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A visual and soundscaped short ambience voyage through an utopian, ghost-like city-state. In this mid twentieth century imaginary Lisbon, the power plants continue to produce energy, brand new subway network locomotives’ engines hum in standby, city lights and neon signs come alive each night and radio receivers spread Salazar’s [Portuguese Dictator] speeches - yet, nowhere is to be found the slightest human presence: there isn’t anyone to see and hear this newcomer modernity’s heartbeat. Only statues and facades inhabit the metropolis. "CINZA" is a short film made entirely from photographs that depict Lisbon during the dictatorial regime installed in Portugal from 1926 until 1974. Their authors were Mário Novais, Horácio Novais and Casimiro dos Santos Vinagre, and the photographs now belong to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library Archive.

Micael was born in 1974 and graduated in ‘Directing’ at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School, in 2003, where he had already obtained his bachelor degree in ‘Editing’, in 1999. He is a partner at the production company Roughcut, where he’s been developing documental projects, television series, fiction and animation short films, being also responsible for the company’s post-production of several projects and works. He co-founded with David Gabriel, in 2012, the colective "Companhia do Inferno", which dedicates itself to the development and production of videoart projects and scriptwriting, under which he already directed several experimental videos. Since 2000, Micael works regularly as a freelance editor in advertising, television, fiction, documentary and music videos, and he worked with such directors as Bruno Ramos, João Nuno Pinto, Júlio Alves, Marco Martins, Miguel Coimbra, Miguel Seabra Lopes, Pedro Cláudio, Pedro Macedo, Pedro Sena Nunes, among others. He directed the television series "KmZero" which was aired on RTP2 (2007/2008), and co-directed the cultural magazine "Câmara Clara", which also aired on RTP2 (2008/2009). Recently, he co-directed the documental series “Tradições – Retalhos da Vida de um Povo”, produced by Roughcut and broadcasted by SIC Notícias (2013/2014). He produced, directed and animated the animation short film "Black Bug", which was one of the finalists of the ZON Awards Creativity in Multimedia (2011/2012). In collaboration with the performing arts, Micael directed the video for the theatre play “Old Times”, staged by Duval Pestana, for ONIMED, and directed the video for the performance “The Lusiads” by António Fonseca, which premiered at Guimarães – European Capital of Culture, in 2012, and was already presented in Lisbon, Coimbra, Almada and Brazil (2013/2014).

A group of men are waiting at the fringes of a coastal woodland for the journey to Europe. They are in a temporal and spatial limbo. A film is shot there with the men playing themselves. The landscape changes and where they are is no longer their motherland. The water is not transparent, not clear. Myths from the colonial past collide with present times, memory survives.

Keina Espiñeira (1983, Spain) is a scholar and filmmaker. Her artistic work is related to borders, landscapes and mythologies. She holds a Master`s degree in Direction and Production of Documentary Films, awarded by DOCMA. She has also worked as social researcher in California, Netherlands, Spain and Morocco.

“Our Non-Understanding of Everything #09” is part of a larger series that explores how the structures of architecture, semiconductors, and circuits become forms of expression reflecting hierarchies, cognitive processes, and relationships to the natural environment. The project is the daily practice of observation, questioning and switching perspectives in order to understand our relationship to our tech-devices and their existence in the world. Motivated by finding ways to imagine what our smart phones want from us and if we can communicate with them, we are using our natural and human built environments to possibly entertain, relax and stimulate the technical devices, that so profoundly influence our conception of the universe and our relation to it.

eteam uses video, performance, installation and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetic universes. Through their artistic practice eteam finds ways to collaborate with people who operate on the edges of mainstream culture and the marketplace. They are drawn to those willing to experiment, cross genres and cultural boundaries, together we forge proximity and make visible the interconnections we humans share with land, animals, plants, ghosts, deities and objects. Practicing art is their way to enter the “outside,” pay close attention to the details, while trying to understand the whole. Eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves in ships, black box theaters and horse-drawn wagons. They could not have done this without the support of Creative Capital and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, CLUI, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and MacDowell, the City College of New York, the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and the Fulbright Scholar Program, among many others. Their novel “Grabeland” was published by Nightboat Books in February 2020.

