Born: Manchester 1968 Education: BA hons Fine Art, UCE Birmingham; MA History of Art & Design, UCE Birmingham I now live and work in Suffolk (more by chance than design) All though previously I have made sculpture and installation, in the last two years I have begun working with video and other digital media, which has created a world of new opportunities (and headaches). From this I have..

Who is Michaela Pavlatova I’m a director, animator from Prague, Czech Republic. For most of my life I have lived in Prague, making independent animation films (Words, words, words, Repete, Forever and Ever, Carnival of Animals) In the last few years I also have directed live action films (Prague Stories, Faithless Games). Between 1998 to 2002 I lived in San Francisco where I worked with Wild..

Who are you? Visual artist: painting, photography, installation and webart Why filmmaking? Actually I’m not a filmmaker, but sometimes it’s nescesary to make ‘moving’ works. Your work is about... Daily life. I isolate the elements of it and compose again. New Media; a challenge for film makers? Internet is a challenge for all artists, its inspiring to watch and show work and interact with..

Janneke Kupfer, finished Rietveld Academy in 2000, audiovisual department. Makes short rhythmic videos, leaders and clips. Works since 2 years as a 2D animator for an audiovisual production company named Tungsten Studio in Amsterdam. Why filmmaking? Felt a need to capture just thát moment, or the one a couple of frames before. Needed a timeline for that. Your film is about... The video is..

Citizen of Europe’s largest city Holland. Work areas: graphic design & interdisciplinary projects. Why filmmaking? The engine can’t run without oil. Your film is about... A boy living on the remote Caribbean island of Colon, Panama. He built (copied from pictures) hundreds of airplanes out of just paper. To escape from daily life he flies ‘off’ the island, to all destinations... Up to that..

Who are you? I’m a 50 percent Chilean and 50 percent Italian immigrant living in Holland since 2002. I went to a snob school in Chile where I learned English and came to live in this country thinking that here there was more tolerance and less discrimination, which turned to be a mistake… Since then I work on transcultural issues on identity and sexuality. Trying to have a distant perspective..

Who are you? I am a commercial artist. Age 32. Living and working from my atelier in Gent , Belguim. My work as an artist is mostly made for commercial purposes, not just commercials. After graduating from the art academy I have worked several years as a freelance artist. 2 years ago I concluded my period as participant of the NIAf Ateliers (Dutch institute for animation film) Now I work as a..

Who are you? I'm a Dutch visual artist, based in The Hague who became My usual occupations are: life performances in public space, (video)installations and painting. But not necessarily in that order. These are my first two short films. Your work is about... The film Citymonkey shows the metropole as if it were a huge sculpture, at which a genius or insane artist is constantly working,..

Who are you? On the Animations for Nanolife we have worked as a team, A.Schreuders and S.Phoelich. We both studied graphic design before met each other on the Willem de Kooning Academie of Art in Rotterdam. Together we created the Nanolife concept for our final examination. Couple of years later, we both work as freelance multimedia designers and are involved with a lot of different commercial..

Who are you? Niels Post, for more info check www.nielspost.com Why filmmaking? I don’t consider myself to be a filmmaker, I do work with video though. Your work is about... Bowhunting is my extreme sports video. Financing your movie? Since I have my own equipment my videos are so cheap to make that I don’t see the point in looking for external funding. Besides working hours the material..

Who are you? Hi, my name is Kees Brienen, I am an amateur filmmaker… Why filmmaking? So far there is no other more complicated artform. It’s the timebased combination of image and sound that is most challenging to control… Your film is about... Love… Financing your movie? I Love You So… was made as an assignment that was given to me by the Starting From Scratch super8 film festival that took..

Who am I? Im 25 and I make animation and visual fx. I finished school in 2004 (St. Joost Academy, Breda). I studied animation there, I specialized myself in 3D-animation. Short after that I began to do projects that involve animation and compositing. I worked for several documentaries and movies, but I also get involved in Art projects. With a lot of coffee, cigarettes and endurance it's a..

Who is Nicholas Economos I am an artist and educator living in rural western New York state in the USA. The town of Alfred, N.Y. is very small where I am a visiting professor with Alfred University and a previous resident of Brooklyn, NY. I have a Master of Fine Arts degree in contemporary sculpture but currently practice and teach interactive media, sound, video, and animation. Why filmmaking?..

I (32) studied art and now I work as an independent filmmaker in video art. Also I work/teach as head lecturer at the Film Making Program of SAE Rotterdam. Why filmmaking? It just came naturally. As a child I wanted to be a singer or an actress, but growing up I didn’t exactly knew what I wanted to study. After divers studies (i.e fashion, beauty specialist) and wandering I went to the academy..

My name is Jaap Mees, I’m an Independent filmmaker, who made several documentaries and a couple of short fiction films. I studied journalism in Tilburg and filmmaking in London. Why filmmaking ? Since I saw Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin, I was so touched by that film that by that moment I knew then that I wanted to make films. Your film is about... The Primrose Place is about prejudices. In..

