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“ A thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building, and into the adjacent lake” notes the narrator as he arrives at the House of Usher, thus opening up a parallel between the Irish setting of Maya Schweizer’s cinematic association and Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of horror. Orson Welles and other cinematic ghosts seem to lead the spectator of A Tall Tale onwards, passing through a landscape of ruins and films and ruins of films that evoke phantoms and fairies.

Maya Schweizer (b.in Paris, France) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the university, Aix-Marseille I, at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and Berlin University of the Arts, where she graduated. Maya Schweizer exhibited at Kunstverein Leipzig (2017-2018), Drawing Room Hamburg (2017-2018), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (2016); Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen (2016); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2015);GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig (2015); MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (2015). She recently screened at Videoart at Midnight, Berlin (2018), Traverses Vidéo, Toulouse (2018), Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada (2017), Cinema in viennacontemporary, Vienna, Austria (2017), in Oberhausen 63. International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2017) and at the 67. Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Berlin (2017). She received the Research stipends from the Berlin Senat (2017), Research grant from Goethe Institute Neapels and the Fundazione Morra-Museo Nitsch, Naples (2017), and the residency at the Watchtower, Flutgraben, Berlin (2016-2017).

A young archaeologist working as a tourist guide is in a dark space with her light operator and an imaginary group. She would like to rehearse her tour in the Jewish catacombs of Rome. The scene becomes a monologue of the young woman, in which she mingles fragments of the history of the Jewish catacombs with thoughts on her appearance and instructions to the lighting engineer. The narration hovers between a stage play and the real historical site.

MAYA SCHWEIZER Born in 1976 in Maisons-Alfort/ France the artist lives and works in Berlin. She has studied Fine Arts and Arts History at the University in Aix-en-Provence, at the Hochschule für Grafik undBuchkunst in Leipzig and at the University of Arts Berlin with Lother Baumgarten. Her works are based on documentary materials which she weaves into (hi)stories by means of excerpts, images, sound samples and texts. She has been part of residency programs as KAIR- Kosice by the Robert-Bosch-Foundation, the Künstlerinnenprogramm Senat Berlin, the residency program of the Goethe-Institute in Villa Aurora Los Angeles. Her works have been internationally shown in solo exhibitions as very recently, DIE MINIATUREN AUS RAVENSBRÜCK UND DER STERBENDE SOLDAT VON LES MILLES, (2014) together with Antje Majewski at after the butcher, Berlin. EDITH SEESHOW´S NOTES, (2013) at the Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany, IT’S NOT ABOUT NOTHING (2012) at the gallery Katharina Bittel in Hamburg, METROPOLIS, REPORT FROM CHINA (2011) at Frankfurter Kunstverein and THE SAME STORY ELSEWHERE   (2010) at  Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster. Also she contributed to group shows as GESTERN DIE STADT VON MORGEN (2014), Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, REDUX, (2014) at the Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, VOT KEN YOU MACH ! (2013) at Kunsthaus Dresden, DIE STADT, DIE ES NICHT GIBT, at the Ludwig Forum Aachen
AI WEI WEI IS IN CHINA at Fichtebunker, Berlin, TRANSATLANTISCHE IMPULSE at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, NEL PALAZZO DI CRISTALLO in CA`ASI/ Venezia, HERE AND THERE Wallace Gallery New York, and URBAN STORIES at The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC, Vilnius in Lituania.

A video work, in which the daily routine of Les Milles is caught up by its past - a former brickyard in the town`s center was used as internment camp for Germans during World War II and served as concentration camp later on. With the use of montage cutting techniques the artist succeeds in letting the past burst into present.

