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Sur une petite île au large de la Baltique, une idylle douce-amère entre l?homme qui tente de se faire une place et la nature qui n`en a cure.

"Dans le désordre, Catherine Dalfin a fait des études de lettres et d'histoire de l'art, s'est glissée à la radio pendant un certain temps, a croisé la route d'un collectif d'artistes, a été critique d'art pensant que ça valait la peine, a cru pouvoir participer à la création d'une revue et a finalement persévéré dans la vie après avoir touché une caméra." (Catherine Dalfin, juin 2009).

SPEECHLOSS est un film traversé par des personnages solitaires, des figures en décalage et en quête de sens. Dans une ambiance maritime et étrange, on croise une joggeuse, un bodybuilder, des chiens et un étrange organe géant. Speechloss est une succession de quatre tableaux dans lesquels souffle le vent et un puissant désir de se dire vivant. Car chacun.e incarne un.e IA abandonnée, en attente d’activation.

Charlotte Dalia est née en 1993. Elle est diplômée de l’Institut Supérieur des Arts de Toulouse. Artiste plasticienne, vidéaste et réalisatrice, ses recherches portent sur les effets tant plastiques que narratifs du cinéma. Impégnée du principe de «cinémonde» théorisé par Jean-Luc Nancy, elle utilise le cinéma en tant que répertoire de signes «ouvrant le dedans sur lui-même». Elle a participé à de nombreuses expositions collectives et a été invitée à construire deux expositions personnelles. Poursuivant ses recherches sur les écritures de la réalité à travers les formes de la fiction, elle se forme à l’écriture documentaire auprès de Ty Films et Films en Bretagne. Elle travaille actuellement au développement d’ALMERICA, un projet mêlant crise climatique et décors de cinéma, et à l’écriture d’ un moyen métrage faisant suite à SPEECHLOSS, pour en poursuivre l'univers.

The title refers both to a fictional unit of soldiers and their role in detaining the men standing on the stones in the field, and also to the role of a team in commercial film production to the role of shooting material without the requirement of the main cast and crew. The presence of the camera in observing events, and the characters awareness of it, in front of and behind the camera, lends the video a functional aesthetic that suggests it is made for tactical or intelligence purposes, but is made complicated by the soundtrack, where all the extraneous sounds of the surroundings are audible apart from the dialogue, which further obscures its reading.

Dan Walwin studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, and begins a residency at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam in 2012. Recent presentations include European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck in 2011, Rencontres Internationales in 2010/11 and Festarte Video Art Festival (Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome) in 2010. A solo exhibition of his, tele-, begins in November 2011 at ZAAL5, Filmhuis Den Haag, Netherlands. More information can be found at www.danwalwin.co.uk

Water is a burned body is an attempt to evoke a dystopia by economic means. A couple wake to find a boat colliding with wall of the flooded house they are in. The man goes to investigate, only to find the body of a woman, which he discards into the water. They set off in the boat into the open water, coming across an obstruction that puts an end to their attempts.

Dan Walwin is an artist working primarily in video, having studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, graduating in 2007. Recent shows include For the sake of the image at Jerwood Space, London, 2010, Verena Klary, Iwan van`t Spijker, Dan Walwin at Walden Affairs, The Hague, 2009, and Nature Untouched at Tou Vindu, Stavanger, 2007.

A short documentary about life in the Everglades National Park’s with it’s few residents. Living in the midst of a national park, they learn to exist with the the wild. As a woman filmmaker I observe these men almost like an anthropologist, observing how they interact with their surroundings. The only women that appear in the film are as still images in Lucky`s photographs, . He believes that women like having themselves put in a romantic, exotic, dangerous setting to be photographed.

Dana Levy was born in Tel Aviv and Lives and works in New York. She completed her Post graduate in Electronic Imaging at the Duncan of Jordanston College of Art Dundee University, Scotland, and holds a BA from Camberwell Art College London Awards include 2013 Beatrice Kolliner Young Artist Award from the Israel Museum, 2010 Dumbo Arts Festival best studio award, 2008 Young Israeli Artist Award, 2006 Hamburg Short Film festival jury award. Solo shows include at The Israel Museum, CCA Tel Aviv, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery New York . Her work has been screened at Tate London, Tribeca Film Festival,Oberhausen Film Festival and more. group shows include at the Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena 2013, Bass Museum, Miami, Florida, Invisible Exports Gallery NYC , MOCA Cleveland, EVA International Bienniel , Israel Museum Jerusalem, Harn Museum of Art ,OK Contemporary Art, Linz Au and more Artist Residencies include AIRIE Everglades National Park, Wave Hill Workspace residency New, LMCC Workspace NYC, Le Havre/ New York. Regards croisés
Art Omi NY, I-park, Connecticut, Triangle Arts Association NY and more

