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ATLANTROPA

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FALLING LEAVES

JARMARK EUROPA

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PASSAGE

SIN PAPELES

UNITE D'HABITATION

ZUBR

The visual language established in Stevens' work presents the audience with critical yet often poetic forms in film, video and photography. Recurrent themes connect visual codes of landscape, borders and migration with more orthodox forms of documentation and reportage such as journalism and political dogma.

His short films have been exhibited internationally including the Whitechapel Gallery, 10th Istanbul Biennial, Tapei Museum of Modern Art, Serpentine Cinema, OVNI, Barcelona and Frieze film. His most recent film Atlantropa commissioned by Film London won Best False Fiction Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival 2010. Stevens has also contributed to various publications such as Fresh Moves (Thames & Hudson) and Eight Metaphors (Lux) and has published two limited DVD/Book sets When I Sit Down to Write and Three Films on Language.

 

 

 

Passage, 5' 25'', 16mm film, Istanbul/Kapekule, 2007
The film depicts cargo ships off the shore of Istanbul, in the Marmara Sea, and later their cargo being transported by lorry through the border-post at Kapikule, which is a main entry point into Europe on the border between Turkey and Bulgaria. This path, along what is historically known as part of the Silk Road, has been a major trading route for thousands of years