La discoteca Produced thanks to the support of General directorship of contemporary creativity Ministry of Culture italian council Distribution/Promotion NOS Visual Arts Production

La discoteca Produced thanks to the support of General directorship of contemporary creativity Ministry of Culture italian council Distribution/Promotion NOS Visual Arts Production

La discoteca Produced thanks to the support of General directorship of contemporary creativity Ministry of Culture italian council Distribution/Promotion NOS Visual Arts Production

The Pornographer 2021, video, produced by Lo schermo dell’arte nell’ambito within the ambit of the Artists’ Film Italia Recovery Fund Courtesy the artist The Pornographer is a film that originated within the Berlin post-porn scene and investigates the figure of filmmaker Emy Fem, a sex worker and trans feminist activist, who for years has dedicated herself to the creation of films, documentaries and performances aimed at the naturalisation of sexuality and the defence of sexworker rights.

Buddy by Steve Hilly 2020, video clip, 4 min 12 sec Steve Hilly is a country singer and composer of mysterious origins. “Buddy” is his first single to be released. The rest is yet to be discovered.

LIES LIES LIES (first episode) 2020, animation, 5 min, by video In the animation series LIES LIES LIES, animation series will be told the fantastic stories are set inside the low-budget universe of Prix Garantie products packaging. This is a mostly white world, where the inhabitants must follow only one astrict rule in order to survive: never stop smiling... and it will bring them various misadventures.

A View from the Cliff 2020 19 min 40 sec prod. Rasoir Bouée (CH) & Baleno (IT) It’s Bastille day in front of the beautiful cliffs of Etretat. Tourists wait for the fireworks while seagulls take on the empty parking lots. Behind them, the cliffs stand still, full of their millenary memory.

Le Grand Viveur 2020 Super 8, 21 min, still

Prendere la parola [Taking the Floor] 2019 HD, 47 min, still

Angelo Azzurro 2019, video, 6 min The special billboard commission digitally expands through a QR code, to reveal Angelo Azzurro, a 3D-rendered video work inspired by late ‘90s videogame aesthetics. The video presents a simulated reality where the mediation through which the characters interact is highly apparent: they talk through “tex-boxes", they fight like they would in games such as Pokemon or Final Fantasy, and they buy drinks from a pop-up menu once they arrive at the bar.

Carne Cruda 2018 - in progress, single channel HD video, Courtesy the artist Carne cruda reflects upon the concept of cannibalism of memory, or, rather, the obsessive need of contemporary man to absorb his own family history in order to create his own identity. The relationship investigated is that with the grandmother, a mystical and imposing figure. The camera feeds on her: her gestures, her skin, her words.

OH L’AMOUR! 2018, single-channel HD video, 4 min 57 sec, da video, Courtesy the artist Oh l'Amour! is a project about love and its experience. Starting with both film excerpts from the 1970s and footage shot with a mobile phone camera, the focus and primary subject is on the relationship between lovers. Through zooming and editing, their arrivals and departures are continuously blurred, symbolising the fragility of the love relationship.

Womb Life 2018-2019, 55’37’’ Courtesy the artist and Rodeo, London; Athens A self-portrait, Womb Life is an extension of the artist’s body into life and forms that unfold from universal myths to her own story as a cosmic entity, a child of the earth and a mother.

Un re all’ascolto 2017, 19’13” (silent) Meris Angioletti investigates the relationship between mental mechanisms and linguistic forms, revelation and concealment, film space as a ritual space. Her work, which includes video, performance, photographs, collage, and tapestry, has always dwelt in the indistinct space between art and science, a space where it is difficult to distinguish the creative process from scientific method.

Morning Ritual 2016, 3’34” Courtesy the artists A collaboration between artist Shana Moulton and composer Nick Hallett, Morning Ritual is the continuation of Moulton’s Whispering Pines series. Continuing the artist’s exploration of feminist spirituality, the wellness industry, the fascination with New Age philosophies and alternative models of living, the video gets progressively more surreal as Moulton adds psychedelic sequences, soundtracked by music from Nick Hallett.

Levitation Device 2015, 5’59” (silent) Courtesy the artist Emiliano Maggi addresses the magical component of levitation through a sculpture based on devices used by street performers to create the illusion of levitation. Fascinated by the power of hidden sources and by the act of belief, inherent in human nature, Levitation Device is inspired by the artist’s archive of concealed levitation devices embedded in historical images.

