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An epic journey with many angles and perspectives, George Maciunas (1931-1978) was the founder of Fluxus, a radical avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. The film starts in Lithuania before moving to New York, where émigré Maciunas, became an exceptional artist with roots in the Soviet avant-garde and Dada. The film uncovers his complex character and distinctive practice, expounding the rebellious creativity that imitated a whole international movement of artists, composers, designers and poets in the 1960s and 70s, and whose radical legacy powerfully endures. The film’s playful editing evokes a key tenet of Fluxus, where process is more meaningful than end product. From developing the first artist-owned lofts in SoHo, New York, to his attempt to realize a utopian society on a desolate island in the Caribbean, Maciunas was an uncompromising visionary with a rebellious sense of humor. What emerges in the film, is a kaleidoscopic, often contradictory but always revealing portrait of Maciunas' bold and tragic life. Archival and original interviews with major artists and commentators, including Mekas and Yoko Ono, create a scintillating portrait of underground New York; where radical art, gender diversity and encroaching gentrification existed in tandem.

Nicknamed 'the Fluxus cabdriver' by Nam June Paik, Jeffrey Perkins is an artist and filmmaker who has worked in relative obscurity for over five decades, having collaborated in the 1960s with Fluxus artists including George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, and Alison Knowles. Perkins co-founded the multi media group The Single Wing Turquoise Bird, which was the premier rock and roll concert light show in the sixties. Until recently he was best known for his light projection performances and his Movies for the Blind, based on sound recordings of interviews with passengers in his cab. He completed the feature documentary portrait of George - the story of George Maciunas and Fluxus in 2018 and his feature The Painter Sam Francis in 2008. Other films of his hand are Fluxus Film #22: Shout (1966), Stan Brakhage on Gregory Markopolous (1998) and Meet the Kuchar Brothers (1999). Jeff Perkins has been associated with Anthology Film Archives in New York since 1986, and has produced several programs and performances there since then.

This short film is about the first manned balloon flight in the United States, in 1793, when the country was only 17 years old. The aeronaut (balloonist) for this adventure was the celebrated Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard. The idea that the 18th century United States was empty territory to be overtaken by settlers was, in part, supported by the new technology of balloon flight. The film carries us along with the story of Blanchard’s famous journey but by the end we find ourselves in contemplation of a five-hundred year old oak tree called the Clement Oak that sits, damaged from climate-catastrophic storms, behind a Walmart Supercenter in New Jersey. Blanchard’s flight is described in Journal of my 45th Ascension, Being the First Performed in America, on the 9th of January 1793.

Jenny Perlin’s work in film, visual art, and writing engages documentary traditions, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to engage issues around truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Her projects look closely at ways in which social machinations are reflected in the fragments of everyday life. Perlin’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and film festivals, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and others. In addition to her work as an artist and educator, Perlin is director of?The Hoosac Institute, a platform for text and image focusing on works that exceed or challenge conventional disciplinary narratives.?

Le film en 16mm fait à partir d'images fixes animées regarde la tentation du capitalisme d?acheter le paradis par trois "études de cas": les Mall of America qui échoua à vivre à la hauteur de son potentiel comme complexe utopique ; le Mall of Dubaï en tant que nouveau super galerie marchande ; et le ??freedom ship??, flottant en autarcie, une commune/communauté basée sur une galerie marchande qui fait des cercles autour des continents. Jeffrey Uslip, The Project, New York, July, 2004

Les films, vidéos et dessinées 16mm de Jenny Perlin travaillent pour et contre la tradition du documentaire, incorporant des techniques stylistiques pour mettre l?accent sur des questions de vérités, d?incompréhensions et d?histoires personnelles. Les films de Perlin ainsi que ses vidéos ont gagné de nombreux prix dans beaucoup de festivals, ont été exposés dans des galeries et musées aussi bien aux USA qu?ailleurs. Perlin est actuellement présentée à la Annet Gelink Gallery à Amsterdam, aux Pays-Bas. Un livre de l?artiste sera publié en 2006 par D.Marzonan à Berlin, mais elle a aussi d?autres publications dans de nombreux catalogues d?expositions récentes.

