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The Execution

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Jeroen Van der Stock (b. 1979) is a Belgian-born filmmaker who earned his Masters in Audiovisual Arts from the Luca School of Arts in Brussels. In his work he often explores ideas around rejection, dysfunctionality and abandonment. His video works have been screened at film festivals including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, RIDM, Rencontres Internationales, CPH:DOX and Jeonju. His short film Night Horse won the Grand Prize at the Image Forum Festival and was nominated for the Found Footage Award at IFFR 2019. Van der Stock is currently living and working in Kanagawa, Japan.
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While a grainy mugshot image of Ivon Ray Stanley slowly appears, his executionprocessisabout to get started at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison. On a noisy tape recording Willis Marable, assistant to the warden, starts withhisreal-timeaudio testimony of the scheduled execution. The date is July 12, 1984. Usedmethodofexecution will be the electric chair. Willis is in phone contact with a bunch of Justiceofficialsfrom a room adjacent to the execution chamber and relates very meticulouslywhat he’switnessing through a one-way mirror. He clinically reports everything happeninginandaround the execution chamber. All words spoken by himself and by his fellowofficialsarecarefully recorded. The voices sound calm and dispassionate. Willis and theother officialsare all highly focused on following standard procedure manuals. In the meantime an army of painted dots is gradually occupying real estate all over IvonRayStanley his mugshot, slowly and steadily burying his face, his identity.

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The Circle of life

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Award winning multimedia artist. Showed his paintings, sculptures, photography, video and extended media since 1992 on 32 solo exhibitions and more then 250 collective in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Podgorica, Rijeka, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Napoli, Trieste, Piran, Gdansk, Varna, Sofia, Athens, Skopje, Barcelona, Valencia, Málaga, Marseille, Zürich, Warsaw, Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Shillong, Kochi, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Leon, Toluca, Coventry, Cairo, Walparaiso, Camagüey, Coimbra, Vila Nova de Famalicão, Newark, Vancouver, Long Island City, Sao Luis, Rennes, Nantes, St Malo, Maubeuge, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Antwerp, Liège, Nenagh, Luxembourg, Moscow, Amorgos, Sikinos, Kalamata, Zanjan, Guadalahara, Monterrey, Mexico City, Rome, New York City, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur …
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“Circle of life” is my old grandma’s lace which I unlaced part by part, and each part of the lace was scanned to make them digitally move in a line, and to make from it new lacework, but with new technology. This is a story of my contact with my ancestors, and the circle of life of each of us.

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The Brunette

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Born in the small, rural city of Lachute and raised on a secluded island in the woods. As a graduate in Fine Arts, I took out has a rendering assistant in Toronto before focusing on writing and directing my films. I currently live in Montreal, a bigger and noisier island.
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A three-minute short film about a young woman experiencing music through a psychotic phase.

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Serial Paralells

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Max Hattler is an artist and academic who works with abstract animation, video installation and audiovisual performance. He holds a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art and a Doctorate in Fine Art from the University of East London. His work has been shown at festivals and institutions such as Resonate, Ars Electronica, ZKM Center for Art and Media, MOCA Taipei and Beijing Minsheng Museum. Awards include Supernova, Cannes Lions, Bradford Animation Festival and several Visual Music Awards. Max has performed live around the world including at Playgrounds Festival, Re-New Copenhagen, Expo Milan, Seoul Museum of Art and the European Media Art Festival. He lives in Hong Kong where he is an Assistant Professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
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This experimental animation approaches Hong Kong’s built environment from the conceptual perspective of celluloid film, by applying the technique of film animation to the photographic image. The city’s signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates is reimagined as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.

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Rural to Urban

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From Shangai, China (b. 1998). Experimental animation creator, independent animation fanatic. Currently pursuing BA in Animation at East China Normal University.
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Rural To Urban tells the story of introspection and homesickness of a girl in a foreign land. It is an experimental glass animation that focuses on exploring the problems of personal existence and emotional sustenance in the “post-epidemic” era and society. The unique material of glass is used as the expression medium of visual language, and the special textures such as scratches and scratches simulate the transformation of the character’s psychology and emotion. Hope to resonate with the audience through the film.

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Rocha Matriz

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Miro Soares and Gabriel Menotti are artists, researchers and curators in the field of image and technology. Their projects under the moniker Cristal Líquido engage with experimental cinematographic narratives.
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Rocha Matriz is a documentary short examining the production chain of ornamental rocks from the perspective of an alien consciousness, which understands matter as information. Navigating across trade fairs, harbors, and marble quarries in Southeast Brazil, the work traces connections between everyday labor, the global commodities market, interior design trends, and the deep time of Earth. Across its multiple lives, the rock oscillates between sensual object and symbolic substance – between industry and language.

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Rhymes of the White Crow

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In 2012. obtained her diploma of Master of Arts in Art Education (print making department) from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. In 2019. obtained her second diploma of Master of Arts in Film and video from the Arts Academy in Split. Andrea is a free lance artist expressing herself through different media such as illustration, print making, photography, video, painting, drawing, installation, costume design, performance and street art. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists (HULU Split).
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Young woman with a soul of a white crow dreams her inner worlds. Movie consists of nine chapters, each one representing a poem. Through each chapter we get a glimpse of another stage of the heroine’s journey.