Reasonable Doubt(s) is a multi-part, multi-media examination of the role of police and prosecutorial misconduct in the wrongful convictions of Black people focused on the relation between race, place, identity, and systemic injustice in the US criminal legal system. Reasonable Doubt(s): Chapter One “Central Valley,” is an immersive, three-channel video installation documenting the history of official misconduct that led to the wrongful conviction of Timothy James Young, an innocent, Black, death row prisoner currently incarcerated in California’s Pelican Bay State Prison. Young’s death penalty conviction in predominantly white Tulare County, California, depended on police misconduct (including suborning the false testimony of a jailhouse informant, witness intimidation, and evidence tampering), prosecutorial misconduct (withholding exculpatory evidence and racially biased jury selection), judicial abuse of discretion, and false or misleading interpretation of forensic evidence. The 40,000-page case file and over 12,000-page transcript of Young’s trial, provide a startling account of a ten-year-long investigation and prosecution riddled with racist abuses. Reasonable Doubt(s): Chapter One “Central Valley,” delves deeply into this massive set of documents to investigate the investigation and trial, interlacing archival media based on transcripts, case files, and forensic evidence, newly recorded and performed ‘readings’ of transcripts and reports and original interviews with legal experts and case participants. Set in the Central Valley of California, Reasonable Doubt(s): Chapter One also draws a connection between the history of Black migration from the Jim Crow South to the area in the 1930s and 40s, the rise of mass incarceration and the prison building boom in California’s agricultural communities in the 1980s and 90’s, and their disproportionate rates of arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of people from their relatively small and marginalized Black communities. The video installation introduces a media-rich digital archive in which Young’s case history provides a narrative through-line linking stories of official misconduct and racial bias in the cases of five other wrongfully incarcerated Black men from southwestern Ohio and Chester, PA. These Black men, like thousands of others, have been wrongfully imprisoned because of who they are and where they were from - because they lived within a history of racism and economic struggle in which place, race, poverty, and gender predetermine their encounters with police and courts. The correspondences drawn between their case narratives in Reasonable Doubt(s) demonstrate how racism, corruption, official impunity, and indifference to innocence undermine the credibility of the criminal legal system in the United States.

Sharon Daniel is a media artist and scholar who creates interactive and participatory documentary artworks, builds digital archives and writes essays addressing issues of social, racial and environmental injustice, with a particular focus on mass incarceration and the criminal legal system. Her documentary-based art works have been exhibited in museums and festivals internationally such as CPH:DOX, Copenhagen (April-May 2021), in Electronic Literature Organization’s COVID E-Lit exhibition, Bergen, Norway (April 2021), in Barring Freedom, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (Oct – May 2021), in the Museum of Capitalism, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons School of Design, NYC, NY (Oct – Dec 2019) in a solo exhibition Secret Injustices, at the Schmidt Center (US, FL, 2017), as an official selection in the Alternate Realities exhibition at Sheffield Doc|Fest (UK, 2016), and in a solo exhibition titled Convictions at STUK Kunstencentrum, (Belgium, 2013). Daniel’s works have also been shown in museums and festivals such as WRO media art biennial 2011 (Poland), Artefact 2010 (Belgium), Transmediale 08 (Germany), the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival DEAF03 (Netherlands), Ars Electronica (Austria), the Lincoln Center Festival (NY/USA), the Corcoran Biennial (Washington DC) and the University of Paris I (France). Her essays have been published in books, including Female Authorship and the Documentary Image (Oxford University Press, in press), Context Providers (Intellect Press 2011), Database Aesthetics (Minnesota University Press 2007) and the Sarai Reader05, as well as in professional journals such as ASAP, Cinema Journal, Leonardo, Studies in Documentary Film and Springerin. Her writings and projects have also been published in online journals such as Stretch, Thresholds and Vectors. Daniel was honored by the Webby Awards in 2008 and the Rockefeller/Tribeca Film Festival New Media Fellowship in 2009. In 2015-16 She was named in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts “YBCA 100” – a list of “the creative minds, makers, and pioneers that are asking the questions and making the provocations that will shape the future of American culture”. She was a 2017 Fulbright Scholar at Ulster University in Art, Design and the Built Environment. Daniel was recently awarded a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.

