VIDEOAKTION #6
5 December // 6 pm
Projection I
Maiara Barbosa, Kineflow, HD Video, 2025, 8 mins.
“Kineflow” is a video dance that proposes a choreographic dialogue between body, image, and editing. Structured in a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue, the film is built through repetitions, variations, and rhythms, dissolving the boundaries between performer, camera, and spectator, and transforming moving images into a visual and sensory choreography.
Parham Ghalamdar, The Sight Is a Wound, HD Video, 2025, 6 mins.
“The Sight Is a Wound” is a stark video‑poem that stages a funeral for the image. In response to the live‑streamed genocide in Gaza, Parham Ghalamdar immolates over fifty of his own paintings while an AI‑whispered essay probes the ethical collapse of representation. No protest film or documentary, it collapses creation and destruction into a single act of refusal, demanding we face our own complicity in the spectacle of images.
Anna Anders, Engravings of Violence – Condensed, HD Video, 2023, 3 mins.
The video – or glass – can be understood as a symbol of the fragility of democracy and security. In acts of aggression, protests, attacks, and wars, glass panes are usually the first to break. For the video, safety glass was attacked with cobblestones. The violence becomes inscribed, vaguely reminding us of trajectories and collisions of elementary particles.
Khadija Zammouli, Papillon [Butterfly], HD Video, 2024, 10 mins.
Papillon is a short experimental video that observes a seemingly ordinary domestic space, the family home in Aïn Draham (Tunisia), now abandoned. Captured through surveillance cameras, the video offers a quiet, meditative look at the natural surroundings, the empty rooms, and fleeting presences. The frame is often layered, revealing a second image within the image actions unfolding by the sea or on the sand. These insertions disrupt the stillness, creating a tension between memory, distance, and the invisible.
Eve Le Fessant Coussonneau, Sunny 16 Helsinki, 16 mm/digitised, 7 mins.
“Sunny 16 Helsinki” was inspired by the long afternoons I spent looking for shade on Suommenlina’s island with my friends Eetu and Asya (Finnish and Russian) during that particularly warm spring. The island, bucolic and wild, is also a former fortress where cannons and remnants of the conflicts around the Baltic still linger. Our discussions often touched on the current tensions on the nearby Russian border. The film contains phytograms created using plants from Suomenlinna.
Frédérique Devaux, Villes [Cities], HD Video, 2018, 10 mins.
The city, its lights, its movement, its colors. The city… This film attempts to rediscover and reproduce on digital media the processes specific to film photography: working with film by adding, scratching, bruising, enhancing, sculpting…
Chto Delat, Inside Diagrams, HD Video, 2023, 10 mins.
This film is a visual experiment in working with different speculative graphs and charts describing various data related to climate change, the workings of energy processing and production mechanisms, the war in Ukraine, and statistics of natural disasters.
Çağla Gillis, Different/Same/Both/Neither, 8 mm/digitised, 2024, 4 mins.
This film establishes a tactile connection between personal body and the filmic body. It delves into the flexible and versatile aspects of the human body. On the other hand, it reveals the body of the film material, the filmstrip itself. It x-rays the concrete images on its surface and its abstract elements exposed to light. The film adds another dimension to its narrative with an animation made with cyanotype prints. It examines how light is embodied on paper through a photosensitive solution and how it interacts.
Yoonseo Lee, You Have no Mother!, HD Video, 2025, 13 mins.
“You Have no Mother” is the text that appears in Lady Vengeance (2005) directed by Park Chan-Wook. Geumja’s daughter looks at the sky and the clouds turn into the shape of “you have no mother”. These three women are a family. They are not blood-related but a “chosen family” that people usually say these days. I consider family to be a relationship that shares space and humor with each other, so I got jealous of the people who became chosen family. This film started from that jealousy. These three are not the mother, father, the child. However, they are “mother, wife, and a man”. They are cute. They go through horrible things with their cuteness. They know how to attack with their cuteness.
Katrin Eissing, Talk about Trees, 16 mm, 2025, 7 mins.
“What kind of times are these, when to talk about trees, is almost a crime. Because it implies the silence about so many horrors?” Brecht To Those Born After , written 1936 in exile in Denmark
I use Berthold Brecht’s poem first because I love it and to refer to war and flight, future and past. Meanwhile, let us all look into trees together. Trees, because they have always played a big role, when we visited their healing crowns as kids, because they are endangered in my street by drought and the climate crisis. EMDR was discovered by chance while walking in the park. EMDR is a trauma therapy. We don’t know exactly how it works, but it does. If you move your eyes back and forth a little senselessly while you become aware of a trauma you have experienced, some of the adhesion of this difficult experience with trigger points, i.e. memory anchors in the brain, dissolves.