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

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

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

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

Poet at work: daydreams, nightmares and writings.

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

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

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

Iran, 12 juin 2009. Dénonçant une « fraude massive » aux élections présidentielles, des centaines de milliers d?Iraniens descendent dans la rue pour exprimer leur mécontentement. Alors que les journalistes locaux ont été muselés et les journalistes étrangers expulsés du pays, ces affrontements violents ont été visibles dans le monde entier grâce aux images amateurs filmées par des manifestants anonymes.

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

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

Safe Sound de Ziad Antar, RT: 8 mins. Comme le siége continua et l'assaut ne s'arrêta pas, la routine quotidienne se suspend et le temps reste immobile. Quand quelqu'un n'est pas immédiatement exposé au danger, survivre devient une question de gérer la captivité ressentie et de faire passer le temps.

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

Deux enfants jouent du synthétiseur et créent leur propre chanson.

Né à Saida, Liban en 1978. Vit à Paris. Travaille dans les domaines de la vidéo et de la photographie depuis 2002. diplôme comme ingénieur en agriculture en 2001 à Beirut. Il expose une année au Palais de Tokyo en 2003, Le Pavillon.

A Place We Call Home nous entraîne au c?ur des relations intenses et particulières qui unissent deux personnages féminins. Le décor qui les entoure, à la fois urbain et sauvage, physiquement mangé par la végétation, absorbe et réfléchit leurs rituels.

Emmanuelle Antille est née en 1972 à Lausanne où elle demeure et travaille. Elle étudie à l'Ecole supérieure d'art visuel de Genève de 1991 à 1996, puis, de 1997 à 1998, à la Rijksacademie à Amsterdam. Elle use d'un langage parfois minimal parfois emphatique. Elle ausculte le dedans et le dehors et se voit de l'intérieur et de l'extérieur. Cette discipline de l'analyse systématique permet à tout un chacun de faire l'épreuve à son tour de son soi. Ses ?uvres ont été exposées notamment lors de festivals de vidéo comme ceux de Zurich, New York, Le Caire, Vilnius, Salamanque. En 2005 elle présentait « Rollow » au festival de Locarno et obtenait le prix Jeune créateur de la fondation vaudoise pour la promotion et la création artistique.

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

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

"Even if we fall" aborde la question des relations au sein d'une famille et des rôles joués par chacun de ses membres. Dans une maison silencieuse, un père, une mère et leur fille sont assis dans le salon, immobiles et silencieux. La mère prend soudainement sa fille par la main, et ils quittent tous les trois la pièce pour aller s'isoler dans la chambre des parents. Ils vont y exécuter un rituel unique : la fille a décidé d'offrir ses cheveux à sa mère. Le film montre la relation forte qui unit la fille à ses deux parents, et le lien très particulier qui existe entre les parents et pose une nouvelle fois la question de l'amour et du sacrifice au sein de la cellule familiale .

Emmanuelle Antille est née en 1972 à Lausanne. Elle a étudié à l?Ecole Supérieure d?art visuel de Genève, et à la Rijksakademie à Amsterdam. Ses oeuvres ont notamment été présentées à Attitudes, Genève ; au Fridericianum Museum, Kassel ; au centre d?art contemporain de Vilnius (Lituanie) ; à Imago 02, Salamanque ; à la Renaissance Society, Chicago ; au Pavillon Suisse de la 50ème Biennale de Venise ; au CCA de Glasgow ; au Centro Atlantico de Arte Modernao, Las Palmas Gran Canaria ; au Centre pour l'image contemporaine Saint Gervais, Genève ; au Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo ; au Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC ; au Musée de la Photographie de Winterthur ; au Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris ; au FRAC, Nord-Pas de Calais, France ; au Stedelijk Museum S.M.A.K.à Gand ; au musée d?art contemporain de Zürich ; à la Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome ; au Musée Reina Sofia (MNCARS), Madrid ; au ZKM, Karlsruhe ; à la Biennale de Busan (Corée du sud) ; au Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne ; au centre national d?art contemporain de Moscou ; au Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris ; au MUDAM, Luxembourg ; aux Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid ; au Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid ; à la Tate Modern, Londres ; et au Grand-Palais, Paris. Ses vidéos ont été projetées lors de festivals, comme le Viper, Bâle, Lucerne ; la 8e Biennale de L'Image en Mouvement, Saint-Gervais, Genève; l'Impakt Festival, Utrecht ; le festival du film de Locarno et le festival du film de Trieste,.

"Strings of Affection" montre la relation particulière d?une femme à son espace domestique. Munie d?une pelote de ficelle, celle-ci tisse des fils dans tout son appartement. Ainsi se matérialise une étrange géométrie interne. L?appartement devient un espace mental, un espace miroir de la psyché du personnage. L?architecture apparaît comme un lieu de transformation s?ouvrant à la fois sur l?extérieur, tout en se refermant sur lui-même comme un piège. Prise dans cette toile, le corps de la femme se trouve contraint, tandis que son esprit s?échappe.