"Notes From A Journey" uses images and sound captured whilst on a journey through the British landscape as the material for an exploration of the acts of looking/seeing listening/hearing. More than simply mapping a journey across the country, this film presents a map of the filmmakers' engagement with the images of the landscape. By reducing them to impressions, fragments, fictions and forms, the recorded images/sounds are transformed into “artefacts” which, when presented in the sequence of a film, activate narratives, ideas and sensations in the viewer. Central to the film are scenes shot at the Neolithic mound and stone circle of Avebury, motifs that speak of the long and complex relationship humans have to their environment and how through art and ritual we seek to understand our place in relation to it. Ultimately this film is a journey in itself – a first person encounter with the limits of perception, it exists in a place where both the recording device and the human senses are tested.

Daniel & Clara, two humans one artist on a journey of exploration of dimensions real and imagined, the results of which consist of moving image, photography and performance. In their current work they have been exploring the British landscape as a site for encounters with the mysterious, the eerie, the otherworldly and the unknown. As they say, “we seek to see with one eye open and one eye closed, sight turned simultaneously out towards the world and inward to the depths of the human experience.” In their work, images and sounds of the landscape become activators of narratives where past, present and the imagination intermingle. Their work has been exhibited and screened internationally at galleries and film festivals including Whitechapel Gallery, Kettle’s Yard, Fabrica Gallery, Close-up Cinema, BFI, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Doclisboa, Microcinema Artist Moving Image, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Black Box Farnham, Film Mutations Zagreb. In 2019 they launched Moving Image Artists (MIA), an organisation dedicated to supporting and cultivating contemporary moving image art and experimental film. This includes an online magazine, screenings and the Moving Image Salon, a monthly gathering for artists to meet, share and discuss their work. The Moving Image Salon takes place at Film and Video Umbrella, London. Several of their films are distributed online by Tao Films and Kinoscope. Films by Daniel & Clara are also included in the BFI National Archive.

An inquisitive voice from the far future, or "visitor from another place", interrogates the traditions and artefacts of the Blackpool Illuminations, the annual light festival first established in 1879. The disembodied voice seeks to understand, but often confuses, Northern English vernacular and traditions against the current shifting political dialogue surrounding Britain's future; misunderstanding Blackpool's unique fantastical imagery as totemic remnants of a former era. Daniels presents his own contemporary 16mm and super-8 film observations as a found archive, and a script littered with word-play related to the local landscape and other seaside end-of-the-pier resorts. Co-comissioned by Grundy Art Gallery and ICA Art and Screen Network.

Chris Paul Daniels is an Artist and Filmmaker, based in Manchester. His work is characterised by experimental documentation of communal perspectives and memories regarding geographical location .He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 and co-won the Deutsche Bank Award for Art with Maria Anastassiou for Unravel, the longest hand painted ?lm in Britain. This project resulted in one hundred public events across the UK including Tate Britain, BFI Southbank, Turner Contemporary and IKON Gallery. In December 2016, Unravel undertook a residency at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His recent commissions include `SAFE` at HOME in Manchester, "A Tigers Skin" at CFCCA, and "One Square Mile" for Quays Culture (with Sam Meech). Screenings include the ICA, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Maxxi, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival and Flatpack Film Festival. His most recent film "Northern Lights" is a co-commission between ICA Art and Screen Network and Grundy Art Gallery. Chris is a Lecturer at Manchester School of Art.

Au milieu d'espaces extraits de jeux vidéo, des personnes en réinsertion témoignent. Face caméra, ils évoquent leurs espoirs, leurs doutes et leurs difficultés depuis leur sortie du milieu carcéral.

Jérémie Danon vit et travaille à Paris. Il est étudiant à l'école des beaux-arts de Paris. Son travail a été présenté dans le cadre d'expositions collective et de festivals, notamment au BBB Centre d’art contemporain, Toulouse (France); à la Galerie Bridaine, Paris (France); au Centquatre, Paris (France); à la Fondation Ricard, Paris (France); au FIPADOC – Festival international de programmes audiovisuels documentaires, Biarritz (France), et à la Galerie Jeune Création à Romainville (France).

