untitled part 1: everything and nothing, Jayce Salloum, 1999-2002 © the artist & producer
UNTITLED PART 1: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
Jayce SalloumPart 1 of “untitled”, an ongoing videotape with no predetermined closure presents an intimate dialogue that weaves back and forth between representations of a figure (of resistance) and subject, with Soha Bechara ex-Lebanese National Resistance fighter in her Paris dorm room after release from captivity in El-Khiam torture and interrogation centre (S...
LA SAISON DES FUNÉRAILLES
Matthew LancitSurrounded by villages deeply rooted in ancestral traditions, Dschang is an expanding university town in the heart of Cameroon. Its inhabitants define themselves between the clash of old-world mysticism and modern development...
SHATTERED
Eva GioloShattered is a 10-minute-long short movie about the emotional life of the artist’s grandmother suffering from Alzheimer. In this movie, the spectator wanders in a silent and desolated house sheltering fragments of an old woman’s life, a woman of lost words and confused gestures. Tenderness and despair....
GIL
Eva GioloAt the core of this film collage is the artist’s search for the face of her deceased twin brother, who died without leaving behind any photographic record. Using archive footages and her own home movies, paradoxically his absence is rendered perceptible through a profusion of images. An indirect portrait as the confirmation of an existence....
REMOTE
Eva GioloRemote is a suggestive story. Portrait of a tender companionship in a secluded Irish countryside. Residing in the simplicity of the moment, the waiting and the repetition of days. This is a place where there is no space for imagining a future other than the perpetual repetition of the present. This is a place for survival, to be strong, alone with the wind, eyes burnt by the light...
ANINA
Alkaios SpyrouAnina documents a voyage onboard a container ship, crossing into Baltic. In the form of a film-essay without a narrator, the film assumes the point of view of these iron cathedrals, the industrial maritime landscape they exist in, and the aesthetic spectacles they produce midst the logistical cacophony of capitalism and territory....
DOHA
Pauline JulierThe film Doha (2017–2019) runs without any images. In short and concise sentences, Julier recounts a personal experience. The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull affected air traffic worldwide, and the artist got stranded in Doha. At the airport hotel, an excerpt of Beethoven’s piano piece For Elise plays on repeat...
LA GROTTE
Pauline JulierWater, fog, smoke, clouds: The immersive video work La Grotte (2017–2019) pulls us into a mesmerising vortex. From the inside of a cave, the Grotte aux Fées in the Valais, the blue suspended matter flows into the distance, capturing our gaze...