Emmanuelle Antille est née en 1972 à Lausanne. Elle a étudié à l?Ecole Supérieure d`Art Visuel de Genève et à la Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten à Amsterdam. Depuis 1995, elle a développé sa pratique artistique dans le champ des médias électroniques, travaillant principalement avec la vidéo et l?installation, mais également avec le son, la photographie, l?imprimé (publications tant de livres que d?albums musicaux) et l?élaboration de sites web. Expositions (sélection) : Kunstverein à Frankfurt, Musée d?Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Pavillon Suisse à la Biennale de Venise, The Renaissance Society à Chicago, CCA à Glasgow, Site Gallery à Sheffield, Toyko Wonder Site à Tokyo, De Appel à Amsterdam, Migros Museum à Zürich, Musée du Jeu de Paume à Paris, National Gallery of Iceland à Reykjavik. Lauréate du Concours fédéral des Beaux-Arts (1999, 2000, 2001), du prix Kiefer-Hablitzel (2000, 2001), du Review + film contest Migros et de la Fondation Vaudoise pour la Culture (2005). Elle a bénéficié d?une résidence à Berlin dans l?atelier de la Confédération en 2002, puis à Paris au Couvent des Récollets en 2003. Plus d?informations sur www.emmanuelleantille.com

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

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

Gil works in construction, goes to his mother’s bar and has love dates with Katia. On a day like so many others, Gil is disappearing.

Ralph Antunes is a director, editor and producer. Graduated in Digital Arts at the Fine Arts School of UFMG, he produced and co-directed the short films Carga Viva (2013), Boa Morte (2015), Praça do Peixe (2018) and Tudo Que Vi Era o Sol (2023), which were shown at important festivals such as Doclisboa, FIC Valdivia, Málaga, Brasília and Tiradentes. As an artistic assistant, since 2014 he has collaborated with filmmaker and artist Cao Guimarães, coordinating the workflow of the artist's audiovisual and photographic productions and communicating his studio with art institutions around the world. Together with Pedro Maia de Brito, he is currently developing his first feature film, The Scarlet Temple Oracle, winner of the prize for best project in development in the Arché - Doclisboa'23.

In a historical city on the brink of an ecological disaster, seafront houses wear a coat of armor. A young artist returns to his hometown after many years and finds that it no longer feels like home. He begins wandering the city with a friend to reconnect with his childhood memories. During their journey he witnesses firsthand how environmental issues are eroding the city's once vibrant appearance and character. The artist's sense of alienation from the city acts like armor, helping him confront his fears and traumas. Through this film he also strives to rediscover himself.

David Apakidze (b. in 1998, Poti) is a visual artist, curator, art historian, co-founder of the Fungus Project and Fungus Gallery, queer art initiatives based in the Caucasus. He studied Art History at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts, focusing on medieval Orthodox art—an influence that continues to shape his practice. His practice spans sculpture, embroidery, printmaking, and stained glass, reinterpreting Georgian Orthodox iconography through a queer lens. His research-based practice explores identity, traditions, and queerness. Apakidze has participated in residencies and exhibitions both locally and internationally, including Lerblabor (Berlin, 2021), Open Out Festival (Tromsø, 2023), Gallery Artbeat (Tbilisi, 2024), Gallery Zacheta (Warsaw, 2024), and MeetFactory (Prague, 2025).

Look at Me thématise la lutte artistique pour la visibilité et la reconnaissance dans un monde d'abondance numérique. La frontière entre ce qui est perçu et la réalité s'estompe continuellement : celui qui obtient de l'attention est perçu et peut prendre part aux réalités ; celui qui tombe dans l'oubli risque de n'avoir jamais existé. La performance met en scène une économie de l'attention dans laquelle les regards du public deviennent la monnaie décisive face à la peur de l'insignifiance : 100% Sale. Au cours d'une danse apparemment grotesque, des sculptures gonflables de 8 mètres de haut, contrôlées en direct, entrent en compétition directe avec trois performeur·euses et rivalisent pour capter l'attention du public. Entre l'effort humain et la présence mécanique, la lutte pour l'attention se révèle être un moment d'introspection artistique : poussée par la peur de l'insignifiance, la soif effrénée de domination visuelle débouche sur l'impuissance.