Who are you? Hei Han Khiang 1968 Chinese-Cambodian-American Living in New York City and travel to document social Political issues BA in Studio Art at University of Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo) Master of Fine Art (MFA) at UCLA Worked as a temporary employee and substitute teacher to earn money to travel and make art Why filmmaking? In the 1990s, someone I know in The New York Times told me that I..

I am an interdisciplinary artist from Montreal, living and working in London. I work with video, digital imaging, performance and installation. I’m doing a PhD at Goldsmiths, on the cultural and ideological implications of the digital dissemination of images arising from the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Why filmmaking? I have a strong interest in narrative, and especially..

Maurice Seleky (23) is a not so regular law-student at the University of Amsterdam. Besides making short films and writing short stories, he works for CREA, the cultural organisation of the University of Amsterdam. For CREA he organises the CREA Film night, an open screen for student-filmmakers. He also writes articles as a junior journalist for the FOLIA, the weekly university newspaper. Why..

Who are you? My name is Paul Gabel. I am 30 years old. I studied life drawing at Binghamton University located in the state of New York. I am currently working for The New York Public Library Picture Collection. I am a studio and video artist. Since 1998, I have been living in New York City. Why filmmaking? The first time I considered creating video works occurred while I was attending a..

Who is behind Studio Smack? We are Ton Meijdam (33), Thom Snels (28) and Béla Zsigmond (31). We're all graduates from AKV / Sint Joost, School of Fine Arts in Breda. Me (Ton) and Béla studied graphic design and Thom studied animation. I met Thom during my study in the pub and Béla after I graduated. He asked me to work with him on his animation 'De Een Minuut Mens', which won the..

Nils Mühlenbruch graduated as a sculptor in 1993 at the Rietveld Academie In Amsterdam. After the academy he founded the artist and exhibition space ‘VIDE CULTURA’ in Haarlem (now called Nieuwe Vide). He made large, site specific installations and curated many exhibitions and festivals. In 1994 he got a grant from The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. His work..

I was born twenty-five years ago in The Hague, The Netherlands. The only daughter of Simon and Amina Rahman who took me too see a lot of the beautiful world. 5 yrs ago a friend asked me to do some vj’ing at a club. With no experience at all, didn’t even produce my own material. I only had little graphic background from The Graphic Lyceum Rotterdam, i just got started with this crappy mini dv..

Hi, my interest for art, photography, music and film started when I was very young. I was always a bad learner on school but with art and musicclasses I was the one who came alive. I was always daydreaming, watching the hours go by in the classroom by counting birds who flew by the window.....and making funny noises when I saw them.....then I had to leave the class on my own (punishment) and..

Who is Jan Wouter van Reijen? I graduated at Filmacademy in 1966. I worked as a director, editor, sound man, cinematographer and I did lots and lots of documentaries. Why filmmaking? As kid, I dreamt of being a magician. I choose a profession closest to being a magician. Your film is about... My films are about watching and the question: how can you reveal something that wasn’t visible before…..

38 years, live in Amsterdam and work as an animator, visual effects freelancer and director. I studied at the Gerrit Rietveld (Art-)Academy, but that was painting and graphics. Basically, everything I do now I have taught myself through practice. Your work is about... Most works which are made outside the job area are ment as experiments. Just to try out and find how something works, explore..

Age 24. I’m an engineer and not an artist by training, but I’ve always enjoyed art and hope to learn more and keep practicing through my life. Other engineers have commented that I’m too creative to be an engineer (which I disagree with; anyone and everyone should be creative), but on the other hand I tend to take a very analytical approach to art, or so I’ve been told. Why filmmaking? My..

I am a 29 years old illustrator, living in Paris. I have done a few animation films but recently I have spent most of my time on making comics (for books to be published soon), flip-books, and , as often as possible, go out and make sketches of some events such as concerts. Why filmmaking? My regular job is to make graphics in a website agency ; that’s why I started using flash to make my own..

Who are Diran Lyons and Jesse Wilson Diran Lyons - and his collaborator in the CALIFORNIA:EXCURSIONS project, Jesse Wilson - utilize film to document their sculptural and performative interactions with diverse landscapes. Founding the art collective ’WHAT.IF?SOCIETY’ in 2004 while studying New Media in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Lyons and..

Marc is a filmmaker by heart, but he doesn't close his eyes for any new developments. When one is creative, there is no limit to what one can accomplish these days. No matter what form one is choosing at that point. Why filmmaking? Marc's strong believe is that the combination of visuals, sound, music and especially the amount of subjective influence one can lay on the audience by editing all..

I'm Graduated in semiotic of cinema at Pisa University, I'm a visual artist. In last years I dedicated more on videomaking. Why filmmaking? I'm interested in images and representation. I guess it's a sort of disease...it affects everybody with different symptoms. Maybe filmmaking is just one of them, maybe it's a remedial... Vier Berliner Blicke is about... Vier Berliner Blicke is a sort of..