Agricola de Cologne

RetroQuito’25


RetroQuito’25
June-August 2025
Cinemateca Nacional de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
cinema “Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco”

September-December 2025
Cologne Alphabet Art Centre

Retrospective Quito/Ecuador
featuring the screening programs which Wilfried Agricola de Cologne was curating for
Muestra International de Video Arte Quito (MIVA)
2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2023, 2024 and 2025

2012 – MIVA – National Cinematheque Quito 24 August 2012
2014 – MIVA – International Videoart Festival – Quito/Ecuador – 23 August – 14 September 2014
2015 – MIVA – International Videoart Festival – Casa de la Cultura Ecuadoriana Quito / 20 August 2015
2015 – MIVA _ Centro de las Artes – La Ronda Quito/Ecuador / 2 October – 8 Nov 2015
2017 – MIVA – Muestra Internacional de Videoarte @ Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana – Quito/Ecuador – 23-25 August 2017
2023 – MIVA – National Cinematheque Quito 25 / 26 August 2023
2024 – MIVA – National Cinematheque Quito 23 / 24 August 2024
2025 – MIVA – Cuenca Ambato – 4-18 July 2025

25 Years – The New Museum of Networked Art

2025 Quito


Cuenca Ambato – 4-18 July 2025

Part 1 – 60 minutes
Now Is The Time

Bruno Pavic (Croatia) – Message, 2022, 1:04
Valentin Sismann (France) – Playersong, 2024, 3:35
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Hands Up! – Don’t Shoot, 2016, 2:12
Kokou Ekouagou (Togo) – Resolution, 2024, 2:18
Fram Orallo (UK(ES) – Sorrow, 2024, 1:55
Jeremy Daylit (Philippines) – Parasaan, 2024, 1:00
William Pena (Colombia) – Control, 2013, 3:45
Johannes C. Gerard (NL) – What does the city want to show me / Qué quiere mostrarme la ciudad, 2023. 9.47
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – Green Future, 2025, 1:55
Daniela Lucato (Italy) – Night will never come, 2025, 4:58
Matt Gibson (USA) – The Turtle, 2013, 2:00
Animaenoctis (Italy) – Roots/Kоріння / 2022 / 03:25
Olivia Mia Orozco Saper (USA) – Veil, 2025, 3:03
Jean-Michel Rolland (France) – Nikiya, 2024, 5:13
Raquel Claudino (Pt) – Sing the sand into pearls, 2015, 13:37
Andreas Monopolis (Greece) – Alhaadarah, 2024, 3:37

Part 2 – 60 minutes

Maria Korporal (NL) – The Mind’s Egg, 2023, 2:30
Manusamo & Bzika (ES/SK) – Interplanetary Colonization, 2021, 4:14
Osvaldo Raul Ponce (Argentina) – “Fly towards the origin” – Volar hacia el origen, 2024, 1:00
Jorge Ramos (Portugal) – Blur, 2020, 2:55
Cody Healey-Conelly (USA) – Glitch Noir – Datasifter Prelude, 2015, 2:41
Gioula & Olga Papadopoulou (Greece) – I am I, 2024, 1:57
Glasz DeCuir (Spain) – Superspreader, 2020, 14:09
Lilia Li-Mi-Yan & Katherina Sadovsky (RU) – A000000000001000AA011, 2021, 09:00
Coalfather Industries (USA) – Supplicants, 2025, 4:25
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Pool of Ideas, 2018, 9:17
Oliver Griem (South Korea) – Hypnotic Currents of Synthetic Eden, 2024, 5:01
Sandrine Deumier (France) – From the place where the light goes out, 2023, 5:45

2025 Cologne


Alphabet Art Centre – 4 – 25 July 2025

Part 1

Bruno Pavic (Croatia) – Fire, 2025, 2:04
Hans Overvliet (NL) – DISTANT SUFFERING XXXX, 2025, 4:02
Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Hibridos, 2024, 2:37
Luigia Cardarelli Italy) – Turn Around, 2026, 1:21
Abdoul-Ganiou Dermani (Togo) – Bridge of Humanity, 2023, 2:44
Pierre Ajavon (France) – Modern Vertigo, 2025, 5:00
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – New Dreams, 2025, 1:47
Richard Soriano Legaspi (Philippines) – Job Order, 2021, 1:10
Brigitte Valobra / Wald (Spain) – Duet for 2, 2025, 5:19
Jennida Chase (USA)- The Motherlode, 2024, 20:44
Matteo Campulla (Italy) – you_can’t_never_talk_about_what_you_love, 2024, 5:08
Paul Beaudoin (France) – Delirious Body, 2025,
Ebba Jahn (Germany) – Art Video Poem 7, 2024, 2:34
Mikey Petersen (USA) – Before The Clearing, 2025, 4:50
Jim Rolland (France) – Blue Dance, 2024, 1:36
Irina Gabiani (Georgia) – Beyond the Form, 2012, 1:46
Domenico De Simone (Italy) – Peace Wind, 2024, 6:55
Sandrine Deumier (France) – Electrical Darkness. 2024, 4:05
Claude Ciccolella (France) – Under The Leaves, 2025, 9:41
Tova Beck-Friedman (USA) – On Flora and Fauna, 2024, 6:00
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – Posterity, 2024, 4:10

