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One still life of the 20th Century. Poverty, mental health, media and magic. The fragility and drama of the everyday and domesticity.

Greta Alfaro (Spain, 1977) is a visual artist. Her solo exhibitions include Decimocuarta estación (2019) at the Fundación BBVA, Madrid; In Ictu Oculi (2019) at the Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; El cataclismo nos alcanzará impávidos (2015) and European DarkRoom (2014) at Galería Rosa Santos, Valencia; Still Life with Books (2014) at Artium, Vitoria; In Praise of the Beast (2013) at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; and Invención (2012) at Ex Teresa, Mexico City. Among her other solo site-specific projects are I Will Not Hesitate to React Spiritually (2019), with Roaming Room, and A Very Crafty and Tricky Contrivance (2012), with Genesis Foundation, both in London, and Comedias a honor y gloria (2016) in La Gallera, Valencia. She has taken part in numerous group shows and festivals in venues like the Whitechapel Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Saatchi Gallery in London; Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Brasilia; The Bass Museum of Art in Miami; the Conciergerie in Paris; Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin; La Casa Encendida in Madrid or the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Intime, de Pierre Alféri est un travail à la fois littéraire et vidéopoétique, où l`espace du voyage est celui de la langue. C`est une traversée en images, traversée de lieux et de paysages, et en mots, lettres adrésées à des anonymes, qui dépouillés de leur "moi" sont dépeints comme des caractères. L`intime n`est donc pas celui du "moi" de l`être mais naît du déséquilibre crée par les mots, qui tissent alors des liens rendus nécessaires entre les personnages.

Pierre Alféri est né à Paris en 1963. Il a fondé la revue `Détail` avec Suzanne Doppelt et est également co-fondateur de `La revue littéraire générale` avec Olivier Cadiot. Il est pensionnaire de l`Académie de France à Rome entre 1987 et 1988 et `écrivain résident` de la Fondation Royaumont entre 1991 et 1992. Pierre Alféri possède de nombreuses casquettes : il est à la fois romancier, traducteur d`ouvrages américains et russes, essayiste et poète.

Pierre Alféri est né à Paris en 1963. Il a fondé la revue `Détail` avec Suzanne Doppelt et est également co-fondateur de `La revue littéraire générale` avec Olivier Cadiot. Il est pensionnaire de l`Académie de France à Rome entre 1987 et 1988 et `écrivain résident` de la Fondation Royaumont entre 1991 et 1992. Pierre Alféri possède de nombreuses casquettes : il est à la fois romancier, traducteur d`ouvrages américains et russes, essayiste et poète.

"Coming Soon" reprend 218 intertitres tirés bandes-annonces, des années 30 à 2019. Ces intertitres sont juxtaposés et montés chronologiquement, afin de ne conserver que le texte "coming soon". En 10 minutes environ, une attente est créée par la répétition de cette expression cinématographique, dans laquelle on ne sait pas exactement ce qu’on attend - s'agit-il de quelque chose d'extérieur à la vidéo ou d'un événement en soi? Quelque chose est toujours en train d'arriver; cela n'arrive jamais et/ou c’est déjà arrivé.

Selene Alge (née en 1986, à São Paulo, Brésil) est artiste visuelle. Elle est diplômée de la FAAP - Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo (Brésil). De 2016 à 2017, elle a été artiste en résidence à la Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France), où elle est retournée en 2019 pour poursuivre ses recherches sur les souvenirs liés aux salles de cinéma. Ces dernières années, elle a participé à des expositions et des festivals de cinéma, notamment à la Mostra do Filme Livre, qui s’est tenue au CCBB - Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, à São Paulo, à Rio de Janeiro et dans le District Fédéral (Brésil); ainsi qu’à la Mostra Strangloscope, à Florianópolis (Brésil).

