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Syncopated Green calls on the history of outdoor free parties to re-describe the English Countryside. The film listens to rave music, past and present, to help forget the official portrayal of England as picturesque, nostalgic, white, and rural. These traditional images of a “proper” England not only prop up the walls of national museums still today, but they also feed a growing conservativism that sustains Imperial fantasies, slavery legacies and Brexit realities. Music, especially music inspired by nature and designed to be played in the outdoors, has a unique way of expressing the landscape. Syncopated Green aims to include rave music into the English landscape genre and tradition – turning imperial history inside out. Rave music and its wider culture, importantly, celebrates black and brown artists and audiences, and has done so since its inception. Somewhere between a music video, a memoir, and an essay, the film asks, how might the current socio-political situation and looming future be different if we had other histories to lean on and dance with?

Arjuna Neuman b.1984, is an artist, filmmaker and writer, with recent presentations at MACBA Barcelona, CCA Glasgow; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Manifesta 10, Marseille; Showroom Gallery, London; TPW Gallery, Toronto; Forum Expanded, Berlin Berlinale; Jameel Art Centre, Dubai; Berlin Biennial 10, Germany; Serpentine, London X Qalandia Biennial, Palestine; Gasworks, London; Bold Tendencies, London, UK; Or Gallery, Vancouver; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; MAAT and Docslisboa, Portugal; Sharjah Biennial 13, UAE; Bergen Assembly, Norway; at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore; the 56th Venice Biennale and SuperCommunity; Industry of Light, London; the Haus Der Kulturen der Welt; at Ashkal Alwan and the Beirut Art Centre, Lebanon; Le Gaite Lyric, Paris; the Canadian Centre for Architecture; and the Rat School of Art, Seoul amongst others. As a writer, he has published essays in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Magazine, Concord, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings and e-flux.

What is the possibility, barbarism or folly of making art, poetry, film while a genocide is happening in front of our eyes?

Arjuna Neuman is an artist and writer. He has presented solo mid-career surveys at MACBA in Barcelona, Munch Museum in Oslo, and Belkin Gallery in Vancouver and forthcoming at Kunsthalle Bern. He has presented solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Vienna; CCA Glasgow; Showroom Gallery, London; TPW Gallery, Toronto; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; MAAT, Portugal amongst many others. He has participated in the Berlin Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Bergen Assembly, the 56th Venice Biennial, Qalandia Biennial, Ural Industrial Biennial, Hacer Noche in Mexico and many other large group exhibitions. He has been included in film festivals such as Berlinale, Images Festival, Docsliboa, Third Horizon. In 2024 he won the Artist Moving Image prize at Les Rencontre International Festival; in 2024 he was a fellow at Villa Aurora and in 2022 a fellow at the Flaherty Seminar. His work is kept in the Belkin Collection, Kunsthalle Bern Collectors Circle; IAC Lyon and Platform UK. He has a forthcoming monograph published with Archive Books. As a writer, he has published essays in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Magazine, Concord, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings and e-flux. He is the founder of Archive of Belonging, a platform and resource list supporting migrants and refugees.

Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum is a film dedicated to tenderness. It reproduces a radical sensibility learned from listening to the blues, from listening to skin, to heat, and from listening to echoes, listening itself. Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum is a newly commissioned film and installation by Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva. Against and instead of apprehension, it fosters an image of existence in which attention twins the gentleness of touch as recalled by haptic and sonic expressions.

Arjuna Neuman is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. As a writer he has published essays in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Magazine, Concord, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings Journal, and e- flux. He studied at California Institute of the Arts. He works with the essay form with a multi-perspectival and mobile approach where ‘essay’ is an inherently future-oriented and experimental mode, becoming the guiding principle for research and production, which shifts between the bodily, haptic, and affective through to the geopolitical, planetary and cosmological. Denise Ferreira da Silva is a practicing artist and an academic - Director and Professor at the Social Justice Institute-GRSJ at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A Dívida Impagavel (2019), and co-editor of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013). Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, such as Social Text, Theory, Culture & Society, Social Identities, PhiloSOPHIA, Griffith Law Review, Theory & Event, The Black Scholar, to name a few. Her work addresses the ethico- political challenges of the global present. She is a member of several boards including Haus de Kulturen de Welt (Berlin), International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs and the journals Postmodern Culture, Social Identities, and Dark Matter.

First Fugue is an experiment to find a way of putting documentary images together as if in a fugue like state. A fugue is a dissociative disorder like amnesia, although it also compels the subject to drift both in space and in identity. A fugue is caused by extremely traumatic events.

Arjuna Neuman was born on an airplane, that’s why he has two passports. He shows his work internationally with recent exhibitions in Germany at State of the Art and Haus Der Kunst der Welt; in Lebanon at Ashkal Alwan and Beirut Art Centre; in Canada at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Richmond Art Gallery; in France at Le Gaite Lyric; in Australia at Verge Gallery Sydney University; in Russia at the Moscow Museum; in USA at the Torrance Art Museum, Machine Projects and Human Resources amongst others. As a writer he has published articles in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Press, Concord Press, Art Voices, and he is currently working on a text for E-Flux.com on the profit of smiling. Arjuna Neuman is based in Beirut and Los Angeles, where he founded the artist-run gallery and collective Concord.