Part 2

Hernando Urutia (Portugal) – Look at You After the War, 2023, 2:00
Silvia de Gennaro (Italy) – Spiritual AI, 2024, 2:45
Nedad Nedeljkov (Serbia) – P-Station, 2020, 1:15
Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Tecno-Natura, 2012, 9;33
Ronit Keret (Israel) – Abyss, 2021, 1:48
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Future in the Past, 2015, 7:07
Mauricio Sanhueza (Peru) – Calico, 2012, 3:39
Dee Hood (USA) – Looking for Level Ground, 2018, 3:45
Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay) – The Subway Acupuncturist, 2023, 11:25
Coalfather Industries (USA) – Resort 2, 2023, 3:31
Albert Merino (Spain) – The White Rain, 2010, 8:10
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – I Believe We Are Lost, 2022. 2:01
Sarah Buckius (USA) – Techno-Offspring, 2024, 3:03
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Virus, 2012, 5:00

2024
23/24 August 2024 Quito

Cinemateca Nacional de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
cinema “Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco”

FI – Finiteness-Infinity
The Foundation Screening series

Part 1 – 60 minutes
Marco Joubert (CA) – A DIFFERENT GOAL, 2023, 03:26
Barry Anderson (USA) – Fragment [av24.01],2024, 4:35
Isthmaël Baudry (France) – Morphoex-Bettina, 2019, 4:00
Clay Dunklin (USA) – SERPENTalk, 2021, 03:12
Luis Carlos Rodríguez (Spain) – TEXtrucTURAS huMANas, 2024, 06:30
Silvia de Gennaro (Italy) – I Just Want to Dance, 2023, 3.29
Henry Gwiazda (USA) – Flowing, 2022, 8:17
Peter Whittenberger (USA) – To Hold, 2024, 04:58
Paolo Bandinu (Italy) – WHERE THERE IS SHADOW THERE MUST BE LIGHT, 2020, 03:10
Albert Merino (Spain) -The Present Condition, 2020, 18:10

Part 2 – 60 minutes
Fran Orallo (UK/Spain) – 2123, 2023, 4:45
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – Pietas for you, 2023, 3:55
Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Hole – Agujero, 2024, 09:26
Augusto Calçada (Brazil) – Selfie-destruction, 2024, 4:50
Yiou Wang & Alina Tofan (China/Romania) – Water Always Goes Where It Wants to Go, 2024, 05:02
Brit Bunkley (New Zealand) – Pillar of Fire, 2021, 6:59
Alejandro Casales N. & Esther Lamneck (Mexico) – Broken Space in Fractal Way, 2023, 08:49
Ronit Keret (Israel) – Abyss, 2021 , 01:49
Leonardo Cardamone (Italy) – Untitled, 2024, 11.04
Farhanaz Rupaidha (Indonesia) – War Zone, 2024, 3:00
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Sunrise, 2019, 5: 46

2023

Vacations in the Subconscious
1924-2023 – 100 Years Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton
Surrealist Vacation Resort Quito
25 / 26 August 2023

An inter/trans-continental collaboration between
The New Museum of Networked Art & MIVA Expanded Narratives Experimental Video Art Festival Quito/Ecuador

Selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Part 1

Pablo-Martín Córdoba (France) – Paris-Saint-Lazare Station, April 10, 2017, 12h03-12h07, 2017, 4:26
Osvaldo Cibils (Uruguay) – The Subway Acupuncturist, 2023, 11:28
Vojislav Radovanović (Serbia/USA) – Suburbia, 2020, 11:00
Lesya Godfrey (USA) – Double Deal, 2023, 5:14
Monika K. Adler (UK) – Patriarchal Sabbath, 2023, 3:11
s/n (Jennida Chase & Hassan Pitts) (USA) – The Fawn, 2017, 8:15
Carolin Koss (Finland) – Plastic Child, 2016, 12:11
Ausin Sainz (Spain) – Black, 2015, 6:11

Part 2
Andrea Leoni (Italy) – CALL, 2023, 4:26
Marco Joubert (Canada) – The Atoms of Reality, 2020, 03:59
Maka Kiladze (Georgia) – INKED, 2022, 11:36
Thomas Vallianatos (Greece) – Athens-the present that didn’t exist, 2023, 3:51
Oliver Griem (S.Korea) – A Virtual Death, 2021, 2:11
Edward Ramsay-Morin (USA) – As Dreams Sometimes Do, 2013, 3: 19
Laura & Sira Cabrera (Spain) – Transmutations, 2018, 10:12
Gabin Cortez Chance (USA) – To Show One’s Hand, 2022, 4:58
Silvia de Gennaro (Italy) – Still Life, 2022, 03:13
Albert Merino (Spain) – Compulsive Self-portrait, 2011, 05:46
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Paradise Lost, 2022, 6:00
Eddie Lohmeyer (USA) – Studies for Cosmic Transmigration, 2023, 3:18

