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Old Masters

Heavenly Crown

Gentile da Fabriano’s Coronation of the Virgin unfolds in a golden symphony of Gothic splendor. In this slow art reflection, Christ crowns Mary amid a celestial assembly, each angel radiating luminous devotion. Rich with gilded patterns and delicate gestures, the scene shimmers with reverence and joy. Ornate details encourage close, mindful looking, each figure a note in a sacred chorus. This is a vision of paradise, suspended in eternal celebration. This work can be seen at [The Getty Museum,https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103QS2]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Velvet and Virtue

Bronzino’s Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and Her Son captures a moment of serene elegance and dynastic pride. In this slow art experience, the Duchess’s sumptuous brocade gown shimmers with intricate detail, while her composed gaze and gentle hold on her son convey maternal strength. The rich textures and poised expressions invite viewers to linger, appreciating the harmonious blend of opulence and intimacy that defines this masterpiece. This work can be seen at [The Galleria degli Uffizi,https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/eleonora-di-toledo]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Light and Silence

Fra Angelico’s The Annunciation radiates divine stillness and celestial grace. In this slow art meditation, the archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary meet in a quiet cloister bathed in golden light. Every gesture is hushed, every fold of fabric gently sculpted. The scene unfolds in whispered reverence, as if time itself pauses to witness this sacred exchange. Angelico’s luminous palette and delicate details invite viewers into a moment of pure spiritual contemplation. This work can be seen at [The Museo Nacional del Prado,https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/the-annunciation/9b02b6c9-3618-4a92-a6b7-26f9076fcb67]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Sacred Union

Pietro Perugino’s The Marriage of the Virgin unfolds in serene symmetry and gentle hues. In this slow art journey, the sacred moment of union is framed by harmonious architecture and soft Tuscan light. Figures stand poised in calm reverence, their gestures measured and graceful. The temple behind them draws the eye inward, evoking divine order and spiritual balance. Perugino’s quiet elegance invites viewers to linger, witnessing love, faith, and ritual in perfect stillness. This work can be seen at [The Pinacoteca di Brera,https://pinacotecabrera.org/en/collezioni/collezione-on-line/the-marriage-of-the-virgin/]

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Circle of Grace

Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo glows with sculptural clarity and divine harmony. In this slow art encounter, the Holy Family is revealed within a perfect circle, each movement tenderly carved in color and light. The figures possess a marble-like solidity, yet their interactions breathe with intimacy. Behind them, a mysterious row of nudes and a twisting sky hint at deeper spiritual rhythms. The scene invites quiet contemplation, where time bends and eternal love takes form. This work can be seen at [The Gallerie degli Uffizi,https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/holy-family-known-as-the-doni-tondo]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Adrift in Despair

In Le Radeau de la Méduse, Théodore Géricault captures a haunting moment of human endurance. This slow art experience lingers on each figure, emaciated bodies, pleading gestures, and flickers of hope amid chaos. Shadows stretch across stormy seas, revealing the silent agony of survival. The painting unfolds like a slow-moving tragedy, drawing viewers into the vast emotional depth and monumental scale of the work. Géricault’s brush gives voice to the unheard, transforming history into a visceral meditation on suffering and resilience. This work can be seen at [The Musée du Louvre https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010064841]

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Gaze and Deceit

Georges de La Tour’s The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds unfolds like a scene from a silent theatre. In this Slow Art video, candlelit tension flickers across the faces of players caught in a game of chance and deception. Every glance is loaded, every gesture deliberate. Rich fabrics and subtle expressions are rendered with Caravaggesque clarity. As the trick is revealed, an ace tucked behind the back, the viewer is drawn into a quiet drama of suspicion, illusion, and human folly. This work can be seen at [The Kembell Art Museum,https://kimbellart.org/collection/ap-198106]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Starbound Silence

In The Astronomer, Jan Vermeer captures a moment of quiet discovery. This Slow Art video lingers over soft light spilling onto maps, books, and a celestial globe, as the figure leans toward knowledge with hushed intent. Every fold of fabric, every gleam of brass, is rendered with luminous care. The scene invites stillness and an intimate view of a man reaching for the stars from the quiet of his study. It’s a portrait not just of science, but of wonder.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Ambition in Stone

Lucas van Valckenborch’s The Tower of Babel (1568) rises in layered arches, echoing the Roman Colosseum, as a monument to human aspiration and folly. In this Slow Art experience, the tower’s spiraling ascent unfolds gradually, revealing bustling laborers and the commanding figure of Nimrod in the foreground. The muted palette and meticulous detail invite a contemplative gaze, highlighting the tension between human ambition and divine order. As each frame lingers, the painting becomes a meditation on the complexities of progress and the timelessness of cautionary tales. This work can be seen at [The Musée du Louvre,https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010061276]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Humble Abundance

