Born in Tokyo Sylvia Schedelbauer first moved to Berlin in 1993, where she has been based since. Her films negotiate the space between broader historical narratives and personal, psychological realms mainly through poetic manipulations of found and archival footage. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as theToronto International Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Robert Flaherty International Film Seminar and the Stan Brakhage Symposium. Awards inlcude the VG Bildkunst Award, the German Film Critics’ Award and the Gus Van Sant Award for Best Experimental Film. http://www.sylviaschedelbauer.com

Jeff Surak started in the early 80s participating in the international hometaper network. He operates in the netherworld between composed and improvised soun, moving between musique concrete, drone, noise, & free improvisation using whatever sound implements at hand. His primary projects include -1348-, New Carrollton, V., and Violet. He has collaborated with such artists as Alexei Borisov, Zan Hoffman, Bertrand Denzler, Rinus Van Alebeek, Marta Zapparoli, Frans De Waard, Michael Gendreau, Lina Lapelyte, and as Dead Violets with Thomas Ekelund, and as Critikal with Dmytro Fedorenko. Surak runs the Zeromoon label and directs the annual Sonic Circuits Festival in Washington DC. http://violet.zeromoon.com

James Edmonds is an artist filmmaker from the UK living in Berlin and London. His practice centers on a personal poetics in which the nature of recording, when approached from the materiality of analogue film, offers a tangible surface for what is intangible and fleeting - our personal experience, inner worlds, thoughts and reflections. He has presented screenings and exhibitions at various venues, project spaces, galleries and cinema events, including Fronteira Festival Brasil, The Temenos Screening Kino Xenix Zurich, Another Vacant Space Berlin, Mystetskyi Arsenal Lavra Kiev and ACCEA Armenia. Since 2015 he also curates the monthly film series Light Movement in Berlin. http://jamesedmonds.org