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A portrait of the Berlin based performer Kaspar Kameleon. We follow him from his rehearsal at home to the cabaret where he performs. He takes us to his hometown, the village of Stockhausen in the center of Germany, to meet his relatives and see that the people are welcoming him and glad to see him performing an Easter show. We meet his mother who generously talks about her feelings about her son being a drag performer. Kapsar is a Berlin underground night life legend and this film, the second that Fred Koenig has made about him (cf: "The Colours of Kaspar Kameleon", 2003), is more of a homage to this generous and creative artist and a lesson of tolerance.

I travelled and lived in Mexico, Germany, New York, Haïti, and South Africa. These places have destabilised my occidental vision of the world. My inspiration comes from the people I had the opportunity to meet during these trips. Their stories and behaviours help me to develop my work. Through their experiences and my observations, I redefine myself and my research according to what I call 'The Longing of Belonging'. This sums up my work. I am neither an observer nor an anthropologist, I interact, live, and participate, but do not anticipate. Via media like photography, video, and dance, I bring not only entertainment but a matter of reflection to the audience.

John, a famous rock star, accidentally dies during a live gig with his band and awakes in nirvana. There he has to face his wishes and actions.

Jan Koester was born 1978 in Berlin. After going to school in Freiburg and Wilhelmshaven he returned to Berlin to study animation at the HFF "Konrad Wolf". After 3 years of working on it, he finished his diploma film "Our Man In Nirvana" in November 2005. He is currently working on a new short film.

In an empty house, a young woman hears a voice. The tales it evokes lead her to recreate scenes from her grandmother’s past life. Through objects found at home, Kohandel's short interview-film explores gender roles in early 20th-century Iran. As a young girl, marriage to her older cousin leads to years of control and frustration. Rebelling against her husband, she eventually relocates to France with her sons, building a new life. As she voices her own story, the film weaves her experiences together into a broader narrative of self-determination. She carves out her independence in Paris and finds comfort in the everyday. A simple kind of happiness follows, the sparrow is free.

Niki Kohandel (b. 2000, Paris) is an artist and filmmaker, in her third year of undergraduate studies at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Niki films mothers and daughters, houses and flowers, and all sorts of things which, like relationships, can be nurtured, but also grow out of control. She uses obsolete recording devices and her imperfect knowledge of languages to document and tell stories, creating at the interplay between the analogue and the digital.

The video took place in two locations: Buffalo, New York (USA) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Holding the camera, it serves as an extension of the artist?s eyes. A windy night, before the rain, a camera-eye. It has captured yearnings, solitude and time.

Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Siew-wai Kok is a video artist, also working with sound and performance. Her work explores intimate subjects in everyday life such as emotion, solitude and spiritual yearnings. Siew-wai received her Bachelor of Arts in Media Study at University at Buffalo, and her Master of Fine Art in Electronic Integrated Arts at Alfred University. She has participated in international festivals such as the 25hrs International Videoart Show 2003 (Spain), Signal & Noise 2006 (Canada), the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007 (The Netherlands). Siew-wai is currently teaching at the Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia.

Do you sometimes feel like you`re being watched? Who is watching whom? Whose life are we living right now? Looking at the mirror, who do you see?

KOK Kai Foong studied Computer Science at Tamkang University (Taiwan) and became a film critic in 1996. Since 2002 he has made several shorts, next to his work as a freelance software engineer.

Green Land takes place in rural Latvia. Depicting a collective farm worker, it personifies both personal as well as state memory, in different ways. The main characters, former collective farm workers Ir?na, Veronika and L?cije, recount their experiences, offering us a glimpse of a bygone era and openly participating in the performance offered to them. Films key image – the gestalt of history – is a concrete sculpture by Rasma Bruz?te from 1952. The title of the film comes from the concept of a green, verdant land. It is also the title of a classic book by Latvian writer Andrejs Up?ts, a Soviet-era epic to which the young literary scholar Arnis, has devoted his life to.

