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A short documentary about individuals dancing outdoors, primarily recruited from the free party scene in Yorkshire. The film looks at how the participants feel about dancing, anti-dancing legislation and dance as physical human expression.

Susannah Gent studied film & TV production at the Northern Media school before writing and directing a string of award winning short films and most recently a feature film entitled JELLY DOLLY (winner of best film award at Britspotting; British Council showcase for new British & Irish film, Beriln 2004).

L?IMPOSSIBLE ? Pages Arrachées ? Placé sous les auspices de Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Dostoievski et Benjamin, ce film s`attache à témoigner des politiques iniques qui façonnent notre temps, du caractère "infernal" de certaines vies politiques (celles des migrants/des immigrés, des travailleurs, des chômeurs, des étudiants...). Il opère, minoritaire, une stase critique des réalités mythiques et majoritaires : vie nue, état d?exception?; et travaille au corps la question de la révolte et de l`insurrection: débordement, désidentification, reconfiguration indécidable... Se donnent ainsi à voir, par renversement dialectique, des "hors-lieux" inassimilables: des corps-impossible. I. NIGGERS WOOD (Je brûle comme il faut !) 2009, Super 8, Noir et Blanc et Couleur, 15 mn, prod : Noir Production. Calais, ville désolée. Blancheur de la neige qui recouvre la ville. Ombres noires et tutélaires, croix et Beffroi, qui la dominent. Feux écarlates qui l?enveloppent et la brûlent. Figures et visages de personnes qui re-viennent de loin. Migrants. Parias. Variation sur des paysages et vies politiques calcinés et infernaux : les corps-nègres. II. BALLAD FOR A CHILD (On ne te tueras pas plus que si tu étais cadavre) 2009, Super 8, Couleur, 26 mn, prod : Noir Production. Calais, ville désolée. Invocation : Dans un petit bois, la « jungle », un jeune homme qui vient de loin, d?un moyen-orient en guerre, est mort assassiné. C?était en Décembre 2008. Et c?est un monde entier, politique, à qui l?on fera rendre l?âme, qui rend l?âme. Evocation : Un jeune homme passe qui vient de loin. Et ses paroles, traces et survivances, comme un chant, viennent de plus loin encore: des gouffres, de la mer et des déserts, de l`oubli, des lisières infinies. Un jeune homme passe qui vient de loin, comme un nouvel Orphée, politique, noir et révolté. Un jeune homme impossible que plus rien ni personne ne saurait désormais arrêter... III JE ME SUIS ARME CONTRE LA JUSTICE (Burn ! Burn ! Burn !) 2009, vidéo, Noir et blanc et Couleur, 43 mn, prod : Noir Production Paris. Manifestation du 19 mars 2009. Fonctionnaires, étudiants, précaires, immigrés sans-papiers, chômeurs, retraités, battent le pavé. Jusqu`à ce que celui-ci brûle, entre rage et colère; et que des voix se délivrent en s`inscrivant dans le temps. Jusqu`à ce que l`Etat réprime, avec violence et arbitraire; et que soient condamnés des corps-innocents. IV LE TEMPS DES ASSASSINS (Fire Music) 2009, vidéo, Noir et blanc et Couleur, 23 mn, prod : Noir Production Paris. Manifestation du 1er Mai 2009. Poursuite, répétition de la geste insurrectionnelle: "Paix aux chaumières, Guerre aux châteaux". Et c`est, après quelques siècles, l`Hôtel de Ville de Paris qui est de nouveau occupé, le Conseil de Paris qui est de nouveau réinvesti par une assemblée révolutionnaire. Invocation: la Commune de Paris. Evocation : le peuple qui vient. Voici le temps, re-venu... V. TU RESTERAS HYENE ETC. (The book of the damned) 2009, 17mm, Noir et Blanc et Couleur, 17 mn, prod : Noir Production. Comme un cercle infernal. Variation sur la traîtrise et le reniement, le crachat du renégat comme médaille, les "fonds de pension" comme devenir, à partir du livre "Lettres à ceux qui sont passés du col Mao au Rotary" de Guy Hocquenghem (Nous rajouterons "... et à la cour Sarkozy..."), et des films de Lionel Soukaz et de/ou avec Guy Hocquenghem. 
Avec la participation de Lionel Soukaz et Tripak.