2017

CologneOFF 2017 Ecuador

The W:OW Project
artvideoKOELN & The New Museum of Networked Art
are happy to announce

WOW.06 / Ecuador
@ MIVA – International Videoart Festival Quito/Peru
@ Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana

featuring this screening program

Wake Up
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

Thomas Lisle (UK) – Transformer, 2016, 8:00
Francesca Fini (Italy) – The Burning, 2016, 8:00
Masa Hilcisin (Czech Republik) – Fragmented, 2017, 2:30
Dee Hood (USA) – Shufflebackfuck, 2016, 4:20
Luca Nanini (aka unaduna) (Italy) – Homologus, 2016, 4:40
Albert Bayona (Spain) – Darriere – la benzinera, 2016, 3:38
Lisa Birke (Canada) – Endgame, 2016, 7:05
Francesca Lolli (Italy) – The dying Lilium, 2016, 03:27
Roland Wegerer (Austria) – This is My Voice, 2010, 3:35

2015

CologneOFF 2015 Ecuador
animateCOLOGNE – Cologne Art & Animation Festival
@ MIVA – Muestra Internacional de Video Arte
Cinemateca Nacional Quito/Ecuador – 18-20 August 2015
Casa de Artes La Ronda Quito/Ecuador – 02 Oct – 08 Nov 2015

CologneOFF International Festival Network
presents

animateCOLOGNE
Cologne Art & Animation Festival

Objetos Perdidos
Selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne
Antje van Wichelen (Belgium) – Lost and Found, 2013, 9:34
Albert Merino (Spain) – Hidden Mud, 2010, 7:00
Shuai-Cheng Pu (Taiwan) – Consciousness Spin Project, 2015, 5:39
Kianoush & Farnoush Abedi (Iran) – Irreversible, 2012, 6:50
Marlena Rask (Denmark) – The Signal, 2011, 07:13
Kristina Frank (Sweden) – Take to the woods, 2011, 6:01
Francesca Fini (Italy) – White Sugar, 2013, 13:00
Sandra Dollo (Italy) – Tweng, 2:51, 2011

2014

CologneOFF 2014 Ecuador
@ MIVA – Muestra Internacional de Videoarte Quito/Ecuador
22 August – 14 September 2014
@ Cinemateca Nacional Quito/Ecuador

CologneOFF X P
Total Art – Movement to Imagination
curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

List of films
Mauricio Sanhueza (Peru) – My Old’s Man Pistol, 2012, 2:36
MVIN (France) – Break Glass in Case of Crisis, 2013, 1:50
Susanne Wiegner (Germany) – Home. sweet home, 2013, 2:59
Atom Samit (Spain) – Disappear, 2014, 3:26
Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) – 370 New Worlds, 2014, 5:05
Victor Ripoll (Spain) – Don’t move, 2014, 2:34
Umesh Mangipudi (India) – March to NoWhere, 2014, 6:06
Silvia Carpizo (Spain) – Alienation, 2012, 3:38
Ezra Wube (Ethiopia) – Kaled, 2014, 6:10
Adriano Vessichelli (UK/Italy) – Agent of Chaos, 2013, 3:54
Heidi Kumao (USA) – Swallowed Whole, 2014, 4:16
Kai Welf Hoyme (Germany) – Nocturne, 2012, 3:58
Todd Fuller and Abby Smith (Australia) – One & Only, 2012, 3:54
Anthony Sherin (USA) – DUÆL: Lee + Man, 2014, 5:09

2012

CologneOFF VII – Art & the City
a special selection curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne

List of videos
Mattias Härenstam (Sweden) – Closed Circuit, 2011, 3:01
Albert Merino (Spain) – The City and The Other, 2010, 3:09
Francesca Fini (Italy) – Oasis in the Desert, 2010, 5:00
Sarah Mock (Germany) – Is there a Way Out, 2011, 3:47
Octavian Fedorovici (Romania) – Around 7 o’clock, 2007, 3:06
Andres Jurado (Colombia) – 2:48 minutes with the door, 2009, 3:01
iaaai (France) – Pacience, 2006-2007, 4 min 10 sec
Eva Olsson (Sweden) – Labyrinth, 2009, 3:41
Nick Fox-Gieg (USA) – Disarmed, 2:42, 2005
Wrik Mead (Canada) – Winter’s End, 2010, 8:00
Eduardo Rangel (Mexico)– Columpio, 2010, 2:24
Manuela Barile (Portugal) – Moroloja, 2008, 8:05
Marita Contreras (Peru) – Maria, 2010, 5:30
Agricola de Cologne (Alemania) – Silent Cry, 3:05, 2008
Eimhin Hawes (Ireland) – Passage, 2009, 7:30
Alysse Stepanian (Iran) – Frey, 2009, 3:17
Signe Chiper-Lillemark (Denmark) – Spaces, 2010, 6:31
Pablo Fernandez-Pujol (Spain) – 142-143 – 2010, 2:10
My Name is Scot (Canada) – Independance, 2011, 7:56
Johanna Reich ( Alemania) – A State of Crystal (Un Estado de Cristal) 2010, 3’19
Doug Garth Williams (USA) – Back & Forth, 2009, 2:42