Screenings


Awards
Grand Prix Experimental-essai-art vidéo, Cote Court, France 2005
First Prize Videoex 2005, Festival of Experimental Film and Video Zurich, Switzerland
Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury, The 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany, 2005
First Prize ex aequo, Videoex 2002, Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Zurich, Switzerland
ARTE Prize for Best European Short Film, The 48th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany 2002
Arts Council of England Artist’s Film and Video Production Award 1996
Selected Solo Screenings, Focuses and Retrospectives
“Tres Cortos de Laura Waddington” in “Mujeres en La Resistencia/ Women of the Resistance” (Curated by Monica Delgado, Jose Sarmiento and Nicole Brenez) in conjunction with Cámara Lúcida – IV Festival Internacional de Cine, Ecuador, Alianza Francesa de Cuenca, Ecuador, 2019
“Tres Cortos de Laura Waddington” in “Mujeres en La Resistencia/ Women of the Resistance” (Curated by Monica Delgado, Jose Sarmiento and Nicole Brenez) Efimera, La Paz, Bolivia, 2019
“Tres Cortos de Laura Waddington” in “Mujeres en La Resistencia/ Women of the Resistance” (Curated by Monica Delgado, Jose Sarmiento and Nicole Brenez) Sala Robles Godoy del Ministerio de Cultura del Peru, Museo de la Nacion, Lima, Peru, 2019
“Waddington Program” “Internationalist Cinema For Today” (Curated by Nicole Brenez), Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2012
“MostraVideo Itau Cultural” “Laura Waddington: Border, CARGO and The Lost Days” (Curated by Andre Brasil, Institut Itau Cultural, Sao Paolo) Palacio das Artes, Belo Horizonte and Institututo de Artes do Para, Belem do Para, Brazil, 2007
“La Frontiera. Controgeografie del rifugio” “Spazio Laura Waddington” Sala Curò, piazza della Cittadella, Bergamo collaboration of Lab80 and Millepiani,Italy, 2007
Focus “Laura Waddington” Salon Vidéo de Printemps, Salon Mommen, Brussels (Organised by 68 Septante), 2007
“Vidéo et après: Laura Waddington” Musée National d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2006
“A Nomadic Camera: Films by Laura Waddington” at Curzon cinema, London, UK (Organised by Cinémathèque de Tanger and Photographer’s Gallery, London), 2006
“Laura Waddington”, Centre Culturel Français de Belgrade, Serbia (Proposed byTransat Vidéo, France), 2006
Retrospective “Crossing Frontiers – Laura Waddington”, The 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, 2005
“Homage to Laura Waddington” Spazio Video, The 41st Pesaro International Film Festival, 2005
“Tapis, coussins et vidéo : LaurVa Waddington”, 33rd La Rochelle International Film Festival, Chapelle Fromentin, 2005
“In Person: Laura Waddington” Austrian Film Museum, Organised by Six Pack Film, Vienna, 2002
Selected Film Festivals
2021
“CARGO” with Annik Leroy’s “Vers La Mer” at VISITE Film Festival, Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium
2020
“Border” at Film Mutations, Festival of Invisible Cinema XIII: Cinemaclash! Film + Power, ArtKino Zagreb, Croatia (part of the program: Age of Power, Rijeka2020 – European Capital of Culture)
2019
“Border” at Les Rencontres autour du Film Ethnographique de Grenoble, 23 édition, Cinémathèque de Grenoble, France
“Border” in Chroma: 20ème édition “Aux Ecrans du Reel: Festival de Films Documentaires”, Le Mans, France
2018
“Border” in “Schwerpunkt Europa: Europe is falling apart,” the 31st Film Fest Dresden, Germany
2016
“CARGO” at Chroma: Aux Ecrans du Reel, 17eme Festival de Films Documentaires, Le Mans, France,
2015
“Border” in “Migrants and Borders,” The 19th Festival Les Ecrans Documentaires, Arcueil, France
2014
“Border” in “Shifting Borders,” The 18th International Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland,
2011
“Border” Côté court – Rétrospective 20 Ans Côté court, Rétrospective 7: Border, Cine 104, Pantin, France
“Border” 1ère édition du Festival International du Film des Droits de l’Homme de Metz, France
2009
“STILL” (Outrage&Rebellion) Film Mutations, Third Festival of Invisible Cinema, Zagreb, Croatia,
2008
“CARGO” “10 Jahre Videoex – 10 Jahre nicht narrativer Film – 10 Jahre „Other Stories“, Festival Videoex, Zurich, Switzerland
“Border” and “CARGO” Festival du Film Documentaire “Les Yeux Ouverts”, Beauvais, Picardie, France
2007
“Towards a Canon of Short Film” “CARGO” 26th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
Festival International Cinéma & Femme de Guadeloupe, Guadeloupe
2006
Le 28e Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, France
