About SFE
Art is video
Mission statement
« TV has attacked us all our lives, now we fight back. Now we make our own TV » ° Nam June Paik.
Our main mission is to remind humans of what they have because they tend to forget it.
Or as captain Kirk might have put it: « We collect glimpses of every day life, « souvenirs from earth », to be used in a darker future by a couple of people that escaped our planet before it collapsed. » This hypothesis may allow us to get a better view on the very simple things of our life, generating a global awareness for the grace and fragility of our life on planet Earth.
Since our first program on-air on German cable TV 2006, we resembled a decent number of artists from everywhere, know of less known, to put their films in our programs to function as an audiovisual UFO coming from a parallel world where gravity is temporarily suspended.
Our programs include video art, film, visual art, music, installations, dance and performances.
We understand that artists are aliens that can see things from a big distance in time and space.
A perspective that might be the complimentary dose of oxygen you need.
Founder Marcus Kreiss, curator Alec Crichton and the new players of the 2024 « °Resurrection » of SFE, Laurent Cappoen and Stéphane Mortier, conceive this channel as a platform where artists of different sensibilities can find a high-end environment to experience new forms of distribution and presentation.
We are open for submissions. If you are an artist and you think your work fits into our program, please follow our submission form here. If you would like to sponsor a program block or buy a film, please contact us.
Video art pioneer Nam June Paik already knew our channel in the 60’s: «… normal TV bores you and makes you nervous, this soothes you…»
Art Media Platform
SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH is the first media platform dedicated to contemporary art, films, videos and much more.
SOUVENIRS FROM EARTH runs digital in any format.
A 24/7 channel:
TV with ISP in France and abroad
TV as a FAST TV channel (WIP*)
our website
main video platforms and social networks (WIP*)
mobile and TV apps (WIP*)
a content providers and a production company
* Work In Progress
“… normal TV bores you and makes you nervous, this soothes you…”
— Nam June Paik
Team work
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Founder
Born in Hamburg, Germany. Studied filmmaking at Cinecittà in Rome. Lives in Paris today. VJ. Artist and filmmaker, his works are part of the biggest European art collections. Makes big oil paintings, cities, pinups, post apocalyptic advertisement. Also makes art-cars, consumer goods, cowboy hats and public art. Founded SFE in 2001 and started the on-air program 2006 with 100 of his own films under 15 different names. (find out)
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Associate Director
“A complicity between artist and gallerist must exist, otherwise nothing is possible.” A gallerist in Paris for over 15 years and passionate about publishing. Stéphane Mortier takes art very seriously and defends his choices at all costs. He has collaborated with Jean Pierre Raynaud, Annette Messager, Jonathan Monk, Fred Forest... in various documentary series and artistic projects such as : 75gr la génése, Quotidien d'atelier la série, Hors les murs sur les murs, Posters and News papers with free publications.
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Associate Director
Born in Lille, France. Studied architecture and advertising in Paris where he lives. Visionary and creative entrepreneur of digital media and content. Publisher, producer, artistic director for medias. He has worked in France and abroad and has contributed to the implementation of some twenty media. Aka Paul-in-Rio, he has founded the ilove.rio digital radio/tv stations, dedicated to Brazilian culture and music.
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Curator
Amoureuse de l'art contemporain et du moyen orient. Elle y voyage depuis les années 90. Particulièrement proche du Liban, elle y a lié de grandes amitiés et a organisée plusieurs partenariats avec l'ALBA (Académie Libanaises des Beaux-Arts). Elle est la correspondante de SFE pour la Méditerranée orientale.
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Curator
Alec Crichton lives and works in Cologne. Artist and filmmaker. Studied media-art at Kunsthochschule für medien in Cologne. Teaches at Kunsthochschule Düsseldorf. Main curator of the SFE programs.
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Curator
Paris based art curator from Torino. Simona is in charge of an ambitious broadcast event on SFE between France the DRC of Congo. Ambiance Kinshasa. She manages African artists like Eddy Ekete Mombesa and since 2021, she has joined KinAct (Kinshasa) for the international development to enable artistic exchanges between Europe and Africa. Since 2021, she has collaborated with the Museo delle Periferie of Rome that also tool place on our channel. Simona teaches Contemporary Art and International Management, and Fashion as a Social Compass, at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.
Contact us
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Take a ride!
Souvenirs From Earth Association
77, rue Amelot 75011 Paris, France.