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The film uses the methods of presentation as a path to the company of other living beings. It expands upon the issues of ecological moving image narrative, the focus being on presentation, imaging and imagination in the context of the moving image.

Née en Finlande en 1959, Eija-Liisa Ahtila vit et travaille à Helsinki. Elle a étudié à l’Université de Californie à Los Angeles, au London College of Priting et à l’Université d’Helsinki. Le travail d’Eija-Liisa Ahtila, installation et film, s’organise conceptuellement autour de la manière dont se construisent images, langages, fils narratifs et espaces. Après avoir examiné les aspects existentiels de l’adolescence et de la découverte de la sexualité, les difficultés des relations familiales, la désintégration mentale et la mort, dans travaux les plus récents, l’artiste questionne les procédés de perception et d’attribution de sens, entre autres à travers des thématiques liant réflexions sur la culture et aspects et existentiels, telles que le colonialisme, la foi et le post-humanisme. Elle a obtenu le prix ARTE Award pour le meilleur film européen au Festival International du Court Métrage d’Oberhausen (2012), le Grand prix du Festival Curtas Vila do Conde (2002), le Prix du meilleur court métrage nordique au Nordisk Panorama (2000). En 2011, elle a été membre du jury du Festival du film de Venise. En 2013, elle a été présidente du jury au FID Marseille. Son travail a été montré dans des musées et festivals, notamment au Musée Guggenheim de Bilbao, au Monderna Museet (Stokholm), à la DHC/Art Foundation for Contemporary Art (Montréal), au Jeu de Paume (Paris), au Museum of Modern Art (New York), au Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Bolzano, Italie), et à la Tate Modern (Londres). Ses films ont été projetés notamment au Festival international du film de Berlin, au Festival du film de Sundance, au Festival international du film de Venise.

WHERE IS WHERE? (S-16 mm/ HD; 1:1:85; DD 5.1) Crystal Eye ? Kristallisilmä Oy ONE LINER La Mort et La Poétesse transposent dans la réalité d?aujourd?hui un fait divers de l?époque de la guerre d?Algérie : deux petits garçons ont tué leur meilleur ami, un garçon français. BRIEF SYNOPSIS WHERE IS WHERE? est un film expérimental et une installation, basé sur un fait divers de l?époque de la guerre d?Algérie. Réagissant aux atrocités perpétrées par les Français, deux petits garçons ont alors assassiné leur camarade de jeux, un petit garçon français du même âge. Le film débute dans le monde contemporain, quand la Mort entre dans la maison de la poétesse. Celle-ci se met à explorer l?événement passé qui se confond petit à petit avec l?instant présent. Dans le jardin de l?arrière-cour, la brume se lève, laissant apparaître une barque d?une couleur éclatante qui flotte dans la piscine. Adel et Ismael y sont installés. SYNOPSIS WHERE IS WHERE? explore le colonialisme et la coexistence de deux cultures différentes. Le point de départ est un fait réel de l?époque de la guerre d?Algérie, à la fin des années cinquante. Le pays était alors sous la tutelle de l?administration française et venait d?entamer une longue lutte pour l?indépendance, contre l?Etat colonisateur. Cette époque fut d?une violence extrême, marquée par les attentats des indépendantistes et par la dure répression de l?administration française. En réaction à, ou par conséquence des atrocités commises par les Français, deux petits garçons algériens ont tué leur camarade de jeu, un petit garçon français du même âge. Malgré ce point de départ ancré dans la réalité, c?est la relation de l?évènement au monde d?aujourd?hui qui est au c?ur de l?histoire. La narration débute dans l?instant présent, le geste des garçons et les événements de l?Algérie s?y confondant petit à petit. Le meurtre est examiné à la lumière de la situation mondiale actuelle d?une part, et d?autre part en tentant d?apporter une perspective historique aux conflits arabo-occidentaux ? tout en abordant les événements du point de vue de l?individu, à travers son expérience propre. L?histoire comporte trois personnage principaux : Adel et Ismael, les deux jeunes Arabes auteurs du meurtre, et une poétesse européenne, une femme d?une quarantaine d?années. La narration débute avec l?arrivée de la mort dans la maison de la poétesse. L?expérience de la mort est mise en parallèle avec l?arrivée dans un nouveau pays, et avec une remise en question de l?existence et de l?identité. Dans ses activités de poète, à l?aide de mots, la femme se met à décortiquer le fait divers et les éléments qui y sont liés : les différences religieuses, la culpabilité, la recherche de la ressemblance et de la communion. Petit à petit, le point d?ancrage se déplace du monde de la poétesse vers la réalité des garçons. Le meurtre se détache de son époque et est transposé dans monde d?aujourd?hui. Dans le jardin de l?arrière-cour, la brume se lève et laisse apparaître une barque qui flotte dans la piscine et où sont installés Adel et Ismael. La poétesse passe en arrière-plan, et c?est la parole des garçons et le caractère inévitable de leur geste, ses raisons et ses conséquences, qui se trouvent au centre de l?histoire. L?action se déroule dans une réalité fictive interne au film, ainsi que dans un décor référentiel aux airs de théâtre. L?effet recherché est de rendre la narration plus vivante, mais aussi d?explorer la façon dont les différents niveaux de narration fonctionnent ensemble. Le mode de narration est donc expérimental ? l?information est fournie non seulement de façon traditionnelle par ce qui se passe directement sur l?écran, mais aussi par les images et les sons qui acquièrent une plus grande importance. L?objectif est de donner une autonomie aux éléments expressifs de l?image en mouvement, afin qu?ils ne soient plus simplement subordonnés à l?histoire mais pour qu?ils transmettent une information sensorielle propre (ex. scène avec les danseurs soufis, paysages de pays différents, scènes de chants). Ainsi, l?histoire gagne en ampleur, en dimension personnelle et en charge émotionnelle, la chronologie traditionnelle se brise sans pour autant perdre le fil de la narration. La présence des acteurs suit cette même logique : l?accent dans le dialogue entre la Mort et la Poétesse n?est pas tant dans l?information transmise par les mots que dans les expressions et les postures (ainsi que dans les contacts entre les acteurs et dans l?action, bien évidemment).

