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The Marquis de Sade and his written word (culled from the philosophical diatribes permeating his letters and novels), combined with the critical dialogues of writers and scholars influenced by his work, together provide a heady scent infusing the thoughts and actions of three members of an upper class family whose summer home, nestled below the glowing hilltop fortress of the Marquis' castle, is an elegant fortified Provencal estate amid a landscape of lavender fields and olive trees. Wandering the ruins of medieval fortresses and erstwhile chateaus, each character performs the different facets of Sade's philosophy while undertaking all the intoxicating pleasures of privacy and affluence before retiring (sooner or later, and according to the laws of Nature), to their inevitable fate. This film is meant to be viewed and understood on two levels: first as a narrative in which each character acts and reacts in relation to each other and their environment, and second, as a document of the different roles within families (in this case particularly a filmmaker/ daughter's connection to her family). On both levels, the Marquis de Sade and his writing become the premise and language by which communication is intelligible, dissolving the personal and societal barriers of personhood and secrecy.

Sabine Gruffat is a media artist currently living in Detroit and Paris. She learned to make movies at the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her films and videos have screened at several microcinema venues/ galleries including AS220 in Providence RI, the PDX Film Festival in Portland OR, Discount Cinema and The Ice Factory in Chicago, IL, and more recently, Hull screen U.K, The Gene Siskel Film Center, The Gramercy Theater, and Anthology Film Archives in New York. Her photographs and video installations have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General in New York, the Rochester Art Center, and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brazil. When she is not teaching in Detroit, she spends her time traveling, rediscovering historical events and monuments, and wearing costumes.

Katharina Gruzei combines a sociopolitical issue and a precise formal concept, which is rare in experimental film. Inspired by the Lumière brothers? first film, La sortie de l?usine Lumière à Lyon, which shows a large number of workers leaving their factory?s gate, Gruzei begins in the interior, in a passageway (made to seem incredibly long by the editing) that emerges from the darkness. More and more of them walk down the dark, flickering hallway. By these scenes the weirdness of the space and the menacing quality of a mass of people who could form a resistance movement becomes increasingly evident. All relevant questions concerning the on-the-job reality experienced by these workers, most of whom are women, can be formulated by means of association: Is it nighttime when they leave the factory? What kind of work do they have to do? What do female laborers earn these days? How long does it take them to get home from this monstrous factory, and when will it be moved to a low-wage country?

born 1983 Studies of Experimental Art and Cultural Studies at the University of the Arts in Linz, Austria. Studies abroad at the Art Department of the Universtiy of California Santa Barbara and at the University of Fine Arts Berlin for Visual Cultural Studies in the class of Katharina Sieverding. Katharina Gruzei works with photography, film, video, installations, media-performances, sound and objects. Working conceptually, she experiments between these disciplines and arrives at an unique crossover language.

The paranormal experiment with a train set by psycho-physisist Dr. Johannes Hagel relates to the synchronicity hypothesis of C.G.Jung. After thousands of passes the train set shows suddenly the prognostified anomalities, according to the complex calculations by the psycho-physisist.

The filmmaker and artist Romeo Grünfelder (* 1968) MA in Music, Philosophy, Media and Visual Communication. He was a fellow of Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades and in 2008 he received a art grant from the city of Hamburg. He teaches drama and philosophy at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He lives and works in Hamburg. 
Grünfelder?s work was shown in exhibition context and at international film and media festivals. His awarded shortfilms are experimental documentaries in the broadest sense, oscillating between documentary and fine art. His main focus is on paranormal topics. Grünfelder?s work is represented by the Short Film Agency Hamburg, the Berlin gallery Kunstagenten as well as by the gallery Ruzicska-Weiss, Dusseldorf.

LOTS is an extended video (self)portrait in 24 scenes. The artist develops his alter-ego through a series of interrelated sketches, which in turn are shown to form the basis of an art exhibition. The videos are like little capsules, treating topics such as family relationships, identity, self-mythologizing, sickness, death and the nature of creative endeavor. Reflections of life`s big issues through personal and comedic anecdotes.

Born in Novi Sad Yugoslavia, lives in Montréal Québec since 2006. Milutin Gubash has mounted numerous exhibitions in Québec, Canada, the United States, and Europe. His practice encompasses photography, video, and performance, and regularly features the participation of his family and friends. Being outside of his own culture obliges him to question and re-invent his own cosmology. Autobiographical anecdotes, gossip, and innuendo are the fact-and-fantasy material he uses to represent the vagaries of life as an artist.