Quickeners 2014, 36’12’’ Courtesy the artist and König Galerie Berlin Quickeners live about 500 years after us and belong to the species of Quantum Human, who are immortal and connected to each other through an abstract entity called “The Hive”. However, they developed a rare disorder that prompts them to desire to engage in behavioral patterns of humans. Detached from The Hive, they fall into ecstatic states, sing, clap, cry, scream, dance, handle poisonous snakes.

Sacred Repository N.1: VIOLENTLY SPEAKING 2014, 14’57’’ Courtesy andriesse-eyck galerie, Amsterdam The first in a cycle of films and larger body of work entitled Sacred Repositories, Violently Speaking is inspired by a Quaker lecture. The film consists of a dialogue between three Quakers in Utah, performances by Trans Activists in New York City, and scored with music performed by five British teenage girls.

Little Sisters: Lunapark Ostia 2012, 42’ © Andrea Büttner / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens, London Little Sisters: Lunapark Ostia focuses on a sisterhood of nuns who manage an arcade in a small amusement park in Ostia, near Rome. The work features a video interview Büttner made while spending time with the nuns at the park, speaking about their work and discussing notions of contemplation, happiness, spirituality and value.

Mamuthones 2011, 3’ 06’’ Courtesy the artist and Art: Concept, Paris; Meyer Riegger, Berlin/Karlsruhe; Pilar Corrias Gallery, London; Produzentengalerie Hamburg Mamuthones documents figures with animal skins, cowbells and fearsome animal masks stomping rhythmically in a circle before a village setting. The title refers to the so-called Mamuthones, and the millennia-old resistance of the Sardinians against numerous conquerors, celebrated annually in January as a traditional carnival custom.

Morning of the Magicians 2006, 4’50’’ (silent) Courtesy the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels For Morning of the Magicians, Koester traveled to Cefalù, Sicily in search of the villa that once served as ‘abbey’ and communal home for the infamous occultist Aleister Crowley and his group of devotees, used for their occult practices and tantric rituals.

The Restaurant 2018 Episodes 1-6 47:52 min The Restaurant is a fable of our own metabolic moral economy, a world-inside-a-stomach populated by embodied libidinal forces both earthly and celestial. Benedict and Jørgensen zoom in directly on the hot locus where grotesque global inequality meets our daily lives – namely the food experience.

Mouthfeel 2014 21:22 min HD video with sound Courtesy the artist and Galleria Laveronica Mouthfeel combines staged and found footage to explore the politics underpinning the industrial production of food. Set in the near future, the film addresses themes of convenience, good taste, and the disparities between mass and artisanal forms of production.

Ristorante Italia 2008 4:31 min Courtesy the artist In a neighbourhood restaurant, a series of strange coincidences and off-beat circumstances involve the characters in a surreal fairytale.

Kitchen Girl 2001 3 min colour, sound Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. In Kitchen Girl, Trecartin's frequent collaborator Lizzie Fitch throws herself into a state of total hysteria, portraying a girl who takes the childhood game of "playing house" to a dark and disturbing place. Together Trecartin and Fitch turn the kitchen into a dimly lit world of mental trauma.

Semiotics of the Kitchen 1975 6:33 min b&w, sound Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. Semiotics of the Kitchen adopts the form of a parodic cooking demonstration. In an ironic grammatology of sound and gesture, a woman and an assortment of cooking utensils enter and transgress the familiar system of everyday kitchen meanings — the securely understood signs of domestic industry and food production erupt into anger and violence.

Food 1972 43 min; b&w, sound, 16mm film on HD video Camera and sound: Robert Frank, Suzanne Harris, Gordon Matta-Clark, Danny Seymour. Editing: Roger Welch Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. This film documents the legendary SoHo restaurant and artists' cooperative Food, which opened in 1971. Owned and operated by Caroline Goodden, Food was designed and built largely by Matta-Clark, who also organized art events and performances there.

Il paese del sole 1965 1:42 min Lodolofilm Productions (Carosello Cirio) Courtesy Fondazione Pino Pascali

Salvador, el matador del televisor 1962 2:14 min Lodolofilm Productions (Carosello Algida) Courtesy Fondazione Pino Pascali Pino Pascali collaborated with Lodolofilm from 1958 to 1967. Together with Sandro Lodolo, the owner of the advertising production company, Pascali created numerous commercials and advertising cartoons.

