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The gaze in “attractions” is focused on the animals. Any human activity seems strange. It forces its way into the otherwise equable way of life at Gori Park, ultimately calling into question the way humans constantly take it for granted that they are above nature.

Patrick Wallochny, born in Düsseldorf in 1990, is a filmmaker and video artist. He works as a director, editor and producer and lives in Berlin. His short films and site-specific audio and video installations move between documentary and fiction and try to playfully explore the limits of the medium. They are in dialogue with the cinema as well as with other art forms and pop culture. His eyes are on places as well as on people. On humour as on melancholy.

In Memory Architecture, a surveyor travels to the north of Sweden to survey a site for the building of a new data centre. This systematic task of transforming the terrain into a digital model quickly becomes a desperate search for some kind of underlying structure of the surveyor’s surroundings.

Alexander Walmsley (UK, b. 1992) is a filmmaker and photographer. In his research-based practice, he investigates how our understanding of the earth is shifting, mediated by the new technological, environmental and social realities of the 21st century. His recent work has been shown at the Daejeon Biennale of Arts and Sciences, Tirana Art Lab, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Photographers' Gallery, and Athens Digital Art Festival. He was a commissioned artist for the Albanian pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Deloitte Photo Grant in 2023 and Istanbul 212 Photography Prize in 2021. He previously studied Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Geneva (CH), and is currently a lecturer at the Film University Konrad Wolf in Potsdam, Germany, where is also undertaking an artistic PhD on the subject of real-time representations of the planet.

Tropical Depression follows the life and death of 21 cyclones that took place in the southern Hemisphere during the 2023 to 2024 cyclone season. Combining found footage and text fragments with recorded footage of the storms within Microsoft Flight Simulator - a videogame where weather is visualised in realtime using meteorological data - the film explores the aesthetic implications of documentary filmmaking that relies on data-generated rather than lens-based imagery, and the depiction of violent weather events as data-driven climate models.

Alexander Walmsley (UK, b. 1992) is an artist working between film, photography and digital media. In his research-based practice, he investigates how our understanding of the earth is shifting, mediated by the new technological, environmental and social realities of the 21st century. His recent work has been shown at the Daejeon Biennale of Arts and Sciences, Tirana Art Lab, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Photographers' Gallery, and Athens Digital Art Festival. He was a commissioned artist for the Albanian pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale and was shortlisted for the Deloitte Photo Grant in 2023 and Istanbul 212 Photography Prize in 2021.

The Tirana Time Capsules are a series of three virtual environments, accessible via web browser, that act as time capsules for three different neighbourhoods of Tirana in 2021. The chosen areas - 21 Dhjetori, Kombinat, and the Teatri i Gjelbërimit, an area of the Tirana Great Park - each embody different aspects of Tirana’s urban development over the past 100 years. Particularly since the early 2000s, this has been characterised by the gradual disappearance of public space as the building sector has increasingly become controlled by private interests. Drawing on the metaphor of the time capsule and employing so-called high-fidelity recording techniques such as photogrammetry and field recording, the work re-appropriates and re-constitutes these different areas of the city as virtual environments as a way of exploring the intersection of personal memory and community heritage. In addition, the work seeks to question the promises made by such recording technologies that claim to render and preserve reality as a high-fidelity digital copy: in short, what exactly is being preserved when we use these techniques of digital preservation?

Alexander Walmsley (b. 1992) is a media artist with a particular interest in the landscapes of the real and the virtual. In his practice, he investigates how our understanding of these landscapes is shifting, mediated by the new technological, environmental and social realities of the 21st century. His work is situated primarily between 3D, photography, animation, and XR. His recent work has been shown at the Daejeon Biennale of Arts and Sciences, Tirana Art Lab, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Photographers' Gallery, and VRHam! Festival. He was a commissioned artist for the Albanian pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale and has taken part in residencies at the Tirana Art Lab, Albania, and Moskosel Creative Lab, Sweden, among others. Previously, he studied Anthropology and Archaeology at the Universities of Cambridge (UK) and Geneva (CH).