Language Lesson (2016) intercuts two tracking shots -- a shaky handheld approach to the Yugoslav dictator’s mausoleum, with a smooth following shot of my Yugoslav mother walking through her Canadian apartment corridor, and entering the small living quarters in which she will almost certainly pass the remainder of her days. If she’s not exactly an exile, she’s certainly cut off from her past, her friends, the sites where she grew up and feels most familiar, or so we may imagine just upon hearing her accent, which comes in the form of voiceover, where she gives us a little lesson in speaking Serbian. She says things like, “This is here, this is mine, this is shit, I don’t like this…”, alternating in English, then Serbian (subtitled in French). The thoughts expressed range from neutral, to (perhaps) happy, to disappointed or displeased. As she walks, her thoughts seem to change. Similarly, a change happens on the approach to the mausoleum, which at first appears lavish, in sparkling marble. We don’t know at first where we are, other than in a cemetery, the burial site of someone very esteemed, wealthy, important. After short bursts of the approach, we eventually see the name of Tito, which perhaps causes us to reflect on opulence in a land where there was seldom plenty. The camera drops quickly to the ground, where we apprehend a struggle between a colony of ants, which crawl in and out of the cracks in the marble base of the crypt, each fighting for the corpse of a fly. Notions of sacrifice and fellowship in the common pursuit of attaining a progressive, egalitarian social order, rapidly give way to an each-for-their-own, eat-or-be-eaten state of affairs.

Born in Novi Sad (Serbia) and lives in Montréal (Canada) since 2005, Milutin Gubash has presented exhibitions in Québec, Canada, the United States, and Europe, including a solo show at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2007) and a ten year survey exhibition co-produced by six institutions across Canada (Rodman Hall Art Centre 2011, Carleton University Art Gallery 2012, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 2012, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 2012, Musée d’art de Joliette 2012 and Fonderie Darling 2013). He was the recipient of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec studio residency in Paris for 2016. His practice encompasses photography, video, and performance, and regularly features the participation of his family and friends, who portray versions of themselves in Do-It-Yourself soap operas, historical rewrites and improv theatre pieces. Using simple means and often absurdist gestures, Gubash reconsiders assumptions about the narratives of our identities, histories and environments.

In Vesna At the Monument (2016), a humble middle aged woman appears on the site of a dilapidated, in-the-middle-of-nowhere monument, erected likely in the time when she was youthful and at her most optimistic. The monument was commissioned in order to commemorate the heroic actions of common citizens in their struggle against fascism, and desire to promote and participate in a progressive, utopic state. She shuffles past the monument, and sits to smoke a cigarette. Off screen, a voice is heard, asking her questions such as what is the meaning of this place, this monument, this moment. She does not answer, as though she does not hear the question, even while acknowledging the camera, and the voice itself. It could, one supposes, be the voice of the cameraman or director, a voice in the subject’s own head, perhaps the voice of the monument itself, trying to ascertain the meaning of itself in this day and age. It gets no reply, and eventually (perhaps fed up with the question), she simply leaves, with the interlocutor left in his own uncertainty. The video seems to reject or deny a past, while expressing grave uncertainty to the future.

Born in Novi Sad (Serbia) and lives in Montréal (Canada) since 2005, Milutin Gubash has presented exhibitions in Québec, Canada, the United States, and Europe, including a solo show at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2007) and a ten year survey exhibition co-produced by six institutions across Canada (Rodman Hall Art Centre 2011, Carleton University Art Gallery 2012, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 2012, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 2012, Musée d’art de Joliette 2012 and Fonderie Darling 2013). He was the recipient of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec studio residency in Paris for 2016. His practice encompasses photography, video, and performance, and regularly features the participation of his family and friends, who portray versions of themselves in Do-It-Yourself soap operas, historical rewrites and improv theatre pieces. Using simple means and often absurdist gestures, Gubash reconsiders assumptions about the narratives of our identities, histories and environments.

The video work The Death of Peter Fechter is documentation of a one-off live-performance; a re-enactment of the murder of Peter Fechter; an 18 yr old citizen of the GDR, shot and fatally wounded in an attempt to escape over the Berlin Wall on August 17th, 1962. An important moment in the history of the wall, Peter was not the first or last to die in his attempt to escape, but his story made the international news as he was fired upon and hit, falling back in to mans land where he lay for an hour, calling for help and slowly bleeding to death, whilst a crowd of West Berliners gathered against the wall pleading for the guards to help him and the guards on either side made no moves to help him. Commissioned by the ICA, London, as a live-performance, I recognised the possibility for the documentation to be something more than mere documentation; that it could be shot in such a way as to work as a film in its own right. Working closely with an independent director, a multi-angle, yet unobtrusive, shoot was devised to capture the power of the performance and allow the work to exist beyond that day.