Porcelain Raft by The Poets Were Right 2013/2017, 2’ 38” Courtesy Ra di Martino / Porcelain Raft

Muscle 2015, 4’ 43” Produced by The Vinyl Factory ℗ 2015 Gwilym Gold under license to HYMN. © 2015 Gwilym Gold

Work No. 1701 2013 digital film, 4’ 36” Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Work No. 1454 1-100 2012 digital film, 1' 44" Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

future past perfect pt. 3 (u_08_01) 2009 HD short movie on blu ray disc, 3’ 43” Courtesy by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and Pace Gallery VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

More News From Nowhere by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2008, 7' 56"

Papal Broken Dance by PTV3- Genesis P-Orridge 2008, 6' © Marie Losier. Distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinéma

You Called Me Jacky 1990, 4’ 06” Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Ask by The Smiths 1986, 3' 14"

Ciao 1985 video, colour, sound, 14” from Art Break at MTV Networks Courtesy the artist and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin

Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung 1983 video, 3' 59"

Blue Monday '88 by New Order 1983, 4' 23" Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Let's Groove by Earth, Wind & Fire 1981, 3' 56"

Breakaway by Toni Basil 1966, 5'

The Restaurant 2018 Episodes 1-6 47:52 min The Restaurant is a fable of our own metabolic moral economy, a world-inside-a-stomach populated by embodied libidinal forces both earthly and celestial. Benedict and Jørgensen zoom in directly on the hot locus where grotesque global inequality meets our daily lives – namely the food experience.

Orange Event 2017 2:10 min After Bengt af Klintberg: Orange Event Number 16 (for Ake Hodell), 1963-1966: Regard two or three oranges for a long time BREAKFAST: after eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser, while the same fate befalls the man who obtains breakfast from him. LUNCH: after failing to catch the waiter's eye, two would-be diners end up eating everything within reach. DINNER: portraits of various meals made up of human organs.

Table Manners Season 1: Felix Eats Sorgor Salad with Palm Wine, 2014-2016; 7:15 min Table Manners Season 2: Friday Eats Hairy-Leg Crab Pepper Soup with Pounded Yam, 2014-2016; 10:59 min Table Manners Season 2: Dorcas Eats Roasted Snail and Drinks Maltina, 2014-2016; 6:48 min single-channel digital videos Tiwani Contemporary, London Although Table Manners’ title speaks to colonially-instigated questions surrounding the manner in which Africans traditionally eat, the piece is about place and power

The Bed That Eats 2015 5:46 min Courtesy Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris; Giò Marconi, Milan; Overduin & Co., Los Angeles A solitary bed sits in a dark room, droning, incomprehensibly, the lyrics of a track by minimalist blues duo Stare Case. Taking the viewer inside the bed and into its bowels of a yellowing underworld, the video offers an oblique approach to the psychology of the consumer state.

Paul McCarthy Kitchen Kewpie 2015 4:03 min Courtesy the artist Durbin created a series of Infomercials in which each explores the potential for a consumer product in lieu of, or in addition to, an existing work by a famous artist. Paul McCarthy Kitchen Kewpie appropriates the work of McCarthy, which in turn lampoons polite society, ridicules authority, and bombards the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery, all with an irreverent wit.

Stimulate Surprise 2015 7:04 min video slide presentation Courtesy of Tanya Leighton Stimulate Surprise presents an advertising agency’s vision for the relaunch of a 'forgotten food', edible seaweed, and its potential to become the next consumer must-have.

Mouthfeel 2014 21:22 min HD video with sound Courtesy the artist and Galleria Laveronica Mouthfeel combines staged and found footage to explore the politics underpinning the industrial production of food. Set in the near future, the film addresses themes of convenience, good taste, and the disparities between mass and artisanal forms of production.

Ristorante Italia 2008 4:31 min Courtesy the artist In a neighbourhood restaurant, a series of strange coincidences and off-beat circumstances involve the characters in a surreal fairytale.

Shimabuku’s Fish & Chips 2006 6:33 min 8mm film and miniDV transfered to digital Courtesy NoguerasBlanchard Barcelona/Madrid Filmed underwater, Shimabuku’s Fish and Chips presents an unorthodox encounter between a sea-dwelling potato and a fish. Going farther than a simple presentation of the sheer oddity, the film pushes us to take a step back and reflect on the inherent romanticism found within local traditions, as well as the most basic elements of daily life.