Jean-Siméon Chardin’s Vegetables for the Soup invites a meditative gaze into the quiet poetry of daily life. In this Slow Art video, earthy tones and soft light reveal a rustic arrangement of leeks, carrots, and a simple pot on a worn wooden table. Each object is rendered with tender realism, celebrating the dignity of the ordinary. As the scene unfolds, textures and shadows emerge, offering a serene reflection on nourishment and simplicity. Chardin transforms the mundane into the sublime, reminding us of the beauty in life’s humble moments. This work can be seen at [The Metropolitan Museum of Art,https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435887]

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Slow Art

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Duration : 57s
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Heavenly Crown

Duration : 3m
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Velvet and Virtue

Duration : 4m
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Light and Silence

Duration : 4m
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Sacred Union

Duration : 5m
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Circle of Grace

Duration : 3m
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Adrift in Despair

Duration : 7m
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Gaze and Deceit

Duration : 3m
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Starbound Silence

Duration : 5m
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Ambition in Stone

Duration : 4m
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Modern Art

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Winter on Montmartre

Soft light diffuses through a pale winter sky as Camille Pissarro captures the bustle of Paris with a quiet, observational grace. In this slow unfolding, carriages drift like whispers along the Boulevard Montmartre, and pedestrians blur into the mist of a new day. Brushstrokes shimmer with cool blues and silvery greys, inviting a contemplative gaze into the heart of urban life seen through Impressionist eyes. This serene video rendition lingers on texture, movement, and fleeting light, echoing the rhythm of a winter morning in 1890s Paris. This work can be seen at [The Metropolitan Museum of Art,https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437310]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Stone and Light

Monet’s Rouen Cathedral captures a façade transformed by shifting light. In this Slow Art video, the Gothic stone glows with luminous blues, pinks, and golds, dissolving solid architecture into pure sensation. As the camera lingers, each textured brushstroke reveals the play of atmosphere across time, sunrise, midday, and shadow. Monet doesn’t paint the cathedral itself, but the experience of seeing it breathe with light. It’s a meditative journey into the ephemeral, where permanence meets change in every flicker of color

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Bridge of Light

Monet’s The Japanese Footbridge invites the viewer into a dream of water, light, and reflection. In this Slow Art video, the iconic wooden arc emerges gently from a haze of greens, purples, and soft whites. Water lilies drift below, while brushstrokes ripple like the pond they depict. Time slows, and the painting’s layered surface begins to shimmer with movement. It’s an experience of tranquility and transformation, where nature becomes abstraction, and seeing becomes feeling. This work can be seen at [The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C,https://www.nga.gov/artworks/74796-japanese-footbridge]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

White Reverie

In Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, James McNeill Whistler presents a haunting vision of purity and ambiguity. This Slow Art video lingers on the luminous textures of the white dress, the soft curtain backdrop, and the unsettling wolf skin beneath the figure’s feet. The model’s gaze is distant, her lily held loosely, suggesting innocence, mystery, or quiet defiance. As the camera moves slowly, the monochrome palette reveals subtle tonal shifts, inviting contemplation of Whistler’s pursuit of harmony and his philosophy of “art for art’s sake.” The painting’s refusal to narrate becomes its most compelling story. This work can be seen at [The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C,https://www.nga.gov/artworks/12198-symphony-white-no-1-white-girl]

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Quiet Abundance

Cézanne’s Still Life with Oranges and Apples pulses with quiet structure and earthy richness. In this Slow Art video, the fruits rest heavily on a wrinkled cloth, their weight and volume rendered with solid brushwork and subtle tension. The table tilts, inviting the eye to wander among vibrant spheres and softened shadows. Each moment reveals Cézanne’s search for order within the organic, a harmony of color, form, and stillness that feels both grounded and eternal. This work can be seen at [The Musée d’Orsay, Paris,https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/pommes-et-oranges-1470]

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Fading Blossoms

Van Gogh’s Vase with Pink Roses exudes a delicate, fleeting beauty. In this Slow Art video, the lush petals seem to breathe with light, their soft hues gently dissolving into the pale green background. Brushstrokes dance with quiet energy, revealing both tenderness and urgency. As the video slows, the transience of the blooms becomes poignant, each rose a whisper of life, fading but luminous. It’s a meditation on impermanence, where beauty and sorrow intertwine in a silent bouquet. This work can be seen at [The National Gallery of Art,https://www.nga.gov/artworks/72328-roses]

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Matamoe: The Last Light

Paul Gauguin’s Landscape with Peacocks (1892), also known by its Tahitian title Matamoe, meaning “death” or “once upon a time,” captures a poignant moment of transition. Painted during his first Tahitian sojourn, the work melds vibrant tropical hues with symbolic imagery, a solitary figure, resplendent peacocks, and a distant hut evoking themes of mortality and the fading of old worlds. The painting’s layered brushwork and rich palette invite viewers into a meditative exploration of life’s impermanence. This masterpiece resides in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Mediterranean Light

