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Prolific background actor Jill Goldston takes centre stage in this unique portrait. Constructed entirely from Jill’s performances – captured fleetingly in everything from Mr. Bean to The Elephant Man – the film is a lyrical journey through popular culture, and a haunting study of a life lived out of focus.

Anthony Ing is a British and Canadian filmmaker and composer whose work explores existing cultural artefacts with a particular focus on the relationship between identity and performance. Co-founder of production outfit, Loop, they have produced a range of artist-led film and television projects since 2014, receiving awards at the Griersons, BFI London Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards.

The unité d’habitation is a modernist residential housing typology developed by Atelier Le Corbusier. The first unité d’habitation building in Marseille, France was built between 1947 and 1952. The building houses 337 apartments with 1200 inhabitants. The apartments were originally equipped with built-in furniture designed by Charlotte Perriand. The flat roof is designed in collaboration with an architect Blanche Lemco van Ginkel as a communal terrace with sculptural ventilation stacks, a running track, and a shallow paddling pool for children. The building is the first and finest example of vertical urbanism. Moi aussi, je regarde is an experimental documentary film which portrays widely reproduced building the unité d’habitation through the stories of its female inhabitants in an attempt to give the building its own agency to not only be looked at but to be empowered to look back in the masculine world of modernity.

Ingel Vaikla (1992, Tallinn) is a visual artist and a filmmaker based in Brussels working primarily with video, 16 mm analogue film and found footage. Vaikla’s artistic practice focuses on representation of architecture and on the relationship between spaces and their communities. She is on a constant search for visual language that would not simply observe architecture as a sculptural form but would translate the existential, conceptual and ideological qualities spaces manifest. Her works The House Guard, Roosenberg, Double Exposure, Papagalo, What's the Time?, EUR42 have been screened internationally at film festivals and art institutions such as IDFA in Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Wien, EKKM in Tallinn, Beursschouwburg and Bozar in Brussels, Manifesta 13 in Marseille, Videonale in Bonn, Tramway in Glasgow, EMAF in Osnabrück, Busan International Video Art Festival etc.

The House Guard is a double portrait – of the Tallinn Linnahall concert and sports venue and its caretaker Peter, who are both bound by seclusion. It tells the story of the decline of a legendary building through one man`s eyes, and the personal story of a man against the backdrop of a vanishing building. It is a dialogue between the two.

Ingel Vaikla (1992) is a photographer and filmmaker. In her work she mostly questions the relation between architecture and its users, and the representation of architecture in camera based mediums. Ingel was part of the team representing Estonia at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale with a contribution titled `How Long is the Life of a Building?`. Her film “The House Guard” (2015) has been screened on Estonian national television and on several international film festivals in Europe. Right now she is studying in film Masters in Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Gent. She writes for design and architecture magazine Idee and organises film screenings for the International Interior Architecture Symposium SISU.

Papagalo, what’s the Time? explores the architecture of the former Yugoslavian pavilion from the Brussels World Expo (1958) in its current function as Sint-Pauluscollege. The film follows a group of kids playing old Yugoslavian children’s games at the building. The camera moves from outdoors to the interior spaces, along the hallways from floor to floor exploring the building together with the group of children. The work creates a poetic exchange between the modernist architecture and the contemporary function of the building, between the moving bodies and solid walls.

Ingel Vaikla (1992, Tallinn) is a visual artist and a filmmaker based in Brussels. Vaikla’s practice focuses on the relationship between place, identity and its users, and the representation of space in photography, video and film. She is in constant search for visual language that would not simply observe architecture as aesthetic sculptural form but would explore the existential, conceptual and ideological qualities it can convey. She believes that buildings do not only provide shelter, they are also a mental mediation between the world and us. Her films ‘The House Guard’, ‘Roosenberg’, ‘Double Exposure’, ‘Papagalo, What’s the Time?’ and ‘EUR42’ have been screened at film festivals and art institutions such as IDFA in Amsterdam, Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM) in Tallinn, Tramway in Glasgow, Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Manifesta 13 in Marseille, EMAF in Osnabrück, Videonale in Bonn etc.

