Programme Paris
Samedi 29 novembre 2025

The film moves through the hidden storage spaces of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, revealing artworks whose ownership records remain incomplete. Some bear traces of wartime displacement and intentional omissions; others have shifted in attribution, altering the narratives attached to them. It traces how institutional structures shape what becomes visible and what remains unresolved. As the camera moves through the storage rooms, “Coming Home” observes the museum as an active system of organization, where artworks are continually recontextualized. Viewers encounter the collection as an unseen archive and are asked to navigate a place where certainty is partial and orientation never fixed.

Jinjoo Yang is a Montreal-based artist and architect whose films emerge from direct engagement with specific sites. She works with institutional interiors, using controlled camera movement to trace how places hold and mediate their histories. Her practice moves between observation and construction, turning regulated environments into temporal landscapes where visibility, authorship, and memory subtly shift. Yang’s recent works include “Coming Home,” filmed in the collection storage of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and “Occupied,” a forthcoming film shaped by Cold War infrastructures. Her projects have been presented internationally at institutions such as the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Center for Architecture in New York, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

The Italian Alpine region of South Tyrol is not known for its tuning scene, but it does exist. A small group of young men have found each other to express their love of their home in their own way. Their Japanese sports cars glide oddly through historic villages, along the Alpine slopes and through breathtaking nature. GOODBYE REGINA is a farewell letter from the director to his grandmother, who grew up in these mountains. It explores the connection between the old and the new, without juxtaposing the two. In a landscape where seemingly nothing changes, the machines seem to be part of the creatures that emerge from this nature. The result is some kind of nature documentary, a collection of impressions away from the tourist postcard images.

Kevin Sepp is a director and editor based in Berlin. Coming from a humanities background, he is a self-taught filmmaker whose interest in short, visually rich storytelling led him to work in commercial film. Alongside commissioned projects, he continues to explore new possibilities through independent work. Collaborations with musicians and other artists strongly influence his sense of sound on screen and shape the atmosphere of his work. His films have been featured at festivals such as the Berlin Commercial and Berlin Music Video Awards, as well as on platforms like Directors’ Library, Sleek Magazine and Crack Magazine.

‘Midville’ was the pseudonymous name given to a Midlands Art School in the United Kingdom when it was studied over a period of three years from 1967 by two sociologists. The resulting book, ‘Art Students Observed’, published in 1973 has become a classic document within art teaching literature, the place where “romantic” and “conceptual” art first collided. 58 years later I traced the students in the book and interviewed them about their recollections and (sometimes traumatic) experiences. We have recreated ‘Midville’ as a 13-minute AI supported mini collage ‘opera’, where the students as they were then and now, pronounce their testimonies via AI voices, choirs, avatars, and real-world original footage.

Steve Hawley is a Ljubljana based artist who has been since 1981 part of the second wave of British video artists. His work deals with language, humour, and the nature of memory through archive film and video, and has been shown at video festivals and broadcast worldwide. Work on myth and the city includes Ghost made in Hong Kong, screened at the 2000 Cannes Director's Fortnight. War Memorial 2017 was nominated for best short documentary at the Sheffield DocFest and his book, Men, War and Film, about the Calling Blighty message films of WWII was published in 2022. Steve Dutton is an artist and occasional curator based in the South West of England. His practice spans drawing, sound, moving image and text, with a focus on exploring the intersections and overlaps of language, space, and time. He is currently developing a new solo body of work titled "The Phantom Industry." His work engages with the acts of reading, drawing, painting, speaking and writing and might be best described as a language-based practice.

Dans un amphithéâtre en bois construit en 1933 pour l’étude des animaux et des plantes, un groupe d’outils anciens assiste à une conférence qui semble porter sur les animaux et leurs mouvements, mais les outils comprennent peu à peu qu’il s’agit des êtres vivants qui leur ont donné leur nom et parfois même leur forme.