Les récits personnels de quatre femmes de générations différentes montrent la structure historique du siècle dernier en Galice et en Espagne. Des années républicaines à l'époque de la dictature franquiste, l'exil, la transition et les changements socialistes, chaque changement historique donne forme à des difficultés auxquelles elle ont eu à faire face. Nous ne choisissons pas, nous appartenons au tissu social. Les récits de ces femmes ont lieu parallèlement à l'histoire, en dépit de leur refus de faire partie de l'Histoire (avec un grand H). Nous pouvons construire un espace et un temps par l'intermédiaire de leurs souvenirs. Ils ne parlent pas du présent ; chacun d'entre eux parle d?un moment précis de leur vie qui a un sens public. Les récits de ces femmes changent dans les dernières années de la dictature, avec l?arrivée progressive de la liberté de pensée. Elles se font critiquer, mais se rebellent contre un rôle imposé. L'introduction du féminisme en Galice et en Espagne a été tardive par rapport aux pays européens qui les entourent, il a donc été d'une importance vitale de sortir et de voir ce qui se passait hors de leurs frontières.

Uqui Permui associe à son travail graphique, au studio de design et de communication visuelle uqui/cebra, la création de projets de différents formats. Les deux principales caractéristiques qui définissent les ?uvres dans lesquelles elle est impliquée sont, d'une part, la mise en ?uvre de stratégies incitant à la collaboration et, d'autre part, la mobilisation de la sphère publique, en tant qu?espace de rue, de points de rencontre, de débats, de confrontation, de citoyenneté critique et de construction active des différents aspects de la réalité. Anleo Xoan est diplômé de la Faculté des Arts de Cuenca, de l?Université de Castilla-la-Mancha et docteur en arts. Il travaille avec les médias audiovisuels, l'édition, la vidéo, la sculpture, la photographie, les installations et le son. Il a également composé des bandes-son pour le théâtre, la danse contemporaine ainsi que pour des productions musicales.

Un après-midi de fin d’été dans une cité de la banlieue de Calais, tout au nord de la France. Des enfants et adolescents tuent le temps en bas des tours. Les visages sont souvent silencieux, déjà parfois marqués ou soucieux. Autour d’eux, de grands pans de ciels et d’herbes folles.

Clément Pérot est artiste et réalisateur, diplômé de l’Ensad puis des Beaux-Arts de Paris en 2022. À travers des formes hybrides dialoguant entre image, écriture littéraire et installation filmique, sa pratique s’inscrit dans des lieux en marge de notre société et marqués par l’histoire des classes populaires et ouvrières. Dans la tête un orage est son premier film documentaire. Il développe actuellement l’écriture d’un film de fiction.

À la fin du Moyen Âge, à Florence en Italie, une révolte des plus pauvres travailleurs,  les Ciompi, bouleverse la ville et parvient à renverser le gouvernement.  À Florence, je filme sur leurs traces, pour faire surgir les fantômes de cette révolte  oubliée dans les images d’aujourd’hui. Dans les banlieues industrielles, j’en découvre les  échos au présent.  À Paris, je dialogue avec le chercheur militant qui a remis en lumière cette révolte.  Nous questionnons ensemble l’enjeu politique de l’écriture de l’Histoire dans la  construction d’une mémoire collective féconde.

Née à Paris, Agnès Perrais commence par réaliser des documentaires de création (Tant que nous sommes à bord, 2014, Magari !, 2019), en menant en parallèle une thèse de doctorat portant sur les liens entre lyrisme et politique en cinéma. Puis elle rencontre la pratique du cinéma argentique grâce aux laboratoires partagés l’Etna et l’Abominable (Navire Argo). Au sein d’une recherche plastique diverse (collages, rayogrammes...), elle poursuit actuellement son travail cinématographique en pellicule, autour de l’articulation entre politique et imaginaire, en travaillant à la fois des formes documentaires (Ciompi, 2023) et des formes courtes poétiques plus expérimentales (Marin miroir, 2021, Navire, en co-réalisation avec Lysa Heurtier Manzanares, 2017) . Elle est engagée activement dans plusieurs collectifs (L’Etna, La Poudrière, Le Navire Argo) et est membre fondateur de l’association la Surface de dernière diffusion.