S Mark Gubb (b.1974) currently lives and works in Nottingham, England. Mark works across a range of media including sculpture, video, sound, installation and performance. Recent projects/exhibitions include Out of Bounds: The 5 Codes Tours (a new commission for Cornerhouse, Manchester, as part of the launch of the Cultural Olympiad), Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, The City Gallery, Leicester and The Death of Peter Fechter, ICA, London. Previous residencies include Cove Park Production Residency, Cove Park, Scotland (2008), Arts Council England International Fellow, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland (2005), The Wheatley Fellowship, BIAD, Birmingham (2004) and Romantic Detachment, PS1(MoMA), NYC (2004). Mark is represented by Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, and has his first solo show there, My Empire of Dirt, in January 2009, alongside which will be the launch of a book documenting previous projects and exhibitions, including an interview by Ross Sinclair and an essay by Andrew hunt.

The Guajira is a borderland peninsula between Colombia and Venezuela of resolute natives as well as disinherited adventurers. Some there take advantage of the peripheral territory to smuggle through isolated ports and over rugged landscape. They write their rebellious proclamation in the sands of crisscrossing desert paths and their rusted motors accompany their solitary voices with an unorthodox music, animating their indiscipline and adhesion to pure movement.

Chris Gude (1985, New York) studied geography and anthropology at Middlebury College. His first film, MAMBO COOL (2013), exhibited at FIDMarseille, Viennale, Punto de Vista, Mar del Plata, Cartagena, among others. His second film, MARIANA (2017), also premiered at FIDMarseille and won Best Director at the Ourense International Film Festival.

Experimental portrait of the city as a self-experience: the images are too intense and sometimes the sound is unbearable. Independent Cinema festival of Lisbon, 2004.

The images of a virgin Argentina, out from a private photographic archive, become present landscape: the river, the forest, the road: everything seems unchanged... except a ruined cotton factory, ghost of the collapse of a model of development imported from Europe, which is now a few teenager`s playground.

Caterina Gueli an italo-argentinean director/editor based in Paris. ?La Fabril? is a work in progress, through which she deepens the research engaged in her precedent two short films : Resistencia (Premio Avanti! Torino Film Festival 2007, Best Soundtrack Genova Film Festival 2008, etc.) and Somewhere (2009). She has participated to the realization of Il Canto dei Nuovi Emigranti (Best Documentary Torino Film Festival 2005) and In Attesa dell`Avvento (Best Short Film - Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2011 ? Orizzonti) of Felice D`Agostino and Arturo Lavorato.

Man: Sometimes in the night I lose my mind (2011) This work was part of the project ?Between Iloca and Dichato.? It tried to capture, by means of a trip, the marginal and unmediated consequences of the Chilean Tsunami, one year later. It´s a choral story of the experience from interviews with people who witnessed the wave. The video shows ideas, abstractions and derivations of what happened that night, putting the emphasis on the paradoxical perception of the people; between humor and tragedy. A fragmented narrative emerges naturally from the memory pieces of the people.

Rafael Guendelman, was born in Santiago of Chile, in 1987. Bachelor in Visual Arts and degree on Theory of Cinema from Catholic University, Chile. In the same University has been Teacher Assistant in the Video Art and Workshop classes for several years. Rafael works as a visual artist and video maker. He has participated in group exhibits and video screenings in Chile, the USA, France, Israel, Palestinian territories and others. This year he has been living in/between Middle East and Europe, filming in the Palestinian territories and Israel, and participating in the international residency program of ZK/U, The ?Center for arts and Urbanistics? in Berlin.

Landscape: My feet at night, the sea on my feet (2012) This work was born as a late work from the project ?Between Iloca and Dichato? which tried to capture, by means of a trip, the marginal and unmediated consequences of the Chilean Tsunami, one year later. The space reveals the weight of time, where in the year since the Tsunami things haven´t changed radically. Compared with ?Man?, this video focuses on the landscape using steady and long shots as a strategy to capture those ?after? spaces. The silence of the field, contrasted with the government speech; the Sea goes up and down, the man is just a viewer, or another piece from the picture.

