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An animation based on a video clip from the Iraq war.

Stephen Andrews has exhibited his work in Canada, the U.S., Brazil, Scotland, France, and Japan. His work deals with memory, identity, surveillance and their representations in various media.

An analog animation using the same set of drawings to tell four different versions of the same story. The emotional fallout of two witnesses to a police shooting, a musical about groovy gay boys making the scene, a cop show about the chase and arrest of a suspect and a news report about soldiers on leave in Iraq.

Stephen Andrews was born in 1956 in Sarnia, Ontario Canada. He has exhibited his work in Canada, the U.S., Brazil, Scotland, France and Japan. He is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, as well as many private collections. His work deals with memory, identity, surveillance and their representations in various media. John Greyson is a Toronto film/video artist whose shorts, features and installations include: Fig Trees (2003, Oakville Art Galleries); Proteus (Best Actor, Sithenghi 2003); The Law of Enclosures (2000, Best Actor Genie); Lilies (1996 - Best Film Genie, Best Film at festivals in Montreal, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, San Francisco); Un©ut (1997, Honourable Mention, Berlin Film Festival); Zero Patience (1993 - Best Canadian Film, Sudbury Film Festival); The Making of Monsters (1991 - Best Canadian Short, Toronto Film Festival, Best Short Film Teddy - Berlin Film Festival); and Urinal (1988 - Best Feature Teddy, Berlin Film Festival). He co-edited Queer Looks, a critical anthology on gay/lesbian film & video (Routledge, 1993), is the author of Urinal and Other Stories (Power Plant/Art Metropole, 1993), and has published essays and artists pieces in Alphabet City, Public, FUSE, and twelve critical anthologies. An assistant professor in film production at York University, he was awarded the Toronto Arts Award for Film/Video, 2000, and the Bell Canada Video Art Award in 2007.

During a walk in three different places in Bavaria - first in an idyllic park in the heights of Munich, which is the hill of the Olympic park, then a residential ensemble at the shores of Starnberg Lake in Feldafing, and finally the Mühldorf forest, a village on the Austrian border - heavy with history from Second World War, tangible fragments come back to haunt the images of today under the form of documentary archives. The interpretation of very slow shots that allow for the materialization, the breathing, and the changing light of natural spaces is left up to the public's imagination. The film begins with the idea that our spaces of life and daily landscapes carry indelible traces of history. But here history must be seen as a subset of geology as witness of man's place and destiny in the world.

Claire Angelini was born in Nice, France, and currently lives and works in Munich, Paris, and Geneva. She has a degree in Plastic Arts from the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, and in Art History from the Sorbonne, Paris. She obtained various grants and artist residencies since 1998 : Production Aid, OFAG 2006; Development Aid, CNC 2005; Writing Aid, CNC, 2004; FIACRE, 2001; Directing Aid, Cultural Affairs of the City of Munich, 2001, Bourse Akademie Schloss Solitude 1999-2000; Artist Residency Villa Concordia 1998; and Bourse Jeune Création/OFAG 1998. Recent exhibitions include: Nov. 2006, Encuentros Internationales de Videoarte y Fotografia, Gigòn, Spain; Oct. 2006, Instants Video Marseille, Programme Oasis; March 2006, National Institute of Art History, Paris; Feb. 2006, Videotheka, Kunsthalle Vienne; May 2005, Färthensuche, Spiegel/Lothringer 13, Munich; Sept. 2004, "Hier liegt die Grenze des pädagogischen Bemühens", Orstermine 2004, Munich; Aug. 2004, Remix, Spiegel/Lothringer; April 2004, Intervalles, galerie Martine et Thibault de la Châtre, Paris; April 2003, Réciprocités, Goethe-Institut, Rome.

(Brise la mer ! / Jeune, révolution !) : deux courts films prennent le spectateur en étau, et à travers eux, deux paroles sur l?histoire : celle de Narriman B., qui s?interroge sur les raisons de la guerre d?Algérie à l?occasion de la commémoration de l?Indépendance (1962). Et celle d?Ikbel Z., confronté au délitement de la Révolution de jasmin et au désenchantement de la jeunesse tunisienne. Quand aux cuves de pétrole du port de Béjaia, (Algérie), répondent les toupies d?abord fougueuses, puis de plus en plus lentes, d?une table de café tunisienne, de quel tour sur soi-même la révolution, dans l?un et l?autre de ces deux pays, a-t-elle été porteuse ?

