BLACK BOX

Nicolas Provost The Painters

The Painters, a short film in which Nicolas Provost transforms the most spectacular blow-jobs and ejaculations into an alienating colour mash with picturesque qualities.

15.10.2014

12:00-22:00
BE premiere

Hito Steyerl HOW NOT TO BE SEEN. A Fucking Didactic Educational .Mov File

looped screening

The German artist, Hito Steyerl, is driving on full throttle nowadays, her subject is totally hot. Steyerl has been engrossed in her field New Media Art as artist and lecturer at the Universität der Künste in Berlin for quite some time, more specifically in the digital image, media technology and the global circulation of images.

22.10.2014

12:00-22:00
BE premiere

Neïl Beloufa Tonight and the People

looped screening

The young French artist Neïl Beloufa examines in his films and videos the thin line between fiction and reality. Tonight and the People is his first full-length film.

29.10.2014

12:00-22:00
BE premiere

Rustan Söderling Roadside Picnic & The Second Dawn of Man

Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch Center Jenny

looped screening

The American artist duo Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch succeeds like no one else in presenting the hyperactive, rapid and disturbed attention tendencies of the Facebook generation. Their films are visual metaphors of our surfing behaviour, right through to those annoying pop-up adverts.

19.11.2014

12:00-22:00
BE premiere

Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation

looped screening

Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz were guests in 2013 during Make Up, a focus programme about Antonia Baehr’s work. Since 2014 they’ve been working steadily on a video oeuvre that addresses complex themes like history, “queerness”, and feminism. They record on 16 mm and then convert to HD, which imbues their work with a timeless quality.

26.11.2014

12:00-22:00
BE premiere

Shana Moulton The Undiscovered Drawer

looped screening

The American Shana Moulton makes kitschy endearing videos with a pop style of aesthetic, which in spite of the candy colours, betray a certain melancholy and sadness.

19:00-22:00
vernissage

Mario Pfeifer Approximation in the digital age to a humanity condemned to disappear

Marine Hugonnier The secretary of the invisible

looped screening

Marine Hugonnier’s film is a tribute to Jean Rouch, the French filmmaker and anthropologist whose 1955 film Les Maîtres Fous heralded the arrival of ‘direct cinema’ (set out to collapse the distance that separates the apprehending gaze of the camera from its subject).

21.10.2015

12:00-22:00
vernissage

Jeremy Shaw Quickeners

looped screening

Shaw uses original black & white images as the foundation for a new narrative overlay, where elements of science fiction, neurological science and biological transcendence blend into one another.

Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy The Masked Monkeys

looped screening

In this poignant video essay, Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy turn their attention to the Indonesian ‘wayang topeng’, the masked arts.

04.11.2015

12:00-22:00
vernissage

Roy Villevoye Voice-Over

looped screening

Since the early 90s, Roy Villevoye has been making films in, and about, the Asmat region in the Indonesian part of New Guinea. In his work, he explores issues around anthropological representation and the conventions of documentary filmmaking. Through new narrative structures however, he distances himself explicitly from this genre.

Aslan Gaisumov Volga

looped screening

In this straightforward, but no less effective video, 24-year-old Aslan Gaisumov confronts us with the tragic conflict in his native war-torn Chechnya. This partly autobiographical document shows how fleeing families, sometimes by their dozens, try to fit into small cars in search of a safe haven.

Ben Russell Greetings to the Ancestors

looped screening

Greetings to the Ancestors explores the structure of mythical traditions, origin stories and dream constructions.

Pauline Julier La disparition des Aïtus

looped screening

The Swiss Pauline Julier came across a small news item rather accidentally. Tuvalu, a forgotten archipelago of nine small islands in the Pacific Ocean, sees its existence threatened by rising sea levels. It is expected that the archipelago will be engulfed by water within less than 30 years.

Johann Arens Marte e Venere - A Hand Held Monument

looped screening

This film catches people in the act of photographing and touching statues in a museum. We look at people looking at works of art, through their smartphones or the lenses of their compact cameras.

Jenny Brady Bone

looped screening

Visual artist Jenny Brady (IR) uses the moving image to investigate our ideas about speech, language and the nature of communication. Her intriguing Bone is the third video in her series on language amongst nonhuman subjects.

Rebecca Baron Detour de Force

looped screening

23.03.2016

12:00-22:00
cancelled

24.03.2016

12:00-22:00
cancelled

Tobias Zielony Al-Akra

looped screening

Al-Akrab (The Scorpion) is an ode to the opening scene of Luis Bunuel’s L’Âge d’or, from 1930. Photographer and documentary filmmaker Tobias Zielony (DE) places four young women – high school students in a Palestinian village – close to each other in a darkened room. Their white head coverings and dresses give off a blue sheen in the black light.

