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Distance-Landscape. The connection between observer and landscape at the contemplative experience. From the crossing of the proximity and the remoteness appears the notion of aura, following Walter Benjamin´s theories. The gaze is here building the landscape from the necessary distance. Defining it´s limits withLois Patiño Filmmaker and videoartist born in Vigo (España) in 1983. Currently he lives and works at Madrid. During his university years he combine psicolgy and cinema studies at Madrid. Subsequently he move to NY and Berlin to complety his training on cinema direction and videoart at the NYFA and the UdK respectively. In Barcelona he made a master´s degree in documentary films at the UpF. He have done workshops with filmmakers as Víctor Erice, Jose Luis Guerín, Isaki Lacuesta... and artists as Joan jonas, Bill Viola or Donald Kuspit. He collaborate with the cinema director Mercedes Álvarez in her second film. the total continuity of the Nature. An observer submerged in the trip of the look around the landscape. Resting the gaze on the details that makes up it´s totally. Focusing, approaching the look to the center of the image and coming back again with distance. In this doble way we aproach to the notion of aura.

Lois Patiño Filmmaker and videoartist born in Vigo (España) in 1983. Currently he lives and works at Madrid. During his university years he combine psicolgy and cinema studies at Madrid. Subsequently he move to NY and Berlin to complety his training on cinema direction and videoart at the NYFA and the UdK respectively. In Barcelona he made a master´s degree in documentary films at the UpF. He have done workshops with filmmakers as Víctor Erice, Jose Luis Guerín, Isaki Lacuesta... and artists as Joan jonas, Bill Viola or Donald Kuspit. He collaborate with the cinema director Mercedes Álvarez in her second film.

Maria Patsyuk Russia stop fucking war, July 2022 Following Audrey Lorde's idea that the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, in my work I question the efficacy of calls for violence and rape when addressing enemies and aggressors in any anti-war rhetoric as it's a case of unconscious use of patriarchal culture's tools in an attempt to confront it. I observe how the body responds to the ambivalence of sexual vocabulary embedded in everyday discourse, and study their mutual impact. ??? ????? (fuck war) is a well-known slogan in the Russian-speaking circles. It is considered to be pacifist, but operates as a legitimization of military violence, in which the dominant sexual role is to humiliate and appropriate the bodies of others. The more intense the usage of the sexual language in the context of violence is - in the news, in slogans and in everyday speech - the more I feel that sex as a bodily and communicative practice, as an extension of desire and a path to pleasure, is escaping me and becoming a weapon of war that cripples living bodies.

Maria Patsyuk, multidisciplinary anti-war artist, 34 y.o, from Moscow, Russia. Due to political reasons provisionally based in Europe since 2022. Masters Student at Art Live Forms in Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg 2023-2025, DAAD scholarship holder. Keywords for her artistic practice: holding complex interrelations, breaking away from ideologies and manifests, sprouting through in-betweens, fluid contract, distance and boundaries. Critically reflects on the interrelation of people, institutions, and non-humans both in physical and digital spaces. Winner of DAAD Scholarship for postgraduate studies, Germany, In Solidarity Scholarship, International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria and GES-2 x CHANEL Culture Fund Scholarship, Moscow, Russia. Shortlisted in VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art x Gucci Contest in 2020. Participant of the LoosenArt exhibition, Rome, Italy; Noname Festival, Moscow; NO RETURN festival, Nevers, France; International festival of arts The Access Point, Saint-Petersburg, Russia and ON THE EDGE festival, Narva, Estonia with projects, connecting physical and digital experiences. Participant of BUDA art residency in Kortrijk, Belgium; Glocal Class Tender Absence, digital residency by Peira, Germany; Untitled Gallery residency in Tbilisi, Georgia; In Their Own Words residency for women artists at the GES–2 House of Culture in Moscow, Russia, Blackbox at Meyerhold Theatre Centre, Moscow, Russia.

