Matías Piñeiro is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1982. Based in New York since 2011. He is a film director and writer with feature and short films premiered in Berlinale, Locarno, Cannes, Toronto and New York Film Festival. His films usually spring from variety of literary sources such as William Shakespeare, Cesare Pavese, Sappho and …
Eva Giolo is working across film, video, and installation. Her work places particular focus on the female experience, employing experimental and documentary strategies to explore themes of intimacy, permanence and memory, along with the analysis of language and semiotics. Her films, installations and other projects have been widely exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries internationally.
Florence Lazar is a French filmmaker and visual artist. For the past 20 years, her videos, photographs, and art installations have been shown in museums and contemporary art centers in France and abroad. In 2019, the Jeu de Paume museum devoted a solo exhibition to her. She has been teaching at the college of art …
Johan Grimonprez’s curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums worldwide, including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and MoMA. His works are in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Tate Modern, London. His feature films include Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997, in collaboration …
Kumjana Novakova is a filmmaker, working also as a film curator and lecturer. Originally born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana has worked in the field of film and arts since 2006. Her formal education combines international relations, cultural and social research studies in Sofia, Sarajevo, Bologna and Amsterdam. In 2006 she co-founded the Pravo Ljudski Film Festival …
Simon Ripoll-Hurier (born in Mont Saint-Aignan in 1985) holds degrees from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Rouen, as well as a Master’s in Arts and Politics from Sciences Po Paris. Bridging music and visual arts, his work revolves around practices of listening and transmission through voice. He is a co-founder of *DUUU, an …
Born in 1982, Alexe Poukine lives in Brussels. In 2006, she moved to Jordan to prepare a thesis that she abandoned to enrol in the Lussas Documentary School. Her graduation film, Petites Morts, was selected by several international festivals. In 2011, the FNAC gave her carte blanche for a photographic project that gave rise to …
Hazem Alqaddi (1998) is from Palestine, he graduates from the Unrwa Schools in Rafah and arrives in Belgium in 2018 wishful for a new life outside of a besieged Palestine. In Gaza and until today, he is a passionate rollerblader, kitemaker, chef and storyteller. Driven by a desire to connect with people, he discovered filmmaking …
Born in Italy in 1993, Elettra Bisogno grew up in various european cities. After studying graphic design in Italy, where she specializes in experimental printmaking, she moves to Brussels and instinctively turns to the moving image. She draws inspiration and forges herself from watching and listening to the world, in its beauty and its injustice. …
Marinho de Pina is a research assistant at DIN MIA’CET – ISCTE, Centre for Studies on Socioeconomic Change and Territory, currently doing a PhD on Sacred Spaces in Bissau. An inveterate wordsmith and storyteller in various formats. He has published work as an author, translating children’s books for the Falas Afrikanas publishing house, and poetry …
Filipa César is an artist, filmmaker, educator and community organizer. She is interested in the fluid borders between cinema and its reception, the politics and poetics of the moving image and archival practices. Since 2011, César has been collectively researching the militant cinema practice of the African Liberation Movement in Guinea Bissau. With cine-kins and …
Jin Jiang is born in 1989 in Luoyang, Henan Province in China. In 2010, he was introduced to contemporary art which led to his first solo-exhibition, “In the Field of Hope” in 2013. The moment of change of his career was in 2015 when he was hired as cinematographer and editor of a film. In …