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H BOX, the portable screening room designed by Portuguese/ French architect Didier Fiuza Faustino, will be stationed at the historic Alabama Theatre through the close of the Festival on November 15. In addition to housing H BOX, the Alabama Theatre serves as the official headquarters of the Festival.

H BOX features a rotating, diverse program of videos by ten internationally renowned artists. All these works were produced over the course of the past three years as part of the ongoing H BOX commissioning program, a project of the Fondation d'entreprise Hermès started in 2006. All were premiered in the

H BOX screening device, which will keep traveling over the world, while regularly changing its program, as new films are added and older ones removed. The artists, whose work has been acclaimed at major museums and art biennials, were selected by H BOX artistic director Benjamin Weil, formerly the director of Artists Space, New York, and currently chief curator of the LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Spain.

A conversation with Benjamin Weil will take place on Sunday, November 15, at 1:00pm at the Alabama Theatre.

Panel: Discussion with Benjamin Weil
1:00 PM  |   Alabama Theater, Houston TX

H BOX artists

CLIFF EVANS
Citizen: The Wolf and Nanny

The Wolf and the Nanny is a collage of material found online, which "renders" a realm that increasingly blends layers of time and space, cyber-culture and local, "here and now" experience. This short animation tells about how the constant flow of images we are exposed to daily somehow has changed our comprehension of the world we inhabit.

YAEL BARTANA
Mary -Koszmary

The main protagonist in Bartana’s film preaches for the return of a Jewish community in Poland as a means to open the country to change and evolution. The discourse, however, is much more universal: under the guise of a confrontation of antisemitism and racism, a feeling usually based on the fear of otherness, she clearly hints that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is based on this same dynamic.

SHAHRYAR NASHAT
Paques (SIAB)

Having found one of the most revered recordings of Gould’s interpretation of Bach’s "Goldberg Variations," the artist discovered the sculptural element that would be the starting point of his own composition.

CAO FEI
The Birth Of RMB City

For a few years now, Cao Fei has been living part of her life online, more specifically in Second Life®. Her adventures, or rather, the ones of China Tracy, her avatar, have been documented, as has been the building of RMB City, an environment developed on a "plot" the artist purchased in the virtual world in 2006.

ALICE ANDERSON
BLUEBEARD

The work of Alice Anderson borrows from more traditional fairy tales, in this case, the story of Bluebeard. Her hauntingly beautiful films usually address the complicated relationship between parents and children. In this particular case, gender confusion is another aspect of this eerie interpretation of the Grimm Brothers’ classic tale.

KOTA EZAWA
DIORAMA

Ezawa reprocesses famed images and film footage with animation, creating a new context for images that have permeated our collective unconscious. This 3D animation is based on footage drawn from the first broadcast of a concert by the then unknown Beatles and Rolling Stones. The found footage of the two bands is blurred, forming one large band that plays a cacophony.

SEBASTIAN DIAZ-MORALES
ORACLE

The dreamscape imagined by Sebastian Diaz-Morales is a free association of footage that seems to have been collected all over the place, evoking the peripatetic life of today’s wandering artists, but also the drifting that characterizes moments of daydreaming, a strange in-between time/space beyond language.

DORA GARCIA
FILM (HOTEL WOLFERS)

With almost surgical detail, Dora Garcia uses her camera to scrutinize a derelict architectural icon of 20th-century modernist architecture in Brussels. A voiceover lectures about three seminal examples of "subjective camera," a cinematic technique that consists of filming as if the camera were a character, a form widely used in horror movies.

SU-MEI TSE
OPEN SCORE

With Open Score, the artist has elected to reflect upon the nature of the screening space to compose a virtual performance of sorts, as she stages herself playing a game of squash in an environment that mirrors the H BOX.