Underneath the Floorboards presents its 15th edition, a programme that brings together a wide range of experimental moving-image practices by artists from diverse contexts and generations. Through intimate narratives, poetic gestures, political reflection, and formal experimentation, this selection unfolds as a journey across fragile states of being, memory, displacement, vulnerability, and transformation.

From domestic spaces overshadowed by distant violence to landscapes shaped by longing, transit, and return, the works in this edition move between the personal and the collective, the dreamlike and the historical, the analogue and the algorithmic. Questions of belonging, freedom, mortality, perception, and identity emerge through dance, found footage, 16mm film, split-screen structures, animation, and speculative narratives.

Bringing together works that are lyrical, critical, and emotionally resonant, this edition of Underneath the Floorboards offers a layered exploration of contemporary video art as a space for reflection, resistance, and imagination.

Artists: MJ Golzari – Maya Bentley – Sara N. Santos – Dina Yanni – Jolene Mok – Mojca Radkovič – Ajda Zupan – Malaz Usta – Chris Mich – Irene Dionisio – João Garcia Neto – Shako None – Lei Lei – Nim Longley – Guadalupe Arellanes – Sylvie Boisseau – Frank Westermeyer – Indexthumb – Adam E. Stone – Diana Olifirova