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Based on the 8mm footage my grandmother shot during a trip to Armenia and the images I took during my journey there 36 years later, Dear Victoria investigates notions of belonging and alienation through an encounter between two worlds. I only recently discovered my grandmother?s footage and never thought we would be exchanging views across temporalities one day.

'Ruido ê (the film)' is a musical documentary with thriller overtones that is interrupted and shattered. The noise (ruido), beyond acoustic impact, becomes a difficulty of readability and narrative purity, a shock between languages, it is a synesthetic hum that hacks vision and makes it erotic. All the underwater sequences have been filmed in underwater urban areas where, paradoxically, the electric rays Torpedo torpedo live. These areas, which the artist calls 'postpunk', are in constant urban transformation. From the maritime works for the extension of the breakwater of San Sebastián beach in Barcelona, ??with a metal crane that launches concrete buckets, passing through the entire post-industrial area between the mouth of the Besós river, Sant Adrià, until reaching the Pont del Petroli in Badalona, ??whose pillars were knocked down by the storm Gloria. Waste and underwater architecture reappropriated by different beings. The film has been an alibi to weave networks of work and methodological research with scientists, divers and other artists around issues of somatic attention, perception, vulnerability and resistance.

SILVIA ZAYAS (León, Spain 1978). She is a luso-spanish artist. Her work is situated at the limits of live arts, video and choreography. She investigates the creation of homemade, rudimentary and low-tech devices for making live films. Her work questions ways of filming “from a distance.” For this she moves away from the usual “hand-eye” relationship and tries to legitimize the sensitive possibilities of an amateur, vulnerable, sick, thuggish, hidden, punk and also z-series body... Her most relevant works are: the live film São Tomé Revisitado (2012) in collaboration with her mother Isabel Serra; Parallax (2016), a stage piece for light and sound; the circular films The Boogie-Woogie Ghost (2018) and Puebla (2021) together with María Jerez; Talking pictures (2018) with Esperanza Collado; the "cinema without film" projects Brilliant Corners (2020) and Brillante (2020-2022), both within the Orquestina de Pigmeos collective; the solo exhibition ê (2021), or the recent film ruido ê (the film) (2023). She belongs to the collective office of research in live arts Dorothy Michaels. Recently finishes the doctoral thesis Counterdispositives between cinema and the performing arts: ghosts, diffractions, holes and other creatures (2023). UCLM, Cuenca (Spain). Her work has been shown in national and international biennials, festivals and institutions and also in non-institutional places, markets, squares, schools...

Familièrement terne et générique, l'environnement des lieux peu appréciés offrent des décors parfaits pour un zoo d'idées, d'artefacts et de machines. Ils inhibent un monde technologiquement de plus en plus explicite où le transport des Hommes semble être leur dernier objectif. À la place, elles sont une partie d'un flux de devenir, de développement, d'accident, de recombinaison et de prolifération distordue en évolution constante. Leur auto-perpétration chargée créée une gentille monstruosité et de la poésie monstrueuse. Cela montre alors que le mélange du nano -du bio- et des technologies de l'information a rendu les concepts d'originalité et d'authenticité humaine obsolète, que cette substance artificielle créée ses propres artefacts et leur forme future. Demanderont-ils bientôt leur droit de (trans-) humains ? S'ils ont déjà signé ce nouveau Magna Carta, serions-nous les derniers à le savoir ?

Zeitguised fut fondé en 2001 par Jamie Raap et Henrik Mauler à Stuttgart en Allemagne, où ils sont toujours basés aujourd'hui. Jamie, qui possède un diplôme en Beaux Arts et un master en Arts Médias, a travaillé à Chicago comme sculpteur et styliste dans la mode. Henrik a un diplôme d?architecture et il enseigne le design numérique expérimental à l?université de Stuttgart. Il avait travaillé auparavant pour Segura/T26 à Chicago. Quand ils ont rassemblé pour la première fois leurs talents, leur dénominateur commun fut l?animation dimensionnelle et graphique. Quelques expositions internationales, festivals, publications, nominations et récompenses plus tard, l?animation est devenu leur principal domaine d?occupation. Tandis que l?architecture et la mode restent toujours des intérêts majeurs et des sources d?inspirations, des clients très connus sont tout spécialement intéressés par leurs graphiques en mouvement. Ils ont fini des travaux récemment pour MTFG Plazza Bank et TV Asahi au Japon, PTV Europe, Toonami Cartoon network au Royaume-Uni, German Electronic musique duo Funkst?rung and Popular Mechanics magazine aux États-Unis.

