Bitton, Simone
°1955 - Rabat (Morocco).Simone Bitton was born in Morocco in 1955. She lived in Rabat and Jerusalem, and then in Paris, where she has been based since her studies at the French Institute for Cinema Studies (IDHEC). She holds both Israeli and French citizenship, and defines herself as an Arab Jew who likes neither walls nor borders. She has been making documentary films since 1981. ...
Shin, Jung-Kyun
°1986 - Seoul (Korea).Shin Jung-Kyun is an emerging artist who often works with video. He has participated in diverse screening events, festivals and projects, and has received several Awards. He has technique, ability of constructing narratives as well as his conceptual attitude as a video artist. He conveys a very personal memory of military service in his work, Universal Story. ...
Vostell, Wolf
°1932 - Leverkusen (Germany).Wolf Vostell was a German painter and sculptor of the second half of the 20th century. Wolf Vostell is considered one of the early adopters of Video art, Environment, Installation, Happening and the Fluxus Movement. Techniques such as blurring and the Dé-collage are characteristic of his work, as is embedding objects in concrete. ...
Nys, Sophie
°1974 - BelgiumSophie Nys lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She studied visual arts at Sint-Lukas in Gent and obtained her postgraduate degree from the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Nys’ videos are equally impulsive as disarming observations and self-portraits ...
Suleiman, Elia
°1960 - Nazareth (Israel). Lives and works in New York and Nazareth.Filmmaker Elia Suleiman was born in Nazareth, well after the establishment in 1948 of the state of Israel in historic Palestine. He lived in New York and Paris in self-imposed exile, before returning to the land of his birth to look for his roots. He now commutes between New York and Nazareth. He made his first work, Introduction to the End of an Argument / Speaking for oneself.. ...
Driesen, Mattijs
°1994 - Lives and works in BrusselsMattijs Driesen (1994) is a filmmaker and writer based in Brussels. His latest short film The Actricity Machines (2023) had its world premiere at Film Fest Ghent. He is in the process of finishing his Ph.D. at LUCA School of Arts, where he researches the connections between radical pedagogy and cinematic aesthetics ...
Yanisi, Crispin
°1999 - Born, lives and works in AalstCrispin Yanisi is a young filmmaker from Aalst who completed his bachelor's degree in film studies at KASK and Conservatorium in Ghent, where he is also pursuing his master's degree in film. He draws his inspiration from his everyday life, painting, literature, photography, music, and conversations ...
Dekegel, Olivier
°1970Olivier Dekegel (1970, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. He studied cinema at INSAS Brussels. He worked for several years as assistant, dramatist, light and sound designer for different modern dance and theatre companies. All his films are made on Super 8 or 16mm, and always oscillate between documentary and experimental approach. ...
de Pencier, Nick
Nicholas de Pencier is a director, producer, and director of photography working in documentary, performing arts, and dramatic film. He is President of Mercury Films Inc., the Toronto-based production company he shares with his partner, Jennifer Baichwal. ...
Martin, Isabelle
°1978 - Belgium"Apart from shorts in 16mm film format Isabelle Martin also makes audio work, portraying various people through her written texts. She studied at the ERG and the INSAS in Brussels. Her work has been shown, among others, during the Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofest, the Festival International du Film Indépendant (Brussels) and the Festival International du film de femmes in Dortmund ...
Jonas, Joan
°1936 - New York (United States).Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She began her career in New York City as a sculptor ...
Van der Avoort, Boris
°1967 - BelgiumBoris Van der Avoort was born in Belgium in 1967. He studied photography at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels de la Cambre (1992) and at I.N.S.A.S (the Institut National des Arts du Spectacle), graduating in film editing in 1995. He has been showing his photographic work at individual and group exhibitions in Belgium and abroad since 1990 ...
Villevoye, Roy
°1960 - Maastricht (The Netherlands). Lives and works in Amsterdam.In his work Roy Villevoye explores issues around anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and the legacy of colonialism. Even though his videos, often realized in collaboration with Jan Dietvorst, are frequently considered documentaries, he distances himself explicitly from the genre, by freeing himself from a number of characteristic conventions. ...
Claus, Eva
°1992 - Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels.Eva Claus is a filmmaker currently based in Brussels, Belgium. She has made a number of 16mm short films and was educated at the Friedl Kubelka School for independent film in Vienna, Austria. She obtained her MA and BA in Fine Arts at the photography department The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. Her films have been screened in various places over the world. ...
Jerez, Maria
°1978 - Madrid (Spain).Maria Jerez mainly works in: Europe She officially lives in: Madrid Her work travels in between: choreography, cinema and visual arts She is interested in: the unspeakable and the indifference She produces the works: “El Caso del Espectador” (2004), “This Side Up” (2006), “The Perfect Alibi” (2011-12), “ba-deedly-deedly-deedly-dum ba-boop-be-doop!” (2014), “Alma de Rímel & The Glammatics” (201 ...
André, Marie
°1951 - Brussels (Belgium). Lives and works in Brussels.Narrative fiction and documentation of performing arts are central to Marie André’s work. The Belgium artist often shows her fascination with the eloquence and significance of everyday gestures, particularly those of women that her work magically captures through the postmodern choreography of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. ...
