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An improvised video meditation on time, place and the situation of seeing. Made using the camera as performance instrument. Composed in one take.

riccardo iacono studied Painting at Glasgow School of Art, and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Dundee. His works range from abstract painted film and digital animation to video collage, performance and installation. Recent screenings and exhibitions include: `A Century of Artists Film in Britain` at Tate Britain (2003); `Ice In The Freezer` a one person show presented by Pleasure Dome, Toronto (2003); `Love Songs From A Dark Body` a retrospective at La Enana Marron, Madrid (2005); `From Memory` a one person show at Kino Oko, Prague (2005) TIE International Experimental Cinema Exposition, Denver (2005)

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A damned soul climbs toward the summit of a mountain. The ascent carves him out, bends him, empties him. He is not seeking salvation, but meaning, or at least a shape that resembles him. He is driven by his fragility disguised as strength, by blind ambition, by the desperate need to be seen by something that perhaps does not exist. Yet, at the top, something awaits. It does not speak. It does not console. It watches, and does not forgive. Ascended is the journey of the anti-hero, a synesthesia of dissatisfaction.

Jacopo Iebba (Tivoli, Rome, March 23, 2005) is a 20-year-old independent filmmaker who grew up within the walls of Tivoli. Since childhood, he has nurtured a visceral passion for video games, books, and cinema: virtual worlds and illustrated films that offered him an early escape, a secret place to feed his imagination. During the 2020 lockdown, while the world stood still, Jacopo decided to take his dream into his own hands. He began studying animation entirely on his own, diving into tutorials, manuals, and open-source software. This is how his first dreamlike images were born: fragments of childhood memories transformed into motion. Each visual “experiment” became a piece of his mind brought to life, a personal attempt to animate his deepest dreams. In 2025, working completely alone and autonomously, he created his first animated short film, Asceso: an intensely personal work rooted in his own emotions. In it, Jacopo explores the morbidity of human ambition, that obsessive tension that makes us believe “wanting is enough to fly”—and transforms it into a claustrophobic visual journey. Asceso speaks a dreamlike, psychedelic, and synesthetic language: muffled sounds, blinding colors, and tight camera movements alternate to create a full sensory experience, translating mental fragility and inner turmoil into pure image. Firmly convinced that independent cinema is the most genuine ground for expression, Jacopo Iebba stands as a voice for original ideas and a sincere desire: to keep dreaming, to keep telling stories that shake the viewer and restore the power (and danger) of ambition without compromise.

The device by Ricardo Iglesias and Mario Ruiz, "Evolutional Machine, an Autistic Robot," examines the confrontation between two worlds and the interferences they produce: the technological world and the world of living beings. The technological sphere is inhabited by a series of robots each with different functions depending on their programs, independent of the influence of living beings. Here, the frontier between the two worlds blurs. A relationship is established through a capturing and retransmission device contradicting the expected relationship between the observer and the observed. In space, on the screen and on the web, "Evolutional Machine, an Autistic Robot" establishes a man-machine relationship based on reciprocal interaction. Both elements belong to a unique logical system, contrary to what usually takes place within the logic of the subjugated and subjugation. Agent status, we become an intrinsic element in the relationship's logic.

Many years ago, in my parents’ house, my window opened onto an icy hill where children played and laughter echoed through the cold air. Frozen at the glass, I watched their fleeting joy and felt the tremor of how fragile our memories are — those tender impressions born in childhood. This film, years later, is a journey back into that fragile place where dreams fade and hopes quietly die.

Genrih Ignatov was born in Moscow in 1992. He studied at the Moscow School of New Cinema, where he trained under filmmaker Artur Aristakisyan. Ignatov’s work is distinguished by its poetic and experimental approach to cinematic form, often delving into themes of memory, identity, and the quiet passage of time within human relationships. His films have been shown at numerous international festivals and are celebrated for their contemplative rhythm, innovative interplay of sound and image, and a profound sensitivity to the inner lives of his subjects.