How do you shoot a documentary when you know that filming is not allowed? In 90 Seconds in North Korea, Ranko Paukovic filmed in slow motion, shooting secretly in 2-second intervals on a hi-speed camera that everyone else around him believed was an ordinary tourist stills camera. Each 2-second fragment created 20 seconds of slow motion footage. The result is a dreamlike yet breathtakingly normal montage of everyday street, road and beach life in a state that strictly controls what outsiders are allowed to see. A child plays with a toy car in the park, adults enjoy a game of cards in the park's picnic area; trucks drive along an empty road, the rays of the setting sun lend warmth to lush countryside, and a shower of rain falls on the streets of Pyongyang… As it was impossible to record any interviews or ambient sound, the soundtrack features a haunting and evocative sound design composed by the director, an accomplished sound editor. The pragmatic, necessary decision to shoot in slow motion lends the film a poetic quality: in Ranko's own words, "the form is born out of need".

Ranko Paukovic studied film at the Academy of Dramatic Art in his hometown of Zagreb, Croatia. After graduating, he worked as an assistant editor on large international co-productions. He moved to The Netherlands in 1991 and worked as a sound editor with prominent Dutch directors. In 1993 he set up his own sound studio, Editson, specialising in sound design, sound editing and film mixing for artistically ambitious projects. Still based in Amsterdam, Ranko is now in demand internationally. He has built up an impressive back catalogue of work including feature films, high-end television drama and documentaries. A few years ago, he made his debut as a director with the feature-length documentary Bijela Kuca (White House), about the unique white stone found on the island of Brac, Croatia and the people who earn a living from quarrying it. White House was shown at several international film festivals and broadcast by Croatian national television (HRT) and Al-Jazeera Balkans. His last documentary "The End of Darkness" about the last European female mine workers just premiered at Al-Jazeera Balkans Docs in Sarajevo. The film was supported by the Croatian Film Fund (HAVC). Ranko is also a visiting professor for the University of Zagreb, where he teaches sound design.

Six Artists respond to the work of Joanna Margaret Paul is a programme of short moving image works by Nova Paul, Rachel Shearer, Sonya Lacey, Miranda Parkes, Shannon Te Ao and the collective Popular Productions. A prolific film-maker, poet, photographer and painter, the work of Joanna Paul (1955-2003) quietly observed the intimate poetics of the domestic and the modest grace of her bucolic surroundings. This programme presents an ambitious range of new moving image commissions shot at home, in industrial space, nature and using a microscope within salt letter form – each film celebrating the resonance of Paul’s work and offering the catalyst for a collection of new work by a range of contemporary New Zealand artists.

Nova Paul teaches studio moving image and art theory in the Visual Arts Department. Her film-making practice draws from early cinema, experimental film histories and fourth wave film discourse to consider the poetics and politics of place, self-determinacy and the image and the role of story telling in talking back to neo-liberal hegemonies. Her writing practice has focused on lens-based media and its relationship to whenua (land). In 2008 she co-edited PLACE: Local Knowledge and New Media Practice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), a book that examines how on how long-held attachments to place are transforming in the new media context. In 2012 she published Form Next to Form Next to Form (Dent De Leone, UK and Clouds, NZ) this artist book won the 2013 Most Beautiful Book in Australisia (Monash University, Australia) Nova Paul`s 16mm films have screened nationally and internationally in film festivals and gallery programmes. This is not Dying (2010) has screened at Recontres Internationale, George Pompidou Centre, France, (2011), Rotterdam International Film Festival, (2011), New Zealand International Film Festival, (2010) City Gallery Wellington, (2010). Pink and White Terraces has screened at Whitechapel Gallery (UK) and was selected by Whitechapel Gallery for Artists` Films International at the Venice Biennale in 2013. The film has toured to Ballroom Marfa (USA), Fundacion Proa (Argentina), GAMeC - Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Italy), Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (Norway), The Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks at the Koç Foundation (Turkey) from 2009-2010. Pink and White Terraces premiered at the Telecom International Film Festival, (2006) and was Telecom Prospect New Art, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 2007. Other film commissions include Our Future is in the Air (2007) for Martini Shot; New Artists Show, Artspace, Auckland and the World of Interiors (2008) for New Zealand Film Archive, Wellington. Nova Paul is of Te Uri Ro Roi and Te Parawhau /Ngā Puhi descent.

