Teboho Edkins is a filmmaker and artist who grew up in Lesotho, South Africa, Germany, and France, and lives between Cape Town and Berlin. His films are shaped by a search for borders, between belonging and intrusion, between documentary and fictional storytelling, between film and video art, and investigate the complex reality of life at the edge, where the proximity of death is part of daily reality. His documentaries are characterised by a socio-critical orientation that refuses extractive distance: works like Gangster Project and Days of Cannibalism proceed through sustained, embodied presence within the communities he films. His films have shown at the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Berlinale, Oberhausen, and IFFR, among over 400 festivals worldwide.

Marta Popivoda is a filmmaker, artist, researcher, and teacher living between Berlin and Belgrade. Her work explores the antifascist and feminist potentialities of the Yugoslav socialist project, attending to tensions between collective and individual bodies, memory, and ideology. Committed to collective practice as a principle, she was for many years a member of the TkH (Walking Theory) collective, and continues to collaborate closely with theorist and dramaturge Ana Vujanović. Her films use landscape dramaturgy, feminist storytelling, and radical slowness to produce scenes of antifascist memory. She teaches film at the University of Arts in Amsterdam and is a member of the European Film Academy. Her work has been shown at MoMA, Tate Modern, the Berlinale, and the Berlin and Manifesta biennials.

Yunjoo Kwak is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher based between Rotterdam and Seoul. Her practice combines archival, architectural, and historical research with fieldwork, social engagement, and community-based collaboration. Focusing on Dutch military architecture and its transnational trajectories, she examines how built environments carry colonial legacies, imperial violence, and Cold War-era trauma, while revealing overlooked connections across different geographies. Working across video essays, photography and archival installations, Kwak explores memory, migration, social exclusion, and spirituality. Her works create spaces where suppressed voices and marginalized histories can emerge through layered visual narratives. Kwak has exhibited internationally and has been affiliated with Willem de Kooning Academy as a lecturer.

Geo Barcan is a Romanian filmmaker and visual artist based in Rotterdam whose practice spans moving image, installation, and text. Working across video essay, docu-fiction, and expanded cinema, she investigates how technological, ecological, and ideological systems shape lived experience. She thinks of her moving-image practice as a cinema of invisibility, where she captures and researches unseen yet hyper-present forces such as the internet, memory, industry, migration, ideology or changes that happened through long periods of time and that have become so obvious that their after-effects are almost untraceable. Since 2024, in collaboration with Edwin Mingard, she has been working on a long-term moving-image project based in Unst, the most northerly point of the UK where a community of people are living around the development site of the UK’s first vertical launch spaceport. (profile image credit: Matija Pekic)

Bojan Fajfrić is an artist and filmmaker based in Amsterdam. His practice spans video, film, photography, and archival research, and is centrally concerned with how moving image mediates collective and personal memory, speculative history, and political failure. His work engages the legacy of Yugoslav Black Wave cinema, particularly the legacy of socialist experience and the material consequences of conflict and urban transformation in Belgrade. He focuses on intimate histories and peripheral figures unfolding at the margins of larger events. He is an organizer and host of a community film club Plan C in Amsterdam.

Sudeep Dasgupta is a cultural theorist and media scholar whose work bridges film studies, literary analysis, and political philosophy. Engaging deeply with Jacques Rancière, Dasgupta examines aesthetics, spectatorship, and the politics of representation, especially in relation to cinema and visual culture. His research explores how artistic forms redistribute the sensible, foregrounding questions of democracy, subjectivity, and dissent. Dasgupta’s publications address migratory aesthetics, media archaeology, and the politics of representation across cinema, television, and contemporary art. He co-edited What’s Queer about Europe (2014) and edited Constellations of the Transnational (2007), reflecting his focus on transnational cultural processes. His research and teaching explore how aesthetic forms mediate displacement, temporality, and subjectivity within globalized cultural contexts. (profile image credit: Eduard Lampe).

Dr. phil. Baruch Gottlieb, trained as a filmmaker at Concordia University Montreal, is a practicing transdisciplinary artist specializing in embodied practices and methodologies, kunst am bau, art for public space, interactive and generative art, and sound art. He is currently lecturer in digital aesthetics at UdK Berlin and at FH Potsdam. He has a doctorate in digital aesthetics from the University of Arts Berlin and author of Most-Human Condition: A Treatise in Eco-Communism’ (Delere Press 2024), ’Gratitude for Technology’ (ATROPOS 2009), ‘A Political Economy of the Smallest Things’ (ATROPOS 2016), and Digital Materialism (Emerald 2018). Since 2017, he has been working as a curator at West Den Haag programming a wide range of activities and events, including exhibitions, discussion events, and schools.