Jaana Kokko is an artist, filmmaker, teacher and occasional curator based in Helsinki, having her background in arts and economics. She is interested in the languages and places/ spaces of individuals in which the singularity of experience opens onto the collective and its historicity in ways that allow us to reflect on the ethical, political, and aesthetic dimensions not only of self-representation but also of the life itself as shared. Lately Kokko has been finishing two bodies of films both located in the peripheries, trying to shift the gaze to the outskirts of the sight and hear. In her practice she is now in the search of the common: the emergent need for the change that is starting from our practices of art making, learning and being together. Her work has been exhibited f.ex. at the Lithuanian National Gallery in Vilnius, Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Tallinn Art Hall, Helsinki Art Hall, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Botkyrka Konsthall, Joensuu Art Museum and Lappeenranta Art Museum in Finland, Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival and Tokyo Media Art Festival.

The film explores the interplay between the real and the imagined, the collective and the personal, and raises the question: how has collective memory of the Second World War been manipulated? Public commemoration, the aggressive patriotic indoctrination of children, and the cult of victory have shaped a war-centered identity and national narrative in Russia. In contrast, individual memories of those who lived through the Second World War often reflect its violence and tragedy. Could this discrepancy between individual and collective memory offer a way to challenge and break free from the nationalist narrative of the past?

Jeanna Kolesova (b. 1988, Moorland Village, Russia) is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher. Working across moving image, performance, web, installation, and text, their work explores the manipulation of history, information, and the impact of imperial technologies on bodies and landscapes. Kolesova studied documentary film and photography in St. Petersburg, interactive media at CalArts, and experimental film at the Berlin University of Arts. Their works have been exhibited in Prague, Berlin, Dresden, Baden-Baden, LA, Tokyo, and St.Petersburg. Kolesova has received the KUNSTFONDS (2024) and Karl Hofer (2023) scholarships and participated in the Berlin Goldrausch artist program (2024).

Taisuke drives through futuristic Tokyo nights. Luminous express ways reflect vastness and infinitude with networks connecting humans, vehicles and visions. Caress ... a hypnotic visual of today?s ubiquitous journeys.

BIOGRAPHY SELENE KOLMAN OCCUPATION 2002 ? teaching at University of Utrecht (New Media and Digital Culture) EDUCATION 1994 - M.A. Philosophy, University of Amsterdam 1993 - B.A. Art Academy Minerva, Groningen 1990 -Propaedeutics Art History, University Groningen BIOGRAPHY STEF KOLMAN OCCUPATION 2003 ? creative director MediaCatalyst, Amsterdam EDUCATION 1993 - M.A. History&Theory Architectural Association, London 1992 - B.A. The Design Academy, Eindhoven BIOGRAPHY STIJN VAN SANTEN Stijn van Santen was born in 1965 in Amsterdam. After completing his studies at the Sint Joost Academy of Art in Breda in 1992, he was cameraman (16mm) for Miss Blanche and Leklicht by Mark de Cloe, Some Like It Hot and Can?t U Hear me Singing by Walter Stokman, De Tijdreiziger by Dick Tuinder and Jannes de Film by Rein Hazewinkel. In 1993 he received the Grolsch Prize for new talent during the Dutch Film Festival in 1993. He directed Igitur, Act of Presence and Goud, for which he won the Golden Flame. In 1995, he directed Downstairs, that was nominated for a Golden Calf. His recent films are Ichiko, Laatste woorden (documentary) and Talmen for which he won the Golden Calf and most recent Profs (Kort! 2004).

By using my camera as a searchlight, silently tracing textures, narrative space is revealed. The captured images and sounds will recall places within our own memory. Each fixed moment is like a capsule of time, a reminder of a future forgotten in the past.

Kolster [NL 1978] is a visual artist with a background in design. Recently, the focus of her work shifted more towards video and film; capturing details from urban locations, visualizing fragments of stories of these environments. She uses different strategies, from time-based media (video, film, photography) to appropriated research methods belonging to different observational disciplines (journalism, documentary & archeology).