Maya Schweizer was born in 1976 in Paris, France and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, and Berlin University of the Arts (with Lothar Baumgarten). Maya Schweizer works with diverse media: the focus of her work lies in the making of short films based on documentary material. „Identity, biography, politics, history and memory are recurring themes in Maya Schweizer’s photographs and videos... In general, the artist generates an incomplete tableau of collective memory and questions the way history is produced and visually recorded. „(Cynthia Krell). The artist approaches the relation of montage editing techniques with the concept of film and memorial and film as memorial — a relation which traces back to the very beginnings of montage as it does to research findings by French historian Pierre Nora. Recurring moments in Schweizer’s multiform art practice revolve around the examination of subtly treated processes of memory regarding historic-political events in public space. In the places, structures and situations she investigates, historical threads intersect. She received international grants and most recently Project grant "Lieux de Mémoire and Desire",Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS), 2015. The Exhibition sponsor from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), TCG Nordica, Kunming, China, 2013. The Robert Bosh Foundation, in Slovakia 2011, also in the Villa Aurora, Artist Grant from the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles 2008-2009. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she won the Prize of the German Competition at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen 2006. She recently had solo shows, such as; Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany 2015. Edith Seeshow’s Notes at the Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2013. Metropolis. Report from China with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2011. The Same Story Elsewhere at the Westfälisher Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, 2010. Schweizer was also involved in many international exhibitions, such as; Inside the City. Public Space and Free Space at the GAK, Bremen, Germany, 2015. Vot ken you mach ?, Muzeum Wspólczesne Wroclaw, Poland, 2015. Collection Alphabet at the Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig, 2014. The city that doesn´t exist at Ludwig Forum, Aachen, 2012. Ambigous Being, Hong Gah Museum,Taipei 2012. Take me to your leader!, Kunstmuseum Bergen, Norway, 2011. Here and There, at the Wallace Gallery, New York and at the Oonagh Young Gallery, in Dublin, 2011. 15 Jahre Villa Aurora. Transatlantische Impulse, AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2011. Of Other Spaces at the Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2011.

2004, 80 years after Fritz Lang?s travel to New York and exactly in the estimated time of the futuristic projections of his film ?Metropolis?? We had come to China to find film locations, to talk with workers and architects, screenwriters and novelists in Shanghai and Beijing. To investigate, whether the whole film could be re-staged here. But do we want this film to repeat itself, for it to become ?real?? ? Maybe here in China we have seen a variation of ?Metropolis?, which has already become true?

Clemens von Wedemeyer: Clemens von Wedemeyer was born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1974. He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts of Leipzig (prof. Astrid Klein). He received numerous international awards including the Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany (2005), the VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video?art, Munich Film Festival, Germany (2002), the Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig (2002). He lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany.

It opens in the dark, in a corridor; water is flowing ... Voices echo in these sewer tunnels; it is the abyss of Munich, under the river Isar. The voices tell fragments of stories: about vanished people, violence, memory loss—while the camera is now above ground, scanning the city’s façades, including those of the “Third Reich.” The city appears as a body winding its way through time, past and present. Like a thread through memories, a spiral runs through it: a shell, a whirlpool, the turn of a staircase, the ever-recurring voices of the past. The film is a collage: it jumbles traces of history and forms of nature, bringing images, voices and sounds from different sources to the same level. A story of living beings and living environments, of fossils which challenge our perception of time.

Born in Paris, she studied art and art history in Aix-en-Provence (1995-1998), moved to Berlin in 1998 and worked for a year as an assistant for artistic projects in Küntlerhaus Bethanien. From 1999 to 2002, begins art studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and continues in early 2003 in the class of Lothar Baumgarten at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she received her postgraduate studies degree (Meisterschülerin Abschluss) in 2007. Schweizer works with different media, with a particular focus on experimental video works. She has had numerous solo exhibitions (including Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster 2010, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2011, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2014, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2016, Kunstverein Leipzig 2018, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2020/21, Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2021) and has shown her work in group exhibitions and at biennials (including Berlin Biennale, 2006, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2013, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2016, Anren Biennale 2017, China, Manifesta 13, 2020, Neuen Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin 2020, Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2022, Forum expanded exhibition, Silent Green, Berlin 2022). Her videos have already been selected for numerous festivals and events, including Forum expanded during the 67th (2017) and the 72.nd (2022) Berlin International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival (2017, 2020), Gli Incontri Internazionali del Cinema, Sorrento, Italy (2019), at the 36. Kasseler Dokfest, (2019) and at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022), where L’étoile de mer was awarded the e-flux prize in 2019. Examples of grants, and artist residencies she has received include a grant from the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2008), Studio grant, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin (2008–2010), Toni and Albrecht Kumm Prize for the Promotion of Fine Arts, (2009), Artist in Residence, Lieu d’arts contemporains 3bisf, Aix-en-Provence, France (2010), Košice Artist in Residence (K.A.I.R.), Košice, Slovakia (2011), Artist in Residence, Museum POLIN, Warsaw, Poland (2016),work grant from the Berlin Senate (2019), the Funding programme for women artists in film/video, (2021), the Research Grant from the Berlin Senate as well (2017, 2021). So far, four monographs on her work have been published: Voices, Stimmen (Walther and Franz König, Köln 2121), Where Ivy Cracks The Wall (Naima, Paris / Berlin 2019), Lieux de Mémoire and Desire (Archive Books, Berlin 2015), Maya Schweizer?The Same Story Elsewhere (Spector Books, Leipzig 2010)