Claire Angelini, artiste et cinéaste (ensba Paris / Sorbonne / HFF Munich), interroge le rapport de l?art à l?histoire comme inscription du politique, sous les espèces de la trace, la ruine, la réminiscence et de la survivance des images. Le cinéma comme outil critique sensible et comme dispositif visuel et sonore, lui permet de questionner l?histoire qui hante notre espace commun aujourd?hui et ce faisant, d?en interroger la représentation. Diffusions récentes : MAC-Santiago du Chili 2012 / galerie Fucares Madrid 2012 / Instants video Marseille 2012 / Underdox 07 Munich 2012 / Cinemateca brasileira Sao Paolo 2012 / Etats généraux du film documentaire Lussas 2011 / Cinéma du Réel Paris 2011 / Institut franco-japonais Tokyo 2010 / Viennale 2009

1 woman/ 3 countries/ 3 wars / Following a female figure as she is revisiting the places of her childhood, this film summons up, through the devices it employs, the crossed categories of individual memory and history in a space which is itself composed of the accumulated layers of past and present. Set in France, Tunisia and Algeria, the film looks at how we are affected by history in the places where we grow up. A long journey of recollections and words set against the images and sounds of the landscapes. It is an examination of the relationship between subjective memory, territory and the consciousness of the adult.A political film in the deepest sense of the word.

Marche / Aragon montre comment la guerre a traversé et influencé deux villages du sud de l?Europe, l?un en Italie méridionale, dans les Marches, l?autre en Espagne, dans la province de Huesca. Ortezzano a vécu la montée du fascisme dans les années 30. Belver au contraire, a tenté une expérience unique et singulière d?anarchisme au moment de la République espagnole. Formellement tout oppose les Marches à l?Aragon : d?un côté se développe un film sans paroles au fil d?un album communal, seul dépositaire d?une mémoire inavouable. De l?autre, un récit se déploie, au fil d?un témoignage incarné par la voix d?un survivant de la guerre d?Espagne. La musique aussi, devient, au cours du film un protagoniste essentiel de Marche /Aragon, chargée qu?elle est de sa propre mémoire politique.

Diplômée de l?Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, où elle a étudié la photographie et le montage sonore, Claire Angelini, titulaire d?une maîtrise d?Histoire de l?art, a fréquenté la section documentaire de l?HFF (Hochschule für Film und Fersehen) de Munich. Sa production inclut l?installation, le film, la vidéo, la photographie, le son et le dessin. Claire Angelini vit et travaille à Munich et à Paris. Ses films les plus récents, ont été présentés à l?Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo, à la Bobine de Grenoble, à la Viennale 2009, à la Maison des Arts d?Amiens, à la 12e BIM de Genève, aux Instants vidéo à Marseille, au festival Underdox de Munich, à la Kunsthalle de Vienne, au Festival internacional de videoarte de Gijon, à la Nuit Blanche 2008, ainsi que dans différents cinémas en France et en Allemagne, et, dans le cadre des Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, au Centre Georges Pompidou, au Musée du Jeu de Paume, à la Haus der Kulturen der Welt, ainsi qu?au Museo Reina Sofia de Madrid.

Ce film, fait travailler les éléments d?une improbable rencontre, celle d?une « boat-people » qui a fui son pays, le Vietnam, pour aboutir en Allemagne et du lac de Starnberg nimbé du souvenir mythifié de Sissi et de Louis II de Bavière. Autour du corps présent-absent de la réfugiée ?celui aussi d?un souvenir qui se délite ? se déploie une narration fragmentaire et stratifiée. Quelle image peut saisir en effet la caméra aujourd?hui de cet itinéraire de peur inscrit à même le corps, déplacé dans le tracé paisible d?une excursion touristique « sans histoire » ? Qui parle, et de quoi dans ce jeu complexe des questions-réponses à trois voire quatre voix, et en trois langues (français, allemand, vietnamien) ? De l?impossible palimpseste, émergent des fragments d?histoire : celle de cette femme, celle de son pays déchiré, celle de son voyage en mer, et au-delà celle de la condition de réfugié dans le monde actuel. La disposition des voix, et les incertitudes de la traduction ouvrent sur un vide, délinéant le manque de l?exilée, l?indécision quant à l?identité de celle qui parle, indécision identitaire, devenue sa blessure invisible.