The 21st Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The 3rd Singapore Shorts Film Festival, The Substation, Singapore
Paris Tout Court (Panorama International), L’Arlequin Cinema, Paris
VIPER International Festival For Film Video and Media, Basel, Switzerland
The19th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
The International Women’s Film Festival “Panorama Section”, Cologne/Dortmund, Germany
2005
The 51st Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany (Special Mention of the Ecumenical Jury and Retrospective : Crossing Frontiers – Laura Waddington)
The 12th New York Video Festival 2005,Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York, USA
The 59th Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland
“La Semaine des réalisateurs 2005” Fespaco, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The 6th Seoul Film Festival “Manifesta”, South Korea
The Images Festival, 18th Edition, Toronto, Canada
One World, 7th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
Côté court 2005, 14th Festival du Film Court, Pantin, Seine Saint Denis, France (Grand Prix Experimental-essai-art vidéo)
Videoex 2005, Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Zurich, Switzerland (First Prize)
Paris Cinema Festival 2005, Carte Blanche à Pointligneplan: “Manifesto 3”
The 41st Pesaro International Film Festival, Italy (Homage to Laura Waddington)
The 33rd La Rochelle International Film Festival (Laura Waddington – Tapis, coussins et vidéo)
The 27th International Women’s Film Festival, Créteil, France
The 21st International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany
The 1st Neusis Festival, Urbino, Italy (Selection of Locarno Film Festival)
Les 21èmes Rencontres Cinéma de Gindou, France
Planet in Focus 2005: International Environmental Film and Video Festival, Toronto, Canada
European Short Film Biennale 2005, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Dokument 3, International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Invideo 2005 15th International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond, Milan, Italy
L’Alternativa 2005, 12th Independent Film Festival of Barcelona, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
The 22nd Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Germany
Les Ecrans Documentaires 2005, Arcueil, France
Les 12èmes Rencontres de Cinéma de Court Métrage, Chabrières d’Avignon, France
“CARGO et Border”, Le 14ème Festival du Film de Vendome, December 2005
2004
The 57th Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
The 33rd Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Canada
The 36th International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The 51st Sydney International Film Festival, Australia
The 19th Festival International du Film de Belfort, France
The 11th Filmer à tout prix, Bruxelles, Belgium
The Human Rights Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
The 8th Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin, France
The 9th Malaysian Video Awards Festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2003
The One World International Film Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
The One World Human Rights Film Festival, Council for defence of Human Rights and Freedoms, Prishtina, Kosovo
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2003, Cinema Arlequin, Paris, France
The International Women Film Festival, Turin, Italy
The 9th International Film Festival Dortmund, Femme Totale, Germany
The 10th Oldenburger Filmtage, Germany
2002
The 48th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany (ARTE Prize for Best European Short Film)
Videoex 2002, Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland (First Prize ex aequo)
The 38th Pesaro International Film Festival, Italy
The 10th Filmer a tout prix, Bruxelles, Belgium
The Jeonju International Film Festival 2002, Korea
ISEA 2002, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Nagoya, Japan
The 14th Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey
The 6th International Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
The 2002 Birmingham Film and TV Festival, England
The 22nd Indie Video Archive 2002, Seoul, South Korea
The 6th Video Medeja, International Video Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia
Pulse 2002, Chicago Filmmakers, USA
The Festival of Festivals, Cinealternative, Paris, France
The 10th International Festival of Video and Multimedia, Canarias, Spain
The 15th Instants Video de Manosque, France
PEK festival, Filmhuis, The Hague, Netherlands
2001
The 30th International Film Festival Rotterdam
