Since 2001, Virgil Vernier’s films have intersected fiction, documentary and mythology. Among them are Thermidor (2009), Pandore (2010), Orléans (2012), Mercuriales (2014), and Sophia Antipolis (2018). His films have been selected at numerous international festivals including Cannes, Locarno and Berlin. © Simon Apostolou
Since 2001, Virgil Vernier’s films have blended fiction, documentary and mythology. They include Thermidor (2009), Pandore (2010), Orléans (2012), Mercuriales (2014), and Sophia Antipolis (2018). His films have been screened in many international festivals such as Cannes, Locarno and Berlin. © Simon Apostolou
Laetitia Farkas grew up in Paris. A graduate from Fémis film school’s production department, she has worked as a producer, scriptwriter or assistant director. She soon began to run video workshops for people far-removed from the cultural world: people with mental disorders or teenagers in rehabilitation centres. It is out of these human and professional …
Originally from Japan, Daïchi Saïto is a filmmaker based in Montreal, where he co-founded the artist film collective Double Negative. His film Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (2009) was named one of the “150 Essential Works in Canadian Cinema History” by Toronto International Film Festival in 2016. With Engram of Returning (2015), Saïto won a …
Marc Isaacs has made over twenty films for the BBC, Channel 4 and cinema. He has won BAFTA’s, Royal Television Society and Grierson awards and numerous festival prizes. Isaacs’ has had retrospectives in France, Israel and the UK. Isaacs has recently been appointed as an Associate Professor to run the Masters in Ethnographic and Documentary …
Liao Jiekai is a filmmaker based in Singapore/Japan and a founding member of the film collective 13 Little Pictures. His debut film, Red Dragonflies (2010), won the Special Jury Prize at the Jeonju International Film Festival. His sophomore film As You Were (2014) competed at film festivals in Tokyo, Torino and Nantes. He received his …
Sudhee Liao is a Singaporean choreographer who graduated from The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts with a BFA majoring in Contemporary Dance. Her recent work includes Going live: Dancing with an enigmatic perception was performed in Shanghai Power Station of Arts in 2018 and Tai Kwun Contemporary in 2019; Handbook of Daily Movement, commissioned …
Eva Giolo (b.1991 Brussels) is an audiovisual artist mainly working with the moving image. Her work consists of cinematic poems that show a propensity to capture family stories – of her own or of another. Using documentary strategies, she paints film portraits and creates a window onto invisible, usually private, inner worlds. Her interest lies …