2 Ensemble: 20 Silhouettes on the Shade

Tim Blue
Filmmaker and musician, member of the artist collective CHEAP, California/Berlin

Adam Budak
Curator, Kunsthaus Graz (Landesmuseum Joanneum), visiting professor at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Gent and at the Theatre Institute at Kunstuniversität Graz (University of Arts), Graz/Krakow

Christophe Chemin
Artist, Paris/Berlin

Douglas Crimp
Professor of art history/visual and cultural studies at the University of Rochester, Art Critic and Aids Theorist, publications (selection): Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics (2002), New York, On the Museum's Ruins (1993), New York

Keren Cytter
Artist, Tel Aviv/Berlin

Vaginal Davis
Performance, video and visual artist, expert on the cinema of the 1920s, member of CHEAP, Los Angeles/Berlin

Dr. Diedrich Diedrichsen
Professor of theory, practice and communication of contemporary art at Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Vienna/Berlin

Jennifer Doyle
Associate Professor of American literature, gender studies, and visual studies at the University of California, Riverside, publications (selection): Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire (2006), California

Stephan Geene
Filmmaker, Theorist and co-founder of b-books, Berlin

Richard Gersch
High-school student, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium, Berlin

Salome Gersch
High-school student, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gymnasium, Berlin

Wilhelm Hein
Underground filmmaker, Berlin

Daniel Hendrickson
Translator, member of CHEAP, Detroit/Berlin

Bruce LaBruce
Filmmaker, writer and photographer, films (selection): Otto; or, Up with Dead People (2008), The Raspberry Reich (2004), Toronto

Guy Maddin
Scriptwriter and filmmaker, films (selection): My Winnipeg (2007), Brand upon the Brain (2006), The Saddest Music in the World (2003), Winnipeg

Tan Bin Nguyen
Make up artist, Berlin

Zazie de Paris
Diva, actress and singer, Berlin

Susanne Sachsse
Actress, member of CHEAP, Berlin

Stefanie Schulte Strathaus
Co-director at Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art e.V., Film and Video Curator, member of the selection committee of the Forum and responsible for the „Forum Expanded“ at the Berlinale, Berlin

Marc Siegel
Research Fellow, Collaborative Research Center „Kulturen des Performativen", Freie Universität Berlin, member of CHEAP, New York/Berlin

Nicolas Siepen
Professor of performing arts at Universität Tromsø (Norway), artist, filmmaker and member of b_books, Berlin

The Heterodiegetic Narrators

Dr. Karin Harrasser
Research Fellow at Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, research on cultural history of prosthetics, recent publications: with Günther Friesinger (ed.): Public Fictions Wie man Roboter und Menschen erfindet (2009), Vienna

Nanna Heidenreich
works in the field of film/video (Arsenal/Forum expanded), research areas: visual culture, politics & art, migration, antiracism, (other) cinema, member of Kanak Attak, Berlin

Dr. Getrud Koch
Professor of film studies, Principal Investigator of the Excellence Cluster “Languages of Emotion”, Freie Universität Berlin, and film critic, Berlin