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Actor by Michael Mazière UK, 10 mins, 2010 Video, Black & White, Sound Mazière is best known for his work in which Hollywood fiction and autobiographical fact are distilled into a poetic form. Mazière's work provides an intriguing parallel between the production of meaning in cinema and the operation of the unconscious mind. In this film, Mazière reworks cinema footage in which the actor Alain Delon appears in order to create a new narrative which speaks of cinema, masculinity and the existential and physical erosion of time upon the physical and cinematic body.

What is a filmmaker? It is this vague, perhaps vain question that Travis Wilkerson hoped to answer clearly when he went to Cuba to question Santiago Alvarez, a legend of militant cinema. Although he had seen none of his films, Wilkerson did an interview with the master that quickly became something of a combined lesson in film and history, with Alvarez presenting his many essays and adding commentary. On returning from his trip, Wilkerson was very disappointed. The camera had recorded nothing of these very warm-hearted, instructive sessions, neither sound nor pictures. Technology had let him down. Alvarez's face and voice vanished, almost at the same time as himself. So only his films remain. His portrait remains to be done, to be made from scratch, from memory. This is why this homage to Alvarez is presented, according to a certain poetic tradition, in the form of a mélange. It includes Wilkerson's autobiographical parts, archive footage, excerpts of films made for Cuban television and pictures taken today, assembled with no concern for hierarchy or precedence.

An unhurried film dealing with the notion of the abstract.

In the summer of 2006, during the continuous attacks over Lebanon, a young Lebanese artist receives a phone call that makes her want to protect her own space and personal project from outside threats.