Paul Signac’s seascapes of the South of France radiate with the sun-drenched brilliance of the Mediterranean coast. Through his signature Pointillist technique, he transforms harbors, cliffs, and sailboats into shimmering mosaics of color and light. From the golden hues of Saint-Tropez to the rhythmic curves of Cassis, each scene invites a tranquil gaze into nature’s harmony. These works, housed in the Musée d’Orsay, capture the essence of coastal serenity and the vibrant palette of the southern French shoreline. This work can be seen at [The Musée d’Orsay, Paris,https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/presentation/paul-signac-1863-1935]

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Crimson Reverie

In Arearea (1892), Paul Gauguin conjures a dreamlike Tahitian scene where vibrant hues and symbolic forms intertwine. A red dog, enigmatic and alert, anchors the foreground, while two women sit serenely amid a tapestry of bold color planes, emerald greens, sunlit yellows, and deep reds. Rendered in the Slow Art format, the composition unfolds gradually, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in its meditative rhythm. The absence of sky and the presence of stylized elements evoke a sense of timelessness, reflecting Gauguin’s quest for a purer, more spiritual world. This work can be seen at [Museum Collection,Musée d’Orsay, Paris https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/artworks/arearea-291]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Orbit of Silence

In Several Circles (1926), Kandinsky invites viewers into a universe of pure abstraction, where form, color, and space drift in meditative harmony. Slowly unfolding in the Slow Art format, each circle pulses like a planet in motion, suspended in an infinite black cosmos. Subtle shifts in hue and scale reveal an unseen rhythm, encouraging deep visual contemplation. The silence of the video heightens the sensation of floating, making time feel elastic. This work transforms geometry into poetry, offering a tranquil journey through Kandinsky’s cosmic vision. This work can be seen at [The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1992]

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Contemporary Art

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Simona Deaconescu: Silent Places

This short film is about a choreographer, a director of photography, a music composer and five dancers meet up on infinite ground, a space filled with interlinked relationships. It was showcased at the Pool Festival in Berlin in 2016. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

YunTing Tsai: Betwixt and Between

YunTing Tsai is interested in dance video/film making. This short movie Betwixt and Between was awarded as the PEARLS 15, winner films of POOL 15 Internationales Tanzfilmfestival Berlin. Credits: Betwixt and Between, YunTing Tsai, (2012), 8 min 15. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 8m
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Helena Jonsdottir: Gone

Gone by Jonsdottir is physical cinema. A middle-aged man visits Gljúfrasteinn a house in Iceland where the novelist and Nobel Prize writer Halldór Laxness lived with his wife Audur. While the couple is away, a man enters their the house and spends the day there. Who is gone? Is he really there? What if someone spent the day at your house in your absence? Would you ever know? This short film by Jonsdottir is mindblowing. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Roni Chadash: Spineless

Roni analyzes the concept of the spine. After a long period in which she didn’t know where her spine was and why she was giving her whole self to other people destroying herself and her healthy ego. This movie talks about how we fit ourselves into society and let other people criticism affect us more than it should have. Through the whole film, the audience can not see the spine of Roni, as a symbol for it’s gone. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Smoke-Clad Warrior

Directed by Mali Lazell and Adrian Kunzel, performed by Yuko Kaseki and Kaddish, this movie won the Pearl Award at the Pool Festival 2014 in Berlin. It talks about the journey of a warrior. Choose your battles. Fight the Fight. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 2m
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Isabelle Hayeur: Uprooted

Isabelle Hayeur is a lens-based artist known for her photographs and her experimental videos. She has also realized public art commissions, several site-specific video installations and photography books. Her work is situated within a critical approach to the environment, urban development and to social conditions. She is particularly interested in the feelings of alienation, uprooting and disenchantment.

Duration : 10m
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Isabelle Hayeur: Mirages

Duration : 10m
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Antti Laitinen: Growler

Antti Laitinen born in 1975 and is an artist from Finland. This project Growler, made in 2009, sees the artist making a small iceberg storing seven cubic meters of snow inside a big styrofoam box. When the summer came, Antti took the snow out and brought it to the sea.

Duration : 3m
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Awake Yoshimura: Places - A City

Awake Yoshimura was born in New York and he lives in Amsterdam. His work is inspired by built environments and their representations. Places - A City is a video work constructed from still photographs taken from observation points in 12 big cities in the world. All the images are seamlessly joined together creating one metropolis. All distinctive landmarks in each city, traffic and signs; the elements which a city identifies herself with and give one a sense of orientation, are erased. What occurs here is the loss of the site in favour of the bland grandeur of globalization. The work is originally made to be shown in loop, as an infinitely continuing city.

Duration : 15m
Maturity Level : all

Enrique Ramirez: Day 14, Ocean Project

The Ocean project begins in 2010, as a Franco-Chilean production, with a clear objective: reminds one of the trips made in 1890 by the France I, one of the largest five-masted boats, hull and steel masts, of his time, and served the company as Dunkirk cargo between Europe and Chile. On his first trip he transported 5,000 tons of coal in Iquique, Chile to recharge 5500 tons of nitrate. In 1901, during a voyage to Valparaiso with a cargo of coal, France I experienced a severe storm. The crew abandoned the boat and was collected by the four-masted German Hebe.

