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is a Filmmaker, Writer, Performance Artist and Lead singer of the Multi Media Performance Troupe: Transgendered Jesus. Hanavan uses her body as the subject in a series of video self portraits where the artist aggressively confronts her past in a frenzy state of cathartic self expression.

born in 1957, is a filmmaker and multimedia artist based in New York. He’s been creating work since the eighties, collaborating with Jack Waters, examining gentrification, fighting against AIDS, and working to cultivate collaborative spaces.

Elizabeth Dee is Co-Founder and CEO of Independent Art Fair. From 2020 to 2022, she was the Fonuding Director of The John Giorno Foundation in New York. After two decades of dedication to gallery practice and collaborating with artists, she regularly lectures on the future of the art market and is an adjunct professor of art at New York University. Previously, Dee was a gallerist in New York for twenty years, represneting a global roster of artists, such as John Girono, Adrian Piper, and Ryan Trecartin, among others, and co-produced ten movies with Trecartin. She has organized more than 250 exhibitions with artists and foundations. She also was a curatorial advisor to the Kramlich Colleciton in San Francisco, the world's largest private collection of video art of the 20th century. Elizabeth has been profiled in many international publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Vogue.

is a dealer in modern and contemporary art and an art advisor to private and institutional art collectors. He is also an art writer and exhibition organizer. Prior to opening his own art advisory firm in 1988, Mr. Deitch was a Vice President of Citibank where he spent nine years developing and managing the bank’s art advisory and art finance businesses.

is artist, experimental filmmaker, mediamystic, maverick curator, sound collage, photographer, expanded cinema,performance, writer & poet, nomadic teacher and private investigator—initiating, exhibiting, & curating at a multitude of ephemeral spaces and long-lasting venues, from micro-cinemas & storefronts to galleries & museums.

His work includes intimate collaborations with Aline Mare (Erotic Psyche), Jeanne Liotta (Mediamystics), the Alchemical Theatre, Circle X, and kinoSonik.; intense research with Jeanne Liotta on the films of Joseph Cornell. He has created dozens of ‘zines, posters, soundtracks, unique artist’s books, and film performances in the unfixed universe of ephemeral cinema.

is an American composer. One of the highest profile composers writing “classical” music today, he is often said to be one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th century. Beyond his operas, symphonies, and compositions, Glass has had a long standing interest in the “mating of sound and vision”. He has collaborated with numerous artists and film-makers, writing music for experimental theater and for Academy Award-winning motion pictures.

is Assistant Professor of English in Film and Media Studies at Amherst College. His research focuses on histories and theories of experimental cinema, with an emphasis on the postwar American avant-garde. Essays of his have appeared in such publications as Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980 (John Libbey, 2015); The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and the online journals Flow and World Records (forthcoming 2020). Since 2009, he has pursued curating as a manifestation of research, as well as a mode of cultural production. Film and video programs that he has curated or compiled have screened at venues such as Anthology Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, Balagan, University of Toronto, Magic Lantern Cinema, Le Petit Versailles, A.P.E. Gallery, and Pacific Film Archive. In 2019, he co-curated -- with Toby Lee -- an event series on world-making and documentary media produced in conjunction with World Records journal, with events occurring at UnionDocs: Center for Documentary Art and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. He also makes films, working on 16mm. His short film, Rock Roll (2015), screened at such venues as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Light Field, Onion City Film and Video Festival, and A Good Night's Sleep. His dual-projection film, Circumambulations (2018) -- co-created with Andrew Ranville -- has screened at Microscope Gallery, Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Revolutions Per Minute Festival, and the Film-Makers' Cooperative. He serves as an editor of Millennium Film Journal and a member of the International Advisory Committee for Archive/Counter-Archive.

is a founder and director of Light Industry, a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn, New York. His writing has appeared in Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, Village Voice, and elsewhere. His book From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games was published in 2006; his current project is a critical history of contemporary experimental cinema in America. Honors include a Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant (2009).