Louis Henderson Black Code/Code Noir

looped screening

The British filmmaker Louis Henderson seeks connections between colonialism, post-colonialism, new media, archaeology and the writing of history (including through the Internet). His films take place in a frontier territory between documentary and fiction, with Henderson's extensive research taking a prominent role.

Sebastian Brameshuber In, Over & Out

looped screening

In his experimental video work, scenographer and filmmaker Sebastian Brameshuber (AT) has a sharp eye for human relations and socio-political issues

Pieter Geenen Mirador

looped screening

At the strait of Gibraltar, the European and African continents almost seem to touch one another. On one of these continents, the prospect of a better life motivates countless African refugees to try to cross over to Europe, while from the other side, the panoramic view causes tourists to stop and wonder at the African expanse that rises on the horizon only 14 km away.

Anton Vidokle The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun

looped screening

The Communist Revolution was Caused by the Sun is part II of Anton Vidokle’s trilogy on Russian cosmology. Vidokle investigates the poetic dimensions of the cosmological theories of Alexander Chizhevsky, a Soviet era scientist. The film introduces Chivensky’s ideas and the impact of the solar system on human behaviour, from epidemics to wars and revolutions.

Ane Hjort Guttu Time Passes

looped screening

In Time Passes, we follow Damla, a young art student at the end of the summer, who in the context of her art project decides to follow the Roma woman Bianca as she begs each day, keeping her company along the roadside. Damla is striving to achieve perfect quality, but is this even possible, given her position as an artist? She quickly runs into a plethora of ethical questions.

Emanuel Almborg The Majority Never Has Right On Its Side

looped screening

In The Majority Never has Right on its Side, the Swedish artist Emanuel Almborg brings Summerhill - a utopisch altruistic school concept - into relation to the image that has been created of this particular school down through its history. Almborg dives into the school's visual history and investigates what can be described as the 'utopisch image'. How is this image constructed? What are its potential pitfalls?

Melanie Bonajo Night Soil - Economy of Love

looped screening

Night Soil - Economy of Love is the title of Melanie Bonajo's second feat within her trilogie Night Soil. After having focused on nature topics and human's inability to live in balance with it in her previous feat Faked Paradise (2014), her latest film is dedicated to womanhood and sensuality. It is a portrait of sex workers in Brooklyn who rediscover their female desires and find a new natural approach to sexual pleasure.

Ericka Beckman You The Better

looped screening

Playfully, You The Better ingeniously cuts away at society's tender pain spots. The 'game' refers with a sharp, ironic wink of the eye to our society as a fickle lottery: You'd better make it, or else!

Shadi Habib Allah Dag’aa

looped screening

With no clear destination, Shadi Habib Allah takes us on a disconcerting journey of discovery, through inhospitable places far from the inhabited world.

Mauro Herce Dead Slow Ahead

looped screening

In this debut work, the Spanish filmmaker Mauro Herce plays the insignificant human grappling with the enormity of a colossal machine.

Christophe Bisson Silêncio

looped screening

In the enormous interior of an old, abandoned palace in Porto, men and women tell about how they live, sleep and survive on the streets.

Mohamed Ouzine Samir in the Dust

looped screening

French filmmaker Mohamed Ouzine returns to the land of his roots, in the barren frontier between Algeria and Morocco, where he is confronted with his own ambiguous relationship to the region.

Fiona Tan Ascent

looped screening

Although few of us have been there, almost everyone is familiar with the iconic image of Mount Fuji in Japan: a majestic point rising up from the surrounding flat landscape, with its reflection in the lake at the foot of the mountain.

SARA CWYNAR Soft Film

looped screening

Colourful, tactile and caring: a quirky collection of vintage eBay purchases put to film.

PIA BORG Silica

looped screening

A film location scout explores an Australian opal-mining town in this essay film laced with sci-fi.

MONIRA AL QADIRI The Craft

looped screening

Pop culture, futuristic architecture, junk food, dream readings, alien abductions, geopolitics, diplomacy, war and peace....

CHEN ZHOU Life Imitation

looped screening

Chatroom threads, sexting and futuristic Grand Theft Auto scenes reveal the loneliness of Chinese kids.

ERKKA NISSINEN & NATHANIEL MELLORS The Aalto Natives

looped screening

Absurdist satire on the origins of (Finnish) culture, told by a kooky ensemble of animatronics.

21–24.03 2018

free

MARIO PFEIFER Corpo Fechado

looped screening

A healer with extraterrestrial powers, a religious ‘Candomblé’ leader, and a writer of a post-religious manifesto are testing our faith.

