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Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.

From Haitian descent, Miryam Charles is a director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature films. She is also the director of several short films. Her films have been presented in various festivals in Quebec and internationally. She has just completed the direction of her first feature film This House. Her work explores themes related to exile and the legacies of colonization.

A few days before her wedding, a young woman learns that her fiancé is accused of sexual assault. She goes to Haiti to confront the alleged victim.

Miryam Charles studied film production at Concordia University. She is the director of the shorts films Fly, Fly Sadness, Towards the Colonies, A fortress, Drei Atlas and Second Generation. She produced and shot severals shorts films: Danger of death, The forge, Full Love, Bengal Light and the features A jazz fable, and Nouvelles, Nouvelles.

After the death of their adoptive daughter a couple goes to Haiti looking for her relatives. There, they meet with a DNA specialist who might have the power of resurrection.

Miryam Charles studied film production at Concordia University. She produced and shot severals shorts films: Danger of death, The forge, Full Love, Bengal Light and the features A jazz fable, and Nouvelles, Nouvelles. She is the director of Fly,Fly Sadness, Towards the Colonies, A Fortress and Three Atlas.

When a young girl is found off the Venezuelan coast, a medical examiner will try to determine the cause of death before the body is repatriated

Extract from the second part of the series "Les enfants de Roberto" (Roberto's children), self-produced in 2002 by Laurent Charles, the interviews with Adriano Apra constitute an introduction to the collective Mythologie(s) De Mon Voisin Through the experience of Roberto Rossellini and his many followers, Adriano Apra makes the postulate of our interrogations and processes, a "compared approach" of the economic and technologic data of independent cinema. Ten minutes.

On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here excavates layers of myth, geology and technology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus contemporary processes of nation building and myth-making in Kazakhstan through an expansive journey across the remnants of Soviet technological infrastructures that haunt the landscape. Shot on 16mm, the camera is drawn across the Kazakh Steppe taking in locations that include mineral mines, the Eurasian Steppe, the STS decommissioned nuclear site and the newly constructed city of Nur-Sultan.

Emma Charles is a London based artist and filmmaker. Working with experimental approaches to moving image and sound, her research based practice navigates the field of non-fiction while engaging with recurring themes of technology, capitalism and landscape. Playing with the blurred lines between documentary and fiction, her work often reveals the artificiality of both the filmic environment and our lived experience. She has exhibited at Serpentine Galleries and ICA London; HKW, Berlin and Jeu de Paume, Paris. She has also screened her films at Sheffield DocFest, Vision du Réel, Dharamshala International Film Festival, Abandon Normal Devices and Impakt Festival. Emma was nominated for the New Talent Award for her film ‘White Mountain’ at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2017. She is the recipient of a 2015 and 2017 Arts Council England award, British Council UK- China Connections Through Culture grant and The Elephant Trust fund. Charles’ films are held in two museum collections at Guangdong Museum of Art in China and The ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany. Emma holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Ben Evans James is a filmmaker and curator whose work engages with narratives that lie outside landscapes constructed by global capital. He is the film curator at transmediale festival in Berlin, co-founded the London project space South Kiosk and is an AHRC funded PhD candidate under new media theorist Prof. Beryl Graham. His latest feature film On A Clear Day You Can See The Revolution From Here premiered at Visions du Réel in 2020. James is based between Vancouver and Berlin.

Fragments on Machines reveals the physical framework and materiality of the Internet, a vast network often thought and spoken about solely in abstract terms. Taking New York City as its central focus and interwoven with a fictionalised narrative, the film observes the evolution of architecture in the city to accommodate the material nodes and connectors that comprise the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. New York is home to many of the great buildings that symbolise nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial capitalism. Today, it is significant that a number of these Art Deco skyscrapers—located predominantly in the Financial District—have become the containers for the infrastructure of the Internet and virtual capital. These grand monuments of brick and steel are now homes to the servers and computers that drive post-industrial finance capitalism. Highly elusive yet pervasive in their nature, data centres consist of room upon room of copper and fibre-optic cables, computer servers and ventilation systems. With direct links to the companies they serve, these Internet hubs become a kind of unofficial space for trade.