Bio-Filmographie Diplômée de l?Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, où elle a étudié la photographie et le montage sonore, Claire Angelini, qui est titulaire d?une maîtrise d?Histoire de l?art, a aussi fréquenté la section documentaire de l?H.F.F. (Hochschule für Film und Fersehen) de Munich. Circulant entre les langues et les villes européennes, elle s?intéresse plus particulièrement dans son travail aux rapports entre l?art et l?histoire, dans le cadre d?une production multimédia incluant aussi bien l?installation que le film ou la video, la photographie, le son, ou encore le dessin. Claire Angelini vit et travaille actuellement à Munich et à Paris. Films 1996 La minorité, Hi8 transféré sur VHS, 2 minutes 30. (Editions video Artos/ Athènes) 2002 Réciprocités, mini dv, 3 x 60 minutes. (Zweite Architekturwoche, München, Instants video, Martigue, 2004) 2004 Un trou dans le gant, mini dv, 32 minutes. (Kunsthalle Vienne 2006, Université du Québec à Montréal 2006, festival internacional de video arte y fotografia, Gigon, Espagne, 2006, Instants video, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, 2006.) Ici s?atteint la limite de l?effort pédagogique, mini dv, 22 minutes. (Instants video, Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, 2006.) Lullaby, mini dv, 6 minutes. (Spiegel/ Lothringer 13, München, 2004) 2005 Es geht eine dunkle Wolk herein, mini dv, 20 minutes. (Kunsthalle Vienne 2006, Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2006, Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 2007, Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin, Kino Babylon, Berlin 2007) 2007 Loci soli/Soliloques, mini dv, 21 minutes. (Programmation annuelle des Instants video, marseille 2007- 2008) SHE/SEE, mini dv, 22 minutes. ( Biennale de l?Image, Saint-Gervais, Genève, 2007) En cours : La mémoire n?est pas un jeu d?enfant ( production Atopic/Christophe Gougeon/Aide à l?écriture et au développement, CNC) et Et tu es dehors, installations multimédia (production Finavril/Emmanuel Deswartes).

?We don?t have time to get scared, everything happens in a few seconds. ?The sight lights up just in front of the windshield, everything is ready for the computer to do its work. ?It?s the computer that has the last word.??Paul Virilio About 2,000 troops from the US led military coalition were engaged in close in combat on March 4, 2002 with small pockets of suspected al Qaeda and Taliban fighter in the rugged terrain of north-eastern Afghanistan as part of an operation called Operation Acaconda.... The footage contained in this piece was from part of this mission. ?Other than appending a a title card and a quotation by media theorist Paul Virilio at the beginning, Angerame`s latest video work is a complete found-object: military footage of an offensive operation on a mosque in Afghanistan. It`s a cliché for me to point out that for the first few minutes of the running time, I honestly couldn`t tell if I was watching actual military surveillance imaging or a videogame, but the ineluctable appositeness of the cliché seems to be one of Angerame`s major points. After CNN and Baudrillard and, in fact, Virilio, we still have the same problem -- X-Box Warriors of eighteen and nineteen going off to execute our ordnance. Some viewers I spoke with were rankled by Angerame`s bald, untreated presentation of the material, feeling like not enough "art" had been performed. But this viewpoint overlooks context, the resistant act of dropping this horrendous material into the rarefied aesthetic domain of an experimental film screening. (As Americans, our tax dollars spent millions in the production of this lo-tech snuff film.) In the end, nothing else in the Views program jolted me so far out of my contemplative state of mind; sitting and watching the next film, as opposed to leading the entire audience out into the street for some uncivil disobedience, felt vaguely obscene. And yet . . . And yet . . . we know it?s never that simple. Right? ?Michael Sicinski Exhibitions: Toronto International Film Festival, 2004 Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, 2004 New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, 2004 Viennale, Vienna 2004 Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, California 2004 Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2005 Director?s Choice, Black Maria Film Festival, 2005 Australian Center for Moving Image, Canberra, Australia, 2005 Rotterdam Film Festival, 2005 Nashville Film Festival, 2005 Tiburon Film Festival, 2005 San Francisco Cinematheque, 2005 Big Muddy Film Festival, 2005, First Place European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany, 2005 Black and White Festival, Porto, Portugal Athens International Film Festival, Athens Ohio Fear No Film Festival, Salt Lake City, 2005 Empire Film Festival, 2005 Cracow Film Festival, 2005 DMZ_2005 Exhibition, Korea, 2005 Splitz Film Festival, Croatia, 2005 Torino International Film Festival, 2005 Sarajevo Film Festival, 2005 Montreal International Film Festival, 2005 Seoul Net&Film Festival, 2005 VII Festival Iberoamericano De Cine De Santa Cruz, Bolivia

