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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.

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.

Following the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.

From Haitian descent, Miryam Charles is a director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature films. She is also the director of several short films. Her films have been presented in various festivals in Quebec and internationally. She has just completed the direction of her first feature film This House. Her work explores themes related to exile and the legacies of colonization.

?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.

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.

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.

Zhou Hong Xiang (Chine) est un artiste média. Il enseigne à l'Université Normale de Shanghai. Ses oeuvres ont été projetées lors de nombreux festivals du film et festivals média, dont le World Wide Video Festival, Impakt, et Transmediale. ===================== Zhou Hongxiang (Chine) Né en 1969 à Dongtai dans la province de Jiangsu. Zhou Hongxiang est diplômé de l'Université Chinoise Normale en 1994 et enseigne actuellement à l'Université Normale de Shanghai. Il a exposé en Asie de l'Est, en Chine, lors d'exposition d'art contemporain au Japon et en Corée, Shanghai, Chine. Il a fait partie des jeunes artistes séléctionnés par l'édition spéciale Asie du TIME Magazine en Octobre 2000. En 2001 il a participé à Chinese Plans : Rotate 360, la 6ème Exposition d'Art Contemporain chinois, Shanghai, Chine; China Rushes, Asian-Pacific-Wochen festival d'Art de Berlin, Allemagne: BEFF3: 3ème festival expérimental de Bangkok, Thailande. En 2002, il a pris part à Art Scope, Foire d'art de Bâle et Miami, Floride, Etats Unis, ainsi qu'au 59ème festival international de cinéma de Venise, Italie. En 2003 il a participé au 8ème Festival International du Film de Pusan, Corée; 49ème festival international du court-métrage d'Oberhausen, Allemagne; Indépendants Chinois : Festival du film et de la vidéo nationaux, centre d'Art Honk-Kong, lors duquel il a réalisé le film d'ouverture. En 2004 : Festival international du film, de la vidéo et des nouveaux médias VIPER, Suisse. Photographies et vidéos contemporaines chinoises, Kunstmuseum Wolfburg, Allemagne. Festival cinéma, Brésil; Rear window, NGBK, Berlin, Allemagne; MK2 cinema, Paris, France; Image Forum Festival 04, Tokyo, Gethe Institute in Kyoto, Musée de Yokohama, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Japon; 21ème Festival World Wide Video Amsterdam, Pays-Bas; festival d'art média européen, Nomination aux EMAF awards, Allemagne; Shanghai Assemblage, au musée national d'art contemporain d'Oslo, Norvège; Hilcot Shchenim, chapter B. Centre d'art Digital, Holon. Israel; transmediale.04 Festival international d'art média de Berlin, IMAGE AWARD. In 2005, "Art as cinema Musée d'art contemporain de Mannheim, 54ème Fesival cinéma de Mannheim-Heidelberg, Allemagne; Nomination international media award 2005, ZKM Allemagne 7ème Panorama International des réalisateurs indépendants, Grèce et France; et festival d'art média européen, Allemagne.

In the summer of 2023, the government of Jiujiang launched the Gan Tang Lake Cleansing Project. Within weeks, this ancient lake with over two millennia of history was drained. Nearby in Gan Tang Park, a boy wakes up in the rain. There, the destiny of Gan Tang awaits.

Tianming Zhou (Alaric) works with lens-based media, sound, and installation. He explores the in-between of physical and conceptual landscapes. His works have been showcased at Antimatter, Mimesis, Interfilm, Experiments in Cinema, Non-Syntax, Leiden Shorts, RPM Festival, etc.

Both my parents and grandparents had told about their experiences of witnessing dragon and strange astronomic as kids. These things became part of my childhood memory which I still hold onto deeply. I believe there are some kind of lives and energy that are beyond human existence. They are totems which evolved into symbols throughout thousands of years. Whereas modern science , under the coverage of logic, made every one of us a superstitious bystander. Truth is like an enormous broken flower fading on earth. How do these incidents relate to casual bystanders? The mystery of these beliefs is best understood by peasants, who have intermingled with the land and nature for thousands of years. But are they still there, or are they hidden in a secret way? This is what I have been looking for. It is unique and belongs to everyone. As Nietzsche wrote in “Also sprach Zarathustra”: “You and I even in the mountains we seek something different. I came here to seek more safety, because it is still the strongest tower and will”.

ZHOU YULONG photographer & Artist b. 1978 2000: Worked as Art director of Ogilvy&Mather Co. 2002: Founded DTMPHOTO studio Based in Shanghai

This film is about the nature of existence and memory. Seventy years ago, on a night, a musician was shot dead on stage in a nightclub in Shanghai, a story found by a Frenchman on an old newspaper today. Although the musician was long forgotten in the history,this French gentleman makes his way to Shanghai in the hope of finding the traces of the musician's existence. In a shabby old apartment, he reads aloud the novel written by Patrick Modiano, calling the spirits that used to live here.His voice evokes the response of the Shanghai musician. All of a sudden, it seems to him as if they share the same memories, details and breath. As Modiano puts it: "there was nothing to set us apart from the others, those Sundays in August.”

