Workshop by Matthew C. Wilson and Emilia Tapprest

Matthew C. Wilson and Emilia Tapprest
“Inhabiting Cinema”, workshop in presence
Fabrica, 21-22-25 September 2023

As part of the “Co-ecologies” residency program curated by Carlos Casas (Autumn 2023/Winter 2024), a three-day workshop exploring cinema not merely as a medium, but as a mode of inhabiting worlds.

Emilia Tapprest, founder of NVISIBLE.STUDIO, is a Finnish-French filmmaker and design researcher. With an industrial design background, she turned to cinema to engage with the complexity and intensity of embodied, lived experiences. Drawing these two fields together, she explores how systems, interfaces, and cultural narratives interact with us in affective and preconscious ways, often within speculative scenarios. Tapprest studied industrial design at Aalto University in Helsinki and obtained her second degree in fine arts and film at the Sandberg Institute in 2019. Her work has been presented on international platforms such as Vdrome, Kunstverein Schattendorf, Impakt Festival, VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images and Bologna Art City. She is a former resident of the Jan van Eyck Academy (2021), FilmForward (2021), and Rupert AiR (2023), among others.

Matthew C. Wilson is an American filmmaker and artist based in the Netherlands. In his videos, sculptures and installations viewers meet a range of agents — human, non-human, and inter-subjective — entangled with natural processes and shape-shifting historical forces. His projects utilize research-oriented, site-specific, and methodologically eclectic approaches to track the inertia of modernity through contemporary ecological crises and into speculative futures. Wilson holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. He has been a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program and in numerous residencies, including Skowhegan and the Jan van Eyck Academie. In addition to exhibitions throughout EU, the UK and the US, his films have screened on Vdrome.org, at IFFR – International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, and HKW – Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin.

Video by Laura Sans
Music by Alice Nascimben

More info: https://www.fabrica.it/en/emilia-tapp...