SFCINEMATHEQUE

Alexandre Larose (Canada) is a moving-image artist based in Montréal, Québec. Larose began making films in the early 2000s, almost systematically involving close collaborations with engineers and film technicians to expand the point-of-view of the camera. His current practice heavily relies on in-camera techniques and hand-processing, which are the result of extensive experimentation with cinematography.

Anna Kipervaser (Ukraine/US) is a Ukrainian-born artist whose practice engages with a range of topics including human and animal bodies, ethnicity, religion, colonialism and environmental conservation. Her practice is informed by a commitment to formal experimentation, DIY and alternative processes across experimental and documentary moving image works in both 16mm film and video. Anna’s work screens at festivals, in classrooms, galleries, museums, microcinemas, basements and schoolhouses! Anna is also a painter, printmaker, educator, curator of exhibitions and programmer of screenings.

Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) is a filmmaker and programmer based in Southern California. He currently serves as director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program and is a cofounder of COUSIN, a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film.

Vincent Grenier (US/Canada), a native of Quebec City, Canada graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1970s, became programmer of the then Canyon Cinema for two years before moving to NYC. He has made over fifty films and videos. His video Tabula Rasa was screened in the “Best Avant Garde Films & Videos of the Decade” program at the Lincoln Center. Watercolor (2013) received top honors in Experimental Cinema at Black Maria and Athens Film Festivals. He has received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, and a Stan Brakhage Vision Award. He currently lives in Ithaca NY.

Toney W. Merritt (US): I have been an independent filmmaker for 50 years having completed well over 45 personal films and videos—experimental, narrative and documentary. As an Interdisciplinary Artist, I also work in other mediums including photography and sculpture.

Nicole Remy (Peru/Spain). I studied Audiovisual Communications (University of Lima, 2015) and continued with a Masters Degree in Art Direction (ESCAC, 2016). In 2018 I joined Taller Helios (Lima) where I worked with film archive material, analog film and photography techniques. That same year I developed my first film Detenerte en el pulso from family movies on Super 8 and VHS. Did the Masters in Audiovisual Creation and Contemporary Practice, Madrid, 2021–2022, where I focused on structural cinema, working with the limitations, and therefore possibilities, of the movie camera and film support. With an interest in visual perception, I dedicate myself to researching different manual ways of creating images through the construction of Super 8 pinhole cameras—questioning the frame as the minimum unit of cinema—and also with the illusion of movement and sound synchrony through film projectors.

Michael Damm (US) is a filmmaker and installation artist based in Oakland CA. His work has been shown in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, including Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco), SF Camerawork, Belkin Satellite Gallery (Vancouver), Plus Kunst (Dusseldorf), Galeria Sztuki Wspolczesnej (Opole, Poland) and Cooley Memorial Art Gallery (Portland).

Kevin Jerome Everson (US) (b.1965, Mansfield, Ohio). Professor of Art at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson’s art practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, photography and film. Recipient of the Guggenheim; Berlin Prize; Heinz Award in Art and Humanities; Alpert Award for Film/Video and Rome Prize. His work has been featured in mid-career retrospectives at Cinéma du réel; Harvard Film Archive; Tate Modern/Film; Whitney Museum; Centre Pompidou; Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; Cinematek Brussels; the Whitney Biennial, Sharjah Biennial and the Carnegie International.

Christopher Thompson (US) is an American filmmaker whose work examines desire, capital and the seemingly supernatural forces that govern its acceleration. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Pablo Mazzolo (Argentina) is a filmmaker and educator born in Buenos Aires in 1976. He works exclusively in analogue film formats exploring the optical and chemical properties of the medium with a particular focus on human and natural landscapes. His work has tackled themes such as indigenous sovereignty, the spectre of military dictatorship, extinction and environmental catastrophe. He received an MFA from the University of Buenos Aires (2001). His films, including Diego La Silla (2000), Oaxaca Tohoku (2011), El Quilpo sueña cataratas (2012), Fotooxidación (2013) and Ceniza Verde (2019) have been widely exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries internationally. Mazzolo is Professor at the National University of Quilmes, works as a freelance documentary film editor and teaches workshops on visual perception and image creation to young people living with autism. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.