Sylvain George est un cinéaste et un activiste politique. Après des études en philosophie, il réalise depuis quatre ans des films-essais poétiques, politiques et expérimentaux, sur la thématique de l?immigration notamment. Son travail, influencé par la pensée de Walter Benjamin, placé sous le signe du réveil et de l?émancipation, allie recherche formelle exigeante et engagement politique. Il réalise aussi bien des ciné-tracts radicaux (la série des Contre-feux) au service de collectifs informel ou de sans-papiers, que des films plus personnels, engagés contre les politiques iniques qui traversent et modèlent notre société. Parmi ceux-ci les courts-métrages "No Border (Aspettavo che scendesse la sera)", "N`entre pas sans violence dans la nuit", "Ils nous tueront tous...", et le long-métrage "L`Impossible -Pages Arrachées-". Ses films sont projetés dans les réseaux militants et alternatifs tout comme dans des grands festivals nationaux et internationaux (Cinémathèque française, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Cinémathèque de Copenhague, de Milan...). Il termine actuellement une fresque composée de trois longs-métrage, sur les politiques migratoires en Europe et les mobilisations sociales. « Un travail indispensable, qui porte très haut une certaine idée des droits et des devoirs du cinéma. » Nicole Brenez pour la Cinémathèque Française, 29 février 2008.

Repères #18-39 est une suite de 22 tableaux, réalisés à Toronto et Vancouver, en 2011, au Canada. Chaque séquence propose un paysage architectural auquel est intégré un fragment poétique. La première phase de ce projet, Repères #1-17, a été créée à Montréal en 2011. Une troisième phase, réalisée à Paris en 2012, est en postproduction. À une époque où les traces médiatiques d?un événement se substituent à l?événement lui-même, où l?observation du monde passe par la lunette déformante de l?image, qu?elle soit documentaire ou fictive, le projet Repères s?articule à même ce flou entre la réalité et la fiction afin de proposer une présence poétique là où on ne l?attend pas.

Karoline Georges est née à Montréal en 1970. Après des études de cinéma (Université du Québec à Chicoutimi) et d?histoire de l?art (Université du Québec à Montréal), elle amorce une démarche artistique interdisciplinaire où se rencontrent la vidéo, l?art audio, la photographie, la performance, la littérature et, plus récemment, la modélisation 3D. Elle explore les concepts et les processus de transformation et de sublimation. Elle s?intéresse aux manifestations virtuelles, aux devenirs possibles, au déploiement de la conscience à travers le dédale technologique et à l?accumulation des savoirs. Ses ?uvres littéraires ont été publiées au Canada et en Europe. Elle a performé à de nombreux festivals (Festival Voix d?Amériques; Manifestation internationale d?art de Québec; Festival International de littérature; Montréal en Lumières). Son travail photographique et vidéographique a été présenté lors de multiples événements et expositions (Moving Image Film Festival of Toronto; Biennale Internationale des poètes en Val de Marne; Orange, l?événement d?art actuel; LAB NT2; Québec en toutes lettres; Printemps des poètes de Québec).

Luxor 22.145 [SOUND NOMADS Performance #7] A m/hotel performance went down in Vegas. Luxor: rooms 4455, employees 4000, casino 120,000 square feet, 250 miles visible Xenon light shot. Room No. 22.145: sensor equipped bending matresses, sound generating moving chairs, pitch shifting ironing and flickering lights. Technology: Lamps become sound triggers and pitch shifters by means of light sensors, irons turn into turntables through pressure sensors, chairs become free-moving VST instruments through sensor combinations. Mattresses (bend it over), drawers (open/close), closet doors, curtains (movements) and the TV set (light intensity of a selected channel) become a sampler ... This performance consists of seven essentially different superstructures and interactive scenarios. A night in the luxury hotel becomes a performance night. Ger Ger`s SOUND NOMADS project is comprised of a combination of sound art, music, public art, performance, interactive installations as well as video. The constant search for noises, sounds and rhythms lies as central to SOUND NOMADS as the creation of interactive sensor based playgrounds. Entire squares, hotspots, fields, meadows, ponds and patterns from day to day life are instrumentalized, and played. Surrounding objects get networked. Manholes become recording studios; hot tubs, resonating objects; the movements of persons, time bases; lampposts or mailboxes take the place of instrument strings and keys. The actual noises of objects lose their meaning and get replaced by triggered melodies/samples or generated tones. SOUND NOMADS ventures to artistically reflect on situations of everyday life and site-specific impressions as directly as possible; acoustically, aesthetically, and in respect of content. The first SOUND NOMADS performances took place on the US West Coast in 2006, followed by actions in Germany, Italy, France and Spain in 2007. http://personal.gerger.com/?view=blog&item=961#h2:1 http://www.soundnomads.com

Ger Ger, media artist, born in Vienna/A 1981, currently lives and works in Berlin/D. He feels drawn to art and digital media early on in life, receives his first honors and awards aged fourteen. M.A. in Digital Arts and Visual Media Design. Study with Karel Dudesek, Peter Weibel and Tom Fürstner at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Scholarship in Visual Communication with Joachim Sauter at the University of Arts in Berlin. His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Ars Electronica (Linz), Electrohype (Malmö), Open (London), FILE (Sao Paulo/Curitiba City), MUMOK (Vienna), Kunst Haus (Dresden), Kunsthalle (Vienna), O.K Centrum (Linz), Diagonale (Graz). His awards include the Prix Ars Electronica, CYNETart, Rheingold Award and Prix MultimediaArt.

