Né d’un père juif tunisien et d’une mère saguenayenne, Nicolas Krief est le fruit d’un étonnant métissage culturel et génétique. En 2012, il débute sa carrière en écrivant et réalisant le court métrage documentaire Séfarade. En 2014, il remporte le prix SARTEC de l’atelier Cours écrire ton court. En 2015, il coécrit et coréalise le court métrage La notion d’erreur, présenté dans plusieurs festivals à travers le monde. Dans le cadre d’une fructueuse collaboration, Nicolas co-écrit avec le réalisateur Patrice Laliberté ses premiers longs métrages. En 2018, ils écrivent avec Guillaume Laurin Très belle journée, premier film québécois entièrement filmé avec un téléphone cellulaire. Cette collaboration continue avec Jusqu’au déclin, le premier film québécois de Netflix, dont il signe le scénario avec Patrice Laliberté et Charles Dionne. Nicolas planche aussi sur l’écriture de plusieurs longs métrages dont un scénario d’horreur sur une mystique québécoise du début du 20e siècle, produit par Stéphanie Morissette chez La maison de prod, et Visite Libre, un slasher sur la gentrification et le développement immobilier produit par Caramel Films.
Ancienne élève de l’École Normale Supérieure, agrégée de Lettres Modernes, Nicole Brenez est Professeur en Études cinématographiques et audiovisuelles à l’Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle et membre de l’Institut Universitaire de France. Ses recherches portent principalement sur l’analyse figurative, l’histoire des arts filmiques, et plus particulièrement celle des cinémas d’avant-garde.
Nour Ouayda is a filmmaker, film critic and programmer. She is deputy director at Metropolis Cinema Association in Beirut where she also coordinates the Cinematheque Beirut project. Her films and writing research the practice of drifting in cinema. She has been part of Hors champ since 2016.
Olivia Curry is an undergraduate film studies student at Concordia’s Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, guest editor/contributor to Offscreen and one-time conspiracy theory listicle writer. Her research interests include reflexivity and structure in horror, reality television and experimental film.
Olivier Godin makes films and writes for Hors champ. In 2014, a retrospective of his work was presented at the Cinémathèque québécoise. He directed and wrote, in just a few years, five feature films and numerous short films. Through small budgets and a commitment to speech and artisanal filmmaking, one finds in these films knives and swords, the occasional gun, saxophones and trumpets. In short, adventure!
Oraib Toukan is an artist and scholar. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Oxford University, Ruskin School of Art. Until Fall 2015, she was head of the Arts Division and Media Studies program at Bard College at Al Quds University, Palestine and was visiting faculty at the International Academy of Fine Arts in Ramallah. Between 2015 and 2017, she taught at the Ruskin School of Art’s University of Oxford Graduate Teaching program. In Autumn 2018, she was Mercator fellow at the Cultures of Critique program at Leuphana University, Lüneburg. Toukan is author of Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism (Sternberg Press, 2017), and the essay-film When Things Occur (2016). Recent exhibitions include the Asia Pacific Triennial, the Mori Art Museum, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Qalandia International, The Centre for Contemporary Art Glasgow, and the 11th Istanbul Biennale. Toukan’s current research addresses “cruel images” and the question of how to treat them as both object and subject through artistic practice. Her writings have appeared in a number of publications, collected works, and biennale readers. Since 2011, she has been analyzing and remaking works from a found collection of film reels that once belonged to now-dissolved Soviet cultural centers in Jordan in 1990-1991. In the academic year 2019/20, she was a EUME Fellow and stayed at EUME during the academic years 2020-2022, supported by a fellowship of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In the academic years 2022-24, she continues to be affiliated with EUME.
Philippe Léonard is a media artist working with film, photography and video, conceiving projections for live concerts and working as a cinematographer.
For the last 50 years, Pierre Hebert has been pursuing a career in filmmaking, performance and visual arts. He received in 2004 the “Albert Tessier” Québec prize and a career grant from the CALQ.
Auteur, essayiste, critique, Pierre Rannou a fondé avec Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt ICPCE. Il enseigne au CEGEP Edouard-Montpetit.