The New York Video Festival 2001, Film Society of Lincoln Center
The 30th Montreal Festival of New Cinema and New Media, Canada
The 45th London International Film Festival, United Kingdom
The 19th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The 22nd Durban International Film Festival, South Africa
The 5th Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture, Austria
VIPER, International Festival for Film, Video and Multimedia, Basel, Switzerland
“Hors Les Murs” Festival International du Documentaire de Marseille, France
The 43rd Bilbao Documentary and Short Film festival, Spain
The 22nd Locarno Videoart Festival et Forum International de la Vidéo et des Arts Electroniques et de la Nouvelle Culture Emergeante, Switzerland
2000
The 29th International Film Festival Rotterdam
The New York Video Festival 2000, Film Society of Lincoln Center
The 29th Montreal International Festival of New Cinema & New Media, Canada
The 18th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Transmediale International Media Arts Festival 2000, Berlin, Germany
ISEA 2000, 10th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Paris, France
Netmage, Linkproject, Bologna, Italy
Dnet, the Lux, London, UK
Cinematexas 2000, Texas, USA
Videomedeja 5, Novi Sad, Serbia
Interferences, 2nd International Festival of Urban Multimedia Arts 2000, Belfort, France
1996
The 25th Montreal International Festival of New Film and Video, Canada
The 5th New York Video Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, USA
VIPER International Film, Video and Multimedia Festival, Luzerne, Switzerland
The 8th European Media Art Festival, Osnabruk, Germany
The 12th Hamburg Short film festival, Hamburg, Germany
TV Screenings
“KurzSchluss/ Court Circuit” ARTE, June 2003
Selected Museums and Exhibitions:
Art Installation
“Border” in the exhibition “Transfert” (curated by Teodor Ajder, Natalia Andrzejewska, Tomasz Szerszen, Dorota Jarecka) Galeria Studio, Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland, September – November 2019
“CARGO” in the exhibition “Black Atlas: Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Maeve Brennan, Laura Waddington” (curated by Tina Fiske) Cample Line, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, March – May 2019
“Border” in the exhbition “TRZECI BEZPIECZNY KRAJ: Ahmed Deeb, Sylvain George, Laura Waddington” Malta Festival, Poznan, Poland, June 2018
“Border” in the exhibition “La Frontera nos cruzo” MUNTREF, Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (National Immigration Museum), Buenos Aires, Argentina (curated by Le Peuple qui Manque) September-December 2015
“Border” in the exhibition,“The Borderscape Room” Le Quartier, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, France, October – December 2013 (curated by Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quiros – le peuple qui manque)
“CARGO” in the exhibition “Centre Pompidou, Collection Nouveaux Medias”, Institut Francais d’Izmir, Turkey May 6th to June 13th 2011(Curated by Christine Van Aasche)
“CARGO” “Alternatives to Memories” Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France December 2nd 2010 to February 4 2011 (Curated by Marion Hohlfeldt)
“CARGO“in the exhibition “Selected Works from the Pompidou’s New Media Collection” Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel, November 2010 – January 2011(Curated by Ghila Limon and Christine Van Assche)
“CARGO” in the exhibition “La Intratable Belleza del Mundo” The Wilfredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba, 2010 (curated by Christine Van Aasche. Pompidou Center)
“Border” in the exhibition “Demain vous n’y penserez plus” The Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes 2 University, France (curated by Marion Hohlfeldt) 2010
“CARGO” in the exhibition “Outside In: Alternative Narratives in Contemporary Art” Department of Fine Arts and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong, China 2009 (curated by Tina Yee-wan Pang)
“Border“in the exhibition “Home?” Galerie des Tourelles, Nanterre, Paris, France 2008/9
“Border” in the exhibition“Crime & Punishment” Kunsthalle Tallinn, Estonia, 2006 (curated by Anders Härm)
“Border“in the exhibition “New Territories” De Hallen, Bruges, Belgium, 2006 (curated by Michel Dewilde)
“Border“in the exhibition “Nous le Passage” Watou 2005, The 25th Watou Poetry Summer, Belgium, (curated by Cis Bierinckx)
“The Lost Days” The GMI Video Wall, London, UK, 1999, (curated by FACT, Liverpool)
Selected Museum and Art Screenings
2023