Port 1 is the first chapter of Caesium Forest, an ongoing project that explores five different yet inter-connected relationships (ports) to technology. Each relation could be interpreted as a type of reverence?spiritual or scientific. The project starts with the atomic bomb in Wendover and traces out a space shuttle?s retirement, Christian techno-music as worship, TED Talks, and returns to the government nuclear facilities of Oakridge, TN. The goal is to bring these different yet inter-connected narratives together, to create a filmic ecosystem. In particular the project will draw its formal structure from the way radioactive tracers were used to identify the relationships across biota within a given ecosystem. In fact it was only through the radioactive contamination of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge that provided the means for ecology to develop as we know it today. Port 1: Lost in the Caesium Forest begins this story in Wendover ? the former largest US airforce base and home to the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic missions. Port 1 assembles a dream like sequence in the ruined Utah/Nevada landscape, where World War 2 history becomes casino, becomes Hard Times Pawn Shop, becomes fireworks, becomes SWAT team forced entry, becomes a Christian rave ? all the while preparing us for the future.

Arjuna Neuman was born on an airplane, that?s why he has two passports. He is a filmmaker, writer and artist. He exhibits his work internationally including recent shows in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Switzerland and Germany. Recent exhibitions include ?ich bin naimah? at Seven Swans, Frankfurt; ?Arjuna Neuman? at the Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; and ?ABC ? Montreal? at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. His videos have been screened at Redcat Gallery, Culture Unplugged, Verge Gallery, Out the Window Festival, Video Row and Richmond Art Gallery. His writing has appeared in Art Voices, The Journal for New Writing and Into the Pines Press amongst others. He is the co-founder of the research gallery and collective ? Concord in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, where he lives, collaborates and works.

What is the possibility, barbarism or folly of making art, poetry, film while a genocide is happening in front of our eyes?

Arjuna Neuman is an artist and writer. He has presented solo mid-career surveys at MACBA in Barcelona, Munch Museum in Oslo, and Belkin Gallery in Vancouver and forthcoming at Kunsthalle Bern. He has presented solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Vienna; CCA Glasgow; Showroom Gallery, London; TPW Gallery, Toronto; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Istanbul Modern, Turkey; MAAT, Portugal amongst many others. He has participated in the Berlin Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Bergen Assembly, the 56th Venice Biennial, Qalandia Biennial, Ural Industrial Biennial, Hacer Noche in Mexico and many other large group exhibitions. He has been included in film festivals such as Berlinale, Images Festival, Docsliboa, Third Horizon. In 2024 he won the Artist Moving Image prize at Les Rencontre International Festival; in 2024 he was a fellow at Villa Aurora and in 2022 a fellow at the Flaherty Seminar. His work is kept in the Belkin Collection, Kunsthalle Bern Collectors Circle; IAC Lyon and Platform UK. He has a forthcoming monograph published with Archive Books. As a writer, he has published essays in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Magazine, Concord, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings and e-flux. He is the founder of Archive of Belonging, a platform and resource list supporting migrants and refugees.

Soot Breath / Corpus Infinitum is a film dedicated to tenderness. It reproduces a radical sensibility learned from listening to the blues, from listening to skin, to heat, and from listening to echoes, listening itself. Soot Breath // Corpus Infinitum is a newly commissioned film and installation by Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva. Against and instead of apprehension, it fosters an image of existence in which attention twins the gentleness of touch as recalled by haptic and sonic expressions.

Arjuna Neuman is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. As a writer he has published essays in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Magazine, Concord, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings Journal, and e- flux. He studied at California Institute of the Arts. He works with the essay form with a multi-perspectival and mobile approach where ‘essay’ is an inherently future-oriented and experimental mode, becoming the guiding principle for research and production, which shifts between the bodily, haptic, and affective through to the geopolitical, planetary and cosmological. Denise Ferreira da Silva is a practicing artist and an academic - Director and Professor at the Social Justice Institute-GRSJ at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), A Dívida Impagavel (2019), and co-editor of Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime (2013). Her several articles have been published in leading interdisciplinary journals, such as Social Text, Theory, Culture & Society, Social Identities, PhiloSOPHIA, Griffith Law Review, Theory & Event, The Black Scholar, to name a few. Her work addresses the ethico- political challenges of the global present. She is a member of several boards including Haus de Kulturen de Welt (Berlin), International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs and the journals Postmodern Culture, Social Identities, and Dark Matter.

First Fugue is an experiment to find a way of putting documentary images together as if in a fugue like state. A fugue is a dissociative disorder like amnesia, although it also compels the subject to drift both in space and in identity. A fugue is caused by extremely traumatic events.