Catastrophe is the fatal turning point or resolution in Ancient Greek drama. The word catastrophe in Greek and Arabic bears the same weight: the catastrophe of Asia Minor, the Exodus from Palestine. When catastrophe strikes, the visual equivalent of extreme shock is to drop whatever one holds in one’s hands. The “unbreakable” Duralex glasses were created in France in the late 50’s and have today become a classic. A symbol of strength and durability, they have spread around the whole world and have been photographed in the hands of Afghan tribesmen, James Bond, and even Osama bin Laden. The “Western” glasses are shot in slow motion as they fall to the ground, bounce, alternate and merge with the more fragile Arabic tea-glasses in a silent and ultimately shared - dance of death. Letters hit the falling glassware with the rhythmic intensity of gunshots, spelling the word catastrophe in Greek, English, and Arabic (nakba). Catastrophe is a reflection on the current events in the world and the increasing loss of value of human life.

Marion Inglessi is a visual artist, scene designer, curator. Born in Athens, she lived in Ghana, Nigeria, Lebanon, Italy, France and USA. After a BA in English Literature, she received an MFA in Theatre Design from Brandeis University, Boston, U.S.A. (1986-89). She attended Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey on an Erasmus scholarship (2010-11). In 2014 she received an MFA from the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. She has worked as a designer for theatre, opera, film and advertising, in New York, Paris, Athens (1989-2003). She was Head of exhibitions & curator at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2005-2009), for film directors Nico Papatakis, William Klein, Werner Herzog, Wim & Donata Wenders, Eve Sussman, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Guillermo del Toro, Cao Fei, and others. In 2015 she co-created a video animation project for refugee children & adolescents in Athens shelters. She has had two solo painting and sculpture exhibitions while participating and curating a number of group shows. Her work is in private collections in Greece, France, Switzerland and Turkey and the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art. Her video Catastrophe participated in the video survey Fireflies in the Night Take Wing, at the SNFCC, Athens, 2016.

Lilja Ingolfsdottir nait en Norvège en 1976. Elle étudie à la International Film School de Londres entre 1997 et 2002 et à la FAMU (Czech National Film School, Prague) entre de 2000 à 2001.

A 17-min video commissioned by Ballroom Marfa for the Artist Film International program led by Whitechapel in London. This video depicts a journey through the Institute for New Feeling’s fabricated SEO Marketing campaign, a web of interconnected sites populated with training modules, news articles, facility tours, click bait and social networking sites all linking back to the Institute for New Feeling.

The Institute for New Feeling 3 person collective committed to the development of new ways of feeling, and ways of feeling new. As a group we assume the authoritative voice of the Institution, borrowing from the language of corporate branding as well as that of mainstream medicine, therapy, health and beauty. Our work takes the form of treatments, therapies, retreats and wellness products. We are interested in the wellness industry as a shifting, slippery intersection of capitalism, technological innovation, and the body. IfNf has recently shown work at Ballroom Marfa, TX, Istanbul Modern, Turkey,Museum of Modern Art, NY, MAAT, Lisbon, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Kevin Space, Vienna, Jardin Essential, Bruxelles, Recess, NY, and Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.

Avalanche is an enhanced water beverage filtered through a human pipeline that traces the flow of water through a city and through the body. A live performance presents municipal water usage as a literal concert of bodies, a system that is improbable, arduous, and flawed. The Avalanche bottling process begins with an ice cap harvested from the Never Summer Mountain Range. The ice melts and travels through a series of human filters, eventually collecting in crystal singing bowls. The sound of this filtration is performed as a concert for a live audience, while at the same time being live broadcast back to the mountain range, causing an avalanche from the vibration of sound waves. The avalanche is bottled for consumption, while also providing new ice to begin the process again. The project consists of a one night live performance, multi-channel video and vending machine stocked with Avalanche water, all of which work together to create a mythology of the product’s source. Passing water between the city and the mountain in an endless feedback loop, IfNf`s filtration process equates the mountain spring with the trickle of water across a dirty windshield, the tears of two middle-aged men, the gargle and spit from a teenager’s mouth, juxtaposing trivial everyday gestures with the looming, dark future of a changing climate.