Emma Charles is a London based artist. She studied MA Photography at the Royal College of Art (2011-2013) and BA (Hons) in Editorial Photography from the University of Brighton (2006-2009). Working with both photography and moving image, her work explores metropolitan spaces of productivity that are hidden from the public eye, primarily focusing on the more ethereal and abstract elements of industry and corporate environments. Charles was recently commissioned for solo show ‘Surfaces of Exchange’, Jerwood Visual Arts (2014). Recent Group exhibitions and screenings include Kassel Dokfest; Marl Video Art Award; Premio Celeste; ‘Neither Here Nor There’, FotoFocus Biennial; ‘Centralia’, South Kiosk; ‘Aesthetica Short Film Festival’; ‘Night Contact’, Contact Editions and ‘CAPITAL’, George and Jorgen Gallery. Her work has been discussed as part of the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennale symposium Visible Economies: Photography, Economic Conditions and Urban Experiences and published by Photoworks and was recently reviewed by Artsy, South London Art Map and Jotta. Charles was recently awarded a Jerwood Visual Arts Project Space commission, RCA Travel Bursary, Villiers David Bursary Award and Christopherson Foundation Grant.

On A Clear Day You Can See the Revolution From Here excavates layers of myth, geology and technology to reveal the shifting fault lines between a government, its people and their land. The film brings into focus contemporary processes of nation building and myth-making in Kazakhstan through an expansive journey across the remnants of Soviet technological infrastructures that haunt the landscape. Shot on 16mm, the camera is drawn across the Kazakh Steppe taking in locations that include mineral mines, the Eurasian Steppe, the STS decommissioned nuclear site and the newly constructed city of Nur-Sultan.

Emma Charles is a London based artist and filmmaker. Working with experimental approaches to moving image and sound, her research based practice navigates the field of non-fiction while engaging with recurring themes of technology, capitalism and landscape. Playing with the blurred lines between documentary and fiction, her work often reveals the artificiality of both the filmic environment and our lived experience. She has exhibited at Serpentine Galleries and ICA London; HKW, Berlin and Jeu de Paume, Paris. She has also screened her films at Sheffield DocFest, Vision du Réel, Dharamshala International Film Festival, Abandon Normal Devices and Impakt Festival. Emma was nominated for the New Talent Award for her film ‘White Mountain’ at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2017. She is the recipient of a 2015 and 2017 Arts Council England award, British Council UK- China Connections Through Culture grant and The Elephant Trust fund. Charles’ films are held in two museum collections at Guangdong Museum of Art in China and The ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Germany. Emma holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. Ben Evans James is a filmmaker and curator whose work engages with narratives that lie outside landscapes constructed by global capital. He is the film curator at transmediale festival in Berlin, co-founded the London project space South Kiosk and is an AHRC funded PhD candidate under new media theorist Prof. Beryl Graham. His latest feature film On A Clear Day You Can See The Revolution From Here premiered at Visions du Réel in 2020. James is based between Vancouver and Berlin.

Fragments on Machines reveals the physical framework and materiality of the Internet, a vast network often thought and spoken about solely in abstract terms. Taking New York City as its central focus and interwoven with a fictionalised narrative, the film observes the evolution of architecture in the city to accommodate the material nodes and connectors that comprise the physical manifestation of the “virtual” world. New York is home to many of the great buildings that symbolise nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial capitalism. Today, it is significant that a number of these Art Deco skyscrapers—located predominantly in the Financial District—have become the containers for the infrastructure of the Internet and virtual capital. These grand monuments of brick and steel are now homes to the servers and computers that drive post-industrial finance capitalism. Highly elusive yet pervasive in their nature, data centres consist of room upon room of copper and fibre-optic cables, computer servers and ventilation systems. With direct links to the companies they serve, these Internet hubs become a kind of unofficial space for trade.

Emma Charles is a London based artist. She studied MA Photography at the Royal College of Art (2011-2013) and BA (Hons) in Editorial Photography from the University of Brighton (2006-2009). Working with both photography and moving image, her work explores metropolitan spaces of productivity that are hidden from the public eye, primarily focusing on the more ethereal and abstract elements of industry and corporate environments. Charles was recently commissioned for solo show ‘Surfaces of Exchange’, Jerwood Visual Arts (2014). Recent Group exhibitions and screenings include Kassel Dokfest; Marl Video Art Award; Premio Celeste; ‘Neither Here Nor There’, FotoFocus Biennial; ‘Centralia’, South Kiosk; ‘Aesthetica Short Film Festival’; ‘Night Contact’, Contact Editions and ‘CAPITAL’, George and Jorgen Gallery. Her work has been discussed as part of the 2012 Brighton Photo Biennale symposium Visible Economies: Photography, Economic Conditions and Urban Experiences and published by Photoworks and was recently reviewed by Artsy, South London Art Map and Jotta. Charles was recently awarded a Jerwood Visual Arts Project Space commission, RCA Travel Bursary, Villiers David Bursary Award and Christopherson Foundation Grant.

