For the fourth edition of the Gjon Mili International Video Art Festival, we once again choose to move into a landscape where light is not merely illumination, but a touch — a living substance that glides over forms and is absorbed by textures.

This edition is an invitation to explore precisely these interfaces — between light and body, memory and landscape, sensitivity and matter.

In the old village of Dhërmi, among the stone walls of ancient houses and beneath a sky of endless stars, video art becomes inseparable from its surroundings. The village is not simply a backdrop; it is a living surface. The whitewashed stones reflect the moonlight, the sea breathes in the distance, and the night carries a silence that intensifies perception. Here, projection feels organic. Light rests on rough textures, slips into cracks, dissolves into shadow.

Dhërmi offers a space where the boundaries between artwork and environment begin to blur. The architecture holds memory. The wind carries sound. The horizon opens endlessly, inviting contemplation. In this setting, moving images do not dominate the space — they converse with it.

We invite artists to engage with this landscape as a collaborator. To think of light as something tactile, almost intimate. To consider how video can inhabit stone, sky, and air — and how the natural rhythm of Dhërmi can shape the rhythm of the work itself.

In this meeting of image and environment, something fragile and powerful can emerge: a moment where art does not simply appear in a place, but becomes part of it.