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THE TANGIER 8 In June 2009, Tamaas, an international non-profit arts organization, invited eight poets and filmmakers coming from France, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, and the United States, to Tangier, Morocco. These four poet-filmmaker pairs collaborated using Super 8 film and writing original text to create these experimental ?film-poems.? Working under tight time constraints-they had just four days to film, four days for sound, and four days for editing, the artists took inspiration from the city of Tangier-its history, architecture, people, politics, as well as from each other, to produce these short film-poems. Here are the finished film-poems, along with a "making of" documentary about the artists who created them. Each work is independent and can be viewed alone or otherwise shown as a whole. Ivan Boccara (France/Morocco) + Carla Faesler (Mexico) Akram Zataari (Lebanon) + Liliane Giraudon (France) Natalia Almada (Mexico)+ Peter Gizzi (USA) Jem Cohen (USA) + Luc Sante (Belgium/USA) Running time: :41 minutes (not including ?Making Of?) Languages: English, Spanish, French + Arabic with English, French, Arabic subtitles Sound, Script, Editing and Filming all done by the 8 Artists A Tamaas production Hosted by the Cinémathèque de Tanger www.tamaas.org

1. Ivan Boccara (France/Morocco) He studied Berber history and civilization and some of his work has focused on the lives of Berbers, and the environment of the Atlas Mountains. AND Carla Faesler (Mexico) She is the author of such works as Anábasis Maqueta, 2004 (Awarded the National Prize in Literature Gilberto Owen?), No Tú sino la Piedra, 1999) and the collection, Ríos sagrados que la herejía navega, 1996). 2. Akram Zataari (Lebanon) is an artist preoccupied with the production, collection and study of documents. His work reflects on the shifting nature of borders particularly in the Middle East. AND: Liliane Giraudon (France) Projects have included, co-founder of the Journal, Banana Split (1980-1990), with J.J. Viton; Co-founder of the revue If, (1992), co-editor of Action Poétique. 3. Natalia Almada (Mexico). Directing credits include Al Otro Lado, her award winning debut feature documentary about immigration, drug trafficking and corrido music; and EL GENERAL, a family memoir and portrait of Mexico past and present. AND Peter Gizzi (USA) Attended Brown University, NYC and SUNY Buffalo. His books include The Outernationale (Wesleyan, 2007), Some Values of Landscape and Weather (Wesleyan, 2003), Artificial Heart (Burning Deck, 1998), and Periplum (Avec Books, 1992). 4. Jem Cohen (USA) His films are usually built from his own archive of images and sounds, combine documentary, narrative, and experimental approaches. AND Luc Sante (Belgium/USA) is a writer and a cultural critic with a focus on art, films, photography, books, cities. He teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College, in the Hudson Valley in New York.

Based on the 8mm footage my grandmother shot during a trip to Armenia and the images I took during my journey there 36 years later, Dear Victoria investigates notions of belonging and alienation through an encounter between two worlds. I only recently discovered my grandmother?s footage and never thought we would be exchanging views across temporalities one day.

'Ruido ê (the film)' is a musical documentary with thriller overtones that is interrupted and shattered. The noise (ruido), beyond acoustic impact, becomes a difficulty of readability and narrative purity, a shock between languages, it is a synesthetic hum that hacks vision and makes it erotic. All the underwater sequences have been filmed in underwater urban areas where, paradoxically, the electric rays Torpedo torpedo live. These areas, which the artist calls 'postpunk', are in constant urban transformation. From the maritime works for the extension of the breakwater of San Sebastián beach in Barcelona, ??with a metal crane that launches concrete buckets, passing through the entire post-industrial area between the mouth of the Besós river, Sant Adrià, until reaching the Pont del Petroli in Badalona, ??whose pillars were knocked down by the storm Gloria. Waste and underwater architecture reappropriated by different beings. The film has been an alibi to weave networks of work and methodological research with scientists, divers and other artists around issues of somatic attention, perception, vulnerability and resistance.