I return to a small hamlet in the countryside, where a community of nuns welcomes orphaned or abused children. Among them is my childhood friend Jean-Pierre. In the midst of daily life, working the land, eating together and caring for each other, I put into practice my desire to make films.

Adrien Charmot studied cinema at the University of Paris 8 and then at Créadoc. His graduation film L'Innocence was selected and won awards at a number of festivals (Festival Jean Rouch, Traces de vie, Rencontres Internationales Henri Langlois, etc.). He then directed Les Oiseaux de passage, produced by L'Atelier documentaire. He also set up L'Oeil lucide, an association that supports documentary filmmaking in south-west France. He was filmmaker-in-residence for four years at FEMA, Festival La Rochelle Cinéma, and supervises residencies at Ty Films in Brittany.

«Après la réalisation du film "from here to eau" réalisé en 2002 en collaboration avec Céleste Boursier-Mougenot lors de la présentation de l’oeuvre aux Beaux Arts de Paris, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot m’invite à développer librement mon travail personnel, une de mes actions filmées dans le cadre d’une installation considérée comme un environnement, un paysage. Les participants, qui ne sont pas des acteurs professionnels, répondent à une annonce publiée sur les réseaux sociaux. Pour chaque tournage, un groupe est constitué par des personnes de tous âges, de toutes appartenances sociales et de toutes apparences physiques (car je ne pratique pas le casting) qui s’impliquent bénévolement dans le projet pour des raisons qui leurs sont personnelles, multiples et variées. L’écriture, la scénarisation des corps se dessine au fur et à mesure de leur inscription dans le lieu et de leur relation avec les pièces de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot qu’ils découvrent comme des visiteurs, leur réceptivité et leur présence est intensifiée par le fait qu’ils soient nus. Je leur demande d’être à l’écoute des formes visuelles et sonores. Je n’ai pas d’autre projet que de capter ce qui advient dans ce moment de partage, une deuxième phase de mon travail consiste dans le montage d’un film qui doit aussi donner à voir et à entendre les oeuvres de Céleste Boursier-Mougenot d’une manière inédite.» Enna Chaton Au sujet de cette collaboration Céleste Boursier-Mougenot dit : «C’est un moyen de déplacer le regard sur mon oeuvre, de favoriser la démarche d’une artiste dont j’apprécie le projet, de garder une trace de l’installation en dépassant le stade du simple document filmé.» A ce jour il existe 4 films : "télescopages", "errances #1", "dérives", "errances #2". "télescopages" 7 min - mini DVCAM couleur, sonore, 2009. Collaboration avec Céleste Boursier-Mougenot Action filmée réalisée lors de l’exposition "from here to ear (v8)" de l’artiste Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, l’Estuaire, Nantes 2009 "errances #1" 11 min 54 s - HDV couleur, sonore, 2014. Collaboration avec Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. Action filmée réalisée lors de l’exposition "perturbation" de l’artiste Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse 2014. "dérives" 09 min 40 s - HDV couleur, sonore, 2015. Action filmée réalisée lors de l’exposition "acquaalta" de l’artiste Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2015. "errances #2" 12 min 28 s - HDV couleur, sonore, 2015. Action filmée réalisée lors de l’exposition "rêvolutions" de l’artiste Céleste Boursier-Mougenot et de la commissaire Emma Lavigne - Pavillon Français - 56 ème Biennale de Venise 2015