Arjuna Neuman was born on an airplane, that’s why he has two passports. He shows his work internationally with recent exhibitions in Germany at State of the Art and Haus Der Kunst der Welt; in Lebanon at Ashkal Alwan and Beirut Art Centre; in Canada at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Richmond Art Gallery; in France at Le Gaite Lyric; in Australia at Verge Gallery Sydney University; in Russia at the Moscow Museum; in USA at the Torrance Art Museum, Machine Projects and Human Resources amongst others. As a writer he has published articles in Relief Press, Into the Pines Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Press, Concord Press, Art Voices, and he is currently working on a text for E-Flux.com on the profit of smiling. Arjuna Neuman is based in Beirut and Los Angeles, where he founded the artist-run gallery and collective Concord.

Port 1 is the first chapter of Caesium Forest, an ongoing project that explores five different yet inter-connected relationships (ports) to technology. Each relation could be interpreted as a type of reverence?spiritual or scientific. The project starts with the atomic bomb in Wendover and traces out a space shuttle?s retirement, Christian techno-music as worship, TED Talks, and returns to the government nuclear facilities of Oakridge, TN. The goal is to bring these different yet inter-connected narratives together, to create a filmic ecosystem. In particular the project will draw its formal structure from the way radioactive tracers were used to identify the relationships across biota within a given ecosystem. In fact it was only through the radioactive contamination of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge that provided the means for ecology to develop as we know it today. Port 1: Lost in the Caesium Forest begins this story in Wendover ? the former largest US airforce base and home to the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic missions. Port 1 assembles a dream like sequence in the ruined Utah/Nevada landscape, where World War 2 history becomes casino, becomes Hard Times Pawn Shop, becomes fireworks, becomes SWAT team forced entry, becomes a Christian rave ? all the while preparing us for the future.

Arjuna Neuman was born on an airplane, that?s why he has two passports. He is a filmmaker, writer and artist. He exhibits his work internationally including recent shows in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Switzerland and Germany. Recent exhibitions include ?ich bin naimah? at Seven Swans, Frankfurt; ?Arjuna Neuman? at the Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; and ?ABC ? Montreal? at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. His videos have been screened at Redcat Gallery, Culture Unplugged, Verge Gallery, Out the Window Festival, Video Row and Richmond Art Gallery. His writing has appeared in Art Voices, The Journal for New Writing and Into the Pines Press amongst others. He is the co-founder of the research gallery and collective ? Concord in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, where he lives, collaborates and works.

A speculative and poetic exploration of the entanglements and overlaps of historical events in the Atacama Desert (Chile), the film, told from the perspective of the wind, takes us on a visual journey, floating freely through the many sites and histories of the Atacama. Exploring some of the largest lithium mines in the world; hovering above the remnants of colonial labour camps reactivated under the Pinochet regime, and slipping inside the international observatory of the ALMA large array facility; Ferreira da Silva and Neuman’s camera uncovers material trajectories whose planetary scope and historical depths remain invisible to the many. By pointing at how these trajectories mutated and expanded into aspects of modern geopolitical issues, Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims, exposes pillars of western thought that sustain colonial legacies of inequality, racial exclusion and human extractivism while simultaneously proposing another worldview, one that is carried and echoed by the wind.

Arjuna Neuman is an artist, filmmaker, and writer and he is the co-founder of archiveofbelonging.org – a resource database for migrants and refugees. Neuman works with the essay as a guiding, multi-perspectival and inherently future-oriented form that underpins his experimental research and creative approach. As a writer he has published essays in Relief Press, The Journal for New Writing, VIA Magazine, Concord, Art Voices, Flaunt, LEAP, Hearings Journal, and e- flux. He studied at California Institute of the Arts. Denise Ferreira da Silva is an artist and philosopher. She currently is the Samuel Rudin Professor in the Humanities at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures, at NYU. Her artistic and academic work reflect and speculate on questions crucial to contemporary philosophy, political theory, black thought, feminist thought, and historical materialism. She is the author of Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007), Unpayable Debt (2022) amongst many other titles. Arjuna Neuman and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s collaboration includes the film Serpent Rain (2016), 4 Waters-Deep Implicancy (2018), Soot Breath//Corpus Infinitum (2020), Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims (2023). Their films have been exhibited at major art venues such as MACBA (Barcelona); Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), the Pompidou Center (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London), The 56th Venice Biennale, The Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (Berlin), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), and more. In Februrary 2024, they opened a retrospective of their work at the Munch Museum in Oslo; in May 2024 the Kunsthal Extra City in Antwerp opened a solo exhibition of their work. They have a forthcoming monograph published by Archive Books.

