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Stemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early 70s, 'Liberty: an ephemeral statute' reflects upon post-68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today.

Rebecca Jane Arthur (born 1984 in Edinburgh) is a visual artist whose practice is mainly related to moving images and writing. She studied Fine Arts at Sint-Lukas Brussels and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and obtained her MFA at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent in 2017. At the invitation of Ingrid Cogne, Rebecca Jane Arthur worked as a researcher for Six-Formats (funded by FWF-Peek), an arts-based research project hosted by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, in the Screening format in 2017-18. In 2019-20, she developed her writing work within the Conversation #4 residency programme, an initiative of the Centre Vidéo de Bruxelles (CVB) and GSARA, in partnership with the Beursschouwburg, and she also participated in SoundImageCulture (SIC). She was artist-in-residence at WIELS, Brussels, in 2019 and will be resident at the Cité internationale des arts de Paris in 2021. Parallel to her artistic activities, Arthur works in Brussels at Auguste Orts as coordinator of the project On & For Production and Distribution (2018-2021). She is also the co-founder of Elephy, a production platform based in Brussels.