EIJA-LIISA AHTILA Born in 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland, Eija-Liisa Ahtila is visual artist and filmmaker. Her films and multi-screen installations explore and experiment with narrative storytelling, creating extraordinary tales out of ordinary human experiences. Her works deal with separation, loss, sexuality, relationships among family members, mental disintegration, and death. They investigate the processes of perception and the attribution of meaning, with breaking down the story on several screens around the viewer in the space. Making installations and films has become for her a process of identifying the links between images, sounds, rhythms, light, characters and words, and using them to approach and construct the story. Eija-Liisa Ahtila was the recipient of the Artes Mundi of Cardiff, Wales in 2006, the Vincent Van Gogh Biannual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe, Maastricht, The Netherlands, as well as the Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award, Switzerland, both in 2000, and the Edstrand Art Prize, Sweden in 1998. Ahtila attended Helsinki University, Faculty of Law (1980-85); Independent Art School, 198184; and London College of Printing, School of Media and Management, Film and Video (1990-91). She received a Certificate from U.C.L.A. in Film, TV, Theater and Multimedia Studies, Los Angeles (1994-95) and attended special courses at the America Film Institute, Advanced Technology Program, Los Angeles (1994-95). Ahtila has exhibited extensively at numerous museums and film festivals around the world and her films have received distinctive film awards and prizes over the years. Her work has also been widely seen on television in Europe. British Film Institute has published a home DVD box of her films titled The Cinematic Works of Eija-Liisa Ahti/a. Eija-Liisa Ahtila currently lives and works in Helsinki.

The Annunciation is a film in which one of the central motifs of Christian iconography is constructed and re-enacted through moving image.

Eija-Liisa Ahtila Born in 1959 in Hämeenlinna, Finland, Eija-Liisa Ahtila is visual artist and filmmaker. Her films and multi-screen installations explore and experiment with narrative storytelling, creating extraordinary tales out of ordinary human experiences.