Material em Bruto (Raw Material) was filmed over a year in the Interior Douro region. Through testimonies from local communities, Material em Bruto reflects on different, at times conflicting, notions of value in relation to the landscape and how practices of cultivation, preservation and extraction benefit and impact the people who live there. Material em Bruto (Raw Material) pays particular attention to past, present and possible future, mining activity in the region, using the mine as a metaphor to explore ideas of what is contained but not immediately visible within the landscape. Lithium represents a new ‘promise’ of wealth, the white gold that threatens to divide communities and impact the local environment. Material em Bruto (Raw Material) ties to read that which is codified or concealed by carefully listening to testimonies from the local community and by paying close attention to the marks, maps and traces that are etched into the land. The film follows an investigative process of translation, one that is informed by the knowledge (both inherited and specialised) of local community and specifically people who work with geography, topography, archeology, agriculture and geology. This situated knowledge is transformed as local memories and stories coalesce into poetic, filmic form.

Born 1981, Hobart. Lives and works Hobart and Lisbon, Portugal. James is an Australian visual artist and filmmaker born in Tasmania and based in Lisbon, Portugal. His practice is research-orientated – bound to a process of public engagement, contextual and historic investigation. James has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe, Australia and in Asia over the last 20 years and has been awarded numerous grants, international residencies and awards in recognition of his work. He has exhibited in galleries, museums and film festivals including: Podroom Gallery (solo), Belgrade, Serbia, 2024; Galeria Boavista (solo), Lisbon, Portugal, 2023; The Edith Russ Haus for Media Art (solo), Oldenburg, Germany, 2023; the Samstag Museum of Art (solo), Adelaide, Australia, 2023; Porto Photography Bienal 2021 and 2025; Carpintarias de São Lázaro (solo), Lisbon, 2020; Appleton Cultural Association (solo), Lisbon, 2019; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013 and 2019; Perth Revelation International Film Festival, 2019 and 2020; Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2007 and 2018 (solo); Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2011 (solo) and 2021; Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 2018; Ar Sólido, Lisbon, 2016; Carriageworks, Sydney, 2015; Lumiar Cite (solo), Lisbon, 2013; Queensland Art Gallery, 2012; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010; the Gallery of Fine Arts (solo), Split, Croatia, 2010; and Rosalux (solo), Berlin, 2009 and 2010. James has lectured in Time Based Media, at the University of Tasmania, School of Creative Arts and has been a visiting professor at the City University of New York; Sound Image Culture, Brussels; and the Tromsø Art Academy, University of Tromsø, Norway. He has won several prizes including the Grant for Media Art of the Stiftung Niedersachsen at the Edith-Russ-Haus (2022); the Samstag International Visual Art Scholarship (2012); the Hobart City Art Prize (2011) and the Qantas Contemporary Art Award (2009).

HAVEN is a critical and poetic reworking of the bizarre story of Sealand, a tiny, unrecognized micronation on an abandoned World War II gun tower in the North Sea. The tower has been occupied since the 1960s by a British family, who claim the artificial territory as their own, independent from state power. Originally intending to use the tower to broadcast pirate radio, the family worked with two cyber-libertarians in the early 2000s to establish the world's first data haven—what they described as "pirate internet." The data haven promised to be a refuge for unregulated data - the only truly safe place in the world to keep information. HAVEN's experimental narrative approach speculates on the rift that occurred between the family and the data haven's founders. It also touches on other failed utopias and neoliberal ventures, such as the libertarian Seasteading project, which aims to build floating communities that they describe as 'start-up countries', and Microsoft's Project Natick, the world's first undersea data center. HAVEN incorporates these references to question the possibility the sea provides for extraterritorial places — spaces beyond the territory of the state — while also critically analyzing the often capitalist and colonialist ideologies behind such ventures.

Born 1981, Hobart. Lives and works Hobart and Lisbon, Portugal. James Newitt has created a body of work that consistently engages with specific social and cultural contexts through personal, observational and performative approaches. Recent work has increasingly embraced speculative forms of storytelling as an extension of the more documentary tendencies he continues to explore. In 2012 Newitt was awarded the prestigious Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. James has exhibited in galleries, museums and film festivals including: Galeria Boavista (solo), Lisbon, 2023; Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art (solo), Oldenburg, Germany, 2023; Samstag Museum of Art (solo), Adelaide, Australia, 2023; Porto Photography Bienal 2021; Carpintarias de São Lázaro (solo), Lisbon, 2020; Appleton Cultural Association (solo), Lisbon, 2019; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013 and 2019; Perth Revelation International Film Festival, 2019 and 2020; Contemporary Art Tasmania, 2007 and 2018 (solo); Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2011 and 2021 (solo); Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 2018; Ar Sólido, Lisbon, 2016; Carriageworks, Sydney, 2015; Lumiar Cite (solo), Lisbon, 2013; Queensland Art Gallery, 2012; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010; the Gallery of Fine Arts (solo), Split, Croatia, 2010; Rosalux (solo), Berlin, 2009 and 2010; and the Art Gallery of South Australia, 2008.

