Who is Neil Ira Needleman? A guy with a camera who is searching for a sense of vision that makes me (and sometimes others) happy. A bitter relationship between a son and his late father...the ongoing battle between art and practicality...the division between a poetic sensibility and the need (in some people) for logic...the love of chaos/randomness vs. the insatiable quest for control. How..

Grimanesa Amorós is an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research and critical theory, which have greatly influenced her work. She often makes use of sculpture, video, lighting and sound to create works that illuminate our notions of personal identity and community. Amorós utilizes her art as an agent for empowerment to involve viewers..

Who is Joao Ricardo? A self taught sound artist with an interest in image. It’s a tribute to a late friend. Nuno introduced me to Hugo Olim - the director - and we’ve been working together ever since. Oddly enough, Nuno never saw us perform live as Pygar. How did you start with film? And do you have an educational background in art or film? We - Hugo and I - started back in 2001 with a video..

I’m a musician, doublebassist and composer. Scoolptures is a music | video project related to time perception and sincronicity, a series of studies on instantaneous composing structures. Could you explain how you work, what themes or concepts and what is important to you? Musician life is an infinite wait. highways, airports, railways. I’m almost always in tour with my doublebass through..

Symptom is about dreaming and urban abstraction. And the feeling of going home after work Do you have an educational background in art or film? I am a versatile designer with an MA Design for Interactive Media Could you explain how you work and what is important to you? I have great pleasure on developing ideas, planing and editing (more than shooting). The most important thing in the end is..

artist, polyglot, promoter of polyglot-ism and creative-ness check out: www.nicolerademacher.com or read blog: nicolerademacher.blogspot.com intimate imitation and dependence of an elderly mother and her daughter How did you start with film? And do you have an educational background in art or film? found the moving image from the still image - found the still image through architecture..

I’m a student at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth attending the third year of the BA (Hons) Film Production course. During my three years in the institute I’ve been able to direct a good amount of short films of different nature: experimental, mockumentary, fictional and commercial. "Removal" is a short film I shot for a unit called "Dream Factory" in which each director had to design a..

Michael Ebert is one half of the The Ebert Brothers, the other half is Axel Ebert. Both grew up in Germany and are in their early thirties. They live and work in Berlin. A young person returns to a house in the countryside to spend the weekend on his own. through patience, connecting cables and a swing he seems to discover a long lost part of himself. How did you start with film? And do..

Who is Richard O’ Sullivan? I’ve been wondering about that myself. I suppose an artist in new media, filmmaker, and university lecturer. This film is about perception - the contrast between the recorded image, and the image in the eye-brain, the ‘other’ image. How did you start with film? And do you have an educational background in art or film? I made home videos as a teenager. After that, I..

Antti Savela is an artist and musican who lives and works in Umeå, Sweden. Memories, funny things, sad things, people I meet, the life itself.

I’m an artist from Switzerland and have studied art in Zurich and in Dusseldorf, where I still live. Nan Hoover was my video art professor and later an important friend of mine. Beside making my own art, for many years I also worked for the rights of refugees / asylum seekers and for a better representation of women artists in the artworld. My interest in video, movement, rhythm, collage /..

I am Czech artist living in the UK from 1997. After completing BA fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK in 2004 I have been working mainly on experimental drawings, paintings and stop motion animations. I am part of the Open Hand and Open Space Studios in Reading, UK and working as a Secondary Art Teacher. All my films closely relates to drawing and painting I have made previously...

I am an artist and filmmaker from Rotterdam. I make drawings and animation films, and occasionally books. You can find my work at www.manonbovenkerk.nl. Julia/Guiliana is an intermediate form of animation, cinema and graphic novel. The story is narrated in filmstills, still images: both drawings and photographs. Since there is no spoken word, the music is very important as it leads you through..

A good question... Someone who has made several short films, and who plans to build a career in filmmaking. What you could call a film fanatic. Motion! How did you start with film? And do you have an educational background in art or film? My parents didn’t have a television when I was young, but when I started watching films aged about 10 or 11, I was hooked. Laurel and Hardy and 1950’s..

How does content relate to the form of your work? Elton Eerkens ( 1972, Oosterhout, The Netherlands) www.eltoneerkens.com I make use of film, photography and recently also animation and installations. My work often starts of small, with an idea or an experiment. Through the discovery of a little map with passport pictures I got engaged into the reinterpretation of old footage and images. I was..

Who is Mark Anthony Zuniga? A fellow traveler trying to find the wonders of this world and sharing them with everyone. The physicality of film. It starts with a single frame, static. Then another and another. One frame extends to 24 frames a second, then we take a closer look. The light changes, for I have control of the light as well. What you see, what moves, what is illuminated - all under..

Works include live electroacoustic performances, field recordings, questionnaires and sound maps, media installations and music and sound for radio, film and video, as well as concert works for ensembles and chamber orchestras. The narration, following the tone of Proust’s Questionnaire, is a series of questions. How did you start with film? And do you have an educational background in art..

Who is Curt Anthony Bozif? Curt Bozif is a young artist living and working Chicago, Illinois. I earned my BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute and my MFA from the department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University. My father served a two-year stint as a U.S. Marine and survived a thirteen-month combat tour of Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. My knowledge..

Born in Manchester England, I spent nine years living and working in Munich, Germany prior to moving to northern California. Because of these international moves and my background in international project management, I have an interest in creating art about language and cultural exchanges. I received my MFA in photography from San Jose State University in 2007 and I currently work with..

27yro new media installation artist based in Essex, England. Recorded in 2007 the film explores the visual beauty of sounds ability to manipulate water. In this case I was exploring the sonic effects of the human heartbeat. How did you start with film? And do you have an educational background in art or film? I started with film through a natural progression within my art practice, I had..

I am an artist working with 3d software to create digital sculptures, prints, and animations. I am currently earning my MFA at the University of Maryland. Your Uncertain Spirit is about our mythic transcendence of nature and the uncertain relationship we, as nature, have with medicine and technology. How did the work with the film start? The animation began from seeing a religious icon of..

Who is Samuel Van Ransbeeck? Samuel Van Ransbeeck is a Belgian composer, currently based in Portugal. At the moment he is enrolled in the course of composition as a Master student at ESMAE in Porto. His current professor of composition is Fernando Lapa. Next to Fernando Lapa, professors of composition include Dimitris Andrikopoulos and Filipe Vieira. In the field of electronic music, he was..

I’m a 30 year old London-based visual artist How much we simply don’t see when encountering someone’s photographic reproduction and how problematic photography can be as a representative medium. How did you start with film? And do you have an educational background in art or film? This is my first video work. My background, both practical and educational, is in photography. Could you..