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The video refers to the Venice biennial 2015 « All the World´s Futures » and deals with the site of the biennial and questions on localization and orientation. The images in the montage vary between subjective movements, Found Footage and documental perspectives and discuss the point of view of a spectator as prosumer. Transitions between signal and glare, transparency and overlay, keep the deserted images in the video at an intermediate level - An interplay between the flattening surface of the screen and the reference to the site.

Gregor Peschko, born in 1990 in Bonn, lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. He studied at the Academy for Visual Arts Leipzig in the classes of Astrid Klein, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Michael Riedel and finished his diploma in 2018.

René lives a dull, uneventful life in a subterranean and futuristic world. He is about to be promoted and transferred from Circle One to Circle Six, when a series of mysterious mounds start to appear systematically in his apartment. Circle one`s starting point is Dante?s Divine Comedy combining the notion of Michael Haneke?s thriller with Andrei Tarkovski?s intimacy, albeit clearly influenced by pioneering movie directors like Stanley Kubrick or George Lucas.

César Pesquera is a director, graphic designer and audiovisual artist. He has directed and designed innovative moving image work across a broad spectrum of both commercial and non-commercial strands of the visual arts. His work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. His films are screened worldwide on both visual art platforms and film festivals.

"Passer/8" is an experimental project about two real people, a girl that works in a tollbooth and a guy that owns a carrousel. The project deals with issues such as constant movement and stillness, the activities mentioned above being metaphors of such concepts, so much related to life or any other processual phenomena - whether vital or creative.

César Pesquera has shown his work at various festivals and international events such as A/V Festival 2006 (Sunderland, UK), Resfest Spain (Art Futura 2005, Barcelona, España), Optronica 2005 (London, UK), Dotmov 2004 (Sapporo, Japan), The eighth Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2004, VIPER 2002 International Festival for Film Video and New Media (Basel, Switzerland), Observatori 2002 and 2003, the third International Festival of Artistic Research of Valencia, Art Futura 2001, the Art and New Technologies Festival (Barcelona, Spain), Transmissions Festival 004 (Chicago, USA), and SONAR 2001, 2004 and 2005 (Barcelona, Spain). He has also shown his work in exhibitions such as Digital Showcase #31, AMOADA, the Austin Museum of Digital Art in Texas (USA); Projectionsareal, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Germany); This Is Not My Computer, DA2 Museum Of Contemporary Art (Salamanca, Spain); and ZooRoom. A Room with a View. Resistor Galery (Toronto, Canada). Cesar Pesquera is currently working as a director of commercials and music videos. He is also the co-founder of Actop, a studio operating as an open structure and working on a wide range of media: Print, Animation, Motion Graphics, Live Visuals and new approaches to the moving image. He has recently finished his first short film "Passer/8" and is currently collaborating with the British collective "D-Fuse" on different projects. He is also the Associate Director of Rojo®Magazine and Art Director of Ruga®Magazine, a DVD magazine distributed internationally, aiming to show unreleased audiovisual works by artists worldwide. As Shudo, Cesar Pesquera has released two albums on the prestigious Belgian label "Sub Rosa/Quatermass". He is now working on a new project under the alias Portabot.

At night three men are roaming through the center of a foreign city. In the darkness, they wander the streets unnoticed. The memories of their stories lead them on uncertain paths that sometimes seem to intersect. FORASTERO tells the story of people on the margins of society and traces estrangement and uncertainty between past and future.

Thales Pessoa (1991) is a brazilian photographer and filmmaker based in Argentina. He directed the short films Dancing to the war (2018) and Silver Firefly (2020), exhibited and awarded in different latin american festivals.