What happens when two enterprising young artists abandon the sheltered sphere of art school decadence for life in the real word? A frank portrait of excess, indulgence, and dysfunction, "A Hand on the Doorknob of Greatness" follows its protagonists down a path toward inner enlightenment... and never emerges. As it turns out, the "real world" for this precocious pair of partners in their prime is one in which the most ordinary of gestures ? dressing, sitting, speaking, being ? adopt the most profoundly meaningless overtones. A veritable smorgasbord of meaninglessness ensues: Are they trapped, much like their captive audience, in a prison of their own making? Is there any escape? Who holds the keys? And does it matter? A thoroughly underachieving anti-video art art piece for the contemporary age, "A Hand on the Doorknob of Greatness" asks this and more, finally begging the question: What did I just watch?

Gigi Ng is an artist living in New York City. She graduated from a combined degree program with Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with a BA in Psychology and a BFA in Film & Video. Having recently completed a series of Rorschach paintings, Gigi is now squarely focused on a film about the Hindenburg and ongoing projects with her 'partners in prime' partner. Gigi works for The Mill, a world-leading visual effects company, with aspirations of becoming a special effects artist. David Thacker is a Boston-based artist and music critic for Boston?s Weekly Dig magazine. Having graduated from Tufts University and SMFA, Boston, with a BA in Women?s Studies and a BFA in Sculpture & Media Arts, he has since metamorphosed into an IT professional for the Massachusetts state government. David?s recent work is concerned with complicating the boundaries of art and enabling viewer participation in sculptural environments.

What if everyday was just a rehearsal for the next? Would you be satisfied with the way things are. You question the system, but does it work for you? Routines and worth. We battle that everyday

Over fifty years ago in the United States, thirteen female pilots were tested to see if they were capable of going into space as astronauts. The program was cancelled prematurely, but this medical experiment became a call for two of them, Jerrie Cobb and Janey Hart, to petition for a Congressional Hearing in an attempt to change the requirements so that women could become astronauts alongside their male counterparts. Huong Ngo and Or Zubalsky took this act of resistance as a departure point for their album and film, "Shadows Making Shadows." These videos, which combine appropriated period footage with newly shot 8mm film, serve as a love letter to these thirteen women and a contemporary reflection on systems that exclude specific bodies from representing our future.

Hương Ngô is an artist and educator, born in Hong Kong, and based in Paris, FR and Brooklyn, NY. Her work, often collaborative and performance-based, has been supported by the New Museum, Rhizome, LMCC, The Kitchen, EFA Project Space, iLAND, CulturePush, Eyebeam, Tate Modern, Vox Populi, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Museum in Prague. She is a part of the collective Fantastic Futures, is a recent Whitney Independent Study Program Fellow, and earned her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Or Zubalsky a programmer, artist, musician, and collaborator. He is a lover of sound, listening, collaboration, open source, questions, language, exchange, walking, and low technology. He is also a part of the collectives Fantastic Futures and Trade School, and music projects Juviley and The Youngest.

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi's film Into the Violet Belly is a striking work blending family lore, mythology, science fiction, and digital abstraction. The film captures the experimental collaboration between the artist and her mother, Thuyen Hoa, who survived a perilous sea journey while fleeing Vietnam after the end of the American War. The film oscillates seamlessly between multiple voices, visual registers, and timescales,—was it seven months or seven thousand years?—creating an image of multitudes: migrating bodies swimming in an infinite blue, depicted as both a massive digital swarm and tiny avatars.

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi is a Milky Way-based artist whose practice mutates in and out of film, sculpture, installation, performance, and interdisciplinary research. Her work explores the epistemological, aesthetic, and political possibilities of the moving image at the intersections of art and science, documentary and fiction, personal/prosthetic memory and individual/collective histories. Having studied Fine Arts at the Städelschule and Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is currently pursuing PhD research in Film at the University of Westminster. Thuy-Han’s work has been presented in both the art and cinema context, including Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Atletika, Vilnius; Belvedere 21, Vienna; Centro di Musica Contemporanea di Milano, Milan; De Appel, Amsterdam; Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Manila; Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham; Sàn Art, Saigon; Villa Medici, Rome; Whitechapel Gallery, London; the 12th Berlin Biennale, Berlin; the 12th BlackStar Film Festival, Philadelphia; the 20th Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen; the 19th 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb; the 60th New York Film Festival, New York; Rencontres Internationales, Paris; the 20th Reykjavík International Film Festival, Reykjavík; the 33rd Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore; among other spaces. She is working on her first feature-length film.

Nhà Sàn Collective presents a new moving image work filmed at the residence of Mr. Manh Duc, a home in close proximity to the collective and their community of artist friends for many years. In this playground, a mystical world emerges; a cinema is reenacted. As the film unfolds, a river, a garden, spirits, wooden structures, people and objects appear, dissolve and reappear, as if they were characters morphing into one another. The film draws attention to cinematic transformation of physical and immaterial beings as a process of experiencing diverse forms of archives.