Troisième volet de The American West Trilogy (les deux premiers volets étant Nome Road System et Milltown, Montana (VdR, 2010)), ce film est un portrait poignant et complexe de la vie et des paysages du désert de Mojave. Par sa structure désarticulée qui évoque presque le "fingerpicking" minimaliste de John Fahey, tel un blues décharné perdu dans le temps, le film observe la façon dont la vie s`imbrique et s`écarte de la trame d`un mode de vie américain complètement oublié par les politiques de l`idéologie néolibérale. On y entend le poète et détenu Stanley »Spoon« Jackson, condamné en 1977 à perpétuité sans possibilité de libération conditio-nnelle et qui a séjourné dans plus d`une demi-douzaine de prisons californiennes, lire des passages de son autobiographie By Heart. Des images d`un monde imprégné par la pure mythologie américaine sont entrecou-pées et noyées dans la réalité et les conséquences brutales de politiques financières implacables. »Barstow, California« incarne assurément l`autre côté du rêve américain. Giona A. Nazzaro

Geboren 1944 in Guben. Filmstudium an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Meisterschüler. Filmprojekte in Alaska, Indien, Japan, Jemen, Kalifornien, Lettland und Montana. »Barstow, California« wurde mit dem ARTE Dokumentarfilmpreis 2018 ausgezeichnet, »Nome Road System« mit dem Deutschen Kurzfilmpreis 2004, »B 224« mit dem Hessischen Filmpreis 2001, »Zigeuner in Duisburg« mit dem Preis der Deutschen Filmkritik 1980. Ruhrpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft 2006. Masterclass IDF / Prag (2012); Videonale.scope Retrospektive / Köln (2014) http://www.videonale.org/en/VideonaleScope-2014; Iasi-Installation (2015) https://vimeo.com/135471613; Villa Kamogawa / Goethe-Institut Kyoto (2015) https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/de/kul/res/sti/s15/rko.html. Festival-Screenings in 35 Ländern; Preise in Kanada, Frankreich, Polen und USA. Regie, Kamera, Word Art, Gedicht. Lebt in Berlin und Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Mollies is a queer-feminist collective that had been living at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz in Berlin for nearly a decade. The Garden Cadences documents their last summer there before being evicted. Jone is ready to fly. She finds herself at the beginning of something new, but before she moves on, there needs to be a closure. Jone is one of Mollies, the queer-feminist collective that had been living for a decade at a trailer park next to Ostkreuz, Berlin. The Garden Cadences traces their last summer before being evicted.

Dane Komljen, born in 1986 in Banja Luka. He made three feature films, THE GARDEN CADENCES, AFTERWATER and ALL THE CITIES OF THE NORTH, and numerous shorts exploring notions of body, space, utopia and being together. His films were awarded at Festival del Film Locarno, IFF Rotterdam, Festival de Cannes, Sarajevo FF, New Horizons IFF, Festival de Sevilla and shown at Berlinale, Cinéma du Réel, FID Marseille, Toronto IFF, New York FF, FIC Valdivia, VIENNALE, Mar del Plata IFF, FICUNAM, Hong Kong IFF, CPH:DOX, Jeonju IFF, Art of the Real, 25 FPS and others. His work has been presented at the ICA in London, Volksbühne in Berlin, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Union Docs in New York, Lagos Biennale and elsewhere. He lives and works in Berlin.

A sadistic commander forces a group of actors pretending to be soldiers into acts of violence, while a film crew captures the chilling reality.

Vero Kompalic is a Venezuelan filmmaker, programmer and painter. She focuses her scholarship work on postcolonial feminist discourse, with publications on the sexual transgression of Breillat’s work and the radical cinema of Mariana Rondon. She served as an AP and writer on SUMMERTIME, which premiered at SUNDANCE and was theatrically released in 2021. In 2020 she founded DISCORDIA, an independent production company, with her longtime collaborators.