Zhou Hongbo graduated from Beijing Film Academy, with a master’s degree in 1999. His graduation film, A Fish Who Wants to Fly, was selected for Cannes Film Festival 2000, Cinefondation. Since then Zhou has made several features and documentaries which were screened at various international film festival.

Can a horse save a life? In Clondalkin (Dublin) that’s exactly the case. In a district with a lot of problems and not may of prospects, young people face drugs, prison and crime as their only path. But some of them manage to escape thanks to an unusual hobby. They tame wild horses and become… urban cowboys. When 14-year-old Dylan hits a bad streak in his life, he finds comfort in Shelly, a white mare that quickly becomes his whole world. Even though taming wild horses is illegal in Ireland and Shelly’s hooves are not used to the concrete streets, their unlikely friendship grows stronger.

Born in 1981, he graduated from the Lodz National Film School and from the Wajda School in Warsaw. The short documentaries and fiction films he has made so far have received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and have won many prestigious awards. His documentary Rogalik got IDFA nomination in 2012. It has also been shown and awarded at festivals such as Zagreb Dox, Alcine Festival (First Prize), and festivals in Oberhausen, Beijing, Bucharest, Cracow and others. Apart from directing, Pawel Ziemilski is involved in social animation, organizing workshops for so-called troubled youth.

TOBIAS YVES ZINTEL wird 1975 in Passau geboren. Er studiert Konzeptkunst an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München bei Joseph Kosuth. Seine filmischen Arbeiten integrieren verschiedene Genres wie Performance, Dokumentation, Installation, Musik und Theater. In einer eigenwilligen Bildsprache kreiert er Filme, die uns groteske Szenarien, rätselhafte Aktionen und entrückte Universen vorstellen. Seine filmischen Arbeiten werden bundesweit und international gezeigt, u.a. bei Videonale.14, Kunstmuseum Bonn (GER), Glasgow International (GB), Video Roam@Honor Fraser (USA), Doris MacCarthy Gallery (CA), RIPBM@Palais de Tokyo (FR), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (GER). Regelmäßig arbeitet Zintel am Theater und Oper, u.a. an den Münchner Kammerspielen (Doing Identity Festival, Bunny Hill I und II, Hauptschule der Freiheit), Deutsche Oper Berlin, Neumarkt Theater Zürich & am Theater Basel. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

TOBIAS YVES ZINTEL wurde 1975 in Passau geboren. Er studierte Konzeptkunst an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste München bei Joseph Kosuth. Seine Videoarbeiten werden bundesweit und international gezeigt, darunter Einzelausstellungen in München (Galerie Barbara Gross), Los Angeles (USA), Glasgow (GB), Amsterdam (NL) und Ausstellungsbeteiligungen u.a. bei der art cologne (Köln), aando fine arts (Berlin), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (München). Regelmäßig arbeitet Zintel am Theater, u.a. an den Münchner Kammerspielen (Doing Identity Festival, Bunny Hill I und II, Hauptschule der Freiheit), am Theater Basel und Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.

Tobias Yves Zintel was born in 1975 in Passau in Germany. He studied from 1996 to 2003 at the catholic University of Eichstätt and with the LMU of Munich, then, from 2003 to 2007, he attended the Joseph Kosuth courses at the Academy of visual Arts in Munich. He works exclusively with the filmic medium, by producing interaction between the music, the performance, the theatre, film and art. He is co-founder of the artistic production ?Interesting Productions? with Bo Christian Larsson and Murena. He lives and works in Berlin, and in the Bavarian forest and Munich.

Tobias Yves Zintel est né en 1975 à Passau en Allemagne. Il étudie de 1996 à 2003 à l?Université catholique d?Eichstätt et à la LMU de Munich, puis il suit les cours de Joseph Kosuth à l?Académie des Arts visuels de Munich. Il travaille exclusivement sur le médium filmique, en faisant l?interface entre la musique, la performance, le théâtre, le film et l?art. Il est co-fondateur de la production artistique ?Interesting Productions? avec Bo Christian Larsson et Murena. Il vit et travaille à Berlin, dans la forêt bavaroise et Munich.

The film work by Tobias Yves Zintel integrates various genres such as performance, installation, music, and theater. He makes films in an idiosyncratic visual language, confronting us with scenes of grotesqueries, mysterious actions, and sublime universes. Mental Radio, the film?s title, is taken from the title of a book written in 1930 by Upton Sinclair, which describes the experiments conducted with his wife, who had telepathic powers. Besides the attempt to trace the inexplicable things in a family constellation, Zintel also grapples with the question of how to deal with the mentally ill in our society.