`The Pathfinder: Prospect`, begins with the painted portrait of a 19th century politician and pioneer, John C. Frémont, housed in the Brooklyn museum, New York. From this figure the camera begins to build curious panning views of staged historical dwellings and stuffy expansionist-era oil paintings, before moving on to stationary shots of the nearby Prospect Park, with its carefully allotted tracts of woodland and pasture. The pace of the footage is dictated by a recording of a local drum circle; a loose collective of neighbourhood residents who come together each week, with no clear leader, and improvise African and Caribbean drum rhythms. A crescendo is reached through fragmented visions of paths and roads, dissected by painted lines and cracked patterns. A series of subtitles appear throughout the video, in which a loose conversation is recounted. A narrator struggles to clarify it`s own position in remembering a past journey to distant islands, when utopian ideals were discussed and only half formulated. Throughout `The Pathfinder: Prospect`, the uneasy collision between 19th and 20th century urban planning, the displacement of migrant communities, and idealised visions of pastoral equilibrium are melded together through the intuitive, pulsing efforts of the drum circle.

Emmett Walsh is an artist and writer from the UK, currently based in Los Angeles. His work spans sculpture, writing, video, photography, and print. He graduated from the MFA program at the Glasgow School of Art in 2008.

?Der Hörnermann? - A phenomenal conceptual animal on a mediative passing through a landscape with horizons. The Hörnermann is a creature who is oscillating between nature and culture. In the shootings you see a human with horns held to his head slowly walking through the forest. At times he seems to be a foreigner to the landscape, masquerading to fit in or hide, at others he seems to be the sovereign, and at yet others he seems to be part of it, no longer human. Filmed in the urwald of Tiveden, Sweden, the imagery is beautiful, and refrains from becoming ironic but stays sensitive, both in compassion and accuracy in regards of the changing facets of the being of Hörnermann. ?It is quite strange in its simplicity, and in its refusal to show anything else than what it shows at first, aside from small variations (which consequently you tend to pay attention to). I like the sound(s) and the peacefulness and pacing that comes from the soundtrack. I like the fact that it?s not boring, and that on the opposite, in its own way it is quite funny. The Hörnermann?s gesture is so « suspended » (...) between a lot of different things that you can?t really pinpoint, that it keeps you guessing, even though it is very simple. I also like that it allows you to look at the landscape and enjoy it while ridding this action of its possible sentimentality and kitsch. ? Comment by J-P A

MICHAEL WALTER (*1966) works as visual artist. Various exhibitions in Europe. SUSANNE BERGGREN (Stockholm/Berlin) has worked as a choreographer since mid-nineties in the contexts of dance, visual arts and club. She normally works in close collaboration with artists from various fields, and produces works in different medias. Her work has been presented in Sweden and internationally. The last years she also worked extensively as a dancer with choreographers as Xavier LeRoy, Eszter Salamon, and Antonia Baehr, touring Europe. amongst others at Modern Dance-theatre, The Modern museum of Art, Fylkingen and various clubs and restaurants in Stockholm, Sweden, in Hau, Berlin, Thomas Nordanstad Gallery New York, Art Genda 2000, Helsinki, Wienna International Apartment, Wien and Åbo.

A meditation on the image and the bullet. Entrance Wounds considers the modern challenge of trying to unsee an image. The film sifts through moments of the everyday, imagining a world where afterimages of disaster drift near transparency over the present.

Calum Walter is an artist working in sound and moving image. His recent work has focused on human and machine error, collective anxieties, and the cultural moment as it is shaped by emerging and consumer technologies. His films have screened at the Berlinale, Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, FIC Valdivia, Images Festival, Slamdance and the Hong Kong Arts Centre. He is a 2018 MacDowell Fellow and has received awards from the Harpo Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council. He lives in the Los Angeles area and teaches in the Film/Video program at CalArts.

Unknown Hours studies a precarious nightscape. An observer journeys down a main street in Chicago towards a neighborhood known for its nightlife. The moving image is slowed to reveal the intermittence of street lights and sports bar televisions. A camera peers into the moments between events.

Calum Walter is a filmmaker, artist and sound designer. He has a BFA from the University of Colorado where he studied filmmaking with an emphasis on sound, and later received a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He continues to do sound design and recording for his own films, and has collaborated with artists as cinematographer, sound recordist and designer. His work has screened widely at places including New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Slamdance, Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Big Ears Music Festival. He Teaches in the department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University.

Even nowadays, these things do happen sometimes: you get up at dawn, you`re accompanied, you walk throughout the woods, you get encouraged, you fear, you jabber, you play, you hum. You`re expected. You don`t have much to lose, but your honor.

