a hunting scene where a young lady is the prey. The paintings evoke the fear of damnation. "Morning Smile" was inspired by Georges Bataille?s episode "Dirty" and is closely connected to Decameron's 8th tale, 5th day.

ZAPRUDER filmmakersgroup is made up by David Zamagni (born in Rimini in 1971), Nadia Ranocchi (born in Rimini in 1973), and Monaldo Moretti (born in Recanati in 1972).Together they play any role involved in Zapruder'productions, writing, direction, shooting, photography, editing, sound... Living and working in Roncofreddo (FC) Italy, Zapruder devotes itself to moving images. Their filmography includes: 1998, "Tony the fireman" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Marylin and the K." (animation. D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi); "Steak & Chips" (animation, D.Zamagni N.Ranocchi). 1999 In collaboration with "Motus" company "O.F. ovvero Orlando Furioso impunemente eseguito da Motus", awarded at "Riccione TTV Performing Arts on screen Festival 2000; "H.O.L.Y." segnalato al Bellaria film festival 2000; "Revolver V.M. 18" (video installation in collaboration with writer Isabella Santacroce), shown at "Brescia Music Art 2000"; 2001, "J.G." (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi) awarded at "Iceberg Festival 2002"; "Totentanz" (D.Zamagni, N.Ranocchi, and M.Moretti); "Daysi dammi la mano son pazzo di te" (N.Ranocchi); "Nervi" (M.Moretti) awarded at "Bellaria film festival"; "SPRING ROLL" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), awarded at "48° Oberhausen Short Film Festival"; special mention at "Unimovie 2001", Pescara; "Fiaticorti Nuove Frontiere Award", Istrana (TV); "Doggy bag with Spring roll" (D.Zamagni and N.Ranocchi), special mention at "Premio D.A.M.S", 2002; 2003, "Dalia Cactus Hit Parade" short film; 2003, Together with Fanny & Alexander company they started the Nabokovian project "ADA", made up by 6 theatral stages with video images (when present), realized by Zapruder; Ravenna Festival, the performance "Ardis I"; 2004, Kunsten festival des Arts di Bruxelles, "Ardis II"; Riccione TTV festival performing arts on screen, "Rebus per Ada", installation for 16mm, produced and realized by Zapruder and Fanny & Alexander; "Morning Smile" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi); 2005, Festival delle colline torinesi, "Vaniada"; 2006, "Morning Smile" wins the Riccione TTV award for the "radicals linguistic choices of work"; Santarcangelo '06 festival of Arts, Zapruder presents "Daimon. The laceretor", Anagliph Projection, 2nd work from the George Bataille 'Zapruder' trilogy; To be viewed with 3D glasses; Trento Contemporary Art Gallery, the 2nd issue of Daimon's serial story, "Daimon.XXX (Trente)" (directed by David Zamagni and Nadia Ranocchi, Anaglyph Projection).

At a novel workshop of the gods, Greek theater masks with Hollywood features are setting up a love engine. Phoenix. Amore brucio is the 7th of 12th episodes that Zapruder dedicates to the myth of Hercules.

ZAPRUDER is a group formed by David Zamagni, Nadia Ranocchi and Monaldo Moretti. It was founded in 2000 in Roncofreddo (Italy), where the collective’s headquarters still are. The group experiments in film, merging figurative, performative and cinematographic arts to provide a total visual experience, in the direction of a total visual experience. That’s the case with their ’chamber cinema’: video-installation projects where cinema and object are fused together, drawing on the technique of stereoscopic film ( or the illusion of three dimensions), as well as on expanded cinema. In 2011, Zapruder’s work received the 3D Persol Award at the Venice Film Festival. Along the years, the group has met Italian experimental theatre with productions in collaboration with Motus, Fanny & Alexander, Romeo Castellucci and Santarcangelo Festival. A large amount of their artistic process is dedicated to the sound design of their movies: the main soundtrack is made by performing foley effects and recording environmental sounds in order to produce a more dynamic and complex experience for the viewer. Their video installation Zeus Machine/Salita all’ Olimpo ( Zeus Machine/The conquering of Olympus) was awarded the Premio MAXXI 2016. Zapruder’s work has been presented internationally in festivals and performing arts venues: Venice Film Festival; Rotterdam Film festival; Rome Film Festival; Kurtzfilmtage Oberhausen; Biennale de l’image en mouvement, Geneva; Transmediale, Berlin; Netmage, Bologna; Triennale, Milan; Centre Pompidou, Paris. Among their solo exhibitions: Careof, Milan (2013); Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Ferrara (2014); Marsèlleria, Milan (2014); Raum, Bologna (2014); Artopiagallery, Milan (2015); Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich (2015); Mega, Milan (2018), Gucci Garden, Firenze (2018). Among group exhibitions: Cineteca di Bologna, Bologna (2013); WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw (2013); Aula Bunker, Rome (2014); PAC, Milan (2014); MAG Museo Alto Garda, Riva del Garda (2015); OCAT, Shanghai (2015); MAXXI, Rome (2016).