OR119 is a theoretical musical based on the ideas of radical psychologist Wilhelm Reich who, as Freud’s favorite student, centered his study on the intersections of psychoanalysis and Marxism. Reich’s best work advocates for a re-imagining of family structure and gender roles, sexual liberation for younger people and the working poor and a deep understanding of the effect of fascisms on the body. OR119 is based on quotations by Reich set to song and also in imaginary conversations between Reich and a number of contemporary feminist thinkers. With a group of women friends in improvisation, we playfully examine the unsettled legacy of Reich and his surprisingly relevant dynamic with feminist thought. Reich proposed Orgone, a universal life energy (akin to Chi) based on sex and positive expression that Reich claims to have discovered, and here we grant him the honor of the next number on the periodic chart (OR119) for his discovery. The musical resonance and vibrations of the voices in song make manifest the invisible positive energy that Reich believed was universal. This is by no means a bio-pic! but it is a celebration of life's potential for immersion in nature, the cosmos and interactive energy.

PEGGY AHWESH has worked since the 70's in wide range of technologies and styles in an inquiry into feminism, cultural identity and genre.  Featured in the Whitney Biennial (1991, 1995, 2002). Solo exhibitions include: Spike Island (2021); Kunsthall Stavanger (2022); Cleave (2019) Microscope Gallery, New York. Film retrospectives: Anthology Film Archives/NYC, Guggenheim Bilbao/Spain, New Media Fest Seoul/Korea, BFI/London and others. Ahwesh is Emeritus Professor from Bard College and al-Quds Bard College, West Bank, Palestine, where she taught media production and history. Collaborator JACQUELINE GOSS makes movies and web-based works that explore how political, cultural, and scientific systems change our sense of self through animation and live action in documentary and essay forms. Her work has shown at Eyebeam Atelier, The Wexner Center for the Arts and festivals in New York, London, Rotterdam. Goss has received awards from the Tribeca Film Institute, Creative Capital Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Herb Alpert Foundation, the United States Artist Award and the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm. Her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank in Chicago. She teaches Media at Bard College

The video shows two policemen wearing Spanish anti-riot uniforms, dancing a tango version of the famous Eurhythmics 80´s song in the luxurious and extremely decorated ballroom space of the XIX century palace Museum Cerralbo in Madrid. The fantastic lyric of the song “ Sweet dreams are made of this ” is the central motor of the piece. The tango version cove song has been arranged by the bandoneon player Fernando Girdini and recorded exclusively for the video. In its origins, tango was mainly a dance between two men. Tango was the result of the cultural mix of locals with African, Italian and Hispanic immigrants. It was originally forbidden by the church and rejected by high society, which resulted in its development in poor suburbs and working-class slums. The video reflects about the last years crisis, 15M movement, the violent riots, Cataluña independency, brutality of Spanish police and military forces and the recent antidemocratic Spanish law ” Ley Mordaza ” (the Gag Rule), becoming illegal and punished to take photos or videos of police forces or use of the police uniforms without the Government’s permission. Desire, power, decadence and frustration: they shoot horses, don´t they?

Carlos Aires was born in Ronda, Spain in 1974. He obtained a bachelor in Fine Arts at the University of Granada in Spain. Upon graduating in 1997, he moved to the Netherlands and completed his postgraduate studies at Fontys Academy (Tilburg, Netherlands), HISK (Antwerp, Belgium) and Ohio State University (Ohio, USA). He was honored with prestigious grants and awards, including: OMI Residency (USA), Edith Fergus Gilmore Award (USA), Generation2008 Caja Madrid (Spain), Young Belgian Art Prize (Belgium), 1st Award Young Andalusian Artists (Spain), Fulbright (USA) and De Pont Atelier (the Netherlands). He has participated in numerous exhibitions in national and international institutions, such as: CAC (Malaga, Spain), MACBA (Barcelona, Spain), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), Imperial Belvedere Palace (Vienna, Austria), MUSAC (Leon, Spain), BB6 Bucharest International Biennale (Bucharest, Romania), B.P.S. 22 (Charleroi, Belgium), 5th Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki , Greece), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City, Mexico), Canada Contemporary Art Museum (Montreal, Canada). His work can be found within significant public collections: ARTIUM (Spain), MACBA (Spain), Fondation Francès (France), ARTER (Turkey), CAC (Spain), Maison Particulière (Belgium), Ministry of Culture of Spain, Progress Art (Saudi Arabia), National Belgium Bank (Belgium), 21c Museum (USA), MAK (Austria) among others.