The story of this video comes from a short novel, ?The Name of Wu-mei,? written by Siu-cheong Yuen. Yuen used an extraordinary narrative direction to present the story. He pushed the audience to question our own sense during the reading. The story is about the narrator, Nin Kuen, telling us the process of completing the novel ?The Name of Wu-mei.? During the narration, we find out the hint we get may be about other lies.

In 2000 and 2005, Kongkee received a BA in Fine Arts from the Chinese University and a MFA from the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Then, he started his comic and video work, such as the on-line comic: Rice-Gas. In 2003, his comic series Imperfect Shoes were published. His recent video works with the writing of novelist Siu-cheong Yuen: "Name of Wu Mei," which was just selected by the Hong Kong Art Biennial 2005 at the Hong Kong Art Museum.

Das Haus deepens the exploration of sculptural architecture that Aglaia Konrad conducted with the series of 16mm films Concrete and Samples. Shot in a house designed by architect Juliaan Lampens in Sint-Martens-Latem (Belgium), the film resumes the artist’s interest on the possibilities of the cinematic medium to generate –rather than capture - an architectural experience. An experience which, in this film, surpasses the visual to mobilize bodily perception and even desire. Konrad’s editing carefully measures the doses of perceptual information it provides to our orientation drive in a process that departs from an initial willingness to orient oneself towards the pleasure of surrendering to disorientation and fragmentation. A disorientation that could be called “perverse” in the sense that Freud bestowed to the word –perverse pleasures are those which linger in the detour; in the resistance to result in a productive goal– insofar as the film replaces the production of a representation of space in favour of perceptive defamiliarization and tactile pleasure. Architecture and film are constantly looking at each other in a piece in which "angle", "transition", "cut", "sequence", "frame", " joint", " fold " and "rhythm" are notions that are spread from one discipline to the other as if the camera and editing would be reading the space as a composition score. There are two architectural comparisons that are often applied to filmmaking: the idea of cinema as a "window" and as “mirror". Das Haus, entangles and complicates those comparisons by treating windows as interfaces that blur the inside and outside and whose transparency acquires materiality, and by using mirrors as devices that disrupt form pushing it to a state of potentiality. In Das Haus the screen is no longer a window but rather a skin: for it is a body interface, a tactile surface and a membrane that is neither safe nor transparent because it reveals its inner cinematic compositional strategies.

Aglaia Konrad is a photography based artist living in Brussels whose work has focused mainly on metropolitan urban space. She has been advising researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and is currently teaching at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels. She had presented her work in solo exhibitions in Siegen, Antwerp, Geneva, Graz, Cologne and New York, among other cities, as well as in international group shows such as Documenta X (1997), Cities on the Move (1998-1999) and Talking Cities (2006). Her work has been documented in several exhibitions catalogues and monographic publications such as 'Elasticity' (2002) and 'Iconocity' (2005). For her book 'Desert Cities' (2008) she received the Infinity award for the best photo book 2009 of the International Center for Photography, New York. The book 'Carrara' (2011) won the Fernand Baudin Prize 2011. Before the trilogy Concrete & Samples (2009-2010) she made the film Sculpture House (2008, 12'05") based on a house built in 1968 around Liège (BE) by Jacques Gillet, Felix Roulin and René Greisch.

The subject of Aglaia Konrad’s 16mm films is modernist architecture but rather than a form of architecture on film, or film on architecture, her films investigate the potential for film to embody the experience of architecture as sculpture. The protagonist here is ‘La Scala’, a villa on Lake Garda, designed by Vittoriano Vigano for André Bloc in 1958. The ‘multiple projection’ (split-screen) of La Scala proposes a multiplicity of perspectives and, more significantly, a succession of combined images.