In Sans histoire, an epic river of thought, current fears of the end of civilization are both “without story” and “without narrative”. Disturbing images of animals in the night, visions of a technologized future and images of people dancing to excess or fleeing war combine to generate an apocalyptic atmosphere. Yet what seems dystopian at first conceals a utopian potential for a new beginning: time and again, Schweizer deploys images of waves, oceans and currents that sweep through what she shows, washing it away and absorbing it. Maya Schweizer draws our attention to oblivion as a reality determined by human life. In this paradox lies her proposal for confronting the existential fears of our time: Sans histoire is a space for honoring memory and a monument to oblivion.

Maya Schweizer, born in Paris, studied art and art history in Aix-en-Provence, at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste Leipzig (HGB), where she completed her pre-diploma, and at the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin in the class of Lothar Baumgarten, where she graduated in 2006 and was awarded the title of Meisterschülerin in 2007. Schweizer works in a variety of media (including photography and textiles), although her focus is on experimental video works. She has had numerous solo exhibitions (including Jewish Museum Berlin, 2023, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin - Exhibition winner of the HAP Grieshaber 2022 award, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2020/21, Kunstverein Leipzig, 2018, Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2013, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2016, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2014, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2011, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, 2010. She has shown her work in group exhibitions and at biennials including Neuen Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin 2020, Manifesta 13 Marseille, 2020, Anren Biennale China, 2018, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2016, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2013, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007,Berlin Biennale, 2006. Her videos have already been selected for numerous festivals and events, including Forum expanded during the 67th and the 71.rst Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale (in 2017 and 2021), the Vancouver International Film Festival (2017, 2020) and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen several times. Examples of the Awards, project grants and residencies, include; Funding programme for women artists in film/video, 2024, Dagesh Art Award 2023, HAP-Grieshaber-Prize, 2022, e-flux film award, 2019, Artist in Residence, La Non-Maison, 2014, Studio grant, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, 2008–2010, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2008). So far, four monographs on her work have been published: Voices, (Walther and Franz König, 2121), Where Ivy Cracks The Wall (Naima, Paris / Berlin 2019), Lieux de Mémoire and Desire (Archive Books, Berlin 2015) and Maya Schweizer?The Same Story Elsewhere (Spector Books, Leipzig 2010). Schweizer works in Germany and France.

Back in Berlin, I was trying to reconstruct, with the help of my recordings, the part of the story from my grandmother during the second world war.

Born in Paris. Studied art history and fine art in France and Germany. Lives in Berlin.

The film begins with footage of a city of ruins, when the entire cityscape of Warsaw is covered with stones. It is 1945. Themed around stones as carriers of historical memory, the movie is so closely filmed that the viewer can never see the city`s memorials in their entirety. Special attention, though, is paid to the author of the Umschlagplatz Wall, a monument located in the former Ghetto. Hanna Szmalenberg is explaining the process of realization of the Umschlagplatz as the camera winds through a snow-covered sculpture garden.