“The Lost Days” Carte Blanche Michael Pilz, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
2021
“Border” followed by a Q&A with Murdoch Stephens, at Adam Art Gallery, during the exhibition “Crossings” Wellington, New Zealand
2019
“Border” in “Expanded Mediterranean”, curated by Tanja Vrvilo for the project “UNSEEN” created by the artist Karla Crncevic, gallery FLORA, Dubrovnik, Croatia, November 2019
2018
“Border” in “Buffard Rembobine!” Comedie du Caen, France
2017
Border in “Filmer Calais” Cite nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Palais de la Porte Doree, France
“Border” in exhibition “Buffard Rembobine!” Centre National de la Danse, Pantin, France
2016
“CARGO” at the TBA 21: Convening #2, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India (organised by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art contemporary Vienna, curated by Shanay Jhaveri) Vasco da Gama square, Fort Kochi, Kerala, India
2013
“Border” in “Political Matters” Xcèntric.Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain, February 2013
2012
“Border” at the Musée Fernand Léger, Biot, France (programmed by the Association ECLAT ) September 2012
“Border” in “Cine Nocturnes” at The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, USA (curated by guest critic Scott MacDonald), April 2012
2011
“Border” in “Les Contre-allées. Architectures contemporaines de l’exil: Mehdi Meddaci, Djouhra Abouda & Alain Bonnamy, Laura Waddington, Safia Benhaim, Halida Boughriet” (Carte Blanche: Le Peuple qui manque), Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration, Paris, France
“Border” in “Tomorrow Never Comes Until It’s Too Late”, International Conference and Summer University: Borders, Displacement and Creation, Questioning the Contemporary, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
“Border” in “Well Connected” (organised by the Postgraduate Programme Cultures of the Curatorial Postgraduate Programme at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig) Cinematheque Leipzig, Germany
2010
“CARGO” and “Border” in the exhibition: “Voir/Revoir 4: Buffard Rembobine! Un choix d’Alain Buffard dans la Collection Nouveaux Médias et Film du Musée National d’art Moderne” Pompidou Center, Paris, France
CARGO Container Werkstatt 2010 Kunst Merano Arte im Haus der Sparkasse, Merano, Italy (curated by Sabine Gamper)
“Border” “Territories in division” / “Territoires, Identités, Frontières” (curated by Alexandra Fau and in assocation with ARTE Television and “2h d’Art par mois”) Cinéma Les 3 Luxembourg, Paris, France
2009
“La Frontera Infinita” Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
“Accompanying the Movement of the World: “Border” and “Des graines dans le vent” (Robert Kramer), “Which side are you on?” (Ken Loach)” Cinéma du Reel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“In Praise of Independents: The Flaherty: Border” National Gallery of Art, Washington, US
2007
“Border” Turbulence, The 3rd Auckland Triennial, New Zealand, 2007 (curated by Victoria Lynn)
“CARGO” “PORT CITY: On mobility and exchange” Arnolfini Center for Contemporary Art, Bristol, England
2006
Catherine Millet Lecture and screening of “Border” and Muntandas’ “On Translation” in the context of FIPA, Biarritz, 2006
“A Poesia Civil – Sobre algumas formas contemporâneas do cinema politico: Carte Blanche à Nicole Brenez”, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
“Cinémathèque de Tanger: Amongst the Moderns”, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
“La Cinémathèque de Tanger: Explorations in films and videos. Among the Moderns” The Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, Spain
“Poèmes anti-coloniaux, essais humanistes”, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France
2005
“Cine y Casi Cine”, The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
“Women with Vision 2005”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
“Subversion éternelle la suite, la relève: Esthétiques rebelles” La Cinémathèque Française, Bercy, Paris, France
2003
“Transfer Damaskus”, Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary
“It’s hard to touch the real” Kunstverein Munich, Germany
“Totally Motivated” Kunstverein Munich, Germany
2002
“Film Forum”, American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, USA
2001
“Digit” The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
“Film Forum” Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
Internet
“Border” on “Politics and Poetry” page, European Foundation Joris Ivens (selection of Pedro Tavares) September 2016
