Bayley Sweitzer

Bayley Sweitzer is a filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn, whose practice revolves around an ongoing attempt to repurpose narrative film form in order to convey radical political possibilities. His work has been shown at Film at Lincoln Center, Walker Art Center, Tate Modern, Berlinale, Anthology Film Archives, Bozar in Brussels, Pacific Film Archive, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Other Cinema in San Francisco, and Artists Space in New York City. Sweitzer has received a 2021 Creative Capital Awards and recent moving image commissions from the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, Gasworks in London, and Spike Island in Bristol. Sweitzer also works professionally as a focus puller and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild, IATSE Local 600.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán) is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 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 analog mediums, interventions on archival materials, agitprop, mythology, social protests, and documentary poetry. Their radical experimentations on documentary and cinematographic devices produce images, both visual and auditory that are political possibilities in their own right.

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Crystal Z Campbell 

Crystal Z Campbell (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of Black, Filipinx, and Chinese descents. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, Campbell finds complexity in public secrets—fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Their archive-driven work in film/video, performance, installation, sound, painting, and text, has been exhibited/screened at The Drawing Center, Block Museum, ICA-Philadelphia, SculptureCenter, SFMOMA, National Gallery Art, and MOMA. Honors and awards include the Harvard Radcliffe, Pollock-Krasner Award, MAP Fund, MacDowell, Skowhegan, Rijksakademie, and UNDO Fellowship. Campbell’s writing has been featured in World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic. Campbell is a Visiting Associate Professor of Art and Media at the University at Buffalo and was recently named a 2022 Creative Capital Awardee.

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Jessica Sarah Rinland

Argentine-British artist filmmaker, Jessica Sarah Rinland has exhibited and screened her work internationally winning awards including Special Mention at Locarno Film Festival and Best Film at DocumentaMadrid for her first feature film (Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another, 2019), Primer Premio at Bienale de Imagen en Movimiento (Black Pond, 2018), Arts + Science Award at Ann Arbor Film Festival (2014), ICA’s Best Experimental Film at LSFF (2013), and M.I.T’s Schnitzer Prize for excellence in the arts (2017). Residencies include Film Studies Center at Harvard University, Somerset House Studios, MacDowell and Ikusmira Berriak. She holds a BA (Honors) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and a MSc in Arts, Culture and Technology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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João Vieira Torres

João Vieira Torres French-Brazilian artist/filmmaker born in Recife, Brazil. He lives and works between France and Brazil. Obtained a masters degree in Photography and Video Art from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, followed by the post-graduation residency at Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains (2010-12) and continued his research in thPHD programme «Document et Art Contemporain» at the École Sup. Européenne de l’Image. Vieira Torres uses various forms of artistic expression: photography, cinema, video art, performance. One of the main axes of their work is the issue of “foreignness” and forms of instability and perspectives breaking points that originate it. He has shown his work among other places at: Venice Biennale College (IT) / DocLisboa (PT) / New York Film Festival (US) / Kinoforum São Paulo (BR) / CentrePompidou(FR) / Palais de Tokyo (FR) / Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK) / Art of the Real Lincoln Center (US) / Ann Arbor Film Fest (US) / FIDMarseille(FR) / Olhar de Cinema (BR) / Rencontres Int. du Documentaire de Montréal (CA) / Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (FR/DE) / Museu da Imagem e do som de São Paulo (BR) / Anthology Film Archives(US) / MIS São Paulo (BR) / LABoral (ESP) / IndieLisboa(PT) / Tampere Short Film Fest (FI) / Uniondocs New York (US) / Vilnius CAC (LT).

Zack Khalil is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, currently based in Brooklyn, NY.  His work centers indigenous narratives in the present—and looks towards the future—through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. He is a core contributor to New Red Order, a public-secret society which calls attraction toward indigeneity into question, yet promotes this desire, and enjoins potential non-Indigenous accomplices to participate in the co-examination and expansion of Indigenous agency.  His work has been exhibited at Artists Space, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lincoln Center, Walker Arts Center, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, New York Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival among other institutions.

Adam Khalil, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance Film Festival, Walker Arts Center, Lincoln Center, Tate Modern, HKW, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Toronto Biennial 2019 and Whitney Biennial 2019, among other institutions. Recent exhibitions were held at Gasworks in London, Spike Island in Bristol,  Artists Space in NYC, and Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, Denmark. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants, including but not limited to a 2021 Creative Capital Award, 2021 Herb Alpert Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction, Jerome Artist Fellowship, Cinereach and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.

Jackson Polys is a multi-disciplinary artist belonging to Tlingit territory, living and working between what are currently called Alaska and New York. He is a core contributor to New Red Order (NRO), a public secret society who, with an interdisciplinary network of Informants, co-produce video, performance, and installation works that confront desires for indigeneity, settler colonial tendencies and obstacles to Indigenous growth and agency. His individual and collaborative works have appeared at the Alaska State Museum, Anchorage Museum, Artists Space, HKW Berlin, Images Festival, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, MIT, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Museum of Modern Art, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Biennial of Art, Walker Arts Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other institutions.

Oba

Born Wendell Scotts in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Oba is an artist, chef, and actor based in Brooklyn. His paintings, sculptures, and t-shirts have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art (US), Gasworks (UK), Spike Island (UK), Someday Gallery (US) and Rumpelstiltskin (US). From 2016 to 2018, Oba was lead singer of the avant-noise supergroup Dead Companionship alongside Austin Sley Julian, Adam and Zack Khalil. He starred as King Alpha in Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s 2018 film Empty Metal. Oba’s world-class corn soup has been slurped at the legendary Club Temptation in Flatbush, as well as fine establishments across the world.

Sofía Gallisá Muriente

Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a visual artist whose work resists colonial forces of erasure and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. She employs text, image and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetic and political implications. Sofía is a past fellow of the Flaherty Seminar and has received support from the Smithsonian Institute, MoMA and the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative. Her work has been exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Queens Museum, ifa Galerie in Berlin, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, as well as galleries Km 0.2 and Embajada, among others. From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local, dedicated to fostering knowledge exchange and transdisciplinary practices in Puerto Rico.

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Tiffany Sia

Tiffany Sia (b. 1988, Hong Kong) is an artist, filmmaker, and writer. She is the director of Never Rest/Unrest (2020) and Do Not Circulate (2021). Sia’s films have been screened at the New York Film Festival, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Prismatic Ground, and elsewhere. She is the author of 咸濕 Salty Wet, a chapbook published by Inpatient Press in 2019, and the artist book sequel, Too Salty Too Wet 更咸更濕, published through Speculative Place Press in 2020. Her writing has been published in Film Quarterly, October, and elsewhere. Sia’s artworks have been exhibited at Artists Space (New York), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf, DE), and elsewhere. She received the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2021.

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