LOOP is a platform devoted to the promotion of video art. Every year in May, Loop organizes  an international video art event in Barcelona that includes a festival, a fair specialized in video art, and a  series of seminars, conferences and panels. International art centers, museums, galleries and videoart platforms participate in this event, which gathers artists, curators, collectors, gallerists and video art lovers from all over the world. www.loop-barcelona.com
	Ailleurs, Katia Bourdarel, 3’25’’, 2008, music by Jean Pierre Fourment. Courtesy of BK Galerie Bernhard BIschoff, Bern. The meaningful title Ailleurs-Elsewhere is leading the viewer from reality into an unreal dream world of a twilight zone. Katia Bourdarel is very talented in weaving magical main plots, showing frail, poetic compositions and patterns.
	Last Year At Marienbad, Kota Ezawa, 4’, 2007. Courtesy of Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt. A silent digital animation of scenes from the seminal Resnais/Robbe-Grillet film L’année derniére à Marienbad.
	El Olvido II, Amparo Sard, 5’, 2009. Courtesy of N2 Galeria, Barcelona. In El Olvido II there is a duality which goes beyond the relationship between beauty and ugliness or the play between the real and the fictitious that are always present in Amparo Sard’s work. In the end, there is a thin line between anguish and time (water), between the pleasure of remembering and the pain of pain it can also cause.
	Planar, Arturo Fuentes, 8’, 2009. Courtesy of Galeria Llucià Homs, Barcelona. The shot shows but doesn’t contain. Our visual perception draws all the information from the plain projection that that falls in our retina. Reality is shown from consecutive shots that give rise to perceptions, but we can’t take it in as a possession. We are just the audience of plain things and we just imagine plain material.
	Witness II, Michael Nyman, 2008, 6'17". Courtesy of Galeria Senda, Barcelona. Witness II is the second of two films that Michael Nyman has made in 2008. Both works are concerned with the human tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust committed during the Second World war, and depict through the layering of images and sounds, the deeply-rooted scars left by this atrocious event on our collective memory.
	La Licorne, Maïder Fortuné, 6’, 2006. Courtesy of Martine Aboucaya, Paris. In an unspecified black space an unicorn stands motionless. The bright light magnifies the mythical animal whose presence remains as majestic and prestigious as ever. A black rain starts to fall. As the rain grows thicker, it slowly exposes the unicorns masquerade. The magical horn is revealed to be no more than a ridiculous travesty.
	Sobremesa, Kaoru Katayama, 2’57’’, 2007. Courtesy of Galeria Tomás March, Valencia. Julio Gilabert and Salud Molina, a gypsy wedding that counts 38 years, beat measures with their knuckles on a table top in a soleá rhythm of twelve beats. The video was recorded in the couple´s living room, the place where they lead their dialy lives. A wedding of years dialogue by means of these measures.
	Figuring Grounds, Gary Hill, 1985, 7'19’’. Courtesy of Polígrafa Obra Gràfica, Barcelona. Gary Hill is one of the most influential contemporary artists to investigate the myriad relationships between words and electronic images. The video Figuring Grounds has been edited to accompany the book An Art of Limina. Gary Hill's Works and Writings, by George Quasha and Charles Stein, edited by Polígrafa, Barcelona, 2009.