Aglaia Konrad (1960, Salzburg) criss-crosses urban spaces. Her photographs, films and installations zoom in on exceptional buildings and the transformation of cities. She focuses on the way architecture is visualised and exhibited. Aglaia Konrad lives in Brussels and teaches at LUCA School of Arts. She had presented her work in solo exhibitions in Siegen, Antwerp, Geneva, Graz, Cologne and New York, among other cities, as well as in international group shows such as Documenta X (1997), Cities on the Move (1998-1999) and Talking Cities (2006). Her work has been documented in several exhibitions catalogues and monographic publications such as ‘Elasticity’ (2002) and ‘Iconocity’ (2005). For her book ‘Desert Cities’ (2008) she received the Infinity award for the best photo book 2009 of the International Center for Photography, New York. The book ‘Carrara’ (2011) won the Fernand Baudin Prize 2011. In 2016 she published ‘From A to K’ (Buchhandlung Walther Konig).

Sequenza is an experimental film project by Manon de Boer and George van Dam based on the composition Sequenza VIII for solo violin by Luciano Berio . From a long history of cooperation - to include the soundtrack of Manon de Boer's film trilogy Sylvia Kristel - Paris (2003), Resonating Surfaces (2005) and Think about Wood, Think about Metal (2011) and her portrait of George van Dam in Presto, Perfect Sound (2006) - came the desire to work together to make a movie based on Sequenza VIII . This piece is for its crystalline structure one of the most beloved compositions by George van Dam . Together with Manon de Boer, he wants to explore how rhythm and structure of this composition can be articulated in conjunction with moving images to penetrate. So even deeper into the composition Manon de Boer is fascinated by the image of the intimate contact of the chin, the ears, the face of the violinist with the violin, which extends in the movement of his arms and hands to the body and space, the instrument - body of the violin as a material, physical transition between two abstract elusive poles : that of the mental construction of the composition and experience of its sounds in space. Van Dam and de Boer have developed the following idea from these different interests. In several recordings of Dam filmed (and sound is recorded) when he performs Sequenza VIII . Emphasizing first half total, the body and the intimacy with the instrument. Then abstract details filmed, like his hands, his ear, details of the violin, strings and the like. In the editing is from the portrait / body of the violinist a more fragmented, abstract image created a physical, gives spatial experience in the tension between the music and the image rhythm. If the body and the violin in abstract details and solve dancing away in the (sound) space.

Manon de Boer (°1966 in Kodaicanal, India) completed her artistic education at the Akademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam, and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Using personal narration and musical interpretation as both method and subject, de Boer explores the relationship between language, time, and truth claims to produce a series of portrait films in which the film medium itself is continuously interrogated. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at the Venice Biennial (2007), Berlin Biennial (2008), Sao Paolo Biennial (2010), Documenta (2012) and has also been included in numerous film festivals in Hong Kong, Marseille, Rotterdam and Vienna. Her work has been the subject of monographic exhibitions at Witte de With in Rotterdam (2008), Frankfurter Kunstverein (2008), London South Gallery (2010), Index in Stockholm (2011), Contemporary Art Museum of St Louis (2011) and Museum of Art Philadelphia (2012), among others. De Boer currently teaches at the School of Arts in Ghent and ERG in Brussels. She lives and works in Brussels.

Concrete & Samples I, II, III is a series of 16mm films on sculptural architecture. What the buildings and site in all films have in common is the idea of ?architecture as sculpture? and a very distinct use of concrete that seem to depart from the free form of the whole in a sculptural manner. In the absence of a traditional narrative, it is the space itself, that takes the role of the protagonist, while the camera proposes a narration through its travel and observation. The church of Fritz Wotruba, in Vienna looks like an enlarged piece of abstract sculpture, a kind of three-dimensional synthetic cubist arrangement of 152 concrete blocks arranged vertically and horizontally, but asymmetrically, in which the narrow spaces produced in-between are made use of as windows and doors.