Idyllic villages hide traces of sorrow and suffering inflicted on humans by each other. A short film based on stories of people who cross the borders in search of peace, but find humiliation instead. Despite everything they are not giving up.

Sasha Ihnatovich is a feminist filmmaker, educator and visual culture researcher from Belarus, currently working in Slovenia.

"An animated film using filmed images combined with computer graphics and the traditional one-stroke drawing technique ippitsu ga."

Takahiko Iimura is a groundbreaking Japanese film- and video-maker. Like Jonas Mekas in New York, Iimura, in Tokyo, was instrumental in bringing together and organizing Japanese independent and avant-garde filmmakers and events in the early 1960s; he also played the dual role of organizer and filmmaker himself. Takahiko IIMURA`s Early Conceptual Videos are one of the starting points of Japanese video art. After coming back from New York in 1969, Taka Iimura started video production in Tokyo. Working in experimental film since the early 1960s, he first combined the art of film with video thus making a kind of flicker effect in video The Japanese concept of ma is something that was not so familiar to me. The meaning of the word ma was not clear, yet we use it in many situations. It was, indeed, a very mysterious word. To be frank, I thought it was too Japanese to handle. However in the 1970s I found an interest in the concept of ma as I was thinking a lot about the concept of time in film. Because time in film is considered duration rather than "clock time" of N+1. It is the kind of duration that Henry Bergson called duree. This concept was a starting point in making this film. - TI

The film’s dialogue has been copied from online forums as is, with no editing. Many times these “ faceless ” online conversations end up to a very surreal limbo.

Media artist and filmmaker Jan Ijäs lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Ijäs works with documentary, fiction and alternative film. The films of Ijäs deal with serious and difficult social themes, like migration into foreign and hostile societies. Ijäs`s films have been shown very widely abroad by over a hundred film festivals and as installations in museums and galleries.

Two Islands is a film about two enormous waste dumps in Staten Island and Hart Island, NYC. One is a now closed landfill, which at one point was the largest in the world, the other is a cemetary of unidentified people, still in use. Two Islands bluntly asks: what does the existence of these two huge mountains of economic and social waste tell about our civilization, and what kind of legacy will the archaeologists see in them when they are studying these a few centuries from now?

Filmmaker and media-artist Jan Ijäs (b. 1975) is a artist of lens-based art, both still and moving. The films of Ijäs tend to break the traditional boundaries of fictive and documentary films. Ijäs?s work is often displayed as gallery installations rather than in traditional movie venues incorporated with still images and text works. Ijäs?s, sometimes even humorous works, deal with serious and difficult social themes, like migration into foreign and hostile societies. Ijäs?s films have been shown very widely abroad by movie festivals (over hundred) and art museums.