1960 born in Barcelona (Spain) 1981 graduates in History of Art and Philosophy at the University of Barcelona since 1982 freelance writer studies photography, video and film at the School of Visual Arts, New York since 1990 works with video, foto and other media founding member of ?La 12 Visual?, an independent videoartist group created several compilations of video (Wahab, Istishara and others) develops the Babylon Archives lives in Barcelona and Marocco

Los Sures, au premier niveau, est un detournement autour de South Street, Brooklyn New York, avec son front de mer, ses terrains vagues, ses gens; un quartier dur et pauvre d'une megalopole. Mais au final, ce film est un voyage interieur dans un paysage de symboles et de metaphores sortis de la vie de tous les jours, un voyage à travers

Toni Serra * Abu Ali Barcelona 1960. Lives in between Duar Msuar (Morocco) and Barcelona (Spain). videos, mass-media archaeology, video-installation, interactives,.. Most of my works are positioned on a tense line between the inner experience...and the social field dominated by a growing dispositives of control, manipulation of identities and communities. This exploration meets issues as: erasing and constructing identities through the media (The TV Code Series), constructing realities through video games and ?expanded reality? (Babylon Archives ? The War Room),...the ?ritual climax? and the interzone space of the dreams as a doors to ?other realities? as well as realities of the ?other?. I am also a founder member of OVNI Archives - Observatorio de Video No Identificado (www.desorg.org), where I am doing research and programming: - Exodus, The Margins of the Empire - Colonial Dream and Autononous Zones, - Resistances, - Post Sept 11th, - Communities, - Media vs Identity, Other programms curated: - TransArab - City Unrest - (...)

«It’s going to be quite soundless, the roar of our aircraft is drowning everything else. We are running straight into the most gigantic display of soundless fireworks in the world, and here we go to drop our bombs»

Kamal Aljafari is a Palestinian filmmaker. He attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and now lives in Berlin, Germany. He has taught filmmaking at The New School in New York and the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie, Berlin. He was also a Film Study Center Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. In 2021 Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival in Brazil devoted its Focus Section to his work. Most recent work, Paradiso, XXXI, 108, premiered at Corti d'Autore, in Locarno Film Festival 2022. He is currently completing “A Fidai Film”, and preparing a fiction film to be shot in Jaffa.

Filmed in a neglected expat housing complex in Hawalli, this out of context mirage disorients the familiarity or nostalgia of the space. The multicultural neighborhood vibrates with a multicultural working force who have consciously migrated from their diverse backgrounds to participate in the daily routine designated by a profiting developer. The tiling of the colonnade, as is the tiling of the dress, is reflective of the blurring of these expat cultures to camouflage within the existing- the existing which is not only foreign to them but foreign to the space - creating the out of context "Where am I?" phenomenon. These diverse cultures try to adapt to a "?" culture imposed by another country whilst struggling to identify between pre-imposed ethnic stereotypes and their traditional heritage. The freedom of the body is limited to the disproportion of the imposed cage, irritated within the larger cage of the structure.

Dana Aljouder is a designer, writer, and performance artist who graduated with a Bachelors Architecture from Pratt Institute in 2009. She received the Twinings Scholarship to research allegories of the Medici in Renaissance Art in Florence, and is currently an academic researcher for the Kuwait Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2014. She has also presented her furniture "The Chair" at Higgins Hall Gallery in Brooklyn in 2009 and "Kursi" at the Design Terminal in Budapest in 2013. She has worked with OOS on the winebox installations of the Albert Reichmuth showroom in Zurich. Aljouder has also collaborated with sound artist Bassem Mansour at the Beirut Art Center show "Exposures" and Altofest Performance Festival in Naples in 2012 and 2013.

Nous communiquons de plus en plus à travers notre propre façon de penser, sans essayer de comprendre la mentalité, le passé, les opinions politiques de 'l'autre'. "Untitled" : il est debout derrière la fenêtre, mettant en oeuvre tous ses sens. Le dialogue entre en scène.

