Kent Tate is an Canadian artist/filmmaker whose work explores the dichotomy between tranquility and activity in our natural and manufactured worlds. Time, motion and stillness are intertwined through Tate’s work to act like a fulcrum upon which the environmental, social and philosophical aspects of his projects are held in dynamic balance. Tate has received awards, grants, and artist residencies for his projects which have been exhibited internationally at film/new media festivals, symposiums, group screenings/exhibitions and solo gallery exhibitions/tours.

Francesca Pazniokas is a New York-based playwright and filmmaker whose work explores memory and fable, trauma and identity, obsession and the occult. francescapazniokas.com

How isolated can we feel in a foreign country? How much do we feel the need to constantly stay connected with our family? And how do we cope with the fear of losing the traditions transmitted by our loved ones? Working with a collection of Home movies filmed by my grandfather from his time in Morocco, and a series of recordings of conversations I’ve had with my grandmother, Call Home reflects on the preservation and transmission of the memory taking the form of a visual poem.

I live in Italy, in Favaro Veneto (Venice). Around the age of twenty, I approached the study of the History of Art, as an autodidact, and I began my personal photographic research. I got fascinated by the artistic Avant-garde of the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries, and also the artistic currents of Minimalism and Conceptual Art. All these artistic phenomena attracted me mostly because they focused on the analysis of the visual medium, than to the staging of reality and its representation, as the history of Art and Photography had instead accustomed us. In recent years, I have focused on some details of the environment around me: clouds, leaves and trees, and everyday objects that you daily have under your eyes. For more information visit my page www.giorgiogerardi.com/about/

“I am terrified by the idea of altering my memories.” Engrams are imprints on the brain left by our experiences. This video essay began as a conversation between An-Laurence Higgins and Aaron Pollard, two Montreal artists of different generations, with diverging cultural and linguistic backgrounds. This conversation centers on a shared preoccupation with the ways in which memory shapes identity, how the stories we hold onto shift over time and space and how seemingly indelible experiences are transformed and lost to our minds.

Filming a simple display of spring wild flowers in a glass vase placed in a church window and patiently hoping that a ray of light, by chance, might eventually enter the church while I was filming to illuminate them. Featuring LIGHT, Dandelions, Bluebells , Campions, Buttercups and Forget-Me-Nots. This observational video was made hand held in a long continuous take with an emphasis on the importance of light, duration, and visual transformation and how changes in light affect our perception of space. It was filmed silently with no sound track to focus predominantly on the visual and to provide a contemplative and reflexive experience for the viewer. ”If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness” St Theresa of Lisieux

Nathalie Bujold (b. 1964 Chandler, Gaspésie) is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in Montréal who is interested in the crossover between video, music and textiles. She joined Oeil de Poisson at the time of its founding in 1985. In 1992, she received the René-Richard Award and obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Arts from the Université Laval in Quebec City. Various exhibitions and residences have taken her to Italy, Colombia, Lebanon, Switzerland and France. Her single-channel videos have been screened in solo programmes at Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Vidéographe, Pleasure Dome, the London Ontario Media Arts Association (LOMAA) and in collaboration with Vidéochroniques at the invitation of Heure exquise! International Centre for Video Arts at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille. Bujold has exhibited in various artist-run centres, including Centre CLARK in Montréal, Vaste et Vague in Carleton-sur-Mer, Stride Gallery in Calgary, AKA in Saskatoon, as well as at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ), the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montréal, and at Vidéochroniques in Marseille. She has taken part in the Symposium des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, the Sympo-Fibres International Symposium in Saint-Hyacinthe, the Akousma Festival, the International Festival of Films on Art, the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV), the International Digital Arts Biennial (BIAN), Rencontres Internationales des Arts Multimedia (RIAM) in Marseille, FestivalPhos, and the media arts section of Percéides in Gaspésie. In 2008, Bujold was awarded the Artistic Creation Award by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Caleb Bender is a University of Pittsburgh film production undergrad. His filmmaking interests are documentary, experimental film, video art, and animation.

As an independent filmmaker, Nan is enjoying her time writing, directing, producing, and doing post-production on film, TV, and virtual reality projects. Besides teaching film production in higher education, she also has experience working in the festival world. Nan’s multiple film projects have been selected for, nominated for, and won awards at different film festivals. She holds an MFA in Film from the California College of the Arts. Nan is called to reveal the commonalities of all human beings through examining unique cultures. She seeks to communicate with her audience and have a spiritual resonance with them through the peaks and valleys of her stories.