?To see the city through the eyes of Dominic Angerame is to see an organic beast of concrete that sifts and breathes in rich shades of black and white.?--Silke Tudor, SF Weekly Since 1969, Dominic Angerame has made more than 35 films that have been shown and won awards in film festivals around the world. Two Cine Probe Series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City have also honoured him -- in 1993 and in June 1998. His most recent work Anaconda Targets (2004) is being exhibited at the Toronto International Film Festival, Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, New York Film Festival, and the Vienalle in Vienna and will screen at the Hong Kong International Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, and many more. His series of films Battle Stations?A Navel Adventure (2002), Pixiescope (2003), The Waifen Maiden (2003), and Consume (2003). These films are in the process of being screened in festivals around the world, including Turino Film Festival, Madrid, Recontres Paris/Berlin and more information regarding them is available by request. They were also exhibited by the San Francisco Cinematheque at the Yerba Buena Center on December 11, 2003 Angerame teaches filmmaking/cinema studies/criticism the San Francisco Art Institute as a visiting artist. He has also taught film production and cinema studies at the University of California Berkeley, Extension, and New College of California; and has been a guest lecturer and visiting artist for Stanford University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Graduate School of Theology in Berkeley, and others. Dominic Angerame has been the Executive Director of Canyon Cinema for the past twenty years. Under his leadership Canyon Cinema has become one of the world?s most renowned distributors of avant-garde and experimental films. Canyon Cinema?s contribution to the field of experimental/avant-garde filmmaking is historic and heroic. For his filmmaking projects, Angerame has been awarded film productions grants from The Illinois Arts Council; Samuel B. Mayer Foundation; three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Western Regional Fellowships, The Film Arts Foundation. In the Spring of 1999 Mr. Angerame curated a series of fourteen film programs for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This extremely successful series was called SHAKE THE NATION and traced the development of avant-garde filmmaking in San Francisco from 1939 to the present. Mr. Angerame has been nominated for a John D. Rockefeller Foundation Grant in Filmmaking for the year 2000. Dominic?s film ?In the Course of Human Events (1997) of a group exhibition held at the Fondation Cartier in Paris from November 2002 through March 2003 entitled ?Ce Qui Arrive? curated by noted urbanist Paul Virilio.

"He began to recognize that motion pix could be used as a medium to reveal the supernatural and underworld. He found the calling for which he had been born. He found that film could summon up the un-born imagination...he had a glimpse of how to emerge as the artist he always felt was within him" - Stan Brakhage Revelations is a continuation of what I call my "City Symphony" series. This works includes footage that was shot from the late 90s to the present. My filmmaking is inspired by filmmakers such as Dziga Vertov, Joris Ivens, Walter Ruttman and Robert Fulton.

Dominic Angerame's works search for unfamiliar views of seemingly familiar things: cities, landscapes, faces, and bodies. The filmmaker's desire to make everyday images "strange" at the editing table, to learn to see them fresh and to estrange them from our senses, makes his films seem-in all the different social realities they contain-always distanced as well, as if they led to another world beyond the concrete, beyond time and defined space. In Angerame's films, which pay homage to films from early cinema and the classic avant garde to American underground films of the 1960s and 70s and non-narrative films of the present day, an amazingly comprehensive history of the "visionary" moving image is always present. It may be that precisely his refusal to adopt a signature style has diminished the immediate influence of Angerame's films; however, Angerame's decision to work "universally," not to be swayed by considerations of the art market, and to experiment with very different styles increases the pedagogical worth of his films. It's not surprising to learn that Angerame, born in 1949, teaches at several American schools in addition to having served as the executive director of the American avant garde distribution center Canyon Cinema from 1980 to 2012. His films testify to an encyclopedic knowledge of film-and also his desire to satisfy, with his own audio-visual offerings, the very different desires of his audience.

