Bruno Varela (Mexico) is an audiovisual artist born in Mexico City in 1971 and a graduate of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). Since 1992, he has dedicated himself full-time to research and production with film and video. His process has developed primarily in the geographical and conceptual south of Mexico and the continent, including Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatán, Guerrero, Bolivia and Ecuador. His work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including the Guggenheim Museum, Getty Research Institute, REDCAT, The Artists Cinema, Frieze Projects/LUX, Cinematheque Ontario, Havana Biennial, Museo Reina Sofía, Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and CROSSROADS.

Emmanuel Piton’s (France) films oscillate between experimental cinema and documentary. Most of his creations, shot on Super 8 and 16mm film and developed using traditional methods, address the question of memory and traces in isolated territories. His films are screened at film festivals, museums and independent screenings. He also directs collective performances at Labo K and in collaboration with other artisanal film laboratories (Bombay, Mexico, Tromso, etc.). In 2021, he co-founded the Obskura film festival in Rennes.

Dianna Barrie (Australia; b. 1972, Melbourne) found her way into filmmaking as a middle ground between the pursuit of abstract music and philosophy. Ever pushing the limits of the hand processing of Super-8mm led to the establishment of nanolab with Richard Tuohy and into the intersection of hand making and industrial cinema technology. This exploration has spread beyond individual work to the establishment of Artist Film Workshop, where celluloid is embraced and advocated by a community of practitioners in Melbourne.
Richard Tuohy (Australia; b. 1969, Melbourne) began making works on Super-8mm in the late nineteen eighties. His films have screened at venues including the Melbourne IFF, EMAF (Osnabruck), International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Media City and he has toured Europe, the Americas and Asia presenting solo programs of his work. His works are firmly in the “hand-made” film tradition. An advocate for the possibilities of hand made cinema, Tuohy has devoted much time and effort in sharing his knowledge through workshops and classes both in his native Australia and internationally.

Nathan Swann (US) is a filmmaker and Visual Artist from East Tennessee.

Maximilien Luc Proctor (Germany/US) is a French-American filmmaker, critic and curator. He records music in the band Two Nice Catholic Boys, is the founder and co-editor of Ultra Dogme and the avant-garde instructor for Berlin’s Art-on-the-Run film school.