ANE HJORT GUTTU & DAISUKE KOSUGI The Lost Dreams of Naoki Hayakawa

looped screening

Art director Naoki loses himself in a magic dream world to cope with his 16-hour workdays.

LÉANDRE BERNARD-BRUNEL Vetal Nagri

looped screening

Ghostly manifestations roam the streets of Vadodara (India), and the lives of its inhabitants.

KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3

looped screening

The artist himself performing as the fictional character of a young Thai denim painter called Chantri.

ENRIQUE RAMIREZ Un Hombre que Camina

looped screening

In an unknown place where land and sea are merging into one,an imaginary man is walking between life and death.

TOBIAS ZIELONY Maskirovka

looped screening

A flickering frenzy of street protesters and soldiers on Maidan Square morphing into the queer and techno underground scene in Kiev.

MARWA ARSANIOS Who's afraid of ideology? Part I

looped screening

An exploration of the Kurdish Autonomous Women’s Movement and its emphasis on ecology and feminism.

DIEUDO HAMADI Kinshasa Makambo

looped screening

A sobering look into the turmoil of the Congolese elections through the eyes of three activists.

MARGARET SALMON Mm

looped screening

A feminist film about language and masculinity, featuring the Berwick Bandits, an all-male speedracing team.

ARASH NASSIRI City of tales

looped screening

Memories from Tehran are restaged in the urban landscape of a peculiar-looking Los Angeles.

BEN RIVERS & BEN RUSSELL The rare event

looped screening

A registration of a symposium with some of today's most advanced thinkers, with subjects ranging from metaphysics to a digital green screen cosmos.

ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI Glimpse

looped screening

A confrontational film on life in European refugee camps, where the boundaries of what is and is not ethically acceptable are increasingly pushed.

RENEE GREEN ED/HF

looped screening

A cinematic meditation on writing, film and mourning, exploring shared histories between Renée Green and Harun Farocki.

Pol Merchan Pirate Boys

looped screening

Set in a Berlin squat, this hybrid film goes in search of queerness in the work of punk writer Kathy Acker.

Ghassan Halwani Erased, ___Ascent of the Invisible

looped screening

Halwani peels back the layers of Lebanese history one by one in search of the presence or absence of civil war victims.

Shadi Habib Allah 30KG Shine

looped screening

Three views on Jerusalem are interwoven to create a (literally) dark portrait of the holy city.

Jeremy Shaw Quantification Trilogy

looped screening

The confrontation between technology and human primordial drives takes on both a cerebral and emotional weight in this trilogy.

13.03.2019

12:00-22:00
w/ PERFORMATIK19

14.03.2019

12:00-22:00
w/ PERFORMATIK19

15.03.2019

12:00-22:00
w/ PERFORMATIK19

16.03.2019

12:00-22:00
w/ PERFORMATIK19

free

Liz Magic Laser Handle / Poignée

looped screening

Colourful instructional video for ‘political’ dance therapy, analysing the relationships between liberals and conservatives. w/ Performatik

20.03.2019

12:00-22:00
w/ PERFORMATIK19

21.03.2019

12:00-22:00
w/ PERFORMATIK19

22.03.2019

12:00-22:00
w/ PERFORMATIK19

23.03.2019

12:00-22:00
w/ PERFORMATIK19

free

Taavi Talve Blind Spot

looped screening

Essay with as much fact as fiction about Epp Kotkas, an Estonian in the 1970s New York art scene.

Gelare Khoshgozaran Medina Wasl: Connecting Town

looped screening

Artificial landscapes and real war traumas serve to expose the fake news of the Iraq war.

Beatrice Gibson I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead

looped screening

A great poetic film with thoughts both blunt and tender regarding the future of a world in flux.

Tamar Guimarães O Ensaio

looped screening

A young black director, subjected to a constant stream of microaggressions, tries to put on a performance in the rapidly changing city of Sao Paulo

Gerald Machona & Tankiso Mamabolo Survive

looped screening

The internal tensions between South African Fallist protesters are conveyed in sound and vision in this minimalistic music video.

Pauline Julier Naturales Historiae

looped screening

Kaleidoscopic essay that invites viewer to reflect both personally and encyclopaedically on our relationship with nature.

Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born

looped screening

A song of life, death and kittens.

Jessica Johnson & Ryan Ermacora Labour/Leisure

looped screening

The anthropology of the invisible.

Onyeka Igwe No Dance, No Palaver

looped screening

West African history reclaimed: “from studied spectacle to livingness”.

MSL & Jaakko Pallasvuo Fruits of the Loom

looped screening

A fluorescent wink from a dark future.

Georgia Lucas - Going 'HOME IS WHERE THE WORK STARTS 1988'

looped screening

Contemporary rituals of healing and rebirth.

