Meet the Filmmakers
Alessandra Cianelli
Alessandra Cianelli Story of the Octopus with a Heartshaped Head from 2007 in Show 5 Animal’s Planet I have chosen to live and work in Naples, South Italy. I graduated from the Fine Arts Accademy in Naples and studied Philosophy at I.U.O, Naples. I am currently studying yoga. My work combines traditional arts (sculpture, photography, video, […]
Alex Hovet
Alex Hovet ‘s IN RECOVERY from 2013 was made with Super 8. It is in Show 7 Mother Nature / Human Nature Alex Hovet’s work in photography and video explores the relationship between image and memory, and the degradation of both. Her work investigates the impulse to create narratives from anonymous imagery and the struggle […]
Amang Hung
AMNIOTIC FLUID, OCEANS APART Show 21 Mother’s Day and MORE THAN ONE in Show 17 Apparitions Born and raised in Hualien on the east coast of Taiwan, Amang is the author of three volumes of verse, ”On/Off: Selected Poems of Amang, 1995—2002″ (2003), “No Daddy” (2008), and “Chariots of Women” (2016). Her work has appeared in various print […]
Ana Rodríguez León
Ana Rodríguez León Bell & Howell 2146 XL in Show 9 Beyond the Body’s Frame; Camera: Javier Rapallo; 8mm & Super 8; TRT: 8.56 Memorais on Show 4 Home-Making; Camera: Javier Rapallo; Music: The Free Sound Project; 8mm & Super 8; TRT: 7.01 The Glass Threshold (El umbral de cristal) in Show 14 Spirit Dreams; TRT: 25.00 The Spiritual Machine […]
Augusta Palmer
Augusta Palmer is a filmmaker and scholar best known for The Hand of Fatima (2009), a feature documentary about music, mysticism, and family history. Her award-winning documentary and experimental video work has screened in national and international festivals, as well as at venues like New York’s Anthology Film Archives. She is an Assistant Professor of […]
Beth Portnoy
Beth Portnoy GYRE-ATION in Show 2 Hometown is performed & choreographed by Amy Larimer; Music: Greg ‘Cosmo D’ Heffernan; Digi; TRT: 6.48 Beth Portnoy has been unleashing her mighty moves all over New York City as a choreographer, dancer, teacher, and filmmaker. Beth’s dance for camera work has been screened at both International and US film […]
Beth Warshafsky
Beth Warshafsky is a NYC-based artist and teacher working in a multiple mediums and practices including video and digital moving images, live projection, artist’s books, prints, drawings, photographs and text. Her fil, FISHING, is in Show 17 Apparitions. Beth’s artwork has been shown at laboratory-series at the International Short Film Festival in Hamburg; Follow the […]
Caitlin Díaz
Caitlin Díaz ‘s film, DEJAR is in Show 22 In & Outdoors. An artist and filmmaker from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, she currently lives and works in Los Angeles, creating films on Super 8mm, 16mm and 35mm. Combining digital, analog and direct filmmaking techniques, her films explore the human psyche and the processes that surround […]
Carla Forte
Carla Forte Staring At The Ceiling Show 23 – There We Are Carla Forte is a film director, scriptwriter and performer. Forte is the founder and Executive Director of Bistoury Physical Theatre and Film. Selected as a Berlinale Talent 2017, Carla has directed internationally featured Video-Art works such as Interrupta, Official Selection at 27th Festival […]
Carolin Koss
Carolin Koss Emerald Green Show 24 The Verdant Carolin Koss is a Helsinki based artist and filmmaker originally from Germany. Koss works with various mediums and often creates contemplative and aesthetic works, which embody internal landscapes and invent dream realities. Her works recurrently have a dreamlike nature and captivate through symbolic language and stylized imagery. […]
Caroline Bernard
Caroline Bernard – Fonction Panorama LGKU990; TRT: 5.48; is in Show 2 Hometown A kind of timeline, the timeline of life, of feelings, feelings trapped in time and space, and it’s also a metaphor of tired feeling in a love relationship. A loving duet between the cameraman, and the photographed one (is the filmmakers and […]
Carolyn Radlo & Alanna Simone
Carolyn Radlo & Alanna Simone – And This Forest Will be a Desert; (2010); Music: Wardruna; TRT: 2.33 in Show 5 Animal’s Planet C+A Projects comprises Carolyn Radlo and Alanna Simone, a mother-daughter team of artists based in California and Chicago. They collaborate on projects which deal with social and political situations communicated through sparse […]
