Emily Allan is a writer and performer from the Lower East Side. Her two-woman play Slash, co-written and performed with Leah Hennessey, ran for four months at MX Gallery and was described as “fast and campy, and as clever as anything the New York stage has seen in some time” (Vogue) and “quite possibly the end of civilization” (The Guardian) during its run at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Their most recent play, Star Odyssey—commissioned by MoMA PS1—continues their exploration of homoerotic fanfiction and sci-fi eschatology. In parallel, they released three short films on DIS.art imagining Slash-inspired dialogues between feuding academics. Their latest film, Byron and Shelley: Illuminati Detectives, developed during their 2019 residency at CERN, premiered at the 2021 Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement in Geneva. Emily is also the co-creator of the cult web series Zhe Zhe and has performed in numerous projects including AI O U (directed by Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer, and Anton Vidokle), Tony Oursler’s StateNonstate (Hypnose) and Transmission, The New Red Order’s Never Settle, Mara Mckevitt’s Val at Clementin Seedorf Gallery, and Cristine Brache’s Goodnight Sweet Thing at the 3hd Festival. Most recently, she co-directed John Early: Now More Than Ever for HBO.

Cristine Brache is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker based in New York City. Her work, which spans encaustic painting, sculpture, and film, often explores constructs of the female body and psyche, mortality, nostalgia, and solitude. Select solo exhibitions include those held at anonymous gallery (New York); Fierman gallery (New York and Puerto Rico); Locust Projects (Miami); and Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles). She has exhibited internationally at galleries and institutions like Berlinische Galerie, Perez Art Museum Miami, and ICA Miami. Her films have screened in festivals like the Florida Film Festival (Orlando); Miami Film Festival (Miami); and Slamdance (Park City). Her work has been critically reviewed in places like Artforum, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Brache’s short film, entitled Carmen, won the Knight Made in MIA Short Film Award at the Miami Film Festival (2023). Her second book of poems, Goodnight Sweet Thing was published by anonymous publishing in 2024.

David Lynch is a multidisciplinary artist whose nearly six-decade career spans painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, sculpture, music, and film. Best known for his surreal and atmospheric storytelling, Lynch wrote and directed landmark films including Eraserhead (1977), The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001), Inland Empire (2006), as well as the iconic television series Twin Peaks (1990–91) and Twin Peaks: The Return (2017). While studying painting in the late 1960s, Lynch created his first “moving painting,” Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times) (1967), a multimedia work that marked the beginning of his foray into film. His visual and cinematic work often explores themes of the subconscious, bodily decay, and industrial environments, blending surrealism with a haunting sense of the everyday. Lynch has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and retrospectives around the world, including at Fondation Cartier, Bonnefantenmuseum, Queensland Art Gallery, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 2022, he joined Pace Gallery, where he debuted the solo exhibition Big Bongo Night in New York.

Mara Mckevitt is a New York City based artist, writer, and filmmaker who has made work under several different names. Her work has been exhibited at Clementin Seedorf (Cologne, DE), Café Forgot (New York), Chateau Shatto (Los Angeles) and STARS (Los Angeles). Her films have been shown at Now Instant (Los Angeles), Metrograph (New York), Poetry Project (New York), and Deeper into Movies (London). She studied Writing and Photography at Marlboro College in Vermont and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been featured in Dazed, Document Journal, Animal Blood, Novembre, and the Los Angeles Times. Her recent book, Making Of, was published by Clementin Seedorf.

Amalia Ulman is an artist and filmmaker based in New York City. Born in Argentina but raised in Spain, she studied Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins in London. Her works, which are primarily voiced in the first person, blur the distinction between the artist and object of study, often creating humorous, gentle deceptions, while exploring class imitation and the relationship between consumerism and identity. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Jenny’s’ at Jenny’s, New York, 2023, ‘Role Play’, Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2022 and ‘Sordid Scandal’, Tate Modern, London, 2020. Her first feature film El Planeta premiered in 2021 at Sundance Film Festival and opened the NF/ND series at MoMA at Lincoln Center. Her sophomore film, Magic Farm, will premiere in 2025.