Skip to content

Biographies

Sharon Lockhart

Sharon Lockhart (Born 1964) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. In a diverse practice that includes installation, photography, film, painting and sculpture, Lockhart creates compelling and complex interactions between the various media and forms she employs, histories she encounters, and the communities and people she collaborates with.

Yunyi Zhu

Yunyi Zhu is a Chinese artist, was born in Tengzhou, Shandong Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts in sculpture and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. His works are mainly in the form of film and installations, which are based on the combination of a series of personal experiences …

David Beltrán i Marí

David Beltrán i Marí studied at the ESCAC and then at the EICTV in Cuba. He has directed the short feature Quizá Mañana, winner of the Public’s Award at the 16th edition of the International Festival of Film Schools in Uruguay. He is based in Havana since 2015. He directed the documentary piece The Last …

Gala Hernández López

Gala Hernández López is an artist-researcher living between Paris and Berlin. She is a doctoral student at Paris 8 University, an assistant lecturer in Visual Studies and Digital Art at the Gustave Eiffel University and a Visiting Researcher at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany). Her thesis focuses on screen capture in post-internet cinema and …

Katy Lena Ndiaye

Katy Lena Ndiaye lives between Dakar and Brussels. Documentary filmaker, her films put on screen a contemporary Africa, the relationship it has with history, memory and legacies. L’argent, la liberté, une histoire du franc CFA, is her latest film. A feature documentary devoted to the CFA franc, a currency inherited from the French colonial system …

Pedro de Filippis

Pedro de Filippis is a filmmaker from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Rejeito is his debut feature and underlines his research on post-colonialism. He graduated from the European MFA program DocNomads, for which he directed short documentaries in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Pedro is an alumnus of the Points North Fellowship (2019), where Rejeito won the Special …

Pierre Carles

Pierre Carles has been making documentaries for twenty-five years. His favourite subjects are: media criticism, questioning the wage system, armed struggle… He is also the author of filmed portraits of independent personalities or those who fight against preconceived ideas, such as the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, Professor Choron or the cartoonist Gébé. For the past twenty …