Nhà Sàn Collective (NSC) began operating as an independent artist collective in Hanoi in 2013, when a group of friends set up their publicly accessible space. With or without a physical base, NSC has worked with fellow companions and collaborators to organise exhibitions, workshops, film screenings, talks and other activities as a supporting platform for artists in the community. An initiative for exchanges, expansions and connections. A place that’s also open toward works-in- progress and the unexpected, a just-do-it attitude which doesn’t always yield answers. Some of the Collective's main projects, which have been held on numerous occasions, are Skylines With Flying People, IN:ACT Performance Art Festival, Queer Forever!, Emerging Artists programme, amongst others. The collective board consists of Tr??ng Qu? Chi, Nguy?n Ph??ng Linh, Nguy?n Qu?c Thành, V? ??c Toàn, and Tu?n Mami. In 2022, they participated in Documenta 15 curated by Ruangrupa with their invited artist friends. The name ‘Nhà Sàn’ signifies the Collective’s foundation which is rooted in the spirit of Nhà Sàn Studio, an artist-run space founded in 1998 in Hanoi. The original Nhà Sàn, a house on stilts, was taken apart in 2020. In the Ng?c Th?y area by the bank of the Red River, the artists imagine this house to become the new Nhà Sàn Collective space, rebuilt, and transformed.

Phill Niblock travaille entre autres avec la musique et le son, le cinéma, la photographie, la vidéo et les technologies informatiques. Il crée un bourdonnement dense, intense, dans lequel vibrent des microtons de timbres instrumentaux, qui induisent à leur tour un série d'autres sons sur le lieu de la performance. Il présente simultanément des films et des vidéos qui fixent le déroulement des gestes de personnes au travail, ou bien des images flottantes, dirigées par ordinateur et abstraites en noir et blanc. Phill Niblock est né en 1933dans l'Indiana, depuis le milieu des années 60 il fait de la musique et des performances intermédiaires qui ont été internationalement présentées et réalisées dans différents lieux et institutions, entre autres: The Museum of Modern Art; The Wadsworth Atheneum; the Kitchen; the Paris Autumn Festival; Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; ZKM; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard; World Music Institute at Merkin Hall NYC. Depuis 1985 il est directeur de la Experimental Intermedia Foundation à New York (www.experimentalintermedia.org), dont il est membre depuis 1968 comme artiste . Depuis 1973 il est producteur/organisateur de musique et de présentations intermédiales à l'EI (env. 1000 performances)et administrateur du label de l'EI XI. En 1993 il a été co-fondateur de l'Experimental Intermedia Organization à Gent, Belgique- EI v.z.w. Gent - qui offre à des artistes dans le cadre de résidences la possibilité de séjours de travail, mais apporte aussi son soutien à des installations intermédiaires. Des enregistrements de Phill Niblock sont sortis aux labels XI, Moikai und Touch. Un DVD de ses films et de sa musique est disponible chez Extreme. www.kunstradio.at

The traditional Viennese amusement park, the "Prater", as seen from the perspective of those who work there: the ground operators and general staff. How did they arrive at this world-renowned park, what expectations did they have? "Fokus Pokus ?uromatik" reveals the reality: the life of an amusement park employee has little of the reputed Viennese charm. The workers, most having come from former socialist countries, tell the story of their everyday lives, of missed chances, poverty, and of a society where economic migration has become a necessity for many and where identity could no longer be defined merely by nationality.

Borjana Ventzislavova was born in 1976 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated in visual media art/digital art at the University for Applied Arts Vienna. She is a member of Dezentrale Medien and Nebudu Group. Miroslav Nicic was born in 1975 in Djakovica, Kosovo in ex-Yugoslavia. He studied visual media art/digital art at the University for Applied Arts Vienna. He graduated from the University of Economic Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria with a degree in International Economics. He is a member of Nebudu Group.

À la frontière franco-italienne, un tunnelier perce la montagne et assèche ruisseaux et fontaines sur son passage. Transalpin est une descente des sommets enneigés aux vallées où résonne la colère des villages.

Clara Nicolas et Léo Gatinot intègrent les départements Son et Image de la Fémis en 2020. Après avoir collaboré sur plusieurs fictions et documentaires, ils réalisent un film ensemble pour la première fois à l'occasion de leur projet de fin d'études, Transalpin.

Four transvestites are brought in to a hotel room on the same night. One by one, they take on the director?s game: to lie down on the bed and stay in the empty room with a camera. They recreate themselves to this camera and through that character they start to slowly reveal themselves: their fantasies, hopes, questionings and their experiences in the streets of Sao Paulo.

Graduated in Cinema and Video by the University Of Sao Paulo in 1999, Kika Nicolela began her career as assistant director for feature films. In 2002, after concluding film courses at UCLA ? University of California, Kika founded her own production company, Dilema Studio, based in Sao Paulo. Since then, she has produced and directed several experimental videos and documentaries. Her works have been exhibited in several festivals worldwide.

