Michael Blum

The Three Philosophers, 2001, Video installation, colour, 60:00 min Michael Blum’s installation consists of three video sequences, which were inspired by a painting attributed to Giorgione and titled The Three Philosophers, which is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. This painting was executed during the first years of the 16th century, and its meaning remains unclear. One possible interpretation is that the three figures represent three stages

Majida Khattari

Défilé / Performance, 1998, video, colour, sound, 24:00 min Majida Khattari was born in Morocco and moved to France at the age of 22. She keeps close ties with her family in her native country, yet is caught between the Muslim culture in which

Laura Waddington

Cargo, 2001, video, colour, sound, 29:00 min loop Cargo, which was commissioned by the International Film Festival Rotterdam for their 30th anniversary project, treads a thin line between documentary and fiction. In order to film

Cristina Lucas

Pantone – 500 + 2007, 2007, multimédia installation, 15:00 min. Pantone, Inc. is a widely-known company that has created a standardized, international system for making and communicating color choices. Cristina Lucas’s Pantone is an animated film that uses

Johan Grimonprez

Double Take, 2009, video Projection, 80:00 min. Johan Grimonprez’s film “Double Take” was inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s essay “25 August, 1983”. In this story, Borges casts himself as a character who

Halil Altindere

Dengbejs, 2007, video Installation, 15:17 min. A group of men gathers in a traditional wooden hut decorated with oriental carpets, where a map of Turkey hangs in the background. These men are dengbejs, the Kurdish word for “storytellers.” They

Zineb Sedira

Mother Tongue, 2002, Video installation

Valie Export

Facing a Family, 1971, video, black and white, 4:44 min

Jordi Colomer

Arabian Stars, 2005, mixed installation, 38:00 min Jordi Colomer filmed this work in Yemen. Trained as an architect, Colomer was initially attracted to the country because of its beautiful urban landscapes, and the dearth of visual images and information

Ghazel

Me 1997-2000, 2000, Video Installation, 12:00 min loop Ghazel is an Iranian artist who has been living in France since 1986. During visits back to Teheran, she filmed various short sequences presented in this work.