"Thank you for sending your very great film, Aeon -- it's really a great work, truly transporting, and a vision I can wish and hope that many will see, and hopefully to feel this truth of both our small place within as well as our ultimate connectedness with the vastness of being and space -- 'our connection to the stars' as Stan would have said." -- Marilyn Brakhage "In Aeon, Dominic Angerame draws parallels between the earthly and the heavenly, linking the San Francisco cityscape and city dwellers to outer space. Filmed during the Covid-19 lockdown, Aeon celebrates Angerame#s reunion with friends and responds to the new ways of interacting with the world on different levels. Using a meta-narrative and self-referential approach to storytelling, Angerame brings the (holy) spirit to life, filling the spaces he captures with energy, which is otherwise unattainable and invisible the naked eye, but significantly transforms our lives. Aeon is one of Angerame's major and most mature works to date, which demonstrates the potential of experimental filmmaking in superimposing images that are seemingly disparate, yet uncannily familiar." -- Kornelia Boczkowska, author of Lost Highways, Embodied Travels: The Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0875-9209

Dominic Angerame's works search for unfamiliar views of seemingly familiar things: cities, landscapes, faces, and bodies. The filmmaker's desire to make everyday images "strange" at the editing table, to learn to see them fresh and to estrange them from our senses, makes his films seem-in all the different social realities they contain-always distanced as well, as if they led to another world beyond the concrete, beyond time and defined space. In Angerame's films, which pay homage to films from early cinema and the classic avant garde to American underground films of the 1960s and 70s and non-narrative films of the present day, an amazingly comprehensive history of the "visionary" moving image is always present. It may be that precisely his refusal to adopt a signature style has diminished the immediate influence of Angerame's films; however, Angerame's decision to work "universally," not to be swayed by considerations of the art market, and to experiment with very different styles increases the pedagogical worth of his films. It's not surprising to learn that Angerame, born in 1949, teaches at several American schools in addition to having served as the executive director of the American avant garde distribution center Canyon Cinema from 1980 to 2012. His films testify to an encyclopedic knowledge of film-and also his desire to satisfy, with his own audio-visual offerings, the very different desires of his audience.

Poet at work: daydreams, nightmares and writings.

Paulius Ani?as, born in Vilnius, Lithuania. Graduated contemporary sculpture BA in Vilnius Academy of Arts.

Ostrannenie is a video-exploration of a territory and of the language belonging to it. It traces a history of imaginary lands from the times when the Earth rested on elephants’ backs to the current moment of Google Maps and glossy stock footage. The map of the world in the video becomes a field where the history of geographical discoveries is intertwined with the histories of the human imagination, with the camera’s eye and the gaps in language.

Alex Anikina is an artist-researcher who currently lives and works in London, working primarily with texts, language-based works, experimental films and objects. Her artistic and academic practices both revolve around the exploration of human relationship with technology and knowledge through experimental film. Her works are held in the collection of National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow. Participated in VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Presented a paper and a video installation at DRHA 2014 at Greenwich University. Received Best Experimental Short award at the London Independent Film Festival (2014). Screenings include Open Eyes Filmfest Marburg, VideoJam at Salford, MAGIKALCHARM Experimental Video Festival (2014 and 2015) at Anthology Film Archives, New York, Athens International Film and Video Festival, FLEXfest, 10th Cologne International Videoart Festival, AOF International Film Festival, Berlin DLX festival.

Iran, 12th June 2009. Denouncing a "massive fraud" during the presidential elections, hundreds of thousands of Iranians take the streets to express their discontent. Whereas the local journalists had been muzzled and the foreign ones evicted, this violent clashes were visible in the whole world thanks to the images filmed by anonymous demonstrators.