Bassam Alkhouria a éudié à l'académie des beaux-arts de Damas en Syrie, où il a obtenu une licence de commnunication visuelle en 1993. Il a ensuite participé au programme de recherche et de pratique artistique au Dutch Art Institute à Enschede, Pays-Bas, de 2003 à 2005. Ses oeuvres ont été présentées aux occasions suivantes : mai 200- - "Here as the center of the world", Dutch Art Institute, NIASD, Damas, Syrie; mai/juin 2006 - 6ème édition des Journées de la photographie de Damas, Centre culturel français de Damas, Syrie; mars 2006 - Festival International d'Art Vidéo de Casablanca, Maroc; mai 2005 - Open Daizzz, Dutch Art Institute, Enschede, Pays-Bas; A Consumption of Justice, Centre d'art de la galerie d'art de la ville Diyarbakir, Turquie; avril 2005 - Centre d'art de Dyarbakir, Turquie; novembre 2004 - Crossing The Border Opstandingskerk, Enschede, Pays-Bas; avril 2004 - The Big Communication, Nanjing Art Academy, Chine; mars 2003 - Howden Festival, East Yorkshire, Angleterre; avril 2003 - Assyrian New Year Convention City Hall, Hengelo, Pays-Bas; mars 2002 - AL-Tajalliat ('Les visions'), Holy cross halls, Damas, Syrie; sept. 2000 - Darat Al Funun, la Maison der arts, Amman, Jordanie; mai 2000 - Semaine de la passion, Eglise arménienne, Damas, Syrie; mai 1997 - Semaine de la passion, The Round Theatre, Damas, Syrie; janvier 1994 - Many and Almanawia, Goethe-Institut, Damas, Syrie. Depuis son arrivée aux Pays-Bas en 2004, il s'intéresse au travail de la vidéo, dérivé de ses expériences quotidiennes.

« Newsreel » peut être considéré comme une tentative de décrire et déconstruire l'esthétique des journaux télévisés en prenant comme point de départ un journal du Channel 4 suédois. Les informations quotidiennes jouent un grand rôle dans notre vie de tous les jours. Nous devenons de plus en plus dépendants et habitués à la qualité informative des nouveaux médias. Ils nous font prendre conscience du monde qui nous entoure et du débat mondial. En même temps, on pourrait soutenir que le journal télévisé repose souvent sur une structure narrative que l?on retrouve dans l'histoire du cinéma. « Newsreel » tente d?examiner si, et comment, le présentateur, le décor du studio, et la structure des informations se réfèrent à des règles narratologiques, et ce qui se passe si on les enfreint. S?il est vrai que l'objectif du journal est de nous informer de manière intelligible sur des questions et des événements importants et urgents, l?auteur voudrait repartir de ce qui rend les choses compréhensibles ainsi que poser la question plus large : qu?est-ce que l'intelligibilité ? En séparant les informations des procédés qui en communiquent le contenu, l?auteur veut créer la possibilité de prendre de la distance et de regarder le journal télévisé d?un ?il différent.

Emanuel almborg www.sakerna.se/emanuel Born in Stockholm, Sweden 1981, lives and works in London and Stockholm. Education: 2005 ? 2007 MFA, Fine art Goldsmiths College, London
 2001 - 2004 BA, Fine art Konstfack, Stockholm 
Selected Group Exhibitions and Solo Shows: 2008 MI2 B.I.G ProjectSpace, K44, Athens 2008 Loop international festival and fair for video art, Barcelona 2008 Videotheque Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2008 Auction in a suitcase, 1:1 projects, Rome 2007 One must be so careful these days. Alma Enterprises, London 2007 MFA Degree show, Goldsmiths College, London 2007 Michael Poppyfield projects, Cal Arts, Los Angeles 2006 Goldsmiths MFA survey, Gallery white Box, New York 2006 Rag and Bone, Three Colts Gallery, London 2006 The Union, Collaborative project at Gallery Meals & SUVs, London 2005 Sakerna, magazine/installation, Stockholm ArtFair, Stockholm 2004 Been Here Too Long, Video, Gallery SAK, Stockholm 2004 The Second City, Video, Group show at Kulturhuset (Culture House) Stockholm 2003 Första Saken, Collaborative project at Gallery Konstfack, Stockholm 2002 Hyères Festival des arts de la Mode, France Other Projects: 2007 Artist Clothing at Tensta konsthall, photographer for project. Catalogue and poster. 2005 Beckmans Initiator/Tutor for workshop at Beckmans college Stockholm. 2004 Andra Saken Magazine (Distributed around the world) 2003 Första Saken Magazine (Distributed around the world) 2004 www.sakerna.se Website 2003-2006 Founder, Editor, Photographer, filmmaker, Sakerna Magazine and Project (www.sakerna.se)   Selected Bibliography:   2006 Sede, (Magazine) 2006 Influences, Die Gestalten Verlag (collection of art/desig book) 2005 Übersee, Die Gestalten Verlag (collection of art/design Book) 2002 Super, Die Gestalten Verlag (collection of art/design Book) 2001 Desire, Steidl (collection of photography Book) 
 



The Majority Never Has Right on its Side is a film project about the Summerhill School in England, established in 1921 and still open. The school is known for its anti-authoritarian pedagogy built on the egalitarian principles of A.S. Neill, a socialist schoolmaster from Scotland often described as a “cynical utopian”. The film looks at the school today in relation to its “image” by using the school’s own film and video archive.