Niklas Apfel est un artiste berlinois spécialisé dans le design graphique et les installations. Son travail brouille les frontières entre art appliqué et beaux-arts, mettant en scène des figures abstraites, des scènes et de la typographie. La performance « Look at Me » a été créée durant ses études post-diplôme à l'UdK Berlin. Le Collectif Blitzbereit utilise les performances pour remettre en question les tabous autour du corps, de la sexualité et des émotions. Par une expression non-verbale et humoristique, ils touchent un large public dans l'espace public. Dans « Look at Me », ils rivalisent pour attirer l'attention, critiquent les dynamiques du monde de l'art tout en se poussant jusqu'à l'épuisement dans une compétition sans fin. Leur style de travail anarchique reflète leur conviction contre les structures rigides.

Beyond the white boundary of wired fences, birch trees and snow, men living in solitude as the world crumbles.

Lorenzo Apolli was born in a small city in the North of Italy, where he studied music and visual arts. After graduating in architecture he entered a documentary film-making institute, focussing on visions from the past and trying to explore the possible, mutual contributions among sound and image in the use of archival materials. He currently works as a researcher in a multidisciplinary documentation centre specialising in contemporary history, for which in the last few years he has been rediscovering archives of still and moving images.

DIE is a collaboration between Turner Prize winning artist Martin CREED who made the song "Die" and feature filmmaker Josh APPIGNANESI who created a response to the song. The film brings into play multiple notions of being exposed and yet remaining mysterious; rendered utterly naked under the spotlight with reference to torture imagery and Abu Ghraib, and yet withholding the mystery of the interior, with reference to papparazzi photos of celebrities holding up their hands. The result is strangely joyous. In terms of the ongoing collaboration between the artists, the piece crosses over between experimental film and music video and in so doing makes reference to Creed`s own previous video work in this vein, as well as to Appignanesi`s feature film work such as Song Of Songs (2005.)

Josh APPIGNANESI is a writer/director based in London. He directed the feature films The Infidel and Song Of Songs. Working across genres, he has also made short films, video art, music videos, documentaries, commercials and artworks, working with cast such as John Malkovich, Richard Schiff, David Tennant, Omid Djalili, and Tom Hiddleston. He teaches internationally. www.joshappignanesi.com Martin CREED is a renowned British artist and musician working internationally. He won the Turner Prize in 2001. www.martincreed.com

Set in a fictitious lunar base Nagasaki, HONEYMOON is the Japanese director Yu Araki’s take on Japonisme. He re-examines and re-interprets the wedding scene from Madame Butterfly (dir. Carmine Gallone, 1954), where B.F. Pinkerton sits in seiza (??), which is the Japanese term used for the proper, formal traditional way of sitting by kneeling on the floor and have legs folded underneath the thighs. Although seiza-style is widely known as “correct”, it didn’t permeate until after Japan opened up to the Occident, that is, after the culture of the “chair” had taken hold, hence the formality of what the Japanese thought had long history was only a modern, arbitrary construct. Inspired by this historical fact, Araki connects seiza with another element to contemplate the arbitrariness of humanity: constellation, which, incidentally, is a homonym with seiza (??) in the Japanese language. In addition, the aforementioned film Madame Butterfly has been known as one of the most iconic collaborations between Italy and Japan, with a strong intention from the Japanese production side to “correct” the twisted imagery of Japanese depiction in which they succeeded. However, Araki critically poses the question of what does it mean to understand another culture “correctly”. In Araki’s version, B.F. Pinkerton is replaced by a real-life photographer Adolf de Meyer (1868 - 1946), and the matchmaker with an anthropologist Frederick Starr (1858 - 1933), and having Suzuki and Dr. Tatsukichi Irisawa (1865 - 1938), who was known for his essay “On the Japanese Way of Sitting” (1921), joining in as broadcast commentator to describe the situation from a distance. The loose, gossipy dialogue between the off-site personnel ranges from fashion to spies, interweaving various elements while the performers patiently wait in perseverance until their legs fall asleep.

Yu Araki (b.1985, Yamagata City) received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis, U.S.A. in 2007, and completed his Master of Film and New Media Studies from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010. In 2013, he was selected to participate in Tacita Dean Workshop hosted by Fundación Botín in Santander, Spain. During 2017-8, he was a guest resident at Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea, and Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Recent exhibitions include Pola Museum of Art, Shiseido Gallery, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, MUJIN-TO Production; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas; and Okayama Art Summit, Okayama. His films have been programmed in international festivals such as BFI London Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, and International Film Festival Rotterdam, where he won the Ammodo Tiger Short Film Award in 2018. He was shortlisted as one of the 21 artists for the Future Generation Art Prize hosted by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2019. He currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

The film focuses on the New York's State Pavilion, an iconic building and one of the few surviving structures of the New York World`s Fair, held in Flashing Meadows in 1964. In Arancio's timeless abstract film, the camera slowly panning from the ground to the top end of the building, presents us a subjective reading of its architectural elements. Shot on Super 8 in one take, the film aims to juxtapose the construction's original utopian visionary aesthetics with Arancio's interest in apocalyptic representation and fascination for transient beauty.