Luis Carlos Rodríguez García. Avila Spain. I reside in Valladolid, Fine Arts. University of the Basque Country. Currently a professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Valladolid. Biography Art I Have maid individual and collective exhibitions of painting, photography, video art, installations and audiovisual performances in: Alicante, Avila, Barcelona, Bilbao, Girona, Granada, Madrid, Salamanca, Valladolid (Spain). Paris, Toulouse, Nice, Aquitaine, Aveyron. Decazeville, Renne (France). Monterrey, Guanajuato, Nuevo León, Chichco and Mexico DF (Mexico). London, Morecambe, Walthamstow, Cambridge, Folkestone. Bradford, (UK). New York, Atlanta, Burbank, Venice. Tampa, Asheville. Los Angeles, Las Vegas. Illinois, Ohio. Sacramento. Albuquerque Wisconsin, Oklahoma City, Palm Springs. New Bern, (USA). Rome, Forlì, Bari, Milan. Lecce. Modena, Naples. Lucca Tuscany. (Italy). Callcuta, Bengal, Maharashtra. Pune. (India). Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra and Madeira (Portugal). Caracas, San Cristobal Maracay, Nueva España. (Venezuela). Montreal, Toronto and Ontario (Canada). Buenos Aires, Paraná, (Argentina). Tokyo, Kyoto (Japan). Melbourne, Brisbane, (Australia). Loannina, Athens (Greece). Warsaw, Bydgoszcz, (Poland). Spliz and Zagreb (Croatia). Cusco, Lima (Peru) Innsbruck, (Austria). Berlin (Germany), Guanzanghou, (China). Sofia (Bulgaria). Timisoara (Romania). Belgrade (Serbia). Moscow (Russia). Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Cúcuta, (Colombia). Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Lugano (Switzerland), Asuncion, (Paraguay), Lima (Peru) Ghent (Belgium). Santiago de Cuba, (Cuba), ,Khouzstan (Islamic Republic of Iran). Istambul, (Turkey). http://bellasart.es/Participaciones.html

Ewa Maria Wolska – puppeteer, theatre director, stop-motion animator. Graduated from Theatre Direction at the Theatre Academy in Warsaw, Puppetry Art Department in Bialystok as well as from Polish Philology and Cultural Studies in the University of Lodz. Ewa founded Teatr FRAKTAL (FRACTAL Theatre), that creates original, poetic and intimate theatre forms. Her works are known for their rich visuality and experimenting with sounds by creating special musical instruments for each performance. During pandemic Ewa created her first animated films: „my dear quarantine” (the film won 20 awards on international film festivals) and „small. quite small” (Grand Prix of the International Puppetry Video Campaign, UNIMA Korea).

In the midst of a hostile environment, Johaira uses ritual practice to reorient herself.

Oleksandr Hoisan (b. 2001, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). The first student films participated in more than 100 national and international festivals (incl. Oberhausen, Sarajevo Film Festival, FIDMarseille, BRNO16, Molodist), received awards. In his artistic practice, he turns to the search for new forms of observation. Focusing on documentary, it is important for him to capture a certain portraiture of time due to long-term observation. Also, having discovered the possibility of continuing his own observational practices in the long-standing passion of playing classic video games with an open world, he began a new process of researching virtual in-game worlds through the prism of creating animation-documentary machinimas. In 2022, Oleksandr graduated from the bachelor’s degree in film and television directing at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Currently, he continues his studies at the master’s degree.

Nataliya Bek-Gergard is an independent Ukrainian filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada, interested in exploring the intersections of fiction and documentary filmmaking. Her work is shaped by her artistic curiosity and a commitment to sharing the untold stories that defy containment but demand expression.

Eyes are magical spheres that make up dreams and retain memories. In our eyes, the visions of the within and of the beyond overlap. New worlds come to be when our gazes meet.

(Croatia / Colombia, 1987) Research-oriented filmmaker, MA in film & new media from NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, in Milan, Italy. His audiovisual work is the result of analytical and reflective observations of reality, contaminated by the influence of visual arts and theater. He won the Unidee/Illycaffè grant – Artist residence at Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto in 2017 and the Crea Digital grant for interactive narratives by the Colombian Ministry of Culture in 2016. His work has been exhibited at international film and media art festivals in Europe, Latin America and the United States. Filmography 2022 — Director — Warta – Experimental short Documentary 2020 — Director — Iris Awaits – Experimental short Film 2019 — Director — Fool’s Gold – Experimental short Film 2018 — Director — Streams – Experimental short Film 2017 — Director — The Water / The Wool – short documentary 2015 — Director — Itagui – Experimental short Film 2014 — Director — Windmills – Experimental short Film 2012 — Director — Summer Breeze – Short documentary 2010 — Director — Dreamers in the hospice – Short documentary