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A car with a big sound system broadcasts a text of Eduardo Affonso Reidy on his modern architecture precepts. It drives around the Conjunto Habitacional Pedregulho, a social housing complex build from 1946 by the same architect and also called Minhocão (the big worm) by his inhabitants. The ballet of the driving car, combined with interviews, sound extracts from the fiction film « Lucio Flávio, the passenger of agony » (shot partly in the site) and other scenes, produce a portrait of a major modernist Brazilian building and of the popular northern zone´s context of Rio de Janeiro. The film raises issues about patrimony and memory of social housings in a place which is about to be renovated after 50 years of state´s abandonment and autonomous management.

Raphael Grisey (1979, lives in Paris and Berlin) Raphaël Grisey, artist in the time-based arts, realized experimental films, video installations, video-essays, and documentaries. His work gathers or produces narratives around collective memories, migrations or architecture. www.raphaelgrisey.net

The film is constructed around the evolution of a trial in Belgrade, the first of its kind in Serbia to accuse Serbs of war crimes for their part in the Ovcara massacre near Vukovar in 1991 - the first major massacre in the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. In a hotel in Belgrade, the families of the Croatian victims speak their minds about the trial, and talk about their situation. In Vukovar, in a car driving through the town at night, a voice talks about invisible traces. At the tribunal, the families and lawyers talk of the trial?s exhibits and issues. Two scenes in the room of the disappeared in Zagreb and at the scene of the crime give the event concrete expression.

A young man in a bomb-vest, on the run, lands in the backyard of a confused woman whose dead husband is in a chair in her living room. Shot in black-and-white, the film makes allusions to the early work of Alfred Hitchcock.

In short narrative films, documentary and installation work, Bart Groenendaal (Amsterdam, 1975) explores how the cinema shapes our social subjectivity and the world around us as expression of ideology.

A young woman wanders around a business district at night and at dawn meets seven lonely strangers, who each fall under the thrall of her energy. Inspired by the imagery of the Flemish Primitives and made in collaboration with a real-life quantum-healer, the film is a musing on the longing for connection in a neoliberal urban context.

In short narrative films, documentary and installation work, Bart Groenendaal (Amsterdam, 1975) explores how the cinema shapes our social subjectivity and the world around us as an ever fluctuating expression of ideology.

In the Hauts de Mayotte (The Comoro Islands), a secret space, of magic and escape, men and dogs, maintain filial almost intertwined relationships, companion species who share a common land of transformation and autonomy. Smogi has a particular relationship with dogs but also with the power of the elements, nature and the sly spirits that inhabit him (the djinns). “Dio” crosses different belief systems in a wild syncretism where the Muslim call to prayer also marks a moment of reunion with the animist and impure forces of the forest.

Laura Henno is a photographer. Koropa is her first film. She is currently developing her next film M`TSAMBORO which will also take place in the Comoros. Winner of the Prize Découverte of the Rencontres Internationales de Photographie of Arles in 2007, her photographic work is represented by the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire.

A personal deconstruction of a war document. A war experienced in exile through images from the news, a correspondence with home, and interviews with fellow ex-patriots. An intuitively collected stock of images, compiled together a few years later, to reflect on mediated-memory.

Sagi Groner was born in Israel in 1971. Since 1996, he has been living and working in Amsterdam.

Based on the artist’s poetic reconfiguration of Susan Sontag’s 1969 text The Aesthetics of Silence and drawing on his studio practice, this work is comprised of a series of artistic gestures, observations and small performances that explore the erotics of philosophy, the uselessness of poetry, and dumb yearning.

Troy Gronsdahl is an artist and cultural worker from Saskatoon. Gronsdahl studied at the University of Saskatchewan and holds a master’s degree from Emily Carr University of Art and Design where he was the recipient of the Governor General’s Academic Medal. Gronsdahl has received a number of awards including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and Saskatchewan Arts Board. In addition to his visual art practice, he also creates distinctive, genre-bending hip hop music under the moniker soso, touring extensively both nationally and internationally. His artwork has been presented at screenings and exhibitions across Canada.