An enigmatic character spends her last day in the house she designed and built. Her solitude is interrupted by the arrival of old friends who threaten to drown her in the past. A speculative fiction, E for Eileen is shot entirely at Eileen Gray’s villa E-1027 — one of three French national monuments of the modern era, and the only one built by a woman.

Gerard & Kelly are visual artists and filmmakers whose interdisciplinary practice spans film, performance, and installation, incorporating choreography, writing, printmaking, drawing, and sculpture. Based in Paris since 2018, they are known for conceptually rigorous and research-based projects that address questions of memory and history, sexuality and the formation of subjectivity. Gerard & Kelly have collaborated since the early 2000s to develop a distinctive body of work that situates movement, narrative, and critical theory in direct conversation with architecture and site. Their projects often unfold in iconic modernist spaces and have been presented by leading institutions across Europe and the United States. Hailing from the farms of Ohio and the coal country of Pennsylvania, Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly met in New York and launched a collaboration that led them to the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, where they were Van Lier Fellows from 2009-2010, and then to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where they earned their MFAs in 2013 from the Interdisciplinary Studio under the direction of artist Mary Kelly. Ruins, their first solo show in a European institution, was presented by the Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes in 2022–2023. Solo exhibitions and performances of their work have been presented by Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2025), Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence (2024), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2023), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (2022), MAMCO, Geneva (2020), MOCA, Los Angeles (2020), Festival d’Automne, Paris (2017 and 2019), The Getty Museum, Los Angeles (2019), Pioneer Works, New York (2018), Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016), New Museum, New York (2014), and The Kitchen, New York (2014). They participated in the 2023 NGV Triennial at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, the 2023 and 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennials, and the 2014 Made in L.A. Biennial at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Their work has been included in group exhibitions at Château La Coste, Le Puy?Sainte?Réparade (2025), Collection Lambert, Avignon (2024), Le Commun, Geneva (2024), High Line, New York (2023), FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (2022), and Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York (2015), among others. Gerard & Kelly have received numerous awards and grants, including the VIA Art Fund (2024), Mondes nouveaux program of the French Ministry of Culture (2023), Graham Foundation (2014), and Art Matters (2013). Their works are held in the permanent collections of the Carré d’Art, Nîmes; FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Serralves Museum of Contemporary, Porto; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Le projet saVer se compose de 10 vidéos, il se présente sous différentes formes (vidéos, installations interactives, sérigraphies et sculptures) qui sont aussi bien simultanées que discossiées. saVer commence avec la fabrication d`animations courtes dans lesquelles on peut voire des objets disparaître peu à peu (chaussure, ordinateur, chaise, réfrigérateur, crâne animal…). Pour réaliser les séquences animées, une photographie est prise à chaque étape de destruction de l`objet (entre 60 et 900 photographies) qui est découpé ou poncé afin de retirer de la matière. Chaque découpe est un tracé, une façon de dessiner et il en résulte une forme singulière, une invention par laquelle l`objet adopte une silhouette qui était potentiellement en lui: on dit d`ailleurs d`un archéologue qui découvre un site qu`il "l`invente", par la mise au jour d`une figure enfouie. Si ce travail de destruction ne respecte pas un schéma ou un mode d`emploi préétablie, il permet pourtant de voire les traces du mode de conception et de fabrication des objets (coutures, assemblages, solutions techniques et mécaniques, idées et gestes). Le verbe savoir (saVer en espagnol) est le titre de ce projet, verbe double (sa/voir) qui met en lumière le rapport de la connaissance et de la vue.

Simon Gerbaud ( Auxerre, France, 1976) est artiste visuel. 
Après des études théoriques en Arts Appliqués à la Sorbonne, il explore le dessin et l’animation de manière autodidacte en réalisant des courts métrages, des flipbooks et des installations interactives. Il a entre autres participé à des expositions et des festivals au Mexique, en Espagne, en France, en Hollande, en Russie, en Chine et en Iraq. Son court métrage LIBER a reçu plusieurs récompenses: Meilleure animation mexicaine au CutOut Fest (Querretaro, Mexique, 2014) et au festival Animasivo (Mexico DF, 2015); son projet saVer a reçu le Prix de l`oeuvre d`art numérique de l`année de la SCAM (Paris, France, 2015). Il vît et travaille à México depuis 2005.

Two newspaper articles, ten years apart, two different women, the same wording. In 2001 Göttinger Zeitung wrote that Margit (69) had lived a secluded life as an inconspicuous woman. In 2011 Hamburger Abendblatt stated that Irina (65) had lived in seclusion, a non-descript woman. Up to the moment of their appearance between these newspaper lines, both women were invisible, forcefully concealed by their roles as wives and homemakers. Only for a brief moment did they claim visibility. Through acts of violence. THE SLEEPER revolves around the time before these acts took place. The short film reconstructs and imagines the stories of these two women who were extrinsically determined throughout their lives, struggling to express themselves in vain until the only way for them to end the spiral of every-day violence was to resort to violence themselves. The cinematic narrative, too, oscillates between documentation and fiction. An apartment with a humming fridge, a pot steaming on the stove, a table set for a meal, a running TV, serves as its key element. These every-day scenes, translated into animated still lives in the film, suggest that something is about to happen or just took place. The character of the homemaker seems omnipresent though she never appears on the scene, just as the actual protagonists Margit and Irina remain invisible. This intimate play, which reminds of a visitation, is contrasted by tranquil exterior shots of urban landscapes and houses. Day in and day out domestic dramas take place behind these facades, never making themselves known to the outside.

