Introducing our participants in this years exhibition Visible / Invisible

O. D. C.
Aleksei Martyniuk
Russia / China

A short ride down the street or a long trip to the distant places can be a daily routine moment or it may turn out to be a lifelong journey. So, dive and experience this odyssey where time is displaced and always dreaming cities meet off-dictionary scenes.

Tony P of Found Family
Ate Von Hes
Italy

Found Family is a video portrait project that reimagines identity through collages of diverse facial features, creating new faces from found fragments. Inspired by the notion of inclusivity, Found Family offers a ‘pataphysical solution to those who feel overlooked or left out. Merging unique parts into wholly new characters and connections, each video portrait becomes a celebration of individuality and shared human identity. Feast your eyes on a collection of faces that are both distinct and totally familiar, you may even recognize yourself’s in one of these portraits!

Biosemiotics:
thought · motive · intention
Darya Panova
Russia

The work connects a biological process and a sign system: a physical manifestation makes readable what usually remains beneath the surface.

At the center are three words: thought, motive, intention. They belong to the realm of the hidden; in Russian there are stable collocations “hidden thought/motive/intention.”

Allrecipes
(Stuffed Manifesto)
David de Rozas
United States

A delightful invocation where powerful desires serve as standpoints to conjure affinities against imaginary oppositions.

Campfire Stories
David Hunter
Canada

The interplay between image and text serves as a portal through which viewers can explore the depths of their own curiosity and imagination. With Campfire Stories I aim to transport the viewer to a place where the line between urban legends and true events blurs, where they can make their own connections in the unexpected stories that unfold.

Unfassbare Zeit / Inconceivable time
Irena Paskali
Germany

Inconceivable time - conceivable picture. A moment in the past or a wish for the future - quickly over. Images of places, situations or people appear before the inner eye, becoming interpretations of happy or sad moments without the chance to change them

Phantasia
Jorge Moneo Quintana
Spain

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be the first cinema screening. Thus, both cinema and radiography fall within the scopic regime inaugurated by modernity.

AQUEOUS
Kirk Tougas
Canada

Light and Water need no explanation

Theirs is the domain of Wonderment
Mystery and Reverie

And Life

Coast
Levent Çetin
Türkiye

This video, drawing on concepts like ecological anxiety and ecological grief, emphasizes that ecological sensitivity is becoming increasingly important in our relationship with space. It highlights that what we look at is more than just a landscape; it holds deeper meaning.

Tale from the roof
Maria Gost
Russia

This film weaves together fragments of everyday life and a timeless state. Light, wind, rhythm everything breathes, moves, and gradually carries you to a place where boundaries blur.

This film is like poetry. It doesn't strive for a resolution. It simply flows and allows you to be in two worlds at once.

3x3x3
Marko Ubović
Serbia

In this three-channel video installation each video comes straight-out-of-camera and represents visual results of a creative experiment with a "harmed mirror" (mirror with scratches, gaps in its reflective surface). In each video the physiognomy of two people is overlaid without the use of digital or post-production effects.

The Mysterious Case of Mr. Benning
Mikhail Zheleznikov
Russia

Over the past few years, I've become fascinated with minimalist photo films, in which I attempt to uncover subtle narratives within random amateur photographs. "The Curious Case of Mr. Benning" is one such work.

Untimeline
Saman Haghighivand
Iran

In this work, I explore the ontology of the "timeline" as a representational tool for capturing the coexisting dynamics of entanglement and indeterminacy. I reinterpreted the very editing software's "timeline" as the central material, drawing parallels to the intricate sensory processing of the brain, where perception inherently forms. All the tools and stimuli in this system inter-connectedly influence one another, existing in a state of entanglement; much like the way our brain functions to comprehend, remember, forget, memorize, alter, and manipulate.

How Now, House?
Tess Martin
Netherlands

How Now, House? investigates our yearning to leave traces behind through the prism of one house in Rotterdam. Using archives, personal memories and the philosophy of time, the film questions whether a space can ever really belong to one person, or time period, at all.

Creep East
Tessa Garland
United Kingdom

The urge to watch other people feels like something that is fundamental to being human. Creep East portrays lives glimpses doing everyday things in newly built residential spaces located in East London.

Goodbye for now
Valentín Caso Rosendi
Argentina

Goodbye for now is a short film born from the reopening of a mourning. It is a letter dedicated to a friend I used to make films with who passed away 10 years ago. My relationship with cinema and death has been very marked by this loss. With this short film I try to send him a filmic correspondence and try to reach a broader meaning. To give meaning to friendship, to life and death, to transcend in the heart of the other. It is about trying to understand what we lose and what remains when a loved one leaves for posterity.

The One Close to the Sea
Wout Biesmans
Belgium

The One Close to the Sea shows the immersion of a filmmaker in a Scottish landscape. Not a narrative representation of what happens on the surface of this landscape, but the search for a simple rhythm, that lies underneath this landscape and makes up its essence. This is not a search for any landscape, but for that mode of being, that is essential to all landscape. A search for what transforms mere place, into
landscape.

0xC00D36C4
Roland Cartagena
Philippines

A Cannes-selected short film I illegitimately downloaded off the internet plays out entirely as a series of soundless glitches bearing zero resemblance to the original. The accidental glitches, completely unintended by the artist, becomes the grist for this kaleidoscopic simulacrum, or a copy of a copy, inviting us to reassess prevailing notions of prestige, derivativity, and artistic agency in an age of rapid digital obsolescence and cultural decline. How new media's mimesis of decay occurs simultaneously as a creative force reminds us that decay itself is not merely an end, but a generative threshold - where corruption becomes composition, and malfunction opens up new modes of perception.