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Eigentlich eigentlich Januar von Jan Peters, 2022, 100 min, Super-8 und 16mm, Farbe und Schwarzweiß Synopsis Der Filmemacher Jan Peters nimmt eine Tasche gefüllt mit unbelichtetem und zum Teil lange überlagertem Der Januar ist kein einfacher Monat: Das Wetter ist kalt und trübe, der Lichterglanz der Weihnachtszeit verschwunden und ein Gefühl der Leere stellt sich ein. Aber da ist dieser Tatendrang und all die guten Neujahrsvorsätze... Jan Peters wollte aufräumen und fand zwei Kühltaschen aus den 1980er-Jahren, gefüllt mit über Jahrzehnte gesammeltem, unbelichtetem Super 8- und 16mm-Filmmaterial. Die Idee, jeden Tag eine Rolle von drei Minuten zu belichten und diese dann Zuhause in einem Eimer mit einer Mischung aus Instantkaffee, Vitamin-C-Pulver und Waschsoda selbst zu entwickeln, konnte nicht durchgehalten werden. Sie gab allerdings den Ausgangspunkt für Peters’ neuen Tagebuchfilm EIGENTLICH EIGENTLICH JANUAR, der schlicht gesagt genial ist. (Ina Borrmann)

It’s about oriental rugs. It’s about strangers and swindlers. It’s about Sweden. It’s about you and me.

Axel Petersén, born 1979 in Stockholm, is a visual artist and filmmaker who has made a variety of feature and short films, video and photography installations; exhibiting in galleries, institutions, filmfestivals and cinemas worldwide. He’s is educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.

In Paul Verhoevens erotic thriller Basic Instinct from1992, Michael Douglas character is put to the test. Is he still living up to the image of his own sexuality? Is he still the sex symbol Michael Douglas, son to the former sex symbol Kirk Douglas? In Like Father, Like Son, Like Michael Douglas Axel Petersén is staging a sexual generation shift. Through a number of scenes he instructs his father, Etienne Petersén to play the main male character while he himself portrays the female counterparts - a father and a son together watching and acting Basic Instinct.

Axel Petersén, born in Stockholm 1979, is a visual artist and filmmaker. He has made feature film (1), short films and video installations that have been shown widely in art and film contexts. He has a MFA from The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; he also studied film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and most recently attended the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.

Saddam Hussein?s palace is looted in Baghdad 2003. A red Ferrari Testarossa disappears from his garage. Years pass by and cars from the same garage are found around the world; some crashed, some in mint condition. The Testarossa is still out there, ghostriding through the neverending desert.

Axel Petersén, born in Stockholm 1979, is a story teller and a visual artist. Educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and took his MFA at KKH, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

Close to God / Far from Home (Somewhere in between pop and classical) is a portrait of a place and a state, stuck in between and surrounded by barriers. Close to God / Far from Home is High Class Salon and it?s owner; Palestine`s loneliest lover Tony, hair-dresser and choir-boy. Mr Tony is a proud decendant of Italian 13th century cruisaders and a natural born Germanophile. Mr Tony is also the sexiest man in Bethlehem, forever faithful to Jesus Christ, Richard Clayderman and Kaiser Franz Joseph to whom he built a temple, an altar, a home.

Axel Petersén is a visual artist born in Sweden 1979. He was educated in film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts i Prauge and in fine arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Axel Petersén makes videos, video-installations, still and moving image portraits and block buster movies for the cinema. Axel Petersén works with both ?fiction? and ?documentary?, usually merging the two in to a form were he can take on an active part, and by doing so, being able to push the scenes in the right, or the wrong direction. Right now he?s working on a feature length fiction film; After Eigh, a thrillerish manifestation to the grown-ups that never grew up.

At Hotel Alexandria in Alexandria Europe is dying slowly; George has Alzheiemers, Sami is busy arranging the farewell party and the gravedigger Salah is helping Madame with her last preparations for her final journey.

History of Arts in Stockholm & Lund University. Sweden FAMU Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Rep. KKH, Royal University College of Fine Arts Stockholm, Sweden. Male, born -79.

It’s about oriental rugs. It’s about strangers and swindlers. It’s about Sweden. It’s about you and me.

