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distant bison
United States, Japan / 2026 / Experimental / 8min
作品紹介
バイソンは、がんに対する免疫を持つ数少ない哺乳類の一種であるという神話がある。しかし、それは事実ではない。2000年に発表された科学論文には、バイソンにおける初期のがん症例の一つが報告されている。それは、安楽死を余儀なくされた一頭の母バイソンの事例だった。
この研究報告の抜粋が朗読されるなか、バイソンの姿を捉えた16mmフィルムの映像がスクリーン上で明滅する。そこには、絵画として描かれたバイソンと、実際のバイソンの姿が交錯する。一方、デジタル映像では、化学療法を終えた母親がベッドに横たわり、動物たちを描いた自らの絵画に囲まれている。
監督紹介
Asuka Linは、日本と台湾にルーツを持つ脚本家・映画監督。短編作品『Into the Emerald Sea』（ジョグジャ・NETPACアジア映画祭）、『A.I. Mama』（ロンドン短編映画祭）などで知られる。
。その監督作品は、無秩序なサイバーパンクから瞑想的な民話まで幅広く展開し、現代の社会生態学的状況を背景に、憧憬や相反する現実というテーマを一貫して探求している。カリフォルニア芸術大学（CalArts）で映画・映像分野の美術学士号（BFA）を取得。現在はシカゴを拠点に活動している
Film Introduction
There is a myth that bison are one of the only mammals immune to cancer, but this is false. A scientific journal from 2000 reports on one of the first instances found of cancer in bison: a mother who had to be euthanized. Excerpts of this finding are read as 16mm footage of bison (both painted and real) flicker on screen. Meanwhile, in digital, a mother lays in bed after her chemo treatment, surrounded by her paintings of animals.
Director Introduction
Asuka Lin is a Japanese-Taiwanese writer/director known for their short films ‘Into the Emerald Sea’ (Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival), and ‘A.I. Mama’ (London Short Film Festival).Their directorial work travels from anarchic cyberpunk to meditative folktales, united by themes of yearning and conflicting realities informed by current socio-ecological phases. They earned their BFA at the California Institute of the Arts in film/video, and is based in Chicago.
#liminalarchivefilmfestival #film #image #experiential #goodfilm
Lobsteropolis
The United States / 2025 / Documentary / 22min
作品紹介
カリフォルニアトゲチョウチンエビにはハサミがなく、そのため搾取の対象となりやすい。商業漁船から自然史アーカイブに至るまで、『Lobsteropolis』は、アメリカ・カリフォルニア州サンディエゴのさまざまな産業とカリフォルニアトゲチョウチンエビとの一連の出会いを、静かに観察していく。
監督紹介
James DeLisioは、ロサンゼルスとサンディエゴを拠点に活動する映画作家である。実験的なノンフィクション映像を通じて、南カリフォルニアの歴史と生態系を探求している。
彼の制作活動は、Center for Ethnographic Media Arts、Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts、William Male Foundation、Labocineから支援を受けてきた。これまでの作品は、National Film Festival for Talented YouthやSan Diego Asian Film Festivalなど、海外の映画祭で上映されたほか、AthenaeumおよびBrooklyn Children’s Museumでも展示されている。
Film Intro
01 Nov 2026
Overwhelmed, grateful, and happy to see two works I have worked on at Julian Charrière’s exhibition Spiral Economy: Charrière and Canova, here at Museo Correr in Venice.
The intermezzo of Canova’s Daedalus and Icarus in front of Controlled Burn mesmerized me, and I could only stop filming when my phone storage was full.
>>Presented together with Canova’s Icarus, the allegory of human ambition is reanimated through the lens of our own pyro-modernity. While Canova captures the quiet moment before a disastrous ascent — Controlled Burn renders the irreversible descent of humankind into the underground, seeking fossil fuels.
