Cao Guimarães
Cao Guimarães is a filmmaker and visual artist, born in 1965 in Belo Horizonte, where he lives and works. His work lies at the intersection of cinema and visual arts. Since the late 1980s, he has been actively producing, and his works are part of numerous prestigious collections, including Tate Modern (UK), MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum (USA), Fondation Cartier (France), Colección Jumex (Mexico), Inhotim (Brazil), and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), among others.
He is represented by Galeria Nara Roesler in São Paulo and Galerie Xippas in Paris and Montevideo.
Chrissie Iles
Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Her exhibitions include co-curating the Whitney Biennials of 2004 and 2006, as well as major retrospective exhibitions of Marina Abramović, Dan Graham, Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd, and Yoko Ono. She has also curated exhibitions featuring Paul McCarthy, James Lee Byars, Jack Goldstein, and several group exhibitions, including Signs of the Times: Film, Video and Slide Installation and Britain in the 1980s, Scream and Scream Again: Film in Art, and Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, which was named the best group exhibition in New York in 2001 by the International Association of Art Critics.
In 2010, she co-curated Off the Wall: Thirty Performative Actions at the Whitney Museum and the Serralves Museum in Porto, and more recently curated an exhibition of Sharon Hayes (2012).
Deborah Stratman
The artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman creates works that investigate issues of power, control, and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are interconnected. She considers sound to be the ultimate multifunctional tool and time to be supernatural.
Her recent projects have addressed themes such as freedom, surveillance, public discourse, underground cavities, levitation, orthopterans, birds of prey, comets, evolution, extinction, exodus, sisterhood, and faith. Her works have been exhibited internationally at venues such as MoMA (NY), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hammer Museum (LA), Witte de With (Rotterdam), PS1 (NY), Tabakalera (San Sebastián), Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), Yerba Buena Center (SF), MCA (Chicago), and the Whitney Biennial (NY). She has also created site-specific projects for institutions like the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Temporary Services, Hallwalls, Mercer Union, and Ballroom Marfa.
Stratman’s films have been widely screened at festivals and conferences such as Sundance, Viennale, Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Oberhausen, True/False, TIFF, Locarno, Rotterdam, Flaherty, and Docs Kingdom. She has been awarded Fulbright, Guggenheim, and USA Collins Fellowships, as well as the Alpert Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction Award, Graham Foundation, Harpo Foundation, and Wexner Center for the Arts grants. She currently lives in Chicago, where she teaches at the University of Illinois.
Gabriel Abrantes
Gabriel Abrantes was born in North Carolina, United States, in 1984. His films have premiered at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, as well as at the Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival, Venice Biennale, and Toronto International Film Festival. His work has received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique, the EFA award at the Berlinale, the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival, and the EDP Young Artist Award.
His work has been exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Britain (London), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), MIT List Visual Arts Center (Boston), Kunst Werke (Berlin), and the Serralves Museum (Porto). He has also participated in the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, the 2016 Tropical Biennial, and the 2014 Biennale d’Image Mouvement. Retrospective screenings of his work have been held at Lincoln Center (New York) and BAFICI (Buenos Aires).
He currently lives and works in Lisbon.
Pedro Huet
Pedro Huet (born 1993, Porto) is a visual artist who lives and works in Porto. His artistic practice revolves around narrative webs that use filmic, photographic, or sculptural objects to reflect on structures, discourses, and imagery that have shaped the way we live and organize ourselves.
He has collaborated with various independent spaces and, since 2016, has been part of the team at Sismógrafo.
Tujiko Noriko + Joji Koyama
Tujiko Noriko is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and filmmaker based in Paris.
Since the early 2000s, she has released several experimental pop albums, singing melodies in Japanese and English over glitchy electronics, downtempo beats, and electroacoustic arrangements. Shojo Toshi (2001) and From Tokyo to Niagara (2003) received critical acclaim, attracting audiences from both IDM and indie pop scenes. She has collaborated with various experimental electronic musicians, including Peter Rehberg (as DACM), Lawrence English, and Nobukazu Takemura. After working on experimental short films throughout her career, she released her first feature-length instrumental soundtrack, Kuro, in 2019. Her expansive ambient work Crépuscule I & II was released in 2023.
Joji Koyama is a filmmaker, photographer, animator, and graphic artist currently based in Berlin. His work has been showcased internationally, earning awards at the London Short Film Festival and the British Animation Awards. His feature film Kuro, co-written and co-directed with Tujiko Noriko, premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and was streamed worldwide on MUBI.
Beyond his work with moving images, he has also published a visual storytelling book, Plassein.