Duration : 6m
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Projects we love

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RestART Beirut

CONTRIBUTE TO SAVE BEIRUT’S HERITAGE

Duration : 35s
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Beyond Walls by Saype

Discover his 8 first gigantic frescoes. Project 9 is now in Cape Town

Duration : 5m
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THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2021

Online event on 30th January with stories about architectural culture today

Duration : 26s
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David Szauder

Kinetic Movements with Sound

Duration : 5m
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COVIDecameron

DISCOVER MOMENTUM ON CHANNELS

Duration : 20s
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MEDITATION TIME

EXPERIENCE ART DIFFERENTLY. CHECK THE DEDICATED CHANNEL

Duration : 25s
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William Kentridge at MUDAM, Luxemburg

A Must See before August 2021

Duration : 10s
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The Monarch Sanctuary by TerreformONE

The Monarch Sanctuary (Lepidoptera terrarium) will be eight stories of new commercial construction in Nolita, NYC. Programmatically, the building space will mostly contain retail and office life. Yet central to its purpose is serving as a breeding ground and sanctuary for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

Duration : 1m
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Experience the Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum

Welcome to the Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. 2 hours of chanting as a refuge in times of stress and anxiety, Experience also the Interactive Shrine Room: http://shrineroom.rma2.org/

Duration : 2h
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Snapshot mon Amour by Christian Bau

After the catastrophe in Fukushima, a new Japanese word came into being: Genpatsu-Rikon, a word pieced-together from the characters for “atom” and “divorce”. In 2011, documentary filmmaker Christian Bau travels to the east coast of Japan to investigate this newly coined word. What did the filmmaker see? “I saw everything.” -"You didn’t see anything, nothing at all!” Music Ulrike Haage

Duration : 23s
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Museums

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Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

What piece of advice would one of the world’s most iconic contemporary artists pass on? Japanese Yayoi Kusama here turns the tables and argues that advice should not come from other people: I am not an art teacher to you. Spread your ideas all over the world. Kusama encourages artists to trust their own creativity, explore themselves and discover their own path in life: A true direction will come from overcoming adversity.

Duration : 1m
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Advice to the Young from Bjarke Ingels

Renowned Danish architect Bjarke Ingels here offers his architectural advice to aspiring architects and explains why architecture is fundamentally important for the world we live in. Bjarke Ingels is considered one of the greatest architects of our time, with projects such as the BIG U, which contains a plan to fortify the whole south tip of Manhattan against future storms and rising sea levels. His architectural vision evolves around a philosophy that could be described as a pragmatic utopianism, combining everyday needs with sustainable solutions to the climatic challenges.

Duration : 8m
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Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Follow your intuition. Have courage. Do what you imagine. And always be completely present in the moment. Marina Abramović on what it really means to be an artist: A great artist has to be ready to fail. Meet the charismatic performance artist Marina Abramović in this interview on what it means to be an artist, waking up each morning with an urge to be creative.

Duration : 8m
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Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Build a good name, rock poet Patti Smith advises the young. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises. Don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work and protect your work. The American singer, poet and photographer Patti Smith is a living punk rock legend. In this video she gives powerful advice to the young: “Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.

Duration : 6m
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Advice to the Young from Olafur Eliasson

Artists should have confidence in the fact that making a drawing is changing the world. Danish-Icelandic artist, Olafur Eliasson, here presents his strong and personal advice to young artists. Making art is making the world, Eliasson continues, stressing his point that art should not be marginalized, as art is not fragile, but quite the opposite. Artists should be very sensitive to their surroundings and the context in which they find themselves. They should, however, also stay true to themselves and make sure that the strong market and its attractiveness does not commercialize them.

Duration : 2m
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Advice to the Young from David Byrne

If the musician or artist values their freedom and the ability to be creative, then they have to realize they won’t be making hundreds of millions of dollars. Sound advice from the multifaceted musician David Byrne. If you value your creative freedom, you might have to do other work on the side, to make a living, Byrne explains: Often the artists who are very successful don’t have much flexibility. In achieving success they lose a lot of their creative freedom. They have to keep making the same thing, more or less, over and over again.

Duration : 1m
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Advice to the Young from Jonathan Franzen

How do you succeed as a writer? Get useful, and humorous, advice from someone who indeed has indeed made it through the loophole – chart-topping American novelist Jonathan Franzen. If you hang out with me I would have a lot of advice. Although I would feel somewhat embarrassed about giving advice to the young writer, Franzen begins. The most important advice I have is to have fun… if you’re having fun there’s a good chance that the reader will too. Having fun, however, should be in the sense that there’s still a kind of structure and focus to it: Fun like you’re in a tennis court… That’s the kind of focused fun I’m talking about.

Duration : 1m
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Darren Almond & Jacob Kirkegaard

Interview Beyond the Arctic

Duration : 6m
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Klara Hobza: On Diving through Europe

In her grand art endeavor Diving Through Europe, Berlin-based Klara Hobza investigates the boundaries of what is conceivable by diving the European rivers, stretching from the North Sea to the Black Sea in the course of 20-30 years.

