Karel Doing (UK) is an independent artist, filmmaker and researcher whose practice investigates the relationship between culture and nature by means of analogue and organic process, experiment and co-creation. 

J.M. Martínez (US) works with film, video, sound and sculpture, focusing on elemental works that highlight art forms found in nature and the interconnected relationships among species within an evolving landscape.

Sheri Wills (US; 1963–2025) was an artist whose work was based in film, sound, video performance and installation. Her work was exhibited internationally. Her films are distributed by Light Cone in Paris.

Charlotte Pryce (US/UK) has been making experimental films, photographs and optical objects since 1986. Born in London, she graduated with a BFA from the Slade School of Art, University College London and completed an MFA in Fine Art/ Film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2004 she has been faculty at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. Her work takes three distinct forms: 16mm silent films, films shot on16mm with digital output and Magic lantern performances. Her work has screened in numerous festivals including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Toronto, San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong, Ann Arbor and London. In the spring of 2026, her work was celebrated with Profile screenings at the Oberhausen Film Festival.

Amy Reid (US) is a filmmaker whose work examines the intersections between gender, national identity, and labor. Exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid’s work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form through feature length films, video installations, and texts. These multi-year projects, often working closely with a group—long haul female truckers, quilters, e-commerce sellers—premise upon collaboration, performance, and experimentation. Reid received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2009 and her MFA in 2017 from the University of California, San Diego. Reid is an alumnus of The Whitney Independent Study Program. Currently she is a PhD Candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz finishing her dissertation Feminist Relationality in the Americas: Women’s Practices in Filmmaking & Quilting. Part of her dissertation is a feature-length 16mm and video experimental film looking at women, quilting, and 19th and 20th century US history entitled Grandmother’s Garden.

Cauleen Smith (US) was raised in Sacramento CA and lives in Los Angeles. Smith is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a 2022 Heinz Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, Ellsworth Kelly Award, The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts and a Rauschenberg Residency. Smithʼs works have been featured in solo exhibitions at institutions such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, among others.

Zuzanna Marczak (Poland) is a visual artist working at the intersection of visual art and cinema through camera work, editing and video installation. Born in Szczecin, she holds a BA and an MA in Graphic Design from the Academy of Art in Szczecin, specialising in sculpture and digital transformation. Between 2019 and 2025, she collaborated on numerous independent film and art productions in Poland and Berlin, creating visual and audiovisual works. Her practice is informed by an interest in socially engaged art, developed further during her postgraduate studies in Theatre Pedagogy at the Theatre Institute and the University of Warsaw. Her work often explores spatial perception, performance and the relationship between image, body and environment.

Deborah S. Phillips (Germany) works across film, visual art, translation and voice-over. From 1988–2001 she was an active member of the Braunschweig-based artists’ collective LABORATORIUM, where she began working with film alongside painting, artists’ books and installation. A co-founder of what is now Kunstverein Neukölln, Phillips has developed long-term research projects around color, including works devoted to red, blue and green. Her films have screened in more than forty countries.

Magdalena Bermudez (US) is a filmmaker and educator whose practice examines relations between humans, nonhuman animals, plants and technologies through essayistic film and video works. Her practice is research-based, often recontextualizing scientific or operational images to interrogate their formal and political implications. Her work has screened internationally at film festivals such as Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter [Media Art], European Media Arts Festival, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, Mimesis Documentary Festival, Kasseler DokFest, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival and Science New Wave Festival. She has received residencies at Marble House, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation and Mount Lebanon. She is an Assistant Professor of Cinema at Binghamton University.

Kaiwen Ren (China) is an artist and filmmaker. His recent works focus on distance, collective anxiety and personal memories through 16mm digital/filmmaking, sound and photography. His films have screened at Toronto International Film Festival, Beijing International Short Film Festival, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Saigon Experimental Film Festival and RPM in Motion Film Festival. Kaiwen obtained his bachelor’s degree in film studies at Monash University, Australia, and holds an MFA degree in the Film/Video program at California Institute of the Arts. He now lives in Guangzhou and Los Angeles.