Enna Chaton travaille avec des hommes et des femmes de tous âges, de tous milieux, bénévoles, qui répondent à ses appels à participation par petites annonces. Après de nombreux échanges par mails, elle constitue des groupes, organise des rencontres et met en scène des performances au cours desquelles les participants explorent des territoires qui leur sont inconnus : ils inventent un vocabulaire, une langue, une façon de s’approprier le geste, le lieu, la nudité. Leur présence crée une forme singulière puisqu’Enna Chaton provoque une vaste mise à nu : une confrontation à la fois douce et brutale, frontale, avec soi-même, avec les autres et avec le public. La plasticienne, photographe et performeuse accompagne nue les participants, désireuse de partager leur fragilité. Avec eux, elle tente d’ouvrir un espace permissif, expérimental où l’être se révèle différent que dans son quotidien, où la nudité crée un univers décalé du monde actuel. Cette nudité, démocratique, balaie les normes et les stéréotypes. Elle collabore avec Stéphane Despax, plasticien sur le projet "le colier de perle", film, performance, installation ; avec Carole Rieussec sur le projet "Dégrafer l’espace", artiste sonore, film, performance, installation ; avec Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, musicien et plasticien, "Télescopages", "Errances #1", "dérives" et "Errances #2", actions filmées. Elle est performeuse dans le spéctacle "La bohémia éléctronica … Nuca derme" de la compagnie Kristoff K.roll. Depuis 2005 elle est membre de l’Association "Sonorités", participe à l’organisation du festival, s’occupe de la programmation du festival Sonorités - du texte au son avec Anne-James Chaton auteur et poète sonore, Carole Rieussec musicienne, Didier Aschour musicien, Jean-Kristoff Camps musicien, Emmanuel Adely auteur, Frédéric Dumond auteur. Elle est diplômée de l’École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Cergy Pontoise option art en 1995. Elle enseigne la photographie et la vidéo en classe préparatoire à l’École des Beaux Arts de Sète depuis 2003.

This award winning work creates discursive situations to facilitate in-depth and contemplative observation of the environmental decay of transitive sites in India, using media intervention and interactivity. The project aims to delineate the processes of decay and destruction of pastoral landscapes in the developing economies and societies. Taking point-of-departure from a perspective in the personal experience of forgetting and loss, being a native of the area myself (the artist), this large-scale project intends to reflect upon the interpenetration between locative and global cultures, decay in environmental and climatic integrity, disappearance of indigenous traditions and lapses in collective memory within the landscapes, by production and showcasing of the inter-media installation work. With a media anthropological approach, the project frames the gradual transfiguration with the help of media convergence, staging augmented and site-specific interpenetration between sound, video and still images. The work has been developed through a meticulous collection of audiovisual materials from various Indian locations in extensive fieldworks supported by Prince Claus Fund Amsterdam. This collection has been forming a digital archive expended for realizing the work.

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay is an Indian-born sound/media artist, researcher, writer and theorist, currently based in Europe. Chattopadhyay’s work questions the materiality, site-specificity and object-hood of sound, and addresses the aspects of contingency, contemplation, mindfulness and transcendence inherent in listening. His artistic practice intends to shift the emphasis from “object” to “situation” in the realm of sound. His sound-works are published by Gruenrekorder (Germany) and Touch (UK). Chattopadhyay is a Charles Wallace scholar, Prince Claus grantee and Falling Walls fellow, and has received several residencies and international awards, notably a First Prize in Computer and Electronic Music category of Computer Space festival 2014, Sofia, and an Honorary Mention at PRIX Ars Electronica 2011, Linz. Appearing in numerous exhibitions, concerts, conferences and festivals, Chattopadhyay’s sound and video works have been exhibited, performed or presented widely in Europe and Asia. Chattopadhyay has graduated from India’s national film school, specializing in sound, completed a Master of Arts degree in new media/sound art from Aarhus University, Denmark, and obtained a PhD degree in sound studies involving practice-based artistic research from Leiden University, The Netherlands.

- Carnet : nom masculin, endroit dans lequel on note ses impressions, ses souvenirs, ses listes de course. Par extension carnet intime, se dit de l`espace entre soi et sa conscience. - Sous- sol : Espace sous le sol, les fondations, souvent exigu et sombre, espace où l`on se reclut pour oublier ou devenir. "Si c`était seulement par paresse que je ne faisais rien, que je n`agissais pas..." Douze carnets, adaptation libre des "carnets du sous-sol" de Dostoïevski, carnets de note vidéo en douze voix pour qui voudrait s`y égarer, fruit de plusieurs années à accumuler des matières sonores et visuelles, à les entremêler, à les confronter, à les tordre.

