NEWS / 2022 - Fall





THE EMPTY SPHERE
The empty sphere will be screened at these festivals:

— Around Video Art Fair, Lille (30 September - 02 October 2022)

— Corsica.doc, Ajaccio (11 - 16 October 2022) New Talents competitions
> The film won Best Short Award!

— Imagine Science Film festival, New York (14 - 21 October 2022) Lessons from dreamlands

— Tehran International Short Film festival (19 - 24 October 2022) Official competition

— FestiFreak La plata International Independent Film Festival (19 – 30 October 2022)
International short film competition

— SIC Symposium – Fictional strategies in reality-based films, Brussels (20 - 21 October 2022)

— Festival Dei Popoli (5 - 13 November 2022) Doc at Work

— ZINEBI International festival of documentary and short film of Bilbao (11 - 18 November 2022)
Documentary competition

— FIFAM Festival International du film d’Amiens (11 - 19 November 2022)
Programmation Hauts-de-France

— FILMSCHOOLFEST MUNICH (13 - 19 November 2022) Official selection

— Izmir Kisa Film Festival (14 - 20 November 2022) Panorama Section

— Kasseler Dokfest (15 - 20 November 2022) Official selection

— PÖFF Shorts / Black nights Film Festival (15 - 23 November 2022)
Competition: New Talents Live-Action

— Blue Marble, ISELP, Belgium (19 November 2022)

Production: Fresnoy - Studio National




PODESTA ISLAND
Podesta Island will be screened at these festivals:

— TISFF - Thessaloniki International Shorts, Greece (10 October, 2022) Short programme

— Futuring Islands, seminar, Vienna (3-6 November, 2022)

— Still voices Film Festival, Ireland (9-13 November, 2022) Student competition

— Beijing International Short Film Festival (18-28 November, 2022) International competition

— Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Turkey (23-27 November, 2022)
Short competition

— Lemon Batumi International Short film festival, Georgia (23-28 November, 2022)

— Mutoscope Festival, France (2-4 December, 2022)

Production: Fresnoy - Studio National





BIENNALE CHRONIQUES
Belgium is the honor guest for this new edition of Biennales Chroniques. I’m happy to show there three installations, in two different museums. I will be there for the professional days and finissage, in January.
11.11.22 > 22.01.23

A la tombée de la nuit
21 bis Mirabeau, Aix-en-Provence
Group show with Lucien Bitaux, IEF Spincemaille, Stéphane Thidet

Vivre Sans témoin
Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence
Group show with Dimitri Mallet, Emmanuel Van der Auwera, Pierre Coric, Stéphane Thidet

Supported by Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles and Wallonie Bruxelles International.




Crédit: SMITH

UNESCO / L'humain qui vient
To celebrate World Philosophy Day 2022, Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains and UNESCO are organizing, in partnership with Les Rencontres philosophiques de Monaco, a symposium and an exhibition on the theme "The Coming Human" from November 16 to 18, 2022 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

For the duration of the symposium, an exhibition will be presented in the Mirő room, it will bring together the photographic works of Hugo Deverchère and SMITH, with mine, as well as films by Moufouli Bello, Emanuele Coccia, Fernando Colin Roque, Bianca Dacosta, Nicolas Gourault, Louis Henderson, OV, Momoko Seto, Hadrien Tequi, Yuyan Wang, Agata Wieczorek, which were produced by Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains.

Also I will moderate the panel Déchets du passé, déchets de l'avenir with Lucie Taïeb, Thom van Dooren, Nicolas de Warren and Benoît Pelopidas.