An interpretation of Italo Calvino's Zobeide: a tale of a city where the inhabitants constantly build their places upon their dreams... which never come true. Calvino names it 'an ugly city', we call it 'a reality'.

Ariani Darmawan is a video artist/filmmaker who lives and works in Bandung, Indonesia. She studied Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago after finishing her bachelor degree in Architecture at the Parahyangan Catholic University in her hometown. Most of her works comment on power/identity and language along with its construction of meanings, where she constantly erases and re-draws the lines of actuality. Ariani has participated in numerous film festivals and art exhibitions in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. She recently finished her short film called "The Anniversaries" after receiving a special mention at the Jakarta International Film Festival Script Competition.

"Do the Bambi" est une vidéo musicale expérimentale sur la chanson du groupe Stereo Total. Le film se compose de 2000 images individuelles, dessinées à la main, et relie ainsi des ambiances au visuel poétisé en se basant sur une ancienne technique de dessin animé et en utilisant les nouveaux médias.

Kenan Darwich est né en 1982 à Damas, Syrie. Il vit depuis 2001 à Hambourg. En 2003 il commence ses études à la Kunsthochschule de Kiel, section design de la communication.

During 1970’s and 80’s there were many revolutionary uprising happening, near and far, all around the world. In this period, amidst this protest and revolutionary uprising, a poet symbolically expresses his feelings to capture the complexity of human existence. Constant financial pressure in his family life is also evident in his words. At one point, words become distorted and absurd. One evening, the poet, Abani Chakravarty disappears and left many confusions.

we are two Directors 1. Bhaskar Jyoti Das, I am currently based in Assam. I’m an independent film maker and Screenplay writer. Recently two of my scripted feature films got Best film award, one, in Los Angeles Indian Film Festivals 2017, “SONAR BORON PAKHI”, another in MAMI 2016, india,”HANDUK” and National Film Award 2016. Last 10 yrs I worked for 3 UCLA projects under a professor from University of California, LA, USA. 2. Waribam Dorendra, studied basic film making in his native state of Assam in India. He explored film making process for some years with a mini DV camera. He has edited few short and long, video and documentaries of his fellow native filmmakers. He has worked with a new media group called Desire Machine Collective from 2007 till 2010 on a project called "periferry" in Guwahati city. He has made many short and long videos and documentaries since the year 2007. He finds cinema as a tool to reflect upon life as well as playful desire.

On 4TH March 2009, security forces came to Phoubakchao Makha Leikai in Imphal valley, in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur, looking for a militant ostensibly named, “Azad.” They dragged Azad Khan, just 12yrs and studying for school exams, out of his home, and shot him dead in front his parents. The draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. 1958, in force in large parts of several states of NE India, offers unbridled impunity to security forces for such gross lapses. Azad’s parents are still waiting for justice. In recent years AFSPA has been withdrawn from some parts of Manipur. Civil rights groups have been demanding its complete abrogation for many years now.

Bhaskar Jyoti Das is a writer and filmmaker from Assam, India. He is best known for "I Don't Want To Be Born Again For Poem" (2019), ‘Where is my Home’ (2021). He loves working in experimental and research-based projects.

Like many people in their later years, my grandfather had a set of oft-repeated stories. Towards the last few months of his life, a brand new person,'Chetan' started populating his life. This poem-film is an attempt to understand the feeling.

Adheep Das likes mixing various mediums and finding out what comes of them. Fascinated by science and arts alike, his interests take him to places that merge the two. As part of a 3 person collective, he got the ThinkArts Grant for Children in 2022. 'Moonless', a film he directed and animated, has competed at DokLeipzig and Dharamshala Intl. Film Festival, amongst others. His documentary 'Khaalti Kaay Varti Kaay' competed at IDSSFK, Kerala. Some of his work has also been exhibited as part of the Kochi-Muziris Students' Biennale and the Wrong Biennale. He has worked on a live shadow puppetry production called ‘Zig Zags to Earth’, and has performed at venues such as Max Muller Bhawan, Delhi, and Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts, Delhi. He has also been part of the Serendipity Arts Foundation Residency 2024.