Axel Petersén, born 1979 in Stockholm, is a visual artist and filmmaker who has made a variety of feature and short films, video and photography installations; exhibiting in galleries, institutions, filmfestivals and cinemas worldwide. He’s is educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.

In Paul Verhoevens erotic thriller Basic Instinct from1992, Michael Douglas character is put to the test. Is he still living up to the image of his own sexuality? Is he still the sex symbol Michael Douglas, son to the former sex symbol Kirk Douglas? In Like Father, Like Son, Like Michael Douglas Axel Petersén is staging a sexual generation shift. Through a number of scenes he instructs his father, Etienne Petersén to play the main male character while he himself portrays the female counterparts - a father and a son together watching and acting Basic Instinct.

Axel Petersén, born in Stockholm 1979, is a visual artist and filmmaker. He has made feature film (1), short films and video installations that have been shown widely in art and film contexts. He has a MFA from The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; he also studied film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and most recently attended the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.

Saddam Hussein?s palace is looted in Baghdad 2003. A red Ferrari Testarossa disappears from his garage. Years pass by and cars from the same garage are found around the world; some crashed, some in mint condition. The Testarossa is still out there, ghostriding through the neverending desert.

Axel Petersén, born in Stockholm 1979, is a story teller and a visual artist. Educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and took his MFA at KKH, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

Close to God / Far from Home (Somewhere in between pop and classical) is a portrait of a place and a state, stuck in between and surrounded by barriers. Close to God / Far from Home is High Class Salon and it?s owner; Palestine`s loneliest lover Tony, hair-dresser and choir-boy. Mr Tony is a proud decendant of Italian 13th century cruisaders and a natural born Germanophile. Mr Tony is also the sexiest man in Bethlehem, forever faithful to Jesus Christ, Richard Clayderman and Kaiser Franz Joseph to whom he built a temple, an altar, a home.

Axel Petersén is a visual artist born in Sweden 1979. He was educated in film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts i Prauge and in fine arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Axel Petersén makes videos, video-installations, still and moving image portraits and block buster movies for the cinema. Axel Petersén works with both ?fiction? and ?documentary?, usually merging the two in to a form were he can take on an active part, and by doing so, being able to push the scenes in the right, or the wrong direction. Right now he?s working on a feature length fiction film; After Eigh, a thrillerish manifestation to the grown-ups that never grew up.

At Hotel Alexandria in Alexandria Europe is dying slowly; George has Alzheiemers, Sami is busy arranging the farewell party and the gravedigger Salah is helping Madame with her last preparations for her final journey.

History of Arts in Stockholm & Lund University. Sweden FAMU Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Rep. KKH, Royal University College of Fine Arts Stockholm, Sweden. Male, born -79.

The actor Philipp Hochmair is working on becoming the EVERYMAN. The filmic narration revolves around the mime`s quest for identity of his diverse persona. He seems to lose self-perception, becomes desperate, then rises again - needing to be nothing and nobody to become everything and everyman?

Katharina Pethke, born in 1979 in Hamburg, is a filmmaker and professor at the HFBK – Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. She studied German and art history in Hamburg and film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In her internationally acclaimed diploma film Louisa, she portrayed her sister, who had gone deaf and decided to learn sign language in her early twenties. As a film author Katharina Pethke has realized works for German television and has produced her own documentary works.

Marbled paper blue, a book’s illustrations, the flicker of film’s materiality: these are just a few of the narrative devices that punctuate Bettina Nürnberg and Dirk Peuker’s essayist film tracing the atmospheric efects of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa’s significant buildings, including the Brion family cemetery. As homage the work continues the filmmakers’ interests in documenting architectural histories. What is significant about this more poetic rendering is how it follows the rhythm of the spatial forms and motifs of their subject: Scarpa took an apolitical stance and refused to make architecture during the reign of fascism in Italy (1922–43); in the years that followed however, he produced Venice’s modernist exemplars, arguably the most beautiful architectural works of modernism for how they create mental spaces embedded in and indebted to his phenomenal city. With awareness of their medium, Nürnberg and Peuker capture both the structure and freeforming style of Scarpa’s architecture: their camera is equally focused on the mood of the city, the flow of water, the mandala as dichotomous form—light casts shadows. In turn, the film oscillates between document and experimental realism. The punctuating book pages that were an inspiration for Scarpa and ofer a structuring means for the sensuality of the recorded images come from the Venetian treatise of 1499 ascribed to Poliphili, which loosely acts an inventory of life-forms and classical humanist thought while following the story of courtly love. The act of ceremony is important to the book and so it is to the film as it mediates on Scarpa’s constructions, anachronistic zones that cross life with death, only to return to life once more: the film flickers, the paper is left wet, a hand all blue rises from the ruins … (Laura Preston)

