Fourth Edition – Gjon Mili Video Art Festival

Wheeler Winston Dixon

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Wheeler Winston Dixon is the James Ryan Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and, with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, editor of the book series Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture for Rutgers University Press, which has to date published more than twenty volumes on various cultural topics. He is the author of more than thirty books on film history, theory and criticism, as well as more than 100 articles in various academic journals. He is also an active experimental filmmaker, whose works are in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art. His recent video work is collected in the UCLA Film and Television Archive. He has also taught at The New School, Rutgers University, and the University of Amsterdam.

His recent books include Synthetic Cinema: The 21st Century Movie Machine (2019), The Films of Terence Fisher: Hammer Horror and Beyond (2017), Black & White Cinema: A Short History (2015); Streaming: Movies, Media and Instant Access (2013); Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood (2012); 21st Century Hollywood: Movies in the Era of Transformation (2011, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster); and Film Noir and the Cinema of Paranoia (2009). Dixon’s book A Short History of Film (2008, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster) was reprinted six times through 2012. A second, revised edition was published in 2013; a third, revised edition was published in 2018; a fourth expanded and revised edition will appear in early 2025. The book is a required text in universities throughout the world. Dixon’s second expanded and revised edition of his book A History of Horror (2010) was published in 2023.

As an experimental filmmaker, his works have been screened at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Anthology Film Archives, Filmhuis Cavia (Amsterdam), Studio 44 (Stockholm), La lumière collective (Montréal), The BWA Katowice Museum (Poland), The Microscope Gallery, The National Film Theatre (UK), The Jewish Museum, The Millennium Film Workshop, The San Francisco Cinématheque, LA Filmforum (Los Angeles), The New Arts Lab, The Exploding Cinema (London), The Collective for Living Cinema, The Kitchen, The Filmmakers Cinématheque, Film Forum, The Amos Eno Gallery, Sla 307 Art Space, The Gallery of Modern Art, The Rice Museum, The Oberhausen Film Festival, Undercurrent, Experimental Response Cinema and other venues.

In addition, Dixon’s films have been screened at numerous film festivals throughout the world, including presentations in London, New York, Toronto, Paris, Berlin, Monterrey (Mexico), Urbino (Italy), Tehran (Iran), Naples (Italy), Athens (Greece), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rybinski (Russia), Palermo (Italy), Madrid (Spain), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Australia, Qatar, Amsterdam, Vienna, Moscow, Milan, Switzerland, Croatia, Stockholm (Sweden), Havana (Cuba) and elsewhere.

Beate Gördes

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1961
Born in Herten (North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany
Lives and works in Cologne

1987–1992
Studied Fine Art/Painting at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.
Since 1985, regular exhibitions and participations in Germany and abroad.
Since 2006, the focus of her work has shifted toward video compositions in combination with electroacoustic sound.
Numerous participations in international short film festivals.

2024

SUPERPRESENT Magazine, Fall 2024,
REgENERATE Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, USA
RESONANS FRINGE FESTIVAL International Poetry Film Festival, Empire Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark
LIVING WITH BUILDINGS VI, LTB Space – Coventry, UK
20. INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL DETMOLD, Detmold
Zwischen.Zeit.Raum (mit Ludger F. J. Schneider) Melanchton Akademie Köln
8th Edition NEW YORK NIL GALLERY Filmscreening – neulich im Bus – (Poem by Adrienne Brehmer)

2023

SCHAU MIR IN MEIN FENSTER Videokunstfestival an und in der St. Johanniskirche
Brandenburgische Gesellschaft für Kultur und Geschichte, Brandenburg an der Havel
FRAME TO FRAMES: YOUR EYES FOLLOW Ekphrastic poetry film prize founded by Sarah Tremlett
FOTOGENIA Festival 2023, Mexico City
NATURE & CULTURE – STRUCTURES & ORGANISMS, International Poetry Film Festival
Husets Biograf, Copenhagen, Denmark
BATH OPEN ART PRIZE Exhibition
44AD artspace, Bath, UK
IN : BEZIEHUNG zusammen mit Künstler*innen des Förderkreis Milojka Beutz, Malerin e.V., Köln
Kunstraum 57, Köln
VIDEO EDITION PAVILION curated by Ebba Jahn
Kühlspot, Berlin
VORGEBIRGSPARK SKULPTUR 2023 Kunst im Park, hier nicht hier #4 (mit Dagmar Lutz)
Vorgebirgspark Köln-Zollstock
LACUNA – METAMORPHOSIS – International Contemporary Art Festival
Canary Island Lanzarote, Spain
Make Friends AND Art
Kunststation Kleinsassen, Rhön, Hessen
COLLAGE ON SCREEN
Kolaj Fest New Orleans, USA
11. BEWEGTER WIND “beyond… darüber hinaus”
Internationales Windkunstfestival in Wolfhagen, Nordhessen
HAIKU NORTH AMERICA – HAIBUN FILM Festival
Haiku North America conference 2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
INTERNATIONAL POETRY FILM FESTIVAL OF THURINGIA / POETRY FILMTAGE Weimar
Mon Ami Kino im Kulturzentrum
GOLDEN FERN FILM AWARDS
Darjeeling, West Bengal, India