Tourné dans les gorges du Haut-Allier, Le quotidien est le portrait d’un homme qui a fait le choix de vivre seul et à l’écart, dans une cabane à l’orée d’une forêt. Les images sont la capture de ses gestes quotidiens, liés aux besoins essentiels de l’être humain : boire, manger, se laver, réparer, recommencer. "A la manière d’un cinéaste anthropologue, Jean-Baptiste Perret choisit un terrain, souvent rural, et s’y immerge pour de longues périodes. Il noue des relations avec les personnes qu’il y rencontre, filme leur habitat et leurs savoir-faire. Tourné dans les gorges du Haut-Allier, Le quotidien est le portrait d’un homme qui a fait le choix de vivre seul et à l’écart de la société humaine, dans une cabane à l’orée d’une forêt. Le vidéaste capture ses gestes quotidiens, liés aux besoins essentiels de l’être humain : boire, manger, se laver, réparer, recommencer. Le film s’inscrit dans une recherche plus globale sur les parcours de vie marginaux dans des contexte ruraux, qui inventent un autre lien au vivant, au territoire et à l’écologie." (Work Method, Guillaume Désanges et Coline Davenne)

Après des études scientifiques en écologie, Jean-Baptiste Perret a travaillé pendant plusieurs années à la protection de l’environnement au sein de collectivités territoriales. Diplômé en 2018 des Beaux-arts de Lyon, il poursuit son intérêt pour le milieu rural à travers une pratique cinématographique qui prend la forme de films et d’installations vidéo. Sa production est traversée par la question du soin qu’il envisage comme une attention à la vulnérabilité, inséparable de la puissance régénératrice des individus. Sa démarche s’appuie sur des enquêtes documentaires et utilise des méthodes issues de l’anthropologie qui interrogent les critères d’objectivité, plaçant ainsi l’affect au centre même du travail de recherche. Il s’inspire également du courant de la microhistoire qui cherche à se détacher des récits officiels des masses pour se concentrer sur les individus et leur propre vision du monde. Jean-Baptiste Perret filme des personnes qu’il rencontre dans des situations quotidiennes ; il s’intéresse à leur parcours de vie, leur environnement et leurs savoir-faire. À travers divers degrés de mise en scène qui laissent volontiers la place à l’improvisation, récits subjectifs et procédés fictionnels s’entremêlent. Son travail a notamment été présenté à l’Institut d’art contemporain (IAC) de Villeurbanne dans le cadre de la 15ème biennale de Lyon, au Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, à la fondation d’entreprise Ricard (Paris), au musée de la Chasse et de la Nature (Paris), à la Chapelle Saint-Jacques (St Gaudens), à l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art (Paris), au FID Marseille, au Festival Hors-Pistes Centre Pompidou, aux États généraux du documentaire de Lussas, et plus récemment au 66ème Salon de Montrouge. Jean-Baptiste Perret est représenté par la galerie Salle Principale à Paris.

A farmer tells of a series of misfortunes that affect all aspects of his farm and which he attributes to an invisible phenomenon. His words reveal that he sees his body, his family, his cattle and his electrical machinery as forming a “single surface” that is likely to be affected by such events.