Jouant sur la limite entre documentaire et œuvre vidéo, Strike a pose suit Ariane V., body-buildeuse et Docteur en science de la Vie d’origine belge vivant en Suisse. Durant 9 mois, Maëlle Gross a côtoyé Ariane. Cet investissement dans la durée avait pour but de créer une intimité entre l’artiste et son sujet, afin que ce dernier puisse entrer dans un processus de lâcher prise, gage de confiance. Au moyen d’interviews, de la danse et d’immersion dans le monde du bodybuilding, peu à peu nous nous rendons compte d’un état d’ambïguité du corps. Pousser les limites physiques, se détacher de sa propre enveloppe pour la traiter comme une sculpture. Arrivé au paroxysme de sa métamorphose, la protagoniste devient alors, hors-norme. Hors-norme des critères de beauté stéréotypée du corps genré auxquelles elle est associée. Une invitation à l’introspection subjective dans l’imagerie contrôlée du corps où la limite entre le raisonnable et l’excessif se fait de plus en plus petite au fur et à mesure de la transformation radical qu’Ariane a entrepris sur son corps.

Née le 20 novembre 1988 à Lausanne en Suisse, Maëlle Gross montre très jeune un intérêt particulier pour la photographie et la vidéo. Diplômée en 2013 de la Haute Ecole d’Art et Design de Genève, elle déménage ensuite à Londres et intègre la Goldsmiths University où elle obtient en 2015 son Master of Fine Art avec mention. Son travail a notamment été présenté lors du festival vidéo R4 à Paris, a participé à une performance collective à l’Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) de Londres ainsi qu`à la galerie Large Glass à Londres sous le collectif Almosthere. Aujourd’hui, Maëlle Gross vit et travaille entre Londres et Genève.

"The woodland threshold" takes us on an introspective journey into the heart of the Laotian forest. The film follows Dao's journey, letting her thoughts wander to the rhythm of her footsteps, venturing into the depths of her memory. Between the parks of Rennes, where she lives, and the jungles of northern Laos, we wander with her on an inner journey, where the boundary between past and present becomes porous.

Giulia Grossmann was born in Paris in 1984, she studied visual arts and anthropology. In her work she explores the interactions between humans and their environment. Her films play with the permeable border between fiction and documentary. Since her first short film Native American, rewarded with the Inrocks lab video creation prize in 2012, her work has been exhibited in art centers, galleries and museums as well as in festivals in France and abroad.

What happens when a family revisit a house they abandoned sixteen years ago? It wasn’t a decision where Saira & Salim had a choice. Would you be able to relive those delightful memories & conversations without the traumatic ones overpowering your emotions?

Eshwarya is a post graduate film student at National Institute of Design, India. She has studied architecture and believes that film is all about capturing the emotion of a space or creating a subconscious space and how people interact with it.

About 100 years ago, El Lissitzky (1890-1941) crafted the first avant-garde children's book, "About Two Squares." Two years prior, he vividly illustrated the Jewish Passover tale, "Chad Gadya" or "One Little Goat." This cumulative song was designed in such a way that each subsequent verse incorporated a fresh element that abolishes the one from the previous verse. This unique creation also marked Lissitzky’s final foray into Jewish illustrations before his evolution into a pivotal figure in the Soviet avant-garde movement. Fast forward to the present, the six-screen installation, Living Spaces and Imaginary Museums, blends Lissitzky’s folklore and avant-garde ideas, staged within domestic and institutional settings. A museum attendant irons red and black towels inside a Baroque museum while uttering the punk song "Red Over White" (1984) by Siouxsie and the Banshees, as a tongue-in-cheek reference to Lissitzky’s most known political poster- “Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge” (1919). Meanwhile, another character sings the Italian version of "Chad Gadya" in a moving van. On another screen he engages in a conversation with a third character, a potential lover who answers his questions about Lissitzky’s “About Two Squares”. These illusive and allusive scenes morph into a sonorous and visual canon interval that transfigures everything — folklore and the avant-garde, private and public spheres, the past and present — transforming them all into a fairytale.

Assaf Gruber (b. Jerusalem, 1980) is a sculptor and filmmaker living and working in Berlin. The dynamic relationship between individuals and institutions is at the center of his practice, which aims to explore both how the political orientation of legacy establishments impact the lives of individuals and how these organizations choose to represent and communicate facts and their attendant artifacts. The absurd biographies of the protagonists in his projects simultaneously reveal and obscure the reasons and motives that lead people to obey or rebel against their inner world or the society in which they live. His photography, sculpture, and installations place the materiality of objects in relation to narrative dimensions, which in turn create fictional spaces where movement and non-movement function as a medium. Gruber’s solo exhibitions include the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018) and the Muzeum Sztuki, ?ód? (2015). His films have been featured in festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023) and FID Marseille (2022). He studied at Cooper Union in New York and is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. Gruber was one of the fellows of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme 2022/23 (gkfd).