Rafael Guendelman, was born in Santiago of Chile, in 1987. Bachelor in Visual Arts and degree on Theory of Cinema from Catholic University, Chile. In the same University has been Teacher Assistant in the Video Art and Workshop classes for several years. Rafael works as a visual artist and video maker. He has participated in group exhibits and video screenings in Chile, the USA, France, Israel, Palestinian territories and others. This year he has been living in/between Middle East and Europe, filming in the Palestinian territories and Israel, and participating in the international residency program of ZK/U, the ?Center for arts and Urbanistics? in Berlin.

PARAÍSO is a poetic evocation of a country and its historical memory, an intimate portrait of modern Colombian life. Within the soft grain of Super 8 throbs the reality of a country wrapped up in its own, unending war.

Felipe Guerrero (Colombia, 1975) studied film editing at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome. He works as an editor in Europe and Latin America. He lives in Buenos Aires.

Through the means of a still fixed camera and the rhythmic strengtht granted by on-camera editing; Corta is a film centered upon the hypnotic extenuation generated by the body movements of sugar cane cutters. A contemplation of the frenziness and softness of the performatic gestures of hand labour while the surrounding plantations act as an omnipresent backdrop as the canes disappear. Corta is a pure cinematic experience about the natural and everyday ritual of a timeless world.

Felipe Guerrero holds a degree in Film Editing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, in Rome, Italy. As an editor he has worked in internationally exhibited and award-winning films. In 2006 he made his directing debut with the documentary Paraíso, which was awarded at FID Marseille. Corta is his second film. He lives in Buenos Aires.

A mission in the middle of the Colombian jungle. Time seems to have stopped. There is something sinister in the air. The ambiance is tense. Hot and humid. A man surrounded by an environment that burns himfrom the inside. Power, poetry, violence. Everything happens in an instant, leaving everyone breathless.

Director and editor Felipe Guerrero was born in Colombia in 1975. His first film Paraíso(2006) received the Mention Spécial for First Films at FIDMarseille. Corta(2012), his second film, premiered in the BrightFuture Section at the Rotterdam FF 2012, and was exhibited in Festivals around the world (FICCICartagena de Indias, BAFICI Buenos Aires, JIFF Jeonju,FIDOCS Santiago de Chile, DISTRITAL México DF, SPLITCroacia, DOKLeipzig, La Habana). As an editor, he worked in films exhibited and awardedinternationally, among them: Los Hongos(2014), La playaDC(2012), El páramo(2011), El vuelco del Cangrejo (2009). In 2011 he founded his own production company Mutokino.

Dans Untitled (Rhetoric that Preaches Revolution), je voulais faire une pièce qui se concentrerait sur la voix d’un groupe d’artistes et qui serait éclairée par les fondements structurels de leurs œuvres. L’accent est mis en partie sur ce qu’ils voudraient dire à la lumière des évènements mondiaux et régionaux. La pièce se base sur des enregistrements de journaux télévisés et des images assemblées des unes de la presse écrite relatant l’actualité, principalement de 1965 à 1968, comme Martin Luther King marchant vers Selma, Malcolm X en train de parler, des membres du Black Panther Party en confrontation avec les médias et la police, le soulèvement du Watts, des manifestants étudiants avec des revendications et des ouvriers en contestation. Lire ces images, d’un point de vue sympathisant, et les transformer en œuvres constituaient mon objectif général.

Sightings of Brooklyn-based musician Loren Connors. To graze against the pulsations of time, to feel matter, to linger on the imperceptible frailty of gesture...

Né en 1976 à Saint-Denis, France. Parallèlement à ses recherches sur la texture de l'image, les thèmes développés à travers ses films/photos sont essentiellement liés au Temps, à la mémoire et au fragment.

December 21, 2015. The image of a fox was captured by a camera inside the unit 2 building at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant...

Vincent Guilbert was born on June 2, 1976 in Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France. He is a director and cinematographer known for the experimental diptych "Shinjuku Blues & Whispering Shadows" (a collaboration with musician Michel Henritzi), or the documentary films April's Shadows (2013), Jolie Chanson (2015) and Le murmure de la pivoine (2016). He is mainly working between France and Japan since 2005.

Mr. Jocotot, a philosophy and ethics professor, has just collected final exams from his students and, unlike most other days, decides to take a taxi home. As he turns onto Avenida Progreso, a prominent street in Mexico City, he will come up against corruption and his ignorance will teach him a lesson.

Mauricio Guillén was born in México city in 1971. He studied at Parsons School in Paris, The Cooper Union in New York City and The Royal College of Art in London England. He currently lives in Frankfurt Germany where last summer, as part of an exhibition of his work, he presented the film AVENIDA PROGRESO at MMK (Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main).