Le chasseur ardennais part à la recherche d’images nocturnes grâce à ses pièges photographiques. L’astrophysicien au milieu du désert, utilise ses télescopes géants pour sonder les fins fonds du cosmos. Tous deux, à travers leurs territoires et leurs images partent à la quête de nouveaux mythes.

Thomas Paulot est né à Paris en 1991. Il obtient un Bachelor en fine art à Central Saint Martins de Londres lors duquel il développe une pratique interdisciplinaire principalement autour d’installations, de vidéos et de constructions scénographiques. Il dirige en 2016 un atelier avec des mineurs pluri-exclus à Paris durant lequel il réalise un film Au début du chemin de notre vie. Il coréalise le film Stardom lors de l’atelier Grand voyage à Bombay en Octobre 2016. il coréalise en 2017, Anarchie à Buchillon dans le cadre d’un atelier avec la Manufacture de Lausanne. Il sera diplômé du Master cinéma ECAL/HEAD en 2018 avec son film, Le ciel des bêtes.

A reconstructed assemblage of the opening title sequence from the feature film The Shining (1980) by Stanley Kubrick, “A View of Above” was shot in reverse perspective at the actual locations used in the feature film. The original viewpoint is now inverted, looking up, and back at the ominous "eye in the sky" which shadows the yellow Volkswagen as it winds its way up the American Rockies to the Overlook Hotel. The framing, movement, and pacing of the original, feature film sequence is replicated shot by shot in duration and in relationship to the sun and weather. The intent is to recreate the original, but from an altogether different perspective: the gaze defiantly flipped, the viewer is no longer a complicit voyeur of the hapless victim.

Michael Paulus is an interdisciplinary artist living in Portland, Oregon. USA Exploring potential connections between often disparate relationships, his video work often attempts to reveal the hidden, censored, or unassumed in culture, cartography, mechanisms and commonplace conventions. Films and videos have screened at the NW film festival, PDX film festival, various domestic and international film festival as well as the Taipai Biennial, Scope Basel, various gallery installations and recently as part of CORE, -the Nagasaki-Hanford project as part of an installation at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA in 2018

SWIMMERS is a sketch of an attempt to maintain collective belief on the border of cosmology and psychedelic trance theater. Run-down houses in an abandoned settlement in the southern corner of Russia. A controversial physicist, Boris Zolotov lives here. In the mid-1980s, Zolotov decided to leave the walls of the Soviet research institutions to follow his own beliefs. Today these take the form of hour-long swimming rituals and night-time theater performances. A group of people have collected around him, who choose to share his journey Like many in the group, the young Ekaterina was led here by the many questions which remained unanswered elsewhere. Together with Boris Zolotov, she discusses the concept of happiness in contemporary Russia.

Kristina Paustian, born 1985 in Omsk, Russia. 2003 she moved to Germany to study at the University of the Arts in Berlin. She worked as a director of photography and editor for other artists before starting out as a video artist herself. Today Paustian`s artistic practice covers video art, film and installations. In her art she always tries to find and preserve a particular human constant into cinematographic forms. This constant (if there is any) goes far beyond language barriers, geographical borders, collective and social concepts or political structures. SWIMMERS is her first feature film.

The story of a man who came to Germany 17 years ago. It’s the 31.12.2017, a day in the life of Niaz Ahmadzai from Afghanistan. A never ending story of work, existence, love, familiy and an unfulfilled personality. The perfect integration of a fully functioning machine.