The Institute for New Feeling is a collective founded by Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt, and Nina Sarnelle, committed to the development of new ways of feeling, and ways of feeling new. As a group, our identity is always shifting. Borrowing aesthetics and language from wellness and tech industries, market research, speculative design, political propaganda, we assume a familiar yet fragile voice of authority. IfNf has recently shown work at The Getty Center, LA, Ballroom Marfa, TX, MoMA, NY, Istanbul Modern, Turkey, MAAT, Lisbon, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Hammer Museum LA, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Jardin Essential, Bruxelles, Recess, NY, and Mwoods, Beijing. IfNf has been featured in Frieze, Art in America, Vogue Italy, Huffington Post, SFMoMA, Creators Project, FlashArt, and Hyperallergic.

Inspired by the works of the Chinese literary master Qian Zhongshu, HBG: Humans, Beasts and Ghosts is an experimental video game, a playable life simulator in which the audience, assuming the role of God, facilitates the everyday being of the different worlds inhabited by humans, beasts and ghosts. The player can choose to act as an interventionist God, creating and destroying whimsically, or simply watching the worlds unfold with minimal or no interference. A literary adaptation in a digital and playable form, HBG is an allegorical play about human existence, its dilemma and other catastrophes.

IP Yuk-Yiu is an experimental filmmaker, media artist, art educator and independent curator. His works, ranging from experimental films, live performances, media installations to video games, have been showcased extensively at international venues and festivals, including European Media Art Festival, New York Film Festival (views from the avant-garde), the Image Festival, FILE Festival, VideoBrasil, Transmediale, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] and WRO media art Bienniale. He is the founder of the art.ware project, an independent curatorial initiative focusing on the promotion of new media art in Hong Kong. IP has over fifteen years of curatorial experience in film, video and media art. Currently he is Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His recent works explore hybrid creative forms that are informed by cinema, video games and media art practices.

INERTIA. Device and residue. Just as an eye blink denies the presence of a specific space or time within a continuum, so a frame freezes a particular place and moment. It is the indivisible unit of the audiovisual mechanism, and its basic inductor is light. Thereby begins a journey that takes us from the real to the represented, finally leading us to that ultimate reality, the document. Inertia deals with the construction of reality. The route is a place and the vector imposes itself on the object. The present then tends to disappear in a continuous movement and what happens is indeed its non-presence. Over its four-minutes length, Inertia responds to the conventions of rhythm, visual axes, and other narrative norms with the rules that we use to assimilate the entire audiovisual spectrum. There occurs a specific accident between the fragile rules of narration and the sophistication of what is staged, confronted with the inescapable physical connotations of gravity, weight, or the volume of the elements in its service.

Carlos Irijalba (Pamplona, 1979) graduated in 2002 at the Fine Arts Basque Country University and studied at UDK Berlin is actually resident at Rijksakademie Amsterdad. Awarded Purificacion Garcia photography first Prize and the Revelation PhotoEspaña Prize among others, he also received the Guggenheim Bilbao Photography grant in 2003 or the Marcelino Botín Foundation in 2007/08. Irijalba has exhibited at international Art Museums, including the CCCB Barcelona or Herzliya Museum Israel. In projects as Unwilling Spectator (2010) or Inertia (2012) works between relative experience of time and space and the collective construction of the real.

Wanderers is a film centered in the way that matter (and our bodies as a result) are driven by magnetism, pulse or rhythm carried by the earths inertia. A primal movement of mineral origin, pre-life and pre-human. To do so, the film casts a universal perspective on the dynamics of birds, migration of bodies, and humans fascination with flying as a challenge for those laws. The film covers this abstract notion with two different contemporary phenomena, modern falconry flown on commercial airplanes and the passion of RC Replica airliner pilots, depicting the dichotomy between natural evolution, our physical materiality and the detachment from mundane reality and general force and gravity, those.

