Excerpt from The Way Things Go, 1987. Color video, transferred from 16 mm film, with sound, 30 min. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, Matthew Marks 2015.18.3.

Rebecca Horn / Performances II ‘Pencil Mask’ (‘Bleistiftmaske’) 1972 Performances II 1972 is a thirty-five minute colour film shown as video consisting of a collection of performance works enacted for the camera. The performances focus on interventions on the human body, using feathers, hair and garment-like sculptures worn by a performer, and are set against a neutral background or an otherwise deserted outdoor location. Most actions are performed by one or two people, with the exception of ‘Head Extension’, which has five participants. Each of the segments that comprise Performances II is introduced by a title card bearing the individual title of each performance in German and its year of realisation, in white characters on black. The soundtrack consists of occasional ambient sounds, although it is mostly silent. ‘Pencil Mask’ (‘Bleistiftmaske’) 1972 shows the artist wearing a mask made out of green strips of fabric arranged in a grid, with a pencil mounted like a spike at each point where the strips cross. Rebeca Horn is seen frontally, touching an invisible surface with the tip of the pencils, then she turns towards a white vertical surface and proceeds to brush against it repeatedly, drawing layer after layer of lines as the pencils are dragged from side to side. Film, 16mm, 1972

"Distante un padre" by the Italian artists MASBEDO is a segment of the long feature "THEN AND NOW Beyond Borders and Differences", produced by ART for The World in 2010 under the auspices of the Alliance of Civilizations and the Council of Europe. Inspired by the art.18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion", the short movie is focused on the themes of Life, Death and After. The short turns an intimate tragedy as the death of a child into a universal drama, focusing on the delicate relationship among living and dying, the two extreme events of our existence. MASBEDO were born in Milan in 1999 from the meeting between Nicolò Massazza and Jacopo Bedogni. ***************************************** DISTANTE UN PADRE Written and directed by MASBEDO with Sonia Bergamasco Marcello Prayer Damir Todorovic Director of Photography - Luciano Federici Dialogues - Aldo Nove Music by Vittorio Cosma Materia Prima - Max Casacci Vittorio Cosma Gianni Maroccolo Riccardo Sinigallia Video House Production - Except S.r.l Milan Audio House Production - Music Production Milan Voice "control room" - Ferdinando Bruni Editing - Cristina Sardo Colorist, Postproduction & Visual Effects - Giuseppe Domingo Romano Sound Design - Fabrizio Romagnoli Production Sound Mixer - Paolo Benvenuti First Assistant Director - Esther Mathis First Assistant Camera - Alberto Airola Second Unit Camera - Emmanuele Del Rio Key grip - Paolo Mariotti Lighting Technician - Gino Stocchiero Underwater Camera Operator - Roberto Barbierato First Assistant underwater Camera - Luce Bertani Diver O.T.S. - Daniele Bazzali Hair & Make-up -- Tamara Caprioli for TAM'UP Location Manager - Anna Maria Monteverdi Organization - Sara Petri Isabella Conte Produced by Beatrice Bulgari Ferdinando Botto Poala Lella Zignone FONDOBRUNOPRODUZIONI centro delle arti belle Enrica De Biasi Marco Tirelli Thanks to il Dipartimento Militare Marittimo dell'Alto Tirreno il Comando raggruppamento Incursori della Marina Ammiraglio Stefano Tortora I Comandanti: Roberto Bontempo Fabio Ceccolini Marco Gargano GianpaoloTrucco Primo Maresciallo Enrico Gusso Danilo Eccher © ART for The World - 2010 ISAN # 0000-0002-76F6-0000-J-0000-0000-H

2014, 76”, prodotto da In Between Art Film in associazione con Vivo Film 2014, 76”, produced by In Between Art Film in association with Vivo Film

Trailer di "The Lack", film presentato dai Masbedo alla Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia 2014. In onda su Sky Arte HD, in prima tv, mercoledì 19 novembre alle 22.45

Glima, 2008 Single channel video PAL format 16:9 length 17’ 59’’ edition 7 + 2 AP with Erna Omarsdottir, Jon Pall Eyjolfsson music Gianni Maroccolo, Marlene Kuntz courtesy MASBEDO and Noire Contemporary Art

Theorem Of Incompleteness, 2008 Single-channel video PAL format 16:9 length 5’ 38’’ edition 7 + 2 AP music Lagash, Borgar Magnason courtesy MASBEDO and Noire Contemporary Art