Cinzia Sarto
Cinzia Sarto Forbidden Fruit; (2009); TRT: 4.44 in Show 10 Pesky Thoughts Lost in a Glass of Water; (2013); TRT: 2.06 in Show 12 Twilight Mindset Toxic Park; (2012); With Emita Frigato; Digi; TRT: 11.22 in Show 3 Body of Another Una Sporca Vacanza (the Dirty Vacation); (2005); TRT: 7:00 in Show 11 Get Up Stand Up Cinzia Sarto […]
Coleen Fitzgibbon
Coleen Fitzgibbon – Rose Selavee; (2014) in Show 6 Psychedelic States was shot with an iPhone 4; TRT: 5.00 Coleen Fitzgibbon is an experimental film artist based in NYC. Fitzgibbon has screened her work at international film festivals, museums and galleries, including New Museum, Salon94, Louis B. James Gallery, MOCA/LA Film Forum, Austrian VIENNALE, TIFF, […]
Dana Berman Duff
Dana Berman Duff works in small format film, and video, Her film, CATALOGUE is in Show 22 In & Outdoors Her works have been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (Geneva), Edinburgh International Film Festival, South London Gallery, EXiS Festival and others. Her […]
Ella Mikkola
Ella Mikkola is a Finnish filmmaker currently studying film in Canada. Her film, SAARI is in Show 16 Landscape Comes Attached She started to experiment with moving images a year ago, after moving from her home country to a new one. Finding new meanings from her new surroundings and transforming these discoveries into images is […]
Evelin Stermitz
Evelin Stermitz Water Portrait; Show 20 – Political Restings Rooftop Short; Show 25 – Through My Skin Evelin Stermitz, M.A., M.Phil., studied Media and New Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and holds the degree in Philosophy from Media Studies. Her works in the field of media and […]
Fabienne Gautier
Fabienne Gautier – Iceland; (2006); TRT: 4.19 , was shot in B&W Super 8, and is in Show 5 Animal’s Planet Fabienne Gautier is an artist and filmmaker living in Paris. Her works include several medias like film, video, installations and photography. Her work has been shown internationally in galleries and festivals including the New […]
Heidi Phillips
Heidi Phillips is an experimental filmmaker and installation artist from Manitoba, Canada with an affinity for the tactility of the filmic medium. Phillips’ often uses thrifted super 8 films, contact printing and darkroom experiments to push her work into new places. Phillips’ old school process frequently becomes part of the content, as grainy scratched films […]
Jenny Brown
Jenny Brown The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Symbiocene Show 25 – Through My Skin Australian artist Jenny Brown creates work that stakes out claims for both functional and aesthetic forms in a sophisticated socio-politically engaged practice, often with simple means and modes of expression. Her moving image works sometimes draw out the themes of these […]
Jesse Russell Brooks & Alexzenia Davis
Jesse Russell Brooks & Alexzenia Davis – Make Me a Doorway; (2012); 8mm/Digi; TRT: 3.36 is in Show 2 Hometown Written by: Alexzenia Davis; Directed by: Jesse Russell Brooks; Features three poems: “Make Me,” “My Silhouette,” and “A Lady’s Psyche” written by Alexzenia Davis with attitude. Alexzenia Davis – Writer and Poet Composing poetry that stems […]
Joey Huertas (AKA Jane Public)
Joey Huertas (AKA Jane Public) – Missing Green; (2011); Pixelvision & 16mm color negative; TRT: 9.39 is found in Show 3 Body of Another Joey Huertas (AKA Jane Public) holds a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts and Film, and an MSW from Hunter College School of Social […]
Julia Jin
Julia Jin – Dispossessed; (2013); B/W and color 16mm; Sound from HDV Vixia camcorder; 76mm and 26mm lens; TRT: 7.46 is found in Show 12 Twilight Mindset I graduated with a BA in Cinema from Binghamton University last year, and discovered experimental film three years ago when I stepped into a small film salon club […]
Júlia Portella & Melina Schleder
Júlia Portella & Melina Schleder – Maldita Vouuge; (2014); TRT: 11.10 is in Show 10 Pesky Thoughts Julia Portella – co-director Co-direction of the videoclip “Amigo Punk”, 2008 Direction of short movie “Ônibus Lotado”, 2005 Melina Schleder – co-director Co-direction of the short movie “Wander”, 2005 Co-direction of the videoclip “Amigo Punk”, 2008 Wrote and edited the […]
