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Paris suffers an excessive pollution caused by a transport system devoted to cars. The city lose its inhabitants. Free and potential space no longer exists. Paris is suffocating, Paris is mistaken, Paris is dying. The city must find solutions to host its most vulnerable inhabitants, the residents of the places of detention while the public services dedicated are all going through deep crises. Inmates, homeless, refugees, retirees must be cured in the best possible conditions. A new building must be erected in order to allow a return of the nature in the city. This radical building is the Galerie Bienvenue, abandoning deprivation of liberty, built on the Boulevard Périphérique. Vulnerable prisoners are offered the choice to integrate this alternative prison where they will be free. In exchange, they must work and participate to the collective life. Likewise, Parisians do the same, therefore recreating the proper conditions for a social radical ecology in order to deliver the city.

Gabriel Chareton is an french architect who graduated from Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. He worked in Los Angeles, Paris, Lausanne and Geneva.

The video "keke" (Bicycle) was shot in the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Amsterdam is well-known for its numerous bicycles at every corner of the city. The video is about the use of bicycle in the city and its positive impact on the environment.

Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani is Togolese visual artist based in Stuttgart, Germany.

History Repeats is a grungy, video collage depicting a short version of the history of the world. The rise and fall of civilizations have occurred throughout human history. Our current age of consumerist, capitalist culture is rapidly depleting the earth’s natural resources. Are we doomed to repeat our past mistakes or can we make changes and learn?

Eric Hynynen is a Finnish/Australian artist best known for bold, socially engaged paintings, and his experimental moving images and short films. Living and working in Perth. He completed his BA at Edith Cowan University and is a graduate of the highly regarded Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Masters program. His work has been widely shown in Australia and internationally.

“My practice is a resolute quest for individual freedom and social equality, a reaction against our lives being increasingly legislated or controlled. I see art as a process and space for taking back some of this freedom. Painting and video become tools for social change.”

Spring Walk on Spaceship Earth is one of the video series from the artist Kenji Kojima's project Techno Synesthesia: Four Seasons. The project concept is "Ecosystem goes around on Earth". Japanese ancient faith that is the background of the artist admires and respects the worship of nature spirits and a belief in sacred power in both animate and inanimate things, and sustained nature. That was the wisdom of the forest island people during the isolation from the rest of the world. The video is walking around spring woodland and creates music and 3D drawing from visual data and time perception. That is another concept of the project "Techno Synesthesia". The artist wishes his vision has a relation with music and time. He tried to realize it by computer technology for the artwork. A computer reduces all sensory data to binary and converts them to another file format.

Kenji Kojima is a visual artist. He has been experimenting with the relationships between perception and cognition, technology, music, and visual art using computer technologies. He was born in Japan and moved to New York in 1980. He painted contemporary tempera paintings that were medieval art materials and techniques. A personal computer was improved rapidly during the ’80s. In the early 90's he switched his artwork to digital. He studied computer programming by himself. His early digital works were archived in the New Museum - Rhizome, New York. He developed the application "RGB MusicLab" which converted music from a still image in 2007. He has created an interdisciplinary artwork “Techno Synesthesia” series exploring the relationship between visual and audio sensibilities. The project "Techno Synesthesia" has exhibited in New York, and media art festivals worldwide, including Europe, Brazil, India, Asia, and online art exhibitions.

A near future where natural species are replaced by artificial ones to maintain the natural balance in forest and how we and future generation would experience it then.

Richard Vitols graduated with a masters degree in New Media Art from Liepaja University (LV), he spent part of his studies in Bauhaus-University Wiemar (DE). Between 2015–2017 he was studying in the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) where he graduated with a masters degree. Currently he is a PhD student at DXARTS, University of Washington. He has participated in several exhibitions: 2018–1019 Latvian National Museum of Art “UN/Green”, The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art “The Future State”; Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre "100 in Latvian Art”; 2019 Austria MAK-Museum of Applied Arts Vienna; Belgium 2015 Maison du Design “Transformative Ecologies”; France 2018 MINATEC “Experimenta”; Italy 2014 co-author for Latvian showroom in “Venice Architecture Biennial”; Netherlands 2017 “Dutch Design Week”.

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A hand-made reflection on the underconscious and on the illustration of ideas on plastic, this collage film recycles 1000 overhead transparencies that were used for teaching biology in a time before plastics in our oceans were such a visible concern. A chemically induced gaze looks out over this archive while a light shines down on obsolete treasures, buried ideologies and the science of life. Patient's Copy focuses on the capacity of these acetate transparencies to not simply allow light to pass through them, but also to allow light to reflect off them. This suggests a new function for images that have not only been excavated from their pedagogical and technological moment but which, in their new fluorescent form, are both less plastic, and more plastic than before.

Patrick Tarrant (Melbourne, 1969) is an Associate Professor in filmmaking at London South Bank University who has written on the feature-length portrait films of Pedro Costa (Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?), Ben Rivers (Two Years At Sea) and Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez (Manakamana). Patrick has made video portraits and observational city films, while developing a hybrid filmmaking method that brings HD video and a 16mm film projector together (in The Take-Up, The Trembling Giant & Another Self Portrait ). Patrick has had films screened at the Hong Kong, London, Cork and Melbourne International Film Festivals, and was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2016 London Film Festival.

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Parental advisory: This film discusses adult themes and contains brief mild nudity.

terroir is a feminist musical about how the mother-child relationship can sometimes unfortunately cloud our perception of very capable female leaders in all sectors of society. The French word ‘terroir’ is used across many languages and cultures to describe the soil and climate factors that give wine its character. Metaphorically, we can look at our human upbringing and the resulting character of various world cultures as ‘terroir’. Factually, we all originate from women, but it is the rare culture that respects or honors this truth.

Dawn Westlake is president of Ron de Cana Prods, Inc. in Los Angeles. She has made 21 films since 2000 which have won 73 awards, including honors from JVC-Tokyo and Canon USA, Inc. Dawn is also an actress/writer/producer and has served on film festival juries in the US, France, Portugal and Italy.