“STILL” Streamed on www.mediapart.fr as part of the collective French film project “Outrage & Rebellion”, January 2010
Selected Other
2023
“Border” in “BORDER / BIENVENUE – mobilisation pour et avec les réfugié.e.s*”, La troisième Porte à Gauche and Collectif Bienvenue Bordeaux, France
“CARGO” Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, (curated by Mae Miller-Likheth), US
2022
“Border” at A Estudo de Cena/ Ocupação na Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (Mostra de cinema LIMIAR,) Sao Paulo, Brazil, August
“Border” in “PASSAGERS DU RÉEL / Filmer les frontières : le territoire en questions” (programmed by Daleme Laetitia, La Troisième porte à gauche) La Cinémathèque du documentaire 2022 – Bibliothèque Mériadeck (Nouvelle-Aquitaine / Bordeaux), France
“Border” in Diploma exhibition of Magdalena Mądra University of Arts, Poznań, Poland June 2022
2020
“Border” in Borderlands Atelier Film program, Das 6. Internationale Choreografenatelier, Munich, Germany
“Border” in Projection Mois du doc 2020 – Le Café Lib’ Cycle : Les rencontres du réel #8(Nouvelle-Aquitaine / Bourrou) (programmed by Saastamoinen Jenny, L’oeil Lucide), France
2019
“Border” in “Border Line: Diep-Haven”, Rencontres/projections, (curated by Philippe Terrier-Hermann, en partenariat avec Dieppe Scène Nationale, Dieppe) France, June 2019
“Border” in “Images Clandestines: Comment Raconter les Migrations” in “Images Migrantes – Rencontres cinema et migrations”, (organised by Réseau Traces) Lyon, France September 2019
“Border” in “Nuit Bleue: Va, regarde Au bord des images connues” L’INHA, Institut national d’histoire d’art, Paris (in collaboration with Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle and Centre National des Arts Plastiques) France, March 2019
2016
“Border” “Filming at The Borders: Migrating to Europe,” Columbia University, Maison Francaise, (curated by Nora Philippe) New York, USA
“Border” in “Routes of Difference – Migration in Artistic, Academic and Media Discourses” Goethe-Institut, Lisbon, Portugal
Border in “Post Realistic Videos: How to Fix the World” (Selection of Jill Godmilow) Teatr Polski, Bydgoszczy, Poland
“Border” Les Lucioles du Doc, screening organised by prisoners at Nanterre Prison, Paris, France
“Border” with “Atlantiques” and “Pour vivre j’ai laisse” at the Belgian cinematheque, (curated by Le P’tit Cine for “Regards sur les Docs: Recits de l’exil) Cinematek, Brussels, Belgium
2015
“Cargo” and “Border” in 11emes Rencontres du film documentaire: “Lutte et Resistances, L’etranger”(organised by Association Abraham Mazel) Saint Jean du Gard, France
“Border” in “Weekend de solidarite avec les migrante.e.s” organised by the Collectif Soutien Migrants 13, Marseille, France
“Border” with “Nocni tulaci” by Bijan Anquetil in “Frontieres en Deplacement” at Sabzian, Brussels, Belgium
“Border” in “Exiles – Cinema d’Urgence,” Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France, November 2015 – January 2016
2014
“Border” extracts projected during Julie Blondeau’s composition “Nachleben” in “Manifeste” IRCAM, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2013
“Border” and “STILL” in “Live like a refugee: On the Border” in the series “Global Revolt: Cinematic Ammunition” (Programmed by Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen), Flaherty NYC Fall Season, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA
“Denk mal im Kopf: Border and CARGO” (Programmed by Werkhaus, Krefeld in Conjunction with Oberhausen Film Festival archive) Project Room, Südbahnhof, Krefeld, Germany
“CARGO” in person presentation at Kreek, Oosterbeek, Netherlands
“STILL” Debate and projection, organised by Le Comité Justice et Vérité pour Wissam for the “Journée Internationale contre les violences policières”, Clermont Ferrand, France
“Border” in “MOVING_IMAGE, un abécédaire contemporain: E pour l’ÉCONOMIE, (curated by Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid) Gaîté Lyrique Paris, France
2012
“Border”, Gran Lux, Saint Etienne, France
2011
“Border” L’autre ecran (organised by Toiles et toiles) Salle Jean Dame, Paris
“Border” in “The Cine-Nocturne” curated by Scott Macdonald, Colgate University, US
2010
“Border” “Géographies fracturées #2: A New World Border” at The art center of Montreuil, France (curated by Le Peuple qui manque)
“Border” in the Programme “Clandestinite, Mobilite & frontieres #1” Maison de la Culture Amiens, France (curated by Brent Klinkum as part of the project Suspended Spaces #1)
“STILL” in “Cinéma militant, politique, social, engagé…L’héritage Dziga Vertov” Formation pour CAV Creteil, La Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France