SILVIA ZAYAS (León, Spain 1978). She is a luso-spanish artist. Her work is situated at the limits of live arts, video and choreography. She investigates the creation of homemade, rudimentary and low-tech devices for making live films. Her work questions ways of filming “from a distance.” For this she moves away from the usual “hand-eye” relationship and tries to legitimize the sensitive possibilities of an amateur, vulnerable, sick, thuggish, hidden, punk and also z-series body... Her most relevant works are: the live film São Tomé Revisitado (2012) in collaboration with her mother Isabel Serra; Parallax (2016), a stage piece for light and sound; the circular films The Boogie-Woogie Ghost (2018) and Puebla (2021) together with María Jerez; Talking pictures (2018) with Esperanza Collado; the "cinema without film" projects Brilliant Corners (2020) and Brillante (2020-2022), both within the Orquestina de Pigmeos collective; the solo exhibition ê (2021), or the recent film ruido ê (the film) (2023). She belongs to the collective office of research in live arts Dorothy Michaels. Recently finishes the doctoral thesis Counterdispositives between cinema and the performing arts: ghosts, diffractions, holes and other creatures (2023). UCLM, Cuenca (Spain). Her work has been shown in national and international biennials, festivals and institutions and also in non-institutional places, markets, squares, schools...

Familiarly dull and generic, the environment of unappreciated places offers a perfect backdrop for a zoo of ideas, artifacts and machines. They inhibit a technologically more and more explicit world, where human transport seems to be the least objective for them. Instead, they are part of an ever evolving stream of becoming, of development, accident, recombination and distorted proliferation. Their busy self-perpetuation creates gentle monstrocities and monstrous poetry. It shows that the merging nano-, bio-, and information technologies have rendered the concept of human authenticity and originality obsolete, that artificial materials create their own artifacts and their future shape. Do they demand their own form of (trans-)human rights anytime soon? If they signed this new Magna Carta already, would we be the last to know?

Zeitguised was founded in 2001 by Jamie Raap and Henrik Mauler in Stuttgart, Germany, where they are still based today. Jamie, who holds a degree in Fine Art and a Master in Media Art, had worked and studied in Chicago as a sculptor and fashion designer. Henrik has a degree in Architecture and teaches Experimental Digital Design at the University of Stuttgart, he previously worked for Segura/T26 in Chicago. When they first joined their skills, graphical and dimensional animation was their common denominator. A few international exhibitions, festivals, publications, nominations and awards later, animation has become one of their major fields of occupation. While architecture and fashion are still the main interests and sources of inspiration, well-known clients are especially seeking their motion graphics. Recent work has been completed for MTFG Plaza Bank and TV Asahi in Japan, MTV Europe, Toonami Cartoon Network in the UK, German electronic music duo Funkstoerung and Popular Mechanics magazine, USA.

Protagonist Faust – an ascetic boy, disconnected from society - is living near a drying out lake. He eats a special breed of shrimp that acts as a hallucinogen, leading Faust into a bizzare world of fantasy.

Starting from 2007, I studied graphic and industrial design in Vilnius Academy of Arts, first at the Kaunas faculty (from which I graduated in 2011), and then, for the master's degree in product design, in Vilnius (graduated in 2013). Since my earliest school years, I have been actively involved in audio-visual arts. In 2010 a colleague and I established an audio-visual arts duo "BrainMonk". Over the course of ten years we recorded and published 24 albums of very experimental and eclectic free improvisations. Working with sound also led to a deeper understanding of visual experiences, thus sound improvisations outgrew into audiovisual creations, which then paved the way towards more complex, abstract film projects.

"El Tenista" (tennis) employs video game images of tennis as a reflection of reality. Ready to win back the game, the player - the narrator - feels that something isn't right and questions his existence. The play metaphor of Winner and Loser appears as a pure product of the crisis that suffers the politico-social model of competition predominant in society. "El Tenista", a video from the collective Zemos98, resorts to this metaphor to denounce the system that forces people to disguise themselves, to be something they're not, and that pushes them to inertia, to lose their control of the present. At the end of the video, the player decides to leave the field. Is the game won or lost?

The collective Zemos98, organizer of one of the most innovating audiovisual festivals in Spain, learns from its works and its errors, and renews itself daily in its structures and approaches. It is a group open to multiple modality narratives - short films, documentaries, video creations... - but which all present a common point, they are all micro-histories. Over the years, Zemos98 has integrated and developed a series of parallel activities that have won presence and importance.