After completing scientific studies in ecology, Jean-Baptiste Perret worked for several years in environmental protection. Graduating in 2018 from the Fine Art School of Lyon, France, he pursued his interest in the rural environment through a cinematographic practice composed of films and video installations. His approach is based on documentary inquiry and uses methods from anthropology that question the criteria of objectivity. Distancing himself from official narratives, he focuses on indi-viduals and their own visions of the world. Jean-Baptiste Perret films people he meets in everyday situations; he is interested in the shape of their daily lives, their environments, habits, and skills. Through various degrees of staging that willingly allow room for improvisation, subjective narratives and fictional processes intertwine. Perret’s work has notably been presented at the IAC Villeurbanne, the MAC Lyon, the Fondation Ricard, the FIDMarseille, the Festival Hors-Pistes Centre-Pompidou, the États généraux du documen-taire de Lussas and most recently at the Salon de Montrouge. Jean-Baptiste Perret is represented by Salle Principale Gallery, Paris.

En mêlant mémoires familiales et images collectées sur internet, Forebear Forward et Work Hard Play Hard jouent sur le décalage entre des événements et leurs récits. Au premier plan, un grand-père relate des faits vécus par ses aïeux, accompagné par les commentaires de sa femme en hors-champs. Leurs échanges et l`arrière plan d`images d`archives ou de Google Street View se superposent aux histoires, accordant ainsi plus d`importance au contextes de narrations qu`à leurs sujets. Ces réappropriations de récits commentent avec humour le décalage générationnel, l`appartenance sociale, et le passage du drame à l`anecdote. Dans Forebear Forward,le grand-père se concentre sur une anecdote individuelle cocasse ayant eu lieu lors d`une dramatique explosion, tandis que sa femme désire surtout connaître le bilan des morts et rentrer chez elle. De son côté, la vidéaste invoque google pour inscrire cette histoire dans ses outils quotidiens de compréhension. Pour commenter le décalage social entre des matelots embarqués contre leur gré et le ton bourgeois et relativiste de ceux qui livrent ce récit, Work Hard Play Hard utilise des images de culturistes observés par le public comme s`ils étaient étrangers à leur propre espèce.

Using a range of time-based media including animation, video and installation, Naïmé Perrette in interested in layering narratives and subjectivities. In her documentary based works, she investigate the role of labour in the construction of young adults` identities. She follows individuals whose lives are shaped by physically or emotionally demanding activities to understand how they arrive to their own sense of empowerment. She conducts immersive research, interacting with isolated groups that are distant from her own experience but with whom she shares a larger cultural framework. Through this contrast she investigates systems of value and gender identity, in order to capture the multiple expressions of social relations and their borders. Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris in Cinema Animation in 2012, she was resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam in 2014-2015.

The video refers to the Venice biennial 2015 « All the World´s Futures » and deals with the site of the biennial and questions on localization and orientation. The images in the montage vary between subjective movements, Found Footage and documental perspectives and discuss the point of view of a spectator as prosumer. Transitions between signal and glare, transparency and overlay, keep the deserted images in the video at an intermediate level - An interplay between the flattening surface of the screen and the reference to the site.

Gregor Peschko, born in 1990 in Bonn, lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. He studied at the Academy for Visual Arts Leipzig in the classes of Astrid Klein, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Michael Riedel and finished his diploma in 2018.

René lives a dull, uneventful life in a subterranean and futuristic world. He is about to be promoted and transferred from Circle One to Circle Six, when a series of mysterious mounds start to appear systematically in his apartment. Circle one`s starting point is Dante?s Divine Comedy combining the notion of Michael Haneke?s thriller with Andrei Tarkovski?s intimacy, albeit clearly influenced by pioneering movie directors like Stanley Kubrick or George Lucas.

César Pesquera is a director, graphic designer and audiovisual artist. He has directed and designed innovative moving image work across a broad spectrum of both commercial and non-commercial strands of the visual arts. His work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation between visual art and the cinematic experience. His films are screened worldwide on both visual art platforms and film festivals.

Passer/8 est un projet expérimental de deux personnes réelles, une fille qui travaille dans une cabine de péage et un gars propriétaire d'un manège. Le projet traite de problèmes comme le mouvement constant et l'immobilité, étant les activités mentionnées plus haut , des méthaphores de tels concepts, tellement liées à la vie ou tout autre phénomène en procédure- qu'il soit vital ou créatif.

