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Alexis Guillier

Purgatoire (Cinema that Kills)

The film’s script, characteristic of cinema supporting the Palestinian resistance at the time, deals with a group of Fedayeen and in particular with one of its members who was captured by the Israeli army. He reveals the location of his comrades under torture. A final scene was meant to show their revenge: a bombing at →

Luciana Decker Orozco

What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha

Titled What Humans See as Blood, Jaguars See as Chicha, the work investigates storytelling about deities, sacred objects, and spaces in the Andes. It seeks to highlight remembrances and customs of relating to nature, space, and the unusual geological formations in Kalaque, in the artist’s native Bolivia, which owes its name to the rocky mountains →

Peny Chan

鳳殞 (Sorrow of the Phoenix)

Polyglot Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan seeks to highlight the cultural traditions as well as the transformations within the Peking opera’s style of singing. Her project aims to deconstruct the opera’s original structure and reconstruct it into a new experimental genre of singing. Working together with musician and vocalist Rully Shabara on producing the →

Tom Cassani

Expanded Magic

At the Forecast Forum in Berlin, Cassani, who also performs under the moniker Strange Boy, presented a series that highlighted the performing body as an unreliable measure of truth. Cassani was selected by choreographer Florentina Holziger to continue to develop his proposal to completion within the framework of Forecast. Drawing on an expanded approach to →

Hamza Baig

The Marblous Four

Set in the imaginary village of “Geetapur” (inspired by Chakwal, Pakistan) the plot centers on the local children, who possess a set of magical marbles that have the power to sustain life in the village. The story follows Guddo, whose attempt to help her peers through the use of her unique marbles repeatedly ends in →

Mia Štark

An Anthology of Glances

Her project involves a performative piece inspired by the media-consumption habits of a specific age group in her native Croatia or, more precisely, her grandmother’s reliance on TV for information.

Daliso Chaponda

Daliso Chaponda

Humor and Storytelling

Alia Ibrahim

A Dance with Reality

Florentina Holzinger

Bodies in Action

Laura Huertas Millán

Reworlding Stories

Ana Prvački

Ana Prvački

Slapstick and Seduction

Rully Shabara

Rully Shabara

Your Voice Is Your Sound

Forecast 7: It’s a Wrap!

Watch the Recap of the 2023 Forecast Festival

Forecast 7 culminated in a two-day event which marked the conclusion of the 2022-23 edition. From March 17–18, the mentees premiered their projects at Radialsystem and the mentors each presented unique work. In addition, LINA fellows Studio Inscape and Tevi Allan Mensah offered workshops relating to their respective practices as urbanists and architects. →

Forecast Festival: Peny Chan

Finding and Redefining the Concubine’s Voice

Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan casts a female gaze on the Peking Opera and finds her voice within it by teasing out the tensions between tradition and the contemporary moment. →

Forecast Festival: Hamza Baig

Humor as a Resilient and Transcendent Remedy

Comedy anchors filmmaker Hamza Baig’s project The Marblous Four, which revives a traditional Pakistani game to imagine a homegrown superhero. →

Forecast Festival: Tom Cassani

Participating in Feats of Wonder

Tom Cassani uses wonder to conjure conversations about the nature of perception and call for a shared understanding of truth. →

Forecast Festival: Luciana Decker Orozco

Reworlding Stories to Embody Collectivity

Luciana Decker Orozco’s film installation draws upon ancient oral traditions from the Bolivian Andes that imbue nature with personhood to revere and protect it. →

Forecast Festival: Alexis Guillier

The Latent Politics of Filmset Accidents

Alexis Guillier’s project explores what happens when, instead of moving past accidents in Lebanon, we investigate them. →

Forecast Festival: Mia Stark

To Optimize Your View, Let Things Get a Bit Absurd First

The deadpan humor of Mia Štark’s project An Anthology of Glances is an opportunity to understand the wealth of perspectives available through our bodies. →

Forecast Festival 2023

Experience New Cutting-Edge Projects

Forecast 7 will culminate in a two-day event at Radialsystem on March 17–18. The entire venue will be activated through boundary-pushing contributions by the mentors and mentees including stand-up comedy, deconstructed magic, cinematic explorations, and vocal experimentations. →

The Work-Stay: Las Vegas

Tom Cassani Challenges Our Willingness to Be Deceived

Tom Cassani tests the limits of body-based illusion while mapping new territories in contemporary performance practices. In February, he visited Las Vegas with his mentor Florentina Holzinger to explore the long-running shows in this center of entertainment. →

The Work-Stay: Digital

Hamza Baig Portrays a Community with Humor and Drama

Comedy anchors filmmaker Hamza Baig’s project, which revives a traditional Pakistani game to imagine a homegrown female superhero for a live-action series. He worked on the show's script with his mentor Daliso Chaponda in concentrated digital sessions. →

The Work-Stay: Beirut

Alexis Guillier Explores the Latent Politics of a Film Set Accident

Alexis Guillier and his mentor, investigative reporter Alia Ibrahim, met in Beirut in mid-January to deepen his artistic research into the deadly fire that broke out on the set of a film by Lebanese director Gary Garabedian in the late 1960s. →

The Work-Stay: Barcelona

Artist Mia Štark Turns Expectations on Their Head

Mia Štark and her mentor, artist Ana Prvački, traveled to Barcelona in early December for a concentrated work-stay at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, where they deepened Štark's research into habits of looking and seeing, and how these can be altered and challenged by using the body in unexpected ways. →

The Work-Stay: Berlin

Peny Chan Brings the Female Gaze to the Peking Opera

Malaysian singer and performer Peny Chan and her mentor Rully Shabara met in Berlin in mid-November to work on Chan’s composition, which reimagines the character of the concubine in the Peking opera. →

The Work-Stay: London and Paris

Luciana Decker Orozco's Film Narrates Nature's Personhod

Bolivian filmmaker Luciana Decker Orozco and her mentor Laura Huertas Millán got together to conceptualize the film's pre-production and reflect on the decolonial practices the work employs. →

Forecast 7: The Selected Mentees 2022

Announcing the Six Projects in Forecast’s Seventh Edition

On the weekend of July 15–17, Forecast and Radialsystem invited the public to experience 18 multidisciplinary projects by artists, musicians, performers, researchers, filmmakers, and comedians. →

Forecast Forum 7, July 15–17, 2022

Experience 18 Trailblazing Projects

Join the Forecast Forum in Berlin's Radialsystem for a weekend full of thought-provoking experiences conceived by audacious thinkers from all over the world. →

Forecast 7: Forum Participants and Dates Announced

See the Nominated Projects

The six international mentors of Forecast 7 have each selected three projects for the Forecast Forum in July. →

Forecast 7: The Call for Ideas Has Ended

The Nominees Will Be Announced on May 4, 2022 →

Open Call 2022

Apply to Forecast's Mentorship Program

We're happy to announce the mentors in Forecast’s seventh edition and call for ideas. →

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