Like a small baby is curious to all new things, a human being is born to want to see what is on the other side of "curtains", obstacles.

Faded, is a short film about the elusive idea of love, and the long-lasting effects it has on us when it suddenly and without explanation, ends.

Daniela Lucato is an Italian filmmaker based in Berlin. This video was made during lockdown and finished on 25th April 2020. It is a reflection about domestic violence, human rights and woman condition in all countries. I was inspired by a personal involvement: an old friend I met by chance after a long time told me the abuse she was victim of from her husband. She thought it was painful but she accepted it as a normal condition. I was shocked and I told her she needed to contact the police. Later I couldn't reach her anymore because she moved to another city. I thought about this short talk we had for a long time. I really think the way she accepted this abuse, thinking it was normal, is a huge issue for many women.



This is something that needs to be changed. This topic is for me really important and the work “My name is Sami”is a studio for a bigger project. I feel a responsibility as a woman artist to make people think about it, to confront themselves with this item.

I don’t know if it will help to resolve the problem, but this is a start to fight it.

Anna Marie Urik is a photographer and filmmaker based in London.

In a living room. Watching the sun set through the curtains.

pain in desire and loss.

a story of wanting desire.

March 2020. Holding My Breath Recorded in the artist's studio in Berlin / Germany From the series of "Works with Wind", 1989 - 2020 HD video (short…

A video that focuses on the same piece of furniture set within various scenarios, to echo different situations and states of mind during lockdown.

Act 1 plays with the realm of the surreal, combining different perspectives and sounds. A reflection on the boundaries between inside and outside.

Act 2 builds up image density within a spatially minimal context. A distilled reflection on the draw of physical activity in the natural environment.

Act 3 presents a dreamlike atmosphere of space and scale in flux. A meditative reflection on absence and presence within a single object.

An art film exploring my own past uncomfortable conversations with people in a time when socialising is impossible. We all crave intimacy with others despite how painful they can be and I think that’s what it means to be human.

This video is a homage to the roots of trees. Trees are important for the whole globe and human beings. They have let grow their roots into "Mother Earth". Roots symbolize also the need of humans to be "feet in the mold", carpe diem and enjoy.
Video is a 4-parted collage and moving compositions of the beauty of roots. I have taken the shots walking barefooted with my camera in the small woods near my home in Southern Finland.

installation altar in corona isolation

A reaction to the pandemic. For Open Call, Plague and Locusts 2020.

The short video projection 2 into 1 (1997) features a mother and her two sons, one generation lip-synching the dubbed words of the other. It is hypnotically ...

We are never truly alone. We have our memories that create our desires. Desiring means companion. Always needing something, always having a dialogue with a voice. Usually, it's something you miss or can't have. We say we miss the interaction with people, being able to hug and kiss and feel again. Like babies need to be touched to realize their own bodies. We are afraid that we will forget our own drawing lines that separate us from the people around us. Only blueprints of houses define our boundaries now. Square and defined. No agility, no ability to bruise, no forgetting curves. We are afraid that we will become squares from these concrete boundaries. They protect and enslave. But we forget. How we used to miss this protection. How cruel the outer world used to be. We stay at home. Alone. But we are never truly alone.  

Stretch Marks (Short Version) D.D.Teoli Jr.
by D.D. Teoli Jr.

Isolation
by Nimheil

Man In Search Of Man (Hindi)
Home Hottie

Home Movie PA 097842
CTV- House and Home

Sight Seeing At Home

FLACH HOME FILMS 1
by Flach
1960's HOME MOVIES
by WHITBY SHORES

Survival Under Atomic Attack
by U.S. Office of Civil Defense

The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet - Night School, Ep 131

Everyday Radioactivity

O'FallonTV: Cottages for Cancer Kids - O'Fallon, Missouri

VD Epidemic
by American Broadcasting Paramount Theaters

Our systems of belief are focused on the invisible. Bloody stigmas, flying metal, humans. We gravitate towards the shadows of things. The unknown and all the projections it absorbs. With fear and love, we are guided to live a nonsensical life. Our motives are scarcely benign. When we believe we belong and that makes us feel powerful. It even makes some people powerful. He who controls belief, he shall inherit the earth. Belief lead us to some of the most amazing fiction. Our eyes aren't capable of such glory. And yet, we cannot imagine something that we haven't experienced. That is the great depression of the human mind. We are emprisoned by combinations, endless, but never brand new. All ideas come from the past and all that belief is, is an idea.

