Alvaro Collar

Alvaro Collar (Madrid, 1981) studied Media Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. He is the creator of pieces such as Centrífuga (Centrifuge, 2007) which won the First MovilFilmFest´s Best Original Idea prize and he has also won the Minute Movie Cup twice: in 2009 with Onirica (Oneiric) and in 2006 with Quinta habitación (Fifth Room) being selected to represent Spain at the UNICA´s World Minute Movie Cup 2009 and 2006. His works has been exhibited worldwide in film festivals and art exhibitions alike. He is currently a PhD student in Film theory, analysis and documentation and works as Video art and Film teacher.

Ben Neufeld

youtube.com/lamb4dinnaa

participant in SFC - Shoah film Collection

Ben Neufeld lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently working on a feature length exploration of the diary that his grandmother kept during the Shoah.

Helen Yasinskaya

Graduate of Design Course at the State Arts College, Filmmaking course at Minsk Filmschool, student of Directing for TV and Film course at Belarusian State Academy of Arts. Teacher of the Video Editing course for kids and teens at the Minsk State Children and Youth Palace. Participant and winner of numerous festivals and special awards at the national video competitions.
Best-known for her passion for the work with colour and plastic forms.

Artem Lobach

Graduate of the A.Glebov Minsk State School of Art. Started video-making career with directing music videos for the Belarusian underground musicians and entering Film Directing course at Belarusian State Academy of Arts afterwards. Cofounder of the artistic project ToTak art media group. Winner and participant of numerous film festivals and screenings of Belarusian cinema abroad.
His works are marked by refine aesthetic approach and deep meditative philosophy.

Natali Fi

While studying international relations at the Belarusian State University, Natali entered world of cinema by enrolling also to the Film Directing Course at Belarusian State Academy of Arts. A passionate lover of the Oriental culture and dance, Natali fills her works with specific rhythm and subtle sensitivity.
So far her works participated in Golden Knight International Film Festival 2010 (Russia), Toamna la Voronet 2010 (Romania), Festival Petit Clap 2011

Sergey Kolosovski

Born in 1982, Sergey is the graduate of Minsk Institute of Management, Psychology Department. For several years he has been actively participating in the film clubs activities. In 2008 Sergey started working fort he national Film Studio Belarusfilm and proceeded as the editor at the various commercial projects. At the moment he is studying Film Directing at Warsaw Film School. Sharing an opinion that cinema is aimed to entertain, Sergey is particularly considerate about exciting and captivating plots.

Shenja Berline

Graduate of Filmmaking course at Minsk Filmschool, student of Directing for TV and Film course at Belarusian State Academy of Arts. After having won Grand-Prix at Kinovarka Film Festival 2010 (Minsk, Belarus) was invited to join the jury panel of 2011 edition of the festival. Daring visual art experimentalist and aspiring fashion video creator.

Vera Antipova

Born in Minsk. Higher education in the field of intercultural communications. After graduating from the Acting for Film course at Minsk Filmschool had internship there producing and assisting at the school’s own film projects as well as organizing events. Cooperates with the indie film label Byzond Pictures as the agent, festival manager and associate producer. Active member of Kinaklub.org film society. Co-founder of the International Film Festival Cinema Perpetuum Mobile (Minsk, Belarus).

Lili White

Using stylized gestures as a mode of ritualistic format and screen performance, Lili White’s (http://liliwhite.com ) modus operandi is often an exploration on the subject of relationships of power and repression; sometimes drawing from ancient stories re-contextualized into meditations on the world in which we live and the ramifications of inaction and stagnation.
Influenced by art history; informed by Eastern philosophy and psychological theory, her content highlights nature, myth, dreams, archetypal imagery and language.
Atmospheric collage movies connect news-media issues to scientific facts, parallel personal to mythic stories, film and art histories, and other art forms (literature, poetry) to present a holistic view of the chosen theme.
Lili White has exhibited her videos in shows in the United States, Germany, England, Ireland and China. Her work has been called “a magical act” and is influenced by her painting studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Daniel Ivan

(born June 20th 1972, Mexico City, Mexico) is a multifaceted artist that defines himself as a multimedia artist, photographer and designer focused on video-art, performing arts and the creation of multimedia environments. In his works he mixes photography, illustration, 2D & 3D animation, design, experimental hypertext and net-art. His works are developed in digital environments and with a main focus on the use of new media and of the new technologies of information and communication as a central part of his artwork.