Né en 1990 à Paris, Arthur Debert vit et travaille entre Nancy et Berlin. Son travail prend forme dans la collaboration et l’échange, interroge la transmission et la survivance des savoirs qui s’inscrivent dans les anecdotes individuelles, les mémoires collectives et la technologie. Les aspects performatifs des objets porteurs de connaissances et de leurs processus de transition sont transcrits en installations, vidéos et éditions. Arthur Debert est diplômé de l’École de l’Image à Épinal (2011), de l’École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine à Metz (2013), et a participé à l’École Offshore à Shanghai (2014-2015), programme de recherche de l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Nancy. Son travail a été présenté au Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel (2025), la Triennale de la Jeune Création (Luxembourg, 2013 et 2021), à Koraï (Chypre, 2023), du Ann Arbor Film Festival (Michigan, 2022), dans le cadre du Berlin Art Prize (2018) et primé au Festival du film indépendant de Berlin (2023).

Le bruit hypnotique et ronronnant du moteur d’un autobus résonne, accompagné du grondement de l’intérieur du véhicule. La voix de l’auteur, proche et intime, nous entraîne dans un monologue intérieur. Nous sommes en route vers Prijedor, sa ville natale en Bosnie et le lieu de ses départs perpétuels. Avant d’y arriver, il nous faut d’abord appréhender le départ en tant qu’espace dans lequel nous pouvons grandir et renaître.

Mladen Bundalo (né en 1986 à Prijedor) est un artiste interdisciplinaire, cinéaste et auteur d'origine bosniaque, actuellement basé à Bruxelles. Ses films-essais explorent les thèmes de l'appartenance et de la condition humaine dans le contexte de la migration, de la diaspora ainsi que les périodes d'incertitude et de crise.

A day at the Sony Center complex in Berlin. Two people meet in a chiropractor’s waiting room. They are both tired. Meanwhile, the building is under permanent construction.

Niklas Buescher studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He graduated in 2019 with his first short film. In 2021, he began studying directing at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin. Since then, he has made several fictional short films, each portraying a different site of the city.

In a nameless Eastern European city, few young people, finds themself trapped between silent resistance and passive complicity as their country descends into war. The city’s streets, once familiar, become a landscape of fear. Shot in stark, observational style, Inner emigration is a haunting portrait of a generation suspended in stillness, forced to navigate a crumbling reality that no longer offers clear choices.

Lily Filina is an artist and director, born in Kaluga, Russia, 1999. A graduate of the Rodchenko Art School, class of Sergei Bratkov, she works as an advertising director and develops independent projects at the intersection of cinema and video art. In 2024, Liliya's film participated in the program of the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2024, Liliya's project "Internal Emigration” was supported by the Yandex360 program.

Biomimetic Stories # 3 Dholera, 2024. Vide?o HD 16/9 couleur et sonore, 7’ Dholera re?ve?le la vision dystopique de la smart city e?ponyme, projete?e dans le paysage de?sertique de l’e?tat du Gujarat, en Inde. Son vaste re?seau d’autoroutes, de voies ferre?es sure?leve?es, de pylo?nes e?lectriques et de cha?teaux d’eau s’e?tire a? perte de vue, sur un sol aride et sans ve?ge?tation, balaye? par des tourbillons de poussie?re. Lance? il y a plus d’une de?cennie, ce vaste projet urbain est aujourd’hui pratiquement a? l’arre?t. Le film re?ve?le a? partir de captations in situ effectue?es par un drone, l’ampleur d’un projet non re?alise? en implantant virtuellement, via un nuage de points (point cloud), quelques architectures symboliques tire?es du projet initial. Ce film fait e?merger progressivement le spectre de la ville de Dholera, un chantier fanto?me, ou? les ruines du futur viennent fissurer l’ide?e me?me d’utopie.