“Our Non-Understanding of Everything #09” is part of a larger series that explores how the structures of architecture, semiconductors, and circuits become forms of expression reflecting hierarchies, cognitive processes, and relationships to the natural environment. The project is the daily practice of observation, questioning and switching perspectives in order to understand our relationship to our tech-devices and their existence in the world. Motivated by finding ways to imagine what our smart phones want from us and if we can communicate with them, we are using our natural and human built environments to possibly entertain, relax and stimulate the technical devices, that so profoundly influence our conception of the universe and our relation to it.

eteam uses video, performance, installation and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetic universes. Through their artistic practice eteam finds ways to collaborate with people who operate on the edges of mainstream culture and the marketplace. They are drawn to those willing to experiment, cross genres and cultural boundaries, together we forge proximity and make visible the interconnections we humans share with land, animals, plants, ghosts, deities and objects. Practicing art is their way to enter the “outside,” pay close attention to the details, while trying to understand the whole. Eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves in ships, black box theaters and horse-drawn wagons. They could not have done this without the support of Creative Capital and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, CLUI, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and MacDowell, the City College of New York, the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and the Fulbright Scholar Program, among many others. Their novel “Grabeland” was published by Nightboat Books in February 2020.

“Our Non-Understanding of Everything #12” is part of a larger series that explores how the structures of architecture, semiconductors, and circuits become forms of expression reflecting hierarchies, cognitive processes, and relationships to the natural environment. The project is the daily practice of observation, questioning and switching perspectives in order to understand our relationship to our tech-devices and their existence in the world. Motivated by finding ways to imagine what our smart phones want from us and if we can communicate with them, we are using our natural and human built environments to possibly entertain, relax and stimulate the technical devices, that so profoundly influence our conception of the universe and our relation to it.

eteam uses video, performance, installation and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetic universes. Through their artistic practice eteam finds ways to collaborate with people who operate on the edges of mainstream culture and the marketplace. They are drawn to those willing to experiment, cross genres and cultural boundaries, together we forge proximity and make visible the interconnections we humans share with land, animals, plants, ghosts, deities and objects. Practicing art is their way to enter the “outside,” pay close attention to the details, while trying to understand the whole. Eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves in ships, black box theaters and horse-drawn wagons. They could not have done this without the support of Creative Capital and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, CLUI, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and MacDowell, the City College of New York, the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and the Fulbright Scholar Program, among many others. Their novel “Grabeland” was published by Nightboat Books in February 2020.

What is our relationship to our tech devices? How do smart devices exist in the world? What do we want from them? What do they want from us? "Our Non-Understanding of Everything" is a daily practice, where we observe and speculate of how our personal tech devices and their building parts exist in a possible future, shared between the architecture of circuitry, political thought and the wild and programmed parts of our natural environments. “Our Non-Understanding of Everything” signals a complete openness to learn, shift viewpoints, upturn embedded prejudices, discover, surprise and draw connections between phenomena and things that reside and operate in wildly diverse realms. The project aligns with non-representational ideas, in which events and encounters in the world are constituted through emergent, relational, and intangible complexities that cannot necessarily be articulated or contained within the particular ways we attempt to represent them.

eteam is a two people collaboration who uses video, performance, installation and writing to instigate and articulate encounters at the edges of diverging cultural, technical and aesthetical universes. Traversing over earthly planes they trigger communication, collaborations and transformations between humans, nature, and technologies. Through their artistic practice eteam finds ways to collaborate with people who operate on the edges of mainstream culture and the marketplace. They are drawn to those willing to experiment, cross genres and cultural boundaries, they forge proximity and make visible the interconnections we humans share with land, animals, plants, ghosts, deities and objects. Eteam’s work is land- and process-based, often long term, situational and happens in places they don’t inhabit permanently. Practicing art is their way to enter the “outside,” pay close attention to the details, while trying to understand the whole. Eteam’s narratives have screened internationally in video- and film festivals, they lectured in universities, presented in art galleries and museums and performed in the desert, on fields, in caves and on mountaintops, in ships, black box theaters and horse-drawn wagons. They could not have done this without the generous support of Creative Capital and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Art in General, NYSCA, NYFA, Rhizome, CLUI, Taipei Artist Village, Eyebeam, Smack Mellon, Yaddo and MacDowell, the City College of New York, the Academy of Visual Art HKBU and the Fulbright Scholar Program, among many others. Their novel “Grabeland” was published by Nightboat Books in February 2020. They are represented by Gallery M29, Cologne Germany and Video Data Bank, Chicago.

"Godard-Warhol This would be in short what the video is about: One minute of carrying One double minute One minute of silence One minute of rock One minute of star : gowar"

Jon Mikel Euba est né en 1967 à Bilbao, Espagne. Il vit et travaille à Berlin et à Bilbao.Il s`apprête à présenter à Bucarest ses vidéos, dont la dernière intitulée "One minute of Silence" mais aussi des plus anciennes comme "K.Y.D." (2001). Il travaille actuellement sur sa prochaine vidéo. Jon Mikel Euba a à la fois recours au texte et à l`image dans ses ?uvres "utilisant la vidéo, le dessin et les mots pour construire des récits ambigus et mettre en scène des incidents ou des situations mystérieuses dans lesquelles le paysage suscite des fragments d`actions récurrentes, qu`une répétition à l`infini transforme en icônes abstraites. À partir du montage d`images provenant de ses archives personnelles, d`arrêts sur image, de phrases et des passages récupérés, il génère un nouveau texte cinématique, une nouvelle structure qui transcende de telles unités informationnelles pour décrire de nouveaux modes de comportements." (Nuria Enguita Mayo).

