Marine Hugonnier, Artist and filmmaker, London.
Her work belongs to the MoMA in New York, The Reina Sofia Madrid, The Museum of Modern Art Paris among others.
She is a doctoral researcher at the Centre for Experimental Film at the Westminster University, London UK. Webseite
Anja Kofmel, animation and documentary filmmaker, Zurich.
She studied animation at the HSLU and ENSAD Paris from 2005-2009. 2018 she released the cinema anidok Chris the Swiss, which celebrated it's world premiere at the Cannes 2018 Film Festival, Semaine de la Critique. It was invited to numerous international film festivals, including the Annecy Animation Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival and IDFA and won several prizes including the Swiss Film Award 2019 and the Norbert Daldrop Award for Art and Culture at the German Documentary Film Award 2019.
Christina Zimmermann is a filmmaker, artist and curator. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts/Media Arts from Bauhaus-University Weimar (2016) and is a committee member at Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival. Currently she is working on an interactive VR installation about Siegfried Kracauer's Letters, produced by Mirafilm, Zurich. Webseite
Christophe Merkle, Filmmaker, Bern. Christophe Merkle is an independent experimental filmmaker creating new forms of content to discover the borders and potential of VR. He is researching and lecturing at the HSLU Art & Design and is a representative of the SwissXR Network Virtual Switzerland. His most recent works include Nachtspiel (2019), @POTUS Mini-Golf Simulator (2019), and diverse 360°-Films for Swiss Television (SRF). Webseite
Johan Grimonprez, Filmmaker and artist
Johan Grimonprez’s curatorial projects have been exhibited at museums worldwide, including the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and MoMA, New York. His filmic works are in the collections of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; and Tate Modern, London. His feature films include dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997), Double Take (2009) and Shadow World (2016). Traveling the main festival circuit from the Berlinale, Tribeca to Sundance, they garnered several Best Director awards, the 2005 ZKM International Media Award, a Spirit Award and the 2009 Black Pearl Award at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, and were also acquired by NBC Universal, ARTE, and BBC/FILM 4. johangrimpnprez.be
Johan Jensen, Filmmaker, Makropol, Copenhagen
Johan Knattrup Jensen graduated from filmschool in 2012, and his work have since been shown in most of the major film festivals, incl. Cannes, Locarno, IDFA, and New York Film Festival, as well at biennales, art galleries and museums all over the world. His work traverses both cinema, installation, and performance, and he is considered to be among the pioneers of cinematic virtual reality. Website
Bin-Han To, Concept Artist and Filmmaker, Berlin
Bin-Han To (* 1984) studied at the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg and is an Animation Filmmaker and Concept Artist. He lives and works in Berlin. His Film "Revolting Rhymes“, after a Book by Roald Dahl (Dir: Jakob Schuh, Jan Lachauer, Bin-Han To) was included in the shortlist for the Oscars 2017. Website
Jonas Raeber, Animator, Lucerne
Animation Filmmaker, Live-Cartoonist, Political Person, Teacher, Illustrator, Voiceartist, Auctioneer, Manufacturer of Masks. Website
Mario Doulis, Prof. for New Media, Stuttgart
Mario Doulis is professor of new media at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart since 2007. After his apprenticeship as traditional stonemason and sculptor, he graduated from School of Design Pforzheim in industrial design in 1998. His current research activities focus on virtual reality, digital archives and interactive formats of film and documentation. Website
Anja Kofmel, Filmmaker, Zurich
Anja Kofmel was born in 1982 in Switzerland. After taking courses at the Zürich University of the Arts (ZHdK), she studied animation at the Lucerne School of Design and Art (HSLU). In 2008, she received her diploma in visual design. Her highly acclaimed diploma film Chrigi dealt with the same topic as her recently finished anima-doc Chris the Swiss. Website
Tereza Fischer-Smid, Editor Filmbulletin, Zurich
Tereza Fischer-Smid studied Filmhistory at the University of Zurich. She received her PhD in 2012 with her book „Poetik der Schärfenverlagerung“. In 2014 she was appointed the editor in chief of the „Filmbulletin“ a Zurich based Filmjournal. Website
Lukas Frei, Gamedesigner, Zurich
Lukas Frei is the co-owner of „Gebrüder Frei – Die Spielemacher“ in Berne, who develop classical board games, among which „Icon Poet“ an internationally successful game, which tempts its players to invent short stories of all sorts. Website
