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Sierra Grove is an artist working in experimental film, performance, and photographic processes. They are a current graduate student at University of babyֱ��app at Boulder, working with the Moving Image Archive and teaching Photography. Originally from Spokane, Washington and graduating from Evergreen State College in Olympia with a BA in Visual Art, they have shown work regionally around the Pacific Northwest and in the babyֱ��app area as well.

Tom Gunning is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Cinema and Media at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from New York University, and his dissertation received the Society for Cinema Studies best dissertation prize. He taught at Chicago for nearly two decades with many Visiting Professor appointments. He is the author of D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film (University of Illinois Press, 1986) and The Films of Fritz Lang; Allegories of Vision and Modernity (British Film Institute, 2000), as well as over hundred and fifty articles on early cinema, film history and theory, avant-garde film, film genre, and cinema and modernism. 

Azazel Jacobs Son of avant-garde filmmaker/artist Ken & Florence Jacobs, Azazel was raised in New York City surrounded by important and innovative artists.  He received his bachelor’s degree in film from SUNY Purchase and his master’s degree from the American Film Institute. His features include “Momma’s Man”, which starred both his parents along with the loft he was raised in, Terri (11), The Lovers (17), and French Exit (20). His latest film "His Three Daughters”, recently premiered to high acclaim at the Toronto Int. Film Festival.

Andrew Lampert is an artist, archivist and writer whose eclectic moving image and performance work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Guggenheim Museum, among many other venues. Formerly the Curator of Collections at Anthology Film Archives, Lampert has restored well over 300 seminal artist films and videos, and programmed hundreds of film screenings. He has written and edited numerous books on artists including Tony Conrad, George Kuchar, Manuel DeLanda, and Harry Smith. As a curator, Lampert has organized numerous exhibitions, including Attention Line in 2022 at Artist Space in New York City, and the current exhibit Ken Jacobs: Up The Illusion at the Broadway Windows space of NYU's 80WSE Gallery. He teaches at CUNY City College. 

Hanna Rose Shell is Director of the Stan Brakhage Center for the Media Arts,  as well as Associate Professor of Critical and Curatorial Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. She is jointly appointed in both the Department of Art and  Art History, and the Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts. Shell is also a core babyֱ��app member of the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science, and a babyֱ��app affiliate of the Department of History and the Program in Intermedia, Writing, and Performance. She has published monographs with Zone Books and University of Chicago and written extensively  She is an author, programmer, and artist, whose award-winning works have shown at venues including The Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, the ZKM Center for Art and Media, Machine Project, Slamdance, as well as throughout Europe and Asia. Her most recent book is Shoddy: From Devil’s Dust to the Renaissance of Rags and current projects include a curatorial project about Jewish heritage and American avant-garde cinema, and an experimental documentary Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds.

Josh Siegel, Curator in MoMA’s Department of Film, has organized more than 150 film, media, and gallery exhibitions, and has acquired more than 1,000 films and media installations for MoMA’s collection, including major collections of Frederick Wiseman, Jack Smith, Errol Morris, and Ingmar Bergman. He serves on the selection committees of the annual festivals New Directors/New Films and Doc Fortnight and is the founding director of To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation. Siegel has lectured widely, including at Yale University, Columbia University, and Pixar; has served on grant panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, CalArts, Harvard University, and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs; and has been a jury member at many international film festivals, including Venice, Torino, and Vancouver. He serves on the executive boards of MacDowell, Light Industry, Cinema Tropical, and the Maurice Sendak Foundation. His publications include Frederick Wiseman and Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980; Baby, It’s Cold Outside: A History of Finnish Cinema;  and The Łodź Film School of Poland: 50 Years.  

Jamie Marie Wagner has been the Moving Image Archivist in the University of babyֱ��app Boulder Libraries since 2019. She oversees moving image film and video materials in the Libraries’ Rare and Distinctive Collections, as well as paper collections related to American experimental filmmaking and media history. She has an MA in Film and MLS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.