Shot with a first-person drone, Controlled Burn is a disorienting aerial journey through the architectures of extraction, imploding fireworks over open-pit coal mines, decommissioned rigs, and cooling towers. Amidst the whirling smoke, spectral traces of Carboniferous ferns and moths appear, living ghosts of the ancient lifeworlds that formed the fossil fuels we burn today.<<
Text and Film Julian Charrière
Controlled Burn, 2022
@visitmuve — through Nov 22, 2026
@julian.charriere
18 May 2026
Today is the the opening of PAN by Yalda Afsah at CCA Berlin (6-9pm).
In August 2024, Richard Gersch and I supported Yalda during the shoot in the Rila Mountains, Bulgaria, which was definitely an outstanding one.
Each year, around two thousand people gather there to welcome the sun and perform a choreographed circle dance, the Paneurhythmy ritual. Created in the 1930s by the Bulgarian spiritual teacher P. Deunov, founder of the so-called “Universal White Brotherhood.” Paneurhythmy literally means “cosmic supreme rhythm”, a practice meant to harmonize body, emotions, and thoughts.
For us, it was equal parts beautiful and intense: camping up in the mountains with all our equipment, little to no power supply, waking up at 4:30 to catch first light, then following the practitioners through the challenging terrain and shifting weather was very exhausting - especially because my knee was quite damaged… so thanks to the team for backing me up!
Anyhow, being in such a stunning landscape and close to the devotion and synchronicity of the practitioners was fantastic !
#rilamountain #paneurhythmy
29 Jan 2026
If you are in or around Cottbus tomorrow (3.12 - 6pm) come by for the film screening of About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacock and join the conversation afterwards! Looking forward 🦛🦚
02 Dec 2025
By illuminating not the desirous seafloor, where the polymetallic nodules are located but the scintillating life-forms which occupy the waters above it, Midnight Zone stages an ambiguous investigation into the extractivist threats that the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) faces. With a custom-built Fresnel lens, Julian Charrière ignites an abyssal campfire, attracting a menagerie of oceanic creatures whose fate would be inevitably disrupted by underwater mining operations. Rejecting a fixed vantage point, recognisable from classic nature documentaries, the camera orbiting and reeling untethered around the suspended lantern. Rather than documenting the scene and no longer positioned as observers, we seem to drift into the scene itself. As underwater species gather and disperse around the drifting light, the film acquires an anti-gravitational quality. Dissolving any clear sense of orientation, the whole choreography of light, life and the viewer is entangled in shared suspension.
«Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone» runs through 2 November 2025 at Museum Tinguely, Basel
Video excerpt
Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone, 2024 Copyright the artist; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn,
4K film, 16:10 aspect ratio, 3D ambisonic soundscape, continuous video loop, 52 minutes
Postproduction Team:
Editor: Johannes Förster
Editing Assistant: Leoni Faschian
Post Production: Studio Förster
Compositing Artist Lead: Sean Sams
Compositing Artist: Kalle Max Hofmann, Neil Reynolds
Original Score: Laurel Halo
Color grading: Julien von Schultzendorff, Johannes Förster
Post Production Management Assistance: Hannah Weidner
Expedition Team
ROV Operator and Camera: Antoine Drancey
ROV Operator Assistance: Brieg Dufée
Marine Engineer: Christophe LeClercq
Underwater Camera: Adil Schindler
Production Assistance: Runar Jarle Stray Wiik
Underwater Guide and Safety Diver: Sten Johansson
Production Management (Berlin): Hannah Weidner
Onsite Production and Coordination: Tanya Johansson and Sten Johansson
Boat owner and operator: Dora Sierra
Boat owner and operator: Susan Long
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23 Oct 2025
Editing and taking care of the Post Postproduction of the one-shot film 𝙈𝙞𝙙𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙕𝙤𝙣𝙚 was special. Together with my team, we manufactured this 52 minutes hypnotic underwater journey which is one of the latest major film productions by Julian Charrière. It’s currently on view at the Tinguely Museum in Basel until 2.11 , and will be shown at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg starting March 7, 2026 !
