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A short film by Argentinian director Charly Nijensohn. Thirty years ago, the Brazilian government authorized the construction of the Balbina Hydroelectric Dam, in the heart of the Amazonia region, with the aim to provide energy to the city of Manaus. 
Soviet-born, Austrian-raised Peter Weibel is an enigmatic artist working in a variety of formats. He was one of the pioneers of media art. Endless Sandwich is a 1969 closed circuit video experiment. 
US-born, Belgium-based Peter Downsbrough is an artist working in the realm of film and videos exploring the backside of our Western society. He does so through silent and poignant observations of architecture, urban environments, language and typography. 
Belgian artist Edith Dekyndt focuses on elements that are difficult to perceive without targeted attention, as well as on the scale ratio between the infinitesimal and the infinite. Despite her sometimes high-tech scientific approach, her work displays an intimate feel, both discreet and delicate, more of a development of a question than a real answer, and based on hypothesis rather than assertion. 
Body Press is a seminal piece of performance art with a mix of 8mm film incorporated into it. It was conceived by Dan Graham in 1970. Two filmmakers stand within a surrounding and completely mirrorized cylinder, body trunk stationary, hands holding and pressing a camera’s back-end flush to, while slowly rotating it about, the surface cylin-der of their individual bodies. 
Video featuring the multi-channel video installation Migration by American video artist Doug Aitken. 
Artist Doug Aitken transforms midtown Manhattan with seven monumental projections on the exterior facades of The Museum of Modern Art. Actors Donald Sutherland and Tilda Swinton, musicians Seu Jorge and Cat Power, and actor/street drummer Ryan Donowho star in the interlocking vignettes, visible from the street. sleepwalkers leads viewers on a journey through the city fabric, from an abandoned subway tunnel to the neon lights of Times Square. 
Loris Gréaud (b. 1979) is a young French artist based in Paris. Loris Gréaud’s projects and exhibitions are often the result of collaborations with scientists, geo-biologists, engineers, filmmakers, writers, sound and graphic designers. 
Bruce Conner was an American artist renowned for his work in assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography, among other disciplines. Mea Culpa is a slightly psychedelic film from 1981 with music by David Byrne and Brian Eno. 
Hale Tenger is a Turkish woman artist. Experimenting with different mediums and styles, Tenger questions the issues of femininity and rule making in society, political suppression, immigration and cultural identity. Beirut 2005-2007 was a video installation at the Istanbul Modern Museum in 2011. |
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