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Martine Syms is an artist who has earned wide recognition for a practice that combines conceptual grit, humor, and social commentary. Syms has shown extensively including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and ICA London. She has also done commissioned work for brands such as Prada, Nike,...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, film producer, and professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Apichatpong has directed several features and dozens of short films. His art projects and feature films have won him widespread recognition and numerous festival...

Writer-director Jennifer Reeder constructs personal fiction films about relationships, trauma, and coping. Reeder’s innovative, award-winning narratives borrow from a range of forms, including after-school specials, amateur music videos, and magical realism. Her films have screened around the world—including at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Venice Biennale,...

Frequently named one of the great master filmmakers of the 21st century, South Korean director Hong Sangsoo has gained new prominence in recent years through a remarkable full dozen of assured and critically acclaimed features completed since 2010. 

Steffani Jemison is an interdisciplinary artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York. In dialogue with interlocutors (living and ancestral), her work connects mark-making, gesture, proposal, projection, movement, and document. Jemison has presented solo exhibitions and commissioned performances at JOAN Los Angeles, Greene Naftali, Mass MoCA, Jeu de Paume, CAPC Bordeaux, the Museum of Modern...

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is a Puerto Rican film and video maker who received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The uncontrived, observational style of her art aligns it with the sensibility of documentary film while also blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction. Despite its ostensible simplicity, Santiago Muñoz’s...

Jules Rosskam is an internationally acclaimed filmmaker, artist, and educator. Through the use of autoethnography and hybrid forms, Rosskam's interdisciplinary practice investigates the means by which we construct individual and collective histories and identities. His films and documentaries include transparent, against a trans narrative, Thick Relations, Paternal Rites, Something to Cry About, Dance, Dance,...

Jodie Mack is an experimental animator and an associate professor of animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. 

Mack’s 16mm films have screened at...

Paul Chan received a BFA (1996) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA (2002) from Bard College. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at such national and international venues as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; Walker Art Center,...