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Storm over London is a film that seemingly uses the tropes of narrative however the film hesitates to make a conclusion instead it take us into a journey of speculation.There is a storm brewing in London, there are riots in the streets. Who is that person laying on the bed? And what's all this about a fly. Storm over London is an enigmatic,surrealist detective story with a touch of Kafka.

Julius Ziz born in Lithuania now works and lives in Paris. From 1992 till 1997 he worked at Anthology Film Archives (NYC) program curator and organizer. His films were shown in many international film festivals including Rotterdam, Edinbourgh, Nyon, Montreal, San Paulo, Karlovy Vary. His films are in collections of Museum of Modern Art(NYC), Cinemateque Francaise, The Oesterreichiscies Film Museum(Vienna),Marcel Duchamp Estate, Anthology Film Archives. Julius Ziz made over 20 short films and 3 full length documentary films including Meanwhile A Butterfly Flies, The Window, And Pig Was Born, Silence Sea and Marcel Duchamp Louis Benassi born in Glasgow 1961,lives and works in London. He began making experimental films in the early 90's. He went on to program and curate artistic films for several international film festivals including Edinbourgh International Film Festival, The Institute of Contemporary Art London and other London based institutions and cinemas. He is also visiting tutor at The Chelsea School of Art and The Royal College of Art London. Louis Benassi has exhibited his films and photographs frequently. He made Esoteria Hysteria (2000), Midnight deconstruction(2008), Black Umbrella(2011),The Arc Arial Trilogy(2011), Memories of an unbeaten childhood(2012 together with Julius Ziz), La La Leni(2013),B Movie(2013)

A wrongly imprisoned man is taken to be executed. At the very last moment, he manages to escape. He wants to see his home one last time before dying. On his way, the Man, like a wild animal, hides away from people, becoming more and more a part of the wilderness that surrounds him. Julius Zizz`s disturbing new short film balances between beauty and menace. It suggests that there may be grace in being threatened, tracked and hunted: it posits evil in the power of the pursuer and shows how that power infects innocence. Shot in bright sun and light-dappled forests, THE WOLF, speaks of the horror of mankind in the ravishing face of nature. It is a remarkable work about how society defines itself in terms of whom it excludes, a fearful portrait of tribalism. Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art

Director Julius Ziz bio Julius Ziz was born in Lithuania in 1970. He studied film at the Tbilisi Film Academy, Georgia. From 1992 to 1997 Ziz worked at Anthology Film Archives in New York as exibition/archive coordinator. Julius Ziz has made the following films: THE WINDOW(1989) WE ARE STILL WAITING(1991) THIS SKY OF NEW YORK (1991) SILENCE ,SEA AND MARCEL DUCHAMP (1994) THE POETS (1995) THE MOMENT(1995) UNFINISHED(1995) UNFINISHED No2(1995) pilot HOW I WAS CONCEIVED(1998) AND PIG WAS BORN (2000) HOW MANY STEPS TO HEAVEN (2000) ELDORADO (2001) MEANWHILE, A BUTTERFLY FLIES (2002) HE TURNED HIS FACE AGAINS THE WIND (2004) THE WOLF (2008) In 1995, Ziz created a new movement in cinema, the Three Image Film (the first International Three Image Film Expo was at Anthology Film Archives in 1996). In 1995 all of his films were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The same year THREE IMAGE FILMS and UNFINISHED were included in Anthology of American Short Avantgarde Film 1921-1995, a program curated by Jonas Mekas for traveling exposition in Europe and US. Julius Ziz?s films have been worldwide exhibited in international film festivals, cinemas and are in collections of the French Cinématèque, the Austrian National Film Museum, Museum of Modern Art(New York), Marcel Duchamp Museum in France, Museum of Modern Art of City of Paris(Paris), Anthology Film Archives (New York). In 2005 all his film became part of film collection of Museum of Modern Art (New York). In 1996/97 he collaborated with Zoe Lund (Ms 45, Bad Liutenant by Abel Ferrara) on the screenplay HOW I WAS CONCEIVED and a film which was made for a show at the French Cinématèque in 1997. In 1999 his film SILENCE, SEA AND MARCEL DUCHAMP was shown at the Whitney Museum as part of exhibition AMERICAN CENTURY Part II, 1950-2000. In 2000 Julius Ziz made the film AND THE PIG WAS BORN(ET LE COCHON FUT NE) for the exhibition ?VOILA? at the Musée d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. AND THE PIG WAS BORN was shown at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2001, Edinburgh International Film Festival 2001, Montreal International Film Festival 2001 and others. Ziz has also written several plays and a jazz opera.His jazz opera ?Island of Freedom? was perform at Zebelon jazz club in New York (2005). He curated first John Casavetes retrospective in New York (Anthology Film Archives, 1995). He co-curated with Sophie Fenwick Antonin Artaud in/and Cinema (Anthology Film Archives, 1996.) With Fabiano Canosa he co-curated the first complete Bunuel retrospective in the US (Anthology Film Archives, 1997). In 2000, his art work was in a group show at the M&A Contemporary Art Gallery in the Haag (Holland). Julius Ziz in 2001 finished a film full length docudrama called ELDORADO about the Lithuanian immigration to Brazil in the late twenties. Premiered in Rio de Janero International Film Festival (2001.).The film was shown in cinemas in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. In 2002 Julius Ziz finished a film on Jonas Mekas full length documentary ?Meanwhile, A Butterfly Flies? produced by Rosangela Miletti French Connection(Paris). The film was shown at The Rotterdam International Film Festival(2003), Edinbourgh International Film Festival(2002), Cork International Film Festival(2003),Nyon International Documentary Film Festival(2003),Vilnius International Documentary Film Festival(2004),Venice Biennale (2005) and others. In 2OO9 Museum of Modern Art (New York) planning Julius Ziz?s films show.

