Ankur Yadav is an artist and poet based in Rajasthan, India. Trained as a painter, his practice extends across film, poetry, scenographic installations, and site-specific interventions. His work aims to subvert dominant narratives of exploitative capitalist practices, colonial knowledge systems, and oppressive regional politics and ideologies, which have degraded the environment of his native region, Behror in Rajasthan. Rooted in grief, anger and loss, both personal and collective — his practice seeks to build alternative perspectives and discourses that challenge extractive systems and resist anthropocentric worldviews.
Anouk Verviers is a multidisciplinary artist based between Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal CA and London UK. Her work takes the form of films, performances and installations developed with collaborators. With them, she adopts a fluid, experimental approach that deviates from ways of being or doing formulated by systems of power.
Arief Budiman is an artist and filmmaker based in Yogyakarta. His practice engages with fabricated realities, speculative history, public archives, and collective memory to uncover hidden narratives and erased histories. He uses archives and technology as tools to open up alternative ways of reading the past, blending fiction and non-fiction to create multi-layered narratives that function as forms of alternative history.
Beny Kristia was born in Magelang and is currently residing in Malang to pursue higher education. In Malang, alongside his friends in the Berakinema, he has produced several films that have been featured in both national and international festivals. The films he has written and directed have been screened at various festivals, such as Chicken Awaken at Minikino Film Week and Show Me Shorts, as well as Jenglotman at BUT Film Festival and CRASH International Fantastic Film Festival. He has a keen interest in shitposting, fantastical genre films, popular culture, and morbid-humor stories, which he strives to channel through his works. In 2025, he moved to Jakarta to learn further his passion for film and art at the Milisifilem Collective. When The Blues Goes Marching In was his last film before moving to Jakarta.
Brandon Poole is an artist and filmmaker whose films document the folkloric and vernacular constructions of place. His films have screened at EXiS (Seoul), Mimesis (United States), non_syntax (Tokyo/Taipei), Antimatter (Victoria), Suspaustus Laikas (Vilnius), Iowa City Docs (Iowa City), and EASTEAST (London). He is a Lecturer at the University of Victoria and a PhD Candidate at McGill University.
Carlo Nasisse is a director and cinematographer whose work explores ecology and the relationships between humans, landscapes, and politics. His films have been supported and exhibited by The New Yorker, POV Shorts, PBS, Vimeo Staff Picks, the Times Art Center in Berlin, and the Rockbund Museum of Art in Shanghai, and have screened at major festivals including SXSW, True/False, Camden International, Oberhausen, SFFILM, and Slamdance. He has received grants from the Austin Film Society, Jigsaw Productions, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and FOCINE. Carlo holds an MFA in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University.
Cassie (Onoyota’a:ka) is an artist-researcher working at the intersections of Indigenous futurism, digital sovereignty, and relational world-building. Through machinima, generative systems, and virtual environments, she creates spaces of care, kinship, and digital continuity. Their practice bridges land-based knowledge with
emerging technologies to imagine sovereign futures across interconnected worlds.
Chantal Partamian is an experimental and documentary filmmaker and archivist.
Through their work, celluloid, memory, obsolescence, and political imaginaries merge to reflect on erasure, denial, repetition and blur. They mainly work on super 8mm and with found footage. Partamian's work has been presented and awarded at multiple festivals in Germany, Canada, Lebanon, Armenia as well as France, Egypt and Croatia.
They have also collaborated on numerous projects of varying lengths as a cinematographer and/or senior editor. In April 2020, Partamian launched an online project of temporal assemblages and visual archives in an Instagram profile inspired by Vinegar Syndrome @Katsakh.
Chloë Gordon is a filmmaker, sound designer, and multimedia artist from Toronto. Her work focuses on queer memory and place, often exploring these themes through analogue mediums and evocative soundscapes. Her work has previously screened at Inside Out Film Festival and Artifact Film Festival.
