Maïder Fortuné

Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell met in 2000 while studying at Le Fresnoy, National Studio of Contemporary Arts. Since 2014, in addition to their individual practices as filmmakers and artists, they have developed a joint body of work that articulates notions of narrative, feminism as lived politics, art, and critical pedagogy, with a particular focus on the way words and images shape each other. Their films evolve between structured, even formalist approaches and the deliberate dismantling of these structures. In 2020, their film Communicating Vessels was screened at numerous other international festivals. In 2022, Outhere (for Lee Lozano) was selected for the Rotterdam, FID Marseille, and EMAF (Onasbruck) festivals. A monograph of their collaboration, The Beyond Within, was published by Art Metropole in 2024.