Le protagoniste, Faust, - un garçon ascétique, déconnecté de la société - vit près d'un lac sur le point de s’assécher. Il mange une variété spéciale de crevettes qui a un effet hallucinogène sur lui et l’entraîne dans le monde bizarre de son imagination.

À partir de 2007, j'ai étudié le design graphique et industriel à la Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lituanie), d'abord à l’Université de Kaunas (diplômé en 2011), puis, pour un Master en design produit, à l’Université de Vilnius (diplômé en 2013). Depuis mes premières années d'école, je me suis toujours impliqué activement dans les arts audiovisuels. En 2010, un collègue et moi avons créé le duo audiovisuel "BrainMonk". En dix ans, nous avons enregistré et publié 24 albums d'improvisation musicale, très expérimentale et éclectique. Travailler le son m’a également conduit à une compréhension plus profonde des expériences visuelles. Ainsi, les improvisations sonores se sont transformées en créations audiovisuelles, qui ont ensuite ouvert la voie à des projets de films plus complexes et abstraits.

"El Tenista" (Le Tennis) utilise des images d'un jeu vidéo de tennis comme reflet de la réalité actuelle. Près de remporter la partie, le joueur ? le narrateur ? sent que quelque chose ne va pas et s'interroge sur son existence. La métaphore ludique du Gagnant et du Perdant apparaît alors comme un pur produit de la crise que subit le modèle politico-social de compétition prédominant dans la société. "El Tenista", une vidéo du collectif Zemos98, recourt à cette métaphore pour dénoncer un système qui force les gens à se travestir, à être ce qu'ils ne sont pas, et qui les poussent à l'inertie, à perdre leur contrôle sur le présent. A la fin de la vidéo, le joueur décide de sortir du champ. La partie est-elle perdue ou gagnée ?

Le collectif Zemos98, l'organisateur de l'un des festivals audiovisuels les plus innovants d'Espagne, apprenant de ses réalisations et de ses erreurs, se renouvelle jour après jour dans ses structures et ses approches. Un groupe ouvert à de multiples modalités narratives ? courts métrages, documentaires, créations vidéo? - mais qui présentent toutes un point commun, ce sont toutes des microhistoires. Au fil des ans, Zemos 98 a intégré et développé une série d'activités parallèles qui ont gagné en présence et en importance.

CARGO CARRIERS is a story about a dreamy landscape and well-known architecture: in the perfect picture of the scene, noise fields break through the idyllic surroundings. The soundscape of the island is created by the prohibition of any kind of vehicle. For the transport of all goods, "carrying guys", independent workers with special carts, are employed. By means of experimental camera work, field recording and contemporary Chinese poetry, the tension between historical world cultural heritage, tourism, precarious work situations and life is negotiated.

Conny Zenk is media artist and film maker working in the context of social and urban architecture. Her working method is transdisciplinary and artistically explorative using digital and analog interfaces, vehicles and media. She is the initiator of the art project RAD Performance, which focuses on the fusion of performance and sound art with collective practices such as cycling. Since 2007 she has been working in the field of visual music in the context of performance, dance, theatre, and sound art, reflecting on concepts such as space and projection and creating a dialogue of visual music and light architecture. International festivals such as Rencontres Internationales, Vienna Shorts, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, Animator Film Festival Poznan and more. Conny Zenk lives and works in Vienna, completed her Diploma with distinction in Digital Art (Univ. Prof. Virgil Widrich, Univ. Prof. Ruth Schnell) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna where she is currently in the Ph.D. in Art program. Zenk has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Music and Performing Arts and the University of Music and Theatre Munich.

