Constant control of the individual is a vital element of all modern societies. Currently, however, contemporary democracies seem to be shifting fundamentally into new, digitally supported, surveillance states. From a Night Porter's Point of View portrays a night security guard who has made it his obsessive life’s work to control, by completely analogue means, his fellow citizens. Feelers staged an encounter between exponents of two completely opposite types of physical examination: a security guard and a healer. Desert Scan focuses on the idea that mapping the brain with functional magnetic resonance imaging is part of a ‘paranoid neuroscience’. In The Formation of Clouds, animations of satellite photos explore the peculiar, computer-chip-reminiscent architecture of data centres. Night Visitor documents the storming of Egyptian State Security headquarters in the revolution with YouTube clips. Stopover in Dubai is based on a video from Dubai State Security in which the killing of a Hamas official by Israeli agents was almost completely captured by surveillance cameras.

From a Night Porter's Point of View, Krzysztof Kieślowski, pl 1977, 16 min
Feelers (Esotropia Conversations II), Nadav Assor, us 2012, 16 min
Desert Scan, Andy Weir, uk 2013, 3 min
The Formation of Clouds, Ivar Veermäe, 2013, 3 min *
Night Visitor: The Night of Counting the Years, Maha Maamoun, eg 2011, 8 min *
Stopover in Dubai, Chris Marker, fr/uae 2011, 27 min

* = Artist will attend Q&A