>> The Film is guided by a light of a wayward Fresnel lighthouse lens sinking down the water column above the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). Stretching between Hawaii and Mexico, this vast abyssal plain in the central Pacific Ocean is home to one of the most mineral-rich deep-sea regions on Earth. A dense deposit of polymetallic nodules has made it an intense point of economic interest in recent decades. It contains valuable metals such as nickel, cobalt and manganese, which are key materials for batteries and renewable energy technologies.
Still, the CCZ remains a largely unexplored frontier, home to fragile ecosystems , bioluminescent species, fishes as well as slow-growing corals and unique, often undiscovered species adapted to extreme conditions. The growing push for deep-sea mining in this region raises serious concerns about irreversible habitat destruction, biodiversity loss, and the disruption of carbon-cycling processes in one of the planet’s last untouched biomes. The presence of the lighthouse, unbound from the terrestrial tower and wheeling through water shimmering with life, seeks to challenge our conception of these deep regions as lifeless. << (Text J. Charrière)
Video excerpt
Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone, 2024 Copyright the artist; VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn,
4K film, 16:10 aspect ratio, 3D ambisonic soundscape, continuous video loop, 52 minutes
Postproduction Team:
Editor: Johannes Förster
Editing Assistant: Leoni Faschian
Post Production: Studio Förster
Compositing Artist Lead: Sean Sams
Compositing Artist: Kalle Max Hofmann, Neil Reynolds
Original Score: Laurel Halo
Color grading: Julien von Schultzendorff, Johannes Förster
Post Production Management Assistance: Hannah Weidner
#Underwater #clarionclippertonzone #deepseadiving #diving
17 Oct 2025
I couldn’t make it up to the top of mount Etna this time but I found quite some joy by taking photos with my phone of almost the only animals I have seen around.
Hiking the lava fields close to smaller craters at around 1950 meters, shiny red Lady bugs were crawling all over the black grey lava formations. Strolling around, looking for shelter or a partner. I was reading it up later and it seems to be quite a thing.
They migrate more or less accidentally to higher altitudes, through wind currents, a phenomenon known as hilltopping, carry the insects upward, and when the air cools, they free-fall until they can warm up and resume flying. The ladybugs are taking advantage of the lack of predators like spiders and birds at high elevations and the volcanic rocks provide crevices for them to shelter and survive the winter. By spring they emerge by huge numbers from their hiding places and they migrate back down to the plains to feed and lay eggs. It is estimated that millions of ladybirds visit Mount Etna every year, with a total weight of more than 1800 kilogram. #ladybug #etna
12 Oct 2025
Looking forward to this one: 𝑨𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒂𝒅 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔 in my hometown at the Filmfestival Münster, 𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟕.𝟗 - 𝟑𝐩𝐦 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫. I hope to see some old friends there !!
25 Sep 2025
17 SEPTEMBER 2025 / FOOD & FOOTAGE / About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks
About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks is a decolonial fable of the 21st century, in which two animals are juxtaposed, sharing a similar fate but couldn’t be more different.
Places and times merge, identities are excluded; a non-anthropocentric perspective reflects upon the force-migrated lives of the protagonists and the recurring patterns of colonialism. The story begins with “a great exploration journey,” which poetically illustrates how the resulting, mostly one-sided trade relations continue to shape all our lives till today. History continues to manifest itself and is embodied in this film through living animals. The peacocks and hippos, both mascots of former rulers, represent our complex (and at times absurd) relationship with the past and present and our inability to come to terms with it.
Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks explores the connections between humans, nature, and history. It is a cinematic journey of discovery, in search of a new narrative.
The film screening is followed by a conversation of the filmmakers Johannes Förster @studio.foerster and Elkin Calderón Guevara @calderon.y.pineros with சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah) @varathas. The accompanying dinner menu will be curated by Gosia Lehmann @g_o_s_i_a_l_e_h_m_a_n_n.