Denis Pavlovic, born in 1987 in Stuttgart, presented his first film "Smoother in 350ml" at the No Budget Festival in Tubingen in 2008. Thereupon he studied 3 years Film & Video at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart. After his graduation he worked as an interne at the Documentary Production Company "Kloos und Co. Medien" in Berlin. In 2011 Denis accomplished his first long movie called "Paranoid Places" and in 2013 his second full-length documentary „Wo tanzen wir morgen" which celebrated its Premiere at the 19th Filmschau Baden-Wurttember Festival. In order to its success it was distributed via Teamwerk Stuttgart. Today Denis is studying documentary direction at the Filmakademie Baden- Wurttemberg and works as a freelancer filmmaker and artist. The main themes his films are about modern society in the midst of globalism and industrialism.

There is a German Shepherd in Tepoztlan who guards a brick villa where the walls are painted white and the furniture is modern. In the kitchen there are people chatting, the TV is on and the German Shepherd is waiting by the door. The villa is enclosed by a wall and you can hear church singing from the mountains, especially in the garden, where there is a sprinkler, purple flowers on the lawn and a woman dressed in Baby Blue.

Temra Pavlovic was born in the Netherlands and received her BFA in Film/Video from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She combines documentary and fiction, and uses materials from her direct surroundings. Her work has shown in different contexts, i.e. at Otras Obras in Tijuana, the RedCat theater and Human Resources in Los Angeles and the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. She is currently living in Mexico City, working on a series of narrative documentary scenes under the umbrella title `Soluciones,` and she is a member of the three-headed collective Oa4s.

Resting in the grass waiting for the rest, eating candy in the back of the truck. Driving on the bumpy road to where Paco arrives with his bebé on the Dinamo. Eating sugar cane.

Temra Pavlovic is an artist based in Amsterdam. She makes momental videos, sculptures and installations, and is a member of poetry group Oa4s (On all fours). Her work has been exhibited at e.g. Lodos gallery in Mexico City, Human Resources in Los Angeles, Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Interstate Projects in Brooklyn and Seventeen gallery in London.

Set Theory I–IV explores every corner of flat screen space and corresponding illusions of depth. Part I (2mins) involves dissolving surfaces. Part II (2mins) adds alternating planes and the numbers 0 and 1, as graphic components. Part III (12mins) slowly takes the screen into depth, evoking architectonic principles of the video frame. Adding another dimension, Part IV (2mins) introduces pure, constantly changing colour fields. In the first instance, Set Theory involved producing and collating different sets of vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved graphic transitions. These were subsequently combined or sequenced by way of different rules that keep the conflict of planes, forms, tonal values and colour foremost.

Simon Payne studied at the Kent Institute of Art and Design, Maidstone; Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee; and the Royal College of Art, London. His work has shown in numerous festivals and venues including. He has also written widely on experimental film and video. He co-edited the book Kurt Kren: Structural Films (2016) with Nicky Hamlyn and A.L. Rees and is currently editing a posthumous book by A.L. Rees, entitled Fields of View: Film, Art and Spectatorship. Simon Payne is Reader in Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and lives and works in London.

Présentation du travail La vidéo «Décor vidé», montre la transition d?un décor avec un scénario et des personnages à un décor vidé et sans vie. Le texte ci-joint, nous parle du scénario et des personnages impliqués, l?un desquels es mon épouse et la personne qui a écrit ce texte. Le soir de Noël de l?an 2006, au premier étage de cet immeuble de la rue Pau Claris de Barcelona, est décédé ma mère, Emilia Foix. Elle avait quatre-vingt-dix ans. Quand elle s?y est installée, à la fin du mois de janvier de 1951, avec son époux, Claudi Cuchillo et ses quatre enfants, elle était lourdement enceinte. Je suis née dans cet appartement, au début du printemps. Dans le même endroit, nous étions ensemble quand je suis née, nous étions ensemble quand elle est décédée. Pendant toutes ces années, son appartement a été un décor plein, parfois bondé. La soudaine mort de mon père a laissé muets, pendants quelques mois, les meubles et les murs. Assez vite, d?abord avec le c?ur gros, plus tard en tournant une page, les feux, le piano et les chambres se sont remis en marche. Il y avait toujours quelqu?un, il y avait toujours un lit, il y avait toujours un plat à table. Le «petit asile de maman Cuchillo», comme l?appelait Carlos, ne fermait jamais. Depuis qu?elle est tombée malade, quelques espaces se sont lentement vidés. Mais elle a maintenu le décor à point jusqu?à la fin. Elle a encore donné les ordres de repasser les nappes et de sortir la vaisselle, les verres et les couverts pour le repas de Noël. Cuchillo de Pazos Collioure, août 2008