2022

13th ZEBRA POETRY FILMFESTIVAL
Kulturbrauerei Berlin
HIER NICHT HIER #3 (mit Dagmar Lutz)
Tenri Japanisch-Deutsche Kulturwerkstatt Köln
INDUSTRIETEMPEL VIDEOKUNSTFESTIVAL 2022
Werksfassade Müllheizkraftwerk Ludwigshafen
INTERBIFEP 18. International Biennal Of Portrait
„Centar za kulturu“ Tuzla, Bosnia/Hercegovina
LINES FICTION – Zeichnung & Animation (Kuratiert von Bettina Munk)
Filmscreening, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
RESPONSE ART (Ein Projekt von Reni Scholz)
Künstlerforum Bonn
Internationale Thüringer Poetryfilmtage, Weimar
FESTIVAL-MEDIATHEK, Kategorie Deutschsprachige Poesiefilme
NEW YORK NIL GALLERY Filmscreening – hier nicht hier-
Nomination category: Installation

2021

OFFLINE – hier nicht hier #2 – ( mit Dagmar Lutz)
hebebühne e.V., Wuppertal
RÖSL-ROSE (zusammen mit Marget Schopka und Angelika Wittek)
Kunstraum 57, Köln
ART VISUALS & POETRY FILM FESTIVAL WIEN Factory im Künstlerhaus Wien
EXPERIMENT_RAUM Multimediales Kunstprojekt
Kulturwerkstatt/Galerie Ins Blaue e.V. Remscheid
BEWEGTER WIND change ?! 10. Internationales Windkunstfestival
Stadtbücherei Hofgeismar, Hessen
ALC VIDEOART FESTIVAL
Auditorium of MACA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante), Spanien
CALCUTTA INTERNATIONAL CULT FILM FESTIVAL – 51st season, Indien
TAGORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – 23th season
GITANJALI CULTURAL COMPLEX , Birbhum, Westbengalen, Indien
OYEDRUM Weekly Art/Media online, USA

Thadeusz Tischbein

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Thadeusz Tischbein is a Germany-based video artist. He is interested in cruel intersections of history and everyday live. When not sitting in a cafe he is making films with documentary material along with self built models. He tries to develop a fictionalised version of a documentary, a forensic speculation. Thadeusz Tischbein studied between 2008 and 2016 in Leipzig, Braunschweig (Germany) and Bucharest (Romania) with Candice Breitz, Clemens von Wedemeyer and Günther Selichar. He lives and works in Leipzig/Germany.

Natasa Prosenc Stearns

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Slovenian born visual artist and filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns earned her BA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. She moved to Los Angeles on a Fulbright Grant for her MFA at California Institute of the Arts. Her body of work ranges from single and multi-channel videos, video installations, short and feature films, video objects and print media. She is known for creative use of non-gallery spaces and large multi-channel installations. Her films Souvenir, (released by Cinema Epoch), The Trial of Socrates, (collaboration of 23 filmmakers), Hotel Diary, Živa and others explore innovative strategies in storytelling and visual expression.

Nataša’s films and artworks have been shown internationally. Her work was also featured in the contemporary opera CodeL.

List of festivals, exhibitions, awards and grants at the link below.

https://www.natasastearns.com/_files/ugd/e05b60_a14c4d6527ee41ae9a59ade0118dc87b.pdf

Nataša lives in Los Angeles and in Ljubljana Slovenia.