Né en 1980, tour à tour agent d`entretien, transporteur, pique papier, historien, manutentionnaire,étudiant en cinéma, éditeur-programmateur, palefrenier, assistant de production,GCF réalise avec "Douze carnets" son 1er essai documentaire.

qui songe... Jean-Sébastien Chauvin, 2025 [12 mn] Au fil des jours, les manifestations poétiques de la réalité, enregistrées à partir d’un téléphone. Montage : Emmanuel Curtil

Jean-Sébastien Chauvin vit et travaille à Paris. Cinéaste et critique de cinéma, il est également photographe. De 1999 à 2020, il écrit pour la revue Les cahiers du cinéma et pour Vogue France. En 2008, son premier court-métrage Les Filles de Feu est sélectionné à la Semaine de la Critique au Festival de Cannes. Après quatre autres courts-métrages, l’expérimental Mars exalté lui apporte une reconnaissance internationale après sa sélection à la Berlinale 2022 et le Teddy Award qui lui est décerné. La même année, Le Roi qui contemplait la mer explore les mêmes liens qui unissent corps et paysage, ainsi que la tension érotique qui en émane. En parallèle de sa carrière cinématographique, Jean-Sébastien Chauvin n'a de cesse de photographier et filmer quotidiennement son entourage et son environnement. Il commence dans les années 1990 en expérimentant avec des appareils argentiques avant de trouver dans les appareils numériques, l’iPhone et Instagram les outils adéquats à sa pratique du snapshot. Réalisées au Leica M9 ou à l’iPhone, les photographies et vidéos de Jean-Sébastien Chauvin rendent compte de la vie quotidienne autant qu’elles figurent et questionnent l’action de la lumière dans notre perception des choses ou la poétiques des gestes cachés dans l’infra de la vie, toute une dramaturgie d’attitudes cachée dans les replis du quotidien. C’est à partir de cette matière que Jean-Sébastien Chauvin et son monteur, Emmanuel Curtil, ont conçu qui songe….

In ?Preparación? the body is processed by imaginary instruments. Its outlines are only hinted. ?Preparación? shows the prearrangement of an intervention. By marks, cuts and tears a ?gutting? of the body is being prepared but the body is already in the process of conversion, to a object-like, almost inorganic state. But it is an endless stadium that will be repeated and repeated

Maribel Chávez Born 1977 in Lima, lives and works in Cologne. Chávez studied painting and drawing at the Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú (ENSABAP) Lima. She has studied at Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and at the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) by Matthias Müller 2008-2012.

Idomeni 2016. A self organised camp was build by concentrated refugees-immigrants after the closure of the Macedonian border towards western Europe. Through a strict observational approach the video attempting to capture the relation between the refugee-immigrant and "the image of the refugee-immigrant " as it’s being constructed by the western world.

Io Chaviara is a visual artist. She has taken place in international exhibitions she has been co- curating workshops and documentary festivals in Athens and Beirut. Her artworks consist of essays, lectures performances, installations, curating projects and documentaries. Michalis Kastanidis is a film-maker and co-founder of Fabula Productions based in Athens, Greece. He has studied visual antropology and etnographic film in Barcelona (UB).

Deciban is chdh's new audiovisual performance where sound and visual shapes emerge from noise. On the screen, a video noise similar to the "snow" of old analog TVs fills the entire space. This hypnotic material, accompanied by its sound alter ego, is animated and set in motion by forces controlled in real time by two performers using laptops. The noise acquires a structure, a topology, patterns. Shapes emerge, visual and sound movements appear. The public loose themselves in the perception of this world full of illusions. In Deciban, phenomena are drowned in a noise universe: noise is information. Inspired by Claude Shannon's information theory, Deciban is a research on the perception of digital generated noise that aims to propose a new type of synaesthetic experience.

The chdh collective studies images / sound relationships by creating audio and visual algorithmic synthesizers. They mainly use these audiovisual instruments during live performances. Using equations describing natural mechanisms, they generate abstract choreographies of particles whose minimalist matter reveals underlying structures of great complexity, shaped by strange organic attractors. In search of a synaesthetic radicality, their hypnotic performances work on the joint movements between image and sound and belong as much to experimental cinema in the form used as to improvised music in the way they are played. Since the early 2000s, they have shown their projects in more than a hundred international venues, especially the Egregore performance (2011), which explores the group movements of a crowd of particles and Morphist (2015), a study of the shape transitions of an abstract substance. This work has also led to two editions: the Vivarium DVD (Art Kill Art / Arcadi - 2008) which contains abstract video works as well as the software developed for these creations, proposing to "replay" or edit them, and the Egregore - source USB key (Art Kill Art - 2014), an adaptation of the software used for Egregore, which has resulted in a remote performance on more than 120 computers in about twenty countries. Defender of free software, they freely distribute their projects and the tools developed for their work, including the pmpd physical modeling library for Pure Data.