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Precarious Performance

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Lucija Polonijo is a young new media artist and cultural worker from Rijeka. She graduated from Applied Arts (MA 2015) and Media Arts and Practices (MA 2017) at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka. She worked at the Gallery SKC, Student Cultural Center of the University of Rijeka, and as the coordinator of the Kitchen of Diversity program of the European Capital of Culture project. While working in the Kitchen, she was engaged in implementing programs that cover various areas of cultural and social activities (literature, publishing, media, music, audio-visual activities, innovative artistic and cultural practices, gastronomy). Currently, she works at the Center for Advanced Studies of Southeastern Europe (CAS SEE), UNIRI as a program coordinator, in NGO Akumulator, which she founded with her colleagues artists and as a producer of the international event Glowing Globe, Center for Innovative Media APURI. As an artist, she mainly deals with (video) performance, photography, installation, but her work includes other related media. She is exploring a personal, intimate performative act documented by video and photography presented in gallery conditions. Her artworks question gender, identity, media, and consumerism. Lucija has exhibited in over 20 group exhibitions and festivals, while her artworks are set as permanent exhibits in Lovran and Rijeka’s public spaces
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Minimalist, repetitive video performance carried by new media artist Lucija Polonijo explores the relationships between creating art and the individual’s basic survival in society. The artist examines the question: Who has the right to participate in the art (and culture)? It is hard to balance a full-time job with an art career; not many artists have the luxury of being able to leave their daily jobs. Moreover, a steady income, especially at the beginning of an artistic career, is essential as artists are mostly unable to support themselves through art. The artist starts from her own experience, working on many low-wage service jobs to study and pursue art. With this performance, she marked the beginning of work on a large culture project as a kind of intimate diary of her personal and professional development path. She performed on the last day of her waitressing job when she came to clean the cafe after the weekend shift and perform an intimate performance after a long artistic break. Lucija recorded part of the private performance (performance without the audience), and she edited the video material. She often uses her own body as a medium of artistic expression. In the act itself, she primarily strives for personal transformation, and only after that to communicate with the outside world. This performance is part of broader artistic research on the synthesis of art and life in order to raise public awareness that without culture and art, we cannot consider ourselves a developed society.

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Port Lands

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Zachary Finkelstein is a film and video maker based in Toronto, Ontario. His projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the National Film Board of Canada, the Ontario Arts Council, the Toronto Arts Council, and Bravo!FACT. Zachary’s film and video work has been programmed in film festivals and curated in art galleries across Canada and internationally. His work deals with themes of environmentalism, and the confluence of science and art in film and media production. Zachary is currently a partial load faculty member in Humber College’s Film and Media Production B.A. program.
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Port Lands presents Toronto’s industrial waterfront as a complex landscape in which past, present, and future geographies transition and converge. Using archival aerial photographs, microscopic videography and Lidar data mapping, this work documents how aquatic life has persisted despite intense industrialization. This work merges three non-human-centered perspectives of the Port Lands with an original sound design by Mitchell Akiyama that evokes both the ecological and industrial presences of the area. As a result, we are asked to consider the Port Lands as an enduring ecology on the brink of uncertain future development.

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Monstera

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Vera Chotzoglou is a Visual artist working with time based media. They are an Athens School of Fine arts’ BA & MFA graduate, Department of Visual Arts, Fine Arts & Art Education (2013-2018). They had studied in Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with an Erasmus+ scholarship, Fine Arts & Art Education (2016-2017) with professors Jorinde Voigt & Stephan Dillemuth They has participated in various workshops, such as;”Writing and directing for documentary…” by Robert Rombout, 5th Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival, Kalamata, Greece (2019), “No questions, please!” Interviews as an artistic practice in film and video art” by Antonia Rahofer, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece (2018), “Stay in Touch”, Athens School of fine Arts, Athens, Greece (2018), Sound Workshop by Paul Paulon, Studio Jorinde Voigt, Berlin Germany (2017). They was awarded with the Scholarship to cover Degree Expenses from Athens School of Fine arts (2018),audience award for the short film “Munich almost killed me ½” at 2th Piraeus Film Festival in Athens(2018) and SNF Artist Fellowship Award by Stavros Niarchos Foundation (2019) They has exhibited internationally at Centrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany Eos Gallery, Athens A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, GRRL HAUS CINEMA, Berlin, Hacker Porn Film Festival, Rome, Platforms project, Athens, Foto Wien, Austria, 6th Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece, Inshort Film Festival, Lagos, Negiria, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki,2th Pireus Film Festival,Athens, Belleve di Monaco, Munich, TAF Gallery, Athens et al. Vera Chotzoglou lives and works between Athens and Berlin
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monstera deliciosa; an originally tropical plant, used indoors as an aesthetic, decorative object. In this work, monstera becomes the symbol of our recent internment experience. A state that deviated us from our familiar course, as if the world was blown away in a delirious drift and derailed, in terms of an unexpected pause. In this narration video, the indoor scenes, eliminate time and connote a state of disarray; inertia bodies, the monstera in an indoor storm, wild animals in captivity, lighting bolts, an orgasm scene, a Luchador getting prepared, an athenian balcony. The strobe lights, reveal the party echo, while the narration, focuses in monstera’ s features and care instructions. In this field of desire, reality, struggle, memory and expectation, a whole new perception of existing is emerging. The accumulated tension, that the state of hold has brought, leads to the persistent bodies’ preparation for wrestling and crash. An “expedition chronicle”, about this totally new context. Pavlina Kyrkou