A Vocal Landscape is a hyperrealistic VR experience that explores the strange anatomy of a conversation between two people. In a dreamlike journey, the spectator travels through an ever-changing room depicting their associations and unspoken interactions.

Omid Zarei is a French-Iranian artist and XR producer on the quest to explore alternative ways of storytelling. He creates projects that blur the boundaries of different platforms, creating a space for collaboration between artists from a diverse range of disciplines. In 2015 he developed VR filmmaking workshop in Helsinki, one of the first VR focused workshops in Europe. He is the creator of the project Songs of Future Past, a re-imagined VR take on Opera. Anne Jeppesen is a Copenhagen-based producer with a focus on audio documentaries. She has produced audio productions for national radio, as well as immersive audio experiences for museums and theatre. With a background in classical music and musicology, Anne is driven by a never fading fascination for the richness of the human voice and is constantly seeking out new ways to work with vocal expressions. Their latest joint project “A Vocal Landscape” won an EPIC MegaGrants and a special prize in Vancouver International Film Festival for a collaboration with Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studio.

A boy longing to become part of a motorcycling group leads us into a silver horizon, where through an array of moving images of dust, remote landscapes, and boys dressed in fragrant leather, we witness visual portrayals of what it means to feel ‘foreign’.

Vukan Žarkovic (1997, Serbia) is an up-and-coming filmmaker based in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Nicosia (Cyprus), and Belgrade (Serbia). He was born in Belgrade but grew up in Cyprus, where his inspiration and storytelling come from. He graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam with a B.F.A. in Audiovisual Arts. During his studies, he spent one semester in Jerusalem at the School of Visual Theatre. In 2022, he made the short film Aromana.

Story of the film consists of some isolated happenings that appear on surface of a simple relation and a happening by itself. A young man faces with an unexpected tender and becomes a host for an stranger, and a girl whom despite of what is expected of her role or effects, falls asleep whole night. Two men find each other through music, alchole and litrary... and the motive is in dreams yet.

Born in December, 1976 - Tehran. Graduated in Tehran Art University in 2005 and continuing to M.A. in Cinema. From 1999 started to work on short projects, both: live-action and animation. After a while, economical problems forced to work on some promotionals that was to be the main area of work in late years, until a new try for another animation: Starving in the Belly of a Whale.

THE TANGIER 8 In June 2009, Tamaas, an international non-profit arts organization, invited eight poets and filmmakers coming from France, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, and the United States, to Tangier, Morocco. These four poet-filmmaker pairs collaborated using Super 8 film and writing original text to create these experimental ?film-poems.? Working under tight time constraints-they had just four days to film, four days for sound, and four days for editing, the artists took inspiration from the city of Tangier-its history, architecture, people, politics, as well as from each other, to produce these short film-poems. Here are the finished film-poems, along with a "making of" documentary about the artists who created them. Each work is independent and can be viewed alone or otherwise shown as a whole. Ivan Boccara (France/Morocco) + Carla Faesler (Mexico) Akram Zataari (Lebanon) + Liliane Giraudon (France) Natalia Almada (Mexico)+ Peter Gizzi (USA) Jem Cohen (USA) + Luc Sante (Belgium/USA) Running time: :41 minutes (not including ?Making Of?) Languages: English, Spanish, French + Arabic with English, French, Arabic subtitles Sound, Script, Editing and Filming all done by the 8 Artists A Tamaas production Hosted by the Cinémathèque de Tanger www.tamaas.org

1. Ivan Boccara (France/Morocco) He studied Berber history and civilization and some of his work has focused on the lives of Berbers, and the environment of the Atlas Mountains. AND Carla Faesler (Mexico) She is the author of such works as Anábasis Maqueta, 2004 (Awarded the National Prize in Literature Gilberto Owen?), No Tú sino la Piedra, 1999) and the collection, Ríos sagrados que la herejía navega, 1996). 2. Akram Zataari (Lebanon) is an artist preoccupied with the production, collection and study of documents. His work reflects on the shifting nature of borders particularly in the Middle East. AND: Liliane Giraudon (France) Projects have included, co-founder of the Journal, Banana Split (1980-1990), with J.J. Viton; Co-founder of the revue If, (1992), co-editor of Action Poétique. 3. Natalia Almada (Mexico). Directing credits include Al Otro Lado, her award winning debut feature documentary about immigration, drug trafficking and corrido music; and EL GENERAL, a family memoir and portrait of Mexico past and present. AND Peter Gizzi (USA) Attended Brown University, NYC and SUNY Buffalo. His books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum (Avec Books, 1992). 4. Jem Cohen (USA) His films are usually built from his own archive of images and sounds, combine documentary, narrative, and experimental approaches. AND Luc Sante (Belgium/USA) is a writer and a cultural critic with a focus on art, films, photography, books, cities. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College, in the Hudson Valley in New York.