Né à Barcelona en 1949. Prix National des Arts Visuels de la Catalogne, 2008, Prix National des Arts Plastiques, 2004, Ministère de la Culture espagnol et Prix Villa de Madrid, 2003. Fait des études d?architecture à l?Universidad Politécnica, philosophie à l?Universidad de Barcelona et design à l?Ecole EINA. Il a fait sa première exposition individuelle en janvier 1970, à l?age de vingt ans. En 2007 il a fait l?exposition rétrospective «No me digas nada» au MACBA (Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona) et au Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), dont il prépare une version pour le Musée d?Art Contemporain de Sao Paulo, en 2009. Il a exprimé son amour pour la musique et la nuit en dirigeant le Salon de bal Cibeles (1978-1982), le cocktail bar Bijou (1983-1986) et le bar musical (Je-rrix, 1994-1995). Dans ce dernier local il a établi le siège de son Club de Fans, le "CP FANS CLUB". En 1987 il est le protagoniste du film « Es quan dormo que hi veig clar » de Jordi Cadena sur des textes du poète Catalan J.V. Foix. En 1998, il dirige et réalise la scénographie de la pièce de théatre "El bell lloc", de Joan Brossa. Cette même année est publié "El Mundo del Ritmo" (Tabelaria), en collaboration avec Eduardo Mendoza et il est le protagoniste du vidéo "Pianito", de Jordi Colomer. L?année 2002 il publie le scénario du film, en attente de producteur "Aquí en la tierra como en el infierno", en décembre 2004 il publie son texte ?Garabatos y Zarpazos?, édité par l?Université de Barcelona (2ème édition 2007) et en 2008 il a publié «Diodrama», avec textes d?Eduardo Lago, dans une édition de l?Atelier Clot, Paris.

La rencontre entre un chimpanzé albinos (habillé en noir) et une vierge romaine noire (en chocolat blanc).

S`il vous plaît, voyez le catalogue de l`exposition "No me digas nada" ("Ne me dis rien", 2007, dont les coordonnées sont indiqués bas. Please, see the catalogue of the exhibition "No me digas nada" ("Tell nothing"), 2007, cited below. Nouvelle biographie: Né à Barcelona le 23 décembre 1949. Prix National des Arts Plastiques, 2004, Ministère de la Culture espagnol et Prix Villa de Madrid, 2003. Fait des études d?architecture à l?Universidad Politécnica, philosophie à l?Universidad de Barcelona et design à l?Ecole EINA de Barcelona. Il a exprimé son amour pour la musique et la nuit avec la direction d?un salon de bal (Salón Cibeles, 1978-1983), d?un cocktail bar (Bijou, 1983-1986) et d?un bar musical (Je-rrix, 1994-1995). Dans ce dernier local il a établi le siège de son Club de Fans, le "C.P.FANS CLUB", fondé en décembre 1994. En 1987 il est le protagoniste du film « Es quan dormo que hi veig clar » de Jordi Cadena sur des textes du poète Catalan J.V. Foix. En 1998, il dirige et réalise la scénographie de la pièce de theatre "El bell lloc", de Joan Brossa, au Espai Joan Brossa de Barcelona. Cette même année est publié "El Mundo del Ritmo" (édité par Tabelaria + Antojos), en collaboration avec Eduardo Mendoza et il est le protagoniste du video "Pianito", de Jordi Colomer. L?année 2002 il publie le scénario du film, en attente de producteur, "Aquí en la tierra como en el infierno" et en décembre 2004 il publie son livre ?Garabatos y Zarpazos?, édité par l?Université de Barcelona, dans la collection ?Les arts i els artistes?, en 2007 il publie « Fidelidad Total », en collaboration Ramón de España, édité par Raina Lupa et en 2008 « Diodrama », avec textes d?Eduardo Lago, edité par Atelier Clot. Il a fait sa première exposition individuelle en janvier 1970, à l?age de vint ans. En 2007 il a fait l?exposition rétrospective «No me digas nada» au MACBA (Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona) et au MNCARS (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía), dont il prépare une version pour le Musée d?Art Contemporain de Sao Paulo, en 2009. Pour son exposition rétrospective il a réalisé le film « Mnemocine. Film à découper », un collage audiovisuel constitué par 11 épisodes, d?une durée de 26 minutes.

