Jean-Marie Straub, born in 1933 and died in 2022, is a French filmmaker. Interested quickly in the cinema, in the 1950s he was involved in film clubs in his hometown of Metz, before moving to Paris. In 1954 he met Danièle Huillet, his wife and constant companion, with whom he co-directed most of his films. …
Danièle Huillet is a French filmmaker born in Paris in 1936 and died in 2006. With her husband, Jean-Marie Straub, she directed her first short film Machorka-Muff in 1963. Thereafter, they directed all their films together until Huillet’s death. Rare in the film industry, these two who define themselves as “artisans of cinema” hold their …
David Wark Griffith (1875 Crestwood – 1948 Hollywood), better known as D. W. Griffith, was an American film director. A prolific director, he made about four hundred short films in five years, from 1908 to 1913, and had made the first American blockbusters from 1914. He developed scriptwriting to allow for increasingly longer films. In …
Ben Russell is an American artist born in 1976. His cinema (more than twenty-five short films and two feature films), in filiation with the cinema of Jean Rouch, integrates ethnographic elements and critical theories. Russell, through his art (performances, installations and cinema), explores the history and semiology of the moving image and designates his work …
Antoine d’Agata, born in Marseille in 1961, left France in 1983 for ten years. While in New York in 1990, he enrolled at the International Centre of Photography where he studied with Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. In 1993, he returns to France and interrupts his work as a photographer for four years. In 1998, …
Luis López Carrasco is a filmmaker, a writer and a visual artist. In 2008 he co-founded Los Hijos, an experimental cinema and documentary collective. Their work has been shown in numerous international film festivals and contemporary art centers. Mar del Plata International Film Festival, Distrital Film Festival, Lima Independiente Film Festival, CGAI and Arteleku dedicated …
Gala Hernández López is an artist-researcher living between Paris and Berlin. She is a doctoral student at Paris 8 University, an assistant lecturer in Visual Studies and Digital Art at the Gustave Eiffel University and a Visiting Researcher at the Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (Germany). Her thesis focuses on screen capture in post-internet cinema and …
Paul B. Preciado is a writer, philosopher, curator, and one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and body politics. Among his different assignments, he has been Curator of Public Programs of documenta 14 (Kassel/Athens), Curator of the Taiwan Pavilion in Venice in 2019, and Head of Research of the Museum of Contemporary …
Yunyi Zhu is a Chinese artist, was born in Tengzhou, Shandong Province. He graduated from Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts in sculpture and Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. His works are mainly in the form of film and installations, which are based on the combination of a series of personal experiences …
Armel Hostiou studied cinema at the Fémis where his graduation film, SoloS, won awards in various festivals. He then started directing and shot several short films but also video installations and numerous music videos. In 2008 he co-founded the production company Bocalupo Films with which he directed his first feature film, Rives (Cannes 2011). In 2015 he released …
Amos Gitai, born in 1950 in Haifa, Israel, was studying architecture, following in his father’s footsteps, when the Yom Kippur War interrupted his studies. He started using a small Super-8 camera during his helicopter missions. He then became a filmmaker. Amos Gitai has produced an extraordinarily varied body of work in which he explores the …