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This film involves a journey through a landscape of infrastructures that are common to an everyday reality of routine. Yet here we find these environments are deserted. This allows attention to focus instead on the design and spatial arrangements of the objects, we find the features of these landscapes – which would not usually bear noticing – become centrally present. Infrastructures involves a series of seven tracking shots. A steady flow of objects in various contrived arrangements passes by the eye. The sound design incorporates the subtle noises given off by these ready-to-use sites devoid of users.

Biography Aurèle Ferrier, *1975 in St.Gallen (Switzerland), lives in Zurich. He attained an MA in Fine Arts at Zurich University of the Arts. His video works, actions and interventions explore the limits and connections between nature and civilization. His cinematic works display a calm contemplation and visual precision. Recent shows 2016 Slamdance Film Festival, South Park (US) 2016 Sluice Screens Prize, London (UK) 2015 24th Berkeley Video and Film Festival, Berkeley (US) 2015 Der entfesselte Raum, Gewerbemuseum, Winterthur (CH) 2015 Arquitectura Film Festival, Santiago de Chile (CL) 2015 Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik, (IS) 2015 Currents, Intlernational New Media Fesival, Santa Fe (US) 2015 Arkipel, Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Jakarta (ID) 2015 Great Lakes International Film Festival, Erie (US) 2015 Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens (GR) Studies 2014 MA Fine Arts, Zurich University of the Arts 2004 BA Leading Artist Theatre, Zurich University of the Arts 2003 Experimental Theatre Exchange, Tisch School, NYU Awards 2015 Winner Berkeley Video and Film Festival, Best Foreign Experimental Film, Berkeley (US) 2015 Winner IndieFEST Film Awards, Award of Merit: Experimental Film, La Jolla (US) 2015 Nominated Sluice Screens Prize, Video Art, Southwark London, (UK) 2010 Studio scholarship, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR)

CLAWS is a moving-image essay of gliding takes through rapidly expanding cities, drifting from peripheral terrains into dense cores before opening back to the horizon. In largely unpopulated frames, architecture, materials and sound turn urban expansion into a field of perception—where geometry persists, intention falters, and the land remembers.

Aurèle Ferrier is a Swiss visual artist working with film, exploring built environments and urban peripheries. CLAWS concludes his trilogy on human-made landscapes. His moving-image works have been shown at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima), IDFA (Amsterdam), Rencontres Internationales (Paris/Berlin), Open City Documentary Festival (London), Anthology Film Archives (New York) and Image Forum (Tokyo).

TRANSITIONS is a journey from the civilizing void of the desert to a maximal urban, capitalistic and hedonistic density, which in the case of Las Vegas assumes some bizarre expression. The film is a contemplation without any people or moving machines in it, focussing on the built and designed.

Aurèle Ferrier (*1975 in St.Gallen, CH) lives in Zurich. With his video and cinematic works, actions and interventions he explores the margins of civilization. His works have been presented in more than 30 countries and won, among others, a Grand Jury Award at Slamdance Film Festival.

A donkey loaded with whitewashed stones climbs to the top of a mountain ; on the heights of the hillside, masses of these stones trace in gigantic letters three words, very famous in Morocco as they constitue the last line of the national anthem «Allah Alwatan, Almalik» («God, Country, King»). The violence of this Trinitarian figure, devouring the landscape and overlooking men, is revealed in highlighting the brutal archaism of its «back-world» : the labor of the donkey that brought it into being. This installation questions the perpetuation of an established order that ignores the suffering of those who have no voice, be they animals or men.

Simohammed Fettaka is a multidisciplinary artist, born in 1981. He currently lives and works between Tangier and Paris. Simohammed studied Philosophy and Signal Processing in Morocco and later trained in filmmaking at La Femis, Paris. He founded and continues to direct the yearly Tangiers film festival Cinema Nachia.

The title of this video, La Main vide, comes from the etymology of the word karate, composed of the Japanese words kara (“empty”) and te (“hand”). Shot in a Parisian karate club in the 13th arrondissement, the video follows the training of karatekas. We watch as they learn, perfect their technique and strive to master their gestures, making sure they're right and well placed. The camera captures these different movements, isolated or intersecting with others, forming a kind of choreography.

