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Triggered by the memoirs of a medical missionary on the Afghan borderlands, the film is constructed from some remarkable still photographs of colonial life on the North West frontier of British India at the turn of the 20th century. Searching for clues to the realities behind images framed during a time of colonial conflict, the film plays sound against image and finds striking continuities in Western portrayals of a distant place and people.

Miranda Pennell originally trained in contemporary dance and later studied visual anthropology at Goldsmiths University, London. Her recent and current film work explores social performances framed within photographic archives. Much of Pennell`s work before this explored performance in the `real` world through film and video, and centred on a diverse range of human subjects that have included teenage ice-skaters, amateur and professional dancers, fight directors, soldiers and a marching band, and aspiring drummers.

In the works of Miranda Pennell, minor everyday activities are transformed into fascinating choreographies. In fact, she was not trained as a filmmaker or audiovisual artist, but rather as a dancer. She usually points her camera at 'ordinary' people in their own habitat and in this way analyses the various facets and meanings of movement. In "You Made Me Love You", the rules of the game are simple; a camera moves unexpectedly, quickly or slowly, backwards and forwards along a rail. A troupe of ballet dancers strives to make or keep eye contact with the camera. Only a few faces are continually on screen. Sometimes other dancers manage to steal the limelight for a moment. The rapid footwork, which sometimes can hardly keep up with the camera, is the only audible sound. A true struggle for attention is taking place on the dance floor. Because woe betide you if you end up off screen and sink into oblivion! With "You Made Me Love You", this artist presents us with an allegory of the present-day fixation on cameras and stardom.

In the works of Miranda Pennell, minor everyday activities are transformed into fascinating choreographies. In fact, she was not trained as a film maker or audiovisual artist, but rather as a dancer. She usually points her camera at ?ordinary? people in their own habitat and in this way analyses the various facets and meanings of movement. In You Made Me Love You, the rules of the game are simple; a camera moves unexpectedly, quickly or slowly, backwards and forwards along a rail. A troupe of ballet dancers strives to make or keep eye contact with the camera. Only a few faces are continually on screen. Sometimes other dancers manage to steal the limelight for a moment. The rapid footwork, which sometimes can hardly keep up with the camera, is the only audible sound. A true struggle for attention is taking place on the dance floor. Because woe betide you if you end up off screen and sink into oblivion! With You Made Me Love You, this artist presents us with an allegory on the present-day fixation on cameras and stardom.

Parental aging and an existential wave collide together in funny ways. Hey Sweet Pea borrows scenes from the 1984 children’s sci-fi movie The Neverending Story to process our collective grief.

Alee Peoples maintains a varied artistic practice that involves screen- printing, sewing, sculpture and film. Currently living in Los Angeles, she has taught youth classes at Echo Park Film Center and shown her sculpture and film work at GAIT, 4th Wall and elephant. Peoples has shown her films at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Images (Toronto) and New York Film Festival, and at museums and spaces including SFMoMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Pompidou Center, Dirt Palace (Providence) and The Nightingale (Chicago). Started in 2022, Arroyo Seco Cine Club is a thematically programmed film series she co-curates with Mike Stoltz. She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made.

GUITAR (With People Inside) is sudwestern fiction with biografic details of legendary guitar-player Carlos Paredes. This video won the National Best Video Award and it was shown during the Lisbon Video Festival in 2003 and the World Wide Video Festival Amsterdam 2004

In 1981 Pêra is expelled from the 4th Year of University of Psychology and is exiled to the Royal Cinema High-School (Bairro Alto). In 1984 he starts working as a screenwriter for radio, tv and cinema. 1985-86 he is involved in doing Neuropunk Katodyk-films. During 1987 Ego (or Pêra?) rediscovers Sonik Grammatiks? book under the lost bed of UlisseZ. In 1988, shortly after the The Great Fire of Chiado (in the heart of Lisbon) Pêra directs his first short film: Reproduta Interdita. Since then its work has been under the Spell of Kaos Koincidence & DyZaster.

"Impending Doom" was shot in super8 film and is a visual testimony and sonic interpretation of two ceremonies of communion that took place in Rome and in Lisbon in the year 2005 AD. Both communities with different kinds of beliefs and ideologies shared a sense of pain, grief, and peace in a world at war.