Carlos Irijalba Pamplona (SP) 1979 Resident at the Rijksacademie Van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam) in 2013/2014, and Graduated at the UDK University with Professor Lothat Baumgarten, Irijalba has been awarded multiple art prizes like in 2023 the NYC Culture Pair Program with the Department of Design and Construction DDC, the Mondriaan Fonds 2022 in Amsterdam, the Sifting Foundation Art Grant 2015 in San Francisco y Marcelino Botin 2007/08 among others. He exhibited internationally in the Shanghai Biennale 2021, CAB Art Center Brussels, Guangzhou Triennale 2017 or MUMA Melbourne in Australia. To the question “Does the world need this new object?”, most of the times the answer would be “no”. Therefor the work of Irijalba moves by the principle of pertinence, trying to remain context responsive. In projects like Skins (2013), Hiatus (2022) and Pannotia (2016-ongoing) he works with geology and industrial time sensitive materials that give us perspective on the dominant narratives in Western history. His work is present in public collections as Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, The Netherlands National Collection, Sammlung Wemhoener Foundation in Germany, the Taviloglu Art Collection in Istambul and Acciona Foundation in Spain. His presence on private collections internationally is extensive in both North and South America, Europe and Asia like collection Pilar Citoler, Kells Collection, David Breskin Collection among many others.

TWILIGHT. Twilight consists of the displacing of a floodlighting tower for a football pitch, a space that is hyperdefined by and for spectacle, whose descriptive lighting presents the subject of its attention as the only one that exists. This tower has been transferred to one of Europe?s last forests, Irati, in the north of Navarre, creating as a replica a redefinition of the real as visible employing the language proper to spectacle. The project is about the way in which the West constructs a circuit of the real through light. Natural lighting provides a consistent space-time dimension, while the West?s approach to light, in contrast, goes beyond the manufacture of an eternal day to rupture structures and cycles towards the construction of an abstract medium that loses all relations except in relation to itself. Fire as the first artifice and, later, artificial light have symbolised the place of transformation. Spectacle has inherited the place and hypnotic qualities of fire and has marked out the plane of the visible so that it can be digested, transferring attention towards a series of pseudo-events. Representation of place is now insufficient. The project poses this installation as the need for the real beyond its image. The last place is the place itself.

Carlos Irijalba. Biography Carlos Irijalba (Pamplona, 1979) graduated in 1998 from the Pamplona School of Art and went on to continue his training at the University of the Basque Country where he obtained his Fine Arts degree. He also studied in Berlin at the Universität der Kunst with artist and professor Lothar Baumgarten and actually has a studio residence at ISCP New York. In 2004 he received the First Award for Young Artists, as well as a photography grant from the Guggenheim, to which must be added a Plastic Arts Grant from the Fundacion Marcelino Botín in 2007 and the Purificacion Garcia Photography Award. Carlos has exhibited at national and international Centres, including the CCCB in Barcelona, Miami, New York,Tokyo and Beijing. In previous projects, such as ?Outside comes first? or ?Devices? (both in 2007) he had already worked on the distortion of the construction of reality in the West. So, with Twilight he continues to delve into our understanding of and approach to reality, and spectacle. He is currently developing a photograph and video project in Beijing entitled Dromocracia.

The tendency towards negation of space in favor of certain hegemony of the temporary has developed into a strategic reality of economic and political connotations of global character. Nowadays, the gaining of time is an exclusive question of vectors, and territory gives up its significance for the benefit of the projectile. The approaches developed in recent projects like Switch off all devices (2006) or Twilight (2008) observe a patent capitalization of space and movement. Space is being equated and even gets dispensable, while gesture or orientation are gaining and acquire visual nature. The path is a spot and the vector imposes itself on the object. Thus the present tends to disappear in an incessant movement bringing about its non-presence. This project proposes a real intervention on the spot of this conflict. Fast traffic lanes and their speedways materialize the place of topographic decommitment and the implementation of coercion or commitment to movement, in and endlessly traveled loop. Contradiction, the existence of isolated deserts within this circulation circuit takes shape in the true miniaturized forests inside, which have been reduced to a symbolic function, whose experience as a place is not accessible any longer. Issues like scale or tangibility are here being disarranged. A gap opens, where radically different times succeed each other.