Un récit de voyage vers des lieux créés sous une impulsion utopique et qui défient la surface du monde. Par ordre d'apparition: un palais idéal construit par un facteur après chacune de ses rondes quotidiennes; une maison rouge conçue par un agitateur socialiste; une tour pacifiste érigée contre les mouvements de l'Histoire; un jardin exubérant engendré au féminin; et un joyeux cimetière qui évoque une communauté d'égaux dans la périphérie de l'Europe. Pour nous assurer que nous risquons notre joie pour ceux qui agissent en leur temps.

Sílvia das Fadas est cinéaste, chercheuse, enseignante. Elle s’intéresse aux politiques intrinsèques aux pratiques cinématographiques et au cinéma en tant que moyen d’être ensemble dans une expérience capable d’instaurer une communauté nomade et intranquille.

In Waldenburg, situated in the Lower Silesian Coalfield, all mines are closed down. Lukasz and his elder friend Jacek have been digging coal at their own risk for several years now. Like hundreds of other former miners, they are illegally digging for the black gold on the outskirts of their city. The local police are constantly after them. The miners have also been trapped in the tunnels several times. But they keep going.

Biographie FABIAN DAUB Né le 09.03.1972 à Aix-La-Chapelle, Allemagne. FORMATION 2003 ? 2005 Académie des Beaux-Arts de Hambourg, cycle postgraduate au département film et télévision. 1999 ? 2001 Ecole Supérieure d?art visuel Genève, études au départment film. 1995 ? 2002 Académie des Beaux-Arts de Hambourg, études au département média visuels et film, diplômé. Juin 1992 : baccalauréat à l?ecole Waldorf de Ulm (Allemagne). EXPERIENCES PROFESSIONNELLES PRODUCTIONS DE FILMS Documentaires et courts-métrages (fiction) Contributions pour des magazines télévisés dans le secteur culturel Clips d?image et documentaires d?image Travaux filmiques et animations pour des productions internationales de théâtre

Good Life lets you in behind the curtain of a co-living start-up inspiring its tenants to run their entire life as a business operation. What happens when corporate storytelling becomes part of one’s innermost self and community becomes a commodity?

Viktorija Šiaulyt? (1985, Kaunas, Lithuania) is a curator and filmmaker based in Berlin. She holds an MFA in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice at Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden. Marta Dauli?t? (1984, Šiauliai, Lithuania) is film director and producer based in Stockholm. She holds an MFA in film directing at Valand Academy of Art, Sweden. Along with partner Elisabeth Marjanovi? Cronvall, she runs the film production company MDEMC.

Parallel Lines raconte l?histoire du voyage d?un réalisateur de films lors de l?automne 2001 de retour de Californie vers New York où son appartement avait autrefois une vue sur le World Trade Center. Rentrant en voiture chez elle, elle trace son chemin vers Ground Zero, s?arrête pour parler du 11 septembre avec des étrangers, ce qui, contre toute attente, ouvre une fenêtre unique sur la vie intime des américains. Les gens qu?elle rencontre au hasard veulent inévitablement partager leur propre histoire de deuils: une femme raconte la perte de la garde de son enfant, un vétéran décrit son combat contre ses troubles de stress post traumatique, un cow-boy révèle que sa mère a tué son père. Ces regards poignants le long d?une route américaine révèlent des peines de c?urs, de l?humour, des surprises mais plus que tout, l'obligation de supporter.

PARALLEL LINES est le troisième film de Nina Davenport. Son deuxième film, ALWAYS BRIDESMAID, qui est aussi un documentaire de long métrage, a fait la première en 2000 de HOB?s Cinemax Reel Life et de True Stories sur Channel Four et est aussi disponible en vidéo au Docurama/New Video. Son premier film HELLO PHOTO était en première à Rotterdam et a gagné de nombreux prix dans des festivals dont le ??Best Documentary? ? à Melbourne, en Australie, ?Outstanding Independent Film ? à New England Film & Video Festival et ?Best Cinematography ? à Cork en Ireland. Davenport a été plusieurs fois récompensée, par le National Endowment for the Arts par exemple. Ses films ont été diffusés à la télévision et montrés dans des festivals sur toute la planète, gagnant de nombreuses récompenses. Elle travaille à mi-temps comme productrice et caméraman sur des programmes TV et fut professeur assistante dans le cursus réalisation de Harvard College, là où elle fit ses études. Davenport tourne et monte ses films elle même. Elle finit en ce moment deux nouveaux films : LOS PERICOS, un film en 16 mm sur un duo de mariachi à Mexico et GRAND DELUSIONS, un documentaire de long métrage sur un aspirant réalisateur iraquien. Davenport a grandi dans les Bloomfield Hills en Michigan, elle vit et travaille aujourd'hui à New York.

