For the fourth edition of the Gjon Mili International Video Art Festival, we move into a city where light is velocity — electric, restless, and endlessly refracted across glass, steel, and moving bodies.

In New York — the city where Gjon Mili developed his creative career — light is not only illumination, but energy. It pulses through streets, flickers across screens, spills from studio windows, and carves silhouettes against skyscrapers. Here, image and movement share the same rhythm as the city itself.

This edition is an invitation to explore the interfaces between light and architecture, motion and memory, intimacy and scale. In New York, projection becomes confrontation and conversation at once. Surfaces are vertical, expansive, reflective. The night is never fully dark; it is layered with signals, headlights, and luminous fragments of countless stories unfolding simultaneously.

The city’s intensity transforms perception. Sound overlaps. Time accelerates. The human figure dissolves into crowds and re-emerges in close-up. In such a landscape, video art does not merely occupy space — it competes with it, collaborates with it, negotiates with its speed and magnitude.

We invite artists to engage with New York as a living organism of light. To consider how moving images respond to urban energy. To explore how video can inhabit a metropolis that is itself a projection — of ambition, experimentation, and reinvention.

In New York, light is never still. And in that constant motion, new forms of seeing are born.