Duration : 6m
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Roni Horn: Saying Water

Have you ever stood by a river and stared into the black water? In this video acclaimed artist Roni Horn takes us down by the riverside, performing a powerful 40 minute monologue based on her associations with water, including tales of sex and murder. In this video Roni Horn explains how water shows us who we are. How it is ambiguous. And makes us extended. How it can be a dark fluid making us disappear. How it is a soft entrance to not being.

Duration : 39m
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Short Documentaries

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Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Vietnam

A Parisian by adoption, Lorenzo Mattotti was born in Brescia, Italy, in 1954. He studied architecture in Venice then moved towards the graphic novel form of which he is now one of the major exponents. In this travel book dedicated to Vietnam, Mattotti opens us towards a vibrant world of colour suffused with energy and vitality. A window into his impressions, his illustrations leave us contemplative.

Duration : 4m
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Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Hawaii

In this new Louis Vuitton Travel Book, the Croatian comic book artist Esad Ribic draws the Hawaiian. In over 100 exclusive drawings and paintings, he offers his brilliant style that remind us Realist movement.

Duration : 3m
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Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Easter Island

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. In his dream-like gouaches, Arsham imagines for the Travel Book Easter Island a cosmogony in touches of grey and black, paying attention to perspective and subtle nuances.

Duration : 3m
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Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Venice

This Louis Vuitton Travel book showcases the unique perspectives of contemporary artists to offer a contemporary vision of travel. Here, the famous manga master Jirô Taniguchi has created an exclusive story set in Venice.

Duration : 4m
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Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - Mexico

In this new Louis Vuitton Travel Book, the French writer, illustrator and painter Nicolas de Crécy depicts Mexico as a baroque land full of poetry. In over 100 exclusive drawings and painting, he offers varied graphic and stylistic forms that rivisit genres and techniques.

Duration : 3m
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Louis Vuitton: Travel Book - London

The Louis Vuitton Travel Book collection offers a new and contemporary vision of travel, both real and virtual. Intended as works of art in themselves, they depict each destination through the eyes of an artist in 100-120 exclusive drawings. The Travel Book London by emerging Japanese artist Natsko Seki offers a lively and poetic vision of the UK capital.

Duration : 3m
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Advice to the Young from Norman Foster

Norman Foster, one of the architectural icons of our time, here advises upcoming architects and artists to make sure that what they’re doing is their true desire – if not, they should simply find something else. When you can’t imagine doing anything else, and you would do anything to be able to do it, then you know you’ve made the right decision. From then on it’s a matter of completely immersing yourself in that choice: You live it every living second of your life.

Duration : 1m
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Advice to the Young from Olafur Eliasson

Duration : 2m
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Advice to the Young from Wim Wenders

Do what nobody else can do except for you. Such is the unflagging advice from German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who in this video gives us his take on how to become a successful artist. According to Wenders, achieving success in your creative endeavors is quite simply a matter of finding the thing that you can do better than anyone else. The message is clear and delivered with great resolution by one of the most important German directors on the international scene.

Duration : 56s
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Advice to the Young from David Byrne

Duration : 1m
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Interviews

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Advice to the Young from Yayoi Kusama

Duration : 1m
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Advice to the Young from Marina Abramović

Duration : 8m
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Advice to the Young from Patti Smith

Duration : 6m
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Advice to the Young from Fred Tomaselli

You might as well be true to what you want to do and not turn art into another day job. Watch Fred Tomaselli, a master of psychedelic artwork, advise artists to create their own art world instead of waiting for the established art scene to discover them. Don’t expect any material awards for what you do, and don’t try to adapt to a surrounding trend: If you’re doing something counter to the zeitgeist, that’s probably a good idea – you’re probably on the right path. If you’re doing what everybody else is doing – so what?

Duration : 1m
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Joe Hamilton: Trouble in Utopia

Joe Hamilton makes use of technology and found material to create intricate compositions. His recent work questions our established notions of the natural environment within a society that is becoming increasingly networked.

Duration : 1m
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Li Jin’s Feast

Li Jin’s idiosyncratic painting manner is founded in superlative brushwork, and based in a key tenet of Chinese painting: in rendering a subject, such as a dish of food or quirky figure, accuracy depends on close observation and understanding, not a direct copying of the subject’s outer likeness.

Duration : 11m
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Master Cui’s Riddle

Cui Zhenkuan belongs to an older generation of ink painters who received rigorous traditional training. Innovating within that tradition, he has produced a powerful body of landscapes relevant to the present.

Duration : 10m
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Wang Dongling’s Lines of Performance

While Wang Dongling is China’s top traditional-style calligrapher, he is also the artist who has most successfully explored calligraphy’s radical possibilities, to the point of forging a new branch of ink painting based on the abstract possibilities of the calligraphic line.