Inspired by the children’s book About Two Squares created by El Lisstzky exactly 100 years ago, Transient Witness simultaneously merges and obscures the intimate from the public, in a story where the actions of collecting and stealing function as synonyms and inheritance and loss immerse. It is a fictional story of the transfer of the objects from the private house of avant-garde collector Egidio Marzona in Berlin to their new domicile – the Japanisches Palais, a Rococo building that belongs to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD). The plot is told through the eyes of three main characters: Christina, the manager of the collection; Maurizio, the art mover; and Präsens the collector’s dog. Fiction meets reality: the film takes place on 25 November 2019. On that day, priceless jewelry of immense cultural value was stolen from the Green Vault in Dresden in one of the biggest art heists in history, causing a national shock in Germany. The film unfolds a complex story, navigating between historical facts about the Baroque and the Avant-garde; art and its politics.

Assaf Gruber (b. Jerusalem, 1980) is a sculptor and filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin. The dialectical relationship between the individual and the establishment is at the centre of his work, which explores how political orientations of institutions impact the lives of individuals and how institutions choose to represent and communicate facts and artefacts. Gruber studied at the Cooper Union in New York and is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. His solo exhibitions include the Muzeum Sztuki, ?ód? (2015), the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018), Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2018), among others. His films have been featured in festivals including the Berlinale Film Festival, FID Marseille (2019), and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2016).

Museum depots are places where things are kept out of sight, but also protected from all-too-schematic historical judgments. In his new film, Assaf Gruber continues his ongoing investigation of the backstage areas of art institutions to engage with Neue Galerie Graz’s holdings. In the cage-like space of the repository, we see a naked musician working intensely on a composition. He is inspired by artists who belong to a gray area between modernist aspirations and enthusiasm for Nazism, and whose works combine a taste for the exotic with local patriotism, religious fervor, and eroticism. Our mysterious protagonist tentatively plays a familiar melody. It's a song known to many of us, recognisable from dance floors across Europe - but how many of us have ever bothered to listen to its remarkably rascist and imperialistic lyrics?

Assaf Gruber (b. Jerusalem, 1980) is a sculptor and filmmaker living and working in Berlin. The dynamic relationship between individuals and institutions is at the center of his practice, which aims to explore both how the political orientation of legacy establishments impact the lives of individuals and how these organizations choose to represent and communicate facts and their attendant artifacts. Gruber’s solo exhibitions include the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018) and the Muzeum Sztuki, ?ód? (2015). His films have been featured in festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023) and FID Marseille (2022). He studied at Cooper Union in New York and is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. Gruber is currently one of the fellows of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme 2022/23 (gkfd).

Miraculous Accident is a transtemporal film that narrates the love story between Nadir, a Moroccan student at the ?ód? Film School in 1968, his Jewish editing teacher Edyta, and their shared relationship with Jarek, Nadir’s best friend and Edyta’s protégé. Nadir is among a group of North African students sent to study communist filmmaking techniques as part of the Eastern Bloc’s support for anti-imperialist struggles. Despite her opposition to Zionism, Edyta is forced to leave Poland due to the political rift between Poland and Israel following the Six-Day War or the Naksa (The Setback). In 2024, Nadir returns to the school to make a film after discovering a forgotten letter Edyta wrote to him from Haifa in 1989. The film mourns the cruelty of nations, birthing rare miracles—accidental loves—only to crush them before they breathe. Inspired by the life of former Moroccan student, poet, and filmmaker Abdelkader Lagtaâ, who also plays Nadir in the film, Miraculous Accident weaves its plot through original footage and extracts from 1960s student films by Lagtaâ and his peers.

Assaf Gruber (b. Jerusalem, 1980) is a sculptor and filmmaker living and working in Berlin. The dynamic relationship between individuals and institutions is at the center of his practice, which aims to explore both how the political orientation of legacy establishments impact the lives of individuals and how these organizations choose to represent and communicate facts and their attendant artifacts. The absurd biographies of the protagonists in his projects simultaneously reveal and obscure the reasons and motives that lead people to obey or rebel against their inner world or the society in which they live. His photography, sculpture, and installations place the materiality of objects in relation to narrative dimensions, which in turn create fictional spaces where movement and non-movement function as a medium. Gruber’s solo exhibitions include the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018) and the Muzeum Sztuki,Assaf Gruber (b. Jerusalem, 1980) is a sculptor and filmmaker living and working in Berlin. The dynamic relationship between individuals and institutions is at the center of his practice, which aims to explore both how the political orientation of legacy establishments impact the lives of individuals and how these organizations choose to represent and communicate facts and their attendant artifacts. The absurd biographies of the protagonists in his projects simultaneously reveal and obscure the reasons and motives that lead people to obey or rebel against their inner world or the society in which they live. His photography, sculpture, and installations place the materiality of objects in relation to narrative dimensions, which in turn create fictional spaces where movement and non-movement function as a medium. Gruber’s solo exhibitions include the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2018) and the Muzeum Sztuki, ?ód? (2015). His films have been featured in festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023) and FID Marseille (2022). He studied at Cooper Union in New York and is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent. (2015). His films have been featured in festivals including the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2023) and FID Marseille (2022). He studied at Cooper Union in New York and is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts (HISK) in Ghent.

