Walt Disney is awoken by a nurse in the future from a deep, reoccurring dream he has been having in cryostasis; a dream about the abandonment of his beloved son 'Ricky Mouse'.
In the video installation TEN (2010), Niklas Goldbach stages a summit of today's rulers in the penthouse-suite of a luxury hotel in Berlin, in which he creates a tenfold image of himself as only actor.
Drawing on both contemporary and historical texts, Ruscica's film deconstructs the idea of the travelogue itself as romanticised history, factual document and idealised experience.
The works of Wael Shawky reproduce realities of the Arab world, often recreated from fragments of the region or its history in videos that are charged with stereotypical connotations.
The idea for this video was conceived at the end of an afternoon in Nador (Morocco) when a very strong wind blew the linen on the washing line. It suddenly appeared to the artist as though a striking crowd was trying to go out of its way; static objects became alive and free.
"Someone has to do something about the winter in Finland". Taking with him a waterproof vacuum cleaner and a video camera, he went to the frozen sea and started to work.