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Simon Liu

Simon Liu is a film artist who works between alternative documentary forms, abstract diary films, multi-channel video installations and 16mm projection performances. Liu’s work has been presented at film festivals and museums globally including the Berlinale, IFFR, TIFF, NYFF, Sundance, ND/NF, BFI, M+ Museum, The Shed, MOCA, PICA, and an upcoming solo-program at the Museum …

Jonathan Perel

Born in 1976 in Argentina, Jonathan Perel lives and works in Buenos Aires. He attended a degree in Arts at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (University of Buenos Aires). He directed the feature films Responsabilidad Empresarial (2020, Cinéma du réel), Toponimia (2015), Tabula Rasa (2013), 17 Monumentos (2012) and El Predio (2010), and the …

Gerard Ortín Castellví

Gerard Ortín Castellví (b. 1988, Barcelona) is an artist and filmmaker based in London. His practice problematises contemporary representations of nature and their relation to technology through an experimental film, practice-based research. He has recently shown his work at LUX, London and exhibited at Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. His works have been screened in places …

Dane Komljen

Dane Komljen, born in 1986 in Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia. He studied cinema and art. His first feature, All the Citites of the North, premiered in 2016. Afterwater is his second feature. He works and lives in Berlin.

Éric Baudelaire

Eric Baudelaire is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris. After training as a political scientist, Baudelaire established himself as a visual artist with a research-based practice in several media ranging from printmaking, photography and the moving image. His feature films A Flower in the Mouth (2022), Un Film dramatique (2019), Also Known As Jihadi …

Raphaël Grisey

Raphaël Grisey is born in 1979, lives in Berlin. He uses film, editorial and photographic works to address politics of memory, architecture, migration and agriculture (such as the films Prvi Deo, Red Star 2006 with F. Lazar; Cooperative, 2008; The Exchange of Perspectives ; Minhocão, 2011; Amor e Progresso, 2014; Remanescentes 2015).

Bouba Touré

Bouba Touré was born in 1948, and died in January 2022. He lived in France in the Foyer Pinel from 1965 and worked at the factory Chausson until 1969. He studied at the Vincennes University and was a projectionist at Cinema 14 Juillet and L’entrepôt, Paris. Photographer since the 1970s, he documented the lives and struggles of migrant workers and peasants in …

Yunyi Zhu

Yunyi ZHU is a Chinese artist whose practice questions memory and perception. He graduated from Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts in sculpture, Esä in art and science. Since 2020, he has been updating artistic research at Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. His works are based on the combination of a series of …

Jean-Claude Rousseau

Jean-Claude Rousseau, born in Paris, lived in New York in the 1970s. There he discovered avant-garde cinema at the same time as the films of Ozu. In 1980 he finished writing a screenplay, Le Concert champêtre, and directed his first films. After Les Antiquités de Rome, La Vallée close  is his second feature film. Selected …

Audrey Ginestet

After having studied sociology and cinema, Audrey Ginestet becomes a sound operator, sound editor and sound mixer for many radio, television and cinema works. She directs two short films, Dokonan (2004) and Spring Yes Yes Yes (2012) and a documentary webseries, Audiostories (2016). Acquittal is her first feature film. Besides, Audrey plays bass in the band …