Rosalind Nashashibi Part one: Where There is a Joyous Mood There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass Of Wine / Part Two: The moon is nearly at the full. A team horse goes astray.

looped screening

Nostalgia for the present, sealed in a non-linear time capsule.

Steffani Jemison Sensus Plenior

looped screening

New York artist Steffani Jemison explores the spiritual side of pantomime.

Charlotte Zhang The Lining

looped screening

Teenage strife: “I feel like I’m up against time”.

2–5.03 2022

free

Amelia Umuhire Innocent

radio piece, loop, black history month

An intimate portrait that resists the narrative canon that the West imposes on recent Rwandan history.

23–26.03 2022

free

Fiona Tan Depot

looped screening

In occasion of the symposium The Place of Documentary - Traversing Disciplines by LUCA School of Arts and DocNomads, our Black Box hosts this film by Fiona Tan.

27–30.04 2022

free

Marjolijn Dijkman Depth of Discharge

looped screening

An electrifying visual poem about ores and touchscreens.

Minia Biabiany Learning from the white birds & other stories

looped screening

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BLACK BOX

Nicolas Provost The Painters

Hito Steyerl HOW NOT TO BE SEEN. A Fucking Didactic Educational .Mov File

Neïl Beloufa Tonight and the People

Rustan Söderling Roadside Picnic & The Second Dawn of Man

Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch Center Jenny

Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation

Shana Moulton The Undiscovered Drawer

Mario Pfeifer Approximation in the digital age to a humanity condemned to disappear

Marine Hugonnier The secretary of the invisible

Jeremy Shaw Quickeners

Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy The Masked Monkeys

Roy Villevoye Voice-Over

Aslan Gaisumov Volga

Ben Russell Greetings to the Ancestors

Pauline Julier La disparition des Aïtus

Johann Arens Marte e Venere - A Hand Held Monument

Jenny Brady Bone

Rebecca Baron Detour de Force

Tobias Zielony Al-Akra

Louis Henderson Black Code/Code Noir

Sebastian Brameshuber In, Over & Out

Pieter Geenen Mirador

Anton Vidokle The Communist Revolution Was Caused By The Sun

Ane Hjort Guttu Time Passes

Emanuel Almborg The Majority Never Has Right On Its Side

Melanie Bonajo Night Soil - Economy of Love

Ericka Beckman You The Better

Shadi Habib Allah Dag’aa

Mauro Herce Dead Slow Ahead

Christophe Bisson Silêncio

Mohamed Ouzine Samir in the Dust

Fiona Tan Ascent

SARA CWYNAR Soft Film

PIA BORG Silica

MONIRA AL QADIRI The Craft

CHEN ZHOU Life Imitation

ERKKA NISSINEN & NATHANIEL MELLORS The Aalto Natives

MARIO PFEIFER Corpo Fechado

ANE HJORT GUTTU & DAISUKE KOSUGI The Lost Dreams of Naoki Hayakawa

LÉANDRE BERNARD-BRUNEL Vetal Nagri

KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 3

ENRIQUE RAMIREZ Un Hombre que Camina

TOBIAS ZIELONY Maskirovka

MARWA ARSANIOS Who's afraid of ideology? Part I

DIEUDO HAMADI Kinshasa Makambo

MARGARET SALMON Mm

ARASH NASSIRI City of tales

BEN RIVERS & BEN RUSSELL The rare event

ARTUR ZMIJEWSKI Glimpse

RENEE GREEN ED/HF

Pol Merchan Pirate Boys

Ghassan Halwani Erased, ___Ascent of the Invisible

Shadi Habib Allah 30KG Shine

Jeremy Shaw Quantification Trilogy

Liz Magic Laser Handle / Poignée

Taavi Talve Blind Spot

Gelare Khoshgozaran Medina Wasl: Connecting Town

Beatrice Gibson I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead

Tamar Guimarães O Ensaio

Gerald Machona & Tankiso Mamabolo Survive

Pauline Julier Naturales Historiae

Emily Vey Duke & Cooper Battersby You Were an Amazement on the Day You Were Born

Jessica Johnson & Ryan Ermacora Labour/Leisure

Onyeka Igwe No Dance, No Palaver

MSL & Jaakko Pallasvuo Fruits of the Loom

Georgia Lucas - Going 'HOME IS WHERE THE WORK STARTS 1988'

Rosalind Nashashibi Part one: Where There is a Joyous Mood There a Comrade Will Appear to Share a Glass Of Wine / Part Two: The moon is nearly at the full. A team horse goes astray.

Steffani Jemison Sensus Plenior

Charlotte Zhang The Lining

Amelia Umuhire Innocent

Fiona Tan Depot

Marjolijn Dijkman Depth of Discharge

Minia Biabiany Learning from the white birds & other stories