Alexia Walther was born in Geneva in 1974, she lives and works in Nice and Paris. She graduated in 1999 from ESAV (École Supérieure d?Art Visuel), Geneva, Switzerland. She directed mixed media installations. Maxime Matray was born in 1973 in Paris. He lives and works in Nice and Paris. He graduated in 1995 from EPIAR (École Pilote Internationale d?Art et de Recherche), Villa Arson, Nice. He?s a mixed media artist and author. They started working together on the short-film TWIST (2006), that won several awards in many festivals. They wrote and directed together the short-film L?ÉLAN (THE RUN-UP).

"David+Jonathan" is a non-straight street photography project. It is a retelling of the Bible story, set in modern day New York. After David defeats Goliath, the King takes an interest in him. David then develops a relationship with Jonathan, the King's son. When the King finds out about it, he forbids Jonathan to ever see David again. The building blocks of this film are a series of re-photographed stills. The images began as video shot in public, of young men unaware of the camera. Fictional scenes were composed from these images by digitally manipulating them and placing the actors found into the story.

Jan Wandrag was born in South Africa in 1976. His video work has been included in festivals in New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Washington, DC. Jan recently had his first solo gallery show, "Images of David+Jonathan", at Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art, New York. He has also participated in numerous group shows in the United States, South Africa, and Europe. Jan was awarded the Aaron Siskind Scholarship in 2004. In 2005 he completed a MFA in photography, video, and related media at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He currently resides in New York with his partner David.

A poetic journey from the darkness of early dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed on one bus route over the course of six months in Durham, North Carolina, Sun Song is a celebration of light and a meditation on leaving.

Joel Wanek (1974, Nebraska, USA) is a filmmaker and photographer living in Oakland. Over the years he has developed a creative documentary practice that often blurs the line between subject and maker, mixes techniques of narrative and vérité modes, and uses public spaces for collaborative engagement. He holds a MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University.

In an age of wire and string, futuristic visions anchor in lithic time. In the dark, people are driven to shine in the most spectacular ways. Light, emitted from our digital extensions, has roots traversing millions, even billions of years.

Yuyan Wang, born in 1989 in China and currently based in Paris, is a filmmaker and video artist. Her works involve recycled materials from the industrial sphere of image production, tracing their mutation and proliferation within the digital frameworks and representations. Through the editing process, Wang deconstructs and recontextualizes the intricate hierarchies and inherent meanings in materials —whether found, processed, and produced—striping symbols of their conventional paths of perception and turning them into immersive sensory experiences. Wang completed her studies at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2016 and later at Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains in 2022. Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, UCCA Beijing, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as the Berlinale International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, MoMa Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, the European Media Art Festival, receiving numerous awards.

Wandering in the night, floating in the dark. Video filmed in February 2011 in Bamako, Mali, in the district Djicoroni Para, with the broadcast of muezzin`s calls. By the lacking of public street lighting, the landscape of the street is nothing familiar to us. The whole environment has changed. Houses, stores, waste, plants, even clothes of the passengers, everything is fading in the dark. We see the lights and shadows, the images taken. The movement of light and shadow built the memory of the territory that floats in time.

After his graduation as an engineer in industrial design in 2007, WANG Lingjie decided to continue his journey of creation by a more challenging and fundamental way, which leads him to start a 5 years study in contemporary art. WANG Lingjie has a various interests and so in the early years, he explored some different domains include: information technology, ecology and architecture, which he integrate to his creation of art works. Some after, influenced by his political background and thoughts of idealism, the artist focus his practices to installation, photography and video/motion picture which involve both fiction and documentary. By these mediums, he develops projects which reflect his thoughts on our existence, our relations with the nature and the univers. WANG Lingjie lives and works in Lorraine, France and Shanghai, China.

Bin and Yuan are brother and sister. When they’re not working, they share a small apartment in Marseille. This is their haven, a space where they can rest. Here they can be connected to the outside world at all hours of the day and night, and especially to their home country, China, to which Yuan is planning to return.

Born in China, Yu Wang is a filmmaker based in France since 2018. Following her previous film studies in Beijing and Taipei, she currently develops personal work between France and China.