Earth has been abandoned for a long time and humanity has found refuge in outer space. Three archaeologists return to Earth to investigate the origin of a mysterious five tone signal…

Yorgos Zois was born in Athens. He studied applied Math and Nuclear Physics in N.T.U.A. and film direction at Stavrakou Film School, Athens and at U.d.K, Berlin. His debut short film, Casus Belli, premiered at the 67th Venice Film Festival in 2010 and participated in the official competition of numerous international film festivals (Rotterdam, Clermont Ferrand, Tokyo Short Shorts, Palm Springs, LA Short Fest etc) winning multiple awards and distinctions. His second short film, Out of Frame, premiered at the 69th Venice Film Festival in 2012 and won the EFA award for the Best European short film and was nominated for Best Short film of the European Film Academy Awards 2012. His first feature, Interruption, premiered at the Orizzonti Competition of the 72nd Venice Film Festival

(out of frame) In Greece the advertisement in exterior billboards has been recently forbidden. As a result there are hundreds of blank billboards that don?t show any messages. But the empty frames are now the message. And Greece is out of frame.

Yorgos Zois was born in Athens. His first short film, CASUS BELLI, premiered in Venice in 2010 and participated in the international competition of the most important film festivals world-wide, winning several first awards. It was theatrically distributed in Greece and France and was broadcast by several TV stations around the globe. His second short film, TITLOI TELOUS (Out of Frame), premiered at Venice IFF 2012.

Nadir takes place at Norra Grängesbergsgatan, a kilometer-long street just outside central Malmö. A place of sometimes conflicting cultural and political interests, which was once considered a “no-go zone” by the municipality, as well as cultural gentrification zone, can perhaps be described as an expressive and symphonic micro-city. Surrounded by several small-scale industries, established in the 1930s, there is a lingering scent from the nearby Pågen bread-factory. Here, a Baptist church gathers upstairs of an old production facility side by side with flowing neon from Arab furniture stores and carpet stores. In Nadir, the narratives surrounding the street are reformulated as “anti-narrative” through a series of sensorial sequences through and on the street.

Amin Zouiten, is a Swedish-Moroccan artist and filmmaker educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Malmö and Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. His works and films have been shown at, among others, Malmö Konsthall, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Konsthall Charlottenborg, CPH:DOX, Tempo Documentary Festival.

Qirat is loosely based around an oral family anecdote of a robbery that took place in the lush valley of Fez in northern Morocco during the 1980s. In the film, the events have been transposed to Ouarzazate, located on the edge of the Sahara Desert in central Morocco. Here the anecdote is reconstructed freely, over the course of a single Friday, shot solely during dawn, dusk and finally night.

Amin Zouiten (born 1994) is a Swedish-Moroccan filmmaker and artist educated at Malmö Art Academy and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His works and films have been shown at Malmö Art Gallery, Recontres Paris/Berlin, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, CPH:DOX, and Tempo Documentary Festival, Uppsala Short Film Festival. In 2024, he was the recipient of the Cultural Award of the City of Stockholm and the Bernadotte Scholarship, awarded with an upcoming solo presentation at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Beyond his own artistic practice, he has served as an assistant editor for filmmaker C.W. Winter and as a visiting tutor at Malmö Art Academy and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

Set in the millenary Chinese city of Suzhou —now a super modern city— a fragile reconstruction of optical reality fails to fully materialise. Two mysterious characters help the “package” (POV) to follow a linear trajectory of space time, nevertheless there will be several instances to escape the linear construct. Sounds of machine guns, sonic monsters and war explosions do not interrupt the peaceful flow of an evening walk.

Luciano Zubillaga is an artist and scholar whose major works take the form of transdisciplinary research in the intersections of art, philosophy and technology with publicly engaged practice. He recently exhibited work at the Institute of Contemporary Art London ICA, Whitechapel Art Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires. His first feature film, Things to Come is based on a graphic music score and performed by German star Hanna Schygulla. In 2008, Luciano was the recipient of the London Artist Film and Video Awards (LAFVA) by Film London and Arts Council of England and his work is part of the British Artists? Film and Video Study Collection (BAFVS). He is co-founder of experimental moving image collectives Z.A.S.Z and TcoET. Luciano lives and works in Suzhou, China where he teaches experimental moving image.

