We are such stuff as dreams are made on: Artistic Film Screening at the Goat Farm Arts Center
WHERE: the Goat Farm Arts Center – 1200 Foster Street NW – Atlanta, GA 30318
WHEN: During SITE, September 27th, 5:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Under the evocative title We are such stuff as dreams are made on, French artist and researcher Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques has curated a program of films that blur the boundaries between memory, technology, grief, and imagination. The screening is part of SITE, Atlanta’s one-night contemporary art festival that transforms the 12-acre Goat Farm into a living exhibition of installations, performances, and screenings.
This film program brings together international artists whose works were first presented at the Eden Summer Institute, a four-week laboratory for art, education, and community founded by Couzinet-Jacques in Eden, North Carolina.
Program Highlights
- Anhar Salem & Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, Corporating/Discorporating, 2025
Filmed by Anhar Salem on a smartphone in the middle of the night, alone in a hotel room in Saudi Arabia, this self-portrait captures a moment of deep grief and disorientation; made in the aftermath of the death of the artist’s niece, whose life was shaped and ultimately cut short by online harassment and government surveillance.
- David De Beyter, Big Bangers (2015–2022)
In the far north of France, a curious community has formed around the creative destruction of cars—”not for a trophy but a good crash.”
- Antoine Renard, Illusion 2025
Illusion is partially Ai generated film about olfactory perception, the film was generated and mounted using documents, files, data and broken memories on smells and it’s neural impact.
- Yuyan Wang, Green Grey Black Brown, 2025
Philosophical science fiction exposes the dark underbelly of the plastics and tech industry, where a dark slime with remnants of the Jurassic era resurfaces in today’s shopping malls.
- Olivier Jonvaux, Fingertips, 2024
In a sculptural French atelier on the outskirts of Paris, craftsmen’s hands blend with those of antique sculptures in a sensual ballet, suggesting the myth of a female statue coming to life.
From Eden to Atlanta
These works were first shown at the Eden Summer Institute (August 18–September 18, 2025), an immersive program inspired by the spirit of Black Mountain College. Conceived as a space for collective learning and experimentation, the Institute brings together artists, researchers, and local communities to imagine new ways of living and creating.
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This event is part of the programming of the season France-Atlanta 2025.
The story began in May 2023, when French saxophonist and composer Raphaël Imbert embarked on a Villa Albertine residency in the United States. His project, Music is My Field, set out to explore the rich musical traditions of the Southeast and Appalachia. It was in Atlanta that Imbert first connected with saxophonist Kebbi Williams and his collective, Reverence, during the city’s Music in the Park festival.That encounter sparked a transatlantic artistic exchange. Imbert invited Williams to perform at the J.E.S.T. Festival in Marseille in November 2023, and later at the Marseille Jazz des Cinq Continents festival in July 2024. The collaboration deepened in November 2024, when Imbert came back to Atlanta. Alongside Marseille-based musicians T.I.E. (electronics) and Blanche Lafuente (drums), he traveled to Atlanta to co-create a new piece with Williams, Zacchaeus Paul, and Daniel Wytanis. The result was a powerful performance at Music in the Park on November 17, 2024.Nydia Blas and Joshua Dudley Greer’s residencies aim to narrate the city of Marseille and its complexities, offering, in resonance with French photographers Geoffroy Mathieu and Yohanne Lamoulère’s explorations of Atlanta, a perspective on two cities through the lens of communities and urban landscapes.