Bettina Nürnberg www.bettinanuernberg.de Bettina NÜRNBERG (1976, Germany) was educated in art and film in Hamburg and Berlin. The work of the Berlin-based artist has been screened and exhibited worldwide. Dirk Peuker www.dirkpeuker.de Dirk PEUKER (1970, Germany) studied film and art in Berlin and Vienna. The work of the experimental filmmaker and artist has been screened and exhibited worldwide.

The experimental film work ?Flat Roofs for Mussolini? talks about the Italien Rationalism and Fascist architecture at Lake Como and the buildings by Guiseppe Terragni, who was an important pioneer of this style and tried to persuade the fascist regime to adopt his architecture as an official style. During a creative period lasting only 13 years, Terragni produced a body of work unique in terms of consistency and density. His buildings conform to the modern and are characterised by a reduction to elementary geometrical basic forms. While his buildings now serve as an important reference for architects such as Peter Eisenmann, they are also glorified and their political dimension is downplayed. (Text by Magdalena Magiera)

Dirk Peuker born 1970 in Friedrichroda, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. He studied Experimental Film at the university of the Arts Berlin since 2009 he teaches Film & Video at the Berlin Weißensee academy of art. 2006 Residency grant at the Villa Minimo, Hannover 2007 DAAD travel grant 2008 postgraduate grant of the Free State of Thuringia, 2009 NaFöG grant by the Berlin City Council Bettina Nürnberg born 1976 in Mannheim, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. She studied Film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg 2006-07 Funding for woman artists 2008 Film Culture Fund of the Free State of Thuringia 2009 Stiftung Kunstfonds, artist fund

The film ?The American Houses? examines the buildings of the nearly forgotten german architect, Thilo Schoder. Schoder, who had studied under Henry van de Velde in Weimar, was classified as an architect of ?The New Objectivity? movement of the 1920s. Schoder built only a few houses in the 8 years period, from 1923 to 1931, in small villages from eastern Germany to the Czech Republic. When the Nazis took power Schoder, accused of being a socialist, was refused any further building contracts, forcing him to emigrate to Norway. In ?The American Houses? the condition of the buildings filmed range from highly renovated to abandoned and dilapidated. The surviving examples are not portrayed as technical depictions, but as subjective sensation.

Dirk Peuker born in 1970 2000-2005 University of Arts Berlin, Master of Fine Arts, Experimental Film and Media Department Mentor: Hartmut Bitomsky, Heinz Emigholz, Thomas Arslan 2006 Artist Grant from the Nordmedia Film Foundation and the Hannover Region Cultural Foundation 2007 DAAD Artist Grant 2008 Postgraduate Artist Grant Free State of Thuringia 2009 NaFÖG Grant from Berliner Senat since 2009 assistant professor for film and video Weißensee/School of Art Berlin Bettina Nürnberg born in 1976 2002-2007 University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Master of Fine Arts, Film Department Mentor: Wim Wenders, Gerd Roscher 2007 Künstlerinnenförderung ?artist film fond from Berliner Senat 2008 Production grant from Thuringia Region Cultural Film Foundation 2009 Stiftung Kunstfond, Artist Grand Germany

Le photographe benoit PEverelli cree une scenographie et réalise la mise en image d`une oeuvre poétique et musicale. OPNI: Objet Plastique Non Identifié.

en cours de redaction

Beauty and/or Destruction

Baby-sitter, barman, clothes and handkrafts salesman, videotapes program clerck, assistant director, editor, mime, auction sales assistant, journalist, danse filmaker, artist?

