Bani Khoshnoudi, who works as a filmmaker and visual artist, was born in Tehran and immigrated to the United States in 1979 during the revolution. She studied architecture, photography and cinema at the University of Texas at Austin and was studio artist at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. Her works, inhabited …
Agnès Perrais, born in Paris, began by directing documentaries (Tant que nous sommes à bord, 2014, Magari!, 2019), while at the same time completing a doctoral thesis on the links between lyricism and politics in cinema. Then she meets the practice of argentic cinema thanks to the shared laboratories l’Etna and l’Abominable (Navire Argo). Within …
Margaux Dauby is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist. She graduated in Political Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and holds a Master in Audiovisual Arts from the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels. Her practice starts from the questioning of notions of language, play, attachment and belonging. She lives and works between Lisbon and Brussels.
Yamina Zoutat, Algerian-Italian, born in Yverdon, Switzerland, first worked for more than ten years as a court reporter in Paris. The criminal court was her “film school”. Awarded by the Prix de la Création for her first film Les Lessiveuses (2010), then the Silver Sesterce for her first feature film Retour au Palais (2017) at …
Luke Fowler (Glasgow, 1978) is an artist, filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. His work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary filmmaking, and has often been compared to the British Free Cinema of the 1950s. Working with archival footage, photography …
Vadim Dumesh is a documentary director, researcher, and journalist with academic background in cinema, art, public affairs, and economics. Originally from Latvia, Vadim maintains a transdisciplinary approach and is currently exploring the potential of co-creation practices, which he is developing in his doctoral thesis in artistic research and practice Documentary authorship and collective creativity in …
Lucas Azémar was born in Paris in 1991. Graduated from the Bachelor in Cinema at the Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD), Lucas won the Excellence Award of the Hans Wildorf Foundation in 2018 which allowed him to start developing the project Sandbox, his first professional film.
Charlotte Cherici was born in Marseille in 1993. She graduated in 2018 from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) in Strasbourg. Since 2018, Charlotte is the editor of some of Virgil Vernier’s films (Sophia Antipolis, Meriadeck, Sapphire Crystal, Kindertotenlieder), or those of Brieuc Schieb (Koban Louzou, La Tourbière). Sandbox is her first professional …
Catalina Villar, born in Bogota, came to France at the age of 20 to study Social Sciences at the EHESS, then trained in cinema at the Ateliers Varan and at the FEMIS in directing. She joined the Ateliers Varan team in 2000 and organized three workshops in Colombia (Bogotá and Cali), one in Venezuela (Mérida) …
James Benning made the first of his avant-garde works in 1972, and shortly thereafter started to produce longer experimental films. Between 1978 and 1985 he realized numerous projection and computer installations. From 1977 to 1980 he taught at the Universities of California and Oklahoma. Since the end of the 1980s he has lived in Val …
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento was born in Bogota on April 5, 1987. Nothing predestined him for the cinema and yet, at the age of 19, he left his country for Europe and enrolled at the Fine Arts School in Poitiers with a student visa. It was during his studies that he got closer to cinema and …