Filmmakers

 

Kristin Kane

Kristin Kane is a musician, filmmaker and stop-motion animator based in the Netherlands. She holds a doctor of musical arts from Cornell University. As an element of her doctoral dissertation, she directed the first modern revival of Francesco Cavalli’s 1659 opera Elena, a comedy replete with dancing bears, a murder plot, and women’s wrestling. She was the founding artistic director of the professional musical ensemble Ars Cantus, and has directed the Cornell Collegium Music and Cornell Chamber Singers. Kristin is currently the communications director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley, where she produces short documentaries and long-form interviews about algorithmic science. She is currently working on a feature-length documentary about Dipa Ma Barua, a 20th century Bengali meditation master who taught many of leaders of the Western mindfulness movement. Kristin's numerous awards and honors include the Barbara Troxell Award and the Sylvia and Irving Lerner Prize.

David Young Kim

David Young Kim is Associate Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Zurich. He received his B.A. in English and French literature from Amherst College (1999) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard (2009), in addition to attending the Humboldt University in Berlin and the Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7. Before joining the Penn faculty in 2013, he was a postdoctoral faculty fellow (wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (2009-2013) and a visiting faculty member at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo in Brazil (2011-2013). He is the author of The Traveling Artist in the Italian Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2014) and the editor of Matters of Weight: Force, Gravity, and Aesthetics in the Early Modern Era (Berlin: Edition Imorde, 2013). His current book project is entitled Groundwork: A History of the Renaissance Picture (Princeton University Press, 2022).

Siobhan Roberts

Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian journalist and author. Lately her work is to be found in The New York Timesscience section, The New York Times Magazine, and MIT Technology Review. She is working on a biography of the group theorist and mathematical logician Verena Huber-Dyson, forthcoming from Pantheon.

Her most recent book is Genius at Play, The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway (Bloomsbury, 2015). Genius at Play was longlisted for the RBC Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, and won the JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books, bestowed by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America. While writing the Conway biography, she was a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. Her first book was King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry (Walker/Bloomsbury, 2006), which won the Euler Prize from the Mathematical Association of America. She also wrote and produced a documentary film about Coxeter (TVOntario, 2009), and a short film about Conway (Numberphile, 2015). 

Amelia Saul

Amelia Saul is an artist and filmmaker who lives in New York. Her recent explorations in the studio look at the artifice of theater and performativity from adjacent disciplines of scriptwriting, video, and drawing. She is developing a paper theater which will become a video, while researching the political histories of theater and contemporary national narratives.

Amelia has shown internationally and in the United States at venues including The Kitchen, Momenta Art, and The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, as well as internationally in Germany, Japan, Taiwan, and Australia. She has been a visiting artist, screening works at Princeton University, New York University, University of Washington, Villa I Tatti/Harvard University, and Melbourne School of Art. She has been a fellow at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Residency (2021-2022), Yaddo (USA), a resident artist at Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education (Bronx, USA), Residency Unlimited (USA), Banciao 435 Artist Village (Taiwan), and Dust (France). Her work with Dust: Plates of the Present been acquired by the Centre Pompidou. She is a resident of the Monira Foundation (2022-2023) and completed her MFA at New York University in 2010.