Frédérick Maheux is a multimedia artist whose main interests are emergent subcultures of the digital age, eschatological futurology, and speculative realism. Beside his work in experimental and documentary cinema, he creates noisy video games, produces industrial music under the name Un Regard Froid and practices the art of analogic collages. He is currently a doctoral student at UQAM in the communication department working on underground video games creation and their potential as epistemic objects.
Ghada Sayegh lives and works in Beirut. Sayegh has a PhD in Film Studies from Paris Nanterre University, and for several years was program coordinator of the Institute of Scenic, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies at Saint Joseph University in Beirut, where she is currently a faculty member . Through his teaching and publications, Sayegh’s research explores experimental cinema and contemporary art in Lebanon in the face of history.
Ghassan Salhab is a Lebanese screenwriter and film director born in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to making his own films, he collaborates on various scenarios and teaches film in Lebanon.
Guillaume Lafleur est directeur de la diffusion et de la programmation à la Cinémathèque québécoise. Il a publié de nombreux articles sur le cinéma contemporain, l’histoire du cinéma québécois et le cinéma expérimental. Il est l’auteur de Pratiques minoritaires, fragments d’une histoire méconnue du cinéma québécois (1937-1973), publié chez Varia, en 2015.
Experimental filmmaker, video artist and independent curator, Guillaume Vallée graduated from Concordia University with a Major in Film Animation and MFA in Studio Arts – Film Production option. He works mainly on Super8, 16mm and VHS. His audiovisual performances have been presented in a multitude of festivals across Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Japan and Austria. His experimental films and videos, distributed by Vidéographe and Winnipeg Film Group, have been screened internationally at about thirty festivals, including ExIS (South Korea), Festival Int. du Film sur Art (Canada), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Canada), Int. Kurzfilmwoce Regensburg (Germany), Regards (Canada), Crossroads (United States), Oodaaq (France), Animatou (Switzerland).
Filmmaker, musician. Born in Beirut in 1992.
Inger Lise Hansen is a visual artist with a background in experimental film and animation who for the last two decades has produced a distinctive and acclaimed body of moving image work.
Attracted by the dusty smell of old paper, she dreamt of becoming an archivist, a librarian or a genealogist (rummaging through desolate attics, hunting metaphorical treasures) when she was a child. As an avid cinema-goer also fascinated by old films, she took film studies classes while studying translation and worked on films within this discipline. Her supervisor sparked interest in industrial films, on which she has been working since. As a scholar searching both archives and libraries for gems and treasures, it turns out that working at the interface between Film Studies and Cultural Studies somehow realized this childhood dream in the end.
A major figure in the French digital art and avant-garde film scenes since the late 1990s, Jacques Perconte (born 1974, lives and works in Paris) considers himself a visual artist. He concentrates on the landscape, utilizing a variety of forms including linear film for cinema and generative film for exhibition/gallery, audiovisual performance, photography and installation. His primary focus is to examine our ongoing cultural and technical relationships with nature.
