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In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain resides in the cross-section between sci-fi, archaeology and politics. Combining live motion and CGI, the film explores the role of myth for history, fact and national identity. A narrative resistance group makes underground deposits of elaborate porcelain – suggested to belong to an entirely fictional civilization. Their aim is to influence history and support future claims to their vanishing lands.

Larissa Sansour Larissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem, Palestine, and studied fine arts in London, New York and Copenhagen. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilises video, photography, installation, the book form and the internet. Central to her work is the tug and pull between fiction and reality. Recent solo exhibitions include Turku Art Museum in Finland, Photographic Center in Copenhagen, Galerie Anne de Villepoix in Paris, Kulturhuset in Stockholm, Lawrie Shabibi in Dubai, Sabrina Amrani in Madrid and DEPO in Istanbul. Sansour’s work has featured in the biennials of Istanbul, Busan and Liverpool. She has exhibited at venues such as Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; LOOP, Seoul; Al Hoash, Jerusalem; Queen Sofia Museum, Madrid; Centre for Photography, Sydney; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Townhouse, Cairo; Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah, UAE; Empty Quarter, Dubai; Galerie Nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris; Iniva, London; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou , China; Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; House of World Cultures, Berlin, and MOCA, Hiroshima. Sansour currently lives and works in London, UK. Soren Lind Soren Lind (b. 1970) is a Danish author. He writes children’s books and literary fiction. With a background in philosophy, Lind wrote books on mind, language and understanding before turning to fiction. He has published a novel and two collections of short stories as well as four children’s books. In addition to his literary production, Lind is also a visual artist and writes short film scripts. Lind lives and works in London, UK. Sansour/Lind Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind have worked together on numerous occasions. Lind usually provides the scripts for Sansour’s films, just as he contributed a sci-fi story for Sansour’s 20

Six avenues, in south-central Montreal, revisited.

Since completing his studies in film production at Concordia University, Roberto Santaguida’s films and videos have been shown at more than 400 international festivals, including Tampere Film Festival (Finland), CPH: DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark), Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (Brazil), Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (United States), transmediale (Germany), and Message to Man (Russia). Roberto is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.

Under layers of dust and forgotten memories I hide a time to come. Hide it? I still don´t know. Maybe I'm just recovering those things that will never be.

Born in Spain in 1974, Ruben Santiago's work goes from large scale installations to net art projects, public space actions, process based works, records. and publications. Over the past years, the use of moving image and sound has framed a continuous line of investigation for him, either overlapping it with other disciplines or being conceived at an autonomous level. His work has been exhibited in many international galleries and institutions. Currently, he is artist-in-residence at Hangar Centre de Producció, Barcelona. Exception, memory, and crime are keywords in his works.

From my former kitchen I face you 1800 matches in my head.

Ruben Santiago was born in Galicia (Spain) in 1974. He lives and works between Barcelona and Porto (Portugal). Originally trained as a sculptor though studies at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid and the Escola Massana, Barcelona, Ruben Santiago?s career has evolved, with projects that have derived toward the moving image through records, installations and video and film projections.

A narrow dirty street of Barcelona. This was my neighborhood for a while. 1800 matches in my head. Such was my first monogamy.

Ruben SANTIAGO was born in Galicia (Spain)in 1974. He lives and works between Barcelona and Porto(Portugal) Originally trained as a sculptor though studies at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid and the Escola Massana, Barcelona, Ruben Santiago?s career has evolved with projects that have derived toward the moving image through records, installations and video and film projections.

Le corp d`une femme devient un voyage, paysage qui coule; le temps marque et transforme un visage: une vie se passe et s`enfuit.