Juliette Liautaud
Juliette Liautaud Kapr (A Fish Scale Can Hide a Sun); Show 13 – Fun & Games Recuerdo De Mi Santuario; Show 24 – The Verdant Juliette Liautaud was born in 1987 in Marseille, France. After studying literature and visual arts at university in Paris, she graduated from the Fine Arts School Villa Arson in Nice in […]
Karissa Hahn
Karissa Hahn Assumptions of Your Phantom(sy); (2012); Super 8; TRT: 1:53 is in Show 7 Mother Nature / Human Nature Reveries; (2013); Super 8 to Digi; TRT: 3.38 is in Show 9 Beyond the Body’s Frame Karissa Hahn is an artist and filmmaker based in LA; a graduate from CalArts . She has explored many different visual […]
Kathleen Rugh
Kathleen Rugh – Light Streaming; (2012); 16mm; TRT: 6.19 is found in Show 8 Over Land & Sea Kathleen Rugh is a filmmaker and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her film and photographic work has been exhibited in screenings and galleries throughout the US and internationally, including the Edinburgh International Film Festival, EXiS Experimental Film […]
Katya Yakubov
Katya Yakubov – She Learns To Lunge; (2009); Music: Justina Serrano & Eligio Perez; Actors: Lyudmila Jegalova, Katya Yakubov, Graciela Valles Valera; Digi; TRT: 8.30 is in Show 4 Home-Making Katya Yakubov is a Russian-born filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2009 and served as a […]
Kelly Gallagher
Kelly Gallagher – Ceallaigh at Kilmainham; (2013); shot on 16mm TRT: 7:00 opens our series in Show 1 – Enduring Adversity Pen Up the Pigs; (2014); TRT: 12.00 is in Show 11 Get Up Stand Up Kelly Gallagher is a filmmaker and animator from the Philadelphia area. Her films have screened internationally at venues such as: […]
Kelly Oliver
Kelly Oliver – The Borough, a little gem from 2009 (TRT: 1.32) is in Show 10 Pesky Thoughts There are a lot of ugly things in this world. I wish I could protect you from them. Kelly Oliver is a video artist from Raritan, NJ. In addition to her own video work, she has collaborated with […]
Kimberly Burleigh
Honored with numerous grants and fellowships from such institutions as the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, Kimberly Burleigh has shown her work in over 200 exhibitions and film festivals. She works with a variety of mediums, including; painting, drawing, collage and computer imaging/animation. Exhibitions and Film festivals include “Australian Experimental […]
Kristin Reeves
Kristin Reeves THREADBARE; Show 19 – I Dented Oriented Body Contours; Show 25 – Through My Skin Kristin Reeves has shown her interdisciplinary work internationally in museums, galleries, theaters, art events, and festivals such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), and was included in the 26th European Media Art Festival’s Best of the Festival program (Osnabrück). She […]
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson
Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson Landslag; Show 7 – Mother Nature / Human Nature Look Out Point; Show 25 – Through My Skin Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson’s films and videos have been presented at festivals and galleries in Asia, Europe, North America and Australia. K-Nelson has screened at venues such as the Walker Art Center, the D.C. National Museum for […]
Lana Z Caplan
Lana Z Caplan is a film/videomaker, photographer, and interactive video installation artist. Caplan’s various technical approaches in her work are unified by her thematic concerns, which revolve around exploring the cultural effects of environmental change, challenges and gaps in cross-cultural communication, the construction and deconstruction of narrative form and the immateriality of the post-internet digital […]
Laura Hyunjhee Kim
Laura Hyunjhee Kim is a Korean-American artist who works with video, performance, and the Internet as a medium. Her absurd and playful videos explore how online experiences reconfigure everyday life. Kim received the inaugural ArtSlant Award in New Media and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Born in Palo Alto, California, at the age of nine she moved […]
Léa Furnion