In this grotesque found-footage-film close-ups of 65 actors playing Adolf Hitler in movies created between 1940 and today are combined in shot/countershot-manner. The soundtrack is produced by the Austrian composer Bernhard Lang. No other historical figure of the 20th century was portrayed more often in movies and by so many different actors than Adolf Hitler. (Only Jesus Christ has more appearances in cinema`s history - but with a headstart of more than 50 years.) In this grotesque and uncanny identity parade Adolf Hitler is presented as an undead who is impersonated by an alarming number of revenants. CONFERENCE is part five of my "notes on film"-series, which deals wtih filmtheoretical and -historical subjects. The movie is also part of a series of works about Charles Chaplin, which includes a number of installations and films.

1967 in Steyr. 1994-2001 University of Applied Arts, MK for Media. Artist and curator, various participations in festivals and exhibitions, founding member of VIDOK and lanolin. Go to artist`s homepage http://www.norbertpfaffenbichler.com

SYNOPSIS All the shots of the slapstick comedy ?A Film Johnnie? (USA, 1914) are shown simultaneously in a symmetrical grid, one after the other. Each scene, from one cut to the next, from the first to the last frame, is looped. A pulsing visual polyrhythm is produced as a result, because of the shots? varying lengths. The total length of the mosaic film corresponds precisely to that of the original. ALPHABETIZATION Silent film was in a sense put in written form. The individual images are arranged in chronological order, from left to right and from the top down, in the same way as Latin letters. The entire film can be ?read? as if from a page in a book. REREADING The original film was subjected to a thorough rereading. The original footage was not altered, there was no optical manipulation of the images, and the sequence and length of the shots were maintained. The opening credits, intertitles, the countdown before the film starts, and end credits are of course part of the mosaic. Solely a different, ?panoramic? gaze was directed at the original. This historical grotesque film was in a way analyzed and, as a result, radicalized. SPATIALIZATION This experiment results in a de facto ?spatialization? of the two-dimensional medium. The process according which the original cut was arranged becomes the installation?s structural principle. Editing becomes architecture, and time becomes space. MULTIPLICATION As a result of the simultaneously horizontal and vertical arrangement of the moving images, the spaces and figures from the original film are multiplied. Each shot is turned into a separate chamber in an architectural structure. The fidgeting figures are prisoners caught in their boxes, doomed to never-ending mechanical repetition.

Norbert Pfaffenbichler (* 1967) Study of Mediadesign at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna Exhibitions and Festivals (Selection): 1996 Chromapark, Berlin. 1997 Chichester Film Festival, Chichester; Circles of Confusion, Berlin. 1998 Diagonale, Graz. 1999 viper Videofestival, Basel. 2000 Sonar Festival, Barcelona; Medienturm, Graz. 2001 Underground Film Festival, New York. 2002 Internationales Filmfestival, Rotterdam; Intercultural Videoart Exhibition, Tokio; 59. Filmfestspiele, Venedig; Museum der Wahrnehmung, Graz. 2003 Sound Spectral, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz; Ars Electronica, Linz. 2006 DIGITAL TRANSIT, ARCO, Medialab Madrid.

In a delusive vision, repetition is based on repetitions, difference is based on differences. Repetitions are repeated, the differentiating elements are differentiated (Gilles Deleuze). This experiment on the themes of 'difference and repetition' combines methods employed in structural film and elements of narrative cinema. Moments from the life of a heterosexual couple were arranged in sequence on the basis of a simple alphanumeric editing concept. Robert Frank?s film "O.K End Here" (USA, 1963) served as a model. This work was evidently greatly influenced by the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. Frank attempted to translate Antonioni?s film language to his own environment, the New York of the Beat Generation, in doing so ignoring film conventions to a large extent and producing highly individual visual compositions and sequences of cuts. The motivation to borrow from this work when making "N. o. F. 02" was for one the fact that the original source itself represented an attempt to translate an aesthetic form, and secondly because of its intentional disregard of the conventional rules of filmmaking. Furthermore, "N. o. F. 02" contains additional references to classics of the late Modern. The purpose of this mosaic of references is to question the way in which moving images work.