Mauro Santini est né à Fano (Italie) en 1965. Après avoir achevé des études artistiques , il se consacre à la photographie et la vidéo. Depuis 2000, il a composé une série de vidéos-journal intime, sans scénario, qui parlent à la première personne du temps, de la mémoire et de la recherche de lui-même. Ces vidéos ont participé à de nombreux festivals à Locarno, Jeonju (Corée du Sud), Oberhausen, Montpellie, Pesaro, Bellaria (Italie), aux Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid, à Cinémas Différents de Paris, à Doclisboa de Lisbonne.

`Desalento` is the story of a love lost in a Lisbon hotel and of a journey to Rio de Janeiro. It`s a diary about absence and solitude; about something that is missing, always and everywhere.

Mauro Santini was born in Fano in 1965. Since 2000 he has composed a series of video-diaries ? without any screenplays, narrated in the first person, that deal with time, memory and the search for self ? that have participated at numerous festivals (Locarno, Jeonju, Oberhausen, Torino, Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Montpellier, Annecy, DocLisboa, Pesaro).

“ Vaghe stelle ” is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possible narrations. The “ songs ” are seven as the principal stars of the Ursa Major. It will be a nocturnal wandering with the starry sky as a reference: an earthly pilgrimage looking for epiphanies or the drift of a hypothetical interstellar trip.

Since 2000, Mauro Santini (Fano, Italy, 1965) has composed a series of video diaries, stories told in the first person about time, memory and the search for oneself. One of these, “ Da lontano ”, won the Italian competition at the 2002 Torino Film Festival. He has participated at the international film festivals of Locarno, Venezia, Oberhausen, Jeonju, Annecy, Rencontres Paris/Berlin, DocLisboa, Cinémas Différents Paris, Montpellier, Pesaro etc In 2006, he made the feature film Flòr da Baixa and participated in 2008 with different works at “ La cité des yeux, une saison italienne ”, about Italian avant-garde cinema from 1968 to 2008, which was organized by the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and curated by Nicole Brenez and Federico Rossin.

“Vaghe stelle” is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possible narrations. The ‘songs’ are seven as the principal stars of the Ursa Major. It will be a nocturnal wandering with the starry sky as a reference: an earthly pilgrimage looking for epiphanies or the drift of a hypothetical interstellar trip.

Since 2000, Mauro Santini (Fano, Italy, 1965) has composed a series of video diaries, stories told in the first person about time, memory and the search for oneself. One of these, ‘Da lontano’, won the Italian competition at the 2002 Torino Film Festival. He has participated at the international film festivals of Locarno, Venezia, Oberhausen, Jeonju, Annecy, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, DocLisboa, Cinémas Différents Paris, Alchemy, Montpellier, Pesaro etc In 2006, he made the feature film Flòr da Baixa and participated in 2008 with different works at “La cité des yeux, une saison italienne”, about Italian avant-garde cinema from 1968 to 2008, which was organized by the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and curated by Nicole Brenez and Federico Rossin.

“Vaghe stele” is a seven-chaptered film, conceived as a musical album and composed of seven movements, which can be watched singly (like songs), or in the established order (like a record) or also mixing the films creating new combinations or possible narrations. The “songs” are seven as the principal stars of the Ursa Major. It will be a nocturnal wandering with the starry sky as a reference: an earthly pilgrimage looking for epiphanies or the drift of a hypothetical interstellar trip.

Since 2000, Mauro Santini (Fano, Italy, 1965) has composed a series of video diaries, stories told in the first person about time, memory and the search for oneself. One of these, “Da lontano”, won the Italian competition at the 2002 Torino Film Festival. He has participated at the international film festivals of Locarno, Venezia, Oberhausen, Jeonju, Annecy, Rencontres Paris/Berlin, DocLisboa, Cinémas Différents Paris, Montpellier, Pesaro etc In 2006, he made the feature film Flòr da Baixa and participated in 2008 with different works at “La cité des yeux, une saison italienne”, about Italian avant-garde cinema from 1968 to 2008, which was organized by the Cinémathèque Française in Paris and curated by Nicole Brenez and Federico Rossin.