Pierre Jean Giloux, né en 1965, est lauréat de la Villa Kujoyama, Kyoto en 2015 et lauréat du Grand Prix Art Vidéo au Festival Côté Court de Pantin en 2016. Pratiquant une forme de réalité augmentée, il montre ses installations dans des musées et centres d’art tels que le Museum du Botanique à Bruxelles, la Criée, Centre d’art contemporain de Rennes, le Barbican à Londres, le Moma d’Hiroshima et le Musée national d’Osaka au Japon ainsi que dans les galeries DNA à Berlin, Sophie Scheidecker et Christophe Gaillard à Paris, Cristina Guerra à Lisbonne, la Bank MABsociety à Shanghai. Ses œuvres sont présentes dans des collections privées (à Paris, Rennes, Bruxelles et Tokyo, Pierre Darier en Suisse, An-Sammlung à Munich) et publiques (Fonds d’art contemporain - Paris collection et Ville de Marseille).

To Ashes - 2025 Film and video-sound installation Video projection and stereo sound system Format: 4K digital video (3840 × 2160) 5’ 06 To Ashes explores the thresholds between reality and machinic hallucination, questioning contemporary image-generation technologies — particularly artificial intelligence — and their influence on our perception of the real. Created through a hybrid process combining 3D modeling and AI-based generation tools, the video unfolds as a continuous tracking shot through a brutalist megastructure in constant transformation. Architectural forms disintegrate and transform, while ash-like particles rise into the air. This disintegration is accompanied by an experimental soundscape, where analog synthesizers and transformed voices evoke a latent collapse. Gradually, the architecture gives way to unstable crystalline structures. Reality wavers. In the end, something gives way, shifts, disappears. Everything must burn. ————————— To Ashes - 2025 Film et installation vidéo et sonore Projection vidéo et dispositif sonore stéréo Format : vidéo numérique 4K (3840?×?2160) 5' 06 Musique : Alice Lewis To Ashes explore les seuils entre réalité et hallucination machinique, en interrogeant les technologies contemporaines de génération d’images — notamment l’intelligence artificielle — et leur influence sur notre perception du réel. Réalisée à partir d’un processus hybride mêlant modélisation 3D et outils de génération par IA, la vidéo prend la forme d’un long travelling unique à travers une mégastructure de béton en perpétuelle mutation. Les formes architecturales se délitent, se métamorphosent, tandis que des cendres s’élèvent dans l’air. Cette désintégration est accompagnée par un paysage sonore expérimental, où synthétiseurs analogiques et voix transformées évoquent un effondrement latent. Progressivement, l’architecture cède la place à des structures cristallines, instables. Le réel vacille. À la fin, quelque chose cède, bascule, disparaît. Tout doit brûler.

Thomas Léon développe sa pratique en fusionnant cinéma, arts graphiques et images issues des nouvelles technologies. Il crée des films, des installations vidéo et sonores immersives, ainsi que des dessins en grand format. Son oeuvre explore les interrelations entre mémoire, sensualité, expériences intimes et imaginaire, en s’appuyant sur des fictions, qu’elles soient sociales, urbanistiques, climatiques etc. Il s’inspire notamment de la science-fiction et de la littérature utopique et développe le plus souvent ses travaux par l’intermédiaire des outils contemporains de création d’images (modélisation 3D, IA, etc.). Il participe régulièrement à des projections ou expositions en France et à l’étranger: « Listening to Transparency » au Minsheng Art Museum de Shanghai (Chine, 2017), « Cruces Sonoros : Mundos Posibles » au MAC de Santiago de Chile (Chili, 2016), « Rendez-vous 11 » à l'Institut d'art contemporain à Villeurbanne (2011) et à la South African National Gallery à Cape Town (Afrique du Sud, 2012). Il a notamment suivi les résidences : Drawing Factory organisée par le CNAP et le Drawing Lab (Paris) en 2021 ; la résidence à Taiwan, organisée par le Grame, centre national de création musicale (Lyon) et le Digital Art Center (Taipei) en 2011. Ses oeuvres sont notamment présentes dans les collection du CNAP et de la Fondation Louis Vuitton. Thomas Léon vit et travaille à Montreuil.