César Pesquera a exposé son travail dans différents festivals et évènements internationaux tels que: A/V Festival 2006 (Sunderland, Grande Bretagne), Resfest Spain (Art Futura 2005, Barcelone, Espagne), Optronica 2005 (Londres Grande Bretagne), Dotmov 2004 (Sapporo, Japon), La 8éme Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin 2004, VIPER 2002 International Festival for Film Video and New Media (Basel, Suisse), Observatori 2002 and 2003. 3rd International Festival of Artistic Research of Valencia, Art Futura 2001. Art and New Technologies Festival (Barcelone, Espagne), Transmissions Festival 004 (Chicago, USA), and SONAR 2001, 2004 and 2005 (Barcelone, Espagne) Il a aussi montré son oeuvre durant des expositions comme Digital Showcase #31. AMOADA, the Austin Museum of Digital Art au Texas (USA). Projectionsareal. ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (Allemagne). This Is Not My Computer. DA2 Museum Of Contemporary Art (Salamanque, Espagne), ZooRoom. A Room with a view. Resistor Galery (Toronto, Canada) Cesar Pesquera travaille actuellement comme rélisateur de publicités et de vidéo clips. Il est aussi co-producteur de Actop, un studio opérant comme structure ouverte et travaille sur une grande gamme de médias: Typographie, Animation, Mouvement Graphique, Visuel Live et de nouvelles approches de l'Image en mouvement. Il a récemment fini son premier court-métrage Passer/8 et il collabore actuellement avec la british collective D-Fuse sur différents projets. Il est aussi le Directeur Associé de Rojo®Magazine et Directeur Artistique de Ruga®Magazine, un magazine DVD distribué internationalement visant à montrer des oeuvres audiovisuelles, d'artsites du monde entier, non- distribuées. En tant que Shudo, Cesar Pesquera a distribué deux albums pour le prestigieux label Belge Sub Rosa/ Quatermass. Il travaille maintenant sur un nouveau projet sous le nom de Portabot.

At night three men are roaming through the center of a foreign city. In the darkness, they wander the streets unnoticed. The memories of their stories lead them on uncertain paths that sometimes seem to intersect. FORASTERO tells the story of people on the margins of society and traces estrangement and uncertainty between past and future.

Thales Pessoa (1991) is a brazilian photographer and filmmaker based in Argentina. He directed the short films Dancing to the war (2018) and Silver Firefly (2020), exhibited and awarded in different latin american festivals.

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Eigentlich eigentlich Januar von Jan Peters, 2022, 100 min, Super-8 und 16mm, Farbe und Schwarzweiß Synopsis Der Filmemacher Jan Peters nimmt eine Tasche gefüllt mit unbelichtetem und zum Teil lange überlagertem Der Januar ist kein einfacher Monat: Das Wetter ist kalt und trübe, der Lichterglanz der Weihnachtszeit verschwunden und ein Gefühl der Leere stellt sich ein. Aber da ist dieser Tatendrang und all die guten Neujahrsvorsätze... Jan Peters wollte aufräumen und fand zwei Kühltaschen aus den 1980er-Jahren, gefüllt mit über Jahrzehnte gesammeltem, unbelichtetem Super 8- und 16mm-Filmmaterial. Die Idee, jeden Tag eine Rolle von drei Minuten zu belichten und diese dann Zuhause in einem Eimer mit einer Mischung aus Instantkaffee, Vitamin-C-Pulver und Waschsoda selbst zu entwickeln, konnte nicht durchgehalten werden. Sie gab allerdings den Ausgangspunkt für Peters’ neuen Tagebuchfilm EIGENTLICH EIGENTLICH JANUAR, der schlicht gesagt genial ist. (Ina Borrmann)

Biography: Jan Peters Filmmaker Jan Peters (*1966) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the HfbK in Hamburg and was co-founder of the filmmaker collective "Abbildungszentrum". Jan Peters is internationally known as a filmmaker who works with modern technology and also specializes in analogue filmmaking. Peters is also a radio play author and video artist. He is particularly known for his playful and experimental use of accident and imperfection to emphasize the film as a medium as well as his exploration of the dynamic between narrator and audience. His works are shown nationally and internationally in film festivals and exhibitions. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work. Amongst other the FIPRESCI Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Jan Peters is teaching film and moving image at Kunsthochschule Kassel (School of Art and Design).

