Don Bapst is a writer and filmmaker whose work explores alternatives in content, form, and style to give a voice to the marginal, the unnoticed, and the forbidden.
Helen Lee is a writer and researcher, currently pursuing an MA in the Film Preservation and Collections Management program X University. Her research interests include experimental filmmaking techniques, ecology, and the living archive. Helen has a BA from the University of King’s College in Contemporary Studies. She has formerly worked as the Collections Assessment Assistant at Vtape Artist-Run Distribution Centre, and as the Archive Intern at C Magazine. Her writing has been published in MOMUS and Peripheral Review.
Brandon Hocura is filmmaker, writer, producer, and archivist. He is the founder and creative director of Séance Centre, and his reissue work over the last 10 years has helped revive under-known new-age, gwo ka, disco, soca, pantsula and kwaito artists. In 2017 he directed The Lake Sutra, a short film focussing on the influence of landscape on the work of Canadian musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland. His work intersects with experimental poetics and ethnography, and explores the complex relationships between music, landscape, technology and culture. He is currently a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, and is helping to build standards and best practices for audio archiving as part of the Vulnerable Media Lab.
Emma Kredl is a graduate student in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, where they also received their BFA in Film Production. Kredl’s current research utilizes autoethnographic and hauntology-based frameworks to discuss how autoethnographic ethics can be applied to spectral, relational investigations of self in the autoethnographic films, For One More Hour With You and The Silences, as well as their own film, Look at Me, Now Look Away.
Thomas Gow is a PhD student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, where he is also the Secretary of the Film Doctoral Students Association. He is a settler scholar studying the relationships between cinematic narratives and settler colonialism in its contemporary institutional and discursive dimensions. His research currently focuses on feature films and television series produced by Indigenous filmmakers working in the context of diverse nation-states including Canada, Australia, and Israel/Palestine. He holds a BA and MA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto.
When asked to write about a topic that interested them, most of the grade four students in her class wrote about soccer or movie stars. Cate Alexander wrote about the Romanov dynasty. Her lifelong passion for history has taken her from archaeological field digs in Greece and Italy to the digital realms of online archives. Now as a second year PhD student in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, Cate studies cultural heritage, digital humanities, and information ethics. When she is not working, Cate can be found swing dancing, making memes, or watching long video essays on YouTube.
Madeline Bogoch is a writer and programmer based in Treaty One territory whose work is focused primarily on experimental moving-image practices. She recently completed her MA in Art History from Concordia University and is currently the Manager of Media Collections at Video Pool Media Arts Centre. Her writing has been published in C Magazine, Peripheral Review, Galleries West, and others. She is a member of the collective Open City Cinema, part of the programming committee for the Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (WUFF) and has curated additional screenings with Vtape and Video Pool.
Joyce Joumaa is a video artist based in Montreal. After growing up in Tripoli, Lebanon, she moved to Canada to pursue a BFA, Specialization in Film Studies, at Concordia University. She is interested in the intersection of art and politics as a means to translate images from the political climate surrounding the Mena region. Her works examine themes of exile, language, post-war memory, and post-colonial education. Joumaa is active as a programmer at Cinema Politica and as the exhibitions coordinator for Art Matters Festival. She is also currently an invited artist at the Galerie UQO. Her current research focus for a film project revolves around a maritime boarder conflict and the political intentions behind it.
Lola Rémy is a PhD candidate in Film and Moving Image Studies in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal. She received her MA in History of Arts from Université Paris-Sorbonne. Her dissertation investigates and contextualizes the formation of a post-war universalist discourse as expressed in experimental film practices of assemblage. Examining the archives of artists as well as the institutions that funded them, she is attentive to archival silences. She attempts to retrieve the missing voices of the archives, and offers a decolonizing perspective on the appropriation of Indigenous objects and imagery, at the core of the universalist discourse. Her work has been published in NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, Frames Cinema Journal, and Synoptique, A Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies.
Cydney Langill is a PhD student in York University’s Cinema and Media Studies program. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art, Design and New Media Art Histories from OCAD University, with a focus in post-cinematic media and shifting forms of embodiment in the digital age. She has worked in film production and post-production, as well as arts administration. Recent publications include an article in Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities in collaboration with Dr. Selmin Kara. Her PhD research involves an examination of post-pandemic media cultures generating activated archives and new portals for online engagement.