La Jetée 1962, 29' Courtesy Argos / Tamasa Constructed almost entirely from still images, La Jetée tells the story of a post-nuclear war experiment in time travel, in which a man is forced to explore his memories in the wake of the war’s devastation. Travelling back and forth, in and out of time, the man must find a solution to the world’s fate. Yet, while doing so, he lives in the perpetual memory of a lone female, of life, death, and past events.

A Space Exodus 2009, 5’ 24” Courtesy of the artist and Montoro12 Gallery Brussels/Rome A Space Exodus quirkily parodies Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, situated within a Middle Eastern political context. Echoing Kubrick's thematic concerns for human evolution, progress and technology, Sansour posits the idea of a first Palestinian in space and, referencing Neil Armstrong's moon landing, interprets this theoretical gesture as "a small step for a Palestinian, a giant leap for mankind".

Kempinski 2007, 13' 58" Courtesy of the artist Shot in Mali, Kempinski is a science fiction documentary featuring interviews with local inhabitants as they imagine their visions of the future. Through a series of striking tableaux, Beloufa captures a sense of vertigo and unease by interweaving fantasy with reality. The scenario of Kempinski is defined by specific rules: interviewed people imagine the future and speak about it in the present tense.

Piattaforma Luna 2011, 25' still from video Courtesy Yuri Ancarani In Piattaforma Luna, reality and dreamlike dimensions continuously overlap and intersect, creating a science fiction film that developed out of a real life, shared experience, created by the artist with a group of six scuba divers specialised in deep sea operations. In an offshore operation conducted on the Luna platform, underwater technical operators live for weeks on end between the bottom of the sea and a diving chamber.

The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview 2013-2014, 22' 33mm & digital-8 HD Transfer In an interview between a naïve contemporary young man and an apparently real Neanderthal, the Neanderthal turns out to be more intelligent and cunning than the young man. In this lesson in Humanism, halfway between a hallucinatory trip and brainwashing, we are brought to understand that a man wanting to control reality, people, and the past quickly becomes possessed by himself.

3412 Kafka - First Chapter 2018, 8' 25" CGI, VR (HTC Vice Pro), progetto audio di Francesco Fonassi, progetto grafico di Imago Team 3412 Kafka – First Chapter is an interactive video based on a montage of a number of virtual landscapes. The work acts as a mnemonic trace that undergoes temporal variations, thereby bridging the gap between the event as it actually occurs, and the image it forms when reaching the surface.

Nation Estate 2012, 9' Courtesy of the artist and Montoro12 Gallery Brussels/Rome Nation Estate offers a clinically dystopian, yet humorous approach to the deadlock in the Middle East. The film explores a vertical solution to Palestinian statehood. Palestinians have their state in the form of a single skyscraper: the Nation Estate. One colossal high-rise houses the entire Palestinian population - now finally living the high life.

Planet of the Vamps 2000, 24' Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This sci-fi adventure centres on the interaction between a crew of Earthmen and their seduction by the love-hungry Amazons of the red planet, Mars. The ambitions were high and the necklines low in this effects-laden tribute to pulp fiction fantasy and intergalactic intercourse.

Somnium 2011, 18' 20" 16mm film transferred to video, color, sound Courtesy of the artist and Vistamare / Vistamarestudio, Pescara / Milano Somnium is based on recordings made by the artist in Rotterdam at a site planned as a future harbour, to become operational in 2030. The landscape is surreal, strange, uninhabited, and captures the science fiction tone of the 1634 novel by German astronomer Johannes Kepler, a novel considered today as a pioneer of the sci-fi genre.

Quickeners 2014, 36' 12" Courtesy the artist and König Galerie Berlin Quickeners is a kind of sci-fi pseudo-documentary, taking its source material from the 1967 cinema verité film, “Holy Ghost People”, that depicts the worship service of a Pentecostal church in a small American town. Shaw’s re-worked video is presented by a BBC-like narrator who details the story of the Quickeners in a deadpan tone.

The Last Angel of History 1995, 45' 7" single channel colour video, sound © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Smoking Dogs Films and Lisson Gallery. Creating connections between black unpopular culture, outer space and the limits of the human condition, this cinematic essay - one of the most influential video-essays of the 1990s - posits science fiction as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement, cultural alienation, and otherness.