It’s about oriental rugs. It’s about strangers and swindlers. It’s about Sweden. It’s about you and me.

Axel Petersén, born 1979 in Stockholm, is a visual artist and filmmaker who has made a variety of feature and short films, video and photography installations; exhibiting in galleries, institutions, filmfestivals and cinemas worldwide. He’s is educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.

In Paul Verhoevens erotic thriller Basic Instinct from1992, Michael Douglas character is put to the test. Is he still living up to the image of his own sexuality? Is he still the sex symbol Michael Douglas, son to the former sex symbol Kirk Douglas? In Like Father, Like Son, Like Michael Douglas Axel Petersén is staging a sexual generation shift. Through a number of scenes he instructs his father, Etienne Petersén to play the main male character while he himself portrays the female counterparts - a father and a son together watching and acting Basic Instinct.

Axel Petersén, born in Stockholm 1979, is a visual artist and filmmaker. He has made feature film (1), short films and video installations that have been shown widely in art and film contexts. He has a MFA from The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; he also studied film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and most recently attended the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.

Saddam Hussein?s palace is looted in Baghdad 2003. A red Ferrari Testarossa disappears from his garage. Years pass by and cars from the same garage are found around the world; some crashed, some in mint condition. The Testarossa is still out there, ghostriding through the neverending desert.

Axel Petersén, born in Stockholm 1979, is a story teller and a visual artist. Educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and took his MFA at KKH, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

Close to God / Far from Home (Somewhere in between pop and classical) is a portrait of a place and a state, stuck in between and surrounded by barriers. Close to God / Far from Home is High Class Salon and it?s owner; Palestine`s loneliest lover Tony, hair-dresser and choir-boy. Mr Tony is a proud decendant of Italian 13th century cruisaders and a natural born Germanophile. Mr Tony is also the sexiest man in Bethlehem, forever faithful to Jesus Christ, Richard Clayderman and Kaiser Franz Joseph to whom he built a temple, an altar, a home.

Axel Petersén is a visual artist born in Sweden 1979. He was educated in film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts i Prauge and in fine arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Axel Petersén makes videos, video-installations, still and moving image portraits and block buster movies for the cinema. Axel Petersén works with both ?fiction? and ?documentary?, usually merging the two in to a form were he can take on an active part, and by doing so, being able to push the scenes in the right, or the wrong direction. Right now he?s working on a feature length fiction film; After Eigh, a thrillerish manifestation to the grown-ups that never grew up.

À l?Hôtel Alexandria, à Alexandrie, l?Europe meurt lentement ; George a un Alzheimer, Sami s?occupe en organisant sa soirée d?adieu, et le fossoyeur Salah aide Madame avec les préparatifs de son dernier voyage.

Axel Petersén est né en 1979. Il a étudié l?histoire de l?art à la Lund University de Stockholm (Suède), puis à la FAMU de l?Académie Tchèque des Arts Musicaux de Prague (République tchèque) ainsi qu?au KKH, l?Université Royale des Beaux-Arts de Stockholm.

It’s about oriental rugs. It’s about strangers and swindlers. It’s about Sweden. It’s about you and me.

Axel Petersén, born 1979 in Stockholm, is a visual artist and filmmaker who has made a variety of feature and short films, video and photography installations; exhibiting in galleries, institutions, filmfestivals and cinemas worldwide. He’s is educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.