Honeycomb is the name of a technique used in facade restoration of marble. In Denmark several buildings worthy of preservation are covered with marble from Greenland, extracted during the interwar period (1930s). Among other buildings is Overformynderiet in Copenhagen.  In the work Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding, visual artists Eva la Cour and Tinne Zenner juxtapose their own film recordings following the renovation of Overformynderiet in Copenhagen (2019) with Jette Bang’s film recordings from the marble mine in Maarmorilik (1938). The soundscape composed by Alexander Holm, utilises field and contact microphone recordings from the exterior and interior location of Overformynderiet (2021).  Through an interplay of image, sound and text, the material facade of Overformynderiet is not simply rendered visible as image. Rather, Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding speculates on the production of images in general, considered as situated layers of geopolitical relations. Not least historical and colonial relations between Greenland and Denmark.

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist, filmmaker and programmer based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Working with analogue film, 3D renderings and spatial installation, her work moves between the cinema and exhibition space while exploring the structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. In recent years, her work has been actively and critically engaged with the physical and cultural traces of the Danish colonial past and present in Greenland. Her films have been shown at a number of international film festivals including New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Oberhausen, EMAF, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS, and her installation work exhibited at museums and galleries internationally. Zenner is a member of the film collectives Sharna Pax and Terrassen, both engaging with the social life of film, and works as a programmer for EMAF - European Media Arts Festival. She is currently in production of her upcoming solo-exhibition (Im)material Extraction opening at Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen in November 2023. Eva la Cour is an artist and researcher, interested in temporal and relational forms of the image and image-practices. Drawing inspiration from strategies of montage, while using both analogue film, video, text and display aesthetic elements, her spatial work and performative demonstrations are always effects of lenghty and multifaceted investigative processes. Out of a fundamental dissatisfaction with the representational discourse, and its historical and colonial legacy, la Cour has written the book Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-future Essayism - the result of a practice-based artistic PhD project, obtained from HDK-Valand (the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Gothenburg University, SE). Her individual and collaborative works have been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally, often transgressing spaces of film culture, academic research, and fine art. La Cour holds a MA in Visual and Media Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin, DE) as well as in Fine Arts (The Jutland Art Academy, DK), and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Art as Forum, Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Nutsigassat reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. The Danish names imposed on Greenland’s spaces and landscapes have historically been a part of Denmark’s engagement in the vast country in the North. A process, through which the mountains of Sermitsiaq and Kingittorsuaq that surround Nuuk were detached from both their semantic and geographical meaning. But also the physical signs of the fatal interventions of the past are legible in the concrete high-rises that replaced the small communities of the bygds along the coasts which were closed down by the Danish government in the 1960s and 70s. Even the manual mass production of tupilaks (sacred amulettos made of bones and horns) describe a cultural mutation of the mythical figure into a tourist object. Through a complex juxtaposition of text, voice and her beautiful 16mm film imagery, Zenner has created a critical work in which the majestic and vast vistas of Greenland defy the history imposed on them

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with analogue film, 3D-animation and spatial installation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. Her work has been shown at a number of international film festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Projections at New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS in South Korea, and exhibited internationally at Reykjavik Art Museum, Nuuk Art Museum, Gothenburg Kunsthal, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts Brussels as well as at Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen. Zenner is a co-founder and member of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London and Copenhagen working between the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual arts.

A film centred on the production of landscape and concrete in the Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Covering a vast area of coast, caves, mountains and forest, the park is inhabited by a massive concrete factory that branches through the landscape. Documenting the various layers of the sourced material, the factory body and the constructed landscape, the film looks at how time is physically embedded in the matter and how the molecular particles act in a circular re-shaping of the whole. The film merges 16mm footage shot in the area of Arrábida with 3D animation of the topographic landscape as an equal analogue layer.

Tinne Zenner (b. 1986, Denmark) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She received her MFA from The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Working with analogue film and 3D-animation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded.