Robots work on a dairy farm. They milk the cows, clean their dung, and massage them. Meanwhile, human beings are absent. In a restaurant, robot waiters bus food back-and-forth, ignored completely by their human colleagues. An engineer revives an old robotic arm for his children. With a curious, observational gaze, Metabolism looks at technology, animals, and labor.

Misho Antadze is a filmmaker and artistic researcher from Tbilisi, Georgia, born in 1993 He holds a BFA in Film/Video from CalArts and an MA in Artistic Research through Cinema from the Netherlands Film Academy. As a practitioner and researcher, his interests include the meeting and departure points of cinema and history, as well as animal and non-human perspectives. His works have screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, DocLisboa and Full Frame Film Festival, amongst many others. The Harvest was awarded at Jeonju International Film Festival and at Palic European Film Festival and was screened online on e-Flux.

Safe Sound by Ziad Antar, RT: 8 mins. Synopsis: As the siege took hold and the assault unrelented, the rountine of everyday life was suspended and time stood still. When one is not immediately exposed to danger, survival became about coping with the sense captivity, passing time.

Filmmaker?s Biography: Ziad Antar lives and works between Lebanon and France. He graduated with a degree in agricultural engineering in 2001, and has been working in photography and video since 2002. His videos include Safe Sound (2006), Marche Turque (2007) and Mdardara (2007). He directed his first documentary Jean-Luc Moulène in 2002.

Two kids play on a synthesizer and create their own song.

Ziad Antar was born in Saida, Lebanon, in 1978. He currently lives in Paris and has been working in video and photography since 2002. He graduated as an agriculture engineer in 2001 in Beirut, and then completed a one year residency in Palais de Tokyo, Le Pavillon in 2003.

"A Place We Call Home" leads us to the heart of strong and particular relations that link two women. The setting, both urban and savage, physically invaded by the vegetation, absorbs and reflects their rituals.

Emmanuelle Antille was born in 1972 in Lausanne where she lives and works. She studied at the Geneva Graduate School of Visual Arts from 1991 to 1996, then, from 1997 to 1998, at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. She uses a language that is sometimes minimal, sometimes emphatic. She auscultates the inside and the outside and she looks from the inside and the outside. This discipline of systematic analysis enables everyone to in turn examine one's self. Her works have been presented notably during video festivals like the ones in Zurich, New York, Le Caire, Vilnius, and Salamanque. In 2005, she presented "Rollow" at the Locarno festival and has been awarded the young creator prize of the Vaudois Foundation for the promotion of artistic creation.

Barricata est une vidéo en trois actes se jouant autour de quatre personnages féminins : la grand-mère, ses deux filles et sa petite fille. Axée sur le thème de l?abandon (de soi, des autres, de ses biens, de son corps ou de sa mémoire), cette vidéo présente les relations intimes entre les membres d?une même famille. Dans le premier acte, les quatre femmes, cloîtrées dans la cuisine, attendent et guettent l?arrivée de deux inconnus. Ceux-ci pénètrent dans la maison, l?inspectent, barricadent la pièce principale, puis repartent aussi soudainement qu?ils sont apparus. Dans le deuxième acte, les quatre femmes sortent de leur isolement et reprennent possession des lieux. Elles effectuent de petits rituels intimes et obsessionnels, ensemble ou séparément. Ces rituels leur permettent d?établir une tension avec leur environnement, de reprendre le contrôle ou de lâcher prise. Ainsi, ces femmes rejouent et réinventent les relations qui les unissent, jusqu?à l?hallucination parfois. Dans le troisième acte, les deux inconnus reviennent. Les femmes sont alors prêtes à les rencontrer, prêtes à leur livrer une part de leur histoire. Ils se retrouvent alors tous ensemble dans le salon barricadé.

