Welcome to our 2026 edition. 1,176 submissions show that video creation is very active. We have selected 6 works from six countries and three continents, valuing as always artistic criteria and the lasting value of the works.

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Ye Yuan. China, 2025, 7:14.
Real footage and AI-generated transitions make a trip that keeps moving and transforming. The editing follows the rhythm of a Chinese rap track, as scenes turn into one another, from water to traffic to flowers.

Cronografia di un Corpo

Lorenzo Pandolfi. Italy, 2019, 6:25.
A choreocinematographic piece where the choreographic movement comes both from the dancer, the editing and the postproduction transformations, in close relation with the electroacoustic music. Lorenzo Pandolfi is director, editor and composer.

Error 404: Body Not Found

Ariadne Souza. Brazil, 2026, 1:14.
A video-performance about repetition and exhaustion. The same gesture returns in different spaces, with the repetition built in the editing and a humorous low-tech touch.

R&sonances [2. On space]

Stéphanie Paillet, Nicolas Van Achter. Belgium, 2026, 3:16.
A screendance in the desert, where the dancer moves with the dunes and the wind. The flowing, circular movement is matched by a camera with its own turning motion. Wind and soft pulses make up the sound.

a StreeT Lamp

Naveed Akbar. Pakistan, 2026, 3:33.
A videoart built around a single fixed street lamp, filmed across the seasons. Mist, birds, rain, insects and snow pass through the frame while the editing keeps a steady pulse, over an ambient electronic soundtrack. The lamp stays still and everything else changes.

XXI – Un arcane pour un autre monde

Francesca Bonato. France, 2025, 6:35.
An underwater videodance where Francesca Bonato is director and dancer. A hard light from above, oil, bubbles, dirt and floating bottles shape her movement, in a piece about restoring harmony with a nature that humankind has damaged.

About the selection

Without a specific theme, this year’s selection speaks, in a way, of being locked in loops that do not always move forward, situations that we want to escape or change. In many cases the works also use the elements, water, wind, sand, to mark the dissolving of the world.

This year we opened a specific call for AI, as we think it has a long way to go and still has much to make us discover. In the end, the only selected work using AI was not submitted under that category but as video art. This is interesting: what drew us to it was its video art discourse, the transformation from one scene to another and the rhythm of the editing that results, with AI as the tool that creates those transformations. Future editions may include works generated with AI, and we will keep analysing everything by its artistic quality, its lasting value and its visual and sound discourse.