Parallel (work in progress demo) tells the story of the fissure–the modes of blindness and longing, of not seeing and being unseen, of being together yet also apart–at the heart of an intimate exchange. The installation is constructed of an elongated strip of portraits which can be viewed from both front and back. On either side of the installation are displayed close-up faces of a range of individuals. Each of the individuals stares at a parallel figure sitting across from them, their back to the camera. The parallel figure’s face is visible from the reverse side of the installation, as is the back of the person we saw on the front side. Beyond the more immediate scene of the gaze exchange between the figures, we can see, through cracks in the wall behind them, a hint of an open landscape. At an almost undetectable speed, the two rows of portraits–those who are facing us and those who are not–drift along, and then off of the edge of the screen. New pairs continue to slip in endlessly. The pace of the rows’ drift (front and back), however, is slightly mismatched. This gap in the rate of their movement results in a subtle dissonance: the parallel figures slip away from each other as well as away from us. As they drift, they intermittently obscure the individuals they face. Short texts–segments of online messages written to an unknown other–are, at irregular intervals, read out loud by one of the visible characters. The same text might be performed by different people. Several distinct texts might be read by a few characters at once. The link between who we see and the story we associate with them is, thus, like their image, unsettled, interrupted and displaced. The video attached is a work in progress edit demonstrating two possible scales for the project's display.

An experimental documentary maker for over twenty years, Even has produced work which ranges from feature-length documentaries to multi-channel installation and interactive video work, and which, relying on almost imperceptible digital manipulation of slow and extended moments, aims to depict the less overt manifestations of complex, and at times extreme, social/political dynamics in specific locations (e.g. Palestine, Turkey, Spain, the U.S. and Germany, among others). Even’s work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Canada and Europe, including Doc Fortnight at MoMA, NY, Rotterdam Film Festival, RIDM Film Festival, Montreal, New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center. It has won numerous grants and awards, including 3ARTs Visual Arts and Next Level Awards, Fledgling Distribution Fund, Artadia Award, Media Arts Award, the Jerome Foundation, Individual Artists Program Awards, NYSCA, and many others; and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and the Jewish Museum (NY) among others. Even has been an invited guest at many conferences and university programs, including the Whitney Museum Seminar series, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, Open Doc Lab at MIT, SXSW Interactive Conference, Art Pace annual panel, ACM Multimedia and others. Her work is distributed by Heure Exquise, France and Video Data Bank (VDB). Even is Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department.

The sonic fabric of 2nd Person, a multi-channel video installation, is formed through an array of women’s voices reflecting on topics such as coming of age, sex, aging and death. Visual shifts within nine images spatially strung together, correspond to the voices loosely, reactive to the scenes invoked by the women’s stories, and to the emotive range of the voices’ individual and combined music. The piece includes conversations with women of different ages, backgrounds and circumstances, who reflect on their past and current hopes and anxieties, on their understanding of the concept of love, on a de-centering of self that comes with parenting, on touching and inhabiting an aging body, on their discomfort with an imposed gender label, and more. The protagonists are documented performing distinct activities (e.g. producing art, walking, cooking, playing an instrument, exercising etc.) in locations ranging from Illinois, Michigan, Arizona, California and New York, to Egypt and Romania. Additional footage reflecting one of the women’s dreamscape, was shot in an underwater village in Argentina. The video is 55 min. long, and is composed of a concurrent display of short clips that focus on a specific topic, and are each told by a single participant. The clips are threaded to form a web of themes and motifs, both verbal and visual, together generating an ongoing conversation (without beginning or end) on growing up and aging, friendship, love, motherhood and the death of parents.

An experimental documentary maker for over twenty years, Even has produced work which ranges from feature-length documentaries to multi-channel installation and interactive video work, and which, relying on almost imperceptible digital manipulation of slow and extended moments, aims to depict the less overt manifestations of complex, and at times extreme, social/political dynamics in specific locations (e.g. Palestine, Turkey, Spain, the U.S. and Germany, among others). Even’s work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many galleries, museums and festivals in the U.S., Canada, Israel and Europe, including Doc Fortnight at MoMA, NY, Rotterdam Film Festival, RIDM Film Festival, Montreal, New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center. It has won numerous grants and awards, including 3ARTs Visual Arts and Next Level Awards, Fledgling Distribution Fund, Artadia Award, Media Arts Award, the Jerome Foundation, Individual Artists Program Awards, NYSCA, and many others; and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), among others. Even has been an invited guest at many conferences and university programs, including the Whitney Museum Seminar series, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, Open Doc Lab at MIT, SXSW Interactive Conference, Art Pace annual panel, ACM Multimedia and others. Her work is distributed by Heure Exquise, France and Video Data Bank (VDB). Even is Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department.