An indefinite image appears: a journey begins, a drift in the dark, in an unknown sea, waiting for a landing at the end of the night. ?I have always tried to use shaky shots, unusable leaders or time dilation of fragments to find testimony of a past that has been lived. In Notturno, this search continues within the image, penetrating it, running the pleasurable risk of getting lost inside it.? Mauro Santini

Mauro Santini (Fano, Italy, 1965) since 2000 has composed a series of video diaries, stories told in the first person about time, memory and the search for oneself. One of these, ?Da lontano?, won the Italian competition at the 2002 Torino Film Festival. He has participated at the international film festivals of Locarno, Oberhausen, Jeonju, Annecy, DocLisboa, Cinémas différents in Paris, Rencontres Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Montpellier, Pesaro and Bellaria. In 2006, he made the feature film Flòr da Baixa and in 2008 he participated with different works at the festival La cité des yeux, une saison italienne, about Italian avant-garde cinema from 1968 to 2008, which was organized by the Cinémathèque française of Paris and curated by Nicole Brenez.

In "Rio de Janeiro" we find ourselves within the limits of video-art and daily-life video. Short out of focus, trembling, almost with texture scenes show us the perspectives of a city that could be anywhere.

Mauro Santini, born in Fano in 1965, works with graphics and photography after having studied art. He has been making videos for over ten years and in 2000 he opened with "Dove sono stato" a series of travel video diaries; a personal archive of images and sounds where the diary aspect and travel documentary are laid one up to the other and narration through images gets fused with modes of video art. With "Da lontano" he won first prize at the Turin Film Festival 2002 in the section Italian Competition. "Fermo nel tempo" and "Petite Mémoire", presented at Locarno in 2003, followed the direction of memorial inquiry. In "Da qui, sopra il mare", time becomes a narrative element and research gets to a temporal unicum, without distinction between memory and present.

Time, color, and volume marks, from a television emission are the initial point. This concepts manipulationis used too create visual reading, sound and time errors. Target marks loose their sense, the loop development sugests an action ending that never hapens, proposing suspense.

Vasco Braga Santos Born in Lisbon 08-January 1980 2005- Begans Master in Artistic Education at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (Fbaul) 2004 - Finishes College in Fine Arts at Escola Superior de Arte e Design (ESAD) Classified with 16 (0-20) 2005 Vídeo Galeria Cubic- Lisboa Exibithion ?Near Step? Video Centro Cultural de Paredes de Coura XVII Bienal de Cerveira Vídeo Lisboa Vídeo Show 2005, ETICVídeo Sevilha Festival Zemos 98 Participation in Zemos 98 Fest, Informative Selection 2004 Group Exibithion Caldas da Rainha ESAD04 Exposição Colectiva Porto Labor.04 Colectiv Exibithion in Fernando Santos Galeria, Oficina e Padaria Independente

Film revolves around a light bulb like the Earth around the Sun. Light makes the film visible. In the orbit of the film tragedy and our reality, the image resists the cruelty of the experiment.

Davor Sanvincenti (1979) is a multimedia artist specifically interested in audiovisual phenomenology and anthropology of visual culture, particularly focused on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions. His artistic practice takes shape in the variety of media - film and video, photography, physical light and sound installations and live media performances. His work plays with the concept of illusion, exploring the possible boundaries of perception and the construction of experience. In 2010, he was recipient of the Radoslav Putar Award for the best Croatian artist under 35. Davor Sanvicenti`s work has been exhibited and presented internationally, including festivals like Rotterdam, Music Biennale - Zagreb, Rencontres Internationales - Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Device_Art Triennale - Montreal, LOOP - Barcelona, World Film Festival - Bangkok, 25FPS - Zagreb, VideoEX - Zurich and venues including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Lincoln Center, New York; Universal Museum Joanneum, Graz; Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Oaxaca; Camera Austria, Graz; FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou; MoCA, Zagreb; NIU, Barcelona; La Triennale, Milano; Filmoteca Española, Madrid; Glassbox, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

Through multiple crackling structures The River spreads audiovisual resources to create atmospheres that combine narrative and aesthetic concepts beyond one photography, Versus, captured with 82 years old camera-box which portrays the social landscape that is devoid of any romanticism. The work investigates and examines the human like the unforeseeable active presence between the nature and technology, analogue and digital, static and dynamic. It explores and reveals a research for the essence of seeing and hearing, for ontology of the audiovisual landscape.