Léa Furnion was born in France and has lived in New York since 2012. She is a graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris Cergy and also studied at Concordia University in Montreal. Through film, installation and drawing, Léa’s work explores fictional mechanisms, constructions and tangents with reality. Léa also works with musicians […]
Leila Jarman
Leila Jarman – UPBEAT NOTHINGNESS; (2012); With: Mike Leisz & Sandhya Daemgen; Digi; TRT: 3:14 is found in Show 6 Psychedelic States In Berlin, five people “stuck” and restricted by routine, breakout, upon finding their truest selves thru color and forms of movement. Leila Jarman is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. […]
Lena Ditte Nissen
Lena Ditte Nissen – Korona; (2013); 16mm; TRT: 10.20 is in Show 1 – Enduring Adversity The German-Danish artist and filmmaker (*1987, Munich) lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Since 2010 she studies at the Academy of Media Art. Lena’s works takes in various forms, depending on the chosen media and materials; the connection between text/voice […]
Lili White
Lili White The Future is You (2008); Show 22 – In & Outdoors The Kitchen Sink (2010); Show – 11 Get Up Stand Up Snake Foot (2014); Show 6 – Psychedelic States OVerTURE EnD ing (2016); Show 23 – There We Are Lili White has been making films since 1978. Using stylized gestures used as a […]
Liliana Resnick
Liliana Resnick – Displacement; (2012); Cast: Junko Sodeyama; Music: Tribal Jam Orchestra & Marko Bosko; Digi; TRT: 7.20 in in Show 4 Home-Making As a filmmaker, Liliana Resnick explores tensions between the inner world of human beings and the exterior world that encloses them. She works in narrative, documentary and experimental style and often mixes […]
Linda Fenstermaker
Linda Fenstermaker — Inversion; (2012); 16mm; TRT: 13.01 is in Show 9 Beyond the Body’s Frame Linda Fenstermaker is an experimental filmmaker and graduate of Hampshire College. She works primarily with 16mm and Super 8mm film, photography, prose and collage. In her work, she explores interactions and relationships between body and landscape, in discovering new […]
Lori Felker
Lori Felker Broken News Series; (2012); Graphics Collaborator: Chris Royalty; TRT: 5.00 is in Show 3 Body of Another Working With Nature – This is My Show; (2011); TRT: 14:44 is in Show 7 Mother Nature / Human Nature Lori Felker is an artist/filmmaker, teacher, programmer and projectionist. Her moving image work focuses on the ways in […]
Lydia Moyer
Lydia Moyer is media maker and visual artist who lives and works in central Virginia, USA where she is an associate professor of art at the University of Virginia. She received a BFA in studio practice from the New York State School of Art and Design at Alfred and an MFA in studio practice from […]
Margaret Rorison
Margaret Rorison – Gowanus Haze; (2012); 16mm; TRT: 5:41 is in Show 8 Over Land & Sea Margaret Rorison is a filmmaker and curator from Baltimore, MD. Her current work often develops from extensive walks through rural and urban landscapes, combining memories, field recordings and text. She is interested in the potentials of storytelling through […]
Metrah Pashaee
Originally residing from the Sunshine State, Metrah Pashaee is a Middle Eastern-American audio-visual artist and independent filmmaker currently completing her MFA in Film and Video Production at the University of Iowa. As an Iowa Arts Fellowship recipient, a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and a receiver of the 2015 Princess Grace Foundation’s Graduate Film Award, Metrah devotes […]
Mirka Morales
Mirka Morales is a San Francisco-based media artist from Puerto Rico. Working in 16mm film and digital formats, lucid dreams are created from an intimate, poetic, DIY perspective. Images unfold organically, from an experiential point-of-view, using a variety of cinematic techniques, including time-lapse, stop-motion animation and live action. Recent short films include Reciprocity Failure; Imum […]
Muriel Montini
Muriel Montini – Constellation; (2011); Digi; TRT: 5.00 is in Show 5 Animal’s Planet Muriel Montini studied cinema. She lives and works in Paris. Since 2000, she has made several movies screened in different international important institutions and festivals. She currently works on different films projects.
