The Taster by Austrian artist Clemens Krauss follows the woman who was Adolf Hitler’s personal food taster. In the video we watch her, “a true booming evidence herself, to have a meal, reminiscent her past work in the Nazi regime."
Mariam Ghani’s A Brief History of Collapses compares the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel, Germany (above) with the abandoned Dar Ul-Aman Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Jeamin Cha’s Hysterics weaves a story of a dead couple in a video that is “deep, dark, atmospheric…reminiscent of film noir aesthetics.”
In Vision in Darkness, Dinh Q. Lê follows Vietnamese pioneer painter Trang Trung Tin, a young soldier who painted in order to make sense of the violence around him, focusing his work on war, poverty, and loneliness.
A piano exploders from a cannon shot and a ballerina dances like a dream in the snow juxtaposing beauty, violence, and desolation in Mariana Vassileva’s Kronstadt.