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Pas une vallée, juste un trou derrière une décharge. Pas de chemin jusqu'à la maison, juste de la boue menant à une misérable cabane. On y manque de tout, sauf d'enfants. C'est ici que vit Madame Sonia ? au beau milieu de cette réalité du peuple Rrom. Elle est forte et intelligente, mais n'arrive pas à s'en sortir. Ce documentaire de Daniela Rusnokova tourné entre 2004 et 2006 est un portrait intime d'une famille vivant dans un camp de gitans à l'Est de la Slovaquie.

Daniela Rusnokova was born 1980 in Bratislava (Slovakia). She studies Documentary at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Bratislava. Now she is in 2nd year of the post-graduate programme. Her films were awarded in many European festivals (Austria, Finland, Italy, Germany). Her last film ´Soňa and her Family´ has won many prizes last year. Daniela´s films mainly focus on social issues.

A tone-poem in blue and red by US artist and experimental filmmaker Ben Russell, Against Time is a visually staggering kind of cine diary, shot on various locations between 2019 and 2022. Trying to find a way through the fog of recent years, the piece plays with dissolving images, non-linear montage, modular synthesis, and a variety of looping techniques to reflect on how we experience time as a fragmented phenomenon. It results in hypnotic and beautiful experimental cinema that seems to mirror life in all of its interpersonal intricacies. (Rewire Festival 2023)

Ben Russell (1976) is an American artist, filmmaker and curator whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and psychedelia. Russell was an exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017) and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art Chicago, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale, among others. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize (IFFR 2010, Gijón 2017), and premiered his second and third feature films at the Locarno Film Festival (2013, 2017). Curatorial projects include Magic Lantern (Providence, USA, 2005-2007), BEN RUSSELL (Chicago, USA, 2009-2011), and Hallucinations (Athens, Greece, 2017). He is currently based in Marseille, France.

“ Modern Props ” joins a pair of actors as they shop for furnishings and objects to decorate their character’s new home. The department store, in which they shop, is in fact a TV and Film props warehouse; the objects are devoid of their original function, existing only to be photographed. As the couple traverses a multitude of environments; ancient Greek, British colonial, medieval, they begin to experience aesthetic disharmony. Conflicts around etymology, authenticity and concepts of perfection abrade at the relationship until eventually our couple breakup.

Approaching film from an art background, Ruaidhri entertains a distinctly humorous view on hyper-real, self-aware constructs, perpetually chasing a notion of authenticity that does not exist. Often disclosing methods of production and combining the sincere with the ironic, Ruaidhri continues to develop conceptually driven, narrative films for gallery and film festival exhibition.

ANTIDATAMINING est un projet de recherche basé sur la récupération, via internet, de données boursières et financières, ainsi que de nombreux indices socio-économiques. Ces données sont archivées et classées, puis sont ensuite soumises au traitement des algorithmes propres au Data Mining. Elles sont ensuite visualisées, au sein d`environnements audiovisuels écrits, nourris et actualisés en temps réel. Le projet vise à faire émerger et à prédire des phénomènes de déséquilibres socio-économiques, et tente de mettre en place une cartographie générale du déséquilibre. www.antidatamining.net

RYbN : Collectif artistique pluridisciplinaire, basé à Paris (2000) spécialisé dans la réalisations d?installations, de performances et d?interfaces faisant autant référence aux systèmes codifiés de la représentation artistique (peinture, architecture, contre-cultures) qu?aux phénomènes humains et physiques (géopolitique, socio-économie, perception sensorielle, systèmes cognitifs). Leur axe de recherche : la construction d?une ?sémantique de la convergence?, via le couplage, le détournement et la perversion des outils d?écriture et de formalisation liés aux technologies des communications, de l?information et du sensoriel - réseaux, flux de données, olfaction, captation, surveillance, audiovisuel, interaction, temps-réel. www.rybn.org

The End is unreadable titles created by a neural network and endlessly running on a black screen. The project is part of a series of works in which the authors experiment with symbols generated by StyleGAN and other networks. The artists train neural networks on letters of different alphabets, and the language they create is immersed in the context of familiar forms: manifestos, posters, and now titles. These projects continue the tradition of experiments in text and visual media started by Russian Futurists who used abstruse language in poetry (Alexei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, etc.) and Moscow Conceptualists with their interest in poetic experiences (Lev Rubinstein, Dmitry Prigov, Andrei Monastyrsky, etc.). In The End it is impossible to read the text created by the neural network, but the appearance of symbols, their sequence and general layout allow us to perceive a set of meaningless signs as the closing credits of a movie. It is important that in movies we rather recognize titles by their appearance than by their content. The credits are the final part of any movie, but usually no one reads them. The irony is that in The End project there are only credits, here they are a work in their own right, impossible to read. Nor is it possible to wait for it to end.