Honeycomb is the name of a technique used in facade restoration of marble. In Denmark several buildings worthy of preservation are covered with marble from Greenland, extracted during the interwar period (1930s). Among other buildings is Overformynderiet in Copenhagen.  In the work Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding, visual artists Eva la Cour and Tinne Zenner juxtapose their own film recordings following the renovation of Overformynderiet in Copenhagen (2019) with Jette Bang’s film recordings from the marble mine in Maarmorilik (1938). The soundscape composed by Alexander Holm, utilises field and contact microphone recordings from the exterior and interior location of Overformynderiet (2021).  Through an interplay of image, sound and text, the material facade of Overformynderiet is not simply rendered visible as image. Rather, Honeycomb Image/Archive Cladding speculates on the production of images in general, considered as situated layers of geopolitical relations. Not least historical and colonial relations between Greenland and Denmark.

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist, filmmaker and programmer based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2016). Working with analogue film, 3D renderings and spatial installation, her work moves between the cinema and exhibition space while exploring the structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. In recent years, her work has been actively and critically engaged with the physical and cultural traces of the Danish colonial past and present in Greenland. Her films have been shown at a number of international film festivals including New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Oberhausen, EMAF, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS, and her installation work exhibited at museums and galleries internationally. Zenner is a member of the film collectives Sharna Pax and Terrassen, both engaging with the social life of film, and works as a programmer for EMAF - European Media Arts Festival. She is currently in production of her upcoming solo-exhibition (Im)material Extraction opening at Vermilion Sands, Copenhagen in November 2023. Eva la Cour is an artist and researcher, interested in temporal and relational forms of the image and image-practices. Drawing inspiration from strategies of montage, while using both analogue film, video, text and display aesthetic elements, her spatial work and performative demonstrations are always effects of lenghty and multifaceted investigative processes. Out of a fundamental dissatisfaction with the representational discourse, and its historical and colonial legacy, la Cour has written the book Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-future Essayism - the result of a practice-based artistic PhD project, obtained from HDK-Valand (the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, Gothenburg University, SE). Her individual and collaborative works have been exhibited, screened, and performed internationally, often transgressing spaces of film culture, academic research, and fine art. La Cour holds a MA in Visual and Media Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin, DE) as well as in Fine Arts (The Jutland Art Academy, DK), and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Art as Forum, Department of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Nutsigassat reflects on the power of language as a colonizer of foreign landscapes. The Danish names imposed on Greenland’s spaces and landscapes have historically been a part of Denmark’s engagement in the vast country in the North. A process, through which the mountains of Sermitsiaq and Kingittorsuaq that surround Nuuk were detached from both their semantic and geographical meaning. But also the physical signs of the fatal interventions of the past are legible in the concrete high-rises that replaced the small communities of the bygds along the coasts which were closed down by the Danish government in the 1960s and 70s. Even the manual mass production of tupilaks (sacred amulettos made of bones and horns) describe a cultural mutation of the mythical figure into a tourist object. Through a complex juxtaposition of text, voice and her beautiful 16mm film imagery, Zenner has created a critical work in which the majestic and vast vistas of Greenland defy the history imposed on them

Tinne Zenner is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She holds an MFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Working with analogue film, 3D-animation and spatial installation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded. Her work has been shown at a number of international film festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Projections at New York Film Festival, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, Image Forum Tokyo and EXiS in South Korea, and exhibited internationally at Reykjavik Art Museum, Nuuk Art Museum, Gothenburg Kunsthal, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts Brussels as well as at Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal Charlottenborg and Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen. Zenner is a co-founder and member of Sharna Pax, a film collective based in London and Copenhagen working between the fields of anthropology, documentary and visual arts.

A film centred on the production of landscape and concrete in the Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Covering a vast area of coast, caves, mountains and forest, the park is inhabited by a massive concrete factory that branches through the landscape. Documenting the various layers of the sourced material, the factory body and the constructed landscape, the film looks at how time is physically embedded in the matter and how the molecular particles act in a circular re-shaping of the whole. The film merges 16mm footage shot in the area of Arrábida with 3D animation of the topographic landscape as an equal analogue layer.