Christina Battle is an artist whose research and work considers the parameters of disaster— looking to it as action, as more than mere event and instead as a framework operating within larger systems of power. She has exhibited internationally in festivals and galleries, most recently at: Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver), Forum Expanded at the Berlinale (Berlin), and Blackwood Gallery (Mississauga).
Clint Enns is a visual artist, writer, and curator based in Tiohtià:ke / Montréal.
Dayna McLeod is a middle-aged, queer performance-based media artist. Her work often uses humour and capitalizes on exploiting the body’s social and material conditions. Her video essays have been published in [in] Transition, ASAP/Review, Teknokultura, and Intermédialités and have been named in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound Best of Video Essays lists for 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Her video and performance work has been presented in numerous venues around the world.
Defne Kırmızı is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Architecture Department at Boston University, where she works on the emergence of conceptual art practices through recurring group exhibitions in Turkey between the years 1974-1988. She received her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts with a concentration in photography from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Deirdre Logue is a Canadian film and video artist and activist with over two decades of experience working with artist-run organizations dedicated to media arts exhibition and distribution. Her solo work, grounded in performance for the camera, focuses on the self as subject, exploring anxiety, queerness, and the limits of ability through single-channel works and multi-channel installation. Her compelling self-portraits investigate what it means to inhabit a queer body in an age of anxiety.
Logue co-directs the Feminist Art Residency (FAR) alongside her partner and collaborator, artist Allyson Mitchell, somewhere in Ontario. Deirdre and Allyson also produced the iconic Killjoy’s Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House between 2013 and 2019.
Diana Esther is a Dominican filmmaker and sound designer. She has worked in the sound department on audiovisual campaigns, short films, feature films, and video art installations. She is currently developing several projects at early stages exploring collective memory, land transformation, and fragility.
E. Jane is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Their work focuses on Black femmeness, surveillance, labor, and performance, and uses the Black diva as a Black feminine archetype. They are curious about what the diva perceives, how she feels, and what she desires.
Filmmaker, programmer, and researcher Elena Calvo combines her professional and academic activity with the cultural management of events and activities through the Algarabía Cultural Association, which she founded. She has taken part in several festivals as a jury member, collaborated with Casa Árabe in Córdoba, and participated in the 16th edition of S8 in A Coruña. She recently organised and coordinated a week of activities around “Memory and Domestic Cinema” and the “Muestra de cine Palestino” at Casa Árabe.
Elisabeth Subrin is a filmmaker and artist whose award-winning films and installations have screened at Cannes, Viennale, the New York Film Festival, IDFA, and the Whitney Biennial, among others. Known for her use of reenactment since her landmark film Shulie (1997), she directed Maria Schneider, 1983 (César for Best Documentary Short, 2023) and the feature A Woman, A Part. A Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Sundance Fellow, she is a professor of film and media artat Temple University.
Eshan Rafi (b. 1986, Lahore) is a Toronto / Tkaronto-based artist working across time-based, lens-based and choreographic practices. Their works deal with the intersection of political events and personal archives, often staging the impossibility of representation. Rafi is an alumni of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, Lebanon, and has participated in residencies at Fondazioni Antonio Ratti in Como, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in Berlin, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, among others. Their work has been exhibited, performed, and screened internationally.
Fan Wu is a writer and interdisciplinary artist who’s currently researching the transmission of Daoism across cultures and aesthetic traditions. His image-related writing can be found online at Diffusion Film Festival, The Flaherty Seminar, C Magazine, and The Capilano Review.
Fox Maxy is Payómkawichum and Iipay Kumeyaay, from the Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians. Her work blends experimental form with themes of kinship, emotional well-being, nightlife, fashion, and environmental advocacy. Her debut feature, Gush, premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, followed by Guts and Glitz.
Félix Caraballo is a filmmaker working in Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal and N’dakina / Marieville. His practice takes the form of films, live 16mm projections, and installations. Félix’s work questions the relationships between landscapes, their components, and the singular properties of analog processes.