Lorraine Féline creates films, performances, drawings and paintings. Her work is observational: she observes, with a minimum of intervention, gestures and bodies in movement, captured on the spot. She draws and photographs her surroundings, then paints snapshots of everyday life. She also makes films that are portraits of people at work. Her videos are short-format, independently produced, and shot in small teams to immerse herself in the site, as close as possible to the people being filmed.

Cast Away Souls looks at the political structures behind the conditions at the deportation centre Sjælsmark, as well as at the controversial methods used to push the centre's residents to leave Denmark voluntarily. Some call the methods inhumane, while others call them necessary. Through a conversation between the Sjælsmark unit manager Niels Johannessen and one of the residents, Stanley Edward, the film talks about everyday life under constant pressure and about a life where human rights and international conventions are put to the test. Cast Away Souls hits squarely home in one of today's great political discussions, not just about the conditions that children live in at Sjælsmark, but also more generally about human compassion and human rights at centres such as Sjælsmark.

Markus Fiedler, born 1972 in Hamburg/Germany, successfully completed his Studies of Psychology at the University of Hamburg in 2001. In addition he started the Studies of Visual Communication at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HfbK) between 1998 and 2003. From 2007 to 2011 he he completed the Postgraduate Studies of Audio-Visual Media / Film & TV at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne/Germany with his graduation film 'Elif's Boys', a 99min documentary about the story of three generations of men of a turkish-kurdish family who migrated to Germany. Since 2002 Fiedler is working as an independent filmmaker, mainly in the field of narrative documentaries. He has been working as screen printer, graphic artist and billsticker.

In a nameless Eastern European city, few young people, finds themself trapped between silent resistance and passive complicity as their country descends into war. The city’s streets, once familiar, become a landscape of fear. Shot in stark, observational style, Inner emigration is a haunting portrait of a generation suspended in stillness, forced to navigate a crumbling reality that no longer offers clear choices.

Lily Filina is an artist and director, born in Kaluga, Russia, 1999. A graduate of the Rodchenko Art School, class of Sergei Bratkov, she works as an advertising director and develops independent projects at the intersection of cinema and video art. In 2024, Liliya's film participated in the program of the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2024, Liliya's project "Internal Emigration” was supported by the Yandex360 program.

Film plot based on marginal conspiracy theory that russian political elites are practising magic rites in Siberia to empower. This theory gained traction from 2021 to 2022 across Russian online platforms, mostly through Telegram chanels and investigative publication of opposition journalist. With lack of documentation, author decide to re-imagine this events, and make a film reconstruction of one of the rites. Alchemy, occultism and magic rites become the object of the author's research, forming a semantic contradiction with the everyday image of casual life

Lilia Filina is an artist filmmaker, whose work is situated on the uncertain thresholds of the perceptible and the communicable, organism and environment, and knowledge regimes and power, at the intersection of media and the history of political thought. Born in Kaluga, Russia, 1999, she now lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey. Alumni of the Rodchenko art school, Sergey Bratkov class, she works as director and develops independent project on edge of film and videoart.

Created in collaboration with IRCAM, « So Blue » represents a false documentary on the trip of Elvis Presley to Minsk, Belarus in the 1960s. The basis and the main element of this video is a song created by me using the sound collage technique. I used a dozen fragments from different Elvis songs, changing the key, working with tempo and harmony to recreate his « unreleased song ». The lyrics were composed by the same method, using archetypal words and phrases, typical for songwriting of the 50 - 60s. The video also presents a collage made from fragments of the fictional film "I'm 20" by Marlen Khutsiev and from frames of documentary films about Minsk. This technique allowed me to create a video mystification about Elvis’s fictional travel to my hometown (Minsk). The cross between fictional and documentary cinema, between a sound collage and a false composition generates a hybrid work that provokes feelings of strangeness, deceiving the viewer about credibility of this work. This confusion gives place to the questioning from the part of the viewer concerning the documentary representation.

Lina Filipovich is an artist and musician based in Paris, France. Her works explore the relationship between audio and visuals and span a variety of media, including found footage films, experimental electronic music, painting, silkscreening and performance. Working with samples and loops, Lina Filipovich uses techniques of sound collage, musical montage, cut-up and appropriation.