A pilgrimage taken by a group of readers to the ancestral house of a writer (a house that haunts all of his stories ) nested in the heart of a city , turns into an exploration of the city , into an exercise in mapmaking…into a hallucinatory encounter with the real. Told through the eyes of a stranger, a newcomer, walking through a modern bustling city, blanketed by a dream made of ancient lore's ,stories and signs, the film tries to explore the alchemical process behind the art of storytelling, that transmutes the 'real' that inspired it . And the impossible mirages a body of work can create in an obsessive readers mind which compels him to chase it ...

Born and brought up in Quilon India , Shahi A.J is An Alumni of Film and Television Institute of India , where he specialized in script writing and direction. His students work has been shown at various film festivals including Clapstick Kolkata, Signs Kerala, Hong Kong Film Festival etc. He teaches filmmaking St Joseph College . He is a recipient of the Practice Grant form Indian Foundation of Arts(IFA). His work has been shown in Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2022 and the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (IDSSFK). His debut feature premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam 2023 .

Le 7 avril 2020, 8 mois se sont écoulés depuis qu'Emine Bulut a été assassinée par son ancien mari. Une lettre lui est adressée, ainsi qu'à toutes les victimes de fémicide dans le monde; une lettre qui questionne la féminité, le fait d'être une femme en Turquie...

Özge Akarsu est née et a grandi en Turquie. Elle vit actuellement en Belgique où elle étudie le cinéma d'animation à la KASK - Académie royale des Beaux-Arts, Gand. Avant de commencer ses études en animation, elle a obtenu un master en droit relatif aux droits humains, spécialisé en philosophie politique, à Istanbul (Turquie). Après trois ans de recherche doctorale sur Spinoza et la modernité, à l'Université d'Anvers (Belgique), elle s'est intéressée à l'animation et à la réalisation, qui l'aident à exprimer pensées, sentiments, idées et instincts qui ne peuvent être expliqués uniquement par les mots.

Impressions d?Est après la chute du mur. « Tous ces pays, en pleine mutation, qui ont vécu une histoire commune depuis la guerre, encore très marqués par cette histoire jusque dans les replis même de la terre et dont maintenant les chemins divergent. » (Chantal Akerman) D?Est est un film quasiment sans parole, le contraire des Histoires d?Amérique (où la parole est prépondérante) et en même temps son prolongement. « D?Est est profondément fictionnel, parce que cela permet au spectateur de se raconter des histoires. Le cadre aussi y est pour beaucoup, il n?est jamais documentaire. Je ne dis pas, je vais tout vous dire sur la Russie. D?Est n?est pas qu?un film sur l?Europe de l?Est. Ces images, je les avais déjà en moi. Cela a à voir avec les camps, les évacuations, les images d?avant moi. » (Chantal Akerman)

Chantal Akerman est issue d'une famille émigrée d'Europe centrale dans les années 30. Elle est née à Bruxelles en 1950. Elle étudie le cinéma à l'Insas (Institut supérieur des Arts, du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion), à Bruxelles. Après un premier court métrage, elle émigre à New York, où elle se passionne pour le cinéma expérimental de l'Américain Jonas Mekas et du Canadien Michael Snow, dont l'influence est perceptible dans les premières réalisations de la cinéaste. Sur place, elle réalise un court métrage et s'essaie au format long (Hotel Monterey, consacré à un hôtel pour nécessiteux de New York). Revenue en France, elle alterne, depuis 1968, documentaires (Un jour Pina a demande Pina Bausch, D'Est, Sud sur le lynchage d'un jeune Noir américain, De l'autre côté), et films de fiction (Toute une nuit, Nuit et Jour, etc.).

Captain Gervasio`s Family is a 16mm black and white silent portrait of a Spiritist community in Palmelo, a small town in the interior of Brazil. It?s a town of 2000 inhabitants, half of whom are psychic mediums. The film refers to a map drawn by a Spiritist woman in Palmelo, charting twenty astral cities hovering above the whole of the Brazilian territory. Cities ?like those on earth, but infinitely more perfect?. The Spiritists in Palmelo practice what is known as `the magnetic chain?, a legacy from the German physician Franz Mesmer, the founder of Spiritism Allan Kardec, and the French botanist François Deleuze. The film is a collaboration between the artists Tamar Guimaraes (BR) and Kasper Akhøj (DK).

