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Cenotaph

Charles Cadic
Charles Cadic , born in 1991 , is a graduate of La Cambre , Brussels , section Urban Space ( 2013 ) and from the Beaux -Arts de Paris (2018 ). He also studied at the Glasgow School of Art (Environmental art). His practice is situated at the the border
of sculpture , video , installation but also photography , intervention in public space , architecture, writing and sound.
Charles Cadic is currently preparing a film that will deal with the genesis of images , the specular image and its symbolic function in our contemporary societies . His work has been exhibited at the Galerie Aperto in Montpellier , during the 71st edition of Jeune Création or at the Culterim Gallery in Berlin and will be part of the Atelier 105 – LIGHT CONE Residency in December 2022. He lives and works in Paris.
SYNOPSIS
An acoustic device – speakers placed at regular intervals on a beach – replaces the lost ocean. The speakers broadcast a looping sound, the sound of the waves that were there before, repeated ad infinitum. The memory of the sea, digitized, is nothing but a saturated wave, a data stream.

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Erosion

Daria Milyukhina
Filmmaker from Moscow. Currently based in Berlin.
Born in Moscow in 1988. Graduated from Moscow Architectural University as an architect in 2011 and from Moscow School of New Cinema as a film director in 2017.
These days she works as a freelance filmmaker as well as an artist.
SYNOPSIS
The feeling of total destruction. The world is falling apart and you are a part of it. The attempt to say something when everything you say is doomed to failure. Is it even worth trying or maybe the world would be a better place without your attempts?

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Breath

Lilian Robl
Lilian Robl studied Time Based Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and at the Ecole de recherche graphique Brussels and attained her MFA in 2019 as a Master student of Prof. Alexandra Bircken. Her work is shown in exhibitions, e.g. Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (DE); Wienwoche (AT); Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (CH); Lothringer 13, Munich (DE); fructa Munich (DE); Kunstverein Marburg (DE) as well as at international film and video festivals, e.g. Athens Digital Arts Festival, Museum of Modern Greek Culture (GR); FILE, São Paulo (BR); Poetry Film Award, Weimar (DE); Non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Tokyo (JP); Athens AnimFest (GR); International Moving Film Festival (IR); Athens Digital Film Festival (GR); hungry eyes festival Gießen (DE); ALC videoart festival, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Alicante (ES); International Film Festival with Alternative Media (MX); Monthly Screening, Millennium Film Workshop New York (US); Latest Visions (TV channels UK & Ireland). She has received artist-in-residence fellowships, among others at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (FR). Lilian Robl is currently based in Munich, Germany.
SYNOPSIS
A YouTube video, which is supposed to help the viewer against panic attacks and anxiety by focusing on his or her own breathing rhythm, served as the source material, which was graphically altered, filled with words and this way interpreted as a fleeting diagram of breath.

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In Memory Of

Mattia Bioli
Mattia Bioli (1996, Sassuolo – Italy) is a filmmaker and artist. He created different inter-medial projects experimenting every type of media and technique, from photography to animation. His short films have been exhibited at several national and international film festivals, including Visioni Italiane (Cineteca Bologna), Piccolo Grande Cinema (Cineteca Milano), Ribalta Experimental, Filmfest Bremen, TOFUZI, Linea d’Ombra, Minikino Film Week, Kino Otok, IBRIDA Festival. At the same time, he has been running a YouTube channel since 2014, where he tells the background of his personal works.
SYNOPSIS
How does a fading memory look like? A forgotten person faces the material disappearance of what it passed. Oblivion gradually consumes everything, destroying every possible illusion of eternity.
In memory of those who no longer exist, neither as a face, nor in our memories, nor in a short film.

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AbstrArt 23

Luis Carlos Rodríguez
Luis Carlos Rodríguez García. Avila Spain. I reside in Valladolid,
Fine Arts. University of the Basque Country.
Currently a professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Valladolid.
Biography Art
I Have maid individual and collective exhibitions of painting, photography, video art, installations and audiovisual performances
Alicante, Avila, Barcelona, Bilbao, Girona, Granada, Madrid, Salamanca, Valladolid (Spain).
París, Toulouse, Nice, Aquitaine, Aveyron. Decazeville, (France).
Monterrey, Guanajuato y México DF (México).
London, Morecambe, Walthamstow, Cambridge, Folkestone (UK).
New York, Atlanta, Burbank, Venice. Tampa, Asheville. Los Angeles, Las Vegas. Illinois, Ohio. Sacramento. (USA)
Roma, Forlí, Bari, Milan. Lecce. Modena. (Italy).
Callcuta, Bengal, Maharashtra. Pune. (India)
Lisboa, Oporto y Coimbra (Portugal).
Caracas, San Cristóbal Maracay, (Venezuela).
Montreal, Toronto (Canada).
Buenos Aires, Paraná, (Argentina)
Tokyo, Kyoto (Japón)
Warsaw (Poland). Berlin (Germany), Guanzanghou, (China). Sofia (Bulgaria). Timisoara (Rumania). Belgrado (Serbia). Cusco (Perú). Moscú (Rusia). Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). Cúcuta, (Colombia). Phnom Penh (Cambodia) , Atenas (Grecia). Lugano (Suiza), Asunción, (Paraguay), Gante (Belgium). Split (Croacia) Santiago de Cuba, (Cuba).
SYNOPSIS
Abstrart is part of an audiovisual artistic research project that tries to transfer expressive and emotional concepts to the screen with moving images and, therefore, intentionally lacks formal, narrative and structural aspects.
Any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence or a chance accident in the production process.