Salvatore Arancio
 was born in Catania, Italy in 1974. He lives and works in London. He studied Photography at the Royal College of Art. His most recent exhibitions include: An Arrangement of the Materials Ejected, Spacex, UK, 2011; To See an Object to See a Light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d?Alba, Italy, 2011; Shasta, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome; ?Sentinel - PPS//Meetings#4?, Palazzo Riso - Museo d`Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, 2011; ?SI-Sindrome Italiana?, Le Magasin - Centre National d?Art contemporain de Grenoble, France, 2010; ?Catastrophe? Quelle Catastrophe!? Manif d?Art 5, The Quebec City Biennial, Engramme, Quebec City, Canada, 2010; ?An Account of the Composition of the Earth?s Crust: Dirt Cones and Lava Bombs?, Frame, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK, 2010; Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009; ?I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile?, GAM-Galleria d?Arte Moderna, Turin, 2009. Arancio was the recipient of the Art Omi Residency (New York) and a grant from The Elephant Trust (London) in 2011, and of the ?New York? Prize in 2009. He was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2006.

The film shot on Super 8 was filmed at the Zoology museum in Bologna. The museum was founded in 1860 part of the University of Bologna and is the largest and most significant in Italy. Rows and rows of cabinets filled with strangely shaped animals. It traces its roots all the way back to the very first cabinet of curiosity and the collection of Ulisse Aldrovandi, who allegedly coined the word Geology and is undisputedly one of the fathers of natural history. The film follows Arancio?s fascination with the human? s preoccupation to bring order to the world around us and the aesthetics related to the systems of classification used for this purpose. With this work the artist presents us with a subjective vision of the ornithological collection created by Zafagnini-Bertocchi in the first half of the 20th Century. Through the juxtaposition of deep gravitational rumbling sounds by LA cosmic cult music project Expo 70 and Arancio? s precise editing, still close ups and slow camera panning, the film exposes the sinister and uncanny nature of the displays, resulting in an ambiguous temporality, a visionary experience that transcends and transforms the original scientific illustrative purpose of the cabinets.

Born in Catania, Italy in 1974. Lives and works in London. He received his MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art. His artistic signature is photo-etching, but he works across a range of media such as sculpture, collage, animation and video. Arancio?s main interest lies in the potential of images. Departing from their literal meaning, he creates new juxtapositions that are both beautifully evocative and deeply disquieting. He looks to nature and science for his sources of inspiration, while unsettling any hint of the sublime by re-framing the images and the viewer?s experience. His constructed landscapes contain a sense of both the familiar and the unknown that enhances their symbolic readings and implications. Selected exhibitions: PROJECT: Salvatore Arancio, Rachel Cattle & Steve Richards, James Pyman, Maureen Paley Gallery, London, UK, 2013; PROJECT 03: Data, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK, 2013 (group show); Le Ragioni della Pittura. Esisti e prospettive di un medium, Palazzo de Sanctis, Castelbasso (Teramo), Italy, 2013 (group show); Curiosity. Art & the Pleasure of Knowing (Hayward Touring), Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2013, touring to Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (group show); Cyclorama, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico DF, Mexico (group show), 2013; Alternating Layers of Contrasting Resistance, Rowing Gallery, London, UK; The Little Man of the Forest With the Big Hat, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy; Relatively Absolute, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK; Solo Presentation, Art Rotterdam 2013-New Art Section, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; The Little Man of the Forest With the Big Hat, MCZ-Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza, Italy, 2012; An Arrangement of the Materials Ejected, Spacex, Exeter, UK, 2011; To See an Object to See a Light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d?Alba, Italy, 2011; Shasta, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Roma, 2011; Sentinel - PPS//Meetings#4, Palazzo Riso - Museo d?Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy, 2011; SI-Sindrome Italiana, Le Magasin - Centre National d?Art contemporain de Grenoble, France, 2010; An Account of the Composition of the Earth?s Crust: Dirt Cones and Lava Bombs, Frame, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK, 2010; Catastrophe? Quelle Catastrophe!, Manif d?Art 5, The Quebec City Biennial, Engramme, Quebec City, Canada, 2010; Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009; I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile, GAM-Galleria d?Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 2009. Arancio was selected fot the Résidences Internationales aux Recollets, Paris, France, 2013; Sundaymorning@ekwc, European Ceramic WorkCentre, SG ?s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; Wysing Arts Center Artist Residency, Cambridge, UK and Artist Residency and Ceramic Workshop, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza in 2012. He won The Elephant Trust Grant, London and The Art Omi Residency, New York in 2011, the Premio ?New York? in 2009 and was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2006.