Davor Sanvincenti a.k.a. Messmatik (b.1979) is a Croatian multimedia artist. Over the last years he has been specifically interested in a field of audiovisual research and anthropology of visual culture, particularly oriented on the conditions and forms of human senses and perceptions, developing experimental videos and immersive installations which are at the intersection of video and performing arts. He explores aesthetical and qualitative capabilities of different media as direct communication with the spectator which becomes an inevitable part of the work, a reflecting contemplative-physical structure. He is recipient of several art awards, including the Radoslav Putar Award 2010 for the best Croatian artist under 35. His physical video installation "1001" is part of the AV collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.

Burning entrails of the fields suddenly appeared at down. Here man is alone. In this loneliness, the shadow of sugar cane flows into eternity.

Abtin Sarabi was born in 1984 in Tehran. He is a filmmaker, photographer, visual artist. From adolescence, Abtin Sarabi developed a photographic style tending more towards that of documentaries and sociology, rather than staged photography. After studying oriental philosophy, painting and photography at the University of Art and Architecture of Tehran, from where he graduated in 2009, Abtin turned to video art and cinema. During four years’ study at the School of Fine Arts (Beaux-Arts) in Toulouse, France, he directed short films, art videos and several series’ of analog photography. Abtin obtained a Higher National Diploma in Plastic Arts in 2014. He continued his research for two years in Fresnoy, The National Studio of Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing, France, where he obtained his Post (graduate) diploma (2016). His creations, strongly imbued with pictorial art, are Often akin to “ poetic cinema “, no doubt because of the constant presence of a symbolic dimension and references to mythology.

OPA&HA are faced with the difficult task of being on camera while saying something important concerning contemporary arts, particularly regarding their role in the Macedonian contemporary art scene. The video shows their struggle.

OPA&HA is a collaborative team made up of three authors: Denis Saraginovski, (born 1971 in Macedonia; studied at The Faculty of Fine Arts, Skopje; visual artist and freelance videographer), Slobodanka Stevceska (born in 1971 in Macedonia; studied at The Faculty of Fine Arts, Skopje; visual artist and art instructor) and Sasho Talevski (born in 1967 in Macedonia; studied at The Faculty of Philosophy, Skopje; conceptual artist, writer, and journalist). The OPA&HA (Obsessive Possessive Aggression and Chronically Arrogance) collaboration started working in 2002 on projects that involve action, performance, video, mockumentaries, site specific works, etc. Some examples of their projects are: Professional Site Specific Installers, Don?t miss the MISS, Reality Macedonia, etc. Their work is focused on the position/relation of the artist in/with different social or cultural systems. They treat political, social and cultural issues with humor and an approach that criticizes local concerns and situations. In 2004, they received the annual award for Best Young Macedonian Artist, DENES. They have exhibited in several countries in Europe, as well as in the USA.

Let us Stay for a While takes its inspiration from Jean-Luc Nancy’s proposal that we could remain exposed to and think about what is happening to us. It is we who are arriving and leaving and we who encounter catastrophic events. In the film the aeroplane as a symbol of human technical development – the human-machine – is destroyed, and a new kind of time begins. Let us Stay for a While is a story about a weekend on a remote island. The protagonists witness a mystical aeroplane accident and rescue one of the survivors. Inexplicable things start to happen, the protagonists are thrown back to an altered mood and the island doesn’t seem to want them to leave. The idea of nature as something veiled is thematized in the film – a mystical stone has been found on the island – and the protagonists’ understanding of each other is only partial. The work stands at the confluence of psychological thriller and less traditional dramaturgy. The island as a location has a special relation to time. In the film it exists as a time-space, a temporalization between expectations of the end of the present age and narrative flashbacks on the level of dialogue.