Alex Gerbaulet is an artist,filmmaker and curator, based in Berlin. Since 2014 she works as an author and producer for pong film Berlin. Her films are a.o. SHIFT (2015), DEPTH OF FIELD (2017, with Mareike Bernien), THE SLEEPER (2018). Mirko Winkel was born in the former GDR and lives in Berlin. He studied visual art, performance art and choreography. The spectrum of his research and context sensitive work includes performances, videos, lectures, curated dialogue formats and suggestions for improvement. 

SCHICHT (SHIFT) unfolds the portrait of the filmmaker's family - brought to life by records from private archives - and embarks on a dizzying trip through the shrinking industrial city of Salzgitter, Germany. A city that is a cyborg with an iron skeleton and a heart beating 1000 metres deep under layers of soil and concrete. Mining, steel factory, model city. Upon the years 33 and 45, the first post-war generation projects itself into the future. Rudolf Gerbaulet completes his apprenticeship at the Reichswerke AG (formerly known as Hermann-Göring-Werk), works in the mine and at the Volkswagen plant. His wife Doris suffers from multiple sclerosis. Her diary is an expression of her slow disappearance. They name their first daughter after a singer: Alexandra. As a rebellious punk the daughter finds her own rhythm. Pulsating, sometimes breathless, the film follows the exposed stories. The filmed locations are attacked with archival material: propaganda, news, photos from family albums. Everything is subjected to the filmmaker's interpretation. A film between analysis and imagination, composed of the punk of the filmmaker's youth, accompanied by the roar of the steel mill and the noise of the highway. Interrupted by the cutting silence of abandoned mines, in which from 2020 nuclear waste will be dumped. Half-life of 24,000 years. 685 generations

Alex Gerbaulet, * 1977, artist, filmmaker and curator, lives and works in Berlin. Between 2000 and 2007 she studied Philosophy, Media Science and Fine Arts in Braunschweig (Germany) and Vienna. In 2008 she was awarded a scholarship from the Hans-Bückler-Foundation, in 2011 she was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus DOK Station, in 2012 she received a scholarship from the Mayor of Berlin (program for women artists) and in 2014 a grant from Art- und Culture-Foundation Stade (Germany). Between 2006 and 2011 she was a member of the Selection Committee of the Documentary Film- and Video-Festival in Kassel (Germany); 2012 and 2013 member of the Selection Committee of the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrück (Germany). From 2007-2011 she was staff member at the University of Arts in Braunschweig, 2012-2014 she tought at the University of Arts in Kassel. Since 2014 she works as a producer with Pong Film GmbH in Berlin. For her artwork the notion of documentarism gives an important impact. She has made several video-art projects among them BY LAND (2002), DATTERODE (2006), TATTOOED PRISONERS (2007) and ALREADY AFTERNOON (2009) in the art context. SCHICHT (SHIFT, 2015) is her first film specially for the cinema space. It was awarded with the prize for the best contribution to the German Competition at the International Short Film Fest Oberhausen, the First Film Award at FID Marseille, the German Film Critics Award 2015, the Award for Best Female Director at the Vienna Independent Shorts Festival 2016, the Jury Award of the German Competition at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg and was awarded 'Best Documentary Film' at the Moscow International EXperimental Film Festival 2016.

Two newspaper articles, ten years apart, two different women, the same wording. In 2001 Göttinger Zeitung wrote that Margit (69) had lived a secluded life as an inconspicuous woman. In 2011 Hamburger Abendblatt stated that Irina (65) had lived in seclusion, a non-descript woman. Up to the moment of their appearance between these newspaper lines, both women were invisible, forcefully concealed by their roles as wives and homemakers. Only for a brief moment did they claim visibility. Through acts of violence. THE SLEEPER revolves around the time before these acts took place. The short film reconstructs and imagines the stories of these two women who were extrinsically determined throughout their lives, struggling to express themselves in vain until the only way for them to end the spiral of every-day violence was to resort to violence themselves. The cinematic narrative, too, oscillates between documentation and fiction. An apartment with a humming fridge, a pot steaming on the stove, a table set for a meal, a running TV, serves as its key element. These every-day scenes, translated into animated still lives in the film, suggest that something is about to happen or just took place. The character of the homemaker seems omnipresent though she never appears on the scene, just as the actual protagonists Margit and Irina remain invisible. This intimate play, which reminds of a visitation, is contrasted by tranquil exterior shots of urban landscapes and houses. Day in and day out domestic dramas take place behind these facades, never making themselves known to the outside.