Kasper Akhøj was born in Copenhagen, Denmark where he lives and works. He studied at the Czech National Film School (FAMU), Städelschule - Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. He is also a former participant of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. He is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects in Amsterdam and has exhibited widely at major museums and biennials, both solo and in collaboration with Brazilian artist Tamar Guimaraes, most recently at last years 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace. Tamar Guimarães was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She holds a BFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden. She is also a former participant of the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. She is represented by Galeria Fortes Vilaça in Sao Paolo, and has exhibited widely at major museums and biennials, both solo and in collaboration with Danish artist Kasper Akhøj, most recently at last years 55th Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace.

In the video, the artists combine pseudoscience with repetition to investigate the connection between technology and truth. An E-meter device was exploited as a crude polygraph machine. Its pseudoscientific function is to "detect lies" in order to monitor a statement`s progression from lie to truth. Statements were read to and repeated by the participants. Through continuous repetition, the subjects built a relationship with the spoken words, which over time, matured into experiences and finally beliefs. All of the combined elements resulted in mettre en abîme the transformation of a political affirmation into a belief.

Edward Akrout is a Franco-British artist that works between London, New York and Paris. His practice, which largely includes painting, drawing and sculpting, is best described as abstract expressionism. Personal website: EdwardAkrout.com Representation: Lahd Gallery Jakob Boeskov is a Danish-Icelandic artist and filmmaker that works between New York and Copenhagen. Having graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, his pieces have been shown in museums such as New Museum, Science Politiques, Moscow State Academy Art Institute and the Stedelijk Museum. Personal website: JakobBoeskov.com Representation: The Scandinavian Institute

They go to a day trip to an island next to Istanbul. They find themselves captivated by the never ending cityscape and sink into a contemplation on urban decay. Living in a concrete jungle is their future.

Born in Istanbul in 1987, Eren Aksu is a Berlin based filmmaker. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film& Television and currently studies Arts& Media at Berlin University of the Arts. His short films include Aydınlık (2013), Cosmorama (2015), İki Yer (2017).

Se joignant à une récente vague d'immigration de la Turquie vers l'Allemagne, Asli est nouvelle à Berlin. Elle passe une audition pour devenir la voix de l'audioguide d'un musée archéologique, ce qui la confronte à des objets provenant de son pays d'origine, dont un autel monumental à Zeus. Les rencontres qu'elle fera pendant le reste de la journée révèleront l'absurdité du sentiment de déracinement.

Eren Aksu est réalisateur et monteur. Né à Istanbul (Turquie), il vit à Berlin (Allemagne). Il est titulaire d'une Licence en cinéma et télévision à la Istanbul Bilgi University (Turquie), ainsi que d'une Licence et d’un Master en arts et médias à la Universität der Künste Berlin (Allemagne). Il a participé à Talents Sarajevo (Bosnie-Herzégovine) en tant que réalisateur, et ses films ont été projetés dans de nombreux festivals internationaux, notamment aux Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Allemagne); au Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnie-Herzégovine); au Filmfest Dresden, Dresde (Allemagne); et au Akbank Short Film Festival, Istanbul (Turquie). Son dernier film, "Other Than That, I'm Fine", a remporté le 3sat promotional award aux 66e Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (Allemagne).

"Close your eyes and imagine: ARBEIT" is an experimental video project in which we searched for positions, perspectives, contradictions, wishes, utopias and imaginations around the term "work" together with young people from the Marienfelde transitional home in Berlin. We were inspired by the film "Workers Leave the Factory" by Harun Farocki and remixed it with our own voices, perspectives and images.

We are a group of friends with different interests and work focuses that came together in 2019 around Christian Limber, Miriam TrostorfChristian Diaz Orejarena und Lara Dade. Since then, we have been connecting with more and more friends and colleagues - also in an international context. We work and think together on a mediation practice that transcends disciplines and is located at the intersections of visual art, social work, film, art education, activism and curating. Partly we realize projects together, in smaller groups or alone - but always in exchange and dialogue with each other.

'Coco's Bed' is a short film created for viewing on the iPad mini, commissioned for the X-apartment installation series by producer Matthias Lilienthal. X-apartment audience members follow Hassan, the protagonist of the film, to his own apartment where they find him in the flesh as well. 'Coco's Bed' was available on view for three days in July 2013 in the Bourj Hammoud district of Beirut. The neighborhood began as an informal refugee camp for Armenians fleeing the genocide in Turkey. It now additionally houses a large and diverse population of immigrants and asylum seekers from countries including Syria, Ethiopia, and the Philippines.