Norbert Pfaffenbichler was born in 1967. He studied Media Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. His works have been shown at several exhibitions and festivals including: 1996 Chromapark, Berlin; 1997 Chichester Film Festival, Chichester; Circles of Confusion, Berlin. 1998 Diagonale, Graz. 1999 viper Videofestival, Basel; 2000 Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Medienturm, Graz; 2001 Underground Film Festival, New York; 2002 Internationales Filmfestival, Rotterdam; Intercultural Videoart Exhibition, Tokio; 59. Filmfestspiele, Venedig; Museum der Wahrnehmung, Graz. 2003 Sound Spectral, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz; Ars Electronica, Linz. 2006 DIGITAL TRANSIT, ARCO, Medialab Madrid.

Synopsis (short): Cast: Cast: Sami Moss Mardina & Yeisen Acosta Medina Crew: Producer: Jakob Schillinger / Mario Pfeifer Cinematograpy: Matthias Biber Monatge: Mario Pfeifer Sound design: Thomas Wallmann Light design: Manuel Kinzer

Mario Pfeifer (b. 1981, Dresden /Germany) is a filmmaking artist based in Berlin and Los Angeles. He studied Fine Art at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, University of the Arts Berlin and Städelschule Frankfurt am Main where he graduated in 2008. On invitation of the ?Bangkok Experimental Filmfestival 5? he co-curated international, artist made films from Berlin for the 2008 festival?s program. Mario Pfeifer was a Fulbright Scholar in California, USA in 2008/2009.

On January 7th 2005 an asylum seeker, shackled at his hands and feet, dies in a fire in cell number five of a police station in Dessau, Germany. With “Cell 5” Mario Pfeifer reconstructs the case of Oury Jalloh’s death using legal documents, testimonies, audio-visual archives, and collaborates with the forensic expert Iain Peck to reproduce an accurate fire experiment. All in an attempt to answer: how could Oury Jalloh burn to death?

Mario Pfeifer ist a PRIX EUROPA nominated producer, director and visual artist whose interests intersect between political, social and anthropological issues. Mario works closely with communities, establishing intimate relationships from which he conceives his projects in collaboration with his protagonists. He graduated from the art academy Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, studied with Stan Douglas at the University of the Arts in Berlin and was a Fulbright scholar in 2008 at the California Institute of the Arts, Mario is a recipient of DAAD fellowships in 2010 and 2012. Mario is an alumni of the European Creator’s Lab (2021), the Documentary Campus Masterschool (2019), the Feature Expanded Masterclass (2017), and a Berlinale Talent Campus alumni (2009). Mario Pfeifer’s installations were presented at the Power Plant Toronto; Museum of Modern Art, Berlin; Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], Los Angeles; MMK Museum fu?r Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main; Bundeskunsthalle Bonn; Neues Museum Nu?rnberg; Kunsthalle Winterthur; N.B.K. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Fotomuseum Winterthur; KOW, Berlin; Beursschouwburg, Brussels; MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; KW Kunst-Werke, Berlin; CCA,Lagos; and his film presented at international Film Festivals in Amsterdam, Auckland, Berlin, Cologne, London, Madrid, Paris, Oberhausen, New York, Seoul and Toronto. He participated in the 3rd Montevideo Biennal (2016), the 11th Bienal do Mercosul (2018), the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018) as well as the 4th Mediterranean Biennale (2020). His works are hold in public and private museum collections at the Getty Center Los Angeles, Collection of Contemporary Art of the Federal Republic of Germany, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main, Fotomuseum Winterthur et.al. Mario has lectured and directed Masterclasses in Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, Germany, India, Mexico, Poland, the U.K. and in the US. www.blackboardfilms.net/people

A violent supermarket incident involving a refugee in East Germany is reenacted in a film studio. Ten citizens observe and comment on the case, which highlights the blurred distinction between civil courage and vigilante justice.