Duration : 7m
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Darren Almond & Jacob Kirkegaard

Interview Beyond the Arctic

Duration : 6m
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Bill Viola: Cameras are Keepers of the Souls

American Bill Viola is a pioneer in video art. In this interview, Viola talks about his development as an artist and his most important breakthroughs. Viola now sees the cameras as keepers of the soul, he explains. The medium holds onto life, a kind of understanding of feelings, keeping them alive.

Duration : 28m
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Video Art

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Simona Deaconescu: Silent Places

Duration : 12m
Maturity Level : all

YunTing Tsai: Betwixt and Between

Duration : 8m
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Helena Jonsdottir: Gone

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Roni Chadash: Spineless

Duration : 2m
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Smoke-Clad Warrior

Duration : 2m
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Antti Laitinen: Growler

Duration : 3m
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Awake Yoshimura: Places - A City

Duration : 15m
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Enrique Ramirez: Day 14, Ocean Project

Duration : 6m
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Rain Kencana: Goldfish

This short film is about Ichi Go dances her ambivalent attitude between tradition and modernity in relation to her femininity. She clearly shows her discomfort when dealing with symbols from both worlds. The movie is inspired by a poem of Shuntaro Tanikawa. Courtesy Pool Internationale Tanz Film Platform Berlin.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Eelco Brand: B1 Movi

Eelco Brand uses paint and digital techniques to create images that reflect his conception of nature. His work represents his vision of the human beings nature and the world around him. Viewing his work can be both: an alienating and deeply human experience.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

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ABOUT JENNY HOLZER

A documentary film by Claudia Müller which accompanies Jenny Holzer over the course of 10 years, at work and in numerous exhibitions, makes the artist’s art tangible as it traces her career, from the young artist putting up posters in New York in the late 1970s to the most influential female artist of today. Jenny Holzer’s work demonstrates that, while art may not be able to change the world, it can heighten our awareness of what surrounds us every day.

Duration : 52m
Maturity Level : all

"The Ship of Tolerance" by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov

Since 2016, the Zug filmmaker Remo Hegglin documented the "The Ship of Tolerance" project in cooperation with the Kunsthaus Zug, with more than 2’000 participants, and numerous project partners. It included a whole region and attracted worldwide attention. First realized in the oasis town of Siwa in Egypt in 2005, the participatory project "The Ship of Tolerance" of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov has meanwhile made appearances in Venice, St. Moritz, Sharjah, Miami, Havana, New York, Moscow, Rome, and Rostock. With "The Ship of Tolerance", the internationally renowned artists seek to bring people of different continents, cultures and identities together by actively involving them in the project. Particularly important to them are the children.

Duration : 59m
Maturity Level : all

A NEW COLOR by Mo Morris

From humble Harlem beginnings herself, the indefatigable Edy has for decades introduced underserved youth and seniors to the transformative power of art. Filmed in an observational style over three years, A New Color creates an opening to see the world through Edyís eyes and her artistic legacy commemorating the great events of her time. Those events keep coming, as we see when the death of Edyís nephew becomes a national symbol of racist policing. The persistence of racial inequality in this country evokes for activist artists like Edy powerful and deep questions: Have Edyís nearly eight decades of social justice work meant something? Has it been worth the sacrifice? Can building multicultural bridges through art bring about positive change? Who will carry on her civil rights legacy? Edyís reaction shows the depth of her clear-eyed, compassionate commitment to building a just and peaceful community. A New Color illuminates timely social issues and shows how the work of one resilient woman reverberates throughout a community to inspire a powerful chorus: ìOur lives matter and we will not be disempowered by those who judge us for our age, gender, or color of our skin. An intimate portrait of somebody extraordinary, Edytheís story shows not what it is to be Black or to lose a loved one, but what it is to be human.

Duration : 56m
Maturity Level : all

GOING ATTRACTIONS by April Wright

"Going Attractions" celebrates the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories were larger than life, as were the venues designed to show them: Thousands of seats, giant screens, exotic and ornate interiors with balconies and lounges, in-house organs and orchestras, amazing marquees, and air conditioning back when houses had none. The film also tracks the eventual decline of the palaces, through to todayís current preservation efforts. A tribute to Americaís great art form and the great monuments created for audiences to enjoy them in.

Duration : 1h 23m
Maturity Level : all

Impossible Light by Jeremy Ambers

On March 5th, 2013, San Franciscoís skyline was transformed by an amazing sight: 25,000 LED lights that, for perhaps the first time save the 1989 earthquake, caused people to consider the Bay Bridge instead of her iconic sister. How did this happen? Who was behind the eight million-dollar installation? How in the world did they pull it off? The story behind the making of The Bay Lights a project whose very ìimpossibility made it possibleîóanswers these questions, revealing the drama and the daring of artist Leo Villareal and a small team of visionaries who battle seemingly impossible challenges to turn a dream of creating the worldís largest LED light sculpture into a glimmering reality.

