Past edition
Babel Brescia
10 – 19 November 2023 — Brescia
- Edition
- XIII — 2023
- Venues
- MO.CA – Centro per le nuove culture · Bunkervik
- Curated by
- Curated by Laura Lamonea
The 13th edition opened in the city of Brescia at three venues: the MO.CA – Center for New Cultures, housed in the historic Baroque Martinengo Colleoni di Malpaga palace; the Bunkervik – a former air-raid shelter built in the 1940s; and the Nuovo Eden, an arthouse cinema located in the Carmine neighborhood.
The first two venues hosted an exhibition and a program of performances. The Nuovo Eden cinema hosted screenings of video works from the CNAP collection and films selected in collaboration with the Brescia-based film team. Through recovered materials—drawn from television footage, the web, and archives—the works reveal narratives of resistance, tell stories, and open up new interpretive possibilities, focusing on the aspects of reality that are most difficult to grasp.
Artists
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Aaron Koblin
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Ade Creative Studio
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Adele Dipasquale
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Adult Standard
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Alexander Chen
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Alexandre Erre
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Ali Kazma
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Alice Jarry
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Andrea Di Lorenzo
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Andrea Mauti
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Annamaria Ajmone
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Anouk De Clercq
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AntiVJ
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ArabPop
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Arash Fayez
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Árirang
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Beppe Giacobbe
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Bibi Yamamoto
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Calembour
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Camille Henrot
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Candoco Dance Company
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Caterina Erica Shanta
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Caterina Gobbi
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Caterina Morigi
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Cecilia Mentasti
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Ced Pakusevskij
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Cem A.
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Cristian Acquaro
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Cyprien Gaillard
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Daedal
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Daito Manabe
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Dan Deacon
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Daniel de Paula
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Daniel Rossa
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Daniele Carmosino
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David Claerbout
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Davide Angheleddu
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Davide Zulli
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Daya Cahen
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Death of a Cheerleader
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Dirty Beaches
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Driant Zeneli
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Drink to me
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Dvein
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Edith Dekyndt
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Edizioni Brigantino
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Efterklang
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Enrique Ramirez
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Ensemble Kotoji
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Evangelia Kranioti
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Florence Lazar
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Francesco Briganti
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Francesco Cavaliere
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François Vogel
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Frieder Weiss
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Fujiya & Miyagi
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Giöbia
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Giulio Frigo
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Giuseppe Boccassini
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Greg Haines
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Haig Aivazian
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Herman Asselberghs
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Hito Steyerl
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Hoël Duret
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Ignazio Lucenti EVER
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Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine
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IOIC – Institute of Incoherent Cinematography
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Iokoi
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John Grant
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Jon Hopkins
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Jonathas de Andrade
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Jordi Colomer
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Joshua Radin
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Julia Holter
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K-Conjog
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Letizia Cariello (LETIA)
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Lino Palena
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Lower Dens
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Luca Maria Baldini
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Luca Trevisani
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Ludovica Carbotta
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MacGuffin
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Manon de Boer
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ManvsMachine
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Mara Palena
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Marilisa Cosello
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Marta Innocenti
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Martha Rosler
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Meriem Bennani
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Michael Paul Young
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Michele Di Stefano
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Mika Rottenberg
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Misha Shyukin
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Motomichi Nakamura
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Natália Trejbalová
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Nicoletta Grillo
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Nicolò Parsenziani
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Nils Frahm
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No Hay Banda
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Nour Awada
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Ode de Kort
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Old Apparatus
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Oli Bonzanigo
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Otolab
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Ottonella Mocellin e Nicola Pellegrini
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Park So-Hyun
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Peter Downsbrough
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Pierre Huyghe
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Pietro Marcello
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Pistol Shrimp
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port-royal
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Radouan Mriziga
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Rajan Craveri
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Randa Maroufi
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Rania Stephan
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Robert Seidel
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Sebastian Neitsch
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Silvia Giordano
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Studio Alex
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Teresa Sala
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Thadeusz Tischbein
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The Album Leaf
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Thomas Hirschhorn
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Tomoko Sauvage
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Ugo La Pietra
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Universal Everything
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Uriel Orlow
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Vaghe Stelle
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Valentina Berardinone
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When The Clouds
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Yannick Jacquet
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Yuri Ancarani
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Zeitguised
Works

Luca Trevisani
(Don’t ) Try This at Home

Radouan Mriziga
0.Rythmòs

Florence Lazar
125 hectares

Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine
24 Heures Sur Place

Natália Trejbalová
a deep crack, the fall through and the descent into the abyss

Edith Dekyndt
A is Hotter than B

Cecilia Mentasti
A Place to Stay

Natália Trejbalová
About Mirages and Stolen Stones

Natália Trejbalová
accelerando

Otolab
Acrossing Luma

Davide Zulli
After Unknown Journeys

Cecilia Mentasti
All the time I wasted with you ain’t ever been a wasted time

Ottonella Mocellin e Nicola Pellegrini
Alphabet. The space between us and the unkown