An experimental documentary consisting of an immersive multi channel installation. The project depicts the fragmented experience of 6 immigrants to the US, by using body-worn cameras and volumetric capture.

Tirtza Even is documentary maker and video artist for over twenty years, Even has produced both linear and interactive video work representing the less overt manifestations of complex and sometimes extreme social/political dynamics in specific locations (e.g. Palestine, Turkey, Spain, the U.S. and Germany, among others). Even’s work has appeared at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many other galleries, museums and festivals in the United States, Israel and Europe, including Rotterdam Film Festival, San Francisco Film Festival, The New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center. It has won numerous grants and awards, including Fledgling Distribution Fund, Artadia Awards, Chicago (winner of top award); Golden Gate Awards Certificate of Merit, San Francisco International Film Festival; Best Experimental Film, Syracuse Film Festival; Media Arts Award, The Jerome Foundation; First Prize, L’immagine Leggera Festival, Italy; Individual Artists Program Awards, NYSCA, and many others; and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), among others. She has been an invited guest and featured speaker at many conferences and university programs, including the Whitney Museum Seminar series, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, SXSW Interactive Conference, Art Pace annual panel, ACM Multimedia, the Performance Studies International conference (PSI), the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference (SLSA) and others. Even’s work is distributed by Heure Exquise, France, Video Data Bank (VDB), USA, and Groupe Intervention Video (GIV), Canada. Even is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department. Nadav Assor: Nadav Assor (b. 1979, US / Israel) lives and works in Providence, RI. Assor’s work takes on systems of technological mediation that are frequently military-industrial in origin, from eye-tracking cameras to drones, telepresence-robots and mixed-reality environments. Low-fi versions of these are critically repurposed in his work to function as a means for creating communities, connections, intimate human dialog and visceral audio-visual-tactile experiences. Assor’s videos, installations and performances have been featured in film festivals, museums, galleries, and live venues across North America, Europe, and Asia. Recent venues include Arsenal Berlin, the Oberhausen Film Festival, Video Vortex XI at Kochi-Muziris, India, Hong-Gah Museum Taipei, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Edith-Russ Haus Oldenburg, Transmediale Festival Berlin, the Soundwave Biennial San Francisco, Residency Unlimited NYC, Julie M Gallery Toronto + Tel Aviv, Fridman Gallery NYC and more. Assor's work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Vice Motherboard, Art Monthly UK and Haaretz, and recently featured in “Rêvolution Digitale”, an overview of international digital art by CANAL’s Museum TV channel. His single channel video work is distributed through Video Data Bank, Chicago. He is an Associate Professor of Expanded Media at Connecticut College’s Studio Art department and is the Director of the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology there. He is currently a Fellow at the Open Documentary Lab at MIT.

"Icarus" was shot in Cartagena, Spain. The city of Cartagena, situated on the Mediterranean coast, has been the site of the rise and fall - and of manifestations of power and disempowerment - for an array of cultures and regimes, among them Roman, Byzantine and Islam, as well as the Episcopalian Church and the Spanish Republic. During these times the city served - between long stretches of decay, epidemics, war, destruction and subsequent recuperation - as a thriving port, a strategically valuable military base, and an industrial and commercial center rich in mineral, lead and silver mines. Currently a small peripheral town, inhabited in large part by an emigrant community of Moroccan day-workers, it is bent on extending the tourist and cultural appeal of its excavations of the remnants of a Roman theatre, of an Amphitheater situated beneath a bullfight ring, and of a large number of other historically pointed military, navy, and cultural sites, as well as of its renowned technical university (which resides in a renovated military hospital) - by means of a supervised series of house demolitions in sites intermittently dispersed in the town?s center, to be re-occupied in the near future by luxurious apartment hotels. At the time of Icarus? production, the various signs of power and of entropy, of centrality and marginality, whether military, political, ethnic, economic, cultural, or social, were eclectically displayed in the city?s layered and fractured architecture and human arena. The edited video for "Icarus" consists of a 12 min. reverse pan ? an impossible re-turn or "temporal wipe" - across circular sites shot in Cartagena, each stitched together out of patches, spatial and temporal, of the city?s urban landscape. The act of weaving in and out of scenes and moments betrays unseen cracks into which various characters slide, in which they converge, or even disappear. The landscape thus peels and unfolds, turning back but never arriving at some intact moment of aspiration and of origin. The piece is formally engaged in navigating a fragmented landscape, using the camera?s movement as a means to comment upon ? or occupy and thereby interrupt - this landscape?s social and political determinants.