Maya Schweizer, born in Paris studied art and art history at the university of Aix-en-Provence (1995-1998). She moved to Germany and studied at the School of Visual Arts in Leipzig (HGB) (1999-2002) and move in Berlin 2003 where she finished her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with Professor Lothar Baumgarten and graduated in 2006. She had solo shows in Westfalischen Kunstverein, Muenster (2010), Frankfurter Kunstverein, (2011) with Clemens von Wedemeyer, in the Kunstverein Langenhagen (2013), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2015), at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016). Schweizer was also involved in many international exhibitions, such as “Of Mice and Men,” Berlin Biennale (2006), “Storylines,” Kunstraum Munich, (2006), “Um-Kehrungen, Interaktion I - Speaker”s Corner,” Kunstverein Braunschweig (2007), “Magellaneous Cloud,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2007), “Urban Stories,” The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius (2009), “Auto-Kino!,” Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin (2010), “Ambigous Being,” exhibitions in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Taipei, tamtamART, Berlin / Kav16 Community Gallery, Tel Aviv / Hong Gah Museum, Taipei (2012), “Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt,” Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2012), “Vot ken you mach!,” Kunsthaus Dresden (2013), efa (Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA (2013). At “Villa Romana 1905”2013 Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz,” Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, (2013), “Gestern die Stadt von Morgen,” Kunstmuseum Mälheim an der Ruhr, (2014),. “Sammlungsalphabet,” Sammlungsausstellung, Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig (2014), and the forthcoming “Im inneren der Stadt. Öffentlicher Raum und Frei-Raum,” Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Bremen, (2015). At the Museum MWW Muzeum Wspó?czesne, Wroc?aw, Poland, (2015), Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, (2016), in VOX, Montreal (2016), and at POLIN Museum, Warsaw (2016).

"White Terror" is the last part of a trilogy on skinheads, hate, and racism. Over two years of investigation on the most active extremist group revealed the international links between them, from Stockholm to Dallas via Moscow. Daniel Schweizer, director of the acclaimed documentary "skinhead Attitude", investigates the forces that hide behind the ?White Power? and the ?New Racist? slogans.

Daniel Schweizer was born in 1959 in Geneva. He Studied at the ESAV (École Supérieure d`Art Visuel) in Geneva, obtaining a double degree in graphic expression and audio-visual arts. He also studied at ESEC (École Supérieure d`Études Cinématographiques, Paris). From 1983-93 he was an independent assistant director at the French Swiss Broadcasting Service (TSR) and also an independent producer. Daniel Schweizer has been working as an independent director and producer since 1993. He lives in Geneva and Paris.

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Maya Schweizer was born in 1976 in Paris, France and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, and Berlin University of the Arts. She received international grants and most recently Project grant "Lieux de Mémoire and Desire",Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, 2015. The Exhibition sponsor from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, TCG Nordica, Kunming, China, 2013. The Robert Bosh Foundation, in Slovakia 2011, also in the Villa Aurora, Artist Grant from the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles 2008-2009. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she won the Prize of the German Competition at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen 2006. She recently had solo shows, such as; “Art | Memory | Place”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin Ireland, “Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles”, Kuns

PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS is an essayistic short film about love and storytelling, focussing on possible structures and forms of storytelling. The film is an experimental arrangement, a study of unconventional forms. Fragments of personal history, stories are woven together and reconstructed. An image within an image is shifted and repositioned. The cinematic narration of an experienced love is the starting point of PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS. But this narration is arranged in manifold ways and on several layers: the staging is arranged as a mise en abyme. The figure speak to a a friend of hers and sometimes also towards the audience; she talks about a desired subject which is absent throughout the whole film — it`s merely a blank. In his analysis of Marcel Prousts "À la Recherche du Temps perdu" Walter Benjamin speaks of "Penelope work". By this, he means not remembrance per se, but the interweave of memories. PENELOPE / IN THE SCENERY / REFLECTING / RELATIONS is about the way how these memories could be interwoven by the means of narration. But unlike the ancient Penelope it`s not a carpet that is woven together with yarn, she’s weaving individual threads of narration together to one whole image of souvenirs, of memories.

*1970 in Linz, living and working in Vienna. Conceptual video artist mainly working with time-based media (film, video, sound). Studies of philosophy, history, history of the arts, dramatics and film theory in Vienna. Lecturer at Institute of Art and Design, Technical University of Vienna and at Film Academy Vienna. Cooperations with musicians on audiovisual projects and live performances in Austria and abroad. International screenings and exhibitions.

In the documentary called "Protocoles de rêves," Hanna Schygulla, who is an emblematic figure of the German cinema and of the work of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, has filmed herself since 1977 and experiments, deconstructs and reconstructs her own image.

"As a young actress, Hanna SCHYGULLA provoked the imperious passion and the bitter tears of Petra von Kant in the film of Fassbinder. Then she became his Lili Marlène, his Maria Braun, his "German woman"... Heroine of about twenty major films directed by Fassbinder, and standing as a symbol of the revival of the German cinema, Hanna SCHYGULLA worked with Schöndorf, Wenders, von Trotta and then with Ferreri, Saura, Godard, Wajda, Scola, Deville... She now lives in Paris."

