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Takahiko Iimura (1937-2022) formed the experimental film collective Film Indépendant with Nobuhiko Obayashi, Yoichi Takabayashi, Donald Richie, and Koichiro Ishizaki in 1964. Since then, he has produced many conceptual and experimental films and video artworks. In 1966 he moved to the U.S. and since then he has produced work internationally. His major works include Ai (Love) (1962), Observer, Observed (1975), and Ma: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji (1989), which includes texts by Arata Isozaki and music by Takehisa Kosugi.

Olivia Kastebring is a Stockholm-based director, specialized in documentaries and in collective collaborations. She seeks to re-write the role of women in history to create a greater diversity of female representations. She was involved in projects like Silvana (2017) and JUCK [Thrust] (2017).

Arezu Salamzadeh (she/they) is a “queer,” “neurodivergent,” “mixed-race,” Mississauga-based artist who creates objects, performances, music, and spaces for people to interact with and move through. She asks questions about nostalgia, selfhood, power, desire, and loneliness through a language of humour and play. They received a Bachelors of Fine Arts with Honours from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, in 2016, and a Masters in Visual Studies with Honours from the University of Toronto in 2022. She has since exhibited at galleries, museums, and unconventional venues throughout Canada, the U.S., Italy, and the U.K.

J​​ud Yalkut (1938-2013) was a pioneering intermedia artist and filmmaker. His remarkable body of moving image work, which spanned fifty years, ranged from early performance renderings and poetic filmic experiments to a series of groundbreaking hybrid video-film collaborations with Nam June Paik. Transcending and transforming media as he explored and merged film, video, expanded cinema, electronic manipulations, performance and installation, Yalkut created and collaborated on seminal intermedia projects with numerous artists, filmmakers, musicians, and performers in the avant-garde and experimental scenes.