Stefan Tarnowski is a PhD Candidate at Columbia University’s Anthropology Department, Institute of Comparative Literature and Society and Institute for Comparative Media. His research focuses on Syria since the 2011 revolution, and in particular on the relations between technology, political economy and social imaginaries. He has a degree in Middle East Studies from Oxford University. His ethnographic fieldwork with Syrian media activists and civil society organisations was also funded by a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation 2018-19, and his most recent publication is a translation of and introduction to Dork Zabunyan's The Insistence of Struggle (IF Publications, 2019). Liane Al Ghusain (b. 1987, Kuwait) is an artist based in Abu Dhabi. Currently enrolled in the MFA program in Art & Media at NYUAD; she works primarily as a performance artist exploring various literary and craft forms. Born in Kuwait to a Palestinian family, Liane has focused on theater and writing throughout her life, having received a BA and MA in English with a focus on creative writing from Stanford University, with interdisciplinary honors in feminist studies. She has worked as an arts administrator, copywriter, language instructor, and yoga teacher.

Growing up in Kuwait close to an oil refinery by the sea, the artist would create stories for the distant petroleum operation while passing by on a traffic bridge. As she envisioned an expansive panorama of lights, fire, smoke, and towers, Al Qadiri imagined it was a city-metropolis—"filled with beings and phantoms from another world.” This dream-like film hearkens back to these childhood memories, fusing eerie, slow views of a reconstructed miniature refinery with lines from poems about city lights and industrial landscapes. Crude Eye blurs reality with speculative memory, and we are unable to tell if the scene is a real place or a fantasy. The artist says: “The work attempts to reconcile a sense of childlike wonder with the toxic environmental destruction that the refinery inherently represents.”

Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983) is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. Spanning sculpture, installation, film and performance, Al Qadiri's multifaceted practice is mainly based on research into the cultural histories of the Gulf region. Her interpretation of the Gulf's so-called "petro-culture" is manifested through speculative scenarios that take inspiration from science fiction, autobiography, traditional practices and pop culture, resulting in uncanny and covertly subversive works. She is currently based in Berlin.

After the first Gulf War in 1991, countless oil fields in Kuwait were set ablaze during the retreat of invading forces. Those months following the war were nothing short of the classic image of a biblical apocalypse: the earth belching fire and the black scorched sky felt like a portrait of hell as it should be, an almost romanticized vision of the end of the world. Werner Herzog, lured by the surrealism of this present-day hell, shot his docu-fiction film “Lessons of Darkness” there which placed images of the oil fires alongside Christian biblical texts and a Wagner soundtrack. Inspired by his endeavor, this video re-explores the cataclysmic event and attempts to expand its meaning, especially as the idea of imminent doom is even more omnipresent today. Amateur VHS video footage of the oil fires is juxtaposed with audio monologues from Islamic television programs of the same period. At the time, the tools used to represent religion were geared towards visualizing god through nature. Trees, waterfalls, mountains, and animals were the visual staple of religious media, and the narration was not that of the Koran, but of Arabic poetry recited by a skilled orator with a deep voice.

Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti visual artist and film maker born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts, where her research was focused on the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle-East region stemming from poetry, music, art and religious practices. Her work explores the relationship between narcissism and masculinity, as well as other dysfunctional gender roles. She is currently expanding her practice towards social and political subjects. Al Qadiri has taken part in exhibitions and film screenings in Tokyo, Kuwait, Beirut, Dubai, Berlin, New York and Moscow among others. She is also part of the artist collective GCC, who has recently held a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in 2014.

“ The Craft ”is a film that revolves around childish fictions laced with serious suspicions towards the real world. Using the lens of family history, the film dissects the artist’s own past to reexamine an uncanny relationship taking place in the shadows of her major life events: “ Were my parents conspiring with aliens behind my back ” Reality gradually disintegrates like quicksand around this central question, as paranoia and speculation begin to take hold. Futuristic architecture, popular culture, dream readings, junk food, alien abductions, geopolitics, international diplomacy, war and peace; all of these once solid staples of modern life now become tinted with a general sense of distrust, overshadowing everything. Like a ticking time bomb at the center of the nuclear family unit, the suspicion reaches a crescendo when the protagonist suddenly discovers that the American century has finally ended.

Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts, where her research was focused on the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle-East stemming from poetry, music, art and religious practices. Her work explores unconventional gender identities, petro-cultures and their possible futures, as well as the legacies of corruption. She is also part of the artist collective GCC, who held a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York (2014). Monira was recently based in Amsterdam, and underwent a two year artist residency at the Rijksakademie until the end of 2017.

Blind Oedipus, in older age, left Thebes as an exile accompanied by Antigone, who was both his daughter and sister. They sought refuge in Colonus of Athens. What if the tragic hero of Sophocles’ play 'Oedipus at Colonus' was a Romani nomad residing in today’s post-industrial outskirts of western Athens? OTWTC is a ‘docufictional’ VR film cast with Romani amateurs who live at the ghettoised toxic wastelands of Thriasian Plain, where Sophocles’ wandering hero is meant to have passed from. Consisted of a spatial sound design (ambisonics), the film's audio incorporates location sounds recorded inside the dwellings that merge “high” and “low” culture, often carrying with them the “eerie echoes” of dubbed TV series, speaking themselves about “Oedipal conflicts”, ‘absent fathers’, ‘incest’, murder and death.

Loukia Alavanou is a moving image artist and filmmaker. She is representing Greece at the 59th Venice Art Biennale with the exhibition “Oedipus in Search of Colonus. Alavanou holds an MA in Photography from the RCA in London. She was the winner of the 5th Deste Prize. In recent years, after receiving international acclaim, she started to be involved with the production of VR films and founded the first VR production company in Greece. She held a retrospective exhibition at State of Concept, Athens in 2018. For the years 2021 and 2022 Alavanou is a fellow artist at ONX Studio, organised by Onassis USA and the New Museum in NY. Alavanou’s work has been presented by institutions and festivals including KANAL Centre Pompidou, Accelerator, Stockholm, Gucci Garden, Kino Der Kunst, Palais de BOZAR, Palais de Tokyo, Athens Biennale, Moscow Biennale, Fiorucci Art Trust, The Museum of Cycladic Art, Benaki Museum. Her films are part of numerous collections including the Onassis Collection, the Dakis Joannou Collection, The Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe/ ZKM, PCAI/ Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative.

C`est l`été. Un pilote et un copilote errent sur des routes perdues en quête d`absolu.

Jean-Baptiste Alazard nait en 1985 en Aveyron. En 2006 il intègre La fémis en montage, où il réalise Ma bande magnétique arrière, Mittelwerk Express et Moussem les morts. Tout en continuant son travail de monteur, il crée en 2011, en collaboration avec la photographe Lise Lacombe, le collectif La France Entière, avec qui il part à la recherche de ceux qui pourraient être les figures de la nouvelle ère : ses dissidents, techniciens, empereurs, prêtresses et prophètes. La Buissonnière est le premier film issu de ce projet. Il en prépare un second qui sera tourné en 2014 : L’Empire.

Another Gate Before The Law (HDVideo, B&W, 17m13, Michiel Alberts, 2017) Michiel Alberts is currently working on a series of K. Films. The films relate to different short texts by F. Kafka. Michiel Alberts performs and films his actions in order to transform the stories into a visual image bringing it to current and existential scenery. The film Another Gate Before The Law refers to the text Before the Law, by F. Kafka. The film is a dark poetic image dealing with the present state of our time and to current human conditions.

(Born The Netherlands, 1972. Lives and Works in Antwerp, Belgium.) Michiel Alberts is a Visual artist working with the media Performance, Film and Photography. In his film works he focuses upon his performative presence, movements with duration or repetitive actions. Through the usage of single angel point, the audience is invited to experience a frozen state and relate to existential questions and human conditions. His films can be described as a still picture moving, a state of presence unresolved. “ My physical presence functions as a performative tool to question human conditions, cosmic order, time and landscapes. Through forms of abstraction I bring my content from a specific happening, or a specific social context to a larger existential scenery." Michiel Alberts has studied Visual Art at the H.I.S.K. institute in Antwerp and Gent (2008). He also completed a Master of Arts at Dasarts in Amsterdam (2005) and completed the Acting School of Maastricht (1997)