Billy Lumby was born and raised in London where he studied Philosophy before entering the film world, working as a creative assistant to directors such as Harmony Korine, Terry Richardson, Mike Figgis and Jonas Akerlund. He now works as a writer and director.
Ashim Ahluwalia (*1972, Bombay) studied Film at Bard College in New York State. In 1999, Ahluwalia set up Film Republic, dedicated to producing Indian independent cinema outside the traditional Bollywood system. A year later, Ahluwalia completed Thin Air, a documentary that followed the lives of three magicians against the backdrop of contemporary Bombay.
Working primarily with the mediums of photography and video, Maha Maamoun often starts from generic visual representations of Cairo to explore how these intersect with, and are negotiated by, personal experiences.
1981 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg | 2008 Abschluss des Studiums der Bildenden Kunst im Bereich der Experimentellen Gestaltung an der Kunstuniversität Linz | Musikerin unter dem Namen Cherry Sunkist | lebt und arbeitet in Linz und Wien
Born in Jerusalem, Sansour studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue and utilises video art, photography, experimental documentary, the book form and the internet.
Working in installation, performance, and public interventions, Jean Luc Vilmouth aims to transform his environments, altering and examining the relationship between humans and the objects that surround them.
John Smith was born in Walthamstow, East London in 1952 and studied film at the Royal College of Art. Inspired by conceptual art and the structural materialist ideas that dominated British artistsʼ filmmaking during his formative years, but also fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, he has developed a body of work which deftly subverts the perceived boundaries between documentary and fiction, representation and abstraction.
Krzysztof Kieślowski ( 27 June 1941 – 13 March 1996) was an influential Polish film director and screenwriter known internationally for The Decalogue (1989), The Double Life of Véronique (1991), and The Three Colors Trilogy (1993–1994).
