New Cinema & Contemporary Art
An experience of hybrid film, art and performance
Saturday 20 September 2025
18-21 September 2025
14:00 | Screening | "Invasion"
Pavel Mozhar uses the streets of his Berlin neighbourhood as the backdrop for an investigation into the systematic nature of Russian and Belarusian war crimes in Ukraine. Oleg Chorny films the inhabitants of Kiev, who try to maintain a peaceful way of life, despite massive attacks by Russian troops. Andriy Rachinskiy and Daniil Revkovakiy assemble archival videos collected or filmed by civilians before and during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. These precarious, authentic sequences made by witnesses risk being lost in the flow of images, but, put together, they communicate people’s experiences and constitute evidence of the crimes.
14:00 | SCREENING | “INVASION”
Pavel Mozhar: Unwanted Kinship
Documentary | 4k | colour | 0:30:00 | Germany | 2024
14:00 | SCREENING | “INVASION”
Oleg Chorny: Kyiv in the Days of War
Documentary | 4k | colour | 0:03:09 | Ukraine | 2022
14:00 | SCREENING | “INVASION”
Andriy Rachinskiy, Daniil Revkovakiy: Civilians. Invasion
Documentary | hdv | colour | 0:56:38 | Ukraine | 2023
15:45 | Screening | "Image/War"
Mykola Ridnyi conceptualizes the contemporary perception of an early 18th-century Ukrainian political and military leader. In the form of a rap battle, two major works of world literature associated with him are confronted: one by Lord Byron (1819) and the other by Pushkin (1828-29). Giulio Squillacciotti re-enacts the staging of photographs from the ’20s. On the island of Pantelleria, bombed in 1943, Masbedo explores the tension in the local collective consciousness between truth and its ideological distortion. Kamal Aljafari films places from a vertical perspective that imposes control and possession on archaeological sites. Yet these places are not empty: from afar, we see peasants, themselves transformed into landscape. Dor Guez filmed Hippos, a historic basalt stone town, currently an archaeological site located between Syria and Israel. After military use, the now-abandoned town has seen the rebirth of flora and fauna once considered extinct. Twenty years after Akerman’s film “d’Est”, Sid Yandovka and Anya Tsyrlina filmed Moscow. Their relationship with history, place and time haunts the spaces of memory and remembrance.
15:00 | SCREENING | “IMAGE/WAR”
Mykola Ridnyi: The Battle over Mazepa
Video | 4k | colour | 0:26:43 | Ukraine /Germany, United Kingdom | 2023
15:00 | SCREENING | “IMAGE/WAR”
Giulio Squillacciotti: A War Play
Exp. fiction | 16mm | colour | 0:08:00 | Italy | 2024
15:00 | SCREENING | “IMAGE/WAR”
Masbedo: Pantelleria
Video | Digital | colour | 0:20:00 | Italy | 2022
15:00 | SCREENING | “IMAGE/WAR”
Kamal Aljafari: UNDR
Exp. film | hdv | colour and b&w | 0:15:00 | Germany / Palestine | 2024
15:00 | SCREENING | “IMAGE/WAR”
Dor Guez: Hippos
Video | 4k | colour | 0:08:00 | Palestine / United Kingdom | 2022
15:00 | SCREENING | “IMAGE/WAR”
Anya Tsyrlina, Sid Iandovka: Colder
Exp. documentary | 4k | colour | 0:09:00 | Switzerland / Italy | 2024
17:30 | Screening | "Post-Colonial"
Sammy Baloji alternates excerpts from 1943 and 1957 archives—colonial propaganda produced by the National Institute for Agronomic Studies in the Belgian Congo—with images of those very same sites filmed in the 21st century. Laura Horelli films Simon Tjimbawe as he responds to questions sent by a museum in Braunschweig, where the belt of his ancestor, Chief Kahimemua—executed by the Germans in 1896—is exhibited. Broersen & Lukács reinterpret the song from Walt Disney’s 1967 film “The Jungle Book”, emblematic of Western imperialism through its distorted vision of nature and animals. In a dilapidated greenhouse, a composite of Western botanical gardens where plant and tree species from colonised countries are altered, a ghostly figure emerges in a dance recalling that of “The Jungle Book”, before vanishing and giving way to the avatars of a Dutch Afro-Surinamese music group. Victor Missud and Marina Russo Villani film the water people in Benin. Once in resistance against colonisation, they now confront the water hyacinth, which suffocates their lake as it reproduces at vertiginous speed.
17:30 | SCREENING | “POST-COLONIAL”
Sammy Baloji: Aequare. The Future that Never Was
Exp. documentary | 4k | colour | 0:21:00 | Democratic Republic of Congo / Belgium | 2024
17:30 | SCREENING | “POST-COLONIAL”
Laura Horelli, Simon Tjimbawe: In the Beginning There Was Cultural Identity
Exp. documentary | hdv | colour | 0:08:00 | Finland / Germany | 2023
17:30 | SCREENING | “POST-COLONIAL”
Broersen & Lukács: I Wan’na Be Like You
Exp. fiction | hdv | colour | 0:12:40 | Netherlands | 2024
17:30 | SCREENING | “POST-COLONIAL”
Victor Missud, Marina Russo Villani: Blooming
Exp. documentary | 4k | colour | 0:45:00 | France / Italy, Benin | 2024
19:30 | Screening | Carte Blanche to Dora García, "Red Love"
The session will be followed by a drink.
