Blending original and found materials, Michael Robinson’s collaged films explore the emotional mechanics of popular media, the nature of heartache, and the instability of the reality we inhabit.  His work has been regularly included in major festivals like Rotterdam, New York, London, Berlin, Oberhausen, Hong Kong, Sundance, Toronto, and in group exhibitions including the 2012 Whitney Biennial and “Michael Jackson: On the Wall” at The National Portrait Gallery in London and Le Grand Palais in Paris.  Since 2007, his films have been the subject of over 50 retrospective screenings at venues including The Austrian Film Museum in Vienna, REDCAT Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, EXiS Festival at MMCA Seoul, Whitechapel Gallery in London, MoMA PS1, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, SF Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center, and the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival.  Michael has received support from FIDlab Marseille, The MacDowell Colony, Creative Capital, The Kazuko Trust, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Headlands Center for the Arts, and his films have received awards from numerous festivals. He was featured as one of the “50 Best Filmmakers Under 50” by Cinema Scope magazine and his recent projects have been reviewed in Art in America, Frieze, and Blouin Artinfo.  Michael is represented by Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago, is distributed by Video Data Bank, and lives and works in Los Angeles. He is currently developing his first feature-length film, I’ll Be Thunder.

Jodie Mack is an experimental animator who received her MFA in film, video, and new media from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. The works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects and question the role of decoration in daily life. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Projections at the New York Film Festival, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival, Anthology Film Archives, BFI London Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, National Gallery of Art, REDCAT, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Cinema Scope, The New York Times, and Senses of Cinema. She is an Associate Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College and a 2018/19 Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard University.

Neil Gravander is an experimental media artist from Milwaukee, WI, working in video, sculpture, installation, and performance.  He is an Associate Lecturer in the Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres Department at UWM and teaches as Adjunct Faculty at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.  Neil was a recipient of the Mary Nohl Fellowship, completed a residency at the Great Poor Farm Experiment, and his work has been included in group shows around the Mid-West.  He is currently working on a feature length video to be released later this year.