Emanuel Almborg’s work is often research-based and includes film, photography, installation and lectures and deals with themes around community and communication, utopian imagination, history and education. His work has recently been shown at Moderna Museet, Malmö and Elizabeth Foundation, New York. He finished the Whitney Independent Study program in New York, 2015 and is currently a PhD candidate at The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden.

The characteristics of our subconsciousness has its own model of reality. Human-being is trying to distinguish where simulation starts and ends. But the self-reflection of consciousness is full of absurdity itself... What is REAL? And what is REALLY happening?

2015 - present BA in Photography and Media art, Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania) 2017.10 - 2018.02 Photography and Time-based arts, Bucharest national university of Arts (Romania) 2009 - 2013 BA in Creative industries, Vilnius Gediminas technical university (Lithuania) 2012 Spring semester - Multimedia, Tomas Bata university (Czech Republic)

The Hippocratic oath is known as a golden ideal standard of ethics for professionals working in the field of medical science. The Hippocratic oath and its modern version is relevant as a division between the power of killing and medical treatment. An extract of oath is chosen emphasize a moral pledge, which starts with negative form promise – I will not. Repetitive militaristic movements and hunting simulation is used as an imperative of security forces, defense, discipline and power relations in biotechnology context.

Bon Alog (LT) is a media artist. She graduated BA in Photography and Media arts at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and BA in creative industries at Vilnius Gediminas technical university. Bon works with video, film, installations and photography.

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Cities do not repeat themselves; they transmute. The city of Havana is portrayed in Terranova as a phantasmagorical, magical, and sensory space. An urban landscape created through reflections, glimpses of other cities, and visions of the future.

Director and photographer. Graduated in the Documentary Filmmaking at the lnternational School of Cinema and TV (ElCTV) in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His documentary "The Farewell" (2015) had its international premiere at lDFA; it was awarded for Best Film in the Aciertos category of FlCUNAM and obtained the Full Frame President Award. "Duel" (2016) premiered at Cinema du Réel; it won the award for Best Short Film at the 32nd Mar del Plata Film Festival and Best Short Film at the 58th Popoli Festival. His feature film "The Project" (2017) had its world premiere at Visions du Réel, it won the FlPRESCl Award at the 60 Dok Leipzig. "Terranova" (2020), a medium-length film co-directed with Alejandro Pérez, won the Ammodo Tiger for Best Short Film at the Rotterdam Festival. His latest film, "Abissal" (2021), had its premiere at Visions du Réel, won the Audience Award at Documenta Madrid, 2021 and won the Golden Dove Dok Leipzig, 2021. Between 2017 and 2019, coordinated the Alternative Film Master's program organized by the EICTV. His feature-length documentary project "The Star" was selected for the Residency at the Academy of Cinema in Madrid during 2021.

Bitter with a Shy Taste of Sweetness contrasts the fragmented past of the filmmaker growing up in Baghdad with his surreal California present. Through poetic writing and jarring visuals, the film creates a calm and cruel sense of memory and landscape.

Saif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in many festivals including Cinema du Reel, Kruzfilm Festival Hamburg, Kasseler Dokfest, Onion City Film Festival and in galleries and museums including the Wisconsin Triennial at MMoCA. He received his MFA in filmmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Long still frames, text, language, and sound are weaved together to unfold the narrative of an anonymous group who fill their time by measuring distance. Innocent measurements transition into political ones, drawing to an examination of how image and sound communicate history, tragedy, and the complication of Palestinian nationalism. The work explores an ultimate disenchantment with facts when the visual fails to communicate the tragic.

Born 27 august 1983 in Kuwait. Spent early childhood in Brittany France. Educated in the US, earning BFA & MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Art & Design and was a guest student at the Malmö Art Academy, Lund University Sweden in 2004. Taught as an adjunct instructor at The University of Illinois at Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the American University in Cairo. Currently based in Beirut Lebanon as a recipient of the Fundación Marcelino Botín Visual Arts Grant 2009-2010 developing a series of new projects in photography, film, and text.

