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Artist Bios
Javier Recio Garcia is a Spanish animator, artist, and filmmaker. His work began at an internship at Kandor Graphics in 2005 where he made “The Lady and the Reaper”. In 2010, his film was nominated for an Oscar, won the the Goya award for the “Best Short Film,” and won “Best Short Film” in over 20 international film festivals.
Gabriel Bisset Smith is a London Based writer, director and actor. His short film "Thrush" won the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival Tenderpixel audience choice award, the 2010 Vimeo Best Narrative award, and the Grand Jury Prize at the Disposable Film Festival. He is one half of the comedy duo GUILT&SHAME. www.guiltandshame.co.uk
Russ Burton is an Undergrad Theatre student and filmmaker at UCSD. He is currently employed as the Station Manager of TritonTV.
Michael Dudok de Wit is a Dutch animator, director, and illustrator. His most well known film "Father and Daughter" (2000) won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, the Grand Prix at Annecy, and dozens of other major awards.
David Lilley is a British filmmaker best known for his shorts and music videos. He is one half of the production group Loonatik and Drinks, concentrating on the character and narrative form. His films have been screened on major television networks and have been acknowledged in Total Film magazine as part of their selection of “Best Films on the Web.” www.luddite-films.com
Marnie Brumder, originally from Utah, studied Animation and Classical Civilization at Loyola Marymount University. She went onto do her masters in Animation at the Academy of Art University. She has loved to paint as long as she can remember. To her, art is about visual story telling. http://marniebrumder.com
Natalie Bookchin's videos and installations explore new forms of documentary, addressing conditions of mass connectivity and isolation and exploring the stories we are telling about the world and ourselves. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is on the faculty of the Photography & Media Program at CalArts. http://bookchin.net
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Mike Booth is a British writer, director, and animator who has worked on both independent shorts and full length feature films.
Ei Toshinari is a Visual Arts major at UCSD who focuses on film and photography. He is based in California and Tokyo. He also hates being called an artist.
Katie Faulkner is a filmmaker, dancer, teacher, and the artistic director for the little seismic dance company. She received her MFA in dance performance and choreography from Mills College. www.littleseismicdance.org
Lauren Egge is a student in film and video visual arts at the University of California, San Diego. Her current work examines the immediate nature of the present moment alongside the expression of instantaneous internal dialogues that are more often viscerally felt than verbally understood.
Manny Pantoja is a 23 year old Visual Arts Media major at the University of California, San Diego and has honed a variety of skills in the fields of graphic design, painting, illustration, film, and photography through his educational studies at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, and art schools in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Florence, Italy; and currently at UCSD. Manny is involved in Art Community, an organization at UCSD, and has participated in beautifying his campus and local community by painting an electrical box as well as a concrete recycle bin.
Chris Marker is a French writer, photographer, documentary film director, multimedia artist and film essayist. Marker is often associated with the Left Bank Cinema movement that occurred in the late 1950s.
Jan Švankmajer is a Czech filmmaker and artist whose work spans various types of media. He is a self-labeled surrealist known for his animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, the Brothers Quay, and many others.
Chelsey Grasso is a writer, filmmaker, and photographer with a passion for the arts and all things image-making related. Chelsey received her B.A. from the University of California, San Diego in 2011 and is currently working out of the Los Angeles area.
Chris Milk is a well- known music video director, photographer, and experimental artist. Recently, he has been working in collaboration with Google Chrome Experiments, producing interactive music videos. http://portfolio.chrismilk.com
Norman McClaren was a Scottish-born Canadian animator and film director known for his work for the National Film Board of Canada. He was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn-on film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound.
Fredy Garcia is a senior at UC San Diego, majoring in Media Studies and Art History while minoring in Studio Art. He attempts to look at things in a way that most do not, attempting to conceptually mask the day-to-day which most take for granted.
Peter Tscherkassky is an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker who works exclusively with found footage. All of his work is done with film and heavily edited in the darkroom, rather than relying on technological modes. http://www.tscherkassky.at
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Tracy Cornish is an Australian artist with a PhD in the Philosophy of Visual Art. She is currently a Visual Arts Lecturer at UCSD as well as a Research Coordinator at CRCA. http://photofugue.com.au
Jennifer Reeves is a New York-based filmmaker working primarily in 16mm. In her experimental films, Reeves does her own writing, cinematography, editing, and sound design. Her subjective and personal films push the boundaries of film through optical-printing and direct-on film techniques. 90http://home.earthlink.net/