CARGO CARRIERS is a story about a dreamy landscape and well-known architecture: in the perfect picture of the scene, noise fields break through the idyllic surroundings. The soundscape of the island is created by the prohibition of any kind of vehicle. For the transport of all goods, "carrying guys", independent workers with special carts, are employed. By means of experimental camera work, field recording and contemporary Chinese poetry, the tension between historical world cultural heritage, tourism, precarious work situations and life is negotiated.

Conny Zenk is media artist and film maker working in the context of social and urban architecture. Her working method is transdisciplinary and artistically explorative using digital and analog interfaces, vehicles and media. She is the initiator of the art project RAD Performance, which focuses on the fusion of performance and sound art with collective practices such as cycling. Since 2007 she has been working in the field of visual music in the context of performance, dance, theatre, and sound art, reflecting on concepts such as space and projection and creating a dialogue of visual music and light architecture. International festivals such as Rencontres Internationales, Vienna Shorts, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Animator Film Festival Poznan and more. Conny Zenk lives and works in Vienna, completed her Diploma with distinction in Digital Art (Univ. Prof. Virgil Widrich, Univ. Prof. Ruth Schnell) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna where she is currently in the Ph.D. in Art program. Zenk has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Music and Performing Arts and the University of Music and Theatre Munich.

Honeycomb is the name of a technique used in facade restoration of marble. In Denmark several buildings worthy of preservation are covered with marble from Greenland, extracted during the interwar period (1930s). Among other buildings is Overformynderiet in Copenhagen.  In the work Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding, visual artists Eva la Cour and Tinne Zenner juxtapose their own film recordings following the renovation of Overformynderiet in Copenhagen (2019) with Jette Bang’s film recordings from the marble mine in Maarmorilik (1938). The soundscape composed by Alexander Holm, utilises field and contact microphone recordings from the exterior and interior location of Overformynderiet (2021).  Through an interplay of image, sound and text, the material facade of Overformynderiet is not simply rendered visible as image. Rather, Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding speculates on the production of images in general, considered as situated layers of geopolitical relations. Not least historical and colonial relations between Greenland and Denmark.

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist, filmmaker and programmer based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Working with analogue film, 3D renderings and spatial installation, her work moves between the cinema and exhibition space while exploring the structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. In recent years, her work has been actively and critically engaged with the physical and cultural traces of the Danish colonial past and present in Greenland. Her films have been shown at a number of international film festivals including New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Oberhausen, EMAF, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS, and her installation work exhibited at museums and galleries internationally. Zenner is a member of the film collectives Sharna Pax and Terrassen, both engaging with the social life of film, and works as a programmer for EMAF - European Media Arts Festival. She is currently in production of her upcoming solo-exhibition (Im)material Extraction opening at Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen in November 2023. Eva la Cour is an artist and researcher, interested in temporal and relational forms of the image and image-practices. Drawing inspiration from strategies of montage, while using both analogue film, video, text and display aesthetic elements, her spatial work and performative demonstrations are always effects of lenghty and multifaceted investigative processes. Out of a fundamental dissatisfaction with the representational discourse, and its historical and colonial legacy, la Cour has written the book Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-future Essayism - the result of a practice-based artistic PhD project, obtained from HDK-Valand (the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Gothenburg University, SE). Her individual and collaborative works have been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally, often transgressing spaces of film culture, academic research, and fine art. La Cour holds a MA in Visual and Media Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin, DE) as well as in Fine Arts (The Jutland Art Academy, DK), and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Art as Forum, Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Nutsigassat reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. The Danish names imposed on Greenland’s spaces and landscapes have historically been a part of Denmark’s engagement in the vast country in the North. A process, through which the mountains of Sermitsiaq and Kingittorsuaq that surround Nuuk were detached from both their semantic and geographical meaning. But also the physical signs of the fatal interventions of the past are legible in the concrete high-rises that replaced the small communities of the bygds along the coasts which were closed down by the Danish government in the 1960s and 70s. Even the manual mass production of tupilaks (sacred amulettos made of bones and horns) describe a cultural mutation of the mythical figure into a tourist object. Through a complex juxtaposition of text, voice and her beautiful 16mm film imagery, Zenner has created a critical work in which the majestic and vast vistas of Greenland defy the history imposed on them

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with analogue film, 3D-animation and spatial installation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. Her work has been shown at a number of international film festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Projections at New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS in South Korea, and exhibited internationally at Reykjavik Art Museum, Nuuk Art Museum, Gothenburg Kunsthal, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts Brussels as well as at Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen. Zenner is a co-founder and member of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London and Copenhagen working between the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual arts.