We are very pleased to present this year at Loods6 a carte blanche to Dora García, with a unique performance-reading and a special screening of her latest feature-length documentary “(Revolution, Fulfil Your Promise) Red Love” followed by a Q&A.
19:30 | SCREENING | “CARTE BLANCHE TO DORA GARCÍA”
Dora García: (Revolution, Fulfil Your Promise) Red Love
Exp. documentary | 4k | colour | 1:35:00 | Spain / Belgium, Mexico | 2024
TALKS
16:00 | Talk | Panel discussion “Will Museums and Contemporary Art Centres Disappear?”
Three curators from museums and art centres are invited to discuss their curatorial practices and share their experiences and perspectives.
– Eliel Jones – Curator, performance and time-based media – KANAL-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
– Lara Khaldi – Artistic director, De Apple Amsterdam, Netherlands
– Jonathan Pouthier – Conservation attaché at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, in charge of programming the film collection, Paris, France.
PERFORMANCES
18:00 | Performance | Carte blanche to Dora García. Performance reading, “Letters of Disappointment”
We are very pleased to present this year at Loods6 a carte blanche to Dora García, with a unique performance-reading and a special screening of her latest feature-length documentary “(Revolution, Fulfil Your Promise) Red Love” followed by a Q&A. While studying the conflictive relationship between socialism/revolution and feminism, Dora García came across diaries, notes, and letters from pivotal female figures as Hannah Arendt, Leslie Feinberg,
Alexandra Kollontai, Audre Lorde, Rosa Luxembourg, María Dolores González Katarain (Yoyes), and Clara Zetnik, among others. A common theme in these documents is a sense of profound and bitter disappointment. Dora García proposes a collective exercise: a group reading of the collection she gathered of “Letters of Disappointment”, moderated by her. After the reading the participants are invited to discuss their personal experiences and specific disappointments.
14:00 - 22:00 | Single-channel video projection | "Levitate"
What do monuments want, do, and stand for in our memories and public spaces? “Levitate”, questions the histories, functions and possible futures of colonial icons that still today define the identity of modern European cities. In what the artist calls ‘three anticipatory actions’, organized as grand-scale performances in the centers of Rome, Madrid, and Paris, we are confronted with three emblems of control and domination that still exert, undisturbed, their symbolic power from atop their pedestals. The Flaminian obelisk in the Piazza del Popolo, which came to Rome at the behest of Emperor Agustus in 10 B.C.; the statue of Christopher Columbus erected to commemorate the day of the ‘discovery’ of the Americas; and the statue of French military officer and colonial administrator Joseph Gallieni, are suspended, displaced from their position as vertical markers of power and tools for propaganda. Their disruption, albeit ephemeral, immediately opens up a space of public discussion.
14:00 -22:00 | SINGLE-CHANNEL VIDEO PROJECTION | “LEVITATE”
Iván Argote: Levitate
Exp. documentary | 4k | colour | 0:24:00 | Colombia / France, Italy | 2022
14:00 - 22:00 | Video on flat screen | "The Dark Matter"
Yana Osman and Anton Khamchishkin propose a poetic contemplation on the state of the world, censorship, and alternative language. Monica Maria Moraru draws on oral and fragmentary accounts of communist Romania, retracing the effects of an earthquake in Bucharest that caused the flooding of the small town of Buzău. Large sections of the town had been razed. Katherina Sadovsky films Soviet architecture of the 1930s and explores the role of art and culture as instruments of military propaganda. Statues of soldiers and workers become covered with glistening crystals—bloody, silver, black, and gold—the characteristic colours of the Empire’s resources, symbols of both wealth and oppression. Ausra Lukosiuniene follows Elena, daughter of the artist-architect Valdas, who must take care of her father’s legacy in a museum. The visit turns into a farewell, and into a gaze upon her father’s work as well as his unrealised projects.
14:00 – 22:00 | VIDEOS ON FLAT SCREENS | “THE DARK MATTER”
Yana Osman, Anton Khamchishkin: Shared Univers
Video | hdv | colour | 0:15:00 | Afghanistan / Russia | 2024
14:00 – 22:00 | VIDEOS ON FLAT SCREENS | “THE DARK MATTER”
Vladlena Sandu: No Nation Without Culture
Exp. documentary | hdv | colour | 0:16:00 | Russia / Netherlands | 2022
14:00 – 22:00 | VIDEOS ON FLAT SCREENS | “THE DARK MATTER”
Monica Maria Moraru: I Am Also Part of the Three Turns
Exp. film | hdv | colour | 0:14:45 | Roumania / Canada | 2024
14:00 – 22:00 | VIDEOS ON FLAT SCREENS | “THE DARK MATTER”
Katherina Sadovsky: Rage
Digital | colour | 0:12:36 | Russia | 2023
14:00 – 22:00 | VIDEOS ON FLAT SCREENS | “THE DARK MATTER”
Ausra Lukosiuniene: Dark Matter
Exp. documentary | 4k | black and white | 0:20:00 | France / Lithuania | 2024