In ‘PHX [X is for Xylonite]’, the first semi-synthetic plastics are considered through their relationship to the chemical and industrial development of photography and film, where cellulose nitrate was used as the base for film-stock until the mid-20th century and in props’ production. Against a collage of digital animation and hand-processed 16mm film, the soundtrack proposes a warped love song between the organic and synthetic, where human voices and recordings in shellac - lacquer obtained from the secretion of the Coccus Lacca insect - are transformed through a Vocoder. Scientist and laboratory technician, Dr. Miriam Wright, reads extracts from Roland Barthes? essay ?Plastics? (1957), colour experiments from a British Xylonite Company laboratory formula book (1888) and symptoms of plastics degradation; ?crazing?, ?yellowing? and ‘bloom’. Although Barthes suggests that plastic “embodies none of the genuine produce of the mineral world: foam, fibres, strata”, in ‘PHX’ plastics are proposed as strata; so that the layers that make up the film - its emulsion and plastic substrate - are made evident; like its material seams that will, in future sedimentary rock layers, signal our Anthropocene era and its flawed capitalist productions.

Frances Scott works with moving image, presented through screenings, installations, events and publications. Her work often considers material that exists around the periphery of the cinematic production and its apparatus, proposing films composed of their metonymic fragments. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: 'Projections', 57th New York Film Festival; New York (2019); Institute of Making, University College London (2019); Edge of Frame / London International Animation Festival, Close-Up Film Centre (2019); Nunnery Gallery, London (2019); Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium (2018); The Bower, London (2018); Tate St Ives (2018); Annely Juda Fine Art / The Russian Club, London (2018); Yorkshire Sculpture Park / Art Licks (2017); Whitechapel Gallery (2015 /2017); Peninsula Arts / South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth (2017); Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2016); and ‘Selected III’ videoclub FLAMIN screenings in the UK (2013) and USA (2014) including Anthology Film Archives, New York, Seattle International Film Festival, and LA Film Forum. Frances was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017) and associate artist at the Moving Image Research Centre (MIRC), University of East London (2018-2019). She is currently working on research towards her first long-form film, ‘Wendy’, a new film commissioned by TACO! (Thamesmead Arts and Culture Office), London.

In meteorology, the aureole is an atmospheric, optical phenomenon; the visible inner disc of a corona, produced by the diffraction of light from the sun or the moon, bright starlight or planet-light. Aureole brings together unused celestial images from Scott’s earlier film, Diviner (2017), with vocoder-readings from Ursula K. Le Guin’s novel The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), scored by Chu-Li Shewring’s remix of the House track Brighter Days (1992) by Cajmere featuring Dajae. Aureole is a transition between a ‘lost’ chapter from Diviner and Wendy (2022, forthcoming), a film fan-letter to composer Wendy Carlos, whose many interests include solar eclipse photography. Accelerating to a euphoric end, the film is the duration of the longest total solar eclipse, when the moon completely covers the sun.

Frances Scott (b. 1981) is a London-based artist working with moving image. Her work considers the narratives and histories at the periphery of cinematic production and its apparatus, to produce films composed of their metonymic fragments. Her projects are often made in exchange with other specialists, groups and publics, and developed through research using online and physical archives and collections. She associates and composites diverse materials, analogue and digital film media, to create intricate scenarios that are both scripted and improvised. Her film work, informed by this collaborative and research-led process, takes multiple forms, through exhibitions to installations, screenings, events, broadcasts and publications, including recent presentations at: transmediale x CTM, Berlin; 57th New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York; Edge of Frame & Close Up Film Centre, London; Het Bos, Antwerp; The Bower, London; Tate St Ives, Cornwall; Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks; South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth; and Focal Point Gallery, Southend. Frances Scott was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017), and is currently working on a new film commissioned by TACO!, London for a solo exhibition and publication in 2022.

