1980 –  Czech Republic Michal Cáb, aka Cabowitz is a conceptual artist, performer, musician and teacher. “His productions oscillate between sound and image, discreet activism and natural humbleness, inventive collaborations and concentrated singleness. He teaches, plays and works with open software (Pure Data), code and feed-back.”  He studied at FAMU’s Center of Audio Visual Studies and…

1987 –  Slovakia Zuzana Žabková studied at Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Departments of Intermedia and Multimedia and at Academy of Performing Arts, Bratislava, Dance Choreography Department. As a result of her mixed studies, she tends to incorporate elements of contemporary performance art into her films. Her experimental dance films compound the features…

1950 –  Hungary László Hegedűs 2 is one of the leading figures of the contemporary Hungarian experimental film scene. He works as a painter, graphic artist, animator and filmmaker. After graduating from the High School of Arts in Pécs, he carried on with his studies at the School of Interior Decorating in Budapest. Later on he…

1950 –  Hungary Péter Forgács is a media artist and independent filmmaker based in Budapest. He started his studies in 1971 at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts but was dismissed in the same year. In the late 1970s and ’80s he collaborated with the contemporary music ensemble Group 180. Between 1978 and 1993 he…

1950 –  Hungary Gábor Tóth is a performance artist, a filmmaker and a poet. He is known primarily for his anti-art slogans, which he produces as postcards and stickers. He completed two periods of training as a craftsman printer. He has been the founder and editor of various newspapers and magazines. In 1973, he founded the…

1986 –  Czech Republic František Týmal is a media artist and experimental filmmaker currently based in Prague. He graduated from FAMU’s Center for Audiovisual Studies. Usually he experiments with the medium of film and film screening. His works are presented in various formats: gallery installation, theater performances and live music and film events. For Týmal working with film…

1948 – Poland Kazimierz Bendkowski is a Polish filmmaker, photographer and video artist. He was a member of the Workshop of the Film Form (Warstat Formy Filmowej). From 1971 to 1975 he studied at the Lódz Film School. Between 1977 and 1978 he lectured in photography and film animation at the Fine Arts Academy (ASP) in Warsaw.…

Poland  1968 – Piotr Wyrzykowski aka Peter Style is a Polish performer, media artist and filmmaker based in Gdansk and Kiev. He studied interior architecture and painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Gdansk. In his practice he uses video, photography, Internet and sound -creating performances, installations, projects in public space, network projects and multimedia plays. He…

1989 – 1927  Poland Mieczysław Szczuka was a painter, creator of typography designs, photo-montages, and architectural, scenographic and abstract experimental film projects. He is a well-known representative of Polish Constructivism and Productivism. From 1915 to 1920 he studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Miłosz Kotarbiński where he met his future life companion Teresa Żarnower.…

1982 –  Poland Katarzyna Płazińska is a Polish experimental filmmaker and stage director currently based in Iowa city. She earned her first Master’s degree in Czech Language and Literature at the University of Wroclaw and Masaryk University, then carried on with her studies in the United States. In 2011 she graduated from Baylor University, Faculty of Film & Digital Media…

1974 –  Croatia Dalibor Barić is a multimedia artist, and lives and works in Zagreb. He makes short experimental and animated films, music videos, festival trailers, installations, graphic novels, drawings and cut-outs. He is also a music composer and VJ performer. Filmography Jupiter may be closer than you think (2016) We hear the distant ring of…

1981 –  Hungary Éva Magyarósi is a filmmaker, animation artist, painter, sculptor and writer. She graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, Department of Animation in 2005. She is a member of the Central-Europe Light Workshop Association and the Hungarian Sculptors Society. She has been working as a stage designer in several films,…

1974 –  Poland Zdzisław Sosnowski is an audio artist and performance artist, a photographer and experimental filmmaker currently based in Paris. He graduated from the State College of Fine Arts in Wrocław. He is considered one of the most active figures in neo-avant-garde movement, whose activity was situated on the border between notional and post-conceptual…

1974 – Hungary Gyula Nemes is a Hungarian filmmaker involved in both documentary and fiction films. studied Czech and Hungarian literature together with film theory at ELTE in Budapest. Later on he carried on with his film studies at Prague’s FAMU  under the supervision of Věra Chytilová and Karel Vachek. His experimentalism draws on the…

1974/1971 –   Hungary Nándor Hevesi (Ivan Buharov) graduated in 2007 at the Dharma Gate Buddhist University, Budapest and got his teacher degree of visual culture at Esterházy Károly College in 2011. Kornél Szilágyi (Ivan Buharov) graduated in 2010 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department. Ivan and Igor Buharov have been producing and directing several…

1907/1910 – 1988 Poland Stefan Themerson was a poet, novelist, film-maker, composer and philosopher. He was born in Russia but moved to Warsaw in 1928 to study physics at the University of Warsaw, and architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic. Franciszka Themerson was a painter, illustrator, film-maker and stage designer. Between 1918-1922 she studied at the Warsaw Music Academy, then…

1980 –  Czech Republic Ondřej Vavrečka is a filmmaker, musician, a performance artist and stage director based in Prague. He majored in languages, and graduated with a master’s degree from the Center of Audiovisual Studies at Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he continues his doctoral studies. “He is…

1941 – Hungary Ákos Birkás is a Hungarian fine artist, he is one of the most prominent figures of the contemporary Hungarian fine art scene. He graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1965. He worked as a professor in Salzburg and as lecturer in Paris at École Nationale des Beaux-Arts. As a result of Gábor…

1989 –   Czech Republic Alexandra Moralesová works with 8mm and 16mm film, video, photographs and projection. She is interested in the principles of vision, viewing methods, narration and the issue of the archive. She studies at Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Center for Audiovisual Studies (FAMU, CAS).…

1977 –  Hungary László Csáki is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Budapest. He graduated from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Department of Visual Communication in 2002 and started his DLA in 2003. He is a member of the Hungarian Independent Film and Video Association (MAFSZ), of the Association of Young Artists (SYAA)…

1980 –  Croatia Jelena Bračun is a Croatian filmmaker and animator. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb at the Department of Art Education and from the the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. She has been working as an expert editor of art education publications. She actively pursues experimental…

1988 –  Hungary Attila Damokos is a filmmaker and a photographer based in Budapest. He graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest in 2014. Currently he focuses on music videos and experimental films. He often collaborates with Marcell Nagy. Website Filmography Homunculus (2012) – with Marcell Nagy      

1977 –  Poland Anna Zaradny is a visual artist, composer, improviser, sound art artist, music festival animator, author of installations and objects.  She is currently based in Warsaw. She studied conducting and music theory in the Szczecin department of the Academy of Music in Poznań. For many years she was the co-organiser and curator of the Musica Genera…

1979 –  Slovakia Mira Gáberová’s art encompasses several forms of media, including painting, drawing, installation, object art, public art, photography and video. Regarding her experimental films her artistic attitude is based on the confrontation of extremes, the usage of powerful symbols, the exploitation of clichés, hypertextuality and the urge to discover the nature of femininity.…