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Catherine Ikam travaille depuis 1980 sur le concept de l?identité à l?age électronique et plus particulièrement sur les thèmes de l?identité et de l?apparence, du vivant et de l?artificiel, de l?humain et du modèle. Elle est considérée comme l?un des artistes pionniers dans le domaine des nouvelles technologies en Europe. En 1980 elle crée au Musée National d?Art Moderne du Centre Georges Pompidou un parcours sur le thème de l?identité, itinéraire à travers les accidents de la représentation de soi ; avec Fragments d?un Archétype et Identité III, elle introduit la fragmentation dans les installations vidéo (Nam june Paik Videocryptography 1980). Catherine Ikam a été Research Fellow au Massachussett?s Institute of Technology, auteur-producteur de programmes sur Antenne 2 consacrés aux nouvelles technologies,co- auteur avec Tod Machover d'un opéra video "Valis", coproduit par l?IRCAM et le Musée National d?Art Moderne pour le 10e anniversaire du Centre Georges Pompidou.. Elle a recu le prix Arcimboldo 2000 de la création numérique ..Elle a été artiste invité au BanffCentre for the Arts au canada en 2000 et au Studio National des Arts contemporains du Fresnoy pour l'année 2005/2006. Depuis 1990, Catherine Ikam en collaboration avec Louis Fléri réalise des installations de video numérique dans lesquelles les visiteur peuvent interagir en temps réel avec des personnages 3D et différents univers . leurs ?uvres sont présentées largement en France et à l?étranger Ils ont conçu ,notamment, L?Autre, crée en 1992 à la fondation Cartier pour l?Art contemporain,les portraits virtuels présentés pour la première fois à la biennale d?Art Contemporain de lyon,1995 : Le Messager en 1995 pour l?exposition Cités Cinés 2, à La Défense ,Alex,commandé en 1996 pour l?inauguration des nouveaux espaces de l?IRCAM/Centre Georges Pompidou , Elle réalisée en 1999 pour l?exposition Portraits :Réel/Virtuel à la Maison Européenne de la Photographie et présentée largement en France entre 2000 et 2003, le Cube (,Issy les moulineaux,) Agora 2000,IRCAM/Centre Georges Pompidou, ISEA 2000,(Paris.) Le Grand Album"(,Chalon sur saone)," Et à l?étranger ,Deutsches Museum ( Munich),Musée Seralves (Porto), Ars Electronica .Future Museum (Linz,)."Science Museum ( London ) Oscar a été crée en 2005 pour l?exposition ?Paris à Shanghai? pour l?exposition Paris à Shanghai à l?Art Museum de Shanghai. une rétrospective « Digital Diaries »a été consacrée en juin 2007 à Catherine Ikam par la Maison Européenne de la Photographie à Paris ; En 2012,elle à été invitée par le Nam June Paik Center à Séoul dans le cadre de l?exposition « Nostalgia is an extended feedback » qui a lieu de juillet 2012 à février 2013 ; Catherine Ikam prépare actuellement avec Roland Auzet un spectacle pour 2013/ 2014 sur un texte de Fabrice Melquiot « aucun homme n?est une ile «

‘The Seventh Shift’ is a film and a 3-screen installation about a woman who manages to maintain her integrity by avoiding the paradigms imposed by the social conditions of existence, focusing instead on the world beyond material dimension with its many limitations. Continual ritual gestures that do not involve obtaining a profit and an irrational faith in an unattainable have become the main basis of the film in which the prosaic mundanity is not expressed explicitly but through the visual poetry of a town in decay.

An explorer from the past (or present) arrives in the Galapagos Islands for the first time to have a tactile encounter with rocks and tortoises. In the darkness of the volcanic tunnels the beasts transfigure freely. Giant tortoises hold the mystery of the universe in the scars on their backs, and to their misfortune they are also a craved food for hungry sailors who prowl the Pacific Ocean aimlessly.

Oscar ILLINGWORTH (1993, Ecuador) is a non-fiction filmmaker and editor who studied Film at the University of Navarra in 2016. He has taken part in various film projects in South America and participated at Berlinale Talents BAFICI in Buenos Aires.

Film-joke, using a play on words. The action is in an old flat, where several families have been living together. They have one bathroom for the whole flat and nobody has wanted to repair it. Why? Because it is a common room. When you have money, you can buy your own flat and take care of it as you want.

Victoria Ilyushkina was born January 15th, 1971. She was graduated in 1995 from the Department of Painting at the Serov Art College, St Petersburg. Ilyushnika first studied at the Art History and Art Theory department of the St Russian Academy of Art Institute of Painting, then a sculpture and architecture I.E.Repina in St.-Petersburg (diploma), and then from 2003 to 2005 at the Pro Arte Institute, Foundation for Art and Culture, New Media Art Studies Program (diploma).

Prolific background actor Jill Goldston takes centre stage in this unique portrait. Constructed entirely from Jill’s performances – captured fleetingly in everything from Mr. Bean to The Elephant Man – the film is a lyrical journey through popular culture, and a haunting study of a life lived out of focus.

Anthony Ing is a British and Canadian filmmaker and composer whose work explores existing cultural artefacts with a particular focus on the relationship between identity and performance. Co-founder of production outfit, Loop, they have produced a range of artist-led film and television projects since 2014, receiving awards at the Griersons, BFI London Film Festival and the British Independent Film Awards.