The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary computer games. They work with tools of appropriation and rededication of game resources. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20 and at the MoMA in NYC and they recently received the award for the best Austrian …
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in 1970 in Bangkok. In 2000, he made his first film, a conceptual documentary, Mysterious Object at Noon. This was followed by Blissfully Yours, a critical success that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It is the first part of a trilogy with Tropical Malady …
Olivier Zabat, born in 1965 is a graduate of the Fine Arts. He conducts independent and innovative artistic and filmic research. His documentaries have been shown in international art centers, at the FID Marseille and in avant-garde sections of festivals such as the Venice Film Festival, BAFICI in Buenos Aires and the Rome Festival. They …
Jean-Pierre Gorin, born in 1943 in Paris, is a French director. He studied at the Sorbonne and attended the seminars of Louis Althusser (including the one devoted to the definition of the theory of the state ideological apparatus), Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. From 1965 to 1968, Jean-Pierre Gorin worked for the newspaper Le Monde …
The Dziga Vertov Group is a film collective founded in 1968 by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin to produce militant films with a Maoist orientation. The name of the collective refers to the Soviet director Dziga Vertov (1896-1954), but it is also influenced by the ideas of Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). All the films are signed …
Raya Martin is a graduate of the Film Institute of the University of the Philippines. He directed his first feature film in 2004, entitled Bakasyo. He presented his third feature film A Short Film about the Indio Nacional in 2006 at the Festival des trois continents in Nantes. He then shot the films Manila and …