Alexis Guillier’s film looks at the deadly fire that broke out at the Beirut nightclub "Purgatoire" on the set of the 1969 Lebanese movie "Kolouna Feda'iyoun" ("We are all fedayeen") by Gary Garabedian, a take on Palestinian resistance at the time. Guillier’s project delves into the complexity of the film’s context, the precariousness of Lebanese cinema, and the investigation of the accident. The narrative of the film is built through the stories of the main protagonists: Purgatoire’s owner Sami Ghosn, TV star and Gary Garabedian's good friend Salah Tizani (aka Abu Salim), actor Samir Abu Saeed, the last living actor to have appeared in the film and who was at Purgatoire the night of the accident, actor Samir Chamas, who played in the film and who arrived on the scene just after the accident, Mirvat Kousa, sister of the actress Mona Slim, who was seriously injured in the accident, Hussein Al Sayyed, special effects expert and Christiane Mallouk, sister of the extra Gaby Mallouk who died in the accident. "Purgatoire" is part of the larger project "La réalité éclatée / A many splattered thing, conceived as an investigative history of cinema through set accidents that have caused deaths and severe injuries. The whole project is interested in the tensions between production and representation, material reality and image carried on the screen. In this respect, the exploration of the accident in "Purgatoire" is marked by these questions and inhabited by the revealing power of the accident. The film also testifies to the evolution of Alexis Guillier's image work, which is illustrated here through the increased exploration of visual associations, layered editing and opacity, which are also reflexive tools on the context, the story, and the narrative of the accident, and which nourish a play with certain formal codes of documentary.

Alexis Guillier (France, 1982) dedicates himself to films, performances, texts or installations, which all are narratives, stem from investigations (documentary and on the ground) in collective and individual stories. Leading him from forgeries to defacement and disappearance of artworks, from a movie set accident to ghost ships, or to the exploration of the giant statue Notre-Dame de France, his forms gather many different documents, which coexist in cultural history but rarely meet. His areas of investigation push him to observe the circulation of images and cultural productions, echoes and recurrences, the formation of imaginaries, interactions between personal actions and national stories, on an aesthetic as well as anthropological level. The telling of these stories questions itself, always on an uncertain line, between detached subjectivity and documentary lyricism, thus contributing to the indeterminacy of treated objects. His research is made of analogies, association of ideas, also deals with paranoia as method. More recently, he focuses on putting his projects in perspective with "cases", considering that the accident or the disaster, and the violence that comes with it, insistently recur. Investigation and editing processes also reflect a similar connection with the notion of body, as a way of putting pieces cut in different stories or sources together.

SOAP is a film in seven episodes following the infiltration attempts of a cluster of left-wing people in right-wing social networks. The tactic chosen by the group is the creation of a YouTube channel aimed at teenagers employing the apparently conservative language of religious devotion and self help through prayer. SOAP asks questions such as can a coalition of artists, writers and activists avoid tripping over their own assumptions and privileges to form something persuasive? Is the white left dead? Or rather, have the forms of appeal and address relied upon by the intellectual Lefts ceased to be effective? Is there a way out of the internal bickering and accusations - that continue to hamper political movements? In episode 'six and a half', Camila narrates the previous episodes, reflecting on the project's aims and fractures from the perspective of a post election moment in which the Left was re-elected to the presidency in Brazil.

Tamar Guimarães (b. Belo Horizonte, BR, lives and works in Copenhagen and Berlin) is an artist working with film and installation. Her work has been included at the 33rd, 31st and the 29th São Paulo Biennial; the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial; the International Exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennial; the LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA); Baltimore Museum of Art (USA); 11th Sharjah Biennial (UAE); the Banff Centre, Alberta (CA); the Guggenheim Museum, NY (USA); the SculptureCenter (NY/USA); the 7th Gwangju Biennial (SK); the 3rd Guanghzhou Triennial (CN); Frac/Le Plateau, Paris (FR); CAC Synagogue de Delme (FR). Her moving image work has been screened at the Les Rencontres Internationales (2014, 2021, 2022); Berlinale Forum Expanded (2019); Blackout, International Film Festival Rotterdam (2019); VIDEONALE, Bonn (2018); Anthology Film Archive, New York (2016); CPH:DOX (2013 and 2007); Images Film Festival and Experimental Media Congress, Toronto, Canada (2010); Architektur-Visionen # 1-6, Metropolis Kino, Hamburg (2015); TRAMWAY art film biennial, Glasgow (2012); Viennale Film Festival, Vienna (2011); and Oberhausen Film Festival (2009). Guimarães’ work is represented in the collections of the Tate Modern (UK); the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation, N.Y. (USA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (ES); Kadist Foundation (SF); Frac Lorraine (FR) among others.

