TT Takemoto (US) is a filmmaker exploring hidden dimensions of same sex intimacy and trauma in Asian and Asian American history. Takemoto conjures up queer historical fantasies by manipulating found footage and engaging with tactile dimensions of the archive.

Born in Paris, Agnès Perrais (France) began making creative documentaries while pursuing a doctoral thesis on the links between lyricism and politics in cinema. She then encountered the practice of silver-based cinema thanks to the shared laboratories l’Etna and l’Abominable. Working both in documentary forms and experimental shorts, her work explores the articulations between politics and the imaginary. She is actively involved in several collectives (including L’Etna, La Poudrière, Le Navire Argo, Les Éditions du Dé rouge and others.) and is a founding member, with Anaïs Ibert, Frédérique Menant and Leïla Colin-Navaï, of the association La Surface de dernière diffusion.

Dianna Barrie & Richard Tuohy (Australia) are the proprietors of small gauge film lab nanolab and are the founders of the artist-run film lab Artist Film Workshop in Melbourne. They are both long term and abiding exponents of the possibilities of DIY film. They have taught experimental film workshops all over the world, spreading the word about working with cine-film creatively and joyously with limited means and resources. They embody the film lab spirit and evangelize about it wherever they go. Their films are steadfastly (yet playfully!) materialistic, focussed on the essence of the apparatus of cinema.

Chantal Partamian (Canada/Lebanon) is an experimental filmmaker and archivist. Her work uses mainly Super-8mm and found footage. Her archival activities are centered on the preservation and restoration of reels from the Eastern Mediterranean, associated with research focused on archival practices in conflict regions. Partamian’s films have been presented and awarded at numerous festivals. They are distributed by Vidéographe, Groupe intervention Vidéo and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.

Adina Ionescu-Muscel (Belgium) is a Belgian-Romanian multimedia artist based in Brussels. Through work in still and moving images and installations, she questions the world around her, setting herself the task not of understanding it, but of multiplying the ways of being, that is to say, the ways of experiencing, feeling, making sense and giving importance to things.

Laura Moreno Bueno (Spain) is interested in the transfiguration of audiovisual codes using digital or analogue media. She studied creation at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, which allowed her to continue her research into the representation of the body as well as delving into analogue processes. Her films have screened at festivals such as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Images, Ficunam, [S8] Mostra de Cinema Periférico and Filmadrid, among others.

Federica Foglia (Italy/Canada) is a transnational visual artist and writer. She holds a BA in Multimedia Languages and Digital Humanities: History of Art, Theatre and Cinema from the University of Naples L’Orientale; an MFA in Film from York University, Toronto, and is currently a Ph.D. researcher in Cinema and Media Studies at York. Her practice revolves around tactile filmmaking, recycled cinema, amateur filmmaking, archives, ecofeminism and materialist cinema. Her work engages with the physical qualities of the film medium and the politics of fragmented aesthetics. She is currently working on a project that involves eco-friendly emulsion lifting techniques to remediate 16mm archival films and developing eco-sustainable photographic processes with algae-based materials.​