Emmanuelle Antille Née à Lausanne en 1972. Vit et travaille à Lausanne. 1997-1998 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam 1991-1996 Ecole Supérieure d`Art Visuel, Genève Expositions personnelles (sélection) : 2008 Family Viewing, Centre PasquArt, Bienne Editing Room / Editing Territories, Art Unlimited, Bâle 2007 Barricata, Salle Noire, Musée d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris Inner Streams, COMA, Berlin Skull Shaker, Galleria Roberto Giustini, Rome 2006 Le Journal de Jack, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich Angels Camp, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver. Kill me twice, dear friend, dear enemy, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo Tornadoes of my Heart, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Cures & Comas, Marc Hostettler, Neuchâtel 2005 Kill me twice, dear friend, dear enemy, Art Unlimited, Bâle Centre pour l?image contemporaine Saint Gervais, Genève 2004 Angels and Landscapes, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam Angels Camp ? First Songs, CCA, Glasgow Angels Camp ? Radiant Spirits, Sammlung Goetz, Münich Angels Camp ? First Songs, Site Gallery, Sheffield Night For Day, Centro Atlantico de Arte Modernao, Las Palmas Gran Canaria 2003 Angels Camp, The Renaissance Society, Chicago NB, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz Angels Camp, Pavillon Suisse, 50ème Biennale de Venise, Venise Expositions collectives (sélection) : 2008 Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zürich Identity, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo You Are My Mirror 1: L?Infamille, Frac Lorraine, Metz about: safety scaffold, :emyt, Berlin SUPERNATURAL, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca Accrochage, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne La Durée, National Islandic Gallery, Reykjavik 2007 Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Art Museum, New York Dark Mirror, Montevideo Time Based Arts, Amsterdam Global Feminisms, Davis Art Museum / Wellesley, Wellesley Art en Plein Air Môtiers 2007, Môtiers Love Addiction, Galleria Comunale d?Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone Video Salon, Galerija 10 m2, Sarajevo Dadada, Hammam de Mostar, Sarajevo Videoskulptur 07, Baden Surréalités, Centre PasquArt Kunsthaus, Bienne Outre-Tombe, Galerie 1m3, Lausanne Monumenta, projection d?Angels Camp, Grand-Palais, Paris Résidents, Espace Electra, Paris Jubliee Exhibition, House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà Triennale de l?imprimé contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle 2006 Nouvelles Collections, Centre PasquArt, Bienne Frictions, Espace des arts plastiques, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges Visioni del Paradiso, Institut Suisse de Rome, Rome 1ère Biennale du Havre, Le Havre Eldorado, MUDAM, Luxembourg WoMA. Women Making Art, André Schlechtriem Temporary Inc., New York 2005 Fast Forward, Media Art, Goetz Collection, Conde Duque, Madrid Madonna ? Express yourself, Kunsthaus Dresden Swiss Made (The Art of Falling Apart), Cobra Museum, Amstelveen Refleksija, Nizhnij Novgorod, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscou The Parable Show, Grimm/Rosenfeld gallery, Münich Croiser des mondes, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris Goetz meets Flackenberg, Phoenix Art, Hamburg T 142, Gallery Deweer, Ottegem At The Launderette, Lausanne Desire, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong Frictions, Fonds régional d?art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz Alias & Alibi, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden Festivals vidéos (sélection) / Projections : 2008 PointLignePlan 10 ans, Centre Pompidou, Paris La Blanchisserie, Paris Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Musée National Reina Sofia, Madrid 2007 KunstFilm Biennale, Köln/Bonn Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Berlin 2006 Festival du Film de Trieste, Trieste Festival du Film de Locarno, Locarno Swiss Video, Tate Modern, Londres 2005 Compétition video, Festival du Film de Locarno Prix : 2005 Prix en Arts Visuels de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture 2003 Résidence de la Mairie de Paris au Couvent des Récollets, Paris 2001 Prix Fédéral des Beaux-Arts Prix Kiefer-Hablitzel Atelier Suisse à Berlin 2000 Prix Fédéral des Beaux-Arts Prix Kiefer-Hablitzel 1999 ConcoursFédéral des Beaux-Arts Review + film contest, Migros Culture 1996 Fonds Cantonal de Décoration et d`Art Visuel de Genève

Even If We Fall is a video film of 9`30 questioning the relationships inside a family and the role played by each of its members. In a silent house, a father, mother and daughter are gathered together, waiting very still and quiet in the living room. Suddenly the mother grabs the daughter?s hands and the three of them leave the room to isolate themselves in the parents? bedroom. There they will perform a very unique ritual: the daughter having decided to offer her hair to her mother. The film presents the strong interactions between the daughter and her two parents in parallel with the very special bond that ties the father and the mother, re-questioning the notion of love and sacrifice inside the family cell.

