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 …
Amit Dutta (1977, India) was educated in film and television at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in 2004, and is now regarded as one of the most successful experimental filmmakers from his country. Dutta has made more than 40 films and published six books. His works range from literary adaptations, fiction, documentation, …
Pierre Creton is a filmmaker and a farmer. Born in 1966, he lives and works in Vattetot-sur-mer (Seine Maritime). He studied at the Villa Arson (Nice) and at the School of Fine Arts in Le Havre. He decided to stay in Normandy and to become a farmer. Pierre Creton makes all his films in a …
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 …
Jean-Charles Hue has notably directed La BM du Seigneur (2010) and Mange tes morts (2014), a film awarded the Jean Vigo Prize and the France Culture Prize. In parallel to his French films, he has been working for several years on the city of Tijuana, which takes different forms: short film with Tijuana Tales (2017), …
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 …
Mehran Tamadon was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1972. He first studied architecture in Paris before turning to filmmaking. He directed his first documentary, Behesht zahra, in 2004. In 2010, he made Bassidji in which he documented his attempts to enter into a dialogue with the Basij militia whose members have dedicated their lives to …
Maher Abi Samra was born in Beirut in 1965. He studied drama arts and worked as photojournalist for the Lebanese press, before doing audiovisual studies. Since 1995, he has written and directed several documentaries.
Alassane Diago was born in 1985 in Agnam Lidoubé, Senegal. After completing an audiovisual training course in Dakar in 2007, he took several courses in directing techniques and scriptwriting, notably with the documentary filmmaker Samba Félix Ndiaye. He worked on various film sets, including Lili-et-le baobab directed by Chantal Richard, before directing his first feature-length …
Alexander Abaturov was born in 1984 in Russia. He graduated from Gorky University and became a journalist after his studies. In 2010, he arrived in France and joined the Master in Creative Documentary Filmmaking at the Lussas Documentary School. In 2013, he directed his first documentary film, Les Âmes dormantes, which was selected in many …
Jean-Louis Comolli is a French filmmaker, screenwriter and writer, born in 1941 in Philippeville (now Skikda, Algeria). After working for Les Cahiers du Cinéma from 1962 to 1978, of which he was editor in chief from 1966 to 1971, he became a director of fiction and documentaries. Also a journalist for Jazz Magazine, he has …