Alex Gerbaulet is an artist,filmmaker and curator, based in Berlin. Since 2014 she works as an author and producer for pong film Berlin. Her films are a.o. SHIFT (2015), DEPTH OF FIELD (2017, with Mareike Bernien), THE SLEEPER (2018). Mirko Winkel was born in the former GDR and lives in Berlin. He studied visual art, performance art and choreography. The spectrum of his research and context sensitive work includes performances, videos, lectures, curated dialogue formats and suggestions for improvement. 

SCHICHT (SHIFT) unfolds the portrait of the filmmaker's family - brought to life by records from private archives - and embarks on a dizzying trip through the shrinking industrial city of Salzgitter, Germany. A city that is a cyborg with an iron skeleton and a heart beating 1000 metres deep under layers of soil and concrete. Mining, steel factory, model city. Upon the years 33 and 45, the first post-war generation projects itself into the future. Rudolf Gerbaulet completes his apprenticeship at the Reichswerke AG (formerly known as Hermann-Göring-Werk), works in the mine and at the Volkswagen plant. His wife Doris suffers from multiple sclerosis. Her diary is an expression of her slow disappearance. They name their first daughter after a singer: Alexandra. As a rebellious punk the daughter finds her own rhythm. Pulsating, sometimes breathless, the film follows the exposed stories. The filmed locations are attacked with archival material: propaganda, news, photos from family albums. Everything is subjected to the filmmaker's interpretation. A film between analysis and imagination, composed of the punk of the filmmaker's youth, accompanied by the roar of the steel mill and the noise of the highway. Interrupted by the cutting silence of abandoned mines, in which from 2020 nuclear waste will be dumped. Half-life of 24,000 years. 685 generations

Alex Gerbaulet, * 1977, artist, filmmaker and curator, lives and works in Berlin. Between 2000 and 2007 she studied Philosophy, Media Science and Fine Arts in Braunschweig (Germany) and Vienna. In 2008 she was awarded a scholarship from the Hans-Bückler-Foundation, in 2011 she was selected for Berlinale Talent Campus DOK Station, in 2012 she received a scholarship from the Mayor of Berlin (program for women artists) and in 2014 a grant from Art- und Culture-Foundation Stade (Germany). Between 2006 and 2011 she was a member of the Selection Committee of the Documentary Film- and Video-Festival in Kassel (Germany); 2012 and 2013 member of the Selection Committee of the European Media Art Festival (EMAF) in Osnabrück (Germany). From 2007-2011 she was staff member at the University of Arts in Braunschweig, 2012-2014 she tought at the University of Arts in Kassel. Since 2014 she works as a producer with Pong Film GmbH in Berlin. For her artwork the notion of documentarism gives an important impact. She has made several video-art projects among them BY LAND (2002), DATTERODE (2006), TATTOOED PRISONERS (2007) and ALREADY AFTERNOON (2009) in the art context. SCHICHT (SHIFT, 2015) is her first film specially for the cinema space. It was awarded with the prize for the best contribution to the German Competition at the International Short Film Fest Oberhausen, the First Film Award at FID Marseille, the German Film Critics Award 2015, the Award for Best Female Director at the Vienna Independent Shorts Festival 2016, the Jury Award of the German Competition at the International Short Film Festival Hamburg and was awarded 'Best Documentary Film' at the Moscow International EXperimental Film Festival 2016.

A man try to roll himself a cigarette...

WERTHER GERMONDARI Born in Rimini (Italy), in 1963. Graduated in cinematography at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and in direction at the University of Bologna; visual artist and performer, he realized many personal exhibitions and takes part in a lot of group exhibitions. His works in film and video were selected in hundreds festivals (Cannes, Rotterdam, Venice, etc.) and won many prizes.

Sci-Fi Liebesessay über drei Menschen, die sich in der Utopie Crystal Palace begegnen und ineinander verlieben. Aber wer in Crystal Palace lebt, muß seine Erinnerungen aufgeben, oder die Stadt wieder verlassen. So geht auf dem Weg zur Hoffnung das Glück verloren.

1979 geboren in Budapest 2001/2008 Studium der Soziologie Fernuni Hagen seit 1999 Studium an der HFF München, Abteilung Dokumentarfilm und Fernsehpublizistik

This musical piece comes exclusively from unused "remains" of different music intended as radio pieces. In the recordings for the different productions, there were always extreme sonorous angles where the microphone was adapted to the body of an instrument, for example, and in which artificial contact or head microphones could be used, or even Jacklin-disks or original heads. Often, experimentations that use an abundance of unusual sonorous creation methods were led under the direction of the composer. These sonorous products are, in part, almost uniquely just noise, but they come from traditional instruments and music, and within them they always have an "interior chord". Even in the very percussive and very short sounds, in an almost white sound, there is always a sort of oscillating musical ambiance that, after having been worked on a computer, allows for the obtainment of an almost tonal composition. The result is a type of "tonal composition of noises". The sounds are studies in five movements starting with a purely musical perspective, with different possibilities of noise-sound being explored, from purely instrumental to plain noise, starting also from transitions and transformations. From the intermediary spaces small narrative fragments are always born.