VjThai
(Roxana T. Barraza Domínguez)

Vj Thai is an independent visual artist that experiments with mixed media, specializing in realtime video creation & manipulation as a performance in situ. The main character is the visual projections, created from the composing and mixing of her recordings, photographs, motion graphics, and marvelous samples from her very own videolibrary, created with images from her everyday experience with life.
As an audiovisual creator VjThai works on a conceptual level, more than just eyecandy! Through improvisation & generative processes, creates layers of content and connections of ideas through images & rhythm, which have a cinematic feeling and are full of musical intuition. There are unique moments of visual composition, that aim to live a seed of love in your heart.
She has performed in México, El Salvador, Guatemala and the US, at the Institute of Mexican Culture and Little Carver Theater in San Antonio, TX; Latin Electronic Music Festival (FMEL) in Chicago, ILL; Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey (MARCO), Theather of the Centre for the Arts in Monterrey (CENART), Centre of the Arts and new technologies in San Luis Potosí (CANTE-CEART), Taller de Experimentación Plástica (TEP-CONARTE), Electronic Arts Festival (MEDIARTE- AF), Universal Forum of Cultures in Monterrey (FORUM-UNESCO).
Roxana T. Barraza has participated also in Art and Mixed Media festivals in Chicago, México D.F., Puebla, Monterrey, and Aguascalientes. As a promoter of visual culture and multidisciplinary arts she is also a pioneer in the teaching of the first workshops on Live Cinema and Vj techniques in the north of México since 2009. With the collective Sistema Local, she created visual scenery designs and happenings outside of museums or galleries and into nightlife, combining street art, vinyl art, music, fashion and visuals.

Damian Ontiveros

Mexican artist born in northern city Monterrey.
Bachelor in Graphic Design. Coursing Ph.D. in Art and Humanities.

Visual artist with emphasis in animated drawing. His work is always related with social phenomenas, specifically power, domain, knowledge and discipline. He has exhibited his artwork on 16 solo shows and more than 90 group shows around the world, including México, United States, South Korea, China, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungry, Slovakia, Italy, Spain, France, Argentina and El Salvador.

He has represented México at the 5th Media City Seoul Biennale, the 1st 798 Beijing Biennale, the 2003 Bolivia Biennale, and ARCO 05 (México guest country)

His work is on important collections, like the Maison Rouge; Paris, La Colección Jumex; México City, El Museo del Barrio; New York, The Art Newspaper Publishing; London, and many other important private collections.

Link to web page:
http://damianontiveros.com/

Alberto Estrada

born in Mexico City in 1986, had studies in Social Antrophology at the National School of History and Anthropology (ENAH), his work include photography, painting, video and sound. Right now he is studying Visual Comunication at the National School of Plastic Arts (ENAP) in Mexico City.

ICETRIP / (Miguel Angel Estévez Calderón)
www.icetrip.com

Mexico City, 1972. Multimedia Artist.
Degree in Fine Arts, National School of Arts of Mexico. My work has been show in three solo and many collective exhibitions and global screenings in places like United States, Argentina, Russia, Portugal, Sweden, France, Uruguay, Chile, Greece, Australia and Mexico. Selected exhibitions: “One night of debú…” and “Adict@s to luxury” (solo exhibitions); “Intersticios Urbanos”, Mexico City, CCEMX; “LONG STORIES For PERM”, Perm, Russia; “4th Biennial: Alfredo Zalce”, Morelia, Mexico; “3rd Biennial of Arts” Tijuana, Mexico; “The Argonauts Art Exhibition”, Elassona, Greece, “Illuminators: Multimedia Exhibition”, Yekaterinburg, Russia; “35th International Festival Cervantino”, Guanajuato, Mexico. “CIRCUITO ELECTROVISIONES 2008” Mexico City. My work has been published by Pneuma Editorial, Anonimo Drama and magazines like PARK ART (Portugal); POSTAL 57 magazine (Mexico) and I’m co-editor of BIZCO art magazine (www.bizcomagazine.com). I live and work in Mexico City.