Edgar Pêra was born on November 19, 1960, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Fiambrera is an open group that has been working and intervening in arenas with a high degree of political conflicts, such as the borders between rich and poor countries, or in (not so) different places like the inner cities of Madrid, Barcelona, or Seville. Their methods are basically those of intervention and direct action articulated with other, more conventional, social and political agents, providing graphics, communication devices, and direct action tools and equipments. They have been invited as visiting artists by institutions such as the MIT, Calarts, Yale University, NYU, etc, and most recently in Transmediale and Ars Electronica. Some years ago they curated "The Agencies", working from Barcelona with the support of the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona (MACBA), and trying to offer social movements and networks resources to produce campaigns, counter-information resorts, actions, and interventions. Over they years they have collaborated with other groups such as The Yes Men, Rtmark, and "Kein Mensch ist Illegal". They were involved in the edition of two books related to public and political art practices: "Manual de la Guerrilla de la Comunicación" (Editorial Virus, Barcelona, 2000), and "Modos de hacer: Arte político, esfera pública y acción directa" (Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, 2001). The autonomy research being one of their basic tenets, they have recently been organizing a series of events and producing a number of videos under the identity "PornoLab" where their energies converge towards the exploration of intimacy and sexual desire as tools for political analysis and action.

Vladimir Perales lives and works in Madrid.

Centella is coming is Alberto´s portrait. Peasant in the Sierra Maestra, santero in an American and African descent Cuba. In a day we see and accompany the passage of Alberto on a trance to another Alberto. Coffee, leather, wood transcend to mysticism, while we move into the privacy of faith.

Agustín Peralta Lemes, 1988. Studied at the Film School Dodeca and Film Making in the ECU. In 2011 he entered in EICTV - Cuba, in Documentary, and recently graduated in July 2014. In 2010 directed the short documentary What I don`t want to understand. He was co-producer and photographer of the short To avenge May (2011), winner of the 10th International Film Festival of Uruguay Moviecenter, and the 12th International Festival of Film Schools of Uruguay. In 2011 directed the experimental short intimacies of a lonely train, and in 2012 the short documentary tobacco and cosmonauts. In 2013, directed two documentaries shorts: centella will come, winner of the 1st Detour Film Festival in Uruguay, and Best Photography in 15th IMAGO Festival, in Havana; and Cleine. His last work is his thesis, Notes about the absence, July 2014.

This film marks an investigation into the halftone print. Specifically, the spherical and diamond pattern that makes up an image found commonly in offset printing. These tessellations form a corollary to the structure of language where each "dot" is akin to a phoneme. In linguistics, the collated phonemes make up a morpheme—what we can call a meaningful word. The dot in the halftone print functions much the same way. With these dots, the reach of an image is made possible, exploded and distributed for the masses. Its legibility is a consumable currency by being illustrative for accompanying texts. When enlarged, the text loosens its hinges on the atomized image. The dots establish a dominant vocabulary contingent only on one another. For The Blind Don`t see Black, They See Nothing, the poetics lie within the parts of a whole, hidden amidst a constituted body.

The artist collective Galería Perdida are known for their multidisciplinary practice that brings together an inquiry of traditional crafts and the absurd, typographical design with semantic operatives. Fundamental to their research are encounters with idiosyncratic found texts and humor, design principles and the moving image; these irrational sources form the basis of a sculptural vocabulary. The use of humor is just one of many interests that Galería Perdida pursue in their body of work. Textiles, dead languages, redundancy, negation, display and the gallery, glyphs, organic matter, and graphic design are among the multiple reference points. Their constellation of objects and situations formulate a place for these subjects to collide, interact, and push against one another while defining the decree that the production of an object is not a singular but collective act.

"There’s been a strange epidemic lately Going amongst the folk, So that many in their madness Began dancing. Which they kept up day and night, Without interruption, Until they fell unconscious. Many have died of it."

Carlos Pereira, born in Lisbon, is studying Film Directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB). His films have been screened at festivals such as Locarno, San Sebastián and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. His film Slimane (2023) won the German Film Critics Award for Best Short Film. His first feature film, Remote Islands, written during a residency at The Bergman Estate on Fårö, is currently in pre-production.