Animals from Eastern Europe for the Italian food/meat industry used to be transported to the towns along the state border in Northeast Italy. From those conveyor-belt spaces of death, only one animal managed to come in and out alive.

Igor Grubic (1969) has been active as a multimedia artist since the early 1990s. His work includes site-specific interventions in public spaces, photography, and film. He represented Croatia at the 58th Venice Biennale. His critical, socio-politically committed practice is characterized by long-term engagement, his work focusing on past and present political situations, from an in-depth exploration of the fate of historical monuments and the demise of industry, to the examination of the predicament of minority communities. Though grounded in documentarist tradition, his work in photography and film is characterized by an affective and empathetic approach that is deeply humane and often poetic. His work has been exhibited internationally, receiving several awards.

The Marquis de Sade and his written word (culled from the philosophical diatribes permeating his letters and novels), combined with the critical dialogues of writers and scholars influenced by his work, together provide a heady scent infusing the thoughts and actions of three members of an upper class family whose summer home, nestled below the glowing hilltop fortress of the Marquis' castle, is an elegant fortified Provencal estate amid a landscape of lavender fields and olive trees. Wandering the ruins of medieval fortresses and erstwhile chateaus, each character performs the different facets of Sade's philosophy while undertaking all the intoxicating pleasures of privacy and affluence before retiring (sooner or later, and according to the laws of Nature), to their inevitable fate. This film is meant to be viewed and understood on two levels: first as a narrative in which each character acts and reacts in relation to each other and their environment, and second, as a document of the different roles within families (in this case particularly a filmmaker/ daughter's connection to her family). On both levels, the Marquis de Sade and his writing become the premise and language by which communication is intelligible, dissolving the personal and societal barriers of personhood and secrecy.

Sabine Gruffat is a media artist currently living in Detroit and Paris. She learned to make movies at the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her films and videos have screened at several microcinema venues/ galleries including AS220 in Providence RI, the PDX Film Festival in Portland OR, Discount Cinema and The Ice Factory in Chicago, IL, and more recently, Hull screen U.K, The Gene Siskel Film Center, The Gramercy Theater, and Anthology Film Archives in New York. Her photographs and video installations have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General in New York, the Rochester Art Center, and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brazil. When she is not teaching in Detroit, she spends her time traveling, rediscovering historical events and monuments, and wearing costumes.

Katharina Gruzei combines a sociopolitical issue and a precise formal concept, which is rare in experimental film. Inspired by the Lumière brothers? first film, La sortie de l?usine Lumière à Lyon, which shows a large number of workers leaving their factory?s gate, Gruzei begins in the interior, in a passageway (made to seem incredibly long by the editing) that emerges from the darkness. More and more of them walk down the dark, flickering hallway. By these scenes the weirdness of the space and the menacing quality of a mass of people who could form a resistance movement becomes increasingly evident. All relevant questions concerning the on-the-job reality experienced by these workers, most of whom are women, can be formulated by means of association: Is it nighttime when they leave the factory? What kind of work do they have to do? What do female laborers earn these days? How long does it take them to get home from this monstrous factory, and when will it be moved to a low-wage country?

born 1983 Studies of Experimental Art and Cultural Studies at the University of the Arts in Linz, Austria. Studies abroad at the Art Department of the Universtiy of California Santa Barbara and at the University of Fine Arts Berlin for Visual Cultural Studies in the class of Katharina Sieverding. Katharina Gruzei works with photography, film, video, installations, media-performances, sound and objects. Working conceptually, she experiments between these disciplines and arrives at an unique crossover language.

The paranormal experiment with a train set by psycho-physisist Dr. Johannes Hagel relates to the synchronicity hypothesis of C.G.Jung. After thousands of passes the train set shows suddenly the prognostified anomalities, according to the complex calculations by the psycho-physisist.