Carlos Irijalba (Pamplona, 1979) graduated at the University of the Basque Country and UDK Berlin. His work analizes the way in which Western culture recreates an abstract medium that loses all relations except to itself. Spectacle has marked out the plane of the visible so it can be easily digested, transferring attention towards a series of pseudo-events. Irijalba works in projects as Überlegung or the recent Twilight and Unwilling spectator in that direction between relative experience of time and space and the collective construction of the real.

At a dystopian future moment in the coast of Oaxaca, due to global warming the oceans PH levels have acidified making them unsuitable for humans, therefor sea tourism has been gone for generations and only indigenous language is spoken. Wuicho repeats his father’s and grandfather’s ritual of keeping swimming pools pristine while he questions his actions and his predecessors. Written a dn filmed on his own, with a reflex camera and a smart phone in 10 days. His work tries to generate no residue in a ready made mode.

Carlos Irijalba born 1979 in Pamplona (Spain) currently lives in Amsterdam where he was a Rijksakademie resident 2013/14. His practice involves environmentally sensitive installations including sculture, video and photography. He has been awarded Mondriaan Fonds Bewezen Talent 2017-2020 and exhibited in itnernational venues loke the Shanghai Biennale, CAB Art Center Brussels, or MUMA en Melbourne in Australia. His work is present in international collections as Sammlung Wemhoener Foundation in Germany, MNCARS Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid) or the Taviloglu Art Collection in Istambul.

There is a huge amount of well-known media reports recorded in Sarajevo during the Siege (1992-1996). Media framed those events, streets, places and people into well-known images, common representations of war. Audience around the world was/is able to watch such imagery, over and over again. Adla Isanović erased the whole urban scene and context out of it, leaving only images of people. In that way, she explores how does the audience`s relationship to such imagery of people, whose context is erased-change. After pictures, what remains? What is our relationship with such images, representations, subjectivity, knowledge, with facts, feelings, emotions and experiences?

Adla Isanović Born 1977 in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Lives and works in Sarajevo. She holds a MA in “New Media”, as well as a MA in “Critical, Curatorial, Cybermedia Studies” (Geneva, Switzerland). She works at the Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo as Assistant professor on the courses on Multimedia. Furthermore, she was a visiting lecturer at the International University Sarajevo, as well as at the Academy of Performing Arts Sarajevo. Her previous engagements include a work as a researcher/analyst at the Mediacentar Sarajevo. She has been engaged on numerous local and international projects in the fields of culture and art. Her artworks were presented in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, Montenegro, Ireland, Netherlands, Great Britain, Latvia, Italy, Germany, Greece, France, Canada, Japan, Columbia, etc.

Takashi Ishida's "Ema/Emaki 2" is composed using a series of minute-long units. In this film Ishida animates organic linear forms that grow ever upwards. Each piece of animation is then recombined with the others in a series of variations created through multiple exposures.

Takashi Ishida was born in 1972 in Tokyo. He began making films in 1995. He not only works on films but also on collaboration works with multiple fields. For example, he is working on a stage design for the dancer Nohmi Kenshi, and collaboration with the poet Gozo Yoshimasu.