As a dancer from an immigrant family, Ça?da? often feels more of a performer around them than on the stage. When he decides to contact his estranged father in Turkey, the boundary between real and performed begin to blur as his story is woven into the production of a new piece by internationally renowned Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. How much does the absence of his father and the traumatic silence that has filled the void contribute to why he feels like an outsider in the only place he’s ever called home? IN FOUR MOVEMENTS weaves dance and documentary through an intimate journey of self-discovery as Ça?da? faces his past, his performance, and his desire for belonging.

Daniel Chein is an independent filmmaker whose work explores transculturalism and expressions of identity in the performative. His last short About a Home premiered at the 2021 Slamdance Film Festival and is distributed by Argo. He has received support from Ford Foundation, Sundance Institute, Field of Vision, ITVS, Princess Grace Foundation, among others, and his films have screened at dozens of festivals. He is a Sundance Fellow and was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023. Daniel is based between Berlin, California, and Taipei.

Liang-Hsuan Chen filme la journée d’une femme oscillant entre ses croyances et ses désirs. Avec le passage du temps, les différentes générations se confondent, ouvre la possibilité d’une nouvelle approche de l’espace et de la temporalité de la ville.

On one roll of Super 8 film, 15m (50ft) = 2.5 minutes, at 24 frames per second. I walked 15 meters over 2.5 minutes of an entire roll of Super 8 film outside the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), where the international system of units, including standardized time and length, was developed and defined. The forced synchronicity premised on the structural materiality of film interrogates the notion of measurement, standardization, adaptation, and embodied experience.

Hsin-Yu Chen is a filmmaker and artist currently based in Taipei, Taiwan. He works with experimental film, documentary, and moving image to explore the liminal space between seeing and being seen where subjectivity is implicated and constructed. Drawing on border landscapes, embodied knowledge, and the notion of measurement and categorization, he examines the intersection of the viewing body and the political subject. His work has been shown at MoCA Taipei; Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris; Proyector – Festival de Videoarte; Image Forum; Kassel Dokfest; 25 FPS; Arkipel - Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival; and in the Herzog de Silva Collection. He has participated in FIDCampus, Oberhausen Seminar, and residencies including RAIR Philadelphia and Cité Internationale des Arts.

A voyage to the northern border of Taiwan — the eponymous Beigu Islet, a sea rock roughly 300sqft submerged under water half of the time — delves into regional histories, the gaze on borderline landscapes, and the ambivalent state of Taiwanese territory and subjectivity.

Hsin-Yu Chen is a filmmaker and artist currently based in Taipei, Taiwan. He works with experimental film, documentary, and moving image to explore the liminal space between seeing and being seen where subjectivity is implicated and constructed. Drawing on border landscapes, vision techniques, and embodied knowledge, he examines the intersection of the viewing body and the political subject. His work has been shown at 25 FPS, HR; Arkipel, ID; Festival ECRÃ, BR; and Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, UK. He has participated in the Oberhausen Seminar and residencies including RAIR Philadelphia and Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.

In Spear, Che-Wei Chen collaborates with a friend who was diagnosed with dissociative disorder. The film starts with the individual experience. It attempts to transform the fragment of traumatic memory into an artistic way. During the shooting, it includes the scene of hypnosis that the subject suddenly switches between personality states. The film blurs the lines between documentary and fiction; likewise, it unfolds a compound experience intertwined with reality and fantasy. The film examines the human being under the state of discipline and the mute condition of language. We also gain an insight into the archetypes of trauma: violence, power, oppression and control technologies, etc.

Che-Wei Chen is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Taipei. His recent practice has focused on the subjectivity of people with mental disorders and reflected upon the complexity of contemporary conditions. He explores the boundaries between reality and fiction through multiple perspectives within complex structures and narratives. His work not only reveals the repressed collective unconscious but also re-examines the power and political structures underlying the social system. Besides, he also addresses issues such as postcolonialism, modernity, classification, biopolitics, etc.

This is a story of PEW （penis-eating worm), this is a herstory of all humans.

Chen Xi was born in Wuhan, China (1985), graduated from Jiangnan University(BA) in 2008, then graduated from ECNU(MA) in 2012. He currently works and lives in Beijing. Since 2013, Chen Xi’s artworks have included various medium, such as painting, video, animation, photography and onsite project.