Enrique Ramirez
America bajo el agua

Ali Kazma
Anatomy

Peter Downsbrough
AND_04.2020
Arash Fayez
Apolis

Thadeusz Tischbein
Atlas of the wounded buildings

Oli Bonzanigo
AUSATMEN

Bibi Yamamoto
Baby black fuel

Bibi Yamamoto
Behind closed doors

Anouk De Clercq
Birdsong

Daya Cahen
Birth of a Nation

Pierre Huyghe
Blanche-Neige Lucie

Ali Kazma
Bodybuilding

Bodymap

Ali Kazma
Calligraphy

ArabPop
CASA

Ali Kazma
Casa di moda

MacGuffin
Chain chain chain

Alexandre Erre
Chaîne de montage

Daniel de Paula
circulação

Ali Kazma
Clerk

Ali Kazma
Clock Master

Letizia Cariello (LETIA)
Con te

Enrique Ramirez
Continente N°1, Continente N°2

Mika Rottenberg
Cosmic Generator

Ali Kazma
Crystal

Ali Kazma
Cuisine

Camille Henrot
Cynopolis

Luca Trevisani
Daniel Day-Lewis

Thomas Hirschhorn
Deleuze Monument

Cyprien Gaillard
Desniansky Raion
Drilling Down

Enrique Ramirez
El lamento del pájaro y el bote invertido

Enrique Ramirez
El lamento del velero invertido

Caterina Erica Shanta
En Ausencia

Andrea Mauti
Esausta (Voices Voices)

Valentina Berardinone
Eventi

Caterina Morigi
Ex voto

Evangelia Kranioti
Exotica, Erotica, Etc.

Ali Kazma
Eye

Natália Trejbalová
Fantastic Voyage pt. 1-3

Candoco Dance Company
Feeling Thing

Ali Kazma
Film

Andrea Di Lorenzo
Foglie di fico

Silvia Giordano
Fresh oranges into the ocean

Mara Palena
Frozen Memories V, Are we really all looking at the same sky?

Caterina Gobbi
Had there been anyone to listen

Letizia Cariello (LETIA)
Hallenbad Project

Silvia Giordano
How can you float without sinking?

Driant Zeneli
How deep can a dragonfly swim under the ocean?

Arash Fayez
I Can Only Dance to One Song

I meet you, I remember you

Oli Bonzanigo
I was a nervous heat

Ugo La Pietra
Il monumentalismo

Pietro Marcello
Il silenzio di Pelešjan

Uriel Orlow
Imbizo Ka Mafavuke (Mafavuke’s Tribunal)

Giulio Frigo
Impenetrable

Driant Zeneli
In an attempt to get up

Giulio Frigo
In superficie (Spinoza topologico I)

Giulio Frigo
In superficie (Spinoza topologico II)

Enrique Ramirez
Incoming

Ugo La Pietra
Interventi pubblici per la città di Milano (Paletti e catene)

Ali Kazma
Kinbaku

Peter Downsbrough
Koln

Marta Innocenti
L’Assedio

Enrique Ramirez
L’homme sans image

Luca Maria Baldini
L’occhio e i pianeti

Letizia Cariello (LETIA)
L’ombra mia mi ha fatto paura

Luca Trevisani
L38°11’13.32’N13°21, 4.44 E”

Edizioni Brigantino
La cucina di Olivia

Ugo La Pietra
La grande occasione

Davide Angheleddu
La mappa del Blériot

Ugo La Pietra
La riappropriazione della città

Thadeusz Tischbein
Land Shape #1

Randa Maroufi
Le Park

Alexandre Erre
Le radeau de la joie

Aaron Koblin
Light Echoes

Alice Jarry
Lighthouses

Caterina Gobbi
LIPS (Lost in Plain Sight)

Enrique Ramirez
Los durmientes

Adele Dipasquale
Lose Voice Toolkit

Caterina Morigi
Lux et Lucus

Caterina Morigi
Making Special, labirinti

Caterina Morigi
Making Special, soli

François Vogel
Marchant Grenu

Beppe Giacobbe
Mare Senza

Edith Dekyndt
Martial M

Bibi Yamamoto
Masculin, féminin

Jordi Colomer
Medina – Parkour

Giulio Frigo
Medusa

Enrique Ramirez
Metaforas de un horizonte

Teresa Sala
Mi vedi?

Ali Kazma
Mine

Ludovica Carbotta
Monowe (Tribunale)

Nicoletta Grillo
Napoli Stazione Marittima / Buenos Aires Hotel de Inmigrantes

Natália Trejbalová
Never Ground

Peter Downsbrough
New York

Hoël Duret
NFT pH<7

Driant Zeneli
No wise Fish would escape without flying

Ali Kazma
North

Hito Steyerl
November
![Jonathas de Andrade, O Caseiro [The Housekeeper], 2016 — HD video, loop](https://videosoundart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/66R0255027-768x576.jpg)
Jonathas de Andrade
O Caseiro [The Housekeeper]

