Why Look? solo show at The Joinery Dublin, opens 17th November 2011

The Selected Stories Project is a five-part project curated by the Joinery from this September to January of next year. The project will be made up of five individual shows and will include talks and screenings, bringing together a range of artists, curators and writers whose work engages with, and challenges perceptions of ‘the real’. The project will culminate in a publication of essays, writings and interviews by invited writers Rebecca O’Dwyer and Sean O’Sullivan.

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Unité d'Habitation, Esperi, Zubr, Jarmark Europa and Sin Papeles find permanent home in the Moderna Galerija/Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia with e flux video rental

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Eight Metaphors, book launch and performance at ICA, London, 10th June, 2011

To celebrate the launch of new book 8 Metaphors, LUX's Associate Artist Programme delivers an evening of readings and presentations by eight artists from the programme. Taking its lead from the principle of the book, each reading will examine how the moving image can be translated into mediums other than film and video. The event includes presentations from Luke Fowler, Laura Gannon, Duncan Marquiss, Laure Prouvost, Grace Schwindt, Sam Stevens, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stina Wirfelt and Isla Leaver-Yap.

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Special Feature screening of ATLANTROPA at OVNI film festival CCCB Barcelona 22-27th feb 2011.

OVNI 2011 aims to exhibit and to reflect upon the different phenomena of dis_reality, their forms and implications, their repercussions and the horizons they illuminates, or recalls.

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Videocracy Erik Gandini - Life 2.0 Jason Spingarn-Koff - Dubai in Me Christian von Borries- Paradise Later  Ascan Breuer - The     Hashish Army  Guardian Films - Self Fiction  Christian Barani - Il Corpo delle donne  Lorella Zanardo - Atlantropa Samuel Stevens - Science and Non-Duality - Empotrados  Alberto Arce -  Soufis d'Afghanistan de Arnaud Desjardins - Oscuros Portales Falconeti Peña - Lost Satsanga Nisarghadatta - Costa de Cemento  Robert Harding Pittman- Maya de Papaji -  Virtual Nothing.
Videotalks:  Pablo Beneito - Hakim Bey - Santiago López-Petit - John Zerzan.

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1900hr 16th October 2010 Atlantropa screened in Frieze Film at the Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park, London

Frieze Film
Screening in a specially constructed cinema for the duration of the Fair, this year's Frieze Film presents four new film commissions by Jess Flood-Paddock, Linder and FLAMIN supported artists Elizabeth Price and Stephen Sutcliffe.

The four films will screen alongside various film programmes, as well as existing works by this year's Frieze Projects artists.

ResoVision
FLAMIN Film Programme
In addition to its radio broadcasts Resonance104.4fm will be running ResoVision, a four day television channel live from this year's Frieze Art Fair.

Among the ResoVision programme will be a screening of FLAMIN supported projects, featuring films by Rachel Reupke, Samuel Stevens and Luciano Zubilaga.

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29th September 2010 Atlantropa screened at Centro culturale francese di Palermo e della Sicilia with Leaving Room.

La situazione particolare della Sicilia, crocevia di flussi migratori di cui la storia recente è segnata, ha portato il Centre Culturel Français de Palerme et de Sicile ed il Goethe-Institut Palermo a presentare Leaving Room | Sicilia, un progetto ideato da Daniele Rugo e Roberto Cavallini, già presentato a Valencia, Venezia, Istanbul, Castello e Tangeri.
Leaving Room vuole interrogarsi sull’esilio, la condizione degli immigrati e dei clandestini, le logiche migratorie, le frontiere, ma propone anche una riflessione sull’immagine e il cinema ed il rapporto tra etica e cinema.
Attraverso i film presentati, riaffermando che la cultura è per definizione mista e variegata, si vuole dimostrare che la migrazione di questi ultimi anni non costituisce un fenomeno omogeneo, che non esistono teorie o metodi applicabili a tutto né logiche migratorie, bensì solo esperienze singolari.

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23rd September 2010 WHEN I SIT DOWN TO WRITE (DVD and booklet) released online.

The DVD and booklet WHEN I SIT DOWN TO WRITE with essay by Stephen Connolly is available to purchase online through PAMPHLETEER FILMS and LUX as well as selected London outlets.

This DVD and booklet set brings together two film works that explore issues of migration as they manifest in contemporary Spain. Sin Papeles (2005) relates the encounter of the artist with a site of migrant resistance - the Santa Maria del Pi Church in Barcelona - host to a hunger strike by migrants in 2001. Stevens' award winning film Atlantropa (2009) presents restricted images of the Ceuta frontier anchored by a voiceover spinning a loose narrative around a fictional bridge - spanning the Gibraltar Straits connecting Europe and North Africa - as the film visually explores the infrastructure of the Spanish-Moroccan frontier.

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2pm 6th June 2010 Atlantropa and Sin Papeles will be screened by Serpentine cinema: CINACT in association with Sketch at the Gate cinema Notting Hill, London

Atlantropa and Sin Papeles will be screening alongside work by Adria Julia. Atlantropa will be accompanied with live narration by actor Tyrone Huggins. The screening will also mark the launch of a booklet titled When I Sit Down to Write... compiling collected texts with a preface by the artist and essay by film-maker Stephen Connolly on the films Atlantropa and Sin Papeles.

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28th March 2010 Atlantropa wins Best False Fiction Award, at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

The False Fiction Award is one of 6 jury awards, named and decided by the festival jurors Ben Russell, Irina Leimbacher and Tomonari Nishikawa. To see which other films won awards follow the link below.

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28th March 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival

Atlantropa will be screened as part of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan. The Ann Arbor Film Festival is internationally recognized as a premiere showcase for creative, inspiring, and influential films of all types: avant-garde and experimental, story-based narratives, documentaries, and animation. As the longest-running independent and experimental film festival in North America, the AAFF is steeped in a rich tradition of ground-breaking cinema. Thousands of influential filmmakers have showcased early work at the AAFF, including luminaries such as Kenneth Anger, Agnes Varda, Andy Warhol, Yoko Ono, Gus Van Sant, Barbara Hammer, Lawrence Kasdan, Devo and George Lucas.

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9 October 2009 Darklight Festival Dublin

Atlantropa has been selected for screening as part of the Darklight Film Festival. The film will be presented along side a selection of pre -1989 films by East German filmmakers to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the fall of The Berlin Wall, presented in association with Goethe Institute.

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Starting July 1, 2009 SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH

Samuel Stevens early video works Monument and Collaboration are running on SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH, the first TV Station broadcasting a nonstop program of high quality Film and Video Art on the European Cable Network. The work is presented on a weekly program.

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June 2009 Cinematheque de Tanger

The films Atlantropa, Passage and Sin Papeles included in Cinematheque de Tanger Collection.

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10 June, 6.00pm Transmission Interupted, Modern Art Oxford

Short video and film works from Jem Cohen, Claire Fontaine and Samuel Stevens (Atlantropa and Sin Papeles) at Modern Art Oxford as part of the exhibition Transmission Interupted.

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20, 21, 22 March 2009 Leaving Room, Tangiers, Cinematheque de Tanger, Morocco

Screening Programme includes works by: Sam Stevens (Atlantropa), Giacomo Mondadori, Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders, Kaya Behkalam, Max Lemcke, Sarah Benillouche, Mahnaz Mohammadi.

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