Tobias Yves Zintel, born in 1975 in Passau, lives and works in Berlin. He studied under Joseph Kosuth at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.

Der Film Traumberuf Realität, entstanden während des Interventionsprojektes ?Hauptschule der Freiheit? der Münchner Kammerspiele, ist eine filmische Reflexion über die Lebensperspektiven junger Menschen. Befragt werden zehn Absolventen einer Münchner Hauptschule zu ihren beruflichen Hoffnungen und Wünschen; sowie zu den scheinbar notwendigen Kompromissen, die der Arbeitsmarkt an sie heranträgt. Spürbar wird die Malaise einer postindustriellen Gesellschaft, in der schwindende Lohnarbeitsplätze subtile und offensichtliche Deformationen verlangen, ohne eine glaubwürdige Zukunft zu bieten. Sekundiert von einem Bildungssystem, das, statt die Menschen in ihrer Substanz zu stärken, sie als Erfüllungsgehilfe des Arbeitsmarktes biografisch degradiert. Dagegen stellt ?Traumberuf. Realität.? eine einzige Frage: Wie würdest du gern mit deinem Leben umgehen? - und kontert die Tristesse des somnambulen Arbeitnehmers mit persönlichen Träumen und Wünschen. Die Suchkriterien lauten: Wo ist die Würde und das Selbstbewusstsein? Wo ist der Respekt? Welches Potential, welche Kreativität und welche Leidenschaft werden unterdrückt und verschwendet? Und welche Perspektiven und Möglichkeiten könnten wir entwickeln? Könnten?

CV Tobias Yves Zintel wurde 1975 in Passau/Deutschland geboren. Von 1996 bis 2002 studierte er an der katholischen Universitaet Eichstaett und der LMU München. Von 2002-2007 studierte er in der Klasse von Joseph Kosuth an der Akademie der bildenden Künste. Er arbeitet mit Video und Fotografie an der Schnittstelle von Musik, Performance, Theater, Film, Video und Kunst. Er lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und im Bayerischen Wald. CV Sebastian Weber wurde 1976 in Leipzig/Deutschland geboren. Er studierte Schauspiel an der Berliner Hochschule für Schauspielkunst ?Ernst Busch?. Seit 2000 arbeitete er in diversen Theater-, Film- und Fernsehproduktionen und gehörte von 2004 bis 2009 dem Ensemble der Münchner Kammerspiele an. Dort arbeitete er u.a. mit den Regisseuren Johan Simons, Andreas Kriegenburg und René Pollesch zusammen. Er lebt und arbeitet in München.

Tobias Yves Zintel greift in seinen filmischen und performativen Arbeiten auf Methoden und Mittel des Experimentalfilms, der Theaterinszenierung, der Musikproduktion und -aufführung sowie der Installationskunst zurück. Die so entstehenden Montagen beschreiben bewusst eine Grenzüberschreitung zwischen Fakt und Fiktion, zwischen Dokument und Fragment. Das zugrunde liegende Material rekurriert dabei stets auf Aspekte der Kunst- und Filmgeschichte, Philosophie und Naturwissenschaft wie auch der Alltags- und Popkultur. Bei den Arbeiten stehen Fragen der Subjektkonstitution im Zentrum – präziser: Die Handlungsweisen und Rituale sowie die Wissens- und Glaubenssysteme, welche den Prozess der Subjektwerdung begleiten.

Film made from found footage to showen as loop. Phone rings waking up dreams and memories.But where is dreams and where is just memories in this mixup world...

Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania.Lives in New York and Ireland.His films were shown in many film festivals and museums in Europe and Americas.His films are in the collections of Museum of Modern Art New York, Cinemateque Francaise,The Oesterreichicies Film Museum in Vienna,Marcel Duchamp Estate,Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris,Anthology Film Archives New York

Julius Ziz est née en Lituanie. Il vit à New York et en Irlande. Ses films font partie des collections du Museum of Modern Art New York, de la Cinémathèque française, de l'Oesterreichicies Film Museum à Vienne, de la Marcel Duchamp Estate, du Musée d?art moderne de la ville de Paris, de l?Anthologie Film Archives de New York.

A short film about the world, as seen through the eyes of a boy.Sitting by a river he examines the environment of the bacteria living in the water, he attentively scruitinises the microbes through a magnifying glass, which doubles up as a kind of keyhole through which the boy peeps through into a big abstraction.

Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania.His film were shown in many international film festivals including Rotterdam,Montreal,Edinburgh,Berlin, Nyon,San Paulo,Karlovy Vary Etc.His films are in collections of MoMA(NYC),French Cinemateque,Austrian National Film Museum,Anthology Film Archives,etc Louis Benassi start making films in 90` in London.Also he was programing for Edinburgh International Film Festival,The Institute of Contemporary Art London,Arts Foundazione Morra Naples.