Sonu, un enfant âgé d?onze ans, vit avec d?autres enfants dans les rues de Katmandu. Leur routine quotidienne est un combat pour survivre dans la capitale chaotique de Népal: toujours à la recherche de nourriture, de drogues, de touristes charitables et ce qu?ils cherchent le plus ? comme tout les garçons de cet âge ? l?aventure et le fun. La vie de Sonu et de sa bande est marquée par la faim et la violence, mais est aussi remplie de moments enfantins de liberté dans les rues. Le film suit l?idée de «cinéma direct» ceux qui veut dire: il n?y a pas de narrateur, pas de musique ni de scènes posés. Nous avons voulu comprendre la vie quotidienne des enfants de la rue à Katmandu. L?histoire est racontée par les enfants eux-mêmes.

Justin Peach. Born 1982 in El Paso, Texas. Curiosity and love for technical things fueled first attempts in the media world. Internships at ZDF, SWR and Maran Film followed. 2003 begin of media-design studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany with a major on documentary camera work. 2005 six months in Ecuador for an NGO documentary film about illegal animal transports. 2005 founder of PENG - a young collaborative art, communications and Design group. 2008 Final Diploma with "Lonely Pack" in Nepal. Since end of 2008 studying for a Masters degree in Journalism at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz.

Le film combine une scène du film "Copycat" (1995) avec des séquences de mon travail de montage. Il s'agit d'une réflexion sur l'idée d'originalité artistique, ainsi que sur le constant désir du monde de l'art d’immédiatement tout transformer - même la crise sanitaire actuelle - en œuvres d'art. La scène choisie montre Sigourney Weaver dans le rôle d'une psychologue souffrant d'agoraphobie qui fait une dépression nerveuse dans un appartement bien aménagé, où elle vit confinée depuis plusieurs mois. Malgré le luxe de son appartement, ses seuls contacts sociaux viennent d’Internet, une invention alors très récente. Assise à son bureau, au milieu de plusieurs écrans encombrants, elle échange de courts messages avec ses partenaires de chat. Cette séquence est mise en contraste avec des inserts textuels qui remettent en question la nécessité et la valeur originale de la production artistique dans l'art contemporain. Le jeu de Weaver et le chic douteux de l'appartement des années 1990 ajoutent une touche de critique humoristique des traits de caractère égocentriques et classistes qui ne sont pas rares dans le monde de l'art. "Housebound" a été commissionné par le 66e International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Allemagne). Il s'agit de ma contribution à la discussion du festival: "Peut-on et devrait-on faire des films maintenant?"

Jens Pecho a étudié à la Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne (Allemagne), ainsi qu'à la Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Francfort-sur-le-Main (Allemagne). En tant qu'artiste visuel, il travaille principalement à des installations fondées sur le texte et la vidéo. Ses œuvres ont été présentées à l'international dans des musées et des festivals de cinéma, notamment à la Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (Allemagne); au Forum d'Art Contemporain - Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg); au Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya (Israël); à la Biennale de Bangkok (Thaïlande); au Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (Allemagne); au International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Allemagne); au Message to Man International Film Festival, Saint-Pétersbourg (Russie) et au Uppsala International Short Film Festival (Suède). Il a reçu plusieurs prix pour son travail, notamment le Spiridon-Neven-DuMont-Prize, le Fo?rderpreis fu?r junge Ku?nstler*innen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen et, plus récemment, le Videokunst Fo?rderpreis de la ville de Brême (Allemagne).