‘Valentina’ is a prelude to ‘Wendy’, a speculative portrait of, and film fan-letter to, composer and musician Wendy Carlos – self-described as “The Original Synth”. In ‘Valentina’, an unedited 100ft reel of hand-processed 16mm film, shot in rehearsal, is used as a silent score for a reading. Performer and dancer Valentina Formenti recalls part of a transcribed interview with Carlos, later edited for publication in ‘Playboy’ in 1979. Whilst the magazine interview was seen as the first public announcement of Carlos’ gender transition, these absent passages, excluded from the final edit, include her connected interests in cartography, physics, mathematics’ transformations, astronomy, and her practice in solar eclipse photography. Valentina’s multiple voices are translated through Vocoder, and collaged with musician Tom Richards’ performance on Daphne Oram’s unrealised ‘Mini-Oramics’, to suggest a coming into being through sonic synthesis. “…imagining a world without gender, which is perhaps a world without genesis, but maybe also a world without end.” (Donna Haraway, ’A Manifesto for Cyborgs’, Socialist Review, no.80, 1985).

Frances Scott (b. 1981) is a London-based artist working with moving image. Her work considers the narratives and histories at the periphery of cinematic production and its apparatus, to produce films composed of their metonymic fragments. Her projects are often made in exchange with other specialists, groups and publics, and developed through research using online and physical archives and collections. She associates and composites diverse materials, analogue and digital film media, to create intricate scenarios that are both scripted and improvised. Her film work, informed by this collaborative and research-led process, takes multiple forms, through exhibitions to installations, screenings, events, broadcasts and publications, including recent presentations at: transmediale x CTM, Berlin; 57th New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York; Edge of Frame & Close Up Film Centre, London; Het Bos, Antwerp; The Bower, London; Tate St Ives, Cornwall; Annely Juda Fine Art & The Russian Club, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park & Art Licks; South West Film & Television Archive, Plymouth; and Focal Point Gallery, Southend. Frances Scott was recipient of the Stuart Croft Foundation Moving Image Award (2017), and is currently working on a new film commissioned by TACO!, London for a solo exhibition and publication in 2022.

"Trailer Truths III" is the third instalment of a trilogy of short films, made up of text taken from movie trailers. Words and phrases are collaged together to create a new text that charts the crossing over from a critique of society to ominous direct action in a film that parodies the notion of a Hollywood-style call to arms. By using the often reductive and emotive language of multiplex entertainment, embodied by trailers, to address sensitive and complex issues, this film reflects the heavy-handedness of blockbusters and the moralistic divisions between right & wrong/ good & evil represented within them.

Erica Scourti was born in Athens, Greece in 1980 but has lived in London since 1998 when she went to study Chemistry. Since graduating with a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University, her work has been screened extensively in the UK, as well as internationally, and has been chosen as the touring show reel for the online video gallery "tank.tv.". Other recent screenings include Oberhausen Short Film Festival Lounge, EMAF 'Smart Art' discussion, and Pursescreen at Bureau gallery, Manchester. She is currently pursuing a diploma in Art & Philosophy at Birkbeck University, London.

Trailer Truths I is the first installment of a trilogy of short films made up of text taken from movie trailers. Words and phrases are collaged together to create a darkly humorous text about war, evil and propaganda. The work playfully addresses the representation of power and language in the media, and the role of belief in the popular consciousness.

Erica Scourti grew up in Athens, leaving at 18 to study Chemistry in London. After a year on the course she quit and, after a stint at London College Fashion and Goldsmiths, graduated from Middlesex University?s BA Fine Art course in 2003. She now lives and works in East London and Essex. Her work will be appearing in the 15th Mostyn Open Competition in March 2005. Recent film screenings include: The One Night of Video & Audio, Umbrella Arts Group, Cardiff, Wales; Max 5 Video Festival, Café Gallery Projects, London; 3rd RestCycling Festival, Berlin; tank.tv on-line (www.tank.tv); Shot By The Sea, Electric Palace Cinema, Hastings; Winter Fantasia, Space Studios, London; and Trampoline ? Reactor, a live link-up to Berlin, held at Broadway Cinema, Nottingham in 2005. Courtesy Castlefield Gallery

Snippets of the greatest hits of movie speeches (as chosen by American Rhetoric website) are collaged together to create a piece of oratory that sends mixed messages about the ?human condition? and the leaders- real and fictional- who try to shape it. The original movie score is replaced by a single computer generated voice, robbing the performances of their emotive power while flattening the many different perspectives of the speakers into one voice. Erica?s work often focuses on playing with clichéd and overused language found in popular culture and attempts to reinvigorate it through remixing it and placing it in a new context. This work continues that interest by investigating the language used in public speaking, and into the cult of personality that often accompanies it.