In "Bulba", a group of people is eating in KFC. The camera is a Peeping Tom now staring at everyday unseen: we will see the story of the whole process told by tonal shifts given in change-of-state glances and expressions. Under the rolling sound of spoken lines from "Taras Bulba", en epic novella by Nikolay Gogol, the figures are delicately melting in the expanded cultural background, the background always being neutral. Such projections are about to touch the constraints of natural perception, where the cultural mechanism is the editor-in-chief.

Nikolay Filippov was born and lives in Moscow. During his studies in theoretical and applied linguistics at Lomonosov Moscow State University he got involved in fieldwork project in Northern Udmurtia, studying beserman (a small ethnic group) language and contributed to the creation of beserman grammar and thesaurus. He also studied history and theory of cinema at the High School of Art Practices in RSUH. Being particularly interested in the philosophy of natural language, he has been developing a logical approach to cinematographic means since his debut "The Herbage", foсusing on fresh and raw areas of habitual speech and dramatic performance.

A dictator says his last words in front of his followers before spending the last seconds of his life sitting on a chair as people break into his house to kill him.

Saleh Kashefi also known as Filmsaaz (1999, Tehran) is an audiovisual artist whose works bring a bold lens upon contemporary youth culture, making ‘no-budget’ films which have gone on to be screened with international acclaim. They have been part of festivals like Cannes, Berlinale, Venice, Locarno, Visions du Réel, IDFA and FID. A recipient of Prince Claus Seed Awards, l'Abri associated artist, Master ECAL/HEAD alumni and currently enrolling in Le Fresnoy, Saleh has made 16 short films which have been included in over 200 film festivals around the world and have won 40 awards.

Fatumata and Aissato, the mother and the eldest daughter of a large family originally from Guinea-Bissau, discuss love and happiness. At 7pm, from the third to the fifth floor where I live, a regular sound, always the same, like the beating of a heart, reverberates through the building. The installation invites the viewer to the space of the word and the dialogue between the mother and the daughter,and to the physical and acoustic setting of the building where this family and the filmmaker live. As a poem, a story, a letter and a prayer are spoken, words travel from one language to another, from one speaker and one voice to another, creating connections. With the diptych Third Floor, in a migration to the exhibition space, Luciana Fina once again uses cinematography to question cinema’s narrative forms and matter. ------------- TERCEIRO ANDAR is also a documentary film (62min), that had its premiere in october 2016 at DOCLISBOA`16

Luciana Fina has worked in Lisbon since 1991. Following a long collaboration with Cinemateca Portuguesa as an independent programmer, she made her debut as a filmmaker in 1998. Since then she has developed a practice that frequently migrates from the cinema to the exhibition space, as she explores the possibilities and potential of film within the sphere of the arts. In 2003, she began a series of video portraits that came together in the "O Tempo de um Retrato" [Time for a Portrait] project. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals and exhibitions. Her most recent documentary, “In Medias Res” [In the Midst of Things], was awarded an Honourable Mention at the Temps d’Images Films on Art Award and the Best Portuguese Film Prize at the Arquiteturas Film Festival. In 2016 she presents a new installation work, the diptych TERCEIRO ANDAR, at Doclisboa ‘16, section Passages, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, and she presents once again her first installation, CHANTportraits (2003), at Casa das Artes, Famalicão, and at Festival Temps d’Images, Lisbon. The film premiere of TERCEIRO ANDAR was at Doclisboa 2016, official selection in the portuguese competition.

In June 2005, Jem Finer built a sculptural observatory in the Oxford University Parks he called "The Center of the Universe". Made of wood and wires, this sculpture was installed in a 15 meter high spiral tower as an "radio dish" (the union between ancient observatories, the ziggurat, and the contemporaries one), in which Jem Finer lived. In this shed, the signals received from the expanse of cosmos were transcribed by an electronic equipment and an old chart recorder and then decoded into sounds. The film presented is showing a selection of the numerous timelapse films Jem Finer made during his one month stay in the park, watching the daily shadows rotating around him.

