from the 18th of October to the 21st of November 2025
Artists: Inès Sieulle, France| Lilith Gosmann, Germany| Diego Maclean, Canada| Niya Abdullahi, Ethiopia| Leon Boltvinik, Mexico.
For its 38th edition, Les Instants Vidéo resists the night — transforming video art into a living, sensorial, and political material.
Through poetic gestures and radical imaginaries, the festival opens spaces of visibility and listening, welcoming the voices and bodies that challenge dominant narratives.
As part of this international edition, VisualcontainerTV presents the online program En continu, featuring five video works that reflect on presence, memory, identity, and the fragile boundaries between the human and the digital.
From France to Ethiopia, from Germany to Mexico, these artists create intimate yet universal landscapes of resistance, reflection, and rebirth.
“En continu”
Video selection:
Inès Sieulle – The Oasis I Deserve 20’00, France 2024
Replikas, online chatbots, have trouble determining their place in the world. They share their thoughts with the humans they exchange with. Events unfold from their point of view through real conversations collected on the web.
Lilith Gosmann – Female Walk, 10’00, Allemagne, 2024
Based on a performative table talk that reveals underlying power dynamics and social structures, the protagonist sets out to escape these constraints. This escape transforms into a performative journey of emancipation and self-discovery, during which she uncovers her own strength and energy — ultimately returning to confront the initial situation from a new perspective.
Diego Maclean – Remembering, 5’03, Canada, 2024
Thoughts on the nature of memory.
Niya Abdullahi – Nalashi, 8’12, Ethiopia, 2025
Witness a mother and her daughter sit in their Saturday afternoon ritual of hashar qahwa, their conversation juxtaposed with words unspoken, unraveled at the cusp of song and poetry; illuminating the sacred intricacies of their relationship with their hair, hijab, and each other.
Leon Boltvinik – Umbra, 22’03, Mexico, 2024
Darkness reigns in the forest, the light of the stars filters through the branches that sway incessantly. A cabin stands alone in a clearing.
The trees are illuminated by a strange light.
A child wanders through the forest, playing at climbing trees and collecting bugs.
His father fells the trees, teaching him the trade of a lumberjack.
The child dreams of fire.
About Instants Video Festival
Since 1988, we have presented more than 4600 artists and 7000 artworks in Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, Central Asia, and South and North America. We owe them so much. We are a go-between.
2022: From 2022, it will be a collective of four persons who share the responsibilities of the association’s artistic choices. Therefore, it is implementing new collaborative approaches, with the aim of introducing horizontality in the festival’s fabrication process and in its relationships with artists.