Erica Scourti was born in Athens, Greece in 1980 but has lived in London since 1998 when she came to study Chemistry. Since graduating from BA Fine Art from Middlesex University, her work has been screened internationally and extensively in the UK, for example at Videonale 11, Purescreen Artists Film & Video at Bureau gallery, and Recontres Internationales 2006 in Berlin/ Paris. She has recently completed a residency at the 1st international Festival of Contemporary Art in Anso, Pyrenees and will be showing work at the Museo Reine Sofia in Madrid, and at the Wewerka Pavilion during the Munster Sculpture Project 2007.

In an airplane graveyard, war planes are mothballed or sold for scrap.

Alexandria Searls teaches media production at the University of Virginia. She is also a widely exhibited photographer.

"An interrupted investigation of R" is an epistemological sci-fi detective short film. This project is an adaptation of Stanislav Lem`s “ The Investigation ”. The work pretends to contribute to the regime of Extra Science Fiction, as was developed by Quentin Meillassoux. A synopsis of the book that I found at Goodreads: "An officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate an eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues". I used that minimal narrative as an excuse to address some of this questions and ideas. What would happen if experimental science became impossible and cannot deploy its theories? What exactly guarantees for us, but also what convinces us that natural laws will still be valid in the next moment? How is the bound in between science and fiction? It seems like the science allows the construction of a storyline because stories happen in ordered worlds. The way the merger of the virtual and the digital elicits a context of indetermination. How will the construction of different models of representation affect our perception of a specific phenomenon?

Alan Segal (AR), born in 1985, he studied at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Program for Artist and Curators, Universidad Di Tella, and is currently completing his master in Fine Arts at The Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. He uses drawings, video, coding and sound to design works that reveal alternative systems of communicative convention. “Tutorial ” was his last solo show at Zmud. Recent group exhibitions include "A word is a shadow that falls on a lot of things" at Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel, Switzerland), “Praising the surface ”at the Hesell Museum of Art (New York, USA) and “ To push an ism ” at MAMBA (Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art). He also shows his work in international biennials; "Visual Resonances" at the BIENALSUR (the South America contemporary Art Biennial) and "Draft Systems" at The WRO Biennale (Wroclaw, Poland).

“Key, washer, coin” is a video piece that combines techniques from the reenactment, animation, music, and other fields to ruminates towards language and capitalist exchange. The formal and semantic languages of advertisements are dissected, breaking the marketing model down to its component parts, highlighting the complex capitalist infrastructure that fuels our economic reality. Advertisement shorts, graphic design pieces, marketing texts are rarely mistaken for art. That is due to a congenital wound: those forms cannot cover up their commercial nature, the evident and immediate presence of the money. The invisible hand of these disciplines is the labor of scientists, formal semantic researchers, cryptographers and engineers. By learning from these disciplines is it possible to create an original flowchart of resources; simultaneously critical, persuasive and disillusioning outcomes/pieces are expected.

Alan Segal is a Buenos Aires-based artist whose work has been shown nationally and internationally. Segal’s video work has been presented at film festivals such as the New York Film Festival, Viennale, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin and, Mar del Plata International Film Festival. Among his recent group exhibitions are include Praising the surface at the Hesell Museum of Art (New York, USA), To push an ism at MAMBA (Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Argentina), The Kitchen (New York, USA), A word is a shadow that falls on a lot of things at Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel, Switzerland), Desarticulaciones at Blau Projects (São Paulo, Brazil) and Variaciones sobre lo no mismo at MACBA (Buenos Aires Museum of Contemporary Art, Argentina). He also shows his work in international biennials; Visual Resonances at the BIENALSUR (the South America contemporary Art Biennial) and Draft Systems at The WRO Biennale (Wroclaw, Poland). As a film editor, Segal teamed up Gastón Solnicki for the films Kékszakállú (Argentina/Uruguay, 2016) and Introduzione all ‘Oscuro (Argentina/Austria, 2018). For his work in this film, he won the FIPRESCI award for the Best Editing at the Venice Film Festival. Segal studied at ENERC (Argentine National Film School), Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (USA) and, UTDT Program for Artists (Argentina). He received his MFA from Bard College (USA).