Pattini d'argento 2007, 37’ video, MiniDV, colour, sound Courtesy the artists: Federico Chiari, Anna Franceschini, Diego Marcon

Pattini d'argento 2007, 37’ video, MiniDV, colour, sound Courtesy the artists: Federico Chiari, Anna Franceschini, Diego Marcon

Pattini d'argento 2007, 37’ video, MiniDV, colour, sound Courtesy the artists: Federico Chiari, Anna Franceschini, Diego Marcon

Ciao 1985 video, colour, sound, 14” from Art Break at MTV Networks Courtesy the artist and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin

Work No. 1454 1-100 2012 digital film, 1' 44" Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

future past perfect pt. 3 (u_08_01) 2009 HD short movie on blu ray disc, 3’ 43” Courtesy by Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin and Pace Gallery VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Mea Culpa by Brian Eno & David Byrne 1981, 5’ 13”

Ask by The Smiths 1986, 3' 14"

Blue Monday '88 by New Order 1983, 4' 23" Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

Let's Groove by Earth, Wind & Fire 1981, 3' 56"

Breakaway by Toni Basil 1966, 5'

Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung 1983 video, 3' 59"

Papal Broken Dance by PTV3- Genesis P-Orridge 2008, 6' © Marie Losier. Distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinéma

Work No. 1701 2013 digital film, 4’ 36” Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

Flex 2015, 4’ 03” Produced by The Vinyl Factory ℗ 2015 Gwilym Gold under license to HYMN. © 2015 Gwilym Gold

I Fink U Freeky by Die Antwoord 2012, 3’ 55” Courtesy the artist

I AM A PROBLEM (Enemy Ladder) by Wolf Eyes 2017, 3' 30" Courtesy Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris & Giò Marconi, Milan

Rent by Pet Shop Boys 1987, 3' 35"

More News From Nowhere by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 2008, 7' 56"

Porcelain Raft by The Poets Were Right 2013/2017, 2’ 38” Courtesy Ra di Martino / Porcelain Raft

Muscle 2015, 4’ 43” Produced by The Vinyl Factory ℗ 2015 Gwilym Gold under license to HYMN. © 2015 Gwilym Gold

You Don’t Love Me Yet 2003 HD, 7’ 43” Original song by Roky Erickson, published by R. Erickson 1984. Musical arrangements by Ida Lundén, recorded and mixed by Pontus Olsson in Atlantis Studio, Stockholm June 2003. Produced by Index – the Swedish contemporary art foundation in collaboration with Nifca, Helsinki

Cet Air La by April March & Julien Gasc 2010, 3’ © Marie Losier. Distributed by Collectif Jeune Cinéma

Love is a Place 2005, 2’ 29”

The Queen is Dead by The Smiths 1986 Super 8 transferred to Single Channel video, 13’

The Music of Regret 2006 35mm film transferred to HD Single Channel video, 40’ Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York The Music of Regret is a 35mm film that grew out of the artist's photographic work and is structured as a mini-musical in three acts. A surrealistic world inhabited by vintage child-craft puppets becomes the perfect backdrop for contemporary dramas, where dummies sing about pains and failures of attachment and communication.

More News From Nowhere by Nick Cave 2008 video, 7’ 56”

I'm a victim of this song 1995 video, colour, sound, 5’ 06” © 2018 Pipilotti Rist Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York For I'm a Victim of This Song, artist Pipilotti Rist used Chris Isaak's song 'Wicked Game' to give a rare personal interpretation using her own voice. Rist starts to sing this extremely sentimental song with a soft voice and gradually abandons herself to a dramatic and pathetic interpretation where the whispers turn into a hoarse and desperate cry.

Rent by Pet Shop Boys 1987 video, 5’

Psykho III The Musical 1985 video, 23’ 46” Courtesy of Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Psykho III The Musical was a stage musical parody following the release of Psycho II in 1983, written, directed, and produced by Mark Oates. Performed at the East Village’s most notorious nightspot, The Pyramid Club, the video adaptation of the stage musical was directed by artist Tom Rubnitz.

Wonders 2016 HD video, 15’ Courtesy the artist & Galeria Joan Prats Wonders uses resources close to the musical biopic and performance to analyze the figure of the "one-hit wonder". The expression "one-hit wonder" is used, in the record industry, for those singers who have attained massive recognition thanks to a single successful song.

Estás vendo coisas (You are seeing things) 2017 4K, colour, sound 5.1, 16’ Courtesy the artists and Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The video analyzes the Brega phenomenon, a genre of popular music in Brazil, and is performed by actual members of its cultural and artistic scene.