Paula Saraste (b.1981) is a Helsinki based visual artist who works with film, photography and performance. The themes of her works are often related to the relationship between the past and the present as well as fear and identity, and they talk about broader questions beyond their psychological level. Saraste has an MfA degree from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Her works have been exhibited in solo, joint and group exhibitions, such as Photography Gallery Hippolyte, gallery Myyma?la?2 and Forum Box in Helsinki, Galerie Heike Arndt and HilbertRaum in Berlin and Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan. In addition, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions and screenings in Finland and abroad.

When we vocalize, we share and transform air, placing our bodies into critical relation to one another and the non-human world. Breath Work is an experimental community opera that explores air as a medium for resistance. Part documentary, part performative ritual, it takes place in Long Beach, California—an area filled with oil production and one of the largest ports in the world, where 25% of all imported goods enter the USA.Shipping infrastructure, railyards, freeways and oil refineries provide a striking backdrop for scenes of solidarity and grief staged by a cast and crew of 13 untrained local community members aged 11-65. Breath Work weaves together their creativity and their voices with personal stories of respiratory disease and environmental racism.

Nina Sarnelle (they/she) makes research projects, participatory performances, music composition, video and sculpture; their work interfaces with sites of neocolonialism(s), ecological destruction and labor exploitation in strange and intimate ways. They earned a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and recently had a solo video exhibition at the New Museum: https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/screens-series-nina-sarnelle Their work has also shown at Hammer Museum (LA), Getty Center (LA), Forum des Images (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Whitechapel Gallery (London), La Gaîté Lyrique (Paris), Ballroom Marfa (TX), MoMA (NY), Istanbul Modern (Turkey), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), Museum of Art, Architecture & Technology (Lisbon), Fundacion PROA (Buenos Aires), Black Cube (Denver), Southern Exposure (San Francisco), Recess (NY), UNSW Galleries (Sydney), Project 88 (Mumbai), Kevin Space (Vienna), Garage MCA, Moscow, Villa Croce Contemporary Art Museum (Genova), Mwoods (Beijing), Human Resources (LA) and others; and been featured in Art Forum, Frieze, Art in America, Vogue Italy, Huffington Post, SFMoMA, Creators Project, FlashArt, and Hyperallergic. www.ninasarnelle.com

Among the Sereres, the second biggest ethnic group in Senegal, the life of the individual is paced by important events which confer on him his stature within the community. Initiation is called ?Ndout? in Serere - it?s a paramount means of education for the men and marks the passage into adulthood for the boys. It takes place every ten years and is done in the bush. Among women, this same ceremony is done at the time of their marriage and finally the bride, accompanied by the initiated young women of her district, collect the linen from the elders of the village, then they wash in a backwater, far from any spectators. This ritual is done following a long procession accompanied by initiatory songs.

Arfang Sarr-Crao is one of the up and coming artists from the Dakar scene of visual arts. A graduate in sciences (mathematical, physics, chemistry and natural science), he turns his back on the faculty of science of the University Sheik Anta Diop of Dakar (Senegal) to devote himself to painting and literary creation. In as far as being a self-educated plastics technician, he has taken part in several biennial Dak' Art and many exhibitions in Senegal and abroad. Arfang is also a prize winner of the Great Price Birago Diop of poetry (2004), with his first collection ?Litany for the hair of Fadima?, published in the Bush Fire Editions. An all round artist, he carries the banner of a rising generation of Senegalese artists set on new technologies, Arfang chose very early on a mixture of the kind of tools for his creations through an experimental step which combines visual arts, cinema, photography and literature.