Producer / Director Mario Pfeifer's (*1981, Dresden / Germany) films explore representational structures and conventions in the medium of film and video, in locations ranging from Mumbai to New York, from Brazil to the Atacama desert, from Tierra del Fuego to East-Germany to the Western Sahara. He conceives each project out of a specific cultural situation, researches social-political backgrounds and weaves cross-cultural art historical, filmic, technological and political references into a richly layered practice.

A rest stop docks the highway like a moonbase. Within this transit space a young man and a young woman drift in their orbits. A German love story.

After her first steps in the movie industry Désirée decided not to study film. After finishing studies in photo engineering and further filmexperiments she signed up for directing classes in Paris and Potsdam.

Utilizing the banality of Vietnamese state radio broadcasts, The Story of Ones gives a face and a sense of place to the unseen and offers a personal counterpoint to the officially sanctioned. Like entering a roomful of stories, the viewer steps into an unfamiliar space guided only by the sound of the radio tuning in to lifestyle programming, call-in shows and radio dramas. The portraits and settings layered atop the aural landscape create questions, provide humor, offer context and withdraw explanation of what once seemed clear before entering the room.

Pham Ngoc Lan {Phạm Ngọc Lân} was born in Hanoi, Vietnam; in July 02, 1986. He studied urban design and urban planning from 2004 to 2009 at Hanoi Architecture University (HAU). Inspired by the paradox of all living things, Lan considers himself an urban life observer rather than a photographer or an urban designer. Using photography and film as two of the favorite tools to express his ideas, his work attaches special importance to the direct, poetic and especially the whimsical respects of human life.

On a street corner a mysterious conversation among three young men at a street stalls. Meanwhile a traffic accident on a motorbike. The night brings together a sketch, a multicolor frame of reality?.

Pham Thien An is a film director, producer and screenwriter, born in November 1989 (Lam Dong Province, Vietnam). After four years of undergraduate studies in Information Technology at Lotus University, Ho Chi Minh City, he realized his interest in cinematography and filmmaking. In recent years, he has won several film awards in Vietnam. In 2015, he moved to Houston, Texas (USA) and continued working as a freelance filmmaker. ?His short film The Mute (2018) has travelled across several film festivals (Winterthur International Short Film Festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Encounters Film Festival). His latest short Stay Awake, Be Ready, official selection at Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 2019, was produced with the support of CJ Short Film Making Project. He is currently working on his first feature film Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell.

Surrounded by the surreal landscape of Quang Tri province, four men live their lives inseparably from each other. The rhythm of their everyday lives is defined by moments of togetherness in a house with no doors where they all come to drink, smoke, play guitar and sing songs about love and the revolution of the past. Feelings of hatred interweave with compassion, swelling amidst the stagnation of time and space, seemingly awaiting for an unknown. One day, the unknown comes and takes one of them away, leaving the others to go on slipping through an undesired life. Meanwhile, the landscape, located in the border between North and South Vietnam, is what lives on, revealing traces of a war that has outlived its conclusion.

PHAM THU HANG has worked as a researcher in Vietnam Institute of Culture and Art since 2004. She later joined Hanoi Doclab, a breakthrough documentary and video art center in Hanoi where she made several short documentary films. She has since decided to add her voice in the small but active and growing community of young independent documentary filmmakers in Vietnam. Hang recently obtained her Master’s in Documentary Directing in a consortium of three universities in Europe under the DocNomads Joint Master program in Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels. Her concern in filmmaking opens to many themes but mainly draws attention to rediscovering Vietnamese culture and the connection between the internal world in Vietnam and the world outside, especially in the context of contemporary globalization.