The filmmaker and artist Romeo Grünfelder (* 1968) MA in Music, Philosophy, Media and Visual Communication. He was a fellow of Villa Aurora in Pacific Palisades and in 2008 he received a art grant from the city of Hamburg. He teaches drama and philosophy at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He lives and works in Hamburg. 
Grünfelder?s work was shown in exhibition context and at international film and media festivals. His awarded shortfilms are experimental documentaries in the broadest sense, oscillating between documentary and fine art. His main focus is on paranormal topics. Grünfelder?s work is represented by the Short Film Agency Hamburg, the Berlin gallery Kunstagenten as well as by the gallery Ruzicska-Weiss, Dusseldorf.

A video shows two migrants of different origins wandering through the winding streets of the Eternal City, ending up in the non-Catholic cemetery. The first visits the tomb of the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci and places a mint on it; the second then goes and eats the candy. Who or what needs “freshening up”? Milutin Gubash's work orchestrates an encounter with Gramscian theories, rediscovered in contemporary times. Among the best-known, cultural hegemony describes the maintenance of power and wealth by the state and the dominant capitalist class - the bourgeoisie - through the imposition of an ideology dictating the social norm. In the same way that mint invades fertile ground, dominant ideology infiltrates the minds of the masses, both having harmful repercussions on diversity. Although this theory was invoked by the right to win the battle of opinion, the contemporary era is also witnessing a reinvestment of these writings used as a theoretical framework for a reflection on (im)migration that considers the ways in which migrants can question the hegemonic order and contribute to alternative visions of society. Also renowned for his reflections on the southern question, Gramsci wrote about alliance and solidarity, resonating today with the potential for alliances between (non-)migrants to bring about social and political transformation, as well as change to the capitalist system.

Language Lesson (2016) intercuts two tracking shots -- a shaky handheld approach to the Yugoslav dictator’s mausoleum, with a smooth following shot of my Yugoslav mother walking through her Canadian apartment corridor, and entering the small living quarters in which she will almost certainly pass the remainder of her days. If she’s not exactly an exile, she’s certainly cut off from her past, her friends, the sites where she grew up and feels most familiar, or so we may imagine just upon hearing her accent, which comes in the form of voiceover, where she gives us a little lesson in speaking Serbian. She says things like, “This is here, this is mine, this is shit, I don’t like this…”, alternating in English, then Serbian (subtitled in French). The thoughts expressed range from neutral, to (perhaps) happy, to disappointed or displeased. As she walks, her thoughts seem to change. Similarly, a change happens on the approach to the mausoleum, which at first appears lavish, in sparkling marble. We don’t know at first where we are, other than in a cemetery, the burial site of someone very esteemed, wealthy, important. After short bursts of the approach, we eventually see the name of Tito, which perhaps causes us to reflect on opulence in a land where there was seldom plenty. The camera drops quickly to the ground, where we apprehend a struggle between a colony of ants, which crawl in and out of the cracks in the marble base of the crypt, each fighting for the corpse of a fly. Notions of sacrifice and fellowship in the common pursuit of attaining a progressive, egalitarian social order, rapidly give way to an each-for-their-own, eat-or-be-eaten state of affairs.

Born in Novi Sad (Serbia) and lives in Montréal (Canada) since 2005, Milutin Gubash has presented exhibitions in Québec, Canada, the United States, and Europe, including a solo show at Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2007) and a ten year survey exhibition co-produced by six institutions across Canada (Rodman Hall Art Centre 2011, Carleton University Art Gallery 2012, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery 2012, Southern Alberta Art Gallery 2012, Musée d’art de Joliette 2012 and Fonderie Darling 2013). He was the recipient of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec studio residency in Paris for 2016. His practice encompasses photography, video, and performance, and regularly features the participation of his family and friends, who portray versions of themselves in Do-It-Yourself soap operas, historical rewrites and improv theatre pieces. Using simple means and often absurdist gestures, Gubash reconsiders assumptions about the narratives of our identities, histories and environments.

LOTS is an extended video (self)portrait in 24 scenes. The artist develops his alter-ego through a series of interrelated sketches, which in turn are shown to form the basis of an art exhibition. The videos are like little capsules, treating topics such as family relationships, identity, self-mythologizing, sickness, death and the nature of creative endeavor. Reflections of life`s big issues through personal and comedic anecdotes.

Born in Novi Sad Yugoslavia, lives in Montréal Québec since 2006. Milutin Gubash has mounted numerous exhibitions in Québec, Canada, the United States, and Europe. His practice encompasses photography, video, and performance, and regularly features the participation of his family and friends. Being outside of his own culture obliges him to question and re-invent his own cosmology. Autobiographical anecdotes, gossip, and innuendo are the fact-and-fantasy material he uses to represent the vagaries of life as an artist.