Comment les ouvrières se voient à leur travail ? Pourquoi font elles ce métier ? Qui sont elles ? Pas seulement ici, mais aussi ailleurs. Le regard se concentre sur les femmes de l`industrie textile mais porte au delà d`un pays. Il va là où des artistes partagent cette même envie de regarder les femmes se regardant au travail. Ce qui importe d`abord c`est la manière dont chacune se voit, se pense. Les femmes parlent de leur désir, désir d`indépendance, pour le reste elles décrivent leur vie au travail, les difficultés, la dureté, le besoin de travailler, les peurs, les envies, les regrets... Souvent, elles se ressemblent, par leurs gestes attachés aux machines, mais aussi par leur histoire, le besoin d`argent, d`indépendance, certaines ont peur, d`autres se rebiffent, refusent. Ce qui importe aussi c`est la manière dont chaque artiste voit ces femmes au travail. Les croisements de regards, se font au gré des images et des paroles, sans autre guide que le jeu du loin et du proche, dans l`espace recomposé des usines, du rapport des corps aux machines, au travail.

«Images en transit », C`est un processus artistique collectif, qui a commencé en 2010 avec un travail expérimental sur le regard des femmes au travail, dans le textile. Nous sommes 6 artistes, de 3 continents, Europe, Afrique, Asie, qui avons imaginé peu à peu un dispositif pour travailler en collectif. Chacun a filmé dans son pays des ouvrières au travail, puis nous avons mis en commun les images. L?idée a été de réaliser une vidéo, avec une écriture commune, mais chacun a pu et pourra continuer à sa manière le travail engagé. Les images appartiennent au collectif et à chacun. Le temps de l`écriture collective a été celui du projet, puis celui du montage, chacun ?uvrant à partir des ses propres images et de celles des autres. Une centaines d?heures au total. Toutes les interviews ont été intégralement traduites. Le processus est expérimental et très ouvert donc. Nous ?uvrons sur l`écart des regards, l`écart dans le travail, des artistes et des femmes, les idées comme les images circulent. Co auteurs : Catherine Egloffe (France), WANG Lingjie (Chine), Andrea Palade Flondor (Roumanie), HAO Jingfang (Chine), Serge Desire Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), Bouna Cherif Fofana (Mali)

These images appear in this world all because of an 18-year-old gypsy boy, Pisti. A chance encounter an existing gap in our chain of cause and effect. Like opening the door but realising there is no end, and now it cannot be closed no matter what. “I” is a place where events take place, an existential exploration.

WANG Chun (b. 1988, Taiwan) is a video production worker and film producer. His practice is based on transformations between different creative languages (those of image, text, sound, and body), searching for the limits of language and seeking to measure the distance in the act of viewing.

Just before the launch of artificial moons, a retired couple finds their harbor in the fading darkness. Trying to catch up with the pace of modernity, their daily life traces this forthcoming brightness back to its earthly origins.

Yuyan Wang (b. 1989, China) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on the impact of image creation in media, representation, and the attention economy. By deconstructing and recontextualizing inherent meanings of found materials, her practice probes the continual mutations within the industrial production chain of images, a perpetual development leading to an abstraction of reality. Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as Berlinale, IFFR, European Media Art Festival, Indie Lisboa, receiving numerous awards.

The video Berlin-Lichtenberg uses footage from a home movie filmed in 1943. The apparent intention of the filmmaker – to capture peaceful moments of family life such as a wife and child on a walk or leisure time at a lakeside restaurant in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg – is disrupted by unintended visual content. In the background, everyday life in the forced labour system becomes visible: a group of female forced labourers on the way to their work site, and the barracks of a forced labour camp behind the excursion venue. These visual elements are not consciously chosen, but rather a casual documentation of the omnipresence of forced labour in Nazi Germany. The amateur footage has been re-edited for the video with intertitles that contextualise the silent images and add a fictional level.

In his artistic work, Franz Wanner (*1975 in Bad Tölz, Germany, lives in Zurich) addresses topics such as the European Union’s migration policy, the German secret service and the arms industry, as well as their history and current structures, and the effects of Nazism on the German imperative of prosperity. “In a conceptual practice whose consistency of research and artistic output, in the tradition of Hans Haacke, continues – by means of investigations and transmedia – to ask questions where no one has yet done so” (Nora Sternfeld, HFBK Hamburg), “he creates images of a collective cognitive dissonance and analytical poetry about the pathology of overlooking within the Germany of today and its idioms” (Stephanie Weber, Lenbachhaus Munich). As Artist in Residence at the Harun Farocki Institute, he developed the exhibition Mind the Memory Gap for the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Under the title Eingestellte Gegenwarten, he realised his first solo exhibition in Italy at Merano Arte, which will be shown in modified form at the Lenbachhaus in Munich in 2026.