Tinne Zenner (b. 1986, Denmark) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Copenhagen. She received her MFA from The Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Working with analogue film and 3D-animation, her work explores the physical structures, in which layers of history, politics and collective memory are embedded.

In the GDR Opposition Archive in Berlin, Anna Zett traces known and unknown fears of her childhood. The artist interweaves samizdat and archival footage with a stirring collage of underground music from the late GDR (composed by Matti Gajek). Video recordings by activists from the Environmental Library, the New Forum and the punk scene in East Berlin, fragments of the televised revolution, and highly condensed voices from a poetry cassette recorded in 1986 combine to create an associative and intimate narrative. In ceaseless escalation, the archive thriller leads to the second occupation of the Berlin Stasi headquarters with hunger strike in September 1990 – a political event that is barely known today despite its far-reaching consequences. There is fear. There is anger. There are people who, despite profound experiences of violence, insist on emotional connection and political self-determination. The short film ES GIBT KEINE ANGST opens up a pulsating resonance space that keeps vibrating long after.

Anna Zett is a Berlin-based artist and writer. Rooted in poetry, collage and improvisation, their transmedia practice seeks to host, witness and experience new connections at sites of loss and damage. This work results in films, books, radio plays, installations and live-formats, most recently f.ex. the participatory research ‚Postsocialist Group Improvisation‘. Since their first film release in 2014, Zetts work has been shown in international contexts of contemporary art, film, performance and discourse, such as Berlinale Forum Expanded, Serpentine Gallery London, Whitney Museum New York, Berlinische Galerie, Or Gallery Vancouver, HKW Berlin. Zetts publications include two experimental radio plays for the German public broadcast and the literary text collection ‚Artificial Gut Feeling‘ (Divided Publishing, 2019). Since 2024 Anna Zett co-teaches the class for Performative Arts at HGB Leipzig.

?Broken Threads? is the manipulation of a ?70s Albanian noir movie so as to transform it into its trailer, by collating footage and using as a soundtrack Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds? ?The Curse of Millhaven?, from album Murder Ballads. This project aims at tackling the phenomenon of crime and revolution starting from the earliest jesuit conspirations, showing revolution is nothing but the infamous motto: my work starts when yours is done. For this reason the movie wasn?t digitalized through usual processes, but was instead filmed with a handicam for the whole of its duration, so as to respect the project?s concept. ?Broken Threads? elaborates Cave?s track with Albanian noir movie ?Broken Threads?, revolving around a bunch of Albanian agents ? former nazi collaborators during WWII ? operating against the socialist system, suddendly coming back to their homeland to sabotage and destroy some important objectives in the country?s secret industrial plans. The movie stresses the relationship between memory and actuality, old and new enemies, adding up in a noir spy story showing international plots and conspiration finally failing, as usual, in the best of ways.

Fani Zguro born in 1977 Tirana. Lives and works in Milan EDUCATION 1996-1997: Polytechnic of Athens (Greece - outsider) 1998-2002: Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera Milano (Italy) 2008-2010: Laurea Specialistica, Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera Milano (Italy) ART RESIDENCES 2003-2004: Citè International des Arts Paris (France) 2009-2009: Kultur Kontakt, Vienna (Austria) 2009-2009: La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres Paris (France) 2009-2009: Taller Siete, Medellin (Colombia) WORK EXPERIENCE 2004-2005: Independent Curator, The National Gallery of Arts Tirana (Albania) 2007- : Project Director, Tirana Art Center (Albania)

An experimental portrait of love and quiet sadness in the corners of Los Angeles. Zhang`s non-linear editing creates an intimate and poetic representation that flows in and out of narrative and documentarian conventions.

Charlotte Zhang (b. 1999) is a filmmaker and occasional writer from Vancouver Island, currently studying Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts.

City Scene est composé d'une série d'instantanés tournés dans les rues et les parcs de Pekin, lors de la préparation des Jeux Olympiques. Le réalisateur capture dans des plans fixes la réalité quotidienne: activités de loisirs, scènes de rue, violence latente. Les plans de longue durée, non coupés, soigneusement cadrés, attirent l'attention sur les lieux et certains détails, ainsi que sur la manière dont les gens bougent et intéragissent. Zhao Liang fait ici un usage impressionnant de la capacité du cinéma à rendre la réalité visible en tant que telle.