Naz Shahrokh
ON THE ROAD is found in Show 12 Twilight Mindset Naz Shahrokh is a visual artist who lives and works in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She was born in Tehran, Iran, she spent her childhood in Paris, France, and adolescent years in Los Angeles, CA. She received an MFA in Painting, and an MS in Art […]
Negin Sharifzadeh
Negin Sharifzadeh Even Gray Feels Blue; (2012); TRT: 8.18 is in Show 12 Twilight Mindset Story of a Curse #1; (2014); TRT: 4.49 is in Show 21 Mother’s Day The way I see it, art generates culture, and culture brings forth new social behaviors, diverse perspectives and change, hopefully for better! The sharing of different perspectives is itself […]
Noe Kidder
Noe Kidder – Paradise; (2011); 16mm; Music: Chris Becker; TRT: 10.00 is in Show 8 Over Land & Sea Filmed in Lisbon, Kauai and Catskill New York: challenging the viewer, as well as my own experience of loss. NOE KIDDER studied filmmaking at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She is inspired by Nature […]
Olivia Ciummo
Olivia Ciummo – Victoria; (2012); TRT: 10:21 is in Show 8 Over Land & Sea Three sisters search for a place to rest in a collage of different landscapes. As the siblings shift from location to location, versions of human utopia are taken away by nature, leaving them with impressions of a war. Filmed at […]
Rebecca Louise Tiernan
Rebecca Louise Tiernan – One Mississippi; (2009); Music: I Will be Done by Amigo Male Singers; D.P: Ben Jones; 16mm; TRT: 5:05 is in Show 10 Pesky Thoughts A psycho-narrative of four girls playing skipping rhymes in a barren field with a lonesome Scarecrow. REBECCA TIERNAN is Irish American, grown up between the States and […]
Rebecca Ruige Xu
Rebecca Ruige Xu – ANATOMY OF A POEM in Show 15 Value Judgments – currently teaches computer art and animation as an Associate Professor at Syracuse University. Her artwork and research interests include experimental animation, visual music, artistic data visualization, interactive installations, digital performance and virtual reality. Her recent work has appeared at: ISEA Juried Exhibition; […]
Rebekkah Palov
Rebekkah Palov, b. USA 1969, has a background in cinema with art practice in music, video, digital-print and performance. Her screen and sound work has been exhibited internationally including exhibition at Anthology Film Archives NYC, Mass MoCA Boston, The STONE NYC, Chongqing Huangjueping Art Festival China, Oblo Film Festival Lausanne Switzerland, AMODA – Austin TX , […]
Rhayne Vermette
Rhayne Vermette Black Rectangle; (2013); 16mm; TRT: 1.30 is in Show 11 Get Up Stand Up Tricks are for Kiddo; (2012); 16mm; TRT: 2.22 is in Show 9 Beyond the Body’s Frame Tudor Village: A One Shot Deal; (2012); 16mm; TRT: 5:15 is in Show 2 Hometown Rhayne Vermette is an artist from Winnipeg. She is the […]
Rita Piffer
Rita Piffer earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil), and her MFA in Cinema at San Francisco State University (USA). Her short films have been screened internationally at Independent Film Festivals and Art Galleries. She lived in San Francisco (CA) for almost nine years, where she created a […]
Rrose Present
Rrose Present NEXT LIVE SCREENING: August 2nd, 2017 at Anthology NOW ONLINE: Landscape_1 Landscape_2.0; Show 16 – Landscape Comes Attached CODES OF… SENSES II is in Show 20 Political Restings Reset Me; Show 24 – The Verdant Following a master’s degree in contemporary art, I wanted to take on the challenge to express my theories of […]
Ruth Hayes
