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Lioness

Lioness

Arrad is an Iranian-American filmmaker who decided to create this film for the Iranian women who are risking today their lives every day for basic human rights. For innocent children who are getting mercilessly slaughtered on the daily. For the youth who are breaking down the barriers to gender inequality. For all the people of Iran putting themselves on the front line, fighting for freedom, and longing for a new, revolutionised country. For hundreds of courageous citizens who have been killed in the streets. For thousands who are imprisoned unjustly. Together, we must continue to spread information and proper awareness about Iran during this difficult time.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Heather Nickels | Persevere and Resist

Heather Nickels | Persevere and Resist

What does it mean to be a Black woman in the United States of America? Curator Heather Nickels discusses “Persevere and Resist: The Strong Black Women of Elizabeth Catlett”, on view at the Brooks Museum of Art. Informed by the contemporary concept of the “StrongBlackWoman” (SBW) trope, the exhibition explores the many ways in which Black women, as depicted in Elizabeth Catlett’s work, have overcome barriers in their public and private lives. Ilit Azoulay

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Ilit Azoulay | Mousework

Ilit Azoulay | Mousework

A random Google search led Ilit Azoulay to explore thousands of images of terrified women, and to identify similarities between living under lockdown and the oppression of women. In her project “Mousework”, the artist points to the role of photography in fixing social patterns, corrupting men, and creating conditions among women.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Michal Rovner | Night

Michal Rovner | Night

In response to the current malaise of world politics, world-renown artist Michal Rovner spent long nights in dark fields, filming jackals with equipment used by security, military, and surveillance cameras. The artist reflected on issues of identity and dislocation through the resultant body of works, “Night”, a series of enigmatic video-frescoes reflecting on the fragility of human experience.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Adel Abdessemed | Mon Enfant

Adel Abdessemed | Mon Enfant

Adel Abdessemed discusses “Mon enfant”, a sculpture inspired by the best-known photograph taken during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Erwin Wurm | Fat House & Narrow House

Erwin Wurm | Fat House & Narrow House

Erwin Wurm revisits his outdoor sculptures Fat House and Narrow House in light of the ecological impact of climate change. Produced by Shifting Visio

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Moshe Safdie | For Everyone a Garden

Moshe Safdie | For Everyone a Garden

To celebrate Earth Day 2022 Shifting Vision produced a short film, directed by Giulia Magno, exploring Moshe Safdie’s metaphor “For Everyone A Garden”. The acclaimed urban planner, architect, and theorist reflected on his design philosophy, rooted in the guiding principles that architecture should be inherently timeless, connected to nature, and profoundly humane.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Haim Steinbach | Framing

Haim Steinbach | Framing

Haim Steinbach explores the relationship between his aesthetic language and the film medium, unveiling the cinematic references in his exhibition "lemon yellow" at Lia Rumma Gallery in Naples.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey by Hany Abu-Assad

A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey by Hany Abu-Assad

A segment of Stories on Human Rights 2009 produced by ART for The World commissioned by the High Commissioner of Human Rights with award-winning filmmakers and artists, using the universal language of art to sensitize people across the planet to what “human rights” actually means. A Boy, A Wall and A Donkey a short film by Hany Abu-Assad born in 1961 in Nazareth. Hany Abu-Assad is a Palestinian-Dutch film director. The short film of 4’02 is about three boys standing in front of the intercom at a villa’s door, taking turns and speaking into it. Alerted by a security camera above their heads, the maid comes out and throws water at them to scare them away. They explain that they just wanted to record a film but since they did not have a camera, they decided to record it at the intercom camera of the door. The maid laughs and tells them that there is no tape in the camera, which is why they should go to a security camera that works. Taking her seriously, one of the boys leads the others to the wall where they position themselves in front of a turning and recording camera in order to record their movie. Each of them wants to be first, and they all recite their dialogues. When an army jeep approaches in the final scene, they wonder if these are the people who bring them the tape of their movie. A segment of Stories on Human Rights 2009 produced by ART for The World commissioned by the High Commissioner of Human Rights with award-winning filmmakers and artists, using the universal language of art to sensitize people across the planet to what “human rights” actually means.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