A film centred on the production of landscape and concrete in the Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Covering a vast area of coast, caves, mountains and forest, the park is inhabited by a massive concrete factory that branches through the landscape. Documenting the various layers of the sourced material, the factory body and the constructed landscape, the film looks at how time is physically embedded in the matter and how the molecular particles act in a circular re-shaping of the whole. The film merges 16mm footage shot in the area of Arrábida with 3D animation of the topographic landscape as an equal analogue layer.

Tinne Zenner (b. 1986, Denmark) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She received her MFA from The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Working with analogue film and 3D-animation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded.

Honeycomb is the name of a technique used in facade restoration of marble. In Denmark several buildings worthy of preservation are covered with marble from Greenland, extracted during the interwar period (1930s). Among other buildings is Overformynderiet in Copenhagen.  In the work Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding, visual artists Eva la Cour and Tinne Zenner juxtapose their own film recordings following the renovation of Overformynderiet in Copenhagen (2019) with Jette Bang’s film recordings from the marble mine in Maarmorilik (1938). The soundscape composed by Alexander Holm, utilises field and contact microphone recordings from the exterior and interior location of Overformynderiet (2021).  Through an interplay of image, sound and text, the material facade of Overformynderiet is not simply rendered visible as image. Rather, Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding speculates on the production of images in general, considered as situated layers of geopolitical relations. Not least historical and colonial relations between Greenland and Denmark.

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist, filmmaker and programmer based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Working with analogue film, 3D renderings and spatial installation, her work moves between the cinema and exhibition space while exploring the structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. In recent years, her work has been actively and critically engaged with the physical and cultural traces of the Danish colonial past and present in Greenland. Her films have been shown at a number of international film festivals including New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Oberhausen, EMAF, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS, and her installation work exhibited at museums and galleries internationally. Zenner is a member of the film collectives Sharna Pax and Terrassen, both engaging with the social life of film, and works as a programmer for EMAF - European Media Arts Festival. She is currently in production of her upcoming solo-exhibition (Im)material Extraction opening at Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen in November 2023. Eva la Cour is an artist and researcher, interested in temporal and relational forms of the image and image-practices. Drawing inspiration from strategies of montage, while using both analogue film, video, text and display aesthetic elements, her spatial work and performative demonstrations are always effects of lenghty and multifaceted investigative processes. Out of a fundamental dissatisfaction with the representational discourse, and its historical and colonial legacy, la Cour has written the book Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-future Essayism - the result of a practice-based artistic PhD project, obtained from HDK-Valand (the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Gothenburg University, SE). Her individual and collaborative works have been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally, often transgressing spaces of film culture, academic research, and fine art. La Cour holds a MA in Visual and Media Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin, DE) as well as in Fine Arts (The Jutland Art Academy, DK), and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Art as Forum, Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Nutsigassat reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. The Danish names imposed on Greenland’s spaces and landscapes have historically been a part of Denmark’s engagement in the vast country in the North. A process, through which the mountains of Sermitsiaq and Kingittorsuaq that surround Nuuk were detached from both their semantic and geographical meaning. But also the physical signs of the fatal interventions of the past are legible in the concrete high-rises that replaced the small communities of the bygds along the coasts which were closed down by the Danish government in the 1960s and 70s. Even the manual mass production of tupilaks (sacred amulettos made of bones and horns) describe a cultural mutation of the mythical figure into a tourist object. Through a complex juxtaposition of text, voice and her beautiful 16mm film imagery, Zenner has created a critical work in which the majestic and vast vistas of Greenland defy the history imposed on them

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with analogue film, 3D-animation and spatial installation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. Her work has been shown at a number of international film festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Projections at New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS in South Korea, and exhibited internationally at Reykjavik Art Museum, Nuuk Art Museum, Gothenburg Kunsthal, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts Brussels as well as at Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen. Zenner is a co-founder and member of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London and Copenhagen working between the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual arts.