I. A storm in Berlin. Lightnings. The sound of thunders. II. Searching for a face in the dark. III. Inside an old Stasi building, a painter of ruins talks about being human.

Carlos Pereira (Lisbon, 1989) studied film directing in Lisbon (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema) and Barcelona (Escuela de Cine Bande à Part) and film studies in Stockholm (Stockholms Universitet). His films have been screened in festivals such as IndieLisboa, DocLisboa, Vila do Conde and Córtex and venues such as The Portuguese Cinematheque. Lives and works in Berlin, where he is as a member of the selection committee for Generation (Berlinale).

Berlin, 2020. On that cloudy summer day by the lake, while observing something terrible, their bodies blocked with fear.

Carlos Pereira (1989, Lisbon) is a filmmaker and programmer. He is currently studying Film Directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb), having previously studied film in Lisbon, Barcelona and Stockholm. His films have been shown at festivals such as Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, IndieLisboa, Doclisboa and Vila do Conde, and screened at venues such as Cité Internationale des Arts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro. He worked as a member of the selection committee for Sheffield DocFest and is a member of the advisory selection committee for Berlinale Generation.

The poems to death are a deception. Death is death. The river was filled. Ghostly extensions. A grave in the air was dug, in the course of the wide river, where there is no stricture. All sank into the deepest shadows. A river as grave. What is the color of this water? How to swim or sail in the darkness of our history? Hairs are still crossing the waters, remain under a poisonous sky. The skin, river sand. In a glass are collected every day, bodies. We drink water of forgetfulness. There is fog.

Born in 1976, lives and works in Buenos Aires. In 2013 he premieres Tabula Rasa, his third feature film at BAFICI 15° Panorama Selection, and his last short documentary Oblivion Waters at the Official Competition of FIDBA. In 2012 he premieres his second documentary feature 17 monuments at BAFICI?s Official Selection. In 2011 he premieres his documentary short Los Murales at BAFICI 13°. In 2010 he premiered El Predio, his first feature film, at the Cinema of the Future Competition of BAFICI 12°. He also directed the short documentaries 5 (five) (2008, Official Competition BAFICI 10°) and The Murals (2011, BAFICI 13°). Two times awarded with the Metropolitan Fund for the Arts in Buenos Aires. His films have been screened in numerous international film festivals, such as: FIDMarseille (France); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin at Palais de Tokio & at Haus der Kulturen der Welt; Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Lationamericano, La Havana (Cuba); Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid (Spain); Cine//B (Chile); Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay; Óptica, Gijón Festival Internacional de Video Arte (Spain); FIACID Festival Iberoamericano de Cine Digital (Perú); La Sudestada, Quinzaine de culture et Cinéma Argentin à Paris (France).

Toponymy is the discipline that studies the etymological origin of place names. What Perel chooses to analyze visually in his film is a series of towns located in the western portion of the province of Tucumán, which were founded by the military government during the mid-70s within the framework of the Operativo Independencia (Operation Independence), a project whose aim was to eliminate the guerrilla groups (mainly the ERP) that operated in that area. In fact, the names chosen for those towns came from members of the military of different ranks who had died during confrontations with guerilla groups. With some minimum historical presentation limited to reviewing official documents, Perel focuses on capturing the towns’ present and resorts to an aesthetic as austere as it is rigorous: fifteen-seconds-long fixed shots. This way, he shows how time has eroded that attempt to impose historical semantics and nature and oblivion still wipe out the traces of the utopia that was attempted there once.


Jonathan Perel, born in 1976, lives and works in Buenos Aires. He attended a degree in Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires). He directed the feature films Toponimia (2015), Tabula Rasa (2013), 17 Monumentos (2012) and El Predio (2010), and the short films Las Aguas del Olvido (2013), Los Murales (2011) and 5 (cinco) (2008). Two times awarded with the Metropolitan Fund for the Arts, his films have been screened and awarded in numerous international film festivals, such as: FIDMarseille (Prix Camira), Viennale, BAFICI, YIDFF Yamagata, First Look at Museum of the Moving Image New York, Porto/Post/Doc, Underdox, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/ Berlin at Palais de Tokio (France) & at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany); Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Lationamericano La Havana.