A practicing video artist and documentary maker for the past ten years, Even has produced both linear and interactive video work representing the less overt manifestations of complex and sometimes extreme social/political dynamics in specific locations (e.g. Palestine, Turkey, Spain, the U.S. and Germany, among others). Her work has appeared at the Modern Art Museum, NY, at the Whitney Biennial, the Johannesburg Biennial, as well as in many other festivals, galleries and museums in the United States, Israel and Europe, and has been purchased for the permanent collection of the Modern Art Museum (NY), the Jewish Museum (NY), the Israel Museum (Jerusalem), among others. She has been an invited guest and featured speaker at numerous conferences and university programs, including the Whitney Museum Seminar series, the Digital Flaherty Seminar, Art Pace annual panel, ACM Multimedia, The Performance Studies International conference (PSI), The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts conference (SLSA) and others.

Untitled is a documentary in which four actors are waiting. While waiting in silence, their presence raises questions about the border between reality and fiction.

Lieselot Everaert (Bruges, 1993) is a Belgian filmmaker based in Ghent. She is currently finishing her Master of Fine Arts at KASK School of Arts in Ghent.

Hazel (dual) is a split screen film, shot in 16mm b/w, inspired by the legendary recording of the underrated guitarist Eddie Hazel’s (1950-1993) ten-minute guitar solo on “Maggot Brain”, the title track to Funkadelic’s 1971 album . The film is the fictitious moment when bandleader George Clinton “misleads” the guitarist Eddie Hazel to record what is considered one of the greatest guitar solos ever recorded. Performed by actor and musician Ricky Goldman whose previous collaborations with the artist include leading roles in the short films It Seems to Hang On (US, 2015, Venice Film Festival); We Demand, co- directed with Claudrena N. Harold (US, 2016, Berlinale 'Forum Expanded' and Gospel Hill. co-directed with Claudrena N. Harold (US, 2022, Chicago Intl FF).

Kevin Jerome Everson (b. 1965 Mansfield, Ohio U.S.) B.F.A. University of Akron; M.F.A. Ohio University. Lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia, US. Commonwealth Professor of Art and Director of Studio Arts, University of Virginia Everson's work and practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film – 12 features and more than 200 solo and collaobrative short form works. He has been recognized with the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Alpert Award in Film/Video, the Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities, the American Academy in Rome Prize, the American Academy in Berlin Prize and artist grants from Creative Capital, National Endowment of the Arts, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Wexner Center for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. His artwork has been the subject of retrospectives and solo exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tate Modern/Film, Cinema du Reel/Centre Pompidou, BlackStar, Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Ontario, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia, Harvard Film Archive, Cinematek Brussels/Courtisane and presented at international film festivals and art institutions including Berlin, Sundance, Rotterdam, Toronto, Venice, BFI/London, NYFF, BlackStar, Oberhausen, Jeonju, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, MOCA, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MoMA, NY and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Washington D.C.. His films have been featured at the 2008, 2012 and 2017 Whitney Biennial, the 2013 Sharjah Biennial, the 2018 Carnegie International and the 2023 Contour Biennale in Mechelen, Belgium. A 3 DVD Boxed Set, Broad Daylight and Other Times, was released by Video Data Bank (U.S.) in 2011 and a DVD dedicated to films focusing on the rituals and gestures of labor, I Really Hear That: Quality Control and Other Works was released by VDB in summer 2017. The DVD contains the feature film Quality Control (2011), included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial. The two disc blu-ray How You Live Your Story: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson was released by the UK based boutique label Second Run DVD in Fall 2020. Everson's films are represented and/or distributed by Picture Palace Pictures, New York.

SYNOPSIS Commissioned by the 2007 Rotterdam Film Festival in tribute to the work of Gus Van Sant, Emergency Needs is Kevin Jerome Everson`s pastiched re-telling of a possibly forgotten event in African-American history. Employing both found and original footage, it deconstructs the chain of events surrounding Mayor Carl Stokes and the 1968 Cleveland Riots. Stokes struggles to keep both his composure and the peace under a barrage of questions from local and national press. An actress in the guise of Stokes recreates his words, speech and gestures, shifting the context to a type of historical fiction and representation. As with other works of Everson, histories of the African diaspora are examined and reconfigured to reveal strategies and rhythms of work and craft. Archival footage from the press conference and concurrent riots reveal a politician engaged in a craft of politicking--a type of performance and acting. Original footage featuring an actress recreating the press conference in split screen add a peculiarly Warholian repetitive quality to the work.