Jake Starr is a research-based artist residing on unceded Gadigal land (Sydney, Australia). Starr’s practice yearns across disciplines toward speculative post-human futures. Their work builds webs of intimacy between seemingly disparate im/materialities to produce imaginaries that exist beyond the constrictions of historical grand narratives and anthropocentric hegemony.
Karthik Pandian is an artist and teacher developing ceremonial technologies. He has presented his works in moving image, sculpture, and performance at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, and the New York Film Festival, and on digital platforms such as the Criterion Channel and Triple Canopy. He is a professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University.
Katie Lawson is a curator and writer. She is currently a SSHRC-funded PhD candidate at Western University, where she works with the Centre for Sustainable Curating. She has curated exhibitions for a wide range of institutions, including the Toronto Biennial of Art, regional galleries, municipalities, and artist-run-centres in Canada. Lawson was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency in 2023 and participated in the Sustainable Institution Residency at Atelier LUMA in 2024.
Kevin Lee Burton is a director, film festival programmer, offline editor and freelance camera operator who is Swampy Cree from God’s Lake Narrows, Manitoba. In his directorial works he has designed a niche by specifically working in his ancestral tongue, Cree. Kevin was awarded Best Experimental Video and Best Indigenous Language Production for his experimental film NIKAMOWIN (SONG) at the 2007 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival.
Kevin has worked for the Native and Indigenous Initiatives at the SUNDANCE INSTITUTE / FILM FESTIVAL, programmed for IMAGeNATION and OUT ON SCREEN film festivals, and has co-developed and written for NEHIYAWETAN, a children’s Cree language series.
Kym McDaniel is an experimental filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across fields of moving image, choreography, and disability studies. Her embodiment as a dancer living with chronic pain informs her relationship to time, the body, and movement in her work.
Mahishaa is an Ambedkarite filmmaker based in Bangalore,India. working on producing counterculture narratives rooted in the city. His films navigate intersections of caste, gender & masculinity. He is also the founder of Neelavarana, an Ambedkarite artist collective that produces short films, music videos & documentaries focusing on Bahujan stories made by and for the people from the DBA community.
Mahishaa’s work has been showcased internationally in Melbourne, Berlin, and across India.
Marion Balac explores the impulses between emotion and technology across video, installation, and online media. She studies replicated communities—theme parks, tourist sites, forums—where gaps between representation and reality emerge. Her work, marked by deadpan humor and melancholy, has been shown internationally. She has been teaching at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille since 2021.
Michaela Michalak is a LGBTIQ filmmaker & activist-scholar, who researches politics of memory in relation to sound and silence. They have exhibited internationally at the Lopez Museum (Phillipines), the 2nd Moscow Biennale, the Lisbon Architecture Triennial, and the Bronx Museum, amongst others. They have screened across Canada at La Lumière Collective (QC), Pix Film Collective (ON), and Blinding Light Cinema (BC). They are currently a PhD candidate at York University.
Mikiki is a performance and video artist and queer community health activist of Acadian/Mi’kmaq and Irish descent from Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland, Canada. Their work emerges from harm reduction and HIV response, using art-activism to address sex panic, drug use, grief, and collective care amid the polycrisis.
Naomi Rincón Gallardo is a visual artist living and working between Mexico City and Oaxaca. From a decolonial-cuir perspective, her critical-mythical worldmaking addresses the creation of counter-worlds in neocolonial settings. Her fabulations integrate her interests in theater games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms and queer of colour critique.
Nour Bishouty is a multidisciplinary artist working across video, sculpture, works on paper, digital images, and writing. Broadly concerned with gaps in archival memory and the Western production of knowledge and fantasy, her practice explores notions of articulation, permission, and the generative possibilities of misunderstanding.