Thomas Gerwin is a trained classical composer and artist in the area of sound. He started with electro-acoustic music very early and since 1990 has worked intensively in the composition domain of "sonorous environment" and in radiophonic art. Currently he principally composes for concerts and performances held in his studio in Berlin, and creates sonorous installations and video. He always integrates new media, theatre, dance, cinema, and sculpture as means of expression in his artistic space. He has received various international awards and stipends, and his works are the focus of exhibitions and presentations throughout the world. Gerwin manages the "Berliner Lautsprecher-Orchester" and supervises the "KlangWelten" concert series, as well as the "klanglaborX" festivals (Berlin) and "KLAK!" (Kassel).

L?arrêt is an experimental documentary about suspense and (im)balance, indecision and the choreography of fear. Shot in the Parc National des Calanques with a group of young adults from the Cité de la Bricarde, a housing project in Marseille?s troubled Quartiers Nord, L?arrêt explores the uncertainty we all face in the no-man?s-land between child and adult. L?arrêt is a film in which five young adults jump from vertiginous limestone cliffs into the Mediterranean 20 meters below. However, the spectacle is not the scenery, or the drama of the fall ? but the moments before? The mixture of bravado and unease, the switch between the hard stare and the too-relaxed grin, the waves of tension and uncertainty, and the struggle to overcome them that unite their bodies in a strange, beautiful, shared language of fear. At the Centre Sociale in La Bricarde, the youthwork coordinator told us that, ?Ici, les jeunes ont du mal a se projeter?? But here at least ? slowly, painfully, joyously ? they do.

gethan&myles are a creative partnership lving and working in Marseille since 2011. As an artistic double-act, collaboration is at the heart of everything they do: not only with each other, but also with the spaces in which they work and the people who occupy them. Giving a voice to communities who are misunderstood or ignored, and expressing the richness of their experience underpins many of gethan&myles? projects. Whether working in film, photography, text, sculpture or performance, ?the sublime? is of little interest to them - what inspires them is the real world and the human beings they share it with.

As my grandfather's presence in the country becomes increasingly problematic, my mother gradually decides to never touch a camera again, my father becomes obsessively convinced of his own disappearance, and something almost miraculous happens in 1976 in Montreux: Nina Simone comes back from retirement. In Three Disappearances and a Song, I revisit the family archive, pick up my camera, and film 3 people struggling to find new ways to be: my mother, my father, and myself.

Nadia Ghanem is a filmmaker who lives and works in Cairo. She recently finished her first short film as a director Three Disappearances And A Song (2021) which premiered at the 43rd edition of the Cairo International Film Festival, Images Festival, Cinema Árabe Feminino in Brazil and received the best short film award at Gabes Cinema Fen (Tunisia) as well as the audience and Jury awards for best short film at Manassat Film Festival in Cairo. Nadia is currently working on her first feature Looking for Spiderman which received development awards from A Kiss in the Desert, Rawiyat film collective, Two Stories Production, Dox Box and is part of the Studio Seen program. In parallel to being a filmmaker, Nadia Ghanem curated film programs for the 24th edition of the Videoex festival in Basel and since 2022 is a programmer for the Panorama of the European Film organized by Zawya Arthouse Cinema in Cairo. She also works as a Program Manager at Medrar for Contemporary Art where she coordinated the 10th edition of the Cairo Video Festival.

THERE'S A HOLE IN THE WORLD WHERE YOU USED TO BE is a short film about memory and mourning. It departs from the premise that both grief and black holes are so dense and intense that they bend space and time around their specific gravity - each absence both a wound in the heart and a hole in the world.

Mariam Ghani is an artist and filmmaker. Her films, public projects, and installations have been presented worldwide, notably in Times Square and LaGuardia Airport; the Tate Modern, Guggenheim, MoMA, Smithsonian, Secession, CCCB, and Metropolitan Museums; Documenta 13 and the Liverpool, Lahore, Yinchuan, and Sharjah Biennials; the Berlinale, Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, SFFILM, DOC NYC, Jih.lava, BlackStar, and Ann Arbor film festivals; theatrically and streaming on Ovid, Criterion and Docuseek.

Prem, the charismatic host of a popular radio show offering advice on matters of the heart, is himself plagued by heartache. He seeks solace in the rugged mountains. As he goes through his own emotional upheaval, desperate calls from listeners asking him for advice echo through the wilderness. Both Prem and his audience try to navigate their way through the treacherous terrain of love. A gripping tale of emotional turmoil and self-discovery.

