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Daedalus

Devis Venturelli | 2021 | Italy | 10 min | Cdn Premiere

In a chromatic-perfomative vision, coloured filters alter the perception of the space of a labyrinthic journey between highways, viaducts and motorways in search of a metaphorical epiphany, a space of possibility.

Devis Venturelli is a multi-disciplinary artist, architect and filmmaker. In his practice he uses the languages of video, performance, sculpture and installation to document ephemeral architectures, visions and temporary utopias. He has taken part in solo and group shows in museums, institutions, art galleries such as Centre Pompidou, Paris, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, Anthology Film Archive, New York, PAC, Milan, Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Museo de Arte, Lima, Xinjiang Biennale, MACRO, Rome, Kulturhuset Museum, Stockholm, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, la Biennale di Venezia, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Amsterdam, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Kunsthalle, Wien, Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Kunstverein, Augsburg, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, National Museum, Wrocław, Mart – Galleria Civica, Trento, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome. In 2013 he presented the film project “Luciano Berio | Devis Venturelli. In My End is My Music” in collaboration with Tempo Reale, Center for Music Research, Florence. His videos and experimental films have been shown in festivals including Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Dance on Camera Festival, Videoformes, 25FPS Experimental Film Festival, Festival Internacional de Video Arte, Romaeuropa Festival, Tehran International Short Film Festival, Regensburg International Short Film Week, New Filmmakers NY. He has been awarded prizes including Premio Aletti – Banca Aletti, VIDEO.it / Fondazione Merz, Hong Kong Arthouse Prize – Best Experimental Film, Premio Alinovi-Daolio, University of Bologna. He is currently adjunct professor at Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan and in various Italian Universities and Academies.

Afterlives

Michael Heindl | 2022 | Austria | 3 min | Cdn Premiere

If one compares the useful life of plastic objects with their period of decay, there is a considerable imbalance. One might think that the real existence of the objects begins only after their disposal and consists in their non-use. If until then they were an indispensable part of consumer societies, from now on they appear as antagonists of all ecosystems. Their main characteristic is to be consistently out of place. Where they appear, they do so as disruptive objects.

Michael Heindl lives and works in Vienna and Scharten (Upper Austria). In his work, Heindl is primarily concerned with the possibilities of art in public space. His works are mostly realized in the form of targeted actions and interventions. The starting point is often everyday objects and phenomena, which he transforms into subtle conceptual art. His works have been shown in Vancouver, Hong Kong, Cairo and London, among other places, and have received several awards, such as the Jury Prize at Vienna Shorts and the Lentos Kunstpreis. From June 2023 he has been artist in residence at School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Next Her Heart

Anna Kipervaser | 2023 | Ukraine/UAE/USA | 12 min | Cdn Premiere

Eternal recurrence and wisdom undone. The end or the beginning. Who are we that we. One and the same are the shadow cast and its cause.

A hypnotic journey through the seven valleys on the way to reach the abode of the Simurgh.

Anna Kipervaser is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism and environmental conservation. Her engagement with these topics is informed by a commitment to formal experimentation, DIY and alternative processes, spanning disciplines including experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and digital video. Her work has screened at festivals internationally, including at Slamdance Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Crossroads Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Light Field, Antimatter, Fracto, Imagine Science Film Festival, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Indie Grits Film Festival, Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogota, among others. Anna's work also screens in classrooms, galleries, museums, microcinemas, basements, and schoolhouses! Her films are distributed by CFMDC, Alchemiya, and Canyon Cinema. She is also a painter, printmaker, educator, curator of exhibitions and programmer of screenings.  

Joyride

Dina Yanni | 2023 | Austria | 5 min | Cdn Premiere

VHS to digital. Fast forward and slowed down. A synthesis of the digital and the analog glitch. Joyride is part two of an ongoing Elvis video-cycle.

Dina Yanni is a video artist and researcher whose work is influenced by popular culture, digital image manipulation and critical theory. She creates video work that utilizes existing footage, experimental editing and data corruption to reveal, reevaluate and reframe power structures discovered in the original materials. Yanni also publishes theory-based work around the study of power structures behind visual representations and possibilities for counter-narratives. She holds a PhD in Political Science and a Master in Film Production. Her work has been exhibited at experimental film and video art festivals internationally.

Ill Composto

Josh Drake, James Hollenbaugh, Jeremy Moss, Caleb Smith | 2023 | USA | 4 min | Cdn Premiere

A collaborative Dadaist/exquisite corpse film on the theme of waste by four members of Moviate, a filmmaker-run curatorial collective based in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Made in Europe

Zauri Matikashvili | 2023 | Georgia/Germany/Netherlands | 25 min | World Premiere

For more than 30 years, my father has been travelling from Georgia to Germany or the Netherlands to buy second-hand cars, preferably Mercedes Sprinter vans. He packs them full of bicycles and furniture such as used leather sofas, chairs and tables. For some years now, he has also been buying scrap cars. He dismantles them into their components, which he sends to Georgia by container, often on behalf of Georgian wholesalers. Then my father drives 4,800 kilometres back to Georgia in a Sprinter alone. Spare parts and second-hand goods from Europe are valuable enough in Georgia to sell them for a small profit, despite the high cost of travel. This is how my father earns his living in the international flow of goods—under difficult conditions: hard physical work, health hazards, separation from his family and poor accommodations.

Zauri Matikashvili (b. in Kvareli, Georgia) lives and works in Amsterdam and Münster. In his films and performances, he questions socio-cultural and political contexts of different societies and nations exerting influence on the identity construction of individual realities. He focuses on questions of justice, identity and migration, to which he also has a special connection due to his biography. He uses as little technology as possible and takes on all tasks (conception, direction, camera, sound) himself in order to keep the distance to those filmed as small as possible.

Matikashvili studied fine arts in Münster and Düsseldorf. His works have been shown in many solo and group exhibitions, at the Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Münster Film Festival, HMKV, Dortmund, PACT Zollverein, Essen, Sammlung Philara in cooperation with Filmwerkstatt, Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Theater im Pumpenhaus, Münster (2018), Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), Kunstverein Gelsenkirchen (2016) and Museum Folkwang, Essen, among others. He is currently a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, having previously held residencies at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris and PACT Zollverein in Essen.