Ruth Hayes Copper Perforation Loop Triptych Show 23 – There We Are Ruth Hayes animates in film, video and pre-cinema formats, exploring diverse topics using experimental approaches to both form and content. Her 1990 video Wanda contrasts feline and feminine desire and her 1994 film, Reign of the Dog; A Re-visionist History critiques mainstream representations […]
Sara Bonaventura
Sara Bonaventura She Vanishes; Show 19 – I Dented Oriented Chronoscope; Show 24 – The Verdant See the Free Video of Visiting Filmmaker Sara Bonaventura at an AXW NYC screening on 5/ 9/2017 under LIVE FESTIVALS Sara Bonaventura is a visual artist with an MA in Art History, who intertwines her digi or analog filming […]
Sasha Waters Freyer
Born in Brooklyn in 1968, Sasha Waters Freyer is a moving image artist who makes unsentimental films about the loss of innocence, real or imagined. Watch a free video of Question & Answer session with FILMMAKER Sasha Waters Freyer – AXW Film Festival on 9/30/2015 — under Live Festivals Her works have screened at the […]
Su Friedrich
Su Friedrich has produced and directed twenty three films and videos, including Gut Renovation (2012), From the Ground Up (2007), The Odds of Recovery (2002), Hide and Seek (1996), Sink or Swim (1990), Damned If You Don’t (1987), The Ties That Bind (1984), and Gently Down the Stream (1981). Friedrich is the writer, director, cinematographer, […]
Tara Merenda Nelson
Tara Merenda Nelson – Hull; (2013); 16mm; TRT: 7.22 in Show 1 – Enduring Adversity A Pattern Language; (2010) 16mm; TRT: 8:00 in Show 4 Home-Making Tara Merenda Nelson is a Boston-based filmmaker, curator and installation artist. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums basements and backyards throughout the United States and Canada, including the Museum […]
Terra Jean Long
Terra Jean Long – Push / Pull / Recover; (2013); Camera: Tara Khalilia; 16mm; TRT: 3.39 is found in Show 1 – Enduring Adversity A meditation on motion through stillness with breath. Shot in single frames on 16mm and hand painted. Terra Jean Long is an independent filmmaker and educator. She creates tapestry like works that […]
Tova Beck-Friedman
Tova Beck-Friedman On The Other Side Show 23 – There We Are
Valérie Pelet
Valérie Pelet’s film, PI KA CHU is found in Show 13 Fun & Games Since 2002 she is realizing solo and group projects in Austria and abroad inter alia Vienna, Oslo, Marseille and Brussel. 2003 – 2008 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria 2004-2006 Member of the artist group kalida508D. 2005 – 2006 Fine Arts […]
Ye Mimi
Ye Mimi – Was Being Moved? (2012); Digi; TRT: 11.00 is in Show 6 Psychedelic States Ye Mimi is a Taiwanese poet and filmmaker. A graduate of the MFA Creative Writing Department at Dong Hwa University and the MFA Film Department at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she is the author of […]
Yuko Takebe
Yuko Takebe is a graduate of the MFA program in film making at Columbia University, New York City. Her work experience has included being an assistant producer at Toho Visual Arts Company and an assistant director at Media Lab, Tokyo, Japan. She has made eleven short films ranging in styles from narrative to documentary to experimental, […]
Yvette Granata
Yvette Granata – 2198 Ghosts in the Sun, People in the Sea; Digi; TRT: 3.20 is in Show 3 Body of Another Split-screen and vertical motion, and a series of 2,198 photographs taken in my deceased grandparents home in Abruzzo, Italy. It is a self-portrait through the re-organization of time and space. Yvette Granata is […]
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