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Routine Seasons

Paul Ballerini
Paul Ballerini is an emerging award-winning Italian-Canadian filmmaker from Montréal, Québec, who is interested in the blurred line between fact and fiction, memory and storytelling. Experimenting with reenactment, repetition, interviews and soundscapes, he glides between themes of family, obligation, re-examination of the past and the unreliability of perception. His work spans the spectrum of documentary and narrative filmmaking, and his films have been screened on the festival circuit as well as broadcast on television. He holds a Film Production BFA from Concordia University’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, where his graduating film, Forgotten Man (2016), won the Susan Schouten Documentary Film Award. His films include Cotten (2015), which was selected at the Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois (RVCQ), as well as Nothing Special (2019), which premiered at the 14th annual Cinema On The Bayou festival, in Louisiana and won the Best First-Time Filmmaker at the Canada International Film Festival. He is currently an Master of Fine Arts candidate in Film Production at Concordia University, where he entered with a full scholarship. His present research-creation project, Home as Alone, is funded and supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
SYNOPSIS
Routine Seasons explores the impact of caregiving on first and second generation immigrants through the home of Gabriella.
Synopsis:
Gabriella’s mother suffered a stroke that left her half-paralyzed and unable to care for herself. For the last ten years, Gabriella has been mostly unable to leave her home. Routine Seasons explores how the love and sacrifice we offer others and impose onto ourselves can evolve into guilt and resentment. Paul Ballerini enters this house alone and creates a piece that explores, using in-camera techniques, the hidden experiences in this home and how reality can be perceived by the individuals living it. Distorted viewpoints, the passing of seasons, politics, the juxtaposition of public and private space and a filmmaker’s obsession all converge to dissect the family’s predicament.

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Waiting for Lolo

Jules Ronfard
Jules Ronfard is a director and actor from Montreal (Quebec, Canada). As a teenager, he produced a web series of twenty episodes entitled CHIENSALE. He then began training at the Cinema Department of Cégep d’Ahuntsic where he performed two exercises: FANTASME and RECLUS. From 2014 to 2018, he studied acting at the National Theater School of Canada. He has played in Quebec series such as: NOMADES and LES PETITS ROIS available on TOU.TV and France.tv. For several years, he has accumulated experience by making clips, teasers, demos and video-poems.
SYNOPSIS
On a country road, a couple gone for a ride on a scooter find themselves immobilized after running out of gas. While waiting for their friend Lolo, a philosophical discussion ensues.

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Undertone

Michael Salkeld
Michael Salkeld
Michael Salkeld directs with an experimental approach combining musical composition and video art. His experimental films have been screened at International festivals around the world.including The Hamburg International Short Film Festival and The ICA The Mall London
Awards.
Special Prize of Hiroshima, for Heavy Stock the sound of the railway, Hiroshima Japan.1998
Annecy crystal, for Heavy Stock The sound of the railway., Annacy Animation festival, Annecy, France 1998
Cartoon d’or nomination, Heavy stock the sound of the railway, Syros, Greece 1998
Finalist Award, for Heavy Stock the sound of the railway, New York Festivals, New York, USA 1999
New York Festivals Medal, For Euro road trip. New York Festivals, New York 1991
Winner BBC Young Filmakers Award, for The Callender, BBC, Manchester 1981
BBC Young film makers certificate of merit, BBC,
BBC Manchester 1980.
SYNOPSIS
An experimental short film
Filmed with a BMPCC 4K
and made to an acoustically recorded suround sound track
composed by the Director Micvhael Salkeld performed on the Violin and Bodhran drum.

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No Personal Checks

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is dedicated to making highly personal poetic films in 8mm and 16mm, and also films made from found 35mm footage. Her films and videos have played around the world and are held in the UCLA Film Archive and The Museum of Modern Art. She is Professor Emerita in Cinema at University of Nebraska.
SYNOPSIS
An experimental documentary of memory, made from Super 8mm diary film that I shot long ago and recently found in the basement. I hand-baked, re-photographed, hand-processed, re-edited, and otherwise distorted my footage. I shot this footage many years ago, when we moved from the West Village in New York city to the Midwestern part of the USA, which was very much like moving to the 1950s. “I live here, but this is not my home.”

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30/900

Shirin Maleki
Shirin Maleki is a multimedia visual artist born in Tehran, Iran interested in experimental storytelling. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018 where she was able to combine her passion for interdisciplinary fine art by using photography, poetry and animation in the Department of Film, Video, New Media and Animation. Her work often has an implicit connection with nostalgia and Anthropocene invoking a vast range of color and light and sparking ideas about childhood, nature, connection and change. She is interested in the potential of animation as a part of interactive installations to provoke action in the comfort of “unreal” highlighting the difference between real and unreal, real and surreal and their complicated connection with perception and representation.
SYNOPSIS
30/900 is a poetic exploration of a once familiar and now estranged everyday landscape of a life left behind. The videos read the fragmented experience of an immigrant going through temporary residencies in a forever-liminal otherness between departure and a promised arrival. The textual and visual poetry of this space play with concepts such as separation, language attrition, memory, and overall, a reflection on the past and present.