Zoe Beloff (US) is an artist and filmmaker. Her projects often involve films, drawings and archival documents organized around a theme. Such themes include proposals for new forms of community, issues of labor and what might be called the “dream life of technology”—not what technology is or was but people’s imaginative relationship with it. Zoe’s work has been featured in international exhibitions and screenings including at the Whitney Museum Biennale, Site Santa Fe, the M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp, the Pompidou Center in Paris, International Film Festival Rotterdam and FID Marseille. However, she particularly enjoys working in alternative venues that are free and open to the community for events and conversations. Beverly D’Angelo’s film The Lonely Chicken Dream (1954) was discovered by Beloff during her research on The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society.

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 Film Festival, Images the New York Film Festival and CROSSROADS, and at museums and spaces including SFMOMA, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Pompidou Center, Dirt Palace (Providence) and The Nightingale (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 and pop song lyrics and is invested in the hand-made.

Rei Hayama (Japan) spent her childhood in a unique environment with frequent interaction with wildlife and environmental problems. She studied at the Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts, Tama Art University and has been making moving images since 2008. While gently seeking the harmonious connection between nature and human beings, her works revolve around nature and other living things that have been lost or neglected from an anthropocentric point of view, bringing forward invisible layers of natural reality into human imagination. Recently, her works have been exhibited at Bonner Kunstverein, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Jeu de Paume and Sifang Art Museum, amongst other venues. She was selected as one of the finalists for Commission Project of Yebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visons 2023.

Visceral and cacophonous, Malic Amalya’s (US) experimental films traverse gritty landscapes of abandoned buildings, blast zones and back rooms. Malic’s work has screened in festivals, museums and queer bars across the world. His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco and the Collectif Jeune Cinema in Paris. Malic is an Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.

Max Garnet (US): Based in the PNW, raised deep in the midwest, a writer, artist and storyteller since age 5, Max wields different languages for connecting: shape, color, dance, cyber security, etc. Max is most interested in finding & creating places where fascism becomes impossible to exist.

Jeremy Moss (US, b. Utah 1978) is a filmmaker, educator and programmer working in film and video primarily for cinematic exhibition. Mixing a number of genres and modes, from dance film to experimental documentary, his work insists on fluidity, betweenness and seismic sudden shifts. With a constant attention to movement—wavering bodies, moving landscapes, glimmering frames—his films sustain a sensory resistance to fixedness, steadiness and standing still.

Jonathan Schwartz (US, 1973-2018) was a filmmaker, teacher and source of inspiration for all his friends and students. Jonathan incorporated found and collected materials in many of his films and simultaneously developed his unique 16mm vision through intimate exchanges with his subjects, handheld gestures, in-camera superimpositions and a profound attention to the transient qualities of the world around us. Whether in his short collage films or works shot in his home, on his many walks, or during cinematic journeys to Israel, India, Turkey or Iceland, his work simultaneously embodies a devotion to the ephemerality of external worlds and a gestural responsiveness to evanescent internal states. Often incorporating aurally textured poetic readings and other times eschewing all words, Jonathan’s films both lacerate and console as we confront his unique cinematic expression of sorrow, disquiet and exultation.

Bettina Hoffmann (Germany/Canada) is an artist originally from Berlin, based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada. Hoffmann’s work has been exhibited in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, United Kingdom, Rumania, South Korea, Japan, USA and Canada. Solo exhibitions include Choreography of Movements, Goethe Institut Montreal, 2019; Touch at Occurrence, 2016; Drain at Oboro, Montreal, 2014; Émile, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2009; Décalage at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto; Kristi Engel Gallery, Los Angeles 2008; and Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2007. Her videos have been presented at film festivals and video art fairs internationally. Her performances have been presented at the Darling Foundry, Tangente + Occurrence in Montreal and several venues in Tokyo. Hoffmann received a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and attended the California Institute of the Arts and the Rijksakademie van beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam.

Cristina Miranda (Brazil): Visual artist born in Rio de Janeiro. Through cinematographic practices with 16mm film, she investigates the gaps in colonial memory, searching in the gesture of revealing the image for emergences of reminiscences of the past. In 2017, held a retrospective of her films at the Rio de Janeiro Cinematheque of Modern Art, Pequenos Poemas: Filmes de Cristiana Miranda. Participated in several Art Exhibitions and Experimental Film Festivals all around the world. Among international Film Festivals she has participated in Mientrastanto CINE, Montevideo; Festival de Cine Cámara Lúcida, Equador; CROSSROADS Film Festival, San Francisco; Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque and Festival des Cinémas Différents, Paris.

Antoinette Zwirchmayr (Austria): Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her works have been featured in festivals including Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Indielisboa, Media City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and FID Marseille. She has been awarded with the Outstanding Artist Award (BKA 2020), a six month residency in New York (ISCP), the Start-Up Grant for Young Film Artists (Austria 2017), the annual grant for photography (Land Salzburg 2017) Simon S. Filmaward (2016) and the Kodak Cinematic Vision Award (Ann Arbor Film Festival 2016), among other awards.

Francisca Duran (Chile/Canada) is an experimental media artist who creates films, video installation and 2D mixed-media works about history, memory and violence. Duran has exhibited internationally at film festivals and venues including Edinburgh International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, HotDocs, Arkipel, Anthology Film Archives, LA Filmforum, John Hansard Gallery and Gallery 44. Duran holds an MFA from York University and a BAH from Queen’s University. Her practice has been supported by research, travel and production grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Artist portrait by Justine McCloskey

Kevin Jerome Everson (US, b.1965, Mansfield OH). 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.

Erin Weisgerber (Canada) is a Tiohtia:ke/Montreal-based artist working with photochemical film to produce installations, performances and short films. She manipulates the photographic, chemical and material properties of film to transform the world framed through her camera, rendering moving images that exist between figuration and abstraction, external vision and internal landscape. Weisgerber is a member of the Double Negative Collective, a group of moving-image artists dedicated to the creation and exhibition of experimental and avant-garde cinema and who maintain an artist-run film lab. Since 2019 she is a member of Jerusalem in My Heart, a live audio-visual performance project, with Lebanese producer and musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh.

P. Staff (UK) lives and works in Los Angeles and London. Their work combines video installation, performance and publishing to interrogate notions of discipline, dissent, labour and the queer body. They have exhibited extensively, gaining significant recognition and awards for their work which is held in private and public collections internationally. Staff received their BA in Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Studies from Goldsmiths University of London in 2009.