“Border” “Insomnuit” Les Rencontres des Arts Mers-sur-Indre, France
“Border” “Les Jeudis du Festival” Festival International du Film des Droits de l’homme Paris, Cinema Nouveau Latina, Paris, France
“CARGO” F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) “The best of Flaherty 2009-2010” (curated by Scott MacDonald) Hamilton College, NY, US
“Border” during evening “Plaidoirie pour une jurisprudence” by Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin (organised by l’Utile Ignorance with the support of FRAC Alsace) Théâtre Le Maillon, Strasbourg, France
“STILL” IndieLisboa’10, Special Section: Selected films from Outrage&Rebellion, Cinema Londres, Lisbon, Portugal
2009
“Scott MacDonald presents: Documentary and the Avant-Garde” “Border” Union Docs, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, US
“Les Yeux Dans le Monde” 4eme Festival ItinErrance, Paris, France
2008
“CARGO” and “God is my Safest Bunker” Flaherty Presents: Anthology Film Archive, New York, US
“Ce lumineux sujet de désir” “Contrechamp” Le Cinematographe, Nantes, France
“CARGO” BAM Cinematek presents: Selection from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music, USA
“The presence of Place” screening curated by Jason Fox, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, US
“CARGO” Bibliothèque municipale d’Anglet, projection followed by discussion with Claude Villers, France
“Border” Association Chroma, Le Mans, France
“Border” Partenze Arrivi – percorsi di arte contemporanea (organized by the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica and
Associazione culturale E:, in collaboration with Boston University) Venice, Italy
2007
Carte Blanche à Françoise Parfait, ENSBA, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
Carte Blanche 6870.be 10th Edition, Bandits Mages, Bourges
Travelling” Rennes, France (curated by Transat video)
Cinema Lux, Caen (curated by Transat video)
“Corps d’exils” Polygone étoilé, Marseille, France (organised by peuple & culture Marseille)
“Que faisons-nous ensemble” Théâtre de l’Espace, Besancon, France
Screenings organised by “La Pellicule Ensorcolée”, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Ecofestival organised by “Tous dans le meme panier” Bretagne, France
“Happy New Ears” Buda Kunsten Centrum, Kortrijk, Belgium
“Border” “Abend des politischen Kurzfilms” (Oberhausen Archive) Der Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung, Berlin, Germany
“Border” (Oberhausen Archive) Kino Palas, Banja Luka, Bosnia
2006
Commemoration for World Refugee Day, Museu Nacional de Soares des Reis, Porto, Portugal (organised by organised by The University of Porto and The Conseil Portugais pour les Réfugiés)
Mardis Documentaires de la Scam, (Invitation of Annik Leroy), Petit Théâtre Mercelis, Bruxelles
Cinema la Enana Marron, Madrid, Spain
Screening Makan house, Amman, Jordan, (curated by Brent Klinkum)
“Crash Test Dummy: The New European “Self” in a Bio-Political Crash Test: Mobile Studio Cocobello” Budapest, Prague, Ljubljana, Munich
“The Lost Days” BMS-Neudorf (Bibliothèque Municipale de Strasbourg)
“Faites de L’image” The Best of Videophages, Jardin de la Colonne, Toulouse, France
“High Definition”, video program accompanying the NGBK, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin Germany
“Atom Cities: Paldiski – Sillamäe” (organised by Eleonore de Montesqiou) Kunstihoone LinnaGalerii, Tallinn, Estonia
“Border” and “Last Resort” by Pawel Pawlikowski, Cinema Oblo, Lausanne, Switzerland
“CARGO” at “Struttura” San Vincenzo municipality, Biblioteca di San Vincenzo, proposal of the Pesaro Film Festival, Italy, September 2006
Screening organised during the exhibition of Eleonore de Montesquiou, Platform, Berlin, October 2006
PULSAR, Caracas, Venezuela (programmed by Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin in conjunction with French embassy Caracas) October 2006
“Exils” programme at Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium, October/November 2006
“CARGO” and “Border”, “Film Forum’s 30th Anniversary, Mark Rance presents new work by Sarah Miles and Laura Waddington.” Filmforum, The Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
2005
SixPack Film, Vienna, Special: Phantom Bilder, Top Kino, Vienna, Austria
“Carte Blanche à la Cinémathèque de Tangiers” Instants Vidéos, Polygone étoilé, Marseille, France
“Acte Public de Co-errances” Marie de Romainville, France
“Frontières” Itinérances, Festival Cinéma d’Ales, France