A film centred on the production of landscape and concrete in the Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Covering a vast area of coast, caves, mountains and forest, the park is inhabited by a massive concrete factory that branches through the landscape. Documenting the various layers of the sourced material, the factory body and the constructed landscape, the film looks at how time is physically embedded in the matter and how the molecular particles act in a circular re-shaping of the whole. The film merges 16mm footage shot in the area of Arrábida with 3D animation of the topographic landscape as an equal analogue layer.

Tinne Zenner (b. 1986, Denmark) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She received her MFA from The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Working with analogue film and 3D-animation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded.

In the GDR Opposition Archive in Berlin, Anna Zett traces known and unknown fears of her childhood. The artist interweaves samizdat and archival footage with a stirring collage of underground music from the late GDR (composed by Matti Gajek). Video recordings by activists from the Environmental Library, the New Forum and the punk scene in East Berlin, fragments of the televised revolution, and highly condensed voices from a poetry cassette recorded in 1986 combine to create an associative and intimate narrative. In ceaseless escalation, the archive thriller leads to the second occupation of the Berlin Stasi headquarters with hunger strike in September 1990 – a political event that is barely known today despite its far-reaching consequences. There is fear. There is anger. There are people who, despite profound experiences of violence, insist on emotional connection and political self-determination. The short film ES GIBT KEINE ANGST opens up a pulsating resonance space that keeps vibrating long after.

Anna Zett is a Berlin-based artist and writer. Rooted in poetry, collage and improvisation, their transmedia practice seeks to host, witness and experience new connections at sites of loss and damage. This work results in films, books, radio plays, installations and live-formats, most recently f.ex. the participatory research ‚Postsocialist Group Improvisation‘. Since their first film release in 2014, Zetts work has been shown in international contexts of contemporary art, film, performance and discourse, such as Berlinale Forum Expanded, Serpentine Gallery London, Whitney Museum New York, Berlinische Galerie, Or Gallery Vancouver, HKW Berlin. Zetts publications include two experimental radio plays for the German public broadcast and the literary text collection ‚Artificial Gut Feeling‘ (Divided Publishing, 2019). Since 2024 Anna Zett co-teaches the class for Performative Arts at HGB Leipzig.

?Broken Threads? is the manipulation of a ?70s Albanian noir movie so as to transform it into its trailer, by collating footage and using as a soundtrack Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? ?The Curse of Millhaven?, from album Murder Ballads. This project aims at tackling the phenomenon of crime and revolution starting from the earliest jesuit conspirations, showing revolution is nothing but the infamous motto: my work starts when yours is done. For this reason the movie wasn?t digitalized through usual processes, but was instead filmed with a handicam for the whole of its duration, so as to respect the project?s concept. ?Broken Threads? elaborates Cave?s track with Albanian noir movie ?Broken Threads?, revolving around a bunch of Albanian agents ? former nazi collaborators during WWII ? operating against the socialist system, suddendly coming back to their homeland to sabotage and destroy some important objectives in the country?s secret industrial plans. The movie stresses the relationship between memory and actuality, old and new enemies, adding up in a noir spy story showing international plots and conspiration finally failing, as usual, in the best of ways.

Fani Zguro born in 1977 Tirana. Lives and works in Milan EDUCATION 1996-1997: Polytechnic of Athens (Greece - outsider) 1998-2002: Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera Milano (Italy) 2008-2010: Laurea Specialistica, Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera Milano (Italy) ART RESIDENCES 2003-2004: Citè International des Arts Paris (France) 2009-2009: Kultur Kontakt, Vienna (Austria) 2009-2009: La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres Paris (France) 2009-2009: Taller Siete, Medellin (Colombia) WORK EXPERIENCE 2004-2005: Independent Curator, The National Gallery of Arts Tirana (Albania) 2007- : Project Director, Tirana Art Center (Albania)

An experimental portrait of love and quiet sadness in the corners of Los Angeles. Zhang`s non-linear editing creates an intimate and poetic representation that flows in and out of narrative and documentarian conventions.

Charlotte Zhang (b. 1999) is a filmmaker and occasional writer from Vancouver Island, currently studying Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts.

The Snow to Fall (2024) bears witness to the obscure contours of a heritage site undergoing maintenance. Two voices, whose presence is known through subtitles at the two ends of the screen, discuss in an exhaustive language the interiors of the room, the story of a boulder encountered in a mountain house, and the dust that keeps coming back. They hold on to the conversation to survive the time, but the time does not end. Through a sustained gaze at the often invisible labour of care in memory institutions, the film explores the unruly temporality of care, the elusive shapes of kinship, and what remains of those that fail to become history.

