Programme Overview

Janilda Bartolomeu –  _when_scrolling_becomes_scrying (NL, 2023, 12min)

This poignant work, in response to Debra Solomon’s ‘the_living’ (1997-1998), explores grief, memory, and digital identity. Bartolomeu reflects on the haunting traces left by her late father and her online self, blending found footage, archived messages, and forgotten photos to ask: What remains of us in the digital world

Janilda Bartolomeu is a Rotterdam-based filmmaker, film programmer, and researcher with a Master’s in Comparative Arts & Media Studies. As part of Research & Development at Het Nieuwe Instituut she researched spectrality within a variety of (post)colonial contexts. She was also one of Eye Filmmuseum’s Programmers of the Future (2022-2023). Her fascinations include decolonial cinema, (post)colonial hauntings, collective memories and speculative genres.

Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh – You can’t get what you want but you can get me (NL/FI, 2024, 13min)

A tender, authentic slideshow documenting a year of transmasculine love, including milestones like their first kiss and top surgery recovery. This piece celebrates trans love and the profound connections within queer relationships.

Samira Elagoz is a Finnish/Egyptian transmasculine artist based between Berlin and Amsterdam. Elagoz has dedicated his career themes of gender, the politics of the gaze, sexual violence and its aftermath, digital romanticism, and intimacy. Elagoz has showcased work globally at venues like the Venice Biennale, IDFA, Rotterdam Film Festival, and The Eye Museum, earning multiple accolades, including the 2022 Silver Lion at Venice Biennale Teatro.

Brooklyn-based transgender director, producer, model and artist Z Walsh focuses his artistic work on photography. Amongst New York’s and Los Angeles’ creative communities he is well-known for his raw, full-hearted depictions of both his subjects and himself. 

Daniel Jacoby – 315 (NL/PE, 2023, 14min)

Through family stories and historical events, Jacoby delves into forgotten Peruvian history and its intersections with masculinity and imperialism. A personal yet critical reflection on identity and memory.

Daniel Jacoby is a visual artist and filmmaker whose work explores the human condition through eccentric characters, places, and stories, approached from inventive, tangential perspectives. With recurring themes of outsiderness, belonging, loneliness, friendship, desire, and spirituality, his award-winning films have screened at major festivals, museums, and galleries worldwide, including MoMA, Palais de Tokyo, and EYE Filmmuseum.

Daisy Evers, I woke up, again. In this blue world with a flowerless sea (NL, 2023, 10min)

Evers imagines a dystopian future where consciousness transcends the physical. Set in a serene yet unsettling blue landscape, the film probes humanity’s pursuit of meaning in a digitally determined reality.

Daisy Evers is a Netherlands-based artist exploring the “digital frontier.” Her work merges a love for computers and video games with themes of online dynamics, anthropomorphic robots, and 3D storytelling. Through futuristic speculation and science fiction, her multidisciplinary art examines the interplay between nature, technology, and the real and digital worlds.

Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters – Emoji is all we have, part 1 (NL, 2023, 14min)

This multi-channel installation critiques digital culture’s emotional simplicity, contrasting human complexity with emoji's binary nature. It reflects on how technology has reshaped communication and emotional connections, especially in a post-pandemic world. Part one of the original four-channel series will be showcased.

Luna Maurer is a mixed-media designer and artist who blends digital technologies with physicality to explore human characteristics. Roel Wouters is an Amsterdam-based designer and director working in the field of interaction and media design. Together with Jonathan Puckey, they founded Moniker in 2012. With Moniker, they explore characteristics of technology, how people use it and how it influences one’s daily lives. They won the Golden Calf for Best Digital Culture production with Emoticons Don’t Have Wrinkles.

Bring Your Own File: Showcase of Emerging Media Art

From 25 January until 9 February, don’t miss out on the showcase of works selected through our Bring Your Own File open call. LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen — Bring Your Own File is an open platform for emerging artists to present their work and gain valuable feedback.

LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen and LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen — Bring Your Own File are generously supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Fonds 21, and het Cultuurfonds.

Header image: Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters, Emoji is all we have, part 1 (NL, 2023, 14min), in collection: LI-MA