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The promise of a perpetually technological updated world. Other forms of marketing and addiction

On August 4, 2006, the personal search queries of 650.000 AOL (America Online) users accidentally ended up on the Internet, for all to see. These search queries were entered in AOL’s search engine over a three-month period. After three days AOL realised their blunder and removed the data from their site, but the sensitive private data had already leaked to several other sites. 

In I hung back, held fire, danced and lied Kalin confronts loss, intimacy and estrangement. This visually arresting piece is constructed of Super-8 fragments that document familiar and foreign spaces, lovers and strangers. Rapidly intercut with these images are brief glimpses of names of individuals who have died from AIDS — some famous, others not so well known — that further notions of anonymity and immortality. Kalin's imagery serves as an 'imprint' of the living world, preserving for an unknown viewer personal experiences that have already fled.

Tenerife, an island paradise. Playa de las Americas, mass tourism, desire and pleasure packaged for consumption and its wreckage.

A journey through the Syrian landscape, featuring interviews with three dissidents who long ago left Syria for France. The filmmaker presents a poetic portrait of her friends, who have chosen to go into exile. Abdallah begins on a journey through the Syrian landscape and settles down near the sea, pondering over the impact of poetry on daily life. She records the almost forgotten life stories of Syrian dissidents, digging deeper and deeper into their world, the world of people who have chosen to live in a foreign country, where they have gone into internal exile.