Emmanuelle Antille was born in 1972 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied at the Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva, and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She makes films, photographs and installations, writes texts and scripts, is a singer and musician. These heterogeneous aspects of her artistic production give life to autonomous works or to interventions in which the fusion of these various elements animate installations where dream, illusion and reality merge and overlap. Her interest is concentrated on the analysis of domestic relations and behaviours, the dynamics established within groups, and behavioural that characterise the life of a clan. With actors in her films, she creates scenes in which human relations analysed within a ritual, such as a game, become exasperated into tortured confessions or mysterious silences. Her stories are a subtle and poetic reflection on questions relating to the double, to introspection, and to communication with others: ?All my work rotates around a certain distance from reality, the relationship with sound, the boundary between dream and reality, hallucination?. The language of video becomes a way to rewrite emotions, to capture life in its most intimate aspects, to translate dream images into reality. Antille has received several recognitions and awards including: three Swiss Art Awards, Kiefer-Hablitzel Prize, Review + film contest, Migros Culture, Swiss Studio in Berlin and in Couvent des Recollets in Paris. Her exhibitions include: Kunstverein in Frankfurt, The Renaissance Society in Chicago, CCA in Glasgow, Site Gallery in Sheffield, Toyko Wonder Site in Tokyo, De Appel in Amsterdam, Migros Museum in Zürich, Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 2003 she represented Switzerland in the 50th edition of the Venice Biennale.

"Strings of Affection" shows the particular connection of a woman with her domestic space Using a ball of string, she begins weaving threads through all the rooms of the house, creating a web inside the apartment. Little by little a strange inner geometry takes shape, a geometry which is at once very liberating, but starts to be paradoxically totally constricting. The apartment becomes a mental space, a mirror place of the psyche of the character, " as if we could follow the thread of her thoughts ". The architecture appears as a place of mutation, at the same time very opened on the outside, while closing on itself as a trap. Taken in this net, the woman?s body is forced, whereas its spirit escapes and the gestures are liberated.

Emmanuelle Antille was born in 1972 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied at the Ecole Supérieure d`Art Visuel in Geneva, and at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She makes films, photographs and installations, writes texts and scripts, is a singer and musician. These heterogeneous aspects of her artistic production give life to autonomous works or to interventions in which the fusion of these various elements animate installations where dream, illusion and reality merge and overlap. Her interest is concentrated on the analysis of domestic relations and behaviours, the dynamics established within groups, and behavioural that characterise the life of a clan. With actors in her films, she creates scenes in which human relations analysed within a ritual, such as a game, become exasperated into tortured confessions or mysterious silences. Her stories are a subtle and poetic reflection on questions relating to the double, to introspection, and to communication with others: ?All my work rotates around a certain distance from reality, the relationship with sound, the boundary between dream and reality, hallucination?. The language of video becomes a way to rewrite emotions, to capture life in its most intimate aspects, to translate dream images into reality. Antille has received several recognitions and awards including: three Swiss Art Awards, Kiefer-Hablitzel Prize, Review + film contest, Migros Culture, Swiss Studio in Berlin and in Couvent des Recollets in Paris. Her exhibitions include: Kunstverein in Frankfurt, The Renaissance Society in Chicago, CCA in Glasgow, Site Gallery in Sheffield, Toyko Wonder Site in Tokyo, De Appel in Amsterdam, Migros Museum in Zürich, Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris. In 2003 she represented Switzerland in the 50th edition of the Venice Biennale.

Nuutajärvi glass factory was closed after operating for 200 years. What happens to a small locality that loses its livelihood in the hands of globalization? Experimental documentary revolves around a young glassblower Kirsi Anttila and her family.

Hanna Maria Anttila (b. 1974, Savonlinna, Finland) is an artist and a producer based in Helsinki. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki Finland and at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Anttila is interested in how societal changes become visible in everyday life and its details. Careful composition, clarity of form and precise punctuation are characteristic to her work. Hanna Maria Anttila works as the director of AV-arkki, the Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art in addition to her artistic work.