Duration : 1h 9m
Maturity Level : all

WHO BY WATER

"Who by Water" is a recut of Luc Perez’ last short film "the Drowned" made during the lockdown in Danemark. The idea was to delete the film characters and dialogues to keep only empty places. The Danish village Marstal, is becoming a empty town anted by its own ghosts and maritime history. For the past two decades, Luc Perez has been focusing mainly on animation and have developed his very own technique – a mix between analog painting and computer compositing. He does everything by himself, except the soundtrack, from the first script draft, storyboard, animatic, design, editing to post production. He has achieved several works for other directors from all around the world, who wanted to integrate animated sequences in their films or documentaries, such as Wolfgang Becker (Good Bye, Lenin!) or Raed Andony (Best Documentary at the 67th Berlinale).

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

DON’T WORRY... by Oksana Karpovych

Oksana Karpovych’s film, "Don’t Worry, the doors will open" was shot over summer 2018 on elektrychkas, typical Soviet commuter trains that travel between the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and small provincial towns. This film invites us to share a ride with working class, mostly marginalized passengers and vendors. Following a number of people from one grimy wagon to another, from station to station, from day to night, we are immersed in the daily struggles of their lives. Filmed during a war time, the film is a look at the human condition and an intimate point of view on history of independent Ukraine as it is experienced by the common people. We do not see images of war in the film but feel its presence in the air penetrating our character’s minds and hearts. Don’t Worry, the Doors Will Open is an atmospheric and intensely human portrait of Ukrainian society on the move.

Duration : 1h 15m
Maturity Level : all

At Frida Kahlo’s

«The Blue House,» located in Mexico City, is the home where Frida Kahlo was born (1907) and would die (1954). She is surrounded not only by painter Diego Rivera, but also by Leon Trotsky, André Breton, Sergei Eisenstein, Pablo Neruda, Waldo Frank, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Vassily Kandinsky, etc. The film recalls the great adventures of «The Blue House»: its parties, its manifestoes, its artists, its freewheeling love affairs, its betrayals and above all, one of the past century’s most unique intellectual adventures. A film by Xavier D’Arthuys and Xavier Villetard

Duration : 56m
Maturity Level : all

Elliott Erwitt, Silence sounds good

Elliott Erwitt is a legend photographer, worldwide renowned for his photos portraying superstars like Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Kennedy, Sophia Loren…and politicians including the last eleven American presidents, Che Guevara.. He is also known for his reports from all over the world, his role in the Magnum Photos agency, and his emblematic pictures shedding light on the violence of the US segregation. Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, her assistant and close friend, delivers here an intimate portrait of a man who has seen the world change with his photos capturing poverty, love, injustice, and beauty. A highly personal film with a historical and creative angle. A film by Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu.

Duration : 52m
Maturity Level : all

Yan Pei-Ming, Face to Face

Red guard during the Cultural Revolution in China, Ming was at one time a painter for Maoist propaganda, before coming to France to study at the School of Fine Arts. He has become a major figure in the contemporary art world. Classical and academic painter, Ming has revisited many different styles, drawing inspiration from the great masters. His work includes a Mona Lisa tryptic, some erotic paintings, and even portraits of Marylin Monroe, Prince Charles or Jacques Chirac. After the Louvre, his work is going to be added to the collections of the Petit Palais and the Musée d’Orsay, hanging beside other great masters. This film showcases his consecration: Ming is a star. A film by Michel Quinejure

Duration : 0s
Maturity Level : all

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GAHEE PARK ’BETRAYAL

Under the eye of Harlem the cat, GaHee Park talks about her process and inspirations in her home and studio.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

JEAN-MICHEL OTHONIEL "DREAM ROAD" AT PERROTIN TOKYO

By naming his exhibition Yumeji, Othoniel shows his romantic vision of the world and how such simple things as flowers are keys to emotions, a dream road to fantasies and imagination.

Duration : 0s
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JR -TEHACHAPI- AT PERROTIN PARIS

In October 2019, JR received permission to work in a maximum-security prison located in Tehachapi, California. Initially, JR photographed the men, one by one, from above, and they told their story in front of a camera.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

GEORGES MATHIEU AT PERROTIN HONG KONG

The late French artist Georges Mathieu was exhibited in Hong Kong for the first time. In this engrossing video, Georges Mathieu committee chairman, Edouard Lombard, introduces the artist’s legacy as the founder of Lyrical Abstraction.

Duration : 5m
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Johan Creten — En Quarantaine

For this short experimental film, Johan Creten worked together with the Dutch filmmaker Gerrit Schreurs. Living under lockdown in Paris during the month of April 2020, the artist reflected on a very intense period living as a young artist during another pandemic. In the summer of 1991, Johan

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

JESPER JUST "CORPORÉALITÉS" AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

Jesper Just introducing his exhibition during its installation

Duration : 6m
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CHEN FEI -REUNION- AT PERROTIN NEW YORK

Chen Fei introducing his work during the installation of his exhibition

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

CLAIRE TABOURET "SIBLINGS" AT PERROTIN SEOUL

French artist Claire Tabouret introduces her new series of portraits, displayed in her solo exhibition ’Siblings’ at Perrotin Seoul

Duration : 5m
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Tommaso Masaccio: Profile Portrait of a Young Man

