Artists

A(9) | B(14) | C(5) | D(6) | E(1) | F(3) | G(8) | H(4) | J(1) | K(2) | L(7) | M(11) | N(3) | O(2) | P(6) | R(9) | S(13) | T(1) | V(1) | W(8) | Z(1) | ALL(116)

Peter Hutton

Peter Hutton (born August 24 1944 in Detroit, Michigan; d. June 25 2016) is an filmmaker, known primarily for his silent cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes around the world. He has also worked as a professional cinematographer, most notably for his former student Ken Burns. Hutton studied painting, sculpture and film at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught filmmaking at CalArts, Hampshire College, Harvard University, SUNY Purchase, and Bard College, where he has served as the director of the Film and Electronic Arts Program since 1989.
Nationality:
United States
Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs (born May 25 1933) is an American experimental filmmaker. He is the director of (1969, USA), which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and Star Spangled to Death (2004, USA), a nearly seven hour film comprised largely of found footage.
Nationality:
United States
Shiho Kano

Shiho Kano (b.1974 in Tokyo) is a Japanese filmmaker. She graduated at Musahino Art University and then got her B.A Degree in Imaging Arts & Sciences (Tokyo, Japan) in 1997. She continued her studies at the institute of Image Forum between 1997 and 1999. Shiho Kano's work covers films, videos, video installations and photo works since 1996 and has been screened at film/video festivals and museums in over 15 countries.
Nationality:
Japan
Karl Kels

Karl Kels (born October 22, 1960) is a German experimental filmmaker who lives in Berlin. He was a student of Peter Kubelka`s film and cooking class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. He has taught filmmaking at the Gesamthochschule Kassel, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt, at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, at the Universität der Künste in Berlin and at SUNY Binghamton.
Nationality:
Germany
Maria Lang

Maria Lang was born in 1945 in Zusmarshausen. After training in a photo lab, she studied at the German Academy of Film & Television (dffb) in Berlin. Together with Ute Aurand, she began the research project 25 Jahre Studentinnen an der dffb and founded the Filmclub at the dffb, specializing in women's films. She also presents the monthly series Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend at the Arsenal Kino in Berlin.

Nationality:
Germany
Maximilian Le Cain

Maximilian Le Cain is a filmmaker and critic based in the city of Cork, Ireland. He's written for many magazines including Senses of Cinema, Film Ireland and Rouge. He is also the editor of the online magazine devoted to experimental cinema Experimental Conversations.

Artist's Statement

Most of my editing work is done at night. These videos I make are nocturnal.
Nationality:
Ireland
Emmanuel Lefrant

Born in 1975, Emmanuel Lefrant studied cinema at the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle where he started an academic work on abstract films. He then spent several years in Montreal where he founded the kinaesthetic research collective PHYLM with audio artist Philippe Pasquier. Back to Paris in 2004, he works again on performances first with Nominoë -performance collective he founded in 2000- then more recently with Carole Arcega ('Tabula Rasa', 2007) and Stefano Canapa ('Petrolio', 2008), performances in which he composes the sound live. In parallel to that, he helps Nicolas Rey at , an artist-run film lab based near Paris. He also became in 2007 the director of Light Cone.

Nationality:
France
Eric Leiser

Eric Leiser is an award-winning artist, experimental filmmaker, animator, puppeteer, writer and holographer working in New York and born in California. An alumni of CalArt’s Experimental Animation program, he creates animated and live action feature films and shorts as well as intricate works integrating animation, puppetry, painting, holography, live performance and installation.
Nationality:
United States
Laida Lertxundi

Laida Lertxundi (Bilbao, 1981) makes films with non-actors that evoke external and internal spaces of intimacy. Through intricate arrangements of actions and sounds, her work explores how filmic moments can be imbued with emotional resonance. As her cinema questions how viewers’ desires and expectations are shaped by cinematic forms of storytelling, it also searches for alternative ways of linking sound and music with found locales, constructed situations, and quotidian environments.
Nationality:
Spain
Saul Levine

Saul Levine, born in 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut, is a maker and advocate of avant-garde film and more recently video. He is currently a professor at MassArt where he has taught for 30 years and programmed the longstanding MassArt Film Society. His work has been screened nationally and worldwide, most recently in Shanghai, Paris and Rotterdam. He is based in Boston and hardly leaves town.
Nationality:
United States