Filmed in a decommissioned telecommunications tower, which used to house secret military equipment, this work returns to my ongoing investigation of mountains and their architectures as spaces of human-nature entanglements. It also returns more specifically to the alpine village of Engelberg, where I have been making work since 2010. In Line of Sight the camera investigates a deserted structure, a space left behind. As if everyone had vacated in mid-action, the environments bear traces of past life, long gone. Both inside and out, the camera observes this perplexing architecture in long panning and tracking shots, culminating in a moment of flight that reveals the structure – as if floating in space. When it was in operation, the tower fulfilled a host of functions, amongst them serving as a space of refuge and shelter during storms. A room full of old mattresses bears witness to such moments of danger. The title ‘Line of Sight’ refers to these towers standing atop mountain peaks with sight of each other, facilitating older forms of communication. With the advances of technology, these towers are now dinosaurs, standing solitary and defunct and as such become symbols of endurance, resistance and older forms of exchange. In 2025, this tower is being reshaped into a space for “mountain entertainment” – acerbating the dichotomy of mountain industries continually expanding footfall onto summits and glacier, hence contributing to the speed of climate change.

London-based visual artist and filmmaker Melanie Manchot employs photography, film, video and sound to form sustained enquiries into our individual and collective identities. The work interrogates and employs acts of care, resistance and communality to engage in discourses on social and political urgencies of our societies. Her films investigate innovative forms of storytelling with an acute understanding of the power of filmmaking to speak to urgent issues and have profound impact. Location-based research informs all her films and mountainous landscapes are a recurrent theme to address fragile environments in our care. Manchot’s artwork has featured in museum and gallery exhibitions internationally and she is currently working towards a large solo show in the UK in early 2026. Her first feature film, STEPHEN, commissioned by Liverpool Biennial, addresses gambling, substance misuse, recovery and mental health through both narrative fiction and documentary. It had its cinematic release through Modern Film in 2024 and continues to be shown in exhibitions as a multi-channel installation. Manchot is currently working towards her second film, Self Storage, with another feature, a fiction/doc hybrid, called One Day As A Tiger, in development.

The experimental film Zone of Silence (Scream Machine) explores the interplay between light, fog, and resonance to depict inner isolation and psychological disorientation. The city is enveloped in a dense atmosphere, while reflections of light and muffled sounds create a “zone of silence” in which orientation and communication begin to dissolve. Inspired by historical maritime navigation problems—where foghorns became inaudible under certain weather conditions—the film translates this phenomenon into the realm of the human unconscious. Theodor Reik’s psychoanalytic concept of the “zone of silence” serves as a central motif for repressed emotions and the difficulty of breaking through them. The closing sequence shows the fading inscription “EUROPA,” a bleak reflection on the continent’s political future. Through its dense atmosphere, a composition blending field recordings and synthesized sound, and the use of visual metaphors, the film offers a profound exploration of inner emptiness and the search for orientation.

Michael Dietrich (*1985, Vienna, Austria) studied social design at the HfbK Hamburg and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. His work explores the impact of human intervention on nature, often unfolding unsettling scenarios through video and acousmatic.

Une jeune femme erre dans un quartier d’affaires la nuit et, à l’aube, rencontre sept inconnus solitaires, qui tombent chacun sous le charme de son énergie. Inspiré par l’imaginaire des Primitifs flamands et réalisé en collaboration avec une véritable guérisseuse quantique, le film est une méditation sur le désir de connexion dans un contexte urbain néolibéral

Dans de courts films narratifs, des documentaires et des installations, Bart Groenendaal (Amsterdam, 1975) explore la manière dont le cinéma façonne notre subjectivité sociale et le monde qui nous entoure, en tant qu’expression toujours changeante d’une idéologie.

