Alessia Chiappino

Untitled # 8 (Rockingchair)
IT / 2005 / miniDV / 3'00" / Music: e.g.ø - Enrico Glerean

untitled (snow)
IT / 2005 / miniDV / 0.59"/ loop / Soundtrack: Aix Em Klemm

Alessia Chiappino was born in Valenza (Italy) in 1980. Lives and works in London. After the degree in photography at Istituto Europeo di Design, Milano she took part to few exhibitions in Italy. In 2004 she was selected for Corso Superiore di Arti Visive, Fondazione Ratti, Como. Her work is represented by 1000eventi Gallery, Milano.

Benn Northover

The King Who Was a King
UK / 2004 / miniDV / 34'00"

This work gives us an insight into the thought and working philosophies of musician and Painter Auguste Varkalis. Renowned for his sublime piano compositions for key figures of the NewYork Avantgarde film movement, and abstract collage works. In this portrait, spanning moments from five years of his life, Varkalis fluctuates between serene celestial tranquility and demonic anger as he addresses the dichotomy of the real, illusion and the struggle of being an exiled citizen and displaced person in NewYork City. The piece captures the passionate articulations of a great if somewhat Mystical and Cartesian Artist.

Riccardo Arena

The Mills Of God Grind Slowly (episode 5, 6, 7)
IT / 2004 / 1nimation / 1'00" 1'00" 4'00" / Music: Matteo Mariano Riccardo Arena (1979 - Milano, Italy) currently lives and works in London.
His work spans on a variety of 'media' reflecting the various activities he has touched upon in recent years - ranging from cartoons and animation to cinema and live video performance or ceramic and wallpaper installations. His various works are connected with a singular tension which grows from the enquiry and creation of narrative codes. Atmospheres, images, sounds and story-tales are rolled-out using grammatical rules as a starting point. This playful dislocating prospect which Arena uses becomes a random research allowing time to be the main spectator. He has collaborated and formed various artistic groups such as Vumeter, Sun Wu-Kung, Box and Atrium-project.

Sami Sänpäkkilä (ES www.escycle.com)

Kubistisia Vittu Saatana [preview the movie]
FI / 2003 / 16mm / 4'45" / Destroyer: Katja Koponen / Crew: Jonni Jullas, Tomas Regan / Music: ES

Rohkaisulaulu
FI / 2006 / 16mm / 4'38" / Actor: Merja Kokkonen / Crew: Risto Ylihärsilä, TOmas Regan / Music Islaja

Sami Sänpäkkilä (also known for his music project ES) is the founder of Fonal Records label and the darkest exponent of the Finnish underground scene.

"His experimental short films are most notably characterised by a certain suspension. For instance, Sänpäkkilä portrays repetitive jumps, trudging through snow or waking up repeatedly. This suspension is also present in the soundtracks to his works. The resulting entity is hypnotic, trance-inducing. It has been said that every trance is an attempt to solve a problem. This should be understood broadly: a "problem" could be anything, positive or negative, that calls for a decision or a solution. For the artist, it could be a problem or a challenge related to his work, and whilst dealing with it he falls into a state of waking dream. The spectators, however, do not have to concern themselves with the artist's problems. Each of them has a trance of their own, a train of thought that produces the ideas, solutions or answers for which they are prepared and which are useful to them." - Jonni Roos

Sanna Maarit

Sanna Maarit is a young Finnish videoartist. The video will be a short movie featuring the music of Charlemagne Palestine.

Thought Moves Surround
dvcam. colour. 4:10min. 2005
Thoughts on geographic displacement and the de-centred self. The nomad’s compulsion - cultural or through necessity - is to keep moving and, view the passing landscapes through the window frame of a moving train. When there seems to be no separation between arrival and departure, then you might be on the right track. Filmed in Toronto, Canada.

Silent Traces
dvcam. colour. 3:52min. 2005
A joyful and colourful exploration of a space. Squatters have now taken over an old Victorian house in Marble Arch, central London. The building holds an extraordinary history as a first women free masons lodge. The camera moves fluidly through the space. Rooms and stairway echo the history, as if ghosts of those characters that lived there before. Music by Charlemagne Palestine