In Paul Verhoevens erotic thriller Basic Instinct from1992, Michael Douglas character is put to the test. Is he still living up to the image of his own sexuality? Is he still the sex symbol Michael Douglas, son to the former sex symbol Kirk Douglas? In Like Father, Like Son, Like Michael Douglas Axel Petersén is staging a sexual generation shift. Through a number of scenes he instructs his father, Etienne Petersén to play the main male character while he himself portrays the female counterparts - a father and a son together watching and acting Basic Instinct.

Axel Petersén, born in Stockholm 1979, is a visual artist and filmmaker. He has made feature film (1), short films and video installations that have been shown widely in art and film contexts. He has a MFA from The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; he also studied film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and most recently attended the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles.

Saddam Hussein?s palace is looted in Baghdad 2003. A red Ferrari Testarossa disappears from his garage. Years pass by and cars from the same garage are found around the world; some crashed, some in mint condition. The Testarossa is still out there, ghostriding through the neverending desert.

Axel Petersén, born in Stockholm 1979, is a story teller and a visual artist. Educated at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and took his MFA at KKH, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.

Close to God / Far from Home (Somewhere in between pop and classical) is a portrait of a place and a state, stuck in between and surrounded by barriers. Close to God / Far from Home is High Class Salon and it?s owner; Palestine`s loneliest lover Tony, hair-dresser and choir-boy. Mr Tony is a proud decendant of Italian 13th century cruisaders and a natural born Germanophile. Mr Tony is also the sexiest man in Bethlehem, forever faithful to Jesus Christ, Richard Clayderman and Kaiser Franz Joseph to whom he built a temple, an altar, a home.

Axel Petersén is a visual artist born in Sweden 1979. He was educated in film at FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts i Prauge and in fine arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Axel Petersén makes videos, video-installations, still and moving image portraits and block buster movies for the cinema. Axel Petersén works with both ?fiction? and ?documentary?, usually merging the two in to a form were he can take on an active part, and by doing so, being able to push the scenes in the right, or the wrong direction. Right now he?s working on a feature length fiction film; After Eigh, a thrillerish manifestation to the grown-ups that never grew up.

À l?Hôtel Alexandria, à Alexandrie, l?Europe meurt lentement ; George a un Alzheimer, Sami s?occupe en organisant sa soirée d?adieu, et le fossoyeur Salah aide Madame avec les préparatifs de son dernier voyage.

Axel Petersén est né en 1979. Il a étudié l?histoire de l?art à la Lund University de Stockholm (Suède), puis à la FAMU de l?Académie Tchèque des Arts Musicaux de Prague (République tchèque) ainsi qu?au KKH, l?Université Royale des Beaux-Arts de Stockholm.

The actor Philipp Hochmair is working on becoming the EVERYMAN. The filmic narration revolves around the mime`s quest for identity of his diverse persona. He seems to lose self-perception, becomes desperate, then rises again - needing to be nothing and nobody to become everything and everyman?

Katharina Pethke, born in 1979 in Hamburg, is a filmmaker and professor at the HFBK – Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. She studied German and art history in Hamburg and film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In her internationally acclaimed diploma film Louisa, she portrayed her sister, who had gone deaf and decided to learn sign language in her early twenties. As a film author Katharina Pethke has realized works for German television and has produced her own documentary works.

Marbled paper blue, a book’s illustrations, the flicker of film’s materiality: these are just a few of the narrative devices that punctuate Bettina Nürnberg and Dirk Peuker’s essayist film tracing the atmospheric efects of Italian architect Carlo Scarpa’s significant buildings, including the Brion family cemetery. As homage the work continues the filmmakers’ interests in documenting architectural histories. What is significant about this more poetic rendering is how it follows the rhythm of the spatial forms and motifs of their subject: Scarpa took an apolitical stance and refused to make architecture during the reign of fascism in Italy (1922–43); in the years that followed however, he produced Venice’s modernist exemplars, arguably the most beautiful architectural works of modernism for how they create mental spaces embedded in and indebted to his phenomenal city. With awareness of their medium, Nürnberg and Peuker capture both the structure and freeforming style of Scarpa’s architecture: their camera is equally focused on the mood of the city, the flow of water, the mandala as dichotomous form—light casts shadows. In turn, the film oscillates between document and experimental realism. The punctuating book pages that were an inspiration for Scarpa and ofer a structuring means for the sensuality of the recorded images come from the Venetian treatise of 1499 ascribed to Poliphili, which loosely acts an inventory of life-forms and classical humanist thought while following the story of courtly love. The act of ceremony is important to the book and so it is to the film as it mediates on Scarpa’s constructions, anachronistic zones that cross life with death, only to return to life once more: the film flickers, the paper is left wet, a hand all blue rises from the ruins … (Laura Preston)