La mangue by Idrissa Ouedraogo

La mangue by Idrissa Ouedraogo

La Mangue a short film by Idrissa Ouedraogo born in Burkina Faso (former Upper Volta) in 1954 and died in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 2018. One of the most important African directors, he studied cinema in his native country, as well as in Paris and Kiev. The Burkinabe Director was also Commander of the National Order of Burkina Faso and Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters. The short film of 4’09 is about Koro, a 6-year-old girl, who picks up a mango stone, holds it in her hands, and later digs it into the ground in a public square, ignoring her friends who are laughing at her. She waters the growing plant and tries to protect it, while people continuously step on it. Day after day, the girl takes care of the plant which is, just like her, growing and growing. When Koro – now a woman – falls in love and gives birth to her own child, ripe mangoes are falling from the tree. The film ends with Koro’s young daughter who collects the mango stone and plants it in the village ground. A segment of Stories on Human Rights 2009 produced by ART for The World commissioned by the High Commissioner of Human Rights with award-winning filmmakers and artists, using the universal language of art to sensitize people across the planet to what “human rights” actually means.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Lac Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Lac Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Haroun is the first Chadian full-length film director. He both writes and directs his films. Lac is a short film is about Kellou, in her forties, who lives in Bol, the capital of Sahel’s province. She’s a fisher, a profession transmitted from mother to daughter. She learned it from her mother. But since a few years, Lake Tchad has been shrinking, and fish has become rare. Kellou’s job is threatened. One day, after an un- successful catch, her 12-year-old daughter Mouna gives her an idea: pick up plastic bags invading the lake and make ropes out of it to sell them on the market. By this simple gesture, Kellou gets to, in her own way, fight against plastic pollution and adapt to the new conditions brought about by climate change. A segment of Interdependence 2019 produced by ART for The World, eleven filmmakers raising awareness on Environment and Climate Change.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Lily and Ra by Armagan Ballantyne

Lily and Ra by Armagan Ballantyne

Lily and Ra a short film by Armagan Ballantyne born in 1972 in New Zeeland. Armagan Ballantyne is a film director. The short film is about ten-year-old mates, Ra and Lily, who are playing outside an abandoned factory. When Ra hits a bird with his slingshot, Lily bravely rescues it and enlists Ra in its care. Under her guidance, the boy finds compassion where before there was nothing, but anger and he is so proud when the bird comes back to life. The fragility of the moment is broken when the kids turn up at Ra’s house to find the father standing over his crying mum. At the door Lily turns to her friend, “come home with me”, she says, but things have changed with Ra. “Keep your stinking bird”, he says, and Lily walks away, leaving him a lonely figure standing in the doorway, his eyes downcast. A segment of Stories on Human Rights 2009 produced by ART for The World commissioned by the High Commissioner of Human Rights with award-winning filmmakers and artists, using the universal language of art to sensitize people across the planet to what “human rights” actually means.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Mobile Men by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Mobile Men by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Mobile Men a short film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul born in 1970 in Bangkok. Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Apichatpong has directed several features and dozens of short films. The short film of 4’08 is about two young men in a pickup truck filming themselves. Coming from Thailand’s neighboring countries, through the use of a camera they are discovering each other. In a windy atmosphere, they initially film each other with close-ups of parts of their bodies, then, little by little, they shoot their full figures. As the camera lenses change, a landscape of rice fields and a cinema crew get into the frame. The camera then reshoots the road and the men, as if we were witnessing a film rehearsal. When the frame goes back to shoot one of the two main characters who has tattoos over his body, the man lifts his shirt up and tears off a wired microphone that is taped to his chest. He then pastes it on the tattoo and cries out from the top of his lungs. The microphone picks up the heavy wind noise and the camera moves to capture his face. He looks directly at the camera, smiling. A segment of Stories on Human Rights 2009 produced by ART for The World commissioned by the High Commissioner of Human Rights with award-winning filmmakers and artists, using the universal language of art to sensitize people across the planet to what “human rights” actually means.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

OLMO by Silvio Soldini

OLMO by Silvio Soldini

The short film is about Olmo, eighty years old, who looks out of the window of a building in the suburban area of a city. His eight-year-old grandson Giulio is reading him an article from the newspaper about melting glaciers, the greenhouse effect, methane, and CO2... «What is C-O-2? » asks the child. « Do you remember the carbon dioxide we studied? » says Grandpa. «The one the trees breathe? » asks Giulio. The day after, they’re leaving for a short tour instead of going to school, searching for an old tree. A segment of Interdependence 2019 produced by ART for The World, eleven filmmakers raising awareness on Environment and Climate Change.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Voyage by Daniela Thomas