Jem Finer is an artist exploring different art fields, creating mixed up performances and installations dealing with video, music, photography, sculpture,... Most of his work concerns with extremes time and space scales as "Longplayer", a thousand year long music piece, or "Wave/particle", a film made in zero gravity exploring the quantum world. This year Jem Finer built two sculptural observatories also dealing with time and space but based these times on cosmological scales : "Landscope" in Lough Neagh, N.Ireland and "The Centre of the Universe" in Oxford, England. He recently won the PRS Foundation New Music Prize for his new musical composition called "Score for a Hole in the Ground" including wind and rain. Jim Finer is currently working on it in a forest in south east of England.

Félicité, libre et fière, est chanteuse le soir dans un bar de Kinshasa. Sa vie bascule quand son fils de 14 ans est victime d’un accident de moto. Pour le sauver, elle se lance dans une course effrénée à travers les rues d’une Kinshasa électrique, un monde de musique et de rêves. Ses chemins croisent ceux de Tabu.

Alain Gomis est un réalisateur franco – bissau guinéo – sénégalais. Il est né en 1972 en France, où il a grandit. En 2013, son 3ème long-métrage, Tey (« Aujourd’hui »), avec Saul Williams, est sélectionné en compétition au 62ème Festival de Berlin, puis remporte l’Étalon d’Or du Fespaco (festival panafricain du cinéma), une première pour un film sénégalais. Le film, vainqueur de nombreux prix à travers le monde, a été choisi par le Sénégal pour représenter le pays aux Oscars. En 2008, Andalucia, son deuxième long-métrage, était présenté à la Mostra de Venise (Venice Days). En 2002, L’Afrance, son premier long-métrage gagnait le Léopard d’argent du festival de Locarno. Les films d’Alain Gomis ont été sélectionnés dans les festivals internationaux les plus prestigieux : Toronto, Chicago, L.A AFI, San Francisco, Sundance, Seattle, London BFI, Sydney, Dubaï… Titulaire d’un master d’études cinématographique de l’Université de Paris la Sorbonne, en 1993. Associé à Newton Aduaka (réalisateur nigérian de Ezra) et Valérie Osouf (réalisatrice française), il travaille au sein de Granit Films. Alain Gomis collabore également avec Oumar Sall (Produceur chez Cinékap) dans un programme de formation de jeunes cinéastes et techniciens au Sénégal (Up Court-métrages), ainsi qu’à la réouverture d’un centre culturel à Dakar (projet El Mansour).

This experimental film weaves together the memories of a lineage of women telling the story of a flood that reeked havoc on their village in India in the late 1950?s. The three sisters and their mother relay vivid accounts of snakes and people caught in trees, the drowning of their trapped animals, the fear and panic of all those who watched safely from roofs of their houses, the heroism of their father in a time of chaos and the rescue of their mother?s precious sewing machine, her only personal possession and creative tool. The sub-text reveals the complex interplay of immortality, love and competition within a family, through different perspectives on the same devastating and surreal event. "Threading the Needle" compares attachments to illusive personal memories and the complex beauty of collective memory with metaphors and lucid imagery.

A Muslim Indian-American, Andaleeb Firdosy is a LA based artist who leaves a trail of texture and insight in images that range in medium from film, video and collage to digital media and curatorial work. She holds degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Cal Arts and has for over eight years been working in film, print, web, and broadcast design for clients, whom range from the LA County Museum of Art to the History Channel. She is a founding member of ArtWallah, a multi-media arts festival and organization that fosters and showcases art from the South Asian Diaspora. In 2003 as an effort to bring together perspectives of different immigrant communities in Los Angeles, she co-started PRISM a program that showcases visual art from different Diaspora with visual art from the South Asian community. Ms. Firdosy?s experimental films trace handmade histories and animate still objects as repositories of memory. Her work in film, design and art has been presented nationally and internationally. Her non-profit arts-outreach work continues to equally expand and develop a sense of community, a celebration of diversity, and an awareness of the struggle of the Diaspora experience.

The film "Desert View" is dedicated to the study of building and living in the semi - built satellite city Madinaty, located in the desert east of Cairo. Madinaty is a fully privately owned city that, unlike a gated community, claims to be an open but self-contained and secure city. All public services are not provided by the state, but by the Arab real estate company Talaat Mustafa. The movie "Desert View" was made during a four-week residency, to which the filmmakers had invited the three-generation Barakat family from ashweyat (informal residential district) Bashtil as a sort of cinematic diary. The temporary residents of Madinaty, filmmaker and Barakat family, captured their observations and experiences of architecture and their use from their respective perspectives and cameras. Two external perspectives on the desert dreams of the Egyptian middle and upper classes. Also part of the project were discursive evenings, to which filmmakers and the Barakat family invited new and old neighbors, architects, artists and urbanists from Cairo to the living room of the villa. Here the different perspectives on the topic "How do we want to live?" were discussed and documented.

