A Berlin spring still life.

Shiloh Cinquemani (Boca Raton FL 1985). Studies at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. 13 films since 2009; screenings at the Harvard Film Archive, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Vienna International Film Festival, etc. Lives in Los Angeles, California. First appearance at Media City.

A collaboration between the filmmaker and the violinist George van Dam, performing the composition Sequenza VIII (1977) by Luciano Berio. Images of the chin, the ears, the hands of the violinist in intimate contact with his violin; the movement and extension of the performer’s body and instrument as physical material uniting two abstractions: the structure of the composition and the experience of its sounds in space.

Sequenza is exhibited out of competition.

Manon de Boer (Kodaikanal, India 1966). Studies at Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten and Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Netherlands). Fourteen films since 1998; screenings at numerous festivals and at Venice (2007), Berlin (2008) and Sao Paulo (2010) Biennials; dOCUMENTA 13 (Kassel, Germany), etc. Lives in Brussels, Belgium. Fourth appearance at Media City.

Light sleeps and rises, and sleeps again, along the shoreline of day.

Robert Todd (Boston MA 1963). Studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. More than 90 films since 1993; screenings at many international festivals and venues including solo presentations at Harvard Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Cinematheque Ontario (Toronto), etc. Lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Eleventh consecutive appearance at Media City.

The Ginza of fable and memory. This is the first film I have finished using the “chromaflex” technique that we developed at Nanolab. This is a very much hands-on colour developing procedure that allows selected areas of the film to be colour positive, colour negative, or black and white.

Richard Tuohy (Melbourne, Australia 1969). Studies philosophy at Australian National University. Numerous Super 8mm films beginning in 1980s, 15+ 16mm films since 2009; screenings at EXiS (Seoul), FLEX (Kuala Lumpur), International Film Festival Rotterdam, etc. Proprietor of Nanolab, an artist’s film laboratory. Lives in Daylesford, Australia. Third appearance at Media City.

A selection of Helga Fanderl’s films, curated by the artist.

By editing in the camera every subject matter finds a cinematic form and rhythm of its own… Every individual film is complete in itself and reflects the process of its creation. Programming my short films in new configurations is a very important part of my artistic practice… As in each individual film, time is structured and rhythms are created within each composed series of films. One could characterize each program as one possible temporary “montage”, exemplifying aspects of the whole body of work.

Helga Fanderl (Ingolstadt, Germany 1947). Studies at the Städelschule (Frankfurt) and Cooper Union (New York). Dozens of Super 8mm films since 1980s; screenings at Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt), Austrian Filmmuseum (Vienna), no.w.here (London), etc; in permanent collections of Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), etc. Lives in Paris, France. Fifth appearance at Media City.

A captive tiger.

Shiloh Cinquemani (Boca Raton FL 1985). Studies at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. 13 films since 2009; screenings at the Harvard Film Archive, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Vienna International Film Festival, etc. Lives in Los Angeles, California. First appearance at Media City.

A journey from the darkness of early dawn into the brightness of the midday sun in the American South. Filmed entirely on the number 16 bus route in Durham, North Carolina over the course of six months, Sun Song is a celebration of light and a meditation on leaving.

“I would tell the people on this planet that there are forces: their job is to slow you up. You’re supposed to keep moving.” — Sun Ra

Joel Wanek (Neligh NE 1974). Studies at Webster University and Duke University. Works in film and photography. Four films since 2011; screenings at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Internationales Kurfzfilmfestival Hamburg, London Film Festival, etc. Lives in Oakland, California. First appearance at Media City.