The video work "Aah, Awe, and Ugh" explores the changing connotations of the term "awe". It moves in a sophisticated rise and fall of narrative tension between the production of knowledge and constantly newly generated uncertainty. Pecho's essayistic video is accompanied by the rousing first chords of the pop song "Let's Dance" by David Bowie, which are played in a continuous loop whose promise of a euphoric climax never materializes. The work is embedded in an ensemble of sculptural works, including the soft sculptures "Throw Away, Do Not Eat" (oversized replicas of silica bags), and two round clothing racks hung with T-shirts, "Unisex" and "Perfect Fit". The postcard multiple "Ceres and Triptolemos with Corvus cornix" shows a scene of Greco-Roman mythology photographed in the park of Sanssouci Palace. The group of figures is temporarily accompanied by a hooded crow.—The allegory captures the moment when man learns the first cultural technique: agriculture. Altogether the installation confronts us with the disillusionment that follows the enlightenment, but instead of proposing a re-mystification, it embraces the absurdity we are left with. The installation was produced with support of the Video Art Award Bremen, which Pecho received in 2019.

Jens Pecho (*1978 in Frankfurt am Main / Germany) studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne as well as the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. At the end of his studies he was awarded with the Spiridon-Neven-DuMont-Prize. As a visual artist, he works mostly with text- and video-based installations. From 2014-2016 he was a fellow of the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation, in 2019 he received the Video Art Award Bremen. His works have been shown internationally at museums as well as film festivals, among them the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Forum d'Art Contemporain – Casino Luxembourg, the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, the Message to Man IFF Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, and the Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden.

Loosely constructed from a collage of literary references, filmic vocabulary, broken-up narratives and improvisations, ‘The Protagonist’ is a work where the construction of a main character for a film is treated as an event for camera, a happening that becomes the film itself. Shot in two different interiors (an empty cinema and a house-party turning into a karaoke night) and constructed through six interconnected scenes, the film uses the tropes normally associated with the basic shaping of a narrative persona - looks, behaviours, personal details, surroundings etc. - and turns them all into the only available storyline to be followed. In an empty cinema, two unnamed men discuss the treatment for a possible narrative. Their abstract discussions are continuously interrupted by a second, parallel sequence: the movements and behaviours of a series of men and women abstractly portrayed while drinking, dancing, singing and carelessly chatting during a karaoke party.
The juxtaposition of the two scenes is an open proposal: mere rhythmic punctuation for the previous sequence, it might as well become a cypher for the two men’s unfinished storytelling. The film never starts, its constant deferral unveiling its basic mechanics, rendering them the only possible matter of interest: a story about the making of a character, about the becoming of a protagonist.

Francesco Pedraglio is an artist working with writing, performance, film and installation. He was born in Como (Italy) in 1981. Recent performances and exhibitions include: Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin (2015); The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand (2015); Kunsthalle Wien (2015); DropCity, Newcastle (2015); MAZ-Museo de Zapopan, Mexico (2014); CCA Glasgow (2014); Hayward Gallery, London (2014); Rowing, London (2013); Jeu de Paume (2013), Kunsthalle Basel (2012); ICA (2012); Auto Italia South East (2012); Galerie Kamm, Berlin (2012); Hollybush Gardens, London (2011), The National Portrait Gallery (2011); Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2011). His first novel "A man in a room spray painting a fly" was published by Book Works in summer 2014. Also in 2014 he was also the co-editor of the anthology of artists writings "Cadavere Quotidiano", published by X-TRA (Los Angeles). "The Object Lessons", a novella made in collaboration with Nina Beier and Marie Lund, was published by Mousse in 2012. Pedraglio is a founding member of the London based curatorial initiative FormContent (www.formcontent.org).

