To develop a new language of imagery is the aim of the French film production company Anna Sanders Films, started in 1997. An initiative of, among others, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Charles de Meaux and Philippe Parreno. Anna Sanders Films produces short and long interdisciplinary films. Although the artists use material from the film world, the questions raised have to do with the visual arts.

Anna Sanders films are often made as a reaction to places and events. The viewer is carried along, as it were, on the journey of the filmmakers. To Pamir, Central Asia, Hong Kong, Iceland, but also on a journey through the history of cinema, an exploration of the border between fiction and reality. Simple storylines that could direct the viewer's attention towards a specific direction are avoided, creating space for the imagination.

Now, seven years on, it is clear that these French artists have been successful. In 2002 Huyghe won the Hugo Boss Prize and Gonzalez-Foerster won the Duchamp Prize in the same year. Plus, the film Blissfully Yours by the Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and the Dutch Critics Prize at the 2003 Rotterdam International Film Festival.

The World Wide Video Festival is presenting an overview of Anna Sanders Films productions.

Where and when?
Saturday 19 June and Sunday 20 June Filmmuseum in the Vondelpark: Films by Pierre Huyghe, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Charles de Meaux, and Philippe Parreno.