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A surreal take on two people longing to bond through movement. The setting is a bygone velodrome, the Albert Richter track in Cologne. Without words, VELODROME evokes a poetic and eerie liminal space. It portrays a pursuit of communication, a permanent interruption. A moment of encounter without meeting.

Pariya Bakhshi, (they/she) born 1997 in Hiroshima, is an Iranian filmmaker and artist. Pariya lives in Germany and has been studying film at the 2019 studying film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She grew up in Iran, Tehran and studied design at the Tehran University of Fine Arts. One of her main themes is freedom and exile, which she explores in her autobiographical essay film Displaced in Time. For her, the act of making art and film becomes political, among other things by breaking conventions and media boundaries. In her feature films, she translates the unspoken from our reality into a surreal film world, through the expression of the body, beyond language. Pariya therefore works mainly with dancers, as in Katzenbellen, L , VELODROME and ANAMORPHOSIS. Blanca Barbat : I am a multidisciplinary artist. My creative praxis can take the form of films, installations, drawings, performances, and more. I'm particularly intrigued by the concept of 'bodies,' often exploring their boundaries, especially their thresholds, and their role in the ever-evolving narrative of our transforming reality. I perceive myself as both an expression of the world and a spectator within it. I connect with concepts like the rhizome and the collective unconscious.