Bishouty’s work has been exhibited internationally including at Museo Universitario del Chopo (forthcoming 2026), Mexico City; Liverpool Biennial (forthcoming 2025); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2025); Art Jameel, Jeddah (2024), La biennale de Québec (2024); Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto (2022); GTA21 Triennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2021); Darat Al Funun, Amman (2017); Casa Arabe, Madrid (2016); Access Gallery, Vancouver (2015); the Mosaic Rooms, London (2015); and the Beirut Art Centre, Beirut (2014).
Oona Taper is a moving image artist and assistant professor at Kansas City Art Institute. She creates installations and animations that are deeply invested in the materiality of moving images. Her work tries to process the constant mundane apocalypses of the modern world through humor, whimsy, and daydreams.
Patricio Escartín is a Mexican filmmaker whose work explores memory and identity through an atmospheric and sensorial approach across fiction, documentary, and fantasy. He directed The Noise of Time (2024) which has been internationally awarded and widely screened. He is completing a Cinematography Degree at ENAC–UNAM and previously studied at the University of Essex.
Quenton Miller (b. Naarm, 1981) is an Australian/UK filmmaker and artist based in the Netherlands since 2012. He studied at Van Eyck Academy and the Master of Artistic Research programme at KABK Den Haag, where his focus on film developed out of playfully disorientating video installations, as well as writing and designing for literary publications.
He usually makes comedic work, depicting alienated characters struggling with language, truth, time and history. His work looks at diverse experiences of language and dislocating experiences of the world, often repurposing documentary and realism with frameworks and modes of address from literature, sci-fi and comedy. “Although Quenton Miller’s work may seem ironic at times” one reviewer wrote “it is characterised by a romanticism and razor-sharp lightness.”
Older works include The Trial (2021), a docufiction made with investigators at the International
Criminal Court in the Hague looking towards Africa, Dying Marxists (2018) for the Athens Biennale, and The Confidence Man, His Masquerade (2015) an adaption of Herman Melville’s final novel of characters without bearings. He has shown work at IFFR, the Athens Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and Apexart New York and published in the Believer and Guernica. With Aram Lee he co-founded When Site Lost the Plot, an art organization “dedicated to exploring the topography of site-specific identity through film and media” as well as the collective the Department of Speculative Facts, which looks at speculative approaches in documentary. “The more unreflective formats of documentary – especially nature documentaries no longer seem like a good orientation in the terminal time of the anthropocene. I try to merge documentary research with the literary side of art films, as well as pun- based comedies, aliens, anime, and the mind-bending word-image and space-time relations from experimental comics and cartoons.”
Radin Khodadadi is an emerging Iranian filmmaker based in Vancouver. Drawing on a background in photography, he creates introspective films that reflect a personal and experimental approach to form and storytelling. His previous short, Let’s Go Away, was officially selected by the Rise Film Festival and the Vancouver International Youth Film Festival.
Rana Nazzal Hamadeh is a Palestinian artist currently based on Anishinaabe Algonquin land. Her photography film, and installation works look at issues related to time, space, land, and movement, offering interventions rooted in a decolonial framework and using memory and story to engage intimately. Her practice is deeply informed by the knowledge emerging from grassroots movements for justice, both in occupied Palestine and across Turtle Island. Rana holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University and is based between occupied Ramallah and Ottawa on unceded Anishinaabe territory.
Renèe Helèna Browne is an Irish artist working across film, drawing, and spoken word. Their work has been exhibited and screened internationally at institutions and festivals including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Talbot Rice Gallery, Oakville Galleries and more. Renèe is a recipient of the Salzburger Kunstverein Sunset Kino Award for excellence in contemporary film and their work is held in public collections.
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens are visual artists working across sculpture, video, installation, public art, and artist books. Grounded in rigorous research and project-specific material experimentation, their practice investigates the entanglements of ecology, economy, epistemology, and history. Over several years, they have examined the history of science and other forms of knowledge, including the language of economy, the magic of statistics, the capacity for models to impact the future, the aesthetics of data visualization, and the design of laboratory experiments. More recently, their work seeks to expand concepts of hospitality, care, and interspecies communication.