Saurav Ghimire is a Nepali audiovisual artist whose work explores boundaries in storytelling between fiction and documentary. His projects are edited using a mix of archival and live action footage, personal interviews, and collection of songs & poetry. Ghimire has been awarded the Visiting Artist Fellowship from the Laxmi Mittal South Asia Institute at Harvard University His short film, Songs of Love and Hate (17 mins, 2024), had its world premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival where it was awarded Special Jury Mention. Similarly, his first short film, Barking Dogs (14 mins, 2021), was awarded Best Experimental Film at Tasveer South Asian Film Festival (USA) and Best Student Film at Pame Film Festival (Nepal). In addition to this, he has attended training programmes including the Locarno Basecamp Academy (Switzerland), the Odense Talent Camp (Denmark) and the Fantastic Film School BIFAN (South Korea).

A guy, who is alone but has free time, has trouble deciding what to do. Serendipitously, he finds an escape. Its company brings a sense of relief in his life. But one always has to find something to do next.

My name Saurav Ghimire and I am from Nepal. I have been pursuing my career in filmmaking as a director since last three years. I studied B.A. in Psychology (2017) from Tribhuvan University (Nepal). Then I completed a diploma course in Film Direction (2020) from Everest Film Academy (Nepal). During this period I made 3 short films and a graduating film. After completing my film degree, I started working in the feature length project “Gau Ayeko Bato” as an assistant director. In-between I also worked as an assistant director in a medium length project “Dolma” made under the banner of Simal Cinema. Previously, I had worked as a PR/ Social media manager (2017) for Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (Nepal).

Another Land is an optical collage of memories, snatches of conversation, verses of a poem, creating a dreamlike journey. This work has been built around found materials like photographs, slides, camera footage, scribbles and drawings. The sum of this memorabilia is collected to evoke an intensely personal trancelike journey, which transports you through various vistas. I have interpreted the material to create almost a mythical space, an imaginary fable, where all that is recognizable assumes another quality altogether. This is my re-imagining of nostalgia and memory and what it means to individuals. Just as we augment and embellish memory with time; so too, this work takes fragments of remembrance and imparts another quality to them. So that, what is remembered changes and recreates new stories, new trajectories in a way that creates a fantasy - a mythopoeic fable.

Sukanya Ghosh is an artist, animation filmmaker and designer. She is an independent practitioner and enjoys working with popular imagery, poetry and the moving image. Born in Calcutta, she has a BFA in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda and an AEPEP in Animation Film Design from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She has been the recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust Award, the Sarai Independent Fellowship, commissions from the Royal Commonwealth Society and Motiroti, UK. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Khoj, New Delhi; Spike Island, Bristol; and AIR Vallauris, France. Her works have been part of several shows both nationally and internationally. She managed arts programming at the Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, Calcutta for several years and has also been involved in various design projects including publicity design for film, book, exhibition and theatre design over the years.

“Military Blanket” is going back to the memory of the day when my father died. It describes the bureaucracy of death, in a military hospital. Growing up is basically we slowly witness people we know dying around us. After my father died and the war started, I lost many people I know, but I chose to talk about the story of my father?s death, because death was still holy back then, death was capable of teaching me, death was the most incredible proof of life.

Wasim Ghrioui (b. 1981 Damascus, Syria) is a multidisciplinary artist working within visual art, writing, music, directing and filmmaking. Between 1998 - 2011 he worked full-time with mosaic art and participated in group and solo exhibitions in Syria, the Arab world and internationally. His current artistic emphasis lies on autobiographical writing, taking the shape of experimental theater as well as filmmaking. Ghrioui lives and works in Berlin since 2013.

Summer 2022. Carlotta is engrossed in recording the audiobook for Walter Benjamin’s short stories. Her sister and brother come to visit her for a few days, and the three find themselves in the small town in the Marche region where they grew up. Gradually, an episode they experienced together two years earlier resurfaces: an act of violence in which each of them was, in their own way, entangled.

Riccardo Giacconi has studied fine arts at the IUAV University of Venezia. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin). He was artist-in- residence at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland), Centre international d’art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, Austria). He presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and FID Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix of the International Competition in 2015. He co-founded the collective listening festival ‘Helicotrema’ and the audio storytelling studio ‘Botafuego’. He is Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston. www.riccardogiacconi.com

"Animal" explores the concept of animation. Creating a parallel between the “uncanny valley” of the archaic tradition of puppetry and recent technological developments in robotics and artificial intelligence, the film is inspired by a series of conversations with scientists and researchers from the robotics labs at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Footage from the EPFL alternates with images from the ancient Carlo Colla & Figli Marionette Company in Milan. The structure of the film resembles both an inventory of images and an audiobook, combining the aseptic atmospheres of scientific laboratories with the archaic dimension of puppetry, weaving together these figures and punctuating them with black frames.