Constanze Fischbeck works as stage designer, filmmaker, curator and lecturer in the context of theatre and art. Her artwork is based on the space and present of specific locations. In her films she investigates the interference of documentary and staged moments in the urban context. Her work was presented at various festivals, art institutes and theatres. She has been working with Daniel Kötter (since 2007 ) collectively conducting research and creating experimental documentaries. Their works include Benzin, a reconstruction of exchange systems in Lagos (2008), Making of History (2012) on reconstructions of history and memory and the work about space and place of theatre: state-theatre (2009-2014). She lives in Berlin.

L'oeuvre d'Ulrich Fisher, les 4 courtes pièces, fait suite à une commande de la chaîne suisse alémanique SFDRS pour l`émission philosophique STERNSTUNDEN. Elle se compose de 4 clips: Ballast, Signes d´éconduite, La ville révée des grues et Mi rage. Ballast : Un quadrillage symétrique soutient et fait décoller l?image ? pas de mouvement sans ballast? Signes d´éconduite : Se laisser entraîner par des lignes fuyantes, jusqu?au point où l?espace du voyage se dissout en de multiples pistes : autant de signes qui bouclent le mouvement sur lui-même. La ville révée des grues Entre la ville cartographiée et la ville réelle, les grues ont leur mot à dire. Mirage : Que se passe-t-il quand des objets mouvants gèlent dans leur course et deviennent un solide qui marque l?espace ? On peut alors voir une sorte de mémoire d?un lieu, ce qui nous interpelle à nouer de nouvelles relations au contexte.

Né en 1971 à Genève, Ulrich Fisher réalise entre 1993 et 1996 divers films en super-8 et vidéo. Il obtient en 2000 le diplôme à l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel de Genève (ESAV). Il devient ensuite permanent au Cinema Spoutnik. Il est aussi producteur, monteur et caméraman pour Perceuse Productions.

‚Appropriation takes you on a weird ride‘ investigates the strange German enthusiasm for Native Americans in relation to contemporary racism and its deep colonial roots. This fascination, especially with regard to the construction of a german identity, has a rather frightening than impressive chronology: it begins with the first-century Germanic Cherusci chieftan Arminius and stretches to the adventure novels of Karl May and the Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows in the 1800s, through the ethnographic exhibitions (Völkerschauen) in zoos and circuses and founding of “Indian clubs" at the turn of the twentieth century, onward to the appropriation of Indigenous identities by Nazi ideologists, up until the present day, when new rightwing groups have developed an unsettling identification with the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani are visual artists and filmmakers, based in Berlin. They have been working together since 1995. From 2007 until 2010 they have been Associate Professors for Film and Media Art at Sapporo City University, Japan. Since 2015 Nina Fischer is Professor for Experimental Film and Media Art at University of the Arts, Berlin. International art exhibitions and film festivals they have participated in include Berlinale - International Filmfestival Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Istanbul Film Festival, Sydney Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art,Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Media City Seoul Biennale, Aichi Triennale, and solo exhibitions e.g. at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima, K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Maxxi Museum, Rome.

For their movie “I Live in Fear After March 11”, Fischer & el Sani invited refugees who escaped from the aftereffects of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, to a screening of Akira Kurosawa’s film “I live in fear - Record of a living being” (1955) to reevaluate Kurosawa’s concerns after the nuclear weapon tests at the Bikini Atoll in the 50’s. The screening triggered an identification-process of the fugitives with the protagonist of Kurosawas movie, as they recognized their desperate situation. It was followed by an experimental setup of cinematic improvisations with refugees and actors, focusing on the exploration of fears and uncertainties surrounding the nuclear catastrophy and ongoing threat of radiation.