Kevin Jerome Everson is a filmmaker and visual artist whose work focuses on the conditions, tasks, gestures and materials of Black working-class communities. Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Everson has a MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron. Born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio he has made two highly acclaimed features and over 40 award-winning short films. In 2006, he was named by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the top 25 New Faces in Independent Film. In 2005, his debut feature, SPICEBUSH, a mediation on rhythms of work and the passage of time in Black American working class communities, world premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and won the Jury Documentary Prize at the New York Underground Film Festival. CINNAMON (2006), world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and IFFR and has played at several international film festivals. Through his company Trich Arts Everson is currently developing two feature projects with producer Madeleine Molyneaux/Picture Palace Pictures including THE GOLDEN AGE OF FISH (in post production) a study of murder/suicide, consumer culture and scientific inquiry set in real and archival time and the experimental bio-pic RHINO, concerning the lives and myths surrounding the 16th century Duke of Florence, Alessandro della Medici, born to an African servant woman and the African-American actress Gail Fisher (Mannix). Everson is also developing Lowndes County, a collaboration with playwright Talaya Delaney about a community of Black teenagers in 1950s Mississippi on the eve of school desegregation. His photographs, sculptures and films have been exhibited internationally at such venues as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, REDCAT (L.A.), Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, William Busta Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, Spaces Gallery in Cleveland, Whitechapel Gallery in London, the American Academy, Rome and in Italy, France, China and Germany. His films have been shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006; the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2003, 2005, 2006; FID Marseille (curated by Emmanuel Burdeau of Cahiers du Cinema; Munich International; Cinematexas, Austin, Texas, Ann Arbor Film Festival (5x), LA Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival (3x), International Center of the Arts in London, New School of Social Research, Black Maria Film Festival (2004 Best Film), Athens International Film Festival (4x including a solo screening), Shorts International in New York (4x), the Siskel Theater in Chicago (solo screening),Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville, University of Central Florida, Princeton University, and South by Southwest Film Festival (Best Experimental Award for Thermostat). Kevin Jerome Everson has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NEA fellowship, two NEH Fellowships, a Creative Capital Grant, two Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, an American Academy Rome Prize, Yaddo, MacDowell Colony and numerous University Fellowships.

Tygers (2014) is a glance at the fancy moves by the Mansfield Senior High football team in Mansfield, Ohio, the alma mater of the filmmaker.

Kevin Jerome Everson: Filmmaker Biography Kevin Jerome Everson (b.1965) was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio. He has a MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron. He is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson was awarded the prestigious 2012 Alpert Award for Film/Video and was the subject in spring 2012 of a mid-career retrospective at Visions du Reel, Nyon Switzerland, a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2011 and a retrospective at Centre Pompidou in 2009. He is slated for a solo exhibition at the Cleveland’s MoCA in late 2014. His films have screened at 10 consecutive IFFR editions, since 2005. His artwork--paintings, sculptures, and photographs--and films, including six features (Spicebush, 2005; Cinnamon, 2006; The Golden Age of Fish, 2008; Erie, 2010; Quality Control, 2011; The Island of St. Matthews, 2013) and over 100 short form works, have been exhibited internationally. From April-September 2011, a solo exhibition of 17 short form works, More Than That: Films of Kevin Jerome Everson, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A 3 DVD Boxed Set, Broad Daylight and Other Times, was released by Video Data Bank (U.S.) in 2011. The feature film Quality Control (2011) was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial and the short Emergency Needs (2007) in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Everson has received numerous fellowships and academic awards including the Guggenheim, NEA, American Academy Rome Prize, and grants and residences from Creative Capital, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Yaddo and MacDowell Colony.

Workers Leaving the Job Site is another take on the Lumiere Brothers classic 1895 film. Shot in Columbus, Mississippi, the hometown of the filmmaker's parents.

Kevin Jerome Everson (b.1965) was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio. He has a MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Akron. He is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson was awarded the prestigious 2012 Alpert Award for Film/Video and was the subject in spring 2012 of a mid-career retrospective at Visions du Reel, Nyon Switzerland, a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2011 and a retrospective at Centre Pompidou in 2009. He is slated for a solo exhibition at the Cleveland’s MoCA in late 2014. His films have screened at 10 consecutive IFFR editions, since 2005. His artwork--paintings, sculptures, and photographs--and films, including six features (Spicebush, 2005; Cinnamon, 2006; The Golden Age of Fish, 2008; Erie, 2010; Quality Control, 2011; The Island of St. Matthews, 2013) and over 100 short form works, have been exhibited internationally. From April-September 2011, a solo exhibition of 17 short form works, More Than That: Films of Kevin Jerome Everson, was featured at the Whitney Museum of American Art. A 3 DVD Boxed Set, Broad Daylight and Other Times, was released by Video Data Bank (U.S.) in 2011. The feature film Quality Control (2011) was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial and the short Emergency Needs (2007) in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Everson has received numerous fellowships and academic awards including the Guggenheim, NEA, American Academy Rome Prize, and grants and residences from Creative Capital, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Yaddo and MacDowell Colony.