Else/Xun is a researcher and artist who works primarily with moving image and creative-critical writing. Inhabiting chronic times, their practice-based research investigates the politics and potentials of care in the systematic carelessness of neoliberal societies. They fabulate dialogues that attend to the functioning of language and power relations, telling stories to trace alternative modes of belonging and becoming centred around interdependency, care, and radical kinship. Else/Xun is an Artist in Residence at CW+ of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2024-25) and a member of Neighbours Group at Studio Voltaire, London (2025-28). Recent exhibitions and screenings include East Wing Biennial (The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2025), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, 2025), Sonic Disruption (Tate Modern, London, 2024), and Queer Currents (ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam, 2023). As part of the artist collective Hebianhengge ????, they have spoken about their research on Chinese queer language at Manchester China Institute (2022) and Queer China UK (2022). They work and live in London and hold an MRes in Arts & Humanities, followed by an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art.

In a decaying urban wasteland, a woman’s routine walk with her dog turns into a search when the leash slips. As they move through deserted industrial spaces, both begin to adapt to the absence of control, transforming from domesticated beings into defiant strays. Their shifting relationship unfolds as a quiet study of dependence, rebellion, and autonomy within an oppressive landscape.

Andy Xianyi Zhang is a London-based filmmaker and moving image artist, and a recipient of The FLAMIN Fellowship (2024–2025). Originally from Shanghai, she works at the intersection of experimental film and artists’ moving image, exploring themes of urbanization, alienation, and self-discovery. Her practice employs a restrained yet defiant visual language, investigating the relationship between human presence and space through the aesthetics of slow cinema and non-linear narrative structures. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Beijing International Short Film Festival, Ugly Duck (London), and Punch Gallery (Washington D.C.), and has been featured in NOWNESS Asia and Artist Talk Magazine. Zhang holds an MA in Film from the University of the Arts London.

City Scene is a series of snapshots taken in the streets and squares of a Beijing preparing for the Olympic Games. The filmmaker captures everyday reality in static shots: leisure activities, street scenes, latent violence. The long, continuous and carefully framed shots draw attention to places and details, to the way the people there move and interact. Zhao Liang makes impressive use of cinema?s capacity to make reality visible as it is.

Zhao Liang was born in 1971. He lives and works in Beijing, China. He belongs to a generation of artists creating a new aesthetic combining documentary filmmaking and popular culture (TV, music video, advertisement). He merges the emphasis on historical, social, and political testimony of the former with the narrative structure and style of the latter, fusing language of the political avant-garde with that of the commercially oriented entertainment industry. With the inescapable flavor of Western, if not American, hegemony marking that industry, Zhao?s work appears to combine not only two aesthetics but also two cultures and political identities on the verge of change.

A short study of an old photo found in an antique shop.

Mikhail Zheleznikov was born in Leningrad in 1972. Made films for ARTE and YLE, Corona Films, and St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Participant and jury member of various international film festivals. His video works have been exhibited at modern art museum Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA), The National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan), Kunst Museum Bonn (Germany), Museum of Modern Art Erarta (St. Petersburg, Russia). Since 2011 curates experimental short film competition In Silico at Message To Man film festival. In 2012 co-organized experimental film festival Kinodot. Since 2015 is teaching at St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, since 2016 — in St. Petersburg New Cinema School. In 2019 was one of the curators of experimental project Per Forma 2 Stage at the Big Drama Theater.

Silence is gold. Who needs words in this sea of selfless love.

Mikhail Zheleznikov was born in Leningrad in 1972. Made TV episodes for ARTE and YLE, films for St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Participant and jury member of various international film festivals. His video works have been exhibited at modern art museum Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA), The National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan), Kunst Museum Bonn (Germany), Museum of Modern Art Erarta (St. Petersburg, Russia). Since 2011 curates experimental short film competition In Silico at Message To Man film festival. In 2012 co-organized experimental film festival Kinodot. In 2015-2019 was teaching at St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, in 2016-2021 in St. Petersburg New Cinema School. In 2019 was one of the curators of the experimental project Per Forma 2 Stage at the Big Drama Theater. Since 2019 he has taught documentary filmmaking at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television.