LA SAISON DES FUNÉRAILLES

Matthew Lancit
Surrounded 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 Giolo
Shattered 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 Giolo
At 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 Giolo
Remote 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 Spyrou
Anina 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 Julier
The 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 Julier
Water, 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...

LE MIRACLE DE SAN GENNARO

Pauline Julier

LE PLUS VIEUX PAYSAGE DU MONDE

Pauline Julier
The video work The World’s Oldest Landscape (2017–2019) is installed on a monumental wallpaper. It is a reconstruction of the “world’s oldest landscape” in northern China, where a 300-million-year-old fossilised forest was discovered in 2010. In the video, we hear the sound of regular strikes on rock in an open-pit coal mine—a landscape both barren and rugged...