Through rituals of birth and death, the filmmaker and her family reconnect with their ancestral land in the Gobi Desert.

Udval Altangerel is a Mongolian filmmaker based between Ulaanbaatar and Los Angeles. In her work she explores the themes of personal and national histories, language, and (home)land. Her work has screened at Locarno Film Festival, Images Festival, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, and Tacoma Film Festival, where she received Honorable Mention for Best Documentary Short Film. She was selected to participate in Locarno Open Doors and the Flaherty Film Seminar. Udval received her MFA in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts.

1000 smiles per hour suive Esth, un saltimbanque androgyne, pendant un jour et une nuit a travers une ville côtier abandonée.

Fabian Altenried (*1987) is a director, writer and producer. He studied visual art at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and philosophy in Berlin. Since 2013 he is part of the Berlin based independent production company Schuldenberg Films. His conceptual approach stems from his engagement with post-structuralism, identity and gender theories, performativity, theories of animality, and post-ideological leftism. Fabian has been an artist in residence of Gargonza Arts in 2013, a participant of Feature Expanded 2016 and Berlinale Talents 2017. His works have been supported by the FFA, werkleitz e.V., the Arts Foundation of North Rhine Westphalia, the Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Mondriaan Fonds et al. and have been shown at the Berlinale, the Sarajevo Film Festival, in Edinburgh, Rotterdam, and many other festivals and shows globally.

Les chardons fleurissent au plus fort de l'hiver, les tympans des vaches éclatent, du lait empoisonné sort de leurs mamelles - dans un village de montagne isolé, le monde s'écroule. Les attaques intangibles de la nature frappent la ferme des Haberer en plein cœur, quand leur fille aînée tombe subitement malade. Au milieu des efforts enflammés pour interpréter ces événements mystérieux, la famille de paysans craint, de plus en plus désespérément, pour sa survie économique et pour sa propre survie.

Fabian Altenried est né en 1987. Réalisateur, producteur et auteur, il a étudié les beaux-arts à Düsseldorf (Allemagne), et la philosophie à Berlin (Allemagne). Il est le directeur général de Schuldenberg Films, Berlin (Allemagne). Il se concentre sur les films traitant de questions politiques, critiques et sociales qui recherchent une forme inhabituelle et artistique. Son travail se concentre sur des films ayant une approche politique, critique et sociale qui requièrent une forme artistique singulière.

Omo Valley, Ethiopia: a region where tribes villages are reduced to human zoos to entertain the honeymooners tourism industry. International corporation have land-grabbed most of the indigenous territory for massive cotton field plantations. The Omo river is been recently closed by the biggest dam of Africa, leaving two hundred thousand tribe people facing food shortages and forced resettlement. With no land where to hunt, no river where to fish , tribes lives depends on the show they are able to perform daily in front of tourists. The fate of the region is written. The one of the tribes depends on their performative skills We went there and after meeting with one tribe we asked them to imagine their future in a cinematic epic way. This was basically the script. We weren’t that surprised when they came up with a futuristic techno pop idea of themselves. We formed a tribal girl band and began filming. We recorded with the tribe the music under the shadow of one of the few trees left standing by the plantation workers. We built a bar together and threw a party, remixing our own notion of partying with their celebratory rituals. It’s been a participative creative process that generated an unique original experience.

Alterazioni Video is a group of four artists founded in Milan in 2004 and now based in New York and Berlin.The members of the group are Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Alberto Caffarelli, Andrea Masu and Giacomo Porfiri. Their work is been exhibited internationally in museum and art institutions like: the Disobedience Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2005, 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale 2007, Manifesta 7 Rovereto 2008, Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture 2009, 21x21, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Turin 2010, Maxxi Museum, Rome 2010, Performa 09 and 11 New York, MoMA PS1 Performance Dome New York 2012, Freak Out, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York 2013, PAC Milan 2014, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum Berlin 2015 and among others. In the last five years the collective has been producing a series of 10 docu-feature films called TurboFilm, TurboFilm is a filmic system or methodology, that relate to the ongoing, generationally marked reconfiguration of experience in daily life and social relations, in labor, the economy, and politics. It aims to raise questions on problematic topics through a transversal multi-format production that can circulate through different media platforms.