Zhao Liang est né en Chine en 1971. Il vit et travaille à Pekin. Son travail est régulièrement montré en Europe et aux Etats-Unis, notamment au festival du film d'Oberhausen, à la Haus der Kultur des Welt, à Berlin, au musée d'art contemporain de Monterrey, au Mexique, et au centre international de photographie de New York.

Courte étude d'une vieille photo trouvée chez un antiquaire.

Mikhail Zheleznikov est né à Leningrad en 1972. Il a réalisé des films pour ARTE et YLE, Corona Films et le Studio de films documentaires de Saint-Pétersbourg. Il a été participant et membre du jury de plusieurs festivals internationaux de cinéma. Ses œuvres vidéo ont été exposées au Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (Finlande); au Museum of the Moving Image, New York (États-Unis); au National Art Center, Tokyo (Japon); au Kunst Museum Bonn (Allemagne); au Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie). Depuis 2011, il est le commissaire du concours de films courts expérimentaux In Silico au festival Message To Man, Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie). En 2012, il co-organise le festival de films expérimentaux Kinodot, Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie). Il enseigne depuis 2015 au Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture, et depuis 2016, à la Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema. En 2019, il a été l'un des commissaires du projet expérimental "Per Forma 2 Stage" au Big Drama Theater.

Silence is gold. Who needs words in this sea of selfless love.

Mikhail Zheleznikov was born in Leningrad in 1972. Made TV episodes for ARTE and YLE, films for St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio. Participant and jury member of various international film festivals. His video works have been exhibited at modern art museum Kiasma (Helsinki, Finland), Museum of the Moving Image (New York, USA), The National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan), Kunst Museum Bonn (Germany), Museum of Modern Art Erarta (St. Petersburg, Russia). Since 2011 curates experimental short film competition In Silico at Message To Man film festival. In 2012 co-organized experimental film festival Kinodot. In 2015-2019 was teaching at St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture, in 2016-2021 in St. Petersburg New Cinema School. In 2019 was one of the curators of the experimental project Per Forma 2 Stage at the Big Drama Theater. Since 2019 he has taught documentary filmmaking at St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television.

A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks. Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms. Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea. By weaving together different cinematic textures, the short film Aralkum re-imagines the dried-up Aral Sea, allowing an old fisherman to set sail one last time.

Mila Zhluktenko (*Kyiv/Ukraine) and Daniel Asadi Faezi (*Schweinfurt/Germany) studied in the documentary department at University of Television and Film Munich. They collaborated on various non-fiction projects, including The Absence of Apricots, Opera Glasses or Aralkum, which screened at festivals such as Locarno, San Sebastian, and Visions du Réel. Their most recent film "waking up in silence" was awarded the International Juryaward at 73. Berlinale Generation Kplus competition.

This film is about the nature of existence and memory. Seventy years ago, on a night, a musician was shot dead on stage in a nightclub in Shanghai, a story found by a Frenchman on an old newspaper today. Although the musician was long forgotten in the history,this French gentleman makes his way to Shanghai in the hope of finding the traces of the musician's existence. In a shabby old apartment, he reads aloud the novel written by Patrick Modiano, calling the spirits that used to live here.His voice evokes the response of the Shanghai musician. All of a sudden, it seems to him as if they share the same memories, details and breath. As Modiano puts it: "there was nothing to set us apart from the others, those Sundays in August.”

Zhou Hongbo graduated from Beijing Film Academy, with a master’s degree in 1999. His graduation film, A Fish Who Wants to Fly, was selected for Cannes Film Festival 2000, Cinefondation. Since then Zhou has made several features and documentaries which were screened at various international film festival.