Voyage by Daniela Thomas

Voyage is about a young man that wakes up, startled, in the bunk bed of a tiny bedroom. We hear clicking sounds, as he fiddles with something off-screen. Carrying a long black case under his arm, he climbs down the narrow corridors and stairways of a favela. Eyes follow him at every turn, focused on the black case. Standing in a crowded bus that crosses the endless sea of favelas on the outskirts of Rio, he makes people uncomfortable with the case. Next, he is on a train, eyes lost in the distance. Later in his long journey, he is on another bus in a richer part of town. As he finally gets a seat, clutching his black case, he makes the girl next to him very anxious. Time passes, and he falls asleep alone in his seat. The sound of a police officer’s siren wakes him up. He opens the black case. Inside we see the shiny keys of a clarinet. Fingers move over the keys, as we hear Melodia Sentimental by Hector Villa-Lobos. Slowly the image reveals that the young man playing the clarinet is our traveller and that we are in a stately room where a young orchestra plays the beautiful Villa-Lobos piece. A segment of Stories on Human Rights 2009 produced by ART for The World commissioned by the High Commissioner of Human Rights with award-winning filmmakers and artists, using the universal language of art to sensitize people across the planet to what “human rights” actually means.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

New | Art for the World

New | Art for the World

The [second season,https://ikonotv.art/Channels/title/172/art-for-the-world] on the Art for the World dedicated Channel includes children playing the main roles related to the topics of Climate Change and Environment, Inequality and Poverty, Gender Equality, Trade and Environment, Freedom of Religion and Belief, and more.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Alfredo Jaar,

Alfredo Jaar, "Claro-Escuro"

“The old world is dying, the new one is slow to be born" by Alfredo Jaar is a new work entering the Usina de Arte collection and invites reflection on the dangers of civilizational transitions. “Images are not innocent”, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar often warns. Those who look at the neon phrase of his work “Claro-Escuro” (2015) under the wall of what was the largest alcohol distillery in Brazil in the 1950s are sure of this, and which since 2015, in its cultural reconversion, has made up a socioeconomic development project through art, education, and environment. In this chiaroscuro, monsters appear” establishes a permanent residence at Usina de Arte, expanding the equipment collection with large installations by international artists. Please visit the [Usina da Arte website,http://www.usinadearte.org/en] for more information.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Re-enactment for a Future Scenario #2: Cape Romano

Re-enactment for a Future Scenario #2: Cape Romano

A figure is stranded on the half-submerged ruins of a futuristic ‘Dome Home’ of the coast of Florida. Haunted by memories of the former dwelling, the figure seems to be caught in a strange dream. A memory from a future that never quite happened. By Simon Faithfull

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Afterglow

Afterglow

The film «Afterglow - Maŋŋel-Indu» by Gjert Rognli takes us on a journey through an arctic landscape, a journey into deep forests and over forgotten waterways. The film carries with it fragments from the intangible cultural heritage that the Sámi indigenous people have carried with them for several thousand years. And with the knowledge that indigenous people share throughout the world about managing nature and its resources with respect.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Letter from the Age of Ecocide

Letter from the Age of Ecocide

Shireen Rahimi In "Letter from the Age of Ecocide", by Shireen Rahimi, shows a creature navigating her underwater home, struggling to restore it to its former health. Meanwhile, a wise sage in another dimension recounts the ancient creation myth of her ancestors, revealing a universal story of ecological loss and acceptance. Inspired by ancient Persian poetry, the film intends not to educate or diagnose, but to portray healthy coping mechanisms for emotional dissonance amid the climate crisis.

Duration : 7m
Maturity Level : all

Going Nowhere

Going Nowhere

On a small sand-island in the North Sea a figure seems locked in a Sisyphean quest. A tiny figure (filmed from a drone) walks purposely around an island’s edge. As the tide rises, the water is eating away at the island’s coast and the figure’s path spirals inwards. Eventually the island has become a dot of dry sand, before vanishing beneath the waves. The figure is gone. Simon Faithfull

Duration : 8m
Maturity Level : all

Smoke cloud

Smoke cloud

The video by Shahar Marcus "Smoke cloud" shows the artist walking in the desert carrying a smoke torch that spreads black smoke. the smoke can be seen for a fat distance. The video explores the mission of the artist in our times. Here, the artist appears as a trailblazer who leads the way he becomes the lighthouse in the desert or as in this case the smokehouse.

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Life with a flower

Life with a flower

A man connects with nature through a simple act. By Eli Turner

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Fire Man II

Fire Man II

As firestorms sweep across the planet, Fire Man II speaks to the profound message encapsulated by the phrase ‘we are the architects of our own demise.’ Through haunting imagery generated with artificial intelligence, I confront viewers with the unsettling reality of our collective role in shaping the environmental emergency. By Katherine Boland

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all