As everything stopped and the lockdown extended all over the planet, I dedicated myself to create new original music and review some historical works, with material that had been left out of the initial postproduction of the videos. In this way I approached again to the expedition in the Patagonian Ice Fields, a project that I made in collaboration with members of a rescue mountain team. Patagonia is dramatically affected by climate change and global warming. The glaciers are disappearing in front of our eyes. In this context, a group of persons find themselves lost in a labyrinth of ice. United and in solitude, they contemplate the collapse of their universe.

Charly Nijensohn (Buenos Aires, 1966) ist ein multidisziplinärer Künstler der in Berlin lebt und arbeitet. Seine künstlerische Arbeit ist vielschichtig. Nijensohn arbeitet an der Idee einer Konfrontation zwischen dem Menschsein und den natürlichen Kräften des Universums, die uns umgeben. Die Beziehung zwischen der menschlichen Figur und dem sie umgebenden Raum stellt einen Konflikt dar, der real und existenziell zugleich ist. Er vertrat Argentinien mit einer Einzelausstellung auf der 50. Biennale in Venedig. Nijensohns Arbeit wurde auf der BienalSur in Buenos Aires (2017) und der Mediations Biennale in Polen (2012) präsentiert. Er stellte auf der Valencia Biennale (2001) kuratiert von Peter Greenaway, der Singapur Biennale (2008) kuratiert von Fumio Nanjo und der Dojima River Biennale in Osaka (2009) aus. Er stellte auch auf vielen Festivals aus, darunter die Transmediale, Videobrasil in Sao Paulo, Rencontres Internationales im Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid) und Centre George Pompidou (Paris), Monitoring in Kassel, Visions of Nature, Kunst Haus Wien (2017/2018), Video Art in Latin America, States of Crisis, LAXART in Kalifornien (2017). Des Weiteren stellte er im Kröller-Müller Museum (Windflower, Perceptions of Nature, 2011) in Otterlo, Museum Morsbroich (Radical Shift) in Leverkusen, der Akademie der Künste (Realidad y Utopía, Argentiniens künstlerischer Weg in die Gegenwart, 2011) in Berlin, Whitechapel Gallery (2010) in London, Políticas de la diferencia im Museo de Arte Latinoamericano (MALBA) und Latin America: Video Views - Latin American Artist of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York aus.

Regions that remain inaccessible and deserts of ice that extend beyond sight. Geographies that have attracted the thought of explorers and navigators fascinated by the end of the world. Situated in the southern region of the Andes mountain range, the Patagonian Ice Fields represent the largest mass of ice in South America. The exodus of the forgotten explores the impulse that drives humans to leave everything behind to immerse themselves in an unknown territory. In their fascination for the abyss and the search for the unreachable, they are united in a strange act of intensity.

Double Noir is a video animation made of 60 sequences relating a man pursuing his own double. Each sequence is made of drawings realized with white chalk and pastel on wood blackboards. Altogether there are circa 1800 drawings. But just the last drawing stay visible on the surface of each sequence, as an indice of that sequence. The iconic character of this project is Humphrey Bogart whose various figures are inspired by 19 black movies.

Born in Serbia in 1987, Nemanja Nikoli? currently lives and works in Belgrade. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, department of painting (2010), and received his PHD in art studies at the same faculty in 2019. He won several awards, such as Award for drawing from Vladimir Veli?kovi? Fund, special award for mural and wall installation from Raiffeisen Bank and Gallery 12HUB and Award for an exceptional creative innovation from Miloš Baji? Fund. Since 2010 his works have been exhibited on numerous exhibitions and festivals in Serbia and abroad such as the Art Gallery of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, the Youth House of Belgrade, the Gallery of Rome in Kragujevac, 57th October Salon in Belgrade curated by Gunar and Danielle Kvaran and 56th October Salon curated by David Elliott, KunstlerHaus in Wien, Austria, Caixa Forum in Barcelona and Madrid (« Cinema and painting », curated by Dominique Païni, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort NL(« Chalk » curated by Judith van Meeuwen). He currently has a solo show at the Center for Contemporary Art of Montenegro. His works figure in many public and private collections including Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, Ekard collection in Wassenaar, NL, ABN AMRO Amsterdam, NL, WAP Art Foundation in Seoul, JSM collection in Paris, Telenor Collection and collection of Sumatovacka Center for Art Education, both in Belgrade Nemanja Nikoli?