Enrique Ramirez
OCÉAN 33°02′47″S / 51°04′00″N

Anouk De Clercq
OK

Nicoletta Grillo
Oltremare

Nicoletta Grillo
Oltremare Studio

Nicoletta Grillo
Orizzonte

Manon de Boer
Oumi. From nothing to somethingto something else, part 3

Park So-Hyun
Pallae: Womanhood Story

Daniel Rossa
Partition of the Sphere

Meriem Bennani
Party on the CAPS
![Peter Downsbrough, PASS – ING], 2002 — Video, b/w, sound](https://videosoundart.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/passing-768x552.png)
Peter Downsbrough
PASS – ING]

Ugo La Pietra
Per oggi basta! (il Commutatore)

Haig Aivazian
Performative reading

Giulio Frigo
Pixel

Daniel de Paula
power-flow

Peter Downsbrough
POWER/ FROM, TO, WITH

Giulio Frigo
Presentatori di presenza (Pulviscoli Eraclitei)

Bibi Yamamoto
Primitive Pets

Ali Kazma
Prison

Haig Aivazian
Prometheus

Enrique Ramirez
Punto de fuga al profundo horizonte

Giuseppe Boccassini
Ragtag

Ced Pakusevskij
Range

Marilisa Cosello
Replica

Enrique Ramirez
Restos de mar

Yuri Ancarani
Ricordi per moderni

Daito Manabe
Right Brain – Elevenplay x Rhizomatiks

Ali Kazma
Robot

Haig Aivazian
Rome is not in Rome (Pt. II Mythology to Abattoir)

Cecilia Mentasti
Safari (not the exception but the rule)

Ali Kazma
Safe

Bibi Yamamoto
Salty Yellow

Thadeusz Tischbein
Schneewittchen / Snow white

Martha Rosler
Semiotics of the Kitchen

Francesco Briganti
Sonar

Camille Henrot
Spatial Film

Adele Dipasquale
Spirits Talks

Cem A.
Spoken Panorama

Ali Kazma
Studio Ceramist

Ludovica Carbotta
Su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto

Michele Di Stefano
Surplace Radio

Ali Kazma
Tatoo

Ali Kazma
Taxidermist

Camille Henrot
Taxis toutes distances
Lino Palena
The day I took lithium and shaved my head

Driant Zeneli
The firefly keeps falling and the snake keeps growing

MacGuffin
The Letter

Peter Downsbrough
THE OTHER

David Claerbout
The Pure Necessity

Rania Stephan
The Three Disappearances of Souad Hosni

Ila Bêka, Louise Lemoine
The World in a Square

Peter Downsbrough
THERE

Driant Zeneli
Those who tried to put the rainbow back in the sky

Rania Stephan
Threshold

Enrique Ramirez
To build a garden we need a piece of land and eternity

Bibi Yamamoto
Tokyo Leftovers – Full Cycle (Part 1 and 2)

Driant Zeneli
Too late

Ode de Kort
Tra le Righe, (nasce)

Natália Trejbalová
Travelling without moving

Peter Downsbrough
Two Pipes, One Standing – 27,5 cm

Jordi Colomer
un crime

Enrique Ramirez
Un hombre que camina

Oli Bonzanigo
Unisono
Annamaria Ajmone
Untitled

Marilisa Cosello
Utopia Gym

Francesco Cavaliere
Uzu Cima

Herman Asselberghs
Watching Words Becoming A Film

Bibi Yamamoto
Wet Pink

Driant Zeneli
Who was the last to have seen the Horizon

Bibi Yamamoto
Women Geographies

Ali Kazma
Written

Haig Aivazian
You May Own the Lanterns but We Have the Light قد تملكون القناديل، لكن الضوء لنا
Venues
Partners
Partner
- 8 per mille Chiesa Valdese
- Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
- Ambasciata del Regno dei Paesi Bassi
- Archivio Storico dell’Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico
- Associazione Amici di Duccio
- Associazione Le Belle Arti
- Aziende vinicole Faverzani e Casa Valdemagna di San Colombano al Lambro
- Bagni Misteriosi
- Bunkervik
- Cinema Beltrade
- Cinema Nuovo Eden
- CNAP – Centre national des arts plastiques
- Comitato “Luigi” del quartiere Lodi Corvetto
- Comune di Abbiategrasso
- Comune di Bergamo
- Comune di Brescia
- Consolato Generale del Giappone a Milano
- Consolato Generale della Germania
- Di Studio In Studio
- Direzione Affari Culturali del Ministero degli Affari Esteri del Cile (DIRAC)
- FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano
- Filmmaker Festival
- Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lombardia
- Fondazione Ellenica di Cultura Italiana
- Fondazione Milano
- Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati
- Fonderia Artistica Battaglia
- Galleria Francesca Minini
- Institut français Milano
- Lake Como Film Festival
- Le Cannibale
- MiBACT
- Milanosport
- MO.CA – Centro per le Nuove Culture
- Mondriaan Fund
- Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia “Leonardo Da Vinci”
- Pro Helvetia, Fondazione svizzera per la cultura
- Provincia di Milano
- Renault RENORD
- Rosso film
- Sentieri selvaggi
- Studio Mosae
- Touring Club Italiano