From 1995 to 2005, Halter programmed and oversaw the New York Underground Film Festival, and he has curated screenings and exhibitions at Artists Space, BAM, the Flaherty Film Seminar, ICA London, Museum of Modern Art, New Museum, PARTICIPANT INC., and Tate Modern, as well as the cinema for Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1 and the film and video program for the 2012 Whitney Biennial.

is an experimental filmmaker and the founder and president of MIX – the New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival. Under the auspices of the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, he created the Royal S. Marks AIDS Activist Video Collection at the New York Public Library. He coordinates the ACT UP Oral History Project, funded by the Ford Foundation and by grants from the Gesso Foundation, the Gill Foundation, the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and the Phil Zwickler Memorial & Charitable Trust. The project is a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.

are both artists. Florance is a painter and collaborator with Ken, who has been making avant-garde films since the mid fifties. Ken is the director of Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son (1969, USA), and Star Spangled to Death (2004, USA), a nearly seven hour film consisting largely of found footage.

lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder of Alfreda's Cinema, a bi-monthly film series at The Metrograph. Alfreda’s Cinema screens art house films that tell Black/POC stories, films that resonate the richness and culture of our history with depth and love. Our dynamics, our shapes, and our colors.

is the estate of Jonas Mekas, Lithuanian-American filmmaker, poet, and artist who has been called "the godfather of American avant-garde cinema" on many occasions. His work has been exhibited in museums and at festivals worldwide.

Sebastian is a cinematographer and actor, known for Jonas in the Jungle (2013), Notes on an American Film Director at Work (2008) and Belladonna (1989). 

New York-based filmmaker and artist, best known for his experimental collage film Decasia (2002). He is a member of Ridge Theater and the founder of Hypnotic Pictures. He attended Reed College 1983-85, and graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in 1989.

Lynne Sachs makes films, installations, performances and web projects that explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences by weaving together poetry, collage, painting, politics and layered sound design. Strongly committed to a dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, she searches for a rigorous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in her work with every new project.  Between 1994 and 2006, she produced five essay films that took her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel, Italy and Germany — sites affected by international war – where she looked at the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions.

Recently, after 25 years of making experimental documentaries, Sachs learned something that turned her filmmaking upside down. While working on Your Day is My Night (2013) in NYC’s Chinatown, she realized that her subjects were performing for the camera rather than revealing something completely candid about their lives. The process of recording guaranteed that some aspect of the project would be artificial. This moved Sachs toward a new type of filmmaking — she invited her subjects to become her collaborators — to work with her to make the film about their lives.  This new way of “working with reality” has inspired Sachs to present Your Day is My Night (2013) as well as Every Fold Matters (2016) as live film performances in alternative venues around New York City -- including homeless shelters, labor union headquarters and laundromats as well as small non-commercial theaters. In 2017, she completed her newest experimental documentary Tip of My Tongue which was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts and premiered as the closing night film in the Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight.

Sachs has made over 25 films. Her films have screened at the New York Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival and Toronto’s Images Festival amongst others. They have also been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts and other venues nationally and internationally. The Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, Festival International Nuevo Cine in Havana and the China Women’s Film Festival have all presented retrospectives of Sachs’ films.

Since 2006, Sachs has collaborated with her partner, filmmaker Mark Street, in a series of playful, mixed-media performances called “The XY Chromosome Project”. Lynne holds an MFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute, an MA in Cinema from San Francisco State University, and a BA in History from Brown University. She has taught at New York University, Princeton, Hunter College, The New School, and the University of California, Berkeley.
www.lynnesachs.com

Joel Schlemowitz is an experimental filmmaker based in Brooklyn who works with 16mm film, shadowplay, magic lanterns, and stereographic media. He is the author of Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera: An Introductory Guide for Artists and Filmmakers (Focal Press/Routledge). His first feature film, 78rpm, is an experimental documentary about the gramophone. His short works have been shown at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and Tribeca Film Festival and have received awards from the Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Dallas Video Festival, and elsewhere. Shows of installation artworks include Anthology Film Archives, Images Film Festival, and Microscope Gallery. He teaches experimental filmmaking at The New School, and was Resident Film Programmer and Arcane Media Specialist at the Morbid Anatomy Museum.

has, with his partner Peter Cramer, created works in video, film, performance and visual art since 1984. As co-director of Abc No Rio, he and his colleagues perpetuated an aesthetic of raw, spontaneous eclecticism that greatly influenced the arts, contemporary to the period of the 80s. He co-curated, with Leslie Lowe, the Naked Eye Cinema, a primary venue for women and LBGTG media artists. A founding contributing writer to NYC Gay City News, Waters’ articles have appeared in many other publications. He was Assistant Professor of Video at Hampshire College from 2001 – 2004.