Ausgeträumt 2010 HD video, 5’ 35” Courtesy the artist and gb agency, Paris Addressing his fascination with naiveté, understood by the artist as “an initial state to be creative for any beginner in any field of arts”, Narkevicius documents a small group of young Lithuanian boys who have just started a band, interspersing shots of their wintertime surroundings in Vilnius.

Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore 1999 DVD, TRT: 15’ Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York/Rome ©Mark Leckey, 2018 The film remixes fragments of found video footages from British nightclubs with an amalgamation of sounds and images in slow motion, to examine thirty years of countercultural nightlife, and is probably the finest portrayal of the British club life ever captured.

Hello Again by The Cars 1984 video, 4’ 32”

Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung 1983 video, 3’ 58”

The Show Mas Go On 2014 HD video, 30’ Courtesy Copperfield, London The title of the film is a word play on the acronym MAS, an Italian fashion store. MAS opened in Rome at the beginning of the last century as a luxury store and slowly turned into a popular discount store frequented by people looking for fabulous prices. Now that the store is definitively closed, the artist transformed this cult place into a "stage".

Higgs Boson Blues 2013 video, 9’ 14” Higgs Boson Blues, from the Bad Seeds' album ‘Push The Sky Away’ is a live performance of the track, recorded live at 3 Mills Studios in London.

The DRAMASTICS are Loud 2016 MP4 video, 29’ Courtesy the artist and Casey Kaplan, New York The video chronicles the adventures of the punk rock band The DRAMASTICS. The characters in the all-female band, inspired by real-life groups like The Slits, Blondie and Bikini Kill, are 10 inch tall paper, glue, paint and wire cut-out figures set in dioramas.

Imagineering 2013, 1’ 08” © Ryan Gander. Courtesy the artist. Imagineering is a short television commercial developed by an existing advertising agency working to the artist’s brief. The fictitious commercial promotes a return to childlike imagination among the British public, as though commissioned by the British government’s Department for Business, Innovation & Skills. What exactly happens when one sets in motion this chain of events? Bubbles happen. Lots of them.

Muscles 2011, 1’ 30” Courtesy of Umberto di Marino, Naples An animated cartoon that underpins with playful irony the daily paradoxes of contemporary life and its oddball characters.

Over the Rainbow 2013, 42’ Commissioned by Collective Gallery and The Banff Centre, Canada, as part of a 6-month Scottish Arts Council Residency. Inspired by the Technicolor utopias of children’s television, Over The Rainbow invites the viewer into a shape-shifting world inhabited by cuddly monsters, faceless clones and gruesome pop divas.

Three Feathers and Other Fairy Tales 1973, 31’ 15” Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York. In Three Feathers and Other Fairy Tales Baldessari reads six fairy tales, each of which expresses primal fears and subconscious desires.

Fly mc Fly 2008, 1' 02" Courtesy the artist. An animated cartoon that underpins with playful irony the daily paradoxes of contemporary life and its oddball characters.

Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape 2011-2016, 57’ © Andy Holden. Courtesy the artist. Part lecture, part conspiracy theory, Laws of Motion in a Cartoon Landscape examines the formation of ‘laws’ within cartoons as a way of making sense of the world we live in. It humorously focuses on the physics of the cartoon world, which defy the normal conditions of gravity, force, and velocity.

Elephant and man 2006, 52” Courtesy the artist. An animated cartoon that underpins with playful irony the daily paradoxes of contemporary life and its oddball characters.

Street of Crocodiles 1986, 20’ Courtesy of the BFI. Based on a collection of short stories by Bruno Schulz, Street of Crocodiles takes place in a nightmarish netherworld populated by strange and sinister puppets, in which a museum keeper spits into the eyepiece of an ancient peep-show and sets the musty machine going. Inside, the puppets partake of a series of bizarre rituals amongst the dirt and the grime.

Vision Verticale 2014, 31’ 10” © Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, courtesy of Sadie Coles HQ, London. While on board a space station, the daily routine of Centre National des Etudes Spatiales (CNES) scientists, portrayed with hilarious parody, is destabilized by the apparition of a strange and mysterious presence.