Isa, a young artist invited to propose a project for an exhibition, sets out to stage a dramatic adaptation of ‘The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas’, a satirical 19th-century novel by Machado de Assis. The rehearsal is marred by difficulties which the viewer must interpret as being due to the fact that Isa is a woman, young, black, all of the above, or as difficulties anyone would encounter. The novel delivers a mordant critique of Brazilian society in the guise of a satirical autobiography narrated by a dead protagonist. In 1880 its author foresaw the abolition of slavery that would happen in Brazil eight years later, but predicted that it would be a mere formal measure, informally everything would remain the same. The film was shot at the Ibirapuera pavilion designed by Oscar Niemeyer and its cast is made up of professional and non-professional actors, several of whom worked or currently work for the São Paulo Biennial Foundation. Featuring actors recast from another project Guimarães had worked on eight years earlier, O Ensaio is a film about the passage of time, about short lived revolutionary actions, about institutional memory, racism, and sexism in Brazil.

Tamar Guimarães (b. 1967, Belo Horizonte, BR, lives and works in Copenhagen) is a visual artist working with film and other forms of time based media, exploring situations both residual and contemporary, of art, architecture and the institutions that present them. She often works with actors alongside non-actors in semi-fictional short films. Another, more documentary strand of her work has delved into spectral architecture, ritual effervescence, states of rapture and their intersection with the nation state. Recent solo exhibitions include Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Jeu de Paume Satellite, Paris; Gasworks, London and the IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. Guimarães’ works have been included at the 33rd, 31st and the 29th São Paulo Biennial; the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial; the International Exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennial; at the LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art (USA); Baltimore Museum of Art (USA); the 11th Sharjah Biennial (UAE); the Banff Centre, Alberta (CA); Malmö Museum (SE) and South London Gallery; the Guggenheim Museum, NY (USA); the SculptureCenter (NY/USA); the 7th Gwangju Biennial (SK); the 3rd Guanghzhou Triennial (CN); the Jumex museum, Mexico (MX); Frac/Le Plateau, Paris (FR); CAC Synagogue de Delme (FR).

SOAP is a film in four episodes in which a group of isolated, left-winger urbanites imagine how to create a telenovela, or soap, to infiltrate the conspiratorial far right in Bolsonaro’s Brazil. Can a coalition of activists, artists and writers avoid tripping over their own assumptions and privileges to form something persuasive? Can they join forces to beat a populist system at their own game? SOAP is a collaboration between Tamar Guimarães, Luisa Cavanagh and Rusi Millán Pastori and was filmed in Berlin and São Paulo during the first covid19 lockdown in 2020.

TAMAR GUIMARÃES (b. Belo Horizonte 1967, BR, lives and works in Berlin) is a visual artist working with film and other forms of time based media. She often works with actors alongside non-actors in semi-fictional films exploring socio-political dynamics both residual and contemporary, and situations within art, architecture and the institutions that present them. Her work has been included at the 33rd, 31st and the 29th São Paulo Biennial; the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennial; the 55th Venice Biennial; the LACMA (USA); the Guggenheim Museum, NY (USA); the SculptureCenter (NY/USA); The Renaissance Society (Chicago); the 7th Gwangju Biennial (SK); Frac/Le Plateau, Paris (FR); CAC Synagogue de Delme (FR). Solo exhibitions include Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and the Jeu de Paume Satellite, Paris. LUISA CAVANAGH (1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist, colourist, and cinematographer. She studied Cinematography at National Film School. Focused on collaborative work, she joined 'Grupo Mexa' to develop the film/performance 'Cancionero Terminal 10Mg'. She is a co-founder of 'Eterno work in progress', an artist-run cine-club that explores the limits of cinema exhibition, live music and moving images. RUSI MILLÁN PASTORI (1976, Argentina) is a writer, film director and director of photography. Actual political scenarios are a common thread throughout his work, as chronicles that combine different situations and characters. He studied cinematography at the National School of Experimentation and Cinematographic Realization in Buenos Aires. He has directed short and medium-length films which were shown in festivals such as the BAFICI in Buenos Aires and at the 41st Mostra in São Paulo.