Pendant que la voix de la SNCF fait des annonces sur le droit d`auteur, nous rencontrons guy Debord. Pendant que guy Debord disparait, nous expérimentons plusieurs niveaux de temps, façonnant la notion de création en un motif récurrent : un disque.

franckDavid est né le 13 août 1966 à Montreuil /s bois, est artiste, vit et travaille avec et depuis un 13", aime passionnément les chaussures, il voit et regarde au travers des verres rosés de ses lunettes de soleil qu`il ne quitte pas et se laisse souvent tenter par le silence..

Dans ce projet, Fake Estates, élaboré dans les années 1973-1974, Gordon Matta-Clark aborde les questions de la propriété, des biens immobiliers, et des espaces urbains. Matta-Clark achète alors quinze parcelles de terrain mises aux enchères par la ville de New-York. Elles sont petites, discontinues, et de taille inutilisable, du type de celles qui sont appelées les ?espaces caniveau?. Matta-Clark a réuni un grand nombre de matériaux d?archive liés à ces propriétés, mais il n?a jamais pu réaliser l?ensemble de son projet artistique, et à sa mort, les lots sont revenus à la ville. Les séquences de cette vidéo ont récemment été redécouvertes. Tournées par Jaime Davidovich, pionnier de l?art vidéo et des débuts de la télévision, elles montrent Matta-Clark dans le quartier des Queens, alors qu?il documente et visite ses parcelles.

Jaime Davidovich est un artiste conceptuel d?origine espagnole. Il vit et travaille à New York. . Auteur de vidéos et d?installations, il a également été un activiste pour la programmation de télévisions locales câblées, gérées par des artistes. Davidovich a été un membre fondateur de Cable SoHo, en 1976, et président du Artists' Television Network en 1978. Il tenait sa propre émission sur le câble, un programme de variété hebdomadaire intitulé The Live! Show, diffusé par la télévision câblée de Manhattan de 1979 à 1984. En prenant l?apparence de son alter ego, le docteur Videovich, Davidovich menait le show, qui présentait des performances d?artistes, des interviews avec des personnalités du monde de l?art, des émissions où les téléspectateurs pouvaient intervenir en direct par téléphone, et même des séquences de télé-achat, lors lesquelles il mettait en vente sa collection d?objets kitsch liés à la télévision.

At the end of 2014 the Ministry of Justice released an announcement stating that from January 2015, “ every prisoner coming into custody will be asked if they have been a member of the armed forces ” and that “ prisons will be given new guidance about helping them during their sentence”. The announcement followed wide debate over the percentage of veterans in prison. Behind these policy contexts there also sits a wider public perception of the identity of the “ veteran ” which exists in tension with the notion of the “ offender ”. The Separate System was collaboratively produced by veterans through workshops at two local prisons with artist Katie Davies. The piece investigates the spaces of the military, custody and “ civilian ” life through the notion of work, an everyday activity that unites these worlds and is familiar to us all. The film communicates what we, as a civilian audience, perhaps do not understand about the unique set of relations, actions and responsibilities held by the people within these spaces. Created through FACT`s Adults Learning Programme, our work within the criminal justice system aims to approach the context of the prison system from a critically engaged position.

Katie Davies is a video artist exploring the construction of identities, their reflections and manipulations. Nationalism, violence and democracy form a central critique for her videos and installations, often focusing upon individuals and communities whose identities are dictated by the state; their agency to self-identify snared between political agendas and Sovereign violence. Katie is a Royal West of England Academician and was nominated for the 2016 Paul Hamlyn Award. She is a Jury member for the International competition, Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2018 and has exhibited nationally and internationally including FACT Liverpool 2018, Kassel Dokfest, Bratislava International Film Festival and Oberhausen International Film Festival 2017 & 2015, Sarajevo Film Festival 2015, Border Visions, Connecticut, USA 2012 and The Istanbul Biennial 2009. She has contributed to several publications and her writing on practice-led research has been included in US and British publications. Katie is Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Production at The University of The West of England.