A few architectonic shots, graphics of abstract shapes that slowly turn into recognizable images, pictures of facades, and descriptive texts. Perel goes back to the lot were the Clandestine Center of Detention, Torture, and Extermination ?the ESMA? once operated. But this time, his approach is different. Not only because it goes into it from a physical perspective that is different from its entry into social imaginary, but also because his approach aims to contemplate not so much the building of a new place, but the destruction of space. This annihilation, Perel seems to be saying, tears down a lot more than just columns, cement, and metal beams. Between the River Plate and a city that gives his back and misses out on everything that happens, Tabula Rasa takes less than an hour to rescue a fraction of the urban landscape (the back of the Navy School) that remains anonymous to most citizens who pass through that fraction of the Lugones Avenue. And once it recognizes it, it forces us to rethink the connections between memory, space and society.

Born in 1976, lives and works in Buenos Aires. In 2013 he premieres Tabula Rasa, his third feature film at BAFICI 15° Panorama Selection, and his last short documentary Oblivion Waters at the Official Competition of FIDBA. In 2012 he premieres his second documentary feature 17 monuments at BAFICI?s Official Selection. In 2011 he premieres his documentary short Los Murales at BAFICI 13°. In 2010 he premiered El Predio, his first feature film, at the Cinema of the Future Competition of BAFICI 12°. He also directed the short documentaries 5 (five) (2008, Official Competition BAFICI 10°) and The Murals (2011, BAFICI 13°). Two times awarded with the Metropolitan Fund for the Arts in Buenos Aires. His films have been screened in numerous international film festivals, such as: FIDMarseille (France); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin at Palais de Tokio & at Haus der Kulturen der Welt; Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Lationamericano, La Havana (Cuba); Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid (Spain); Cine//B (Chile); Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay; Óptica, Gijón Festival Internacional de Video Arte (Spain); FIACID Festival Iberoamericano de Cine Digital (Perú); La Sudestada, Quinzaine de culture et Cinéma Argentin à Paris (France).

Adolfo Scilingo was the only military officer to confess the dictatorship crimes. Among the details he gave of the way the genocide worked, throwing prisoners from planes into the water to their death, Scilingo specifies the model that was used in the flights he participated in: an Electra. Of the eight Electras that belonged to the Argentine Navy, five of them were bought in 1982. Only the three bought in 1973 could have been used in the flight that Scilingo describes. Those three Electras are at present in Argentina. This film of Jonathan Perel searches cartographically the traces of those planes.

Jonathan Perel, born in 1976, lives and works in Buenos Aires. He attended a degree in Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires). He directed the feature films Toponimia (2015), Tabula Rasa (2013), 17 Monumentos (2012) and El Predio (2010), and the short films Las Aguas del Olvido (2013), Los Murales (2011) and 5 (cinco) (2008). Two times awarded with the Metropolitan Fund for the Arts, his films have been screened and awarded in numerous international film festivals, such as: Viennale, IFFR Rotterdam, FIDMarseille (Prix Camira), BAFICI, YIDFF Yamagata, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin (Palais de Tokio & Haus der Kulturen der Welt), First Look (Museum of the Moving Image), Porto/Post/Doc, Underdox, La Havana.

That one is able to speak does not mean that one has a voice. In Voices, Miguel Peres do Santos constructs a comparison between the collective consciousness and a censored archive. Just like in our own lives, we “choose” to keep what we do not want to remember as far from our consciousness as we unconsciously can; the same method we apply on public archival material that we would rather not be confronted with as a societal whole. At the television archive of Beeld and Geluid, Miguel Peres dos Santos and Sharelly Emanuelson found a significant amount of footage relating to migration from the public television memory of the Netherlands. In it, the essence of the Dutch relation to the alleged “other” can be viewed. In Voices Peres dos Santos uses this material to try to find out if the perceived voiceless were really silent, and if those who do not have a voice today are only mute to the ones who refuse to listen.

Miguel Peres dos Santos (Lisboa, 1976) is an independent artistic researcher graduated in his MA in 2012 from the Royal University of the Arts in The Hague, The Netherlands. His work is frequently screened in The Netherlands, but also in Belgium, France, Denmark, Norway, Portugal and the U.S. He lectured in 2012 for the University College Leiden, and is a policy advisor for Foundation Focus. He currently lives and works in The Hague.