Zhou Hong Xiang (Chine) est un artiste média. Il enseigne à l'Université Normale de Shanghai. Ses oeuvres ont été projetées lors de nombreux festivals du film et festivals média, dont le World Wide Video Festival, Impakt, et Transmediale. ===================== Zhou Hongxiang (Chine) Né en 1969 à Dongtai dans la province de Jiangsu. Zhou Hongxiang est diplômé de l'Université Chinoise Normale en 1994 et enseigne actuellement à l'Université Normale de Shanghai. Il a exposé en Asie de l'Est, en Chine, lors d'exposition d'art contemporain au Japon et en Corée, Shanghai, Chine. Il a fait partie des jeunes artistes séléctionnés par l'édition spéciale Asie du TIME Magazine en Octobre 2000. En 2001 il a participé à Chinese Plans : Rotate 360, la 6ème Exposition d'Art Contemporain chinois, Shanghai, Chine; China Rushes, Asian-Pacific-Wochen festival d'Art de Berlin, Allemagne: BEFF3: 3ème festival expérimental de Bangkok, Thailande. En 2002, il a pris part à Art Scope, Foire d'art de Bâle et Miami, Floride, Etats Unis, ainsi qu'au 59ème festival international de cinéma de Venise, Italie. En 2003 il a participé au 8ème Festival International du Film de Pusan, Corée; 49ème festival international du court-métrage d'Oberhausen, Allemagne; Indépendants Chinois : Festival du film et de la vidéo nationaux, centre d'Art Honk-Kong, lors duquel il a réalisé le film d'ouverture. En 2004 : Festival international du film, de la vidéo et des nouveaux médias VIPER, Suisse. Photographies et vidéos contemporaines chinoises, Kunstmuseum Wolfburg, Allemagne. Festival cinéma, Brésil; Rear window, NGBK, Berlin, Allemagne; MK2 cinema, Paris, France; Image Forum Festival 04, Tokyo, Gethe Institute in Kyoto, Musée de Yokohama, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Japon; 21ème Festival World Wide Video Amsterdam, Pays-Bas; festival d'art média européen, Nomination aux EMAF awards, Allemagne; Shanghai Assemblage, au musée national d'art contemporain d'Oslo, Norvège; Hilcot Shchenim, chapter B. Centre d'art Digital, Holon. Israel; transmediale.04 Festival international d'art média de Berlin, IMAGE AWARD. In 2005, "Art as cinema Musée d'art contemporain de Mannheim, 54ème Fesival cinéma de Mannheim-Heidelberg, Allemagne; Nomination international media award 2005, ZKM Allemagne 7ème Panorama International des réalisateurs indépendants, Grèce et France; et festival d'art média européen, Allemagne.

A husband and wife, both queer, live together but as if in two different worlds. A programme guides them along every day: how to wash up, how to behave, all pointing toward a specific reproductive goal. Between satire and the surreal, "Future Flowers" is reflects the economic and productive imperatives imposed in hetero-directed dreams.

Hao Zhou is a filmmaker from southwest China. An alum of the Cinéfondation Résidence and Berlinale Talents, Zhou has directed an indie feature "The Night", which premiered at the Berlinale Panorama. Zhou's short film "Frozen Out" was a Student Academy Awards gold medal winner and screened at Fribourg, BFI Flare, and many other festivals. Currently Zhou is working on multiple queer narrative and nonfiction projects.

Both my parents and grandparents had told about their experiences of witnessing dragon and strange astronomic as kids. These things became part of my childhood memory which I still hold onto deeply. I believe there are some kind of lives and energy that are beyond human existence. They are totems which evolved into symbols throughout thousands of years. Whereas modern science , under the coverage of logic, made every one of us a superstitious bystander. Truth is like an enormous broken flower fading on earth. How do these incidents relate to casual bystanders? The mystery of these beliefs is best understood by peasants, who have intermingled with the land and nature for thousands of years. But are they still there, or are they hidden in a secret way? This is what I have been looking for. It is unique and belongs to everyone. As Nietzsche wrote in “Also sprach Zarathustra”: “You and I even in the mountains we seek something different. I came here to seek more safety, because it is still the strongest tower and will”.

ZHOU YULONG photographer & Artist b. 1978 2000: Worked as Art director of Ogilvy&Mather Co. 2002: Founded DTMPHOTO studio Based in Shanghai