" A Free Moment was made in Tell el-Full in Jerusalem. The site, which before 1967 was in Jordan, had been chosen as the location for King Hussein?s summer palace. The framework of the palace was constructed before the occupation of East Jerusalem after the Six Day War and it remains a kind of ruin to this day. Evron gained access to the site and eventually determined to make a film within the building with a camera which would simultaneously perform three operations: it would pan in a 360 degree circle; it would tilt in another 360 degree circle, and it would undertake these two motions while traveling along a dolly track on a north-south axis. In other words, the camera would exhaust the repertoire of its mechanical motions and ?see? everything possible around it. The film also would last four minutes, being the length of one 400 foot film cartridge. In order to make this work, Evron worked with technical advisors to construct a track within the shell of the abandoned 1967 palace, and to programme the motions of the camera. The resulting film begins simply enough, with a view over Jerusalem. It is a view from a summit, and one we associate with notions of control and ownership ? the kind of view that we could well expect a king to enjoy from a palace. We would not be surprised if this view were accompanied or followed by a panoramic movement, so that the landscape all around was surveyed, but as Evron?s camera begins its journey, a completely unfamiliar motion begins since the camera starts looking up and around while moving backwards. Soon enough it points towards the rough concrete blocks of the floor above it, which, because of the way they are filmed, seem to lose their material identity. It seems as if we are looking down at a strange landscape, rather than upwards at rough breezeblocks. A few seconds later, the initial viewpoint out to the city reappears, but this time it is inverted. As the camera continues its backwards journey, it begins to record the track on which it is moving and the floor beneath the track, another rough surface that appears like a desert or lunar surface. Eventually the motion stops with a return to the orientation with which the film opens. ‏Evron?s film relates to the late 1960s in more ways than the date of the palace: this was the moment of structuralist film, when artists such as Michael Snow, Anthony McCall, Paul Sharits and others began to interrogate the apparatus of cinema, looking at the nature of a zoom or panning movement, the conical shape of a projected film, and the material properties of celluloid. A Free Moment is deeply indebted to this legacy and throughout the film, however unworldly the motion of the camera, Evron emphasizes the construction that has to be in place for this motion to occur: the camera necessarily records the track along which it moves, and even the mechanism between it and the track. But what is much more interesting than its structuralist credentials is the way Evron deploys these formal ideas in order to re-imagine the site in which he works. Through its elaborate structures, the film produces another way of seeing and thinking about the space in which it is set. We are not invited to ?see? Jerusalem as the Jordanian king once hoped to see it, nor as many Israelis now hope to see it, panning around a ?united Jerusalem?, all of which is hoped will remain under Israeli control. Instead, we are invited to loosen our ways of looking at architecture and landscape, to turn our way of looking on its head. The invitation and utopianism of this work is the idea that this way of looking might mean thinking about the city and its future in completely new ways. " excerpt from a text by Mark Godfrey

Nir Evron, born 1974 is a video artist and film maker. He graduated from the Bezelel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem in 2001 and completed a MFA degree at The Slade School of Art in London in 2005. Since then he exhibited extensively in Europe and Israel. He participated in the 2010 Berlin Biennale, The Jerusalem Film Festival (2011) where he won The Ostrovsky Family Fund Award for his piece `A Free Moment`. His solo Show `Here-Afrer` at the Tel Aviv Center for Contemporary Art was received with critical acclaim. His video works and film were purchased by museums and private collections, among them The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Tel Aviv Museum and The Zabludovicz Collection, London. He teaches video art at the Bezalel Academy and Hamidrasha College.

The video was shot at the "Seven Arches" hotel in East Jerusalem. Built in 1962 by the Royal Jordanian family, it hosted the first meeting of the P.L.O (Palestinian Liberation Organization) in 1964 and the first signing of the Palestinian charter. Currently managed by Israel`s ministry of justice - department of missing person`s property, its almost empty all-year. The hotel is kept in a state of near death where employees and tourists seem like ghosts. The video follows the hotel`s spaces and halls for 24 hours, focusing on the futile actions of the staff, expecting arrivals that never come.

