Meltse Van Coillie
Meltse graduated from KASK School of Arts Ghent in 2018 with the hybrid short elephantfish. Her graduation film screened at numerous international filmfestivals and received a Wildcard from the Flemish Film Fund. The awarded production budget resulted in a second short, Zonder Meer, which had its international premiere at Berlinale in 2021. In co-direction with Harm Dens, she made a third short in 2022 called Nocturnus, which was shot during the polar night in Greenland. Set in the same area, she is currently developing her first feature film, Torpor, which got selected for the Cinéfondation Residency organized by the Film Festival of Cannes.
Jana Coorevits
www.janacoorevits.com
Jana’s artistic practice is somewhere between that of an experimental filmmaker and a visual artist. An emphasis on physicality is coupled with an exploration of space for the female experience. In an attempt to reveal different nuances of what is going on within and around the body she employs unhurried and intimate renditions. Silence supports the sensitivity of the rhythm. New realms of meaning emerge from the flowing analogy between landscapes and people.
Lydia Hannah Debeer
www.lydiahannah.be
Lydia graduated in fine arts in 2014 and obtained a postgraduate at the HISK in 2016. Her work lets us wander through ambiguous spaces that lie between the present and what is yet to come, between transitions teetering on the edge. She worked in artist residencies such as Hangar in Barcelona, Gasworks in London and NART in Narva. In 2020, Debeer released her first album How to Scale a Mountain with the London-based label Bloxham Tapes. She is currently represented by Fred&Ferry gallery and has started a PhD at the University in Hasselt in 2022.
Ans Mertens
www.ansmertens.com
Ans is a visual artist investigating the intersection of time, film and exhibition space. Her work shows that time, perhaps more than space, is the ultimate subject of attention: time captured, time chased. Arranged, erased, wasted. Leisurely spent, unspectacularly passed. She is currently working on her PhD in artistic research at LUCA School of Arts.
Alex Schuurbiers
www.alexschuurbiers.com
Alex is an audiovisual artist working predominantly with analogue media. Her practice focuses on trance-like, non-hierarchical narrative structures in regards to the subconscious, adressing themes like heimat, maternal lineage, trauma and resilience. Alex researches memory and its representation in film based works, as well as ecological developing methods and the effects of organic matter on celluloid. Her films includes En Vagues (2023) and Where I lay my head to rest (2023) and Song of Homecoming (2023) and Placeholder (2025).
Isabelle Tollenaere
Isabelle is a filmmaker/artist making short films, feature length films and installations, playfully moving between the codes and conventions of documentary and fiction, film and contemporary art. In her practice she mainly explores the connections between the current shifts in reality and the memory of the past. Her filmography includes the short films Viva Paradis (2011), The Remembered Film (2018) and The Fruit Tree (2022), as well as the feature length films Battles (2015) and Victoria (2020, in co-direction). Her films have been shown at the Venice International Film Festival, Berlinale Forum (Caligari Film Prize 2020), IFFR (Fipresci award 2015), Centre Pompidou, Viennale, Visions Du Réel, FID Marseille, IDFA, CPH:DOX, IndieLisboa (Special Jury Prize 2020), and many others. Her work is distributed by Argos, Dalton Distribution, Filmotor and Square Eyes.
Kathy Vanhout
www.kathyvanhout.com
Kathy is a musician and a film scholar. Her new music project is called Opening Night and has yet to release a first album. Apart from writing about cinema, she often does Q&As, juries, interviews and presentations of film(festival)s. Occasionally she is commissioned to write exhibition texts, bios and artist statements. She is also board member of the UPCB-UBFP. Inbetween writing music and essays, Kathy enjoys working with used paper to make notebooks and collages.