Kush Badhwar is an interdisciplinary practitioner operating across media, art, cinematic and other social contexts. He has produced work that has contributed to communities, criticism and research. He is interested in ecology, including the life of sound and images across stretches of time and political change. Selected screening or exhibition of his work includes at Five Million Incidents, Addis Video Art Festival, Sarai Reader 09, Experimenta Bangalore, Videobrasil, and Forum Expanded, Berlinale. He has also undertaken Pad.ma's Fellowship for Experiments with Video Archives, India Foundation of the Arts Archival Fellowship and residencies with Frontyard Projects and Sarai-CSDS.

Helga Fanderl was born in Germany and wanted to be a poet. She studied, and then taught, languages and literature, before discovering that film was the appropriate medium for her artistic expression. She found that it was not language, but visual art, that opened the way to a very personal and intense poetic work. Since 1986 she has created a body of work consisting of around 1000 short films, shot in Super8 with no postproduction, that she draws from for her screenings. She also carefully constructs her own programs for each occasion & venue, and presents them in person.

Roque Federizon Lee, a.k.a. Rox Lee is an artist born in Naga City, Philippines. Considered by many to be the Godfather of young Filipino filmmakers, he is a pioneering animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, painter and rock star. His work encompasses writing, performance, illustration, painting, and music, yet he is best known for his animation and unconventional filmmaking. He started out as a writer and illustrator for Jingle Magazine and created the comic strip Cesar Asar for Manila Bulletin. Lee is one of the founding members of Sinekalye, a group of artists, activists, musicians, and filmmakers taking films and music to the streets. A pioneer of independent film animation in the Philippines, his style is known for its spontaneity, irreverent situational ideas, edgy approach and distinctly surreal sense of humor, especially tangible in his early Super 8 films, including hand-drawn scratchy works and pixilated live action pieces.

Kazuo Hara was born in 1945. As a young man he was influenced by the protest movements that took place throughout Japan and the world in the late 1960s and 70s. He founded Shisso Productions in 1971 with his wife, producer, and primary collaborator Sachiko Kobayashi. Throughout the many decades of his career, filmmaker Kazuo Hara has stalked the bizarre and disturbing margins of Japanese society with his camera, certain that central truths can be found through an unrelenting examination of individuals and their interactions. His notoriously confrontational method of creating what he calls “action documentaries” has transformed the art of documentary filmmaking.

Chan Hau-Chun was born in China and moved to Hong Kong at the age of 12. She is currently living and working in Hong Kong. She is a photographer and independent film producer and graduated from the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. Chun likes to walk in the old district. She often intervenes in the space and daily life of the city, and is interested in capturing the physical traces of urban life. Through the image, she hopes to restore fragments of narrative and microhistory and reactivate the imaginary methods of these things.

Shambhavi Kaul's cinematic constructions conjure uncanny, science-fictive non-places. As Andréa Picard has written, a “strange yet familiar sense of place” dominates her work. Whether working with found footage or with her own images, Kaul’s work looks at the cinematic construction of place, and inevitably with it, that of human identity. She has exhibited worldwide at venues such as the Toronto International Film Festival, the Berlinale, The New York Film Festival, the London Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Experimenta Bangalore, the 2014 Shanghai Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, and solo shows at Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai. Kaul was born in Jodhpur, India, and lives and works in the United States where she teaches at Duke University.

Sachiko Kobayashi (June, 1946, Niigata City, Japan) graduated from Niigata university where she studied Literature.  When she was studying script writing in Tokyo,  she met with Hara at Hara’s photo exhibition in Ginza Nikon Salon while Hara attended Tokyo College of Photography before dropping out to work as support staff at a special education school, where he developed an intense interest in the world of disabled children. Subsequently he held a photo exhibition titled “Baka ni Sunna” (Don’t Make Fun of Me) in 1972.  Sachiko Kobayashi founded production company, Shisso Production with Kazuo Hara.  She is a partner and wife of Kazuo Hara.

Trinh-Thi Nguyen is a Hanoi-based film/media artist. Her moving image work— including experimental documentary films, single-channels and video installations— consistently engage with memory and history, and reflect on the roles and positions of artists in society. Her materials are diverse – from video and photographs shot by herself to those appropriated from various sources including press photos, corporate videos, and classic films; her practice traverses boundaries between film and video art, installation and performance. Nguyen’s works have been shown at international festivals and exhibitions including the 9th Asia Pacific Triennale; Sydney Biennale;  Jeu de Paume, Paris; CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; the Lyon Biennale 2015; Asian Art Biennial 2015, Taiwan; Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 2014; Singapore Biennale 2013; and Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Miko Revereza is an award-winning experimental film and video artist based in Los Angeles. Since relocating from Manila as a child, he has been living illegally in the United States for over 20 years and does not conceal this fact. Spanning short films, gallery installations and music videos, Revereza's body of work examines the process of documenting the undocumented. This struggle and exile from his homeland has influenced the content of Miko’s personal films that explore themes of diaspora, colonialism and Americanization. He also makes music videos and live video art installations for LA’s experimental music scene.

Priya Sen works as a filmmaker and artist across film/ video, sound and installation. Her work has screened at various festivals and venues including The Kitchen, NYC, BFI London Film Festival, Forum Expanded Berlinale, and Experimenta: International Festival of Moving Image Art. She has worked with experimental media practice in collectives as well as taught experimental film in Delhi and Bangalore. Sen’s current work has been trying to explore egalitarian and itinerant forms with film and sound. She lives and works in New Delhi.