Laura Cinti, Ian Haig, Beverley Hood, João Pedro Oliveira, Senem Pirler & Monica Duncan, Stanza, Yukang Tao, Müge Yildiz // Marc Dusseiller & Dominik Mahnič, Adam Zaretsky
9 September 2025 @Kino Šiška / Katedrala / 18.00–22.00
Curated by: Maria Chalkou
PART I (43’ 10’’)
Joao Pedro Oliveira: Things I Have Seen in My Dreams, 9’ 28’’
A poetic animation that reflects on the beauty and emotion found in dreams, drawing from the filmmaker’s own memories. Through a collage of vivid images and sounds, it captures the fleeting, mysterious nature of the dream world.
Stanza: Entangled Cities, 3’ 9’’
An experimental film about how data and AI shape the way we live in and see cities. Through art and non-human perspectives, it imagines a future where technology creates new divisions and changes how we experience the world.
Laura Cinti: AI in the Sky, 9’ 29’’
A film about the search for the rare E. woodii plant in South Africa’s oNgoye Forest using drones and AI technology. Combining aerial images and data, it shows how the forest is scanned and analysed from above in the quest to rediscover a species thought extinct in the wild.
Beverley Hood: MOTHER, 10’ 26’’
An experimental photofilm that explores motherhood using AI-generated images. Based on her own experience, Beverley Hood uses poetic text to push beyond typical AI visuals and create more emotional and complex representations of being a mother.
Müge Yildiz: Non/Living, 10’ 38’’
A silent Super 8mm experimental film that explores the connection between living yeast and a ghost archaeologist through cameraless, process-based techniques. Blending art and science, it invites spontaneous sound interventions during screenings – both human and nonhuman – to create a unique, open-ended experience.
PART II (67’ 29’’)
Senem Pirler and Monica Duncan: Tears for Lost Frequencies, 17’ 31’’
An experimental film that explores our entangled relationship with plastic as both a naturalized and invasive presence in our lives. Using microscope imagery of microplastics found in human tears, it reflects on grief, loss, and the idea of plastic as an unexpected part of healing.
Yukang Tao: Annihilation, 15’ 44’’
A film that examines the allure of meat and how the aesthetic and ethical framing of animal flesh hides the violence of slaughter. Using the pig as a metaphor, it explores the exploitation of human and non-human bodies under capitalism and questions how we might rethink our relationship to death, consumption, and subjectivity
Ian Haig: Worm Pornography, 34’ 14’’
A collage-style underground film made during Melbourne’s Covid-19 lockdown, following a hazmat-suited narrator who discovers a strange parasite spreading through media. As he unravels, his story dives into bizarre themes like AI, virtual worms, and mutated pop culture in a world overwhelmed by information and infection.
9–12 September 2025 @Kino Šiška / Upper Foyer / 9.00–21.00
Curated by: Marc Dusseiller, Adam Zaretsky
Marc Dusseiller & Dominik Mahnič: Mestna jaga – A Decade of Urban Hunting
Artists explore the provocative world of BioArt through Mestna jaga, questioning our relationship with urban ecosystems and hidden food systems. From snails in Ljubljana 2013 to city rabbits in Helsinki, the International Federation of Urban Hunters challenges us to confront the uncomfortable truths about life, death, and survival in our cities.
The reel gathers moments from the 2023 and 2024 TTTlabs BioFeral.BeachCamp and TTTfellows residencies – spaces where body, biotech, and ritual intertwine around creative, hands-on In Vitro Fertilisation (DIY-IVF+). It features documents from TTTlabs and TTTfellows BioFeral.BeachCamp “Do-It-With-Others” in vitro fertilisation camps (TTTlabs BFBC IVF DIWOfert).
Cover image: Senem Pirler & Monica Duncan: Tears for Lost Frequencies
