Responding to the festival theme for refusal, the works in remote. response. request. confront and dismantle singular truths, orientating us towards a multiplicity of futures suspended within their images.

The programme unfolds through a series of commissioned projects by artists Rhea Storr and Phanuel Antwi, whose installation advances a diasporic archive told through the bonds of Black kinship; Elsa Brès, whose performance work uses a pack of algorithmically activated wild boars to reveal the fallacy of anthropocentrism; and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, who draws us into YouTube conspiracy theories, ISIS propaganda and Hollywood movies to reveal the spectacle at the heart of the networked image. Presented concurrently are a series of screenings and expanded film works from Maud Craigie, who examines the structures of American police interrogation and their relationship to fictional screen representations of law enforcement; Katya Suvorova, whose work addresses civic activism in Kazakhstan; and Sam Tam Ham, who through a proposed UN resolution, imagines a relocation of the Prime Meridian from Greenwich, UK, to Te Moana-nui-ā-Kiwa (the Pacific Ocean).

Traversing the lines between cinema, exhibition, and performance, remote. response. request. offers a distinct film-festival format with a series of three, four weeks long installations that extend across the transmediale studio space and website.