Panic Book is both a set of drawings and an animated video. The drawings are made on book pages. The books often come from the family library, and deal with the political and philosophical thought of Yugoslav socialism. The pages then become part of a reconstruction of cult sequences of Hitchcock movies: scenes of fear, panic or flight. This rereading of the legacy of Tito`s socialism that ended in a “cul de sac” is close to power-up mechanisms and disaster announcements used by the master of suspense

Born in 1987, Nikolic lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts (painting department) , currently in PhD, he received several prizes for drawing and a special prize for his mural installations. Initiator of U10 Art Space, a self-managed artist space, he was exhibited since 2007 in numerous solo and group shows in Serbia and abroad. In 2015 he was invited to Basel (List), Vienna (Parallel) and Paris (Cultural Center of Serbia). He is currently on show at Caixa Forum in Barcelona, Spain and Kunslerhaus in Vienna, Austria

Art project The Plot was created in a span of three years and it consists of about 5,000 drawings that have been turned into a sound film by frame-by-frame animation. Fragments taken from various cinematographic achievements made during the period of Cold War by major film productions of "Western Powers" (USA, UK) are drawn on book sheets, maps and encyclopedias written and published during the same period in the territory of SFR Yugoslavia. Books and encyclopedias used as a background for the drawings have for subject theoretical reflections on the socialist system, while maps represent cartographic documents of cities, borders, states and continents from the same era. In this historical period, Yugoslavia was one of the few countries behind the "iron curtain" in which Hollywood movies, TV series, jazz, rock'n'roll and Coca-Cola were not only allowed but were an integral part of everyday life. American film, as the most massive form of artistic expression, entertainment, and often propaganda, played a special role in Yugoslav society, holding absolute dominance among foreign cinematography in domestic cinemas. Getting to know luxury, wealth and unconventional way of life through it, the ordinary man in Yugoslav socialism had the opportunity to dream the American dream in non-American conditions.

Nemanja Nikoli? (born 1987) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2010, department of Painting. He finished his PhD studies at the same faculty in 2019. From 2018 he works on Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade as assistant professor. Nemanja Nikoli? is initiator of Belgrade based U10 Art Space, independent artist-run space dedicated to supporting young contemporary artist. Nemanja has presented his works on solo exhibitions since 2010: in the Art Gallery of the Cultural Center of Belgrade, Gallery Dix9 Helene Lachermoise in Paris, ERD Gallery in Seoul, Rima Gallery in Belgrade, U10 Art Space in Belgrade, etc. He has participated in many group exhibitions in the country and abroad: Caixa Forum in Madrid and Barcelona, Kunsthal KadE in Amersfoort in the Netherlands, Kunstlerhaus in Vienna, 56th and 57th October Salon in Belgrade (Belgrade Biennale), Center for Contemporary Art of Montenegro, etc.

The Plot (2021, 9’43’’) is a sound film composed of approximately 5,000 drawings, created over a period of three years and animated frame by frame. The drawings reproduce fragments from Cold War–era films produced by major Western studios (USA, UK), rendered on pages from books, maps, and encyclopedias published in socialist Yugoslavia during the same period. While the cinematic images originate from Western popular culture, their drawn backgrounds consist of theoretical texts on socialism and cartographic documents depicting cities, borders, and territories of that time. During the Cold War, Yugoslavia occupied a unique position: despite being a socialist country, Hollywood films, television series, jazz, rock’n’roll, and Coca-Cola were widely present in everyday life. American cinema, as a dominant form of entertainment and ideological projection, shaped collective imagination, allowing Yugoslav audiences to dream the American dream within a non-American system. Growing up in the aftermath of this contradictory reality profoundly influenced my worldview. Through scenes of nightmares, pursuits, fear, and surveillance, the film unfolds as a surreal collage that exposes the entanglement of political, social, and cultural histories. Rather than offering a fixed conclusion, The Plot invites viewers to navigate multiple layers of meaning and experience.

Nemanja Nikoli? (b. 1987) graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Department of Painting (2010), where he also completed his PhD (2019). He is currently Associate Professor at the same faculty and the initiator of U10 Art Space, an independent artist-run platform dedicated to supporting emerging contemporary artists. Since 2010, Nikoli? has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Cultural Center of Belgrade; Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montenegro, Podgorica; ERD Gallery, Seoul; Rima Gallery, Belgrade and Kragujevac; B2 Gallery, Belgrade; and U10 Art Space. He has participated in many group exhibitions, notably at CaixaForum (Madrid and Barcelona), Kunsthal KadE (Amersfoort), Künstlerhaus (Vienna), the 56th, 57th, and 60th October Salon (Belgrade), the 20th Pan?evo Art Biennial, and the Cinémathèque Française (Paris). His awards include the Special Award of the 60th October Salon (2024), the Drawing Award of the Association of Fine Artists of Serbia (2021), and the Vladimir Veli?kovi? Foundation Drawing Award (2011). His works are included in several international public and private collections. He lives and works in Belgrade.

It’s about the state of being in-between. The decision to grow old or continue to be a child - the transformation from girl to woman.

Faezeh Nikoozad (Tehran 1984) based in the Germany since 2009, is a freelance filmmaker and Video Artist. She studied stage design (BA) in Tehran and film making (BA) and (MA) at University of Fine Arts of Hamburg ( HFBK Hamburg). Her work covers a spectrum of themes such as displacement, absence, homeland, family and childhood memories. Her mediums range from Experimental film, documentary film and mixed media. Her films have been shown at various festivals and won numerous awards.