Sabīne Šnē is a Latvian mixed-media artist who explores the relationships between humans and the more-than-human, focusing on how organisms and elements sustain life on Earth, and how extractive processes impact them. Her works have been presented internationally in solo and group exhibitions, screenings, and festivals.
Serena Lee is interested in how energy circulates. She plays with cinema, movement, place-making, sound, performance, writing, and collective study. Serena is based between Toronto and Vienna where she completed a PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, focusing on the martial art of taijiquan as a methodology for aesthetic inquiry.
Sofia Dona is a visual artist based in Athens and Munich. Her installations and video works challenge familiar spatial and social structures, focusing on interruptions, sudden breaks in historical narratives or everyday life that expose hidden systems of power and control. Her work has been shown internationally at venues such as Gropius Haus (Bauhaus Foundation), Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Instituto Municipal de Arte y Cultura (Tijuana), nGbK (Berlin), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), and EMST (Athens).
Sophie Sabet is a Toronto-based visual artist working in video and installation. Drawing on family histories and domestic archives, her practice examines how displacement is inscribed in the body and how it can fragment ideological perspectives. Her work has recently been exhibited at Modern Fuel and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, with an upcoming screening at MoMA Doc Fortnight 2026. Sabet is pursuing an MFA in Moving Image at Bard College’s Milton Avery School of Arts.
Stéphanie Lagarde is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her works explore human strategies of occupation and the control of space throughout systems of objects, signs, and political/social structures. She creates conflicting scenarios from assemblages of sounds, images, and texts drawn from multiple sources. Her films have been presented at festivals internationally.
Theo Jean Cuthand was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1978. Since 1995, he has been making experimental videos and films, and more recently, has expanded to feature films and video game development. Cuthand’s work has been screened and exhibited widely in Canada and the United States. He is a trans man who uses he/him pronouns. He is Plains Cree and Scots, and resides in Toronto.
Tianhui Wu is a Hainanese artist and filmmaker currently based in Edinburgh. Her works examine the body as political by blending her personal transnational experiences and incorporating personal memory under collective trauma. She engages with historical and contemporary perspectives on East and Southeast Asian identity, memory, and resistance.
Born in Nagoya, Japan in 1969, Tomonari Nishikawa was a filmmaker, artist, curator, and friend to many in the experimental film community. His films explore the idea of documenting situations/phenomena through a chosen medium and technique—often focusing on process itself. His work has been screened at numerous film festivals and art venues worldwide, including TIFF and New York Film Festival. Nishikawa passed away in April 2025 in New York, where he was Chair ofthe Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
Tripty Tamang Pakhrin is a Nepali visual artist who lives and works between Hawai'i and Nepal. She works with photography, video, performance and installation to create layered narratives that look inward to personal and familial experiences, and outward to contemporary issues in Nepal. She draws her visual language from the entangling relationship between her three parents and the mundanities of her childhood experience of growing up in a hotel in a small border town in Jhapa, Nepal. Her works have been exhibited in various festivals and spaces in Nepal, India, Indonesia, Germany, Norway, UAE, and the US.
Zeynep Dadak is a Berlin-based filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. Her work merges fiction and non-fiction to examine questions of identity, memory, and politics of emotion. She holds a PhD in Film from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and her films were screened at Berlinale, Rotterdam, and AFI among other major festivals.
Zhongyao Wang, born in Harbin in 1996, lives and works in Beijing. She graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. Zhongyao’s practice spans digital video, installation, sculpture, and writing. Her work has been shortlisted for the Lumen Prize and has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Venice Arsenale, TANK Shanghai, and The Wrong Biennale.
Çiçek Kahraman is an award-winning film editor and video artist whose credits include nearly thirty films, some of which have premiered and been awarded at festivals such as Berlinale and Venice. With an MA in Film and Television from Boston University, Kahraman continues her artistic practice between Berlin and Istanbul.
