Craig Scheihing (US) is an artist based in New York City. His work has been screened, performed and exhibited around the world in film festivals, museums, basements, bars, beneath bridges, in cinemas, vacant lots, galleries, garages, universities, yards and in-between.

Alison Folland (US) is a filmmaker and performer based in Somerville MA. Her short hybrid films engage questions of affect, play, and truth-value and are directly informed by her work as an actor in the commercial film industry. Alison’s films have been screened at festivals such as Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio), Athens International Film Festival (Greece), Antimatter, Winnipeg and Milwaukee Underground Film Festivals. She is a member of AgX Film Collective and teaches 16mm filmmaking at Emerson College.

Alee Peoples (US) maintains a varied artistic practice that involves screen-printing, sewing, sculpture and film. Currently living in Los Angeles, she has taught youth classes at Echo Park Film Center and shown her sculpture and film work at GAIT, 4th Wall and elephant. Peoples has shown her films at numerous festivals including Edinburgh, Images (Toronto) and the New York Film Festival and at museums and spaces including SFMOMA, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Pompidou Center, Dirt Palace (Providence) and Nightingale Cinema (Chicago). Started in 2022, Arroyo Seco Cine Club is a thematically programmed film series she co-curates with Mike Stoltz. She is inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made.

Dominic Angerame (US) has created more than 45 films. Angerame has taught at institutions including the San Francisco Art Institute; New College of California; University of California, Berkeley and University of Nevada, Reno. Angerame was Director of Canyon Cinema 1980-2012. His recent exhibitions include screenings at Anthology Film Archives and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative in New York. The soundtrack to The San Francisco Art Institute is by Kevin Barnard, a visual artist, musician, seeker. Kevin is perpetually drawn to a life of wonder, with the notion that writing clever tunes for people who like to sit still and dream with their eyes open might be seen as a truly noble vocation.

Christopher Thompson (US) is a contemporary American artist and filmmaker whose work examines desire, capital and the seemingly supernatural forces that govern its acceleration. His films and video works have been featured in film festivals and exhibitions worldwide, including CROSSROADS, the San Diego Underground Film Festival, Frontera Sur International Non Fiction Film Festival, Prismatic Ground and Mimesis Documentary Film Festival. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis where he studied video art and experimental film.

Ayanna Dozier (US), PhD, is a Brooklyn-based artist-writer. Her art practice centers performance, experimental film, printmaking and photography using auto-fiction, surrealist, conceptual and feminist methods. She is currently working on a narrative short examining the emotional interiority of dominatrixes. She is an assistant professor in communication, emphasis in film, at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (2020).

Yuula Benivolski (Canada) is an artist and filmmaker based in Toronto. She uses autofiction and personal archives to explore the territory between memory and official history. Most recently, her work has been shown at e-flux Screening Room in NYC; Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival; the Interbay Cinema Society, Seattle; DIFFUSION 2023, Toronto; Beijing International Short Film Festival and Images Festival, Toronto.

Niyaz Saghari (UK) is a UK-based Iranian filmmaker. She has studied Cinema in Tehran’s Art University and earned an MA in animation from Newport University, UK. She directs documentaries and experimental films about the aspects of urban and cultural life that she feels are in danger of being forgotten. Her work has been screened at Ann Arbor, Alchemy, Brazier film festivals.