A silent city, mysteriously devoid of inhabitants, is crossed by a man who has come from a faraway country. The anonymised architecture that composes the urban landscape guides the person into an inaccessible space, the city cemetery, which will make him reflect on his own identity.

Enea Zucchetti was born in Lugano in 1996. Since childhood he has developed a strong interest in cinema and visual arts. In 2017 he moved to Milan where, influenced by the language of documentary and photography, he began to experiment with the image through audiovisual projects. Currently his artistic research touches on the themes of architecture, urban planning and contemporary landscape. His first short film, "L?azzurro del cielo", was selected at the 72nd Locarno Festival and other national and international film festivals.

We stick out to almost two hours of the live of the neighborhood the 10th February 2006 afternoon to be precise, shot without interruption. The neighbors that have wished participate inviting us to their places, their houses, their garages, their daily occupations, explain us things of an any day in which we could guess the origin and the future of the city.

Claudio?s backround as a composer and his Doctorate in Aesthetics lead him directly towards the composition, creation and direction of a number of theatrical preformances (Varios efectos del Amor; Telediario; Macbeth, sempre; Fragor, Taxi, Fonia, Trenes de Marzo, Renacimiento.), all of these sharing one common characteristic: the application of new technologies in the service of the spoken word and expression. All of these performances were produced by Acteon and presentesd at national and international festivals. Work in the audiovisual area as well as the search for new forms of using the technical means available led Claudio to create audiovisual installations which were intended to be situated in art, cultural and conceptual centres (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla), Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona, Caixaforum (Barcelona) Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (santiago de Compostela), Espai d?Art Contemporàni de Castelló, Le cargo (Grenoble), La Casona (Panamá), Lille 2004). The materials produced for these projects have been developed hand-in-hand with documentary filmaking both for cinema and for television. In 2000 Claudio wrote his first complete film screeplay courtesy of a grant from the Ministry of Culture ICAA. In 2004 he directed and produced Beatriz/Barcelona and the documentary L?Avenir (The Future) and began to receive international awards (Leipzig, Mar de Plata (Chile), Tampere, Vannes...). In 2006 he directed the full film ?A través del Carmel? (The Shifting City) which was selected for the 2006 Sitges Film Festival where it was presented in the Catalan Focus section. In 2002 he published his first book ?Horas de la Ciudad? (City Hours, Ed. Calima) Claudio is also an Associate Professor attached to the Instituto Universitario del Audiovisual, at the Universitat Pompeu i Fabra de Barcelona. His theoretical activity includes lectures, courses, and publications in the course of which he has touched on such topics as the nature of art, the history of the performing arts and the means of communication in context.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute (Het Nederlandse Instituut voor Mediakunst), Montevideo/Time Based Arts(Montevideo/TBA) is assigned with the mission of promoting the development and distribution of new arts, as well as the development and application of new technologies in the area of visual arts. In 1978, René Coelho, an elder of television, opened his Singel house, on an Amsterdam channel, to art. He transformed it into a gallery called Montevideo. Fed up with his television experience, he tried to "humanize technology with the help of artists". In 1983, the small Singel gallery, specialized in video art, became Montevideo/Time Based Arts, under the impetus of the Association of Video Artists. Today, Montevideo/TBA supports artistic creation in three different domains; presentation, preservation, and conservation, and provides services to artists and artistic institutions. In its own exhibition space on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Institute currently organizes long-term collective and personal exhibitions often in cooperation with other institutions. In parallel, Montevideo/TBA also organizes short-term exhibitions, symposiums, screenings, and performances and installations by artists and students. Since its foundation in 1978, the Institute has accumulated an extensive collection of video and multimedia works. It includes more than 1800 references and works by Dutch and international artists, continually increas. It is a collection almost entirely available for exhibitions and festivals that the Institute preserves from the infringements of time in a dedicated centre, created 1992. But the institute is also a training and research centre. A centre where artists can explore new medias and their applications to artistic practices. A centre where artists can meet and collaborate, and where they can benefit from various post-production tools and advice.

Along with Joke Ballintijn, Theurs Zwakhal distributes the Netherlands' Media Art Institute collection.

Watch out for false artists. They come to you in artists' clothing, but inwardly they are lifeless algorithms.

Igor Štromajer – "le Pavarotti du HTML" (Libération) – researches tactical media art, intimate guerrilla, and traumatic low-tech communication strategies. He has shown his work at more than two hundred fifty exhibitions in more than sixty countries (transmediale, ISEA, EMAF, SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica Futurelab, V2_, IMPAKT, CYNETART, Manifesta, FILE, Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Hamburg Kunsthalle, ARCO, Microwave, Banff Centre, Les Rencontres Internationales, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale and in numerous other galleries and museums worldwide) and received a number of awards (in Frankfurt, Moscow, Hamburg, Dresden, Belfort, Madrid, Maribor, Podgorica). His projects form part of the permanent collections of the prestigious art institutions, among them Le Centre national d'art et de Culture Georges Pompidou – Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Computerfinearts – net and media art collection, New York, USA; Maribor Art Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia. As a guest artist he lectures at universities and contemporary art institutes.