Aglaia Konrad is a photography based artist living in Brussels whose work has focused mainly on metropolitan urban space. She has been advising researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht and is currently teaching at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brussels. She had presented her work in solo exhibitions in Siegen, Antwerp, Geneva, Graz, Cologne and New York, among other cities, as well as in international group shows such as Documenta X (1997), Cities on the Move (1998-1999) and Talking Cities (2006). Her work has been documented in several exhibitions catalogues and monographic publications such as `Elasticity` (2002) and `Iconocity` (2005). For her latest book `Desert Cities` (2008) she received the Infinity award for the best photo book 2009 of the International Center for Photography, New York.

De Boer invited the Brussels-based pianist Jean-Luc Fafchamps to play John Cage?s eponymous composition 4?33? twice in front of a live audience in a studio space of the P.A.R.T.S. (The Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels. Once, with one single still take, the camera films his execution of the ?silent? musical composition, complete with the three punctuations indicated on Cage?s simple line score at 1?40?, 2?23? and 30?, which the otherwise still and absorbed Fafchamps interprets by striking a timer. Filmed on 35 mm film, which ensures palpable visual detail, this first part is married to its synchronously recorded ambient sound, which is played in Dolby surround when the work is projected. For the second performance, and the second part of her film, De Boer cut all sound, interjecting only with the timer?s click at 1?40? and 2?23? and 30? into the 4?33? filmed performance. The camera travels in a long pan that begins where the first section does, at Fafchamps, but then moves in a steadily along every member of his audience and finally travels outside the studio door to show a parochial landscape at the edge of the city centre cut through by telephone wires and animated by wind-blown bushes. None of this is heard. Viewed in a cinema setting, the second performance, and the second part of the projected film relies on the ambient silence of the live audience. (Monika Szewczyk)

Manon de Boer (°India) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She makes films, videos, installations, publications and she teaches at KASK. She`s part of the production-distribution platform named Auguste Orts. Using personal narration as a method, Manon de Boer explores the relationship, between language, time and claims to truth. She also explores the perception of time through a conscious use of film as an artistic mediator and in analysis of its effect on the viewer. The way she divests image, sound and music in her compositions, subtly alters the classic pattern of perception of film.

In 1968, the island of Sicily suffered a huge earthquake that completely devastated several villages, including Gibellina. Il Grande Cretto, the intervention projected by the Italian artist Alberto Burri for the ruins of Gibellina, a small village in the western part of the Island. This intervention - which took over thirty years to complete, after successive interruptions and recommences - is for me the most crystalline and powerful implementation of what may be described, in an apparent paradox, as a contemporary monument. The radical aspect of this place is that the monument coincides with the memory of the event. It is therefore, a performative piece - a living monument. The monument is the place, on a 1:1 scale. Aglaia Konrad’s films are careful and rigorous approximations to certain places or realities. In her films she works with matter (light, sound, memory and perception), on the one hand, and with language (editing, rhythm and repetition) on the other. The 16mm film IL CRETTO (transferred to video), uses of a split-screen (recorded in- camera) and dual projection.

AGLAIA KONRAD Austrian, self-taught as an artist, lives in Brussels and teaches at the LUCA School of Arts. She participated in numerous international exhibitions such as Dokumenta X, 1997 in Kassel; "Cities on the Move" 1998 and 1999 (Bordeaux, New York, London, Helsinki, Wien); Shanghai Biennale 2000, "Gazes of Architecture on the Body", Tokyo Wonder Site and Museum of Contemporary Art, Kumamoto, "In the First Circle", Tapies Foundation Barcelona, EMINENT DOMAINS (proper names), Robert Miller Gallery, New York City; Hollein, MAK Vienna; The Brutalism Appreciation Society, HMKV Dortmund, 2009 a soloshow at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Siegen; Sainsbury Gallery Norwich; Fotohof Salzburg; STUK und Netwerk Aalst; in 2016 M Museum, Leuven. "Aglaia Konrad. From A to K", kam bei Koenig Books heraus. Published books: Elasticity (2002); Iconocity (2005); Desert Cities (2008); Carrara (2011 ); Zweimal Belichtet (2013); Aglaia Konrad: From A to K ; SCHAUBUCH: Skulptur (2017).