Paloma Polo is an artist and independent researcher based in Utrecht. Her practice takes comradeship, interpersonal relationships, and the critical appraisal of institutional archives as sites of inquiry. Polo has staged solo exhibitions at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo- CA2M, and Kurimanzutto Gallery, amongst others. She was included in the International Exhibition at the 55th Venice Biennale, and has exhibited in group shows at Turner Contemporary, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, High Line Art, Stedelijk Hertogenbosch Museum, and Frankfurter Kunstverein, among others.

Mike de Leon is a director, cinematographer, producer, and scriptwriter. His films oftentimes foreground the class antagonisms, political absurdities, and the desire for belonging in the Philippines. He began making short films in the 1970s and founded the production company Cinema Artist Philippines. Since the release of his début feature film Itim (1976), de Leon has been regarded as one of the most significant filmmakers in the Philippines. Together with Concerned Artists of the Philippines—a coalition of writers, artists and cultural workers founded in 1983, working against the dictatorial regime of President Ferdinand Marcos—de Leon directed Signos (1984).

Tracey Moffatt is an artist working across photography, film, and video. Her works explore the interlocking complexities of race, gender, sexuality, and identity against the unrelenting violence of colonialism in Australia. Her films, including Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989) and beDevil (1993) have shown at Cannes Film Festival, Dia Centre for the Arts, and the National Centre for Photography, Paris. In 2017, Moffatt represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale.

Claire Denis is a Paris-based filmmaker and one of the major artistic voices of contemporary French cinema. Her films have explored the psychic and material traces left by French colonialism in West Africa, the disintegration of intimate relationships, and the conflict between cultural displacement and collective memory, among other things. 

Layaly Badr is a Jordanian writer, filmmaker, producer, and film distributor of Palestinian origin. Her short film The Road to Palestine (1985) won German television’s The Golden Lorbeer, the Best Play for Children at the Tunis Arab Television Festival, and the Damascus Television Festival Pioneer Award. She has also won several international awards for her children’s films. In 2024, Badr published her first novel, To The Right of The Heart.

AsiaVisions (c. 1982–1999)—originally named Creative Audio Visual Specialists (CAVS)—was a forerunning political film collective from the Philippines. Founded to encourage the development of documentary film practices and to promote its use as a medium of mass education, AsiaVisions was aligned with the popular movement against the Marcos dictatorship. It was a key organization disseminating counter-propaganda during this period, and used film to promote the struggle against all forms of exploitation and oppression. AsiaVisions created a people’s media that projected the political aspirations of the Filipino people whilst fostering solidarities with those subject to different forms of imperial violence across the Third World. Since its dissolution, the AsiaVisions AV Collection is under the receivership of IBON Foundation.
 

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay teaches political theory from an anti-colonial perspective, using photography and material culture, at Brown University. Her latest books: The Jewelers of the ummah – Potential History of The Jewish Muslim World (Verso September 2024), La resistance des bijoux (Rot-Bo-Krik, 2023) and Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso Books, 2019); her latest films: The world like a jewel in the hand – Unlearning Imperial Plunder II (2023), Un-documented: Unlearning Imperial Plunder I (2019); her latest exhibitions: Errata (Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, 2019; HKW, Berlin, 2020), and The Natural History of Rape (Berlin Biennale, 2022).