Malic Amalya and Nathan Hill make experimental 16mm films and lo-fi videos with electronic musical scores. Visceral and cacophonous, their films traverse gritty landscapes of abandoned buildings, melting celluloid and queer fetishes. Their work lingers on minute gestures and decaying objects, making the discarded, the abject, and the perverse precious. Malic & Nate have been collaborating since 2014. Their work has exhibited in art galleries, experimental film festivals and radical queer spaces throughout the US and Europe, including Collectif Jeune Cinema's What's the Fuck? Fest***! in Paris, MIX NYC and the Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival in Chicago. Their film Magnetic Resonance won an Audience Choice Award at CROSSROAD 2016. Malic holds an MA in History and Theory of Contemporary Art from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA in Moving Image from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He teaches film production at the California College of the Arts. Malic and Nathan live and work together in Oakland.

Sally Golding (Australia/UK) is a multimedia artist combining film projection, lighting and sonic composition to create expanded cinema performances and participatory installations. Golding’s audiovisual performance work focuses on the experience of the audience, pushing the boundaries of visual and auditory perception through the breakdown of the cinematic system into flicker, waveforms and colour fields; while her installations have harnessed the presence of the audience themselves by incorporating their reflected image into projections within immersive spaces. Golding’s performances are overdriven audiovisual transmissions of light, form, colour and sound. Utilising a custom system of contact-printed waveforms on torchlight-exposed, hand-processed 16mm film, Golding creates sonic compositions from vinyl library music which interweave musings across science and superstition, philosophy and pulp. Using hacked devices such as sewing machine motors and laboratory strobe lights, Golding generates throbbing, hallucinogenic visual distortions, which are also outputted as sonic signals. Cacophonic in form and content, performances transcend chaos and enter a hypnotic zone. Participatory by design, Golding’s installations invite the viewer to be a collaborator within the work, evoking a form of ‘auto-scopic hallucination’. The use of two-way mirrors, lighting mixer and film projections act as a phantasmagoria, while viewing can only take place in relation to the object, requiring the spectator’s presence for completion and inducing a vision of themselves as an ‘other’. Immersive soundtracks resembling deep listening therapy sessions, guide the audience into an otherworldly slippage. Through the curatorial outlets of Unconscious Archives and Otherfilm, Golding presents live audiovisual and sound art performance as a means of examining: ‘liveness’; the synaesthetic concerns of audiovisual art; and the contemporary role of the audience.

Born in 1977, Hangjun Lee is a filmmaker and independent curator who also works as a programmer at EXiS in Seoul. He also curated screening & live media program such as Cinematic Divergence (2013) and Mujanhyang Festival (2014) for National Museum of Contemporary Arts (MMCA) in Seoul. His works are based on multi-projection and optical sound, often involving improvisations with a variety of artists. Since 2006 he has been working on an audiovisual research project, “Expanded Celluloid, Extended Phonograph” in collaboration with Hong Chulki, a noise improviser. Their collaboration stimulated critical investigations into the performativity of practices in the darkroom, the screening room, the private recording/ practicing studio, and the public performance spaces utilised for the improvising musician. 

Jérôme Noetinger, a musician, filmmaker, publisher and organiser, is one of the outstanding figures in French experimental electronics. Born in Marseille, he studied electronic music with composer Xavier Garcia in Grenoble and earned a reputation above all as part of the three-member group Metamkine, which he founded in 1987 with the cineastes Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel. 

Founded in 1961, San Francisco Cinematheque cultivates the international field of non-commercial artist-made cinema through curated exhibitions, through the creation of publications and by maintaining a publicly accessible research archive. Cinematheque’s work inspires aesthetic dialog between artists, stimulates critical discourse, and encourages appreciation of artist-made cinema across the broader cultural landscape. With a grounding in non-commercial, non-narrative and non-documentary filmmaking traditions, Cinematheque’s programs broaden the public’s understanding of non-mainstream artistic filmmaking practice while expanding and challenging established art- and film historical traditions.