“Border” Semaines d’éducation contre le racisme, organised by Festival Escales Documentaires, Carré Amelot and La Mediatheque, La Rochelle, France
Espace Khiasma, Lilas, France
Incommunicado 05, De Balie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Les Marchandises doivent circuler librement, les hommes non: la leçon du libéralisme” Festival 10 Vagues, Lille, Programmed by Tausend Augen
“Frontières: Le Passage” Africum Vitae/ Khiasma Sud, Marseilles, France
“Vie Précaire. Regards Croisés, Nord-Sud” Festival Esperanzah, Namur, Belgium
Les Rencontres Cinématographiques, Belvédère du Rayon vert, Cerbère, France
‘Welt Aus Dem Container”, Prater der Volksbühne, Berlin
“Westend 05”, Schaubune Lindenfels, Leipzig, Germany
“Tranzit.Hu Bemutatja” Irok Boltja Teazo, Budapest, Hungary
2004
“Les cinéastes à l’approche du monde” L’expérience documentaire, Cinéma Arenberg, Brussels, Belgium
“H2O: Leben durch Wasser” Kaleidoskop, Film Forum, Aachen, Germany
2003
“Kartographien: Tracks and Territories” Austria Filmmaker Cooperative, Das 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Transat video, Normandie, France
“MOving Images, Digital Video Forum” Norwich School Art and design, England
“From Reel to Real” Mousontumr, Frankfurt, Germany
“Kartographien: Tracks and Territories” Das 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria Filmmaker Cooperative, Austria
2002
PLAY gallery for still and motion pictures, Berlin, Germany
“The City: Topias and reflections”, Tallinn, Estonia
M. Zilinsko Dailes Galerie, Kaunas, Lithuania
COE Cinema, Milan, Italy
“Écran d’amour” Glaz’art Paris, France
Kaleidoskop, Filmforum, Aachen, Germany
2001
The San Francisco Cinematheque, USA
Cineteatro San Lorenzo, Milan, Italy
Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pollack Gallery, group video show, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997
Off Broadway Cinema, Cologne, Germany
1992
‘Rooster Rushes’ Pyramid Club, New York
Selected Touring
2005-2006
International Video, Oberhausen Short Film Festival tour 2005- 2006: Goethe Institute, Washington,US; 10th Malaysian Video Awards, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2005
The Human Rights Film Festival, Zagreb, Tour of Croatia
2004-5
“It’s hard to touch the real” Kunstverein Munich tour: Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland; Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Bildmuseet Umeå, University College of Fine Arts, Umea; Yeans Artist’s run Space Gothenburg; Unge Kunstnerers Samfund, UKS, Olso, Norway; City Gallery, Tallinn Kunsthalle, Estonia
2002-4
International Video, Oberhausen Films on tour: Montreal, Group d’intervention video, 2002;
Goethe Institute, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2002; Kino Xenix, Zurich, Switzerland; Kommunales Kino, Freiburg, Germany; Les Varietes, Marseille, France; Cinema Nova, Bruxelles, Belgium; Filmkunsthaus die Nato, Leipzig, Germany; Berliner Kino Babylon, Berlin, Germany; Belgrade International Film Festival, Serbia; Black Nights Film Festival, Goethe Institute, Tallinn, Estonia; Goethe Institute, Sydney, Australia; Goethe Institute, Auckland, New Zealand; “Signes de Nuit” Cinema Balzac, Paris
2001
“Highlights of the New York Video Festival 2001” Film Society of Lincoln Center tour of USA
“Deglobalizing/Reglobalizing” Mediaterra 2001, travelling micromuseum: Athens, Lavrion, Sofia, Belgrade, Maribor, Frankfurt
2000
Highlights of the New York Video Festival 2000, Film Society of Lincoln Center tour of USA
Selected Conferences and Round Tables
“Border” discussed in “On the Fleeing Visibility of the Refugees” by Pawel Moscicki in “Cultural Literacy of Migration: Affects, Memory, Concepts,” The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland May 2016
“Border” screened and discussed in the seminar “Calais where Europe ends” in the cycle of seminars “From the Migration of Images to the image of Migration” by Pawel Moscicki, April 2016, Teatr Polski, Bydgoszczy, Poland, April 2016
Extracts of “Border” in “Filmer les frontières” Colloque international Université de Toulouse II, by Corinne Maury France, 2013
“De l’art vidéo aux œuvres contemporaines” Extracts of “Border” chosen by Catherine Millet for a round table on the occasion of the 40th birthday of the magazine Art Press, Festival Entrevues, Belfort, December 2012
“Border discussed in the Lecture “ŻYCIE POŚMIERTNE LUDU” in the cycle of seminars “Archive and Utopia in the Twentieth century” by Pawel Moscicki, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland, June 2010
