In "A world in tune with our wants" by Boris Achour, milk is poured into a glass until it spills over and floods the entire screen. Thus you get two minutes of an unreal, creamy flow that might look like a promotional image without any brand name or message on health diets. It is a reinterpretation of the myth of Sisyphus, who was condemned to fill a bottomless pit with stones.

In his video "Entropic song" Kim Sop Boninsegni, a Korean-born artist living and working in Geneva and Paris, evokes his feelings of fascination for the country of his origin. This video has been filmed against a background of economic crisis in South-East Asia in 1998 and presents phenomena that have emerged in Asia: consumerism and loss of traditional Asian values. The first part of the video evokes the context of economic crisis. In the second part of the video, a succession of freeze frames, an Asian boy and girl pose on a scooter, in the image of the Korean pop song that provides the musical background to the passage.

In Rebecca Bournigault's "Preliminaries", with music providing the atmosphere, a close up of a girl's legs and feet in mules is seen surreptitiously seeking to brush against the unmoving feet of a boy in tennis shoes. The screen creates a close physical relationship with the viewer in a deliberate narrow installation space. Using a variety of techniques (photography, video and drawings) the artist presents the narration of the real and intimate, private and public.

"The adventures" is a key video in the work of the multiple media artist Bernard Joisten. After initiating exhibitions like "The winter of love" and "Purple" he has embarked on the adventure of movie making. "The adventures" is a video that is full of mysterious patterns and narrative atmosphere and we don't know exactly where the story is.

"Egypt" by Ange Leccia is a cinema of passion with the meeting of eyes, the embraces, the break and coming together once more. This is also a film about journeys and wanderings. It begins with an image of a girl who is motionless like the viewer. Then the screen opens to reveal images taken from the television. Finally, Egypt is presented with its men and women, cities, music and violence. This is a homage to images in motion. There are a number of the artist's famous themes such as the sea, sun and images of tension.

"You and me" by Jean Luc Vilmouth are three videos that are designed for the installation of bars with bar stools and a computer monitor in each table. The artist tries to seduce the viewers of every origin. During the projections the viewer is engulfed first by their intimacy and then their sense of constraint that cannot be put aside as the tragedy of human solitude enfolds.

"Masumi is a pc operator" is by Bangkok-born film-maker Apichatong Weerasenthakul who lives in Paris and has featured and won awards in numerous film festivals. His "Mysterious Object at Noon" is an incredibly beautiful black and white film which was shot in 16 minutes in various villages in Thailand. This silent video is a still portrait made up of successive sequences inspired by the cinema. A woman looks through the window of her Tokyo apartment an image that suggests alienation.

The "Videotrafic" exhibition reflects the state in which we experience the world. All the 15 artists share a distinctive approach in which they have stripped their video works of all the usual necessities involved in showing works of art -- sizing, editing, installation etc. The idea of the programme was to return to the excitement of early video art.

Source: Alexandre Pollazzon, curator of the exhibition