LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen — Bring Your Own File @ Pop Up Cinema
On 22 February, join us for another showcase of media art by emerging and self-taught artists. LI-MA brings its BYOF showcase to an intimate theatre at the heart of Tilburg
Organised in collaboration with Pop Up Cinema, this edition of Bring Your Own File Tilburg, brings together a diverse selection of moving image works that challenge, reinterpret, and expand the boundaries of digital art. From experimental animation to site-responsive filmmaking, five emerging artists, selected through our Bring Your Own File open call, examine materiality, identity, and technological transformation.
On 22 February, we are excited to bring our programme to Tilburg for the next edition of LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen — Bring Your Own File. The screening will take place at De Nieuwe Vorst, an intimate theater in the heart of Tilburg that specialises in contemporary theatre and modern dance.
Five works by five emerging media artists challenge conventional storytelling, using innovative techniques to engage with history, memory, and materiality. Whether through video or animation, they create a layered exploration of transformation—of landscapes, identities, and materials—offering a critical lens on the tensions between destruction and creation, presence and absence, past and future.
On the same evening, from 20:00 to 21:45, LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen is taking place. A ticket can be bought separately or for both events.
Programme Overview
Nesie Junyi Wang (she/her), In the Trace of Tilled Stones, 2024, 20’
At a copper mine in China, decades of extraction have left the land infertile and toxic. Yet, despite these conditions, mine workers have created small gardens in the very soil altered by industrial processes. This film interweaves their stories, revealing the complex relationship between the workers and the landscape they both degrade and nurture.
Nesie Junyi Wang is an artist and researcher working across printmaking, photography, and film. Her practice explores human interactions with their environments, focusing on relational dynamics, paradoxical connections, and transformations within ecological and cultural contexts.
Sophie Waller (they/she), Queer Tears, 2025, 6'08", Video
A visual meditation on queer identity and the misalignment between internal experience and external perception. Using costumes to embody alienation and monstrosity, Queer Tears constructs an abstract world where tears and pain transform into symbols of joy and acceptance.
Sophie Waller is a British-American interdisciplinary artist and performer based in the Netherlands. Their practice embraces the non-traditional, the instinctual, and the playful, often taking shape through theatre, performance, and video art.
Lilian C. Scheuer (she/her), (null), 2023, 3'42"
An audiovisual translation of contemporary existential questions and the overwhelming identity crisis of the post-digital age. Composed entirely of digital material—screenshots, QR codes, memes, and GIFs—the work navigates the contradictions between digital nihilism and a post-ironic ‘god complex’, reflecting on our desperate search for meaning.
Lilian C. Scheuer is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer based in Germany. Her practice explores the psychological conditions of human nature in the post-digital age, working across audiovisual media, printed matter, and installation.
Marvin Hauck (he/him), States of Matter, 2024, 7'
An experimental strata-cut animation crafted entirely from wax and paper. Inspired by Oskar Fischinger’s 1920s wax experiments, the film emerged from the director’s postgraduate research into this technique. The title references the transformation of liquid wax into solid sculptures, only to be systematically cut down and reanimated. Highly magnified macro animations are paired with a tactile soundscape, emphasising the intricate details, textures, and movements of the material.
Marvin Hauck is an experimental animator. Influenced by his studies in creative media in Hong Kong, he pursued a master's in animation in the Netherlands, where he explored the boundaries of strata-cut animation.
Miguel Teodoro (he/him), Chemical Affinities, 2023, 8'51"
Tracing the impact of ammonia fertilisers in the Alentejo region of southern Portugal, Chemical Affinities investigates the techno-scientific transformation of agricultural land. Using filmmaking as a tool of inquiry in contested sites, the work juxtaposes high-resolution territorial imagery with 8mm film toned in ammonia, revealing the entangled histories of soil fertility, energy, chemical industries, and image-making technologies.
Miguel Teodoro is a visual artist whose work examines the interdependencies of materiality, geopolitics, ecology, and visual culture. His site-responsive spatial interventions explore the political and environmental histories embedded in imaging technologies.