Ismaël est venu en France dans l'espoir de trouver le pardon. Ex-prisonnier, il a quitté les Etats-Unis pour Paris, où il pense trouver calme et paix. Il atterrit finalement dans une zone sinistrée de la banlieue parisienne. Il déambule à la bordure du périphérique et, parfois, il tente d’oublier ses démons dans un sommeil trouble et agité. Des souvenirs de son enfance viennent le hanter alors que la vie en France semble être de plus en plus difficile, entre contrition et abandon.

Dan Perez et Benjamin Klintoe sortent tout juste de la prestigieuse Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. Ils pratiquent la vidéo ou la photographie dans une pratique régulière et personnelle.

An epic journey with many angles and perspectives, George Maciunas (1931-1978) was the founder of Fluxus, a radical avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. The film starts in Lithuania before moving to New York, where émigré Maciunas, became an exceptional artist with roots in the Soviet avant-garde and Dada. The film uncovers his complex character and distinctive practice, expounding the rebellious creativity that imitated a whole international movement of artists, composers, designers and poets in the 1960s and 70s, and whose radical legacy powerfully endures. The film’s playful editing evokes a key tenet of Fluxus, where process is more meaningful than end product. From developing the first artist-owned lofts in SoHo, New York, to his attempt to realize a utopian society on a desolate island in the Caribbean, Maciunas was an uncompromising visionary with a rebellious sense of humor. What emerges in the film, is a kaleidoscopic, often contradictory but always revealing portrait of Maciunas' bold and tragic life. Archival and original interviews with major artists and commentators, including Mekas and Yoko Ono, create a scintillating portrait of underground New York; where radical art, gender diversity and encroaching gentrification existed in tandem.

Nicknamed 'the Fluxus cabdriver' by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over five decades, having collaborated in the 1960s with Fluxus artists including George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles. Perkins co-founded the multi media group The Single Wing Turquoise Bird, which was the premier rock and roll concert light show in the sixties. Until recently he was best known for his light projection performances and his Movies for the Blind, based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his cab. He completed the feature documentary portrait of George - the story of George Maciunas and Fluxus in 2018 and his feature The Painter Sam Francis in 2008. Other films of his hand are Fluxus Film #22: Shout (1966), Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopolous (1998) and Meet the Kuchar Brothers (1999). Jeff Perkins has been associated with Anthology Film Archives in New York since 1986, and has produced several programs and performances there since then.

This short film is about the first manned balloon flight in the United States, in 1793, when the country was only 17 years old. The aeronaut (balloonist) for this adventure was the celebrated Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard. The idea that the 18th century United States was empty territory to be overtaken by settlers was, in part, supported by the new technology of balloon flight. The film carries us along with the story of Blanchard’s famous journey but by the end we find ourselves in contemplation of a five-hundred year old oak tree called the Clement Oak that sits, damaged from climate-catastrophic storms, behind a Walmart Supercenter in New Jersey. Blanchard’s flight is described in Journal of my 45th Ascension, Being the First Performed in America, on the 9th of January 1793.

Jenny Perlin’s work in film, visual art, and writing engages documentary traditions, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to engage issues around truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Her projects look closely at ways in which social machinations are reflected in the fragments of everyday life. Perlin’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and film festivals, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and others. In addition to her work as an artist and educator, Perlin is director of?The Hoosac Institute, a platform for text and image focusing on works that exceed or challenge conventional disciplinary narratives.?

?The 16 mm stop motion animation, Possible Models (2004), looks at capitalism?s attempt to purchase paradise through three ?case studies?: the Mall of America?s failure to live up to its potential as a utopian complex; the Mall of Dubai as the new global super-mall; and the ?freedom ship?, a floating self sustained mall-based community/commune that encircles continents.? --Jeffrey Uslip, The Project, New York, NY, July, 2004

Jenny Perlin`s 16mm films, videos, and drawings work with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Perlin?s films and videos have won awards at numerous festivals, and have been exhibited in galleries and museums both in the US and abroad. Perlin is currently represented by Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands. An artist?s book will be released in 2006, by D.Marzona, Berlin, as well as several catalogues from recent exhibitions.