Antonio Arango Vázquez &
Magdalena Martínez Franco

Antonio Arango

With a university education as a designer of graphic communication, Antonio Arango has extended his studies with various courses in art theory, photography, film, theater, comic and electronic media.

He has won various awards such as the 3rd. at the Third Biennial of Video in the category of Experimental and video art (1994). He was awarded the 2nd. Second place in the Month of Performance (1993) and earned honorable mention in the 3rd Month of Performance at Ex-Teresa Arte Alternativo (1994). Winner of the media façade for the Goethe Institute Mexico (2005). His videos and installations have been exhibited in Mexico (Museums and galleries) and in various festivals and exhibitions in the U.S., Spain, Canada, Germany, Brazil, France, Japan and Chile.

It has been 2 times a Fellow at the Young Artists Program FONCA in the area of Multimedia (1995-1996) and in the area of Video (1998-1999) and received a stimulus in Fonca Support Program for Cultural Co-investments videorevista Glycerine (2000). Simultaneously was codirector of the Editorial Nitro Press (1999-2004).

Currently has the support of Production and Research in Art and Media 2010 National Center for the Arts and is a consultant on video and multimedia producer ultimedia Interactive Inc. since 1996.

Magdalena Martínez Franco

has a Master´s Degree in Visual Arts by the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas UNAM. Her work focuses on installation, photography and video and has been exhibited in Mexico, United States, Latin America and Europe. Since 1994 she has worked with different coreographers as a Visual Director.

In 2010 Magdalena and Antonio won the Grant of Production and Research in Art and Media 2010 by the National Center for the Arts, and this video is part of the project.

Alejandro García Caballero

His powers are: Illustration, animation, a little bit of design and sometimes he makes like he paints. Artistically formed with his whole life friends from Valle de Bravo the animation studio Llamarada de Petate where he is animation director since 2008.

La sombra sin miedo (The shadow without fear)
Alvaro Itzamá (Original Poetry & Sound design)
Sol Flores & Roberto Montiel (Video)
Diego Alejo & Naim Said (Music)

http://cabalgatadearena.blogspot.com/

La sombra sin miedo (The shadow without fear) is a group formed in 2009 that came together to participate in the festival of poetry Chilango Andalusian city of Mexico. It consists of artists from different disciplines but share an interest in live performance. That’s why most of their presentations blend poetry, video projection technique and live sound experimentation.

Emilio Reyes-Bassail

Mexico City (1987)
Sound and visual artist living in Mexico City. His work is characterized for having an active dialogue with multiple media, disciplines, platforms and formats. Using as guiding principle the rupture with the medium, his work has sought to nest itself in “uncomfortable” areas for art and communication.

In spite of being formally trained as filmmaker, his artistic work starts in public radio with the radio-art show “Tripulación Kamikaze”. From there on he begins a continuous work into sound experimentation that led him to make quadrophonic pieces for public spaces, and more recently, a 30 speaker installation in Mexico City´s MUJAM (Mexico´s Antique Toy Museum).

In the visual scenario, Emilio has been involved in multimedia and interactive montages for performances and theatre, experimental video, net-art and documentary cinema.

In 2009 he co-founded the editorial “Bustrófedon”, an hybrid platform that involves collaborative processes between writers, artists, lawyers and urban developers.

The non-stop exploration of different media has led Emilio to develop editorial and interdisciplinary projects ­with the collectives Pase Usted, Tóxico Cultura and Menumamedia. Within these projects he has been involved in different stages that range from editorial conception to the illustration of an entire book on erotic era limericks from the Victorian period.

Currently Emilio Reyes-Bassail is in post-production stage of “Atlas”, a poetic feature documentary on bodies, their dissolution and reconstruction.

Juan Carlos Duarte Regino
https://sites.google.com/site/juanduarteportfolio/

1985 - Mexico City, Juan Carlos Duarte Regino. With a background in photography, drawing and self-taught electronic music. He did a degree inaudiovisual communication at the University of the cloister of Sor Juana from 2002 to 2007, specializing in sound art and visual experimentation. He did his thesis on Cultural Management, investigating the production methodologyof film festivals and music. As profesioanl experience has served in radio broadcasting and podcasting, postproduction and motion graphics for television commercials, interactive design, dubbing and editing documentary series movies.
From 2011 began the Masters in New Media at Media Lab Helsinki School of Art and Design, University Aalto. Where it develops projects related tointeractive art and immersive experiences related to audio and video.