Following Jaran Ditapichai, a Thai political refugee living in Paris, in his metaphorical journey to his hometown, we un-map a political territory. Through the archives of the National Library of France, a sum of fragile human gestures is exposed, the past is released against the backdrop of an indifferent present made of guitar players, ruins, and an ever-flowing river. Forgotten faces left underwater reappears as we wonder what they have seen, what have they witnessed during the process of border-making of Thailand.

Domenico Singha Pedroli (1994) is an architect, artist and filmmaker based in Lugano (CH), Paris (FR) and Bangkok (TH). Through a multicultural approach, and driven by extended observation and curious research, his works articulate complex narratives, exploring the nature of traces, places and identities in all their mutability. Having studied architecture at the Accademia d’Architettura di Mendrisio (CH) and visual arts at Le Fresnoy – Studio national (FR), he has developed sensitivity in photography, cinema, video art, and virtual reality (VR).

Dans Cross003, on peut voir une image ressemblant à une croix, dans un premier temps comme une apparente manifestation tangible (une croix brillante ou brûlante) mais dans un second temps, comme une brèche dans un rideau ou une glace. La croix est faite de lumière pure et n?est évidente que comme une interprétation des contours sombres, un manque d?information visuelle. Quand les gens (ombres) apparaissent et bloquent la lumière, ma croix disparaît momentanément et la scène change de personnalité et de sens. Dans une tentative de décryptage et de catégorisation de l?imagerie changeante, le spectateur doit engager ses propres points de vue sur le voyeurisme et l?iconographie.

Rune Peitersen est né au Dannemark en 1971. Il vit et travaille à Amsterdam. Parcours Scolaire : 1999-2001 MFA, Frank Mohr Instituut, Groningen, www.mohr-i.nl 1995-1999, BA, Royal Academy of Art, La Hague, www.kabk.nl Exposé par : Gallery Ellen de Bruijne Projects

A creative dance documentary, Otherwise in Istanbul, follows the Istanbulian dancer Mihran Tomasyan, in a narrative told through his Armenian family history and identity, woven with archives, a collectively improvised choreography and the bamboleo of contemporary Istanbul. Otherwise in Istanbul looks at life in Istanbul through Mihran’s story - a look at life through affirmation and communitarianism embodied in dancing together and living otherwise.

Biography Didem Pekün (b. 1978, Istanbul) is an award-winning artist-filmmaker and academic based in London and Istanbul. She works across moving image, text, photography, sound and theory. ? Both in her education and in her approach as an artist and educator, Didem’s work is characterized by a synthesis of theory and practice. She has made several works that address political violence, displacement, and their many intersections. Her films and installations are shown internationally at festivals, museums, and exhibitions. ? For her, both artistic practice and pedagogy have always been about becoming—ephemeral communities working together toward a shared goal. Whether on a film set, in a classroom, or in a garden with more-than-human collaborators, she is driven by work that is liberatory while also being ecodependent; thinking through the combination of the two is her core motivation. ? Didem received her BA (Hons) in Music from SOAS and holds an MA and a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths. She has held fellowships at UdK Berlin, the Artistic Research Fellowship, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Central European University. After faculty positions at CEU, Koç, Sabanc?, and Bo?aziçi universities, she currently teaches at Goldsmiths. ?

Dans le train de Moscou à Erevan, Pelechian filme, caméra à l`épaule, des hommes et des femmes, d`âges et d`ethnies différentes (www.artavazd-pelechian.net).

Le cinéma d`Artavazd Pelechian - dont Jean-Luc Godard assure qu?il est le plus grand cinéaste du monde - reste encore aujourd`hui assez peu connu en Occident. Le réalisateur, d`origine arménienne, formé au VGIK entre 1963 et 1968, vit et travaille à Moscou, qu`il ne quitte que très rarement. Son ?uvre, qui se construit film après film, dans un souci de recherche et d`expérimentation, suppose qu`on la découvre, paliers par paliers, dans le mouvement de son évolution. Pelechian tourne peu et court. La densité de tout nouvel opus en fait à chaque fois une oeuvre rare.