MicroMacro (or Motorized vs Handheld) examines the fragile threshold between perception and scale, between the mechanical eye and the human hand. Filmed entirely by the artist in remote regions of northern Iceland, the work moves between two contrasting modes of seeing and experiencing: the expansive reach of aerial drone footage and the intimate, unstable proximity […]
Seven monitors simultaneously project the Lumière brothers’ films in their villa-museum in Lyon. The camera moves through them with a feverish gesture, pushing in until complete loss of focus. Entering inside the house, inside the images, inside the screens, inside the light: a physical confrontation with the very origin of cinema. Director Biography – Mattia […]
A film based on the poem ‘Blood Hounds’, by Michael Martin. Director Biography – Janet Lees Janet Lees is a lens-based artist and poet. Her films have been selected for many festivals and screenings, including the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, the Aesthetica Art Prize, and the International Vidoepoetry Festival. She won top prize in Filmetry […]
In Calling From Work, I call my parents while taking a walk. During a three-month stay in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, I would call my parents once a week. When we speak, they often have no idea where I am, but I know exactly where they are at the time of the call: in the living room, […]
I told my dreams to Artificial Intelligence… Little by little, a common language was created at the border where my unconscious met the digital unconscious. If it is true that “the archetype is the imaginative pattern of the collective unconscious” (Carl Gustav Jung), it could also be true that a parallel unconscious is emerging as […]
Between land, sea and sky, I follow the water, an offering in my hands… In this psycho-geographical movement at the border of the natural world and that of men, I seek to experience, to metaphorically resonate with this adage from the Middle Ages, between threat and protection. In this performed film, I question the significant […]
Lighthouse is a single-channel video work filmed in Inubōsaki, Japan, focusing on the sea and passing ships near a lighthouse. Through extended, steady shots, the work explores water as a temporal field—marked by repetition, suspension, and gradual change. Time unfolds slowly, allowing subtle movements to accumulate and perception to drift. The visual language is closely […]
Reconnaissances is an art film in French, Italian and German. It revolves around the idea of landscape, taken both as an internal and external phenomenon. It is also an exploration of the relationships between speech and image, portrait and landscape, nature and history, philosophy and poetry, and intertwines various media: film, speech, ceramics, painting. I […]
Versus (2024), set in the archetypal landscape of the Lucanian “calanchi” gives rise to a feminine procession of care and repair, in which black cloths intertwine with the fissures of the earth and the shadows cast by sunlight, almost as if to mend its wounds. The performance, documented in video and photography, is accompanied by […]
Produced on an island with a strong historical past this video with performance elements explores the idea of utopia in a modern world. Utopia, as an idealized conception of the perfect place, has captured the imagination of artists, puzzled philosophers, and been a frequent subject for writers. In Thomas More’s conception of it, as well […]