Dr Maxa Zoller is the new Artistic Director of the International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne. She also works as a film curator for Art Basel and taught experimental film history and theory at divers universities including the American University in Cairo, Goldsmiths College and Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. In 2014 she co-curated a major solo exhibition of Anthony McCall at EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Further, Zoller has presented various experimental film screenings in London and beyond; for instance Tate Modern, South London Gallery, no.w.here, the Munich Filmmuseum and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Geneva. In her writings for MIT, IB Tauris, JRP-Ringier and Hatje Verlag she covered topics ranging from post-socialist identity discourse and feminism to her academic expertise; the history of Western avant-garde and experimental film, its contexts of exhibition and its historiography.

Last update 1st October 2018

Laura Walde holds an MA degree in Film Studies and English Literature from the Universities of Zurich and Aberdeen. Since 2013, she works as a freelance curator/programmer for Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. Since October 2017, she is part of the PhD research project “Exhibiting Film: Challenges of Format”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Fabienne Liptay at the University of Zurich. Embracing the concept of format as a key to accessing the field of film exhibition, the project follows three main objectives: (1) to investigate the institutional and artistic practices of film exhibition, as well as their reflection and display in the films themselves; (2) to explore the material and discursive conditions and constraints of the circulation of films in different exhibition environments through notions of format; (3) to conceptualize the epistemological potential and cultural impact of film’s exhibition practices within the larger social and political sphere.

Last update 2nd October 2018

Rä di Martino (Rome, 1975) deals with our perception of reality and fiction, drawing attention to the absurdity of representing either. The artist’s background in theatre and her passion for film emerge not just in her videos, but in photographic and installation work. Sets, actors and props are used variously to pick apart subjects as human relationships, cinematographic traditions, the theatre of war, and the fabrication of history.
She studied at Chelsea College of Art and Slade School of Art in London, before moving to New York from 2005 to 2010, she lives now in Turin. She has shown her work in diverse institutions around the globe. She participated of the Venice Film Festival 2014 and 2017, winning the Gillo Pontecorvo Award and the SIAE Award and the Gillo Pontecorvo Award respectively.