Set in Shigushan, a village on the outskirts of Wuhan, this short experimental documentary traces the gestures of elderly women who tend family pinewoods for survival. These trees, once used to construct the village’s People’s Commune Assembly Hall during China’s collectivisation movement, now stand as living witnesses to shifting relations between labour, land, and history. Through the women’s daily gestures of care—collecting pine needles for fuel, trading sap, or selling timber—the film traces fragile circuits of exchange that link the countryside and the city. Human and nonhuman labours intertwine and continue to co-produce worlds amid social and ecological precarity. Rejecting linear narration, the film unfolds through fragments and resonances, using juxtaposition as a method to hold contradictions—between architecture and anthropology, choreography and cinema—without resolution. It is an act of attunement to fragility, reciprocity, and reincarnation as cyclical, material conditions of life. This is the final part of a film trilogy under the project ‘RIPPLE RIPPLE RIPPLING’, a ten-year relationship with a village community, attuning to how Chinese rural migrant workers make worlds.

Jingru (Cyan) Cheng and Chen Zhan are co-founders of field-0, a research-oriented practice at the intersection of architecture, anthropology, art and filmmaking. Field-0 trials situated, sensorial approaches to dissecting planetary interconnectedness, while grounding their work in communities. Through fieldwork, following drifting bodies—be they sand, water or migrant workers, the practice attunes to material flows, planetary scales, intergenerational time, and the many forms of life entangled in these processes. Their films have won the Architecture Short Film Award at the Milano Design Film Festival (2024) and Best Short Film at the Venice Architecture Film Festival (2023). Mengfan Wang is an independent theatre director and choreographer whose practice reimagines daily acts with middle-aged women, children, and retired ballet dancers to explore performative expressions of ordinary and ageing bodies. Named a “Dance Hopeful (Hoffnungsträger)” by tanz magazine (2018), her works have been featured at the VIE Festival Bologna, Beijing Fringe Festival, and Wuzhen Theater Festival. Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou and West Bund Museum Shanghai, her latest piece Narrative Fountain appeared in Women in Motion 2023. Together, Cyan, Chen, and Mengfan co-curated Ripple Ripple Rippling, a 2024 solo exhibition at the Architectural Association, London, showcasing their multi-year research with Shigushan Village, China.

Ecstasy is out of itself, a phenomenon where the senses are particularly awake, carrying in other dimensions, beyond the cognitive conditions. This video is inspired by the ecstatic state and develops, in a sequence shot, the idea of losing the ability to perceive volumes / objects in space: An enclosed room whose dimension is gradually transformed by using framing and sound spatialization.

Artists currently in residence at the Center for Recollets of Paris in collaboration with Dena Foudation for Contemporary Art, Assila Cherfi, born in Algiers in 1981, studied Graphic Design at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts in Algiers, 2000 to 2006 with an interest in photography, sound and video. She continued her studies in Film and Video at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where she developed devices that use photography, video, sound and interaction. She has participated in several workshops and artist residencies which have allowed her to deepen the use of new media in art in order to create a relationship between images, sounds and imagination.

Les images utilisées dans cette vidéo proviennent du milieu des années 50 : une guerre relatée par des images. On y voit des images des personnes qui vivaient la guerre, de personnes qui faisaient des images pendant cette guerre, de personnes qui voient des images d’elles-mêmes pendant la guerre, qui écoutent , qui raisonnent et qui interagissent. Ce triangle évoque le mécanisme de l’image médiatique : d’où elle provient, par qui elle est faite, à qui elle est destinée. Une attention particulière est réservée à ceux qui produisaient ces contenus : les photographes, cadreurs et preneurs de son de chaque camp qui ont nourri la même histoire en utilisant les mêmes outils.

Les travaux que je réalise sont basés sur la conception de projets structurels et formels autour des images et des sons, souvent à propos d’images et de sons. Diplômée en Graphisme à Alger puis en Vidéo à Milan, mes derniers projets réalisés ont été présentés lors d'événements dédiés à la vidéo et au nouveau cinéma, notamment à l’Espace Khiasma (Paris), au DOCVA (centre de documentation pour les arts visuels, Milan), le Beirut Art Center (Liban), Les Rencontres Internationales de Paris/Madrid/Berlin. Les projets collectifs de documentaires auxquels j'ai participé ont fait partie de la programmation du Torino Film Festival et du Milano Filmmaker Doc Festival (Italie), Picturie Générale I - II (Alger).