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani are visual artists and filmmakers, based in Berlin. From 2007 until 2010 they have been Associate Professors for Film and Media Art at Sapporo City University, Japan. Since 2015 Nina Fischer is Professor for Experimental Film and Media Art at Uninversity of the Arts, Berlin. They have been recipients of the Karl-Hofer-Prize of the University of the Arts, Berlin and were awarded several artist in residence stipends e.g. at German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome, DAAD in Tokyo, Cité des Arts in Paris, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto. International exhibitions they have participated in include Gwangju Biennale 1995, 2002, 2008, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, 1999, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt 2002, Sydney Biennale 2002, 10th Istanbul Biennial 2007, Media City Seoul Biennale 2012 and 2014, Aichi Triennale, Curitiba Biennale 2013 and solo exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, 1998, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, 2005, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, 2007, Kunsthaus Glarus, 2009, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima, 2010, Austin Museum of Art - Arthouse, Austin, 2012, Mamam Recive 2013, MART, Dublin, 2014, Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2015 K21 -Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 2016, Maxxi Museum, Rome, 2017 www.fischerelsani.net

The film makers leave the classical nature film behind in order to explore new ways of conceptualising our understanding of nature and ourselves. A hitherto familiar environment develops strange characteristics and meanders between stagnation and movement, realism and hypnosis, naturalness and artificiality.

• Professional Masterclass / Werkleitz, 2013 • M.A. in Image Science (DUK Austria), 2012 • Master Scholar of Arno Fischer (Ostkreuzschule Berlin), 2011 • Photo / Design diploma at FH-Potsdam, 2009

"Out Of The Blue" is a living diary and structural breakthrough in the New York filmmaker's quest for a visual language equal in both thought and expression. Mischievously yet rigorously edited text and images, both Fisher's own plus "borrowed" materials, are laced within infinite blue sky images filmed from the airplane window as the filmmaker travels from Berlin to JFK Airport in NYC. Her passage home links timetravel with mind-journey. Multiple storylines play within conflicting time zones. Memories are juxtaposed with historic disasters (especially the bombing of Hiroshima, and the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center) or personal feelings - especially sorrow, since OUT OF THE BLUE took shape within the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Featured music is Lois V Vierk's "Words Fail Me", in its entirety, a work inspired by Vierk's eye witness of the World Trade Center towers crashing down, twenty years ago on 9/11.

Holly Fisher received a B.A. in Asian Art History at Columbia University in 1964, and a M.A. in Cinema Studies at New York University in 1982. She lives and works in Tribeca, New York City. Holly Fisher has been active since the mid-sixties as an independent filmmaker, printmaker, teacher, and film editor. She was the editor of Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña’s feature documentary Who Killed Vincent Chin?. This film about a racially motivated Detroit murder case of 1982 was nominated for an Oscar in 1989. Her experimental short works and long-form essay films –– explorations in time, memory, trauma, and perception –– have been screened in museums and film festivals worldwide including Whitney Museum Biennials; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Film Forum, Japan; and two world premieres in The Forum of the Berlinale, Germany. She has received multiple grants from The Jerome Foundation, NYSCA, CAPS, and The American Film Institute, among others. Her silent film Rushlight won the Grand Prize in the 1985 Black Maria Film Festival, and her feature Bullets for Breakfast received “Best Experimental Film Award” at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1992. Her solo retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art (1995) and more recently Anthology Film Archives (2019), were both entitled THE FILMS OF HOLLY FISHER. Fisher completed two new works during the past year of Coronavirus Lockdown, one long-form and one short; Softshoe for Bartok (23 minutes) will be premiered at The Brooklyn Film Festival held in early June 2021; her two feature works Out of the Blue (2021) and Deafening Silence (2012) concerning Burma under dictatorship, will be available for free streaming by Anthology Film Archives, June 16 - 29, 2021. The AFA will also sponsor multiple in-house screenings of Out of the Blue and her feature documentary A Question of Sunlight over the weekend of 9/11. This event has added intrigue since the two films variously frame the creative response of each of us involved –– New York avant-garde composer for both works Lois V Vierk; NY Downtown artist/protagonist José Urbach featured in A Question of Sunlight; and filmmaker Holly Fisher –– because each of us witnessed first hand from our own windows, the attack on the World Trade Towers twenty years ago, Sept 11, 2001.