The film screening is free of charge, and the price for the menu is 15 euros per person (drinks not included). Tickets are available here 🔗https://rausgegangen.de/events/food-footage-about-happy-hippos-and-sad-peacocks-0/ (or link in bio)!
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About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks
by Johannes Förster and Elkin Calderón Guevara
28’30’’
Colombia, Germany, 2024
German and Spanish with English Subtitles
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#zkuberlin #urbanism #indiefilm #studiofoerster #shortfilm #berlindecolonial
08 Sep 2025
17 SEPTEMBER 2025 / FOOD & FOOTAGE / ABOUT HAPPY HIPPOS AND SAD PEACOCKS
#AboutHappyHipposAndSadPeacocks is a decolonial fable of the 21st century, in which two animals are juxtaposed, sharing a similar fate but couldn't be more different. It is a cinematic journey of discovery, in search of a new narrative.
Before the film starts, we gather for a dinner hosted by @g_o_s_i_a_l_e_h_m_a_n_n. A conversation of the filmmakers @studio.foerster and @calderon.y.pineros with author and political geographer @varathas will dive deeper into the themes of the film.
The film screening is free of charge, and the price for the menu is 15 euros per person (drinks not included). Tickets are available here 🔗https://rausgegangen.de/events/food-footage-about-happy-hippos-and-sad-peacocks-0/ (or link in bio)!
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About Happy Hippos and Sad Peacocks
by Johannes Förster and Elkin Calderón Guevara
28'30''
Colombia, Germany, 2024
German and Spanish with English Subtitles
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#zkuberlin #urbanism #indiefilm #food
07 Sep 2025
❄️ What lies beneath the ice? With «Albedo» (2025), Julian Charrière takes us under the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Shot between drifting icebergs, the work follows water in constant transformation–a choreography of phase change between solid, liquid, and vapor.
Discover exclusive behind-the-scenes insights into the expedition and the making of «Albedo».
«Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone» runs through 2 November 2025.
#MuseumTinguely #MidnightZone #JulianCharrière #Albedo #BehindTheScenes
Video: 2025 Museum Tinguely, Basel, @studio.foerster
Credits: Julian Charrière, Albedo, 2025
Video Edit: Studio Förster @studio.foerster
Camera: Antoine Drancey @blackwhalepictures
Score: Jana Irmert @janairmert
24 Aug 2025
In Albedo, you watch lying down — as if submerged or adrift in orbit. Projected onto the ceiling, the film questions our perspective and sense of orientation and stability. There is no up or down, the landscape floats above us, destabilized, towering like a frozen cosmos in a sea of sunken stars. A meditation on perception, gravity, and planetary change.
Midnight Zone is on view at @museumtinguely, Basel through Nov 2, 2025.
Julian Charrière @julian.charriere
Albedo, 2025
Editor: Johannes Förster
Original Score: Jana Irmert @janairmert
Spatial Sound: Felix Deufel @grapes_3d_audio_control
Post: Studio Johannes Förster
Edit Assistant: Leoni Faschian @leonilg79
Compositing: Sean Sams @sean_sams , Neil Reynolds, Tom Freeman @superninja9000 , Markus Graf @markusgrafart
Color: Nadia Khairat Gómez @nadia.khairat
Post Support: Hannah Weidner @hnahwdnr, Valentina Gimenez @valu.uchi
Tech Supervision: Finn Jäger @filmjaeger.exr
Expedition: Morten Rasch
Field Sound: Felix Deufel @grapes_3d_audio_control
Camera/ROV: Antoine Drancey @blackwhalepictures
Lighting/ROV/Diving: Runar Jarle Stray Wiik
Underwater Light Dev.: Christophe Leclercq
Production Assistant: Mikael Rasch
#Albedo #VideoArt #ExpandedCinema #ContemporaryArt #ArtInstallation #ExperimentalFilm #ClimateArt #PlanetaryImaginaries #PostLandscape #submergedperspective #underwaterdrone #underwaterfilming
15 Jul 2025
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