Riccardo Giacconi has studied fine arts at the IUAV University of Venezia. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin). He was artist-in-residence at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland), Centre international d'art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, Austria). He presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and FID Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix of the International Competition in 2015. He co-founded the collective listening festival ‘Helicotrema’ and the audio storytelling studio ‘Botafuego’. He is Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston.

The film takes its cues from the events between 1939 and 1943, when the native German-speaking people of South Tyrol were given the option of either emigrating to neighbouring Nazi Austria (and other Third Reich territories) or remaining in Fascist Italy and being forcibly integrated into the mainstream Italian culture, thereby losing their language and cultural heritage. This system, enforced after an agreement between Mussolini and Hitler, was called the “Option Agreement”. The film also evokes the aftermath of the Option Agreement, including episodes of tension, conflict and terrorism between ethnic communities. As in a session of hypnosis, a voice describes a series of situations in second person. Devoid of any references to dates, names or locations, the voice describes a set of images connected to pivotal moments in the conflictual genealogy of the South Tyrolean territory. An exploration of a series of photographs from different archives, the film composes a visual study on the history and landscape of a territory in-between.

Riccardo Giacconi has studied fine arts at the IUAV University of Venezia. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and the 6. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. He was artist-in-residence at the Centre international d'art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, La Box (Bourges, France) and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, Austria). He presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and FID Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix of the International Competition in 2015. He co-founded the collective listening festival ‘Helicotrema’ and the audio storytelling studio ‘Botafuego’.

A., an Italian teenager, is portrayed during a metamorphosis. He incessantly publishes and projects several versions of himself, through signs on his body, traces on social networks and the relationship with the camera that films him.

Riccardo Giacconi has studied fine arts at the IUAV University of Venezia. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and the 6. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. He was artist-in-residence at the Centre international d?art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, La Box (Bourges, France) and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, Austria). He presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and FID Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix of the International Competition in 2015. In 2007 he co-founded the collective Blauer Hase, with which he curates the periodical publication ‘Paesaggio’ and the ‘Helicotrema’ festival.

In physics, a "black body" is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence. An approximate depiction of a black body is a hole in the wall of a large cavity. Any light entering the hole is reflected indefinitely or absorbed inside and is unlikely to re-emerge, making the hole a nearly perfect absorber. The film has been edited as a palindrome, and it is composed of fragments from a conversation with particle physicist Alessio Del Dotto. The scientist outlines the concept of "black body" by narrating anecdotes about it: ultraviolet catastrophes, the first moments of the universe, Borges' Aleph and the double meaning of the Italian word "spettro".

Riccardo Giacconi has studied fine arts at the University IUAV of Venezia. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), MAXXI (Rome), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and at the 6. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. He was artist-in-residence at the Centre international d`art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and La Box (Bourges). He presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and FID Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix of the international competition in 2015.

"Due" was shot in Milano 2, a residential neighbourhood located just outside Milano. Built as a utopian city between 1970 and 1979, Milano 2 was Silvio Berlusconi`s first ambitious project. It was in Milano 2 that TeleMilano, the first private Italian TV channel, started to broadcast, which made the area the bridgehead of the media and, later, political empire of Berlusconi. Milano 2, which nowadays may seem an ordinary suburban area, has functioned as a laboratory for a form-of-life which, in the decades of the Berlusconismo’s, spread nationally and left a long-lasting mark on Italian culture. The film includes an interview with Enrico Hoffer, the architect that designed the landscaping of the neighbourhood, as well as fragments from a 1974 publicity brochure advertising the real estate project.

Riccardo Giacconi has studied fine arts at the University IUAV of Venezia, at UWE in Bristol and at New York University. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), MAXXI (Rome), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin). He was artist-in-residence at: Centre international d`art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and La Box (Bourges). In 2016 he was awarded the ArteVisione video production prize, curated by Sky Arte and Careof. He presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, the Venice International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Rome Film Festival, the Torino Film Festival, Visions du Réel and the FID Marseille International Film Festival, where he won the Grand Prix of the international competition in 2015. In 2007 he co-founded the collective Blauer Hase, with which he curates the periodical publication “Paesaggio” and the “Helicotrema” festival.

The "Carlo Colla & Figli Puppet Company" is one of the most ancient and famous puppet companies in the world. The Company's Atelier in Milan houses more than three thousand puppets. "Diteggiatura" recounts, in a reverse chronology, a year spent in the Atelier of the Colla Company, following the rituals of a community called upon to accompany the life of anthropomorphic objects. The film is based on a text, performed by actress and director Silvia Costa and written by an artificial neural network.

Riccardo Giacconi has studied fine arts at the IUAV University of Venezia. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin) and the 6. Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. He was artist-in-residence at the Centre international d'art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, La Box (Bourges, France) and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, Austria). He presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and FID Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix of the International Competition in 2015. He co-founded the collective listening festival ‘Helicotrema’ and the audio storytelling studio ‘Botafuego’.