1000 Masterpieces from the Great Museums of the World takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of art and provides a deeper insight into the masterpieces of painting. This film explores Tommaso Masaccio’s Profile Portrait of a Young Man, completed circa 1425 and housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Duration : 9m
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Albrecht Durer: Portrait of an Unknown Cleric

The German artist, Albrecht Durer, painted this work in 1516. Although the sitter’s identity is not verified, he is possibly Johann Dorsch, a cleric in Nuremberg. The clergyman’s ardor, spiritual zeal and intense determination are communicated through the turn of the head, the fixed, staring eyes, and the tight, compressed lips. Portrait os an Unknown Cleris is located in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

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Lohner Carlson: Bright Clouds 1 Wolken

Lohner Carlson is the name of an artist duo between Henning Lohner and Van Carlson. Since Carlson’s death in 2011, their act has been continued by Lohner. German culture critic Detlef Wolff has called Lohner an - unceasingly curious artist capable of looking closely, continuously able to discover the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary - . He said that Lohner Carlson’s work rises far above the otherwise often tedious depths of video art and reaches its peak because Lohner and Carlson command dealing with the camera perfectly.

Duration : 16m
Maturity Level : all

Liao Wenfeng: Emerging Clouds out of an Empty Hand

Liao Wenfeng, born 1984 in Jiangxi Province, China, graduated from the Total Art Studio of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou in 2006. Since 2012 he lives in Berlin, where he completed a Masters degree at the Institute for Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin. In his artistic practice he works with video, GIF animation, photography and drawings to investigate the construction of visual play spaces between objects, the body and ideas in an everyday life context.

Duration : 1m
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Land of the Jaguar

A short movie by Oto Hudec portrays a simple performative painting in hills above the Jaguar-Land Rover factory in Nitra, Slovakia. Slovakia is the biggest producer of cars per capita. However, although creating jobs, the negative side of the car industry is its high emissions, taking into account produced vehicles, especially SUVs. The Jaguar Land Rover factory in NItra is built on fertile soil close to a pittoresque forest of Zobor mountain. In a video, a painter is covering the image of the factory with layers of paint, until there are no traces of civilization- the urbanisation is turned back to forests and grassland- as this landscape might look thousands of years ago.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Panorama

Panorama is the first chapter of a trilogy on the city created by Gianluca Abbate. The video is a review of a polis that stretches away over an infinite global space with no more uninhabited places or frontiers where we can take refuge. In this landscape, we cannot see any way of readmission for those who have once been excluded, and this recalls imaginary worlds in search of a balance.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Like Aliens

Artist Joaquin Fargas creates little worlds from the dump and makes us rethink our role in the universe. Fargas creates natural ecosystems isolated inside sealed containers that only allow the external influence of heat and light. These systems, like our planet, depend on light as a source of energy for the development and continued existence of the life cycles that take place inside of them. These orbs represent our planet on a miniature scale, highlighting its fragility and the care its inhabitants should be taking.create little worlds from the dump and makes us rethinking our role in the universe. Film by Nico Muñoz

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

No Water

During spring 2022, a year of drought, Italian Prealps, and kilometers of rivers without water, artist Pietro Gardoni decided to walk inside to wave a blue flag. Soundtrack by Luca Formentini Drone shooting by Ettore Zorzini

Duration : 4m
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Goldilocks

When temperatures across Ontario dropped to record breaking lows and Niagara Falls partially froze, the filmmaker Su Rynard was able to capture the three states of water in the singular image of the falls. This work wants to be a remainder of the extraordinarily unique set of circumstances required to create a climate equilibrium supportive of life.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

The Pillars of the Earth

This video by Virginia Zanetti is a part of an ongoing series of shot and video in several parts of the world. Action transforms perspective: does a human being along with others follow historical cycles? Or do we support the Earth, changing the fate of history? “The Pillars of the Earth” explores the concepts of rebirth and revolution through a reversal of our vision. Collective action can present a new view of the possibilities for human emancipation. We should aim towards reversing the point of view, sharing our experiences with people from different areas of the world, creating a community in search of newly found ethics or spirituality, and reaching tops from which you may “see” better. We talk, exchange ideas and spontaneously create a growing community of people.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Purple Haze

The scenarios in Paul Rosero Contreras’ Purple Haze come from a dystopian future. A future in which the ocean has become acid due to carbon dioxide contamination of the atmosphere, thus preventing the normal growth of certain sessile marine organisms. The artist, together with biologist colleagues, study some species that inhabit the area of the volcano Roca Redonda, in the Galapagos, where the volcano activity naturally acidifies the water.

Duration : 11m
Maturity Level : all

Floodtide

Ian Gibbins wonders how does a city cope, what does it look like, after years of drought, rising sea levels, and relentless storms? To create this vision of a city responding to climate change, nearly every scene has been composited from more than 500 individual sequences originally recorded at various locations around Australia. As a result, almost none of these scenes actually exists. Although these scenes might be imaginary, as the world careers into a now unavoidable climate emergency, the reality is not far off...

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all