Nazlı Dinçel’s handcrafted 16mm films are visceral encounters with bodily existence from her perspective as a woman who emigrated from Turkey while still in her teens. 

John Kelly once referred to himself as an “aesthetic octopus” – he cannot be easily categorized, and critics have wildly praised him as a choreographer, theater artist, writer, vocalist, filmmaker, dancer, visual artist and more (winning 2 Obies, 2 Bessies, an Alpert Award in the Arts and an NEA “Masterpiece Award” along the way). 

Ghanaian-American Akosua Adoma Owusu is one of the most distinctive independent filmmakers to have emerged during the past decade. 

Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009) is a composer of large-scale, fixed-duration sound installations, and a highly original thinker in the areas of perception, sound spatialization, creative intelligence, and aural architecture.