Video, 2 min. Many of Carla Gannis artworks carry her common conceptual elements of power, sexuality, and storytelling. The artist produces works that consider the uncanny complications between grounded and virtual reality, nature and artifice, science and science fiction in contemporary culture. Fascinated by digital semiotics, she takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and feminist histories, emerging technologies and speculative design.

Video, 13 min Wendi Yan is an artist, writer and technologist. She uses CGI software to simulate alternative scientific progress through videos and games, and writes about the history and future of scientific discovery. She constructs speculative epistemologies through research-based worldbuilding, using CGI, game engines and documentary practices to interrogate the boundaries of scientific imagination. Her work—spanning films, interactive media, and fictional archival installations—examines the embodied challenges of facing alien epistemic systems across time.

Video, 8 min. ​Shi Zhang's artistic creations range from audio-visual installations, digital music and live performance, demonstrating the artist's ongoing interest in simulation and "machine vision". Shi further embodies his reflection on the philosophy of technology, digital voyage and "latent time" by extending the audience's visual and audio experience.

Video, 8:29 min. Abdalla harnesses the performative and constructed character to tackle themes that range from folklore and mythology to gender, social conditioning and psychology. For the artist, the theatre is a space where she might confront and destabilize that which she has encountered in her social world, her imaginations, memories and fantasies at an objective distance. The artist's fantastical scenes shift between abstraction and representation and are charged with drama and melancholy. Abdalla's art forms an ongoing investigation into the self.

Video,1 min. Jane Bustin’s practice spans three decades of work in painting and ceramic, as well as installation, text, film and performance. Her paintings—in such materials as copper, aluminum, wood, ceramic, acrylic, textile—are made as sequential, monochrome abstract works. They explore the metaphysical potential for painting to 'make visual' philosophical concepts found primarily in modernist literature, feminism, theology, as well as music and dance. Bustin uses the aesthetic disciplines found in formal abstraction to both push and pull the viewer’s attention. Her film From a Mezzanine Window acts like a moving painting, a still life of both inner and outer worlds, a reflected history, nostalgia for times past and a foreboding sense for the future.

Video, 4K, 16:22 min. Courtesy the artist, Lo schermo Dell’arte, Fondazione in Between Art Film, and SpazioA Pistoia. Andro Eradze is an artist and filmmaker based in Tbilisi. His practice explores the qualitative nature of images, both still and moving, and their ability to evoke states of presence, memory, and spectrality. Eradze studied at the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film University and later completed the MFA program at the Center of Contemporary Art Tbilisi (CCA-T). Working primarily in Georgia, he constructs narratives that emerge on the fringes of human habitation.

Video, 9:30 min. Tamar Zohara Ettun works with sculpture, video, and performance art to invert the semiotics of our existing political, social, religious, and personal rituals. This video is a poetic reimagining of an ancient healing ritual, addressing the somatic, emotional, and physical realities of In Vitro Fertilization. The work incorporates animations made from printed genetic testing results and medical bills, aiming to create a visual language for an experience our culture struggles to articulate.

HD Video. 12 min. Produced with the support of Pinchuk Art Centre and Pochen Biennale Dana Kavelina works primarily with animation and video, but also installation, painting and graphics. The work's opening text introduces a layer of coded language that is drawn from anonymous messages posted on Telegram channels in Kyiv. These cryptic lines—such as “three green olives and one black olive near the metro”—function as warnings, alerting men to the presence of mobilization brigades. “Olives” symbolize draft officers in green uniforms, “black olives” refer to the police, and “clouds” signal patrols that sweep through the city. This clandestine language, designed to evade surveillance, blurs the boundary between poetry and survival tactics. The texts take on a double meaning—resisting easy interpretation while simultaneously revealing the mechanisms of war and control.

Video, 9 min. Eva Papamargariti has a practice that spans moving image, printed matter, and sculptural installation. Her work often unfolds within suspended moments where the grotesque, fictional, and real converge, giving rise to hybrid and mutable worlds. ​Using video, text, sound, motion capture, AR, CG animation, 3D scanning, character-creation software, sculpture, and textiles, Papamargariti’s projects investigate becoming, liminality, techno-romance, and the symbiotic relationships between human and non-human agents. These explorations trace the entanglements and kinships that emerge from continuous interaction with technological and machinic systems.

Video, 4:13 min. Camera, sound, edit: Sky Hopinka Text: Flesh and Ghost. Music Room Thirteen. Sky Hopinka explores memory and spirituality through a cinematic blend of landscapes, poetic text, and audio. His video is a powerful meditation on colonial devastation, selfhood, and indigeneity. The work traverses the memory of a place and space visited by the artist. Employing an original syntax of storytelling, the artist interweaves scattered and reassembled landscapes with layers of captured audio, poetic text, and music. A rhythmic account of the spiritual implications of colonial plunder, Hopinka’s fluid reflections transmute ideas of spiritual malleability tied to land, sky, sea, myth, place, and personhood.

Video, 8:18 min. The artist is a thought provoking and irreverent media and installation artist. His performance and moving image works engage almost masochistic levels of endurance, often focusing on themes of sexuality, humanity, and the body. Takamine’s God Bless America is a continuously looping video of the artist and assistants. They model a huge and monstrous head with an unmistakable resemblance to George W. Bush. The process was recorded with an accompanying appropriately garbled and fractured rendition of “God Bless America.”