A peasant’s wife loses her way in the forest and stumbles into a bear’s den. The bear keeps her with him, and after a time, a half-bear, half-child is born. They long to escape. To this backdrop, we move through the corridors and streets of a deserted German military town, once the central headquarters of the Soviet army’s occupation of Eastern Europe. Sealed off to the public for decades, this obscure complex became known to outsiders as “the Forbidden City.” A primal Russian fairy tale is employed to navigate this labyrinthine site, which appears to speak to both the legacy of this contested past and the unsettling resonances of our present.

Feargal Ward and Jonathan Sammon are filmmaking artists from Ireland. Much of their work explores the boundaries and possibilities of the hybrid-documentary form, where tropes and devices of narrative cinema are often appropriated or subverted in an attempt to interrogate established truths. Previous films they have collaborated on include 'Tin City', which premiered at this year’s Berlinale (Forum Expanded) before screening at multiple festivals including Karlovy Vary, Cinéma du Réel, and Festival dei Popoli, where it was awarded the International Discoveries Prize. Other collaborations involving Adrian Duncan include the films 'Lowland' (Cork International Film Festival), 'Memory Room' (IDFA, EVA International, Dokufest Kosovo), and 'Tension Structures' (IDFA, Hot Docs, RIDM). Ward’s feature documentary 'The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid' premiered in the main competition at IDFA and screened at multiple festivals before being broadcast on German, Irish, and Finnish television. His debut feature documentary 'Yximalloo' (co-directed with Tadhg O’Sullivan) premiered at FID Marseille, where it won the Prix Premier

A single day spent in a motion-capture studio documenting actors, a director and technical crew provide the subject matter for this film. Using a cliché B-movie script, the studio Audiomotion test workflow patterns to standardise and improve the production process (e.g. adjusting cameras and monitors, rehearsing with equipment, transferring data etc.) The actor’s movements are recorded during the scene, followed by minute facial gestures (aided with face paint), and finally edited as 3D models. We see how technique and dialogue must change to avoid disrupting the motion-capture technology, how the actors choose their expressions (stylised, but with an emphasis on naturalism), what other jobs the actors may have, and how standards or ideal gestures are created via these technical methods.

Dan Ward is a filmmaker based in London.

I first saw the light channels the vestige of Joseph Carey Merrick?s surviving output. Better known as The Elephant Man, he produced a two-page autobiography, sold to those attending a freak show in which he was displayed in victorian London. The inter-titled text is coupled with stark sequences of a model church he constructed, now sealed within a glass and ebony container, together forming the basis for this poignant, silent film. A reminder of Merrick?s profound humanity in the face of such extreme adversity, the film also serves as a footnote to David Lynch?s feature film, in which the model is employed as a central motif and metaphor for Merrick?s psychological and emotional fluctuations.

Phillip Warnell produces films channelling the circumstances, thoughts and character of extraordinary subjects. The work is concerned with the exploration of, and curiosity with, ideas around bodies and environments. Thinking through film, his work explores an extra-sensory, pre-scientific world, infused with invisible, supra-organic phenomena. The premise for his work locates the body as an axis or point of orientation, around which can be hosted a series of investigations and transformations, into both the human and animal corpus, its biology, psychology and chemistry. A filmmaker, academic and artist, Phillip Warnell presents his work in a range of contexts and guises: including live performance pieces, time-based work, image and text. His recent cinematic work has included ?The Girl with X-ray Eyes? and ?Outlandish: Strange Foreign Bodies?, made in collaboration with Jean-Luc Nancy. Recent presentations of his work include a solo exhibition at The South London Gallery, London (Sept, 2012); Locarno Film Festival (2012); FNC Montreal (2012), Loop Barcelona (2011); CPH-Dox (2010); FID Marseille (2009/8), with exhibitions at Matts Gallery, London (2005) and 300m3, Gothenburg (2008).