Tom Bessoir

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Tom was born and raised in the Astoria section of Queens in New York City in 1957. From there he commuted by subway to attended The Bronx High School of Science. Tom studied mathematics and electrical engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. While attending the Engineering School, he took advantage of Art School classes, focusing on film theory and studying experimental filmmaking with Robert Breer. In the late 1970s, he started photographing the downtown music scene. His photographs have appeared on dozens of records as well as in films, books, magazines, and newspapers.

Tom Bessoir’s experimental films often use mathematics and randomness to explore perception and the structure of cinema.

In the arts, Tom Bessoir is best known for Microfilm (1979), Digits of Pi (2019), and his photography documenting downtown NYC.

MILENA JOVIĆEVIĆ

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Born in Cetinje, Montenegro, 1976
Works at Faculty of Fine Arts Cetinje, University of Montenegro

EDUCATION

2012 PhD in Fine Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia
2008 MFA in the Academy of Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro
2004-2005 Postgraduate studies at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts, Paris, France
2004 Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts, Paris, France
1999-2000 Specialization Ecole Supérieure des Beaux- Arts, Le Mans, France
1999 Graduated at Academy of Fine Arts, Cetinje, Montenegro

Artur Silva

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Artur Silva is a filmmaker, visual artist and educator, born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

His work has been displayed at institutions such as the Van Abbe Museum in The Netherlands, the Ludwig Foundation in Havana, the Smart Museum in Chicago, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Centro Cultural de España in Mexico City, Indiana State Museum, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, among others.

Artur has received a number of awards including a Pollock-Krasner Grant (NYC), NALAC grant (San Antonio), Efroymson Contemporary Art Fellowship (Indianapolis), two times recipient of the Christel DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award (Indianapolis Arts Council), Foundation for Contemporary Arts (NYC), Nominated for a Joan Mitchell Award, among others.

Some publications featuring Artur’s work include The New York Times, Art in America, Forbes, PBS’ Many Rivers To Cross series, among others.

As an educator he has taught at Indiana University in South Bend, DePauw University, Herron School of Art & Design and he currently teaches at CSU Stanislaus, California.

Patrick Doyon

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Patrick Doyon is a director based in Montreal, Canada. Its first professional film Sunday (2011) garnered honours on the international festival circuit as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short. He studied graphic design and he is sharing his time between illustration and animation. Many of his works have been awarded in various competitions: Art Directors Club, Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Applied Arts and Arte Laguna Prize have all highlighted the quality of his artwork. In 2015, he received the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Award for his illustrated book “Le Voleur de sandwichs”. Alongside his artistic practice, he teaches animation at UQAM School of Design.

Lucia Catalini

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Lucia Catalini was born in Rimini on 5 May 1998. She studied scenography at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan where she graduated in 2021. She then attended the illustration course at ISIA Urbino where she graduated in 2024, making an animated short film entitled Né una né due. During the animation course at ISIA she made her first short film entitled Cotone in 2023.

Sophie Sherman and Némo Camus

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Sophie Sherman is a French and Belgium artist and filmmaker born in 1980, currently based in Brussels, Belgium. She studied fine arts at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille and film at Aix-Marseille University, before furthering her artistic practice at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. In recent years, she has mainly explored the medium of 16 mm through a documentary, experimental, and poetic approach, with films such as The walk (2015, 19′), The water was here (2025, 15′, co-directed with Némo Camus), and Hold my hand (2025, 17′). Her films have been screened at the Torino Film Festival (IT), L’Alternativa (ES), the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (GR), Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (UK), Wiels Art Center in Brussels (BE), Ontsteking Art space in Ghent (BE), among others.

Némo Camus, Biography : Némo Camus is a French artist born in 1994, who lives and works in Brussels. After a degree in film theory and a Master’s in sociology, he turned to sound creation and trained at INSAS. His work, strongly rooted in the practice of sound recording, investigates the back-and-forth between fieldwork and speculative approach, focusing on notions of trace, clue and tremor. He is specifically interested in the entanglement and gaps between intimate narrative and historical document in the context of contemporary memorial issues. His work takes the form of radio creations, sound installations, performances, texts and films. For performance and visual arts, he collaborates with Pélagie Gbaguidi, On-Trade-Off, Joëlle Sambi, Esther Mugambi, Robson Ledesma, Aïssatou Ciss, Sophie Sherman and Davide Tidoni. His work has recently been presented at GMEM in Marseille, iMAL in Brussels, Framer Framed in Amsterdam, the Biennale de Dakar and the Bienal Internacional de Dança do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil. He teaches sound creation workshops at the Université Paris 8.