“Border” – the videographic traces by Laura Waddington as a cinematographic memorial”, Paper by Eva Kuhn at the Conference: “Images of Illegalized Immigration, Basel University, Switzerland 2009
“Border” at Round Table: “Quelle place pour les migrants dans notre societé?” organised by Observatoire de la diversité culturelle, for the Journée Internationale des Migrants, Auditorium du Centre Culturel Jean-Cocteau, Les Lilas, France 2009
Catherine Millet Lecture and screening of “Border” and Muntandas’ “On Translation” in the context of FIPA, Biarritz, 2006
Conference “Immigration, Integration and Human Rights”, June 2005, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 2005
Selected In Person Lectures and Seminars
“Atelier: Lecture d’image” : “Exil / Migrations” Festival A NOUS DE VOIR Science et cinéma, Oullins, France, November 2009
“Age of Migration” The 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, USA, June 21 -27, 2008
Workshop ERG (Ecole de Recherche Graphique), Brussels, Belgium, April 2007 (class of Annik Leroy),
Lecture Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, France March 2006 (in collaboration with Vidéo Les Beaux Jours)
Ladoc Lecture, Kino in der Brucke, Cologne, Germany, November 2005
Lectures on Loss of Freedom and Human Rights, Academy of Fine Arts, Munster, Germany July 2005
Extracts and presentation of “Border” in the Conference “Immigration, Integration and Human Rights”, June 2005, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Seminar KHM Cologne (invitation/class of Matthias Müller), Germany, May 2005
ELIA Congress Lectures, Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Luzerne, Switzerland, 4-5 November, 2004
Seminar Estonian Academy of Arts (invitation/class of Kai Kaljo), Tallinn, Estonia, March 11-15, 2001
Selected Educational Institutions and Workshops
“Border” workshop for teenagers held by Gilles Deroo, l’asso 47-2, Cosne sur Loire, France, summer 2021
“Border” Connecticut College, US (Class of Catherine Benoit) April – June 2020
“Border” and “CARGO” Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, Germany (class of Matthias Mueller) Summer Semester, 2018
“Border” in “Migrant Crisis in Europe” Silfen Auditorium, Conneticut College, USA (anthropology course of Catherine Benoit), November 2017
“Border” in class of Sophie Bruneau, INSAS, Bruxelles, Belgium February 2017
“Border” in Seminar by Peter Snowdon at Aberystwyth University, Wales, March 2014
“Eyespeak presents the films of Laura Waddington” with Laura Waddington and Nick Mirzoeff, Hunter College, New York, USA, December 2013
“Border” extracts presented and discussed by Chari Larsson’s in the paper “Suspicious Images” presented at the University of Queensland, Australia, 2010
“Border” in Film Analysis Workshop: Kitsch, Rache, Solidarität? Un/Sichtbarkeiten von Grenze und Migration (A project by Martyna Starosta) Raumerweiterungshalle am Ostkreuz, Berlin Germany 2010
“Border” in “Nocturnes” curated by Scott Macdonald, Hamilton College, NY, US 2009
Extracts of “Border” Lecture by Masa Hilcisin, Department of Film Studies and Audio-Visual Culture, Masaryk University, Czech Republic 2009
“CARGO” presented by Patrick Huber, Art School Zurich, Switzerland, 2009
“Border” Workshop of Ursula Biemann, Rotonde des Arts, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2009
“CARGO” Workshop of Petra Johnson, AMspace, Shanghai, China, 2009
“Border” “CARGO” “The Lost Days”“Filmische Wege zum Realen. Der essayistische Dokumentarfilm” class of Eva Kuhn, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2009
“Border” “CARGO” “The Lost Days” University at Buffalo (class of Sarah Elder), US 2008/9
“Border” and “CARGO” School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), Boston (class of Jane Gillooly) US 2009
University of California Santa Barbara (class of Bhaskar Sarkar), US 2008/9
Workshop of Ulrike Franke, Filmhaus Koln, Germany 2008
Class of Georges Didi Huberman EHESS, Paris, France
“Camera Stylo” Projection by Pharos at Ecole Superieure d’Art de Metz Metropole, France 2008
University of Glasgow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology (class of Ana Devic), Scotland, 2008
Seminar on asylum by Aline Clavelier at IRTESS ( institut régional d’enseignement supérieur en travail social) Dijon, France, 2008
IDKA, Gavle, Sweden (class of Kai Kaljo), 2006
Class of Peter Hutton, Bard College, US
Seminar given by Heather Winter Volkshochschule, Wien Nord West, Vienna, 2003
Student Workshop by Vipin Vijay at the Mass Communication Center, Kerala, India 2002
Seminar, Vytautas magnus u-ty Art Institute, Lithuania, 2002