African Union responds to 2018 reports of Chinese surveillance at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa. Made with generative AI, commercial stock imagery, and documentary footage, the film explores digital imperialism, data extraction, and the ideological entanglements of AI within the evolving dynamics of China–Africa political and technological relations.

David Kelley’s work traces the hidden ecologies of global infrastructure—from deep-sea mining and the Silk Road to Alberta’s oil sands and the extraction of rare earth elements in China. Working across film, photography, installation, and sculpture, he explores how technology, modernity, ecology, and memory operate as interwoven systems of mediation. His practice draws on essay film, experimental ethnography, and experimental theater, using form as a site for affective experience, ambiguity, and transgression. Kelley approaches research as an aesthetic process, privileging sensorial and speculative modes over purely discursive ones. His projects often involve site-specific production, archival research, and the integration of everyday objects and theatrical constructions within immersive environments. Scientific specimens—borrowed from natural history collections or reimagined in glass, ceramic, and stone—anchor his installations in material history while opening space for surreal and speculative encounters. His work has been exhibited internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; and The Bank, Shanghai. Upcoming presentations include LACMA in Los Angeles and the Global Visions FotoFest Biennial 2026 in Houston. Kelley holds an MFA from UC Irvine and was a 2010–11 Whitney Independent Study Program fellow.

Everything is Real montre les pommes les plus rouges, les call centers les plus verts, les salles de serveurs avec le plus de câbles, les employés les plus souriants, les livreurs avec leurs plus beaux colis, les bénévoles les plus efficaces, les montagnes de déchets les plus grandes – mais les pousse au paroxysme du stéréotype : insensiblement, les stéréotypes versent dans l’extrême.

Stéphane Degoutin est artiste et chercheur. Son travail explore les « systèmes obscurs », les structures qui passent souvent inaperçues mais organisent nos vies : de l’air conditionné aux aéroports internationaux, de la musique pour plantes vertes aux infrastructures urbaines. Il tente une forme de reverse engineering de ces logiques cachées, pour imaginer d’autres façons de penser et d’agir. Gwenola Wagon est artiste et chercheuse. Elle est Professeure des Universités et elle enseigne à l’École des Arts de la Sorbonne à l’Université Paris 1. À travers des installations, des films, des performances et des livres, elle imagine des récits alternatifs et paradoxaux pour penser le monde numérique contemporain.

Clowns at a flooded piano, eerie stockbrokers, cardboard fountains in urban spaces. Without a clear narrative structure, the boundaries between self, body and consciousness become blurred. Familiar signs appear alienated, spaces dissolve, meanings remain elusive. Despite its abstraction, the film seems strangely connected to our present. It is as if it were uncovering a deeper unease beneath the surface of everyday images, one that is difficult to name but remains palpable.

Moritz Frei is a visual artist who works with installation, video, text and sound. His practice moves between analysis and absurdity, using humour as a strategy to question social and media structures. Experimentation and possible failure are integral parts of his artistic process, allowing him to playfully explore control mechanisms and perception. Frei studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig. For many years, he worked part-time in video stores, the Filmgalerie 451 Berlin and Alpha 60 Leipzig, both renowned centres for experimental and international cinema. This experience sharpened his eye for the materiality and power of moving images. The initial moment for his artistic and cinematic work was Moritz Frei's first cup of coffee with Bruno Ganz for his film ‘Meine erste Tasse Kaffee’ (My first Cup of Coffee).

CLAWS is a moving-image essay of gliding takes through rapidly expanding cities, drifting from peripheral terrains into dense cores before opening back to the horizon. In largely unpopulated frames, architecture, materials and sound turn urban expansion into a field of perception—where geometry persists, intention falters, and the land remembers.

Aurèle Ferrier is a Swiss visual artist working with film, exploring built environments and urban peripheries. CLAWS concludes his trilogy on human-made landscapes. His moving-image works have been shown at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima), IDFA (Amsterdam), Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin), Open City Documentary Festival (London), Anthology Film Archives (New York) and Image Forum (Tokyo).