Colectivo los ingrávidos (Mexico) was founded in 2012 in to “dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology.” The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analogue mediums; interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests; and documentary poetry. They have created more than 300 films since 2013 with screenings at venues worldwide including Bienal de la Imagen Movimiento, CROSSROADS, the Whitney Biennial, FICUNAM, the Flaherty Film Seminar, Media City Film Festival, LA Filmforum, The Museum of Modern Art, ICA London, International Film Festival Rotterdam and International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. Their films have won honourable mentions from International Film Festival Belo Horizonte and Media City Film Festival, a Kodak Award from Moscow International Experimental Film Festival and a Marian McMahon Award from Images Film Festival, among other accolades. Their poetry collection Solares was published by Evidence Press in 2018 and their polemic incantation Thesis on the Audiovisual is forthcoming. They live and work in Tehuacán, Mexico.

Simon Liu (USA/Hong Kong SAR) is a filmmaker and visual artist born in Hong Kong in 1987. Working in alternative documentary, abstract diary films, multichannel video installation and 16mm projection performances, he centres his practice on the rapidly evolving psychological and sociopolitical landscapes of his homeland of Hong Kong through material abstraction, speculative history and subversion of documentary cinema practices. He received a BFA in Film and TV Production from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2010). His work has screened at festivals, museums and galleries internationally, including CROSSROADS, Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Kyiv International Short Film Festival, The Museum of Modern Art, Media City Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, New York Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Viennale, Jeonju International Film Festival and the 2024 Whitney Biennial, winning awards from Hong Kong International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Punto de Vista Festival and Taiwan International Documentary Festival, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of M+ Museum and The Museum of Modern Art. He is a member of Negativeland, a film laboratory dedicated to the creative use of photochemical motion picture film. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he is an adjunct professor at Cooper Union.

Ayanna Dozier (USA) is an artist and writer born in Riverside CA in 1990. Her practice employs performance, experimental film, printmaking and photography, using auto-fiction, surrealist, conceptual and feminist methods to image narratives on transactional intimacy, sexual justice and interpersonal trauma. She received an MA from New York University (2014) and a PhD in Art History and Communication Studies from McGill University (2020). Her films and artwork have been exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries internationally,  including Anthology Film Archives, CROSSROADS, Prismatic Ground, Open City Documentary Festival, Media City Film Festival, BRIC, Microscope Gallery, Block Museum, MoCA Arlington, Hauser & Wirth, PLATFORM Centre and The Shed. Dozier was a 2024 Penumbra Workspace Resident, a 2022 Wave Hill Winter Workspace Resident, a 2018–2019 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Independent Studies Program and a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow from 2017–2022 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her films are also in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum. She has curated film programs for venues including the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC and Bermuda Triangle in Brooklyn. She is the author of Janet Jackson’s The Velvet Rope (2020) for Bloomsbury’s 33⅓ series, and is currently working on a narrative film examining the emotional interiority of dominatrices. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Artist portrait courtesy ©Tahir Karmali.