Andrey Rylov is a new media artist who works in a field of sound sculptures and installations using materials from hardware stores and DIY electronics. He performs with experimental music, creates video works using neural networks, as well. Andrey Rylov is a graduate of the New Media Laboratory, participant of multiple collective exhibitions and festivals: NUR festival (Kazan, 2021), Prepared Surroundings festival (Moscow, 2020 and 2021), Blazar fair (Moscow, 2021), Morpho festival (St. Petersburg, 2021), Adaf.gr (Greece, 2019), Ars Electronica (Austria, 2019), Pixels festival (Yekaterinburg, 2019). Maxim Mezentsev is a graphic designer, visual artist and VJ from Izhevsk, Russia. He works with interfaces, fonts, animation and makes video for experimental theater. He constantly collaborates with the Center for Contemporary Dramaturgy and Directing in Izhevsk, Russia. Maxim Mezentsev participated at the Pixels festival (Yekaterinburg, 2019), Intervals festival (Nizhny Novgorod, 2019 and 2021), Night of Light festival (Gatchina, 2019), Adaf (Athens, 2020), METAXIS festival (St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Yerevan, 2022).

Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.” He said “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.” This film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem.

Animator. Born in Ibaraki, Japan, 1986. Graduated from Ibaraki University, College of Education, 2009. Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate school of Film and New Media, Department of Animation, 2011. Awarded the Fellowship of Overseas Study Program for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government, 2015.

An old and wise woman sitting by the lake, reflecting on existence.

Remy Ryumugabe is an award-winning Rwandan filmmaker/ visual artist. His works, including /???RI/, Melpomene, Mnemosyne, From Here to There among others, have been selected and screened/ exhibited around the world like the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Uppsala international short film festival, Fribourg international film festival, International Kansk Video Festival, WNDX festival of the moving image, BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Africa in Motion Film Festival, Short Short Story Film Festival, Galerie Imane Farés, Museum Hilversum, Het Nieuwe Instituut among others and his two short films (“From Here to There” one that he wrote and directed and “Muzunga” that he produced) had their world-premieres in the International Competition of the 68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and From Here to There went on to be screened at more international film festivals like 41st Uppsala international short film festival where It received the Jury Special Mention, 15th Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina where It won Best Experimental film. His recent short documentary film “Each of her scars has a story” has been selected for the international short documentary of 26th edition of the Film Festival ÉCRANS NOIRS, 15th Festival Internacional de Cine Africano de Argentina and 8th Mashariki African Film festival. As a producer, he’s attached to different projects (in development or post-production) that have been participating in different labs or workshops around the world like Ouaga Producers Lab, Takmil the post-production workshop of Carthage International Film Festival, Yaounde Film Lab, Résidence d'écriture de Moulin d’Andé among others. He’s the co-founder of KIRURI MFN, an independent production company based in Kigali. He is also the co-initiator and curator of 250 Film Experiment Cine-Club, a cine-club based in Kigali, Rwanda.

Le projet video de Malwina Rzonca, "And can you do it like this ?" (Et pouvez-vous le faire comme ceci ?), marque une continuité avec les ideés que l'on trouve dans sa série de tableaux du même nom. Il dévelppoe le thème de la gymnastique rythmique, ses aspects psychologiques et esthétiques en tant qu'expression de l'émanation de l'esprit humain et du phénomène d'existence. le film est constitué de deux parties qui prennent toutes deux la forme d'un collage expressif. Dans la première partie, on suit les jeunes filles lors d'une démonstration devant un public et les arbitres pendant une compétiton individuelle. La deuxième partie montre les préparations en coulisse, les répétitions laborieuses des exercices et des étirements rigoureux. L'impact d'un regard déterminé, les mouvements precis et les sourires, le travail acharné et la douleur, les contrastes esthétiques se mélangeant dans la grande marmite du kitsch : est-ce une fable ou simplement le vie réelle ? Malwina Rzonca a pris les photographies lors du Second Tournoi International de Gymnastique Krystyna Gieorgiew à Cracovie en 2005.

Malwina Rzonca est une artiste polonaise des arts visuels et de performance. Elle vit et travaille à Cracovie. Elle a étudié à l'Académie des beaux-arts de Cracovie dans le département peinture de 1994 à 1999 et elle y a également obtenu son diplôme. De 1991 à 1998, elle a étudié la danse au Studio de Danse Expérimentale "EST" à Cracovie. Elle réalise des tableaux, des vidéos, des photographies, des actions, des performances scéniques et des performances prévues pour des lieux précis. Toutes ses oeuvres sont basées sur un concept clair et une expression visuelle forte. Elle a obtenu une distinction en 2006 à la Biennale des jeunes artistes "The Fish Eye 4" en Pologne. En 2003, elle a obtenu le troisième prix à la Compétition Internationale des Projets Chorégraphiques Originaux (Internatonal Original Dance Project Competition) et le prix Jarmila Jerabkova à Prague en République Tchèque. Et enfin en 1999, elle été le prix des Présentations Internationales des Formes Chorégraphiques Contemporaine de Kalisz '99 (International Presentations of Contemporary Dance Forms Kalisz '99) en Polgne.