Shifting perspectives from the visual to the aural, this film is a result of research into the Central Asian holdings of Arsenal’s archive. It explores the evolution of sound, speech, and music in local cinema from the 1960s to the 1990s. By listening to characters’ concerns through dubbed voices in addition to soundscapes and soundtracks, we can trace the impact of Soviet ideology, its gradual weakening, and the rise of Perestroika’s freedom. Although the archive, with 45 films from Central Asia, cannot represent all of the region’s political and social shifts, it does offer a valuable basis for analyzing how evolving sound reflects broader transformations over three decades. “Whose Voice Is This?” was commissioned by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in the framework of a Living Archive Residency supported by the Goethe-Institute Uzbekistan. Central Asian Research Collective DAVRA Germany, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan 2024

Dana Iskakova is an artist and cultural practitioner from Almaty, Kazakhstan, currently pursuing an MA in Fine Arts at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. She previously studied finance at the International IT University and liberal arts at Smolny College. As a member of the DAVRA research group, she participated in documenta 15 (2022) and Archival Assembly #3 (2024). In 2023, Iskakova presented the printed magazine on fictional contemporary art called “If” and its first issue, created in collaboration with the MATA collective. Her practice explores the intersection of truth and fiction, perception, and collective imagination.

A woman takes off a veil in a hope to open her face and discover the world surrounding her. The layers of veils don`t let her to break the limits of darkness. Each time she takes of the veil we hope to see her unveiled but this freedom doesn`t arrive.

Babur Ismailov is born in Uzbekistan, where he graduated from State Art Institute. He is a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan and Russia. Babur Ismailov expresses himself in painting, graphics, video installations. He worked in cinema, animation, illustration, theater proving himself as truly multidimensional artist. He took part in over thirty international exhibitions in France, Italy, Germany, USA, Russia and other countries. And presented several personal exhibitions in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Paris, France.

This short film is made of archival footage shot at the Yalta conference (1945) - a historic meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin shortly before the end of the WWII. The film mimics the style of a TV documentary and shows behind-the-scenes of the conference through the eyes of a fictitious character, whose possible involvement in espionage and unexplained disappearance comprise the mystery, which the film attempts to resolve, - albeit unsuccessfully. The fictional narrative provides possible reasons and motivations behind the random collection of recordings in the original footage, weaving together several important historical themes associated with the Yalta conference: the deep cultural divide between the Soviets and the Western Allies; the eavesdropping and espionage attempts made by the negotiators, and the premonitions of the upcoming Cold War.

Tatiana Istomina is a Russian-born US artist working in video, painting and drawing. She holds a PhD in geophysics from Yale University (2010) and MFA from Parsons New School (2011). Her works have been shown in the US, Russia and Canada; she had solo shows in New York and Houston. Istomina has completed several artist residencies, including the Core Program (Museum of Fine Arts of Houston) and the AIM residency (The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York). She was nominated for Kandinsky prize and Dedlaus foundation fellowship and received awards such as the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and the American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts.

Created in 1985, the Image in Movement Biennial (BIM) is one of the pioneer manifestations in the programming of artists' films. Comprised of a festival and an exhibition, the Biennial's mission is to present films that weave together links between plastic arts, cinema, and the media world. This year, the festival will consecrate some of its retrospectives to Stavros Tornès of Greece, Robert Morin of Canada, and Clemens Klopfenstein of Switzerland. Programs will be dedicated to Hannes Schüpbach of Switzerland, Shelly Silver of the USA, Corinna Schnitt of Germany, and Martha Rosler of the USA. There will be young artists to discover in the international competition sections and art school programs. Conferences will also be organized around the work of several artists. Conceived in parallel to the festival, the exhibition permits for the presentation of video installations. Under the title "Culture hors-sol", this edition will present works by Thierry Kuntzel, Pierre Huyghe, Beat Streuli, David Claerbout, Hubbard & Birchler, Stan Douglas, and Samuel Beckett amongst others.

André Iten is the director of the Geneva Saint-Gevais Centre for Contemporary Image. Anxious to preserve the artistic patrimony that constitutes the tapes produced by artists during the 60's and 70's, he conceived and initiated a plan of restoration, listing, and archiving tapes, a plan initiated in 1990 and which allows for the display of the richness of this collection of video works through a historic program entitled "The Pioneers of Video in Switzerland", the visible side of is wide restoration plan funded by the 'Fonds municipal d'art contemporain' of Geneva. In 1998 he created the Centre's contemporary image, a place dedicated to activities linked to images, with the aim to give a body to the several years of reflection on the evolution of image and the activities born by his artistic engagement.