Nir Evron Born 25/7/1974, Herzeliya, Israel Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel Tel: (00-972) 0544576028 E-Mail: nir_evron@yahoo.com Education: 2005 MFA Fine Art Media Department, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London 2001 BFA Photography and Media Department, Bezalel Academy for Art, Jerusalem 1999 Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris (Atelier Jean-Marc Bustamante) Solo Exhibitions: 2008 Generator, The Artists` Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv 2007 Serpentine, The Artists` Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv 2006 Herzelia Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzeliya, Israel (curator: Dalia Levin) 2003 Schwartz, The Photographers Gallery, Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem Group Exhibitions and Screenings: 2009 The 2nd Herzeliya Biennial, Israel (Curated by Picnic Magazine) Our Time, Small Box 28, Centro Hospilatar Psiquiatrico de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal Zulu, Nahum Gutman Museum, Tel Aviv (Curator: Tali Tamir) (Catalogue) Hidden Secrets, The Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel (curator: Galit Eilat) Echoes Of Time And Place, The Jerusalem Cinematheque. The Age Of A Different Re-Action, Galerie Davide Gallo, Berlin, Germany 2008 Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA Europa Neurotisch, Petersburg Project Space, Amsterdam, Holland Overcast & Flowers, D&A Gallery, Tel Aviv Visits To (Some)Where, BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland (curator: Adi Englman) Untamed Paradises, MARCO Vigo & CAAC Sevilla, Spain (curator: Virginia Torrente) The Prize Winners 2007, Haifa Museum of Art (Catalogue) Click-Clack, University of Haifa, The Art Gallery (Catalogue) (curator: Ruti Direktor) Snap-Shot, Ramle Art Gallery, Ramle, Israel Vergescapes, Tivom Memorial Center Gallery, Tivon, Israel. 2007 Passage, Video Art screening at the Artistsʼ Studios Gallery, Tel Aviv 2006 The Third Generation, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv We Are So Much Better Than This, Studio 27, San Fransisco. USA The Impossible Landscape, UMASS Gallery, Amherst, USA (curator: Mark Godfrey) VideoZone 3. The International Video-Art Biennial in Tel Aviv, Israel Black-Implication Flooding, Colony Gallery, Birmingham, U.K Cortisane - Short Film, Video and New Media Festival, Ghent, Belgium Athens Video Art Festival, Greece 2004 SNAP! Diorama Gallery, London 2003 Artik 5, Ramat Gan Museum of Art, Israel 2002 Florocent 5, Florocent Gallery, Tel Aviv Collapse, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv. Awards and Scholarships: 2008 The Tel Aviv Museum ʻSam Givonʼ Prize for Young Artist. Video Art Fund, Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2007 Israel`s Minister Of Culture Prize for Young Artist, 2005 Video Art Fund, Center For Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel 2005 Project Award, Slade School of Fine Art, London 2004 The Thomas Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art 2003 America Israel Cultural Foundation Award for Young Artist Collections: Amos Schocken `Haaretz` Publishing Group Collection Private Collections - Tel Aviv Private Collection - Zurich Teaching: 2005-Present The Photography Department, Minshar Art School, Tel Aviv 2007-Present The Photography Department, Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, Israel 2009-Present Hamidrasha School of Art and Education, Beit Berl, Israel

`Tonight’s programme` toys with history to construct a new realm in between, merging Duke Ellington’s 1963 performance at Khuld hall in Baghdad with Saddam’s bloody coup in the same space 16 years later. Eyal creates a fictional space to provide a different history and a different world for those victims in the hall, a gate of annunaki through which the dead and lost can reclaim their place. “Don’t let anyone kill your daughter in the underworld. don’t let your precious metal be alloyed with the dirt of the underworld. don’t let your precious lapis lazuli be split there with the mason’s stone. don’t let your boxwood be chopped up there with the carpenter’s wood.” – Words by inana of the underworld, the land of no return.

Ali Eyal`s (b. Baghdad, 1994) work spans across different media. He holds an undergraduate degree from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad. His work explores the complex relationships between community and politics using different media such as video, photography and painting, in order to examine social attitudes, particularly in the context of Baghdad and Iraq. Eyal has exhibited in several group shows in Baghdad, Egypt, Lebanon, USA, Greece, and Cuba, among others.

After living together for more than thirty year, a woman decided to leave her husband suddenly. The man sits in grieve contemplating what’s next as he looks back.

After his fellowship at the prestigious LaRochelle Film Festival in 2002, Simo Ezoubeiri directed two short films ( Terrace & Under the table) that both became an international artistic hits, being widely screened in Santa Monica Art Center in Barcelona, LaSala Una in Roma and chosen as the best film of the month by videoart.net editor in New York. In 2007, Simo moved to live and work in Chicago and directed a short thriller “Popcorn” that received The Second Best award by Chicago Filmmakers. Between 2009 and 2014, Simo received wide acclaim for his film trilogy (The Daily Show, Inner Marrakech and A Day in Life). These projects were a representation of artistic themes on experimental films particularly his portrayals of the Marrakech he knows and loves. In June 2015, He wrote, edited and directed his first narrative film “Ladder”. The film has already received accolades in accomplished film festivals such as les Inattendus Film Festival in Lyon, Wiper Film festival in New York and Goldensun festival in Malta.