Futurity is endless, unpredictable and fluctuant. Until we are three-years-old we do not understand what is tomorrow. For the rest of our lives, tomorrow will be the caliber of our lives. We hold its hand and hope it will fall in love with us. And we rest assured it will be the same warm feeling of boredom that it will bring. But changes are there, like a small hole on a jumper that it will take months to notice. Tomorrow sneaks up on us a little every day. We chose not to pay attention to. Tomorrow is neither evil or divine. Tomorrow it's a humbling equalizer for us. Some have it, some not. Call it luck but it has absolutely nothing to do with humanity. Trees may understand it better.

Eating is political.

In a pandemic atmosphere, expressionist and symbolic journey in a black & white world - Dazed and confused….
Video & Musik ©Pierre Ajavon 2020

The view from my window is obscured by mountains of books; many covered with the dust of neglect. The frantic self absorption of my daily life has long silenced their urgent messages. Now the weight of this reading list is crushing. The many volumes that remain unread could not be sounding a louder alarm yet I fear I have answered the call too late. I have nothing but time now. I pour over the pages to find the common thread that led us to this place and seek a way forward.

During the self-isolation everyone has an imaginary attempt to play or simulate movement of your personality in different locations.
In case of producing basic instinct at the same time you are on the bed and immediately transported to the shore of the bay and back. And this
is how our memory with simple wishes plays in reverse direction.

India Roper-Evans’ project ‘Lichtenberg Launderette’ was filmed at the Lemke Haus in Lichtenberg, designed by Mies van der Rohe, director of the Bauhaus between 1931-33. He built the house for Martha and Karl Lemke in 1932, the couple lived there until 1945 when the Red Army requisitioned the building and used it as a garage. From the 1960s until the fall of the Berlin Wall, the State Security (STASI) of the GDR used the house as a laundry depot. This prompted the idea of making a short black and white film with a soundtrack about them, using this modernist house as a launderette. The history of East Berlin is full of horror stories during their regime, I wanted to make a project about the beautiful side of Lichtenberg, showing this modern, open house on a peaceful lake; parodying the STASI for using it as a launderette. The actual house is the polar opposite of a State Security run place, with open plan spaces, large glass windows and great emphasis on light and transparency. Time to wash out the ugly past and shed light on the beauty and tranquillity that originally inspired it.

Lichtenberg Studios Residency
February 2020

(ENGLISH VERSION) LAUNDRY SONG: INDELIBLE MIES
Doing the Berlin Laundry
In Lichtenberg Launderette
Telling the Mies van der story
In Lichtenberg Launderette
From Obersee to the Great Lakes
In Lichtenberg Launderette
Skin & Bones design he makes
In Lichtenberg Launderette
Ghostly skyscraper next
In Lichtenberg Launderette
Tugendhat for the Czechs
In Lichtenberg Launderette
Then laundered out
In Lichtenberg Launderette
He leaves his clout
In Lichtenberg Launderette
As the Stasi rub-a-dub-dub
In Lichtenberg Launderette
van der Rohe into a tub
In Lichtenberg Launderette
Yet here he is despite the scour
In Lichtenberg launderette
To this very same hour

(GERMAN VERSION) DAS WÄSCHE-LIED: UNTILGBarer Mies
Die Wäsche Berlins waschen
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Die Mies van der Geschichte erzählen
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Vom Obersee zu den Great Lakes
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Haut&Knochen-Design macht er
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Ein geisterhafter Plattenbau daneben
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Tugendhat für die Tschechen
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Dann ausgewaschen
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Er hinterlässt seinen Einfluss
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Wie die Stasi - rub-a-dub-dub
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
van der Rohe in einen Zuber!
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Trotz Reinigung ist er noch hier
Im Lichtenberger Waschsalon
Bis ganz genau: jetzt

Film and Concept: India Roper-Evans

Music and Lyrics: Max Sudhues, Emma Roper-Evans, India Roper-Evans

Actors: Alberto Sanz, Eduard Artes Cuenca, Francesca de Santis, Max Sudhues

Dancer: Vasna Aguilar

Assistants: Phaedra Sarpaki, Alberto Sanz

Location: Mies van der Rohe Haus, Lichtenberg, Berlin.

February 2020