E. S. Mayorga (1975)
http://esmayorga.com

is a mexican contemporary artist who lives and works in Cologne. His artistic production not only moves between the social and political phenomena hidden behind the idea of Horror but also makes use of complex narrative structures as an important element to develop intellectual faculties.

Mayorga’s work has been exhibited in cities like London, Berlin or Prague and in countries like France, Germany, Mexico and Brazil.

Mayorga’s work has been exhibited in cities like London, Berlin or Prague and in countries like France, Germany, Mexico and Brazil.

Ricardo González Zamora.

Ricardo González Zamora is a 21 year old art student, living in Pachuca Hidalgo, he is studying in Instituto de Artes (IdeA) of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), he has been participated in different exhibitions of painting, drawing, and video, these include, Festival Internacional de Artes Electrónicas y Video Transitio_MX03 in the Central Gallery of Centro Nacional de las Artes (CNA) in Mexico City (in these he was selected for the contest of Young talents in 2009), Concurso Univesitario de Dibujo 2010 in Centro cultural Universitario de la UAEH, in Pachuca Hidalgo, in this contest he has recived an special award, International Show “Entre-Linguas“, in this Project he has been participated with different artists that worked around the world but mostly in Brazil and Latin America. He has been worked in different workshops of Sound Art with Manrico Montero, New media and installation with Enrique Jezik, Video Art with Sergio Medrano.
Now in the present, he is very interested in the new forms of interactive art through different electronic devices and programation lenguages. He is trying to merge painting, video-art and electonic-art to show his own way of percive the world and to represent different aspects of art that has been important to his creative process.

Karla Carballar
http://karlacarballar.wordpress.com/

Karla Carballar was born in Mexico City. Her work in video, photography and installation has been exhibited in the US, Mexico, Asia and Europe, including Today Art Museum, Beijing; Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy; Centro de Arte y Diseño, Mexico City; Goliath Visual Space, New York City; MC Gallery, New York City; Jamaica Center for the Arts, New York City, and Dukwon Gallery, Seoul. She has participated in the Bienal de Yucatan, Mexico; and the Encuentro Nacionald e Arte Joven, a year traveling exhibition around Mexico.

Karla Carballar holds a Master of Arts from the New York University, and a Bachelors in Graphic Design and Photography form Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City.

She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Marissa Viani Serrano Ocampo

Marissa Viani Serrano Ocampo was born in Mexico City. She is a multidisciplinary artist. She studied Philosophy, Filmmaking and Screenplay. She has specialized in screenwriting, directing, editing and sound design. Most of her work of fiction, documentary and videoart has been exhibited at galleries and film festivals. She also works in the field of literature, painting and performing arts.

Javier Ocampo Hernández

Date of birth January 25 1988 in Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexican nationality. Student Autonomous University of Morelos in the Bachelor of Arts.

V `J (VIDEO JOCKEY) since 2007 with DJ and producer .Publications: Magazine Warp faculty of psychology UAEM.Conferencias-workshops: SITACIX. Clinical corporeality and catastrophe in the lake house . VICO art laboratory in Alameda. Selection: close up Vallarta.Entijuanarte2011. Exhibition: UniversityCulturalCentrer CCU.Convento Xteresa. AMOATO former cultural. M33 cultural space. Festival-in-dieRev. Fesstival contempo.Jornada multimedia. Borda Garden.

Eduardo Rangel Cortés

nace en Morelia Michoacán, vivió en Guanajuato Gto la mayor parte de su existencia, músico, fotógrafo y cineasta, empieza a trabajar en cortos desde la adolescencia, estudió cine en Mexico D.F. e hizo una especialidad en Cinefotografía en Madrid España donde dirigió su primer cortometraje titulado “Pan de Molde”, actualmente trabaja como fotógrafo freelance.

Eduardo Rangel Cortés
was born in Morelia, Michoacán, has lived in Guanajuato for most of his existence, and is a musician, Photographer, and filmmaker. He began making films as a teenager, then studied cinema in Mexico City, and studied Cinematography in Madrid, where he directed his first short titled “Sliced Bread”. He currently works as a freelance photographer.