The Undercover Man 2008, 30’ Italy Courtesy of the artist and Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam. Joseph D. Pistone, a former FBI agent, worked undercover for six years as jewel-thief Donnie Brasco in order to infiltrate the Bonanno crime family, one of the most powerful Mafia clans in New York. The film explores the memories and identity of a man who lived a fictional persona and must now live in the shadows to protect himself.

The Bruce Lacey Experience 2012, 67’ UK Courtesy of the artist and art: concept, Paris; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow. "When we met Bruce Lacey we were entranced – a modern day magus in brightly coloured clothes, he combines a very British interest in art and science, bringing them together in a way unlike anyone else either of us had encountered."

Shulie 1997, 36' United States Copyright of Elisabeth Subrin, courtesy of Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Shulie was inspired by Subrin’s rediscovery of a little-known 1967 documentary profiling a young Chicago art student, Shulamith Firestone. The original film documents Firestone three years before she published The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution and became recognized as a key figure in the development of radical feminism.

Fish Plane, Heart Clock 2014, 60’ Canada/Switzerland Courtesy of the artist. Fish Plane, Heart Clock celebrates and responds to the work of the Inuit hunter-turned-artist Pudlo Pudlat. Twenty-two years after Pudlo’s death, Arvo Leo travelled to Kinngait, Canada to spend the spring living where Pudlo made his work. The film is a lyrical celebration of Pudlo’s work but also a realistic and magical realistic document of contemporary life in Kinngait.

As From Afar (Wie aus der Ferne) 2013, 26' Germany/Austria Courtesy of the artist. After serving 20 years in prison, Albert Speer, the Third Reich’s chief architect and one of Hitler’s closest friends, made efforts to clear his name and became a public persona with the help of his autobiography. He made contact with Simon Wiesenthal, a former concentration camp prisoner who dedicated his life to locating and bringing Nazi criminals to justice.

20,000 Days on Earth 2014, 97’ UK Courtesy Nexo Digital. 20,000 Days on Earth depicts a fictitious 24-hour period in the life of Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, composer and actor Nick Cave, prior to and during the recording of his 2013 album Push the Sky Away. This study of Cave playfully disguises itself as fiction while fulfilling the requirements of a biographical documentary.

Theatrical trailer for Hiker Meat 1982, 1’ 52’’ Italy A real trailer for a fictional film, Hiker Meat explores the tension between fact and fiction in the narratives we use to define our identities and share our stories. A new type of storytelling is proposed, which includes unreliable narration, multiple realities and meta-commentary.

Office Killer 1997, 82’ USA Miramax/Park Circus. When Dorine Douglas' job at Constant Consumer Magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope, but after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.

Theatrical trailer for Sculpt 2016, 2’ 28’’ USA Sculpt follows the thoughts of a man whom we don’t know much about; he seems to be constantly developing the very concept of what experiencing beauty, thought, or obsession can be, despite the risks that the subjects are exposed to in the long term.

The Point of Least Resistance 1980-81, 30’ Switzerland Copyright: Peter Fischli David Weiss Zürich / Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London; Matthew Marks Gallery New York and Los Angeles; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich. Set against a noir-style Los Angeles background, two artists in rat and bear costumes become embroiled in a murder mystery that raises questions and observations on the nature of art and crime before spiralling into sublime flights of fancy.

The Right Way 1983, 55’ Switzerland Copyright: Peter Fischli David Weiss Zürich / Courtesy Sprüth Magers Berlin London; Matthew Marks Gallery New York and Los Angeles; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich Friendship is once again put to the test as rat and bear go hiking in the open, unspoiled countryside, at the mercy of the elements and all kinds of miracles - and, above all, at the mercy of themselves.

Theatrical trailer for Remainder 2015, 1’ 50" UK/Germany A London man who loses his memory when he's struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past. His obsessive efforts are funded by a large financial settlement for an accident he cannot remember.

Dracula’s Ghost 2009, 21’ 22’’ Germany Courtesy Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf and the artist. Dracula’s Ghost describes the bizarre mutations of meaning undergone by the Dracula myth in Romania, and explains how the vampire Dracula was actually an imported concept, appearing in Romania only after the opening of the borders for tourism in the 1960s.

Storie di fantasmi per adulti 2010, 16' 22" Italy Courtesy of the artist. Composed of a sequence of still images of paintings, photographs, small sculptures, trinkets, Storie di fantasmi per adulti activates the gaze and imagination of the viewer on what would appear to be a series of still lifes and revealing the true – and surprising – nature of the objects.