Bettina Nürnberg www.bettinanuernberg.de Bettina NÜRNBERG (1976, Germany) was educated in art and film in Hamburg and Berlin. The work of the Berlin-based artist has been screened and exhibited worldwide. Dirk Peuker www.dirkpeuker.de Dirk PEUKER (1970, Germany) studied film and art in Berlin and Vienna. The work of the experimental filmmaker and artist has been screened and exhibited worldwide.

The experimental film work ?Flat Roofs for Mussolini? talks about the Italien Rationalism and Fascist architecture at Lake Como and the buildings by Guiseppe Terragni, who was an important pioneer of this style and tried to persuade the fascist regime to adopt his architecture as an official style. During a creative period lasting only 13 years, Terragni produced a body of work unique in terms of consistency and density. His buildings conform to the modern and are characterised by a reduction to elementary geometrical basic forms. While his buildings now serve as an important reference for architects such as Peter Eisenmann, they are also glorified and their political dimension is downplayed. (Text by Magdalena Magiera)

Dirk Peuker born 1970 in Friedrichroda, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. He studied Experimental Film at the university of the Arts Berlin since 2009 he teaches Film & Video at the Berlin Weißensee academy of art. 2006 Residency grant at the Villa Minimo, Hannover 2007 DAAD travel grant 2008 postgraduate grant of the Free State of Thuringia, 2009 NaFöG grant by the Berlin City Council Bettina Nürnberg born 1976 in Mannheim, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. She studied Film at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg 2006-07 Funding for woman artists 2008 Film Culture Fund of the Free State of Thuringia 2009 Stiftung Kunstfonds, artist fund

The film ?The American Houses? examines the buildings of the nearly forgotten german architect, Thilo Schoder. Schoder, who had studied under Henry van de Velde in Weimar, was classified as an architect of ?The New Objectivity? movement of the 1920s. Schoder built only a few houses in the 8 years period, from 1923 to 1931, in small villages from eastern Germany to the Czech Republic. When the Nazis took power Schoder, accused of being a socialist, was refused any further building contracts, forcing him to emigrate to Norway. In ?The American Houses? the condition of the buildings filmed range from highly renovated to abandoned and dilapidated. The surviving examples are not portrayed as technical depictions, but as subjective sensation.

Dirk Peuker born in 1970 2000-2005 University of Arts Berlin, Master of Fine Arts, Experimental Film and Media Department Mentor: Hartmut Bitomsky, Heinz Emigholz, Thomas Arslan 2006 Artist Grant from the Nordmedia Film Foundation and the Hannover Region Cultural Foundation 2007 DAAD Artist Grant 2008 Postgraduate Artist Grant Free State of Thuringia 2009 NaFÖG Grant from Berliner Senat since 2009 assistant professor for film and video Weißensee/School of Art Berlin Bettina Nürnberg born in 1976 2002-2007 University of Fine Arts Hamburg, Master of Fine Arts, Film Department Mentor: Wim Wenders, Gerd Roscher 2007 Künstlerinnenförderung ?artist film fond from Berliner Senat 2008 Production grant from Thuringia Region Cultural Film Foundation 2009 Stiftung Kunstfond, Artist Grand Germany

Le photographe benoit PEverelli cree une scenographie et réalise la mise en image d`une oeuvre poétique et musicale. OPNI: Objet Plastique Non Identifié.

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