Another Gaze (Missouri Williams & Daniella Shreir) was founded in 2016 to provide a nuanced forum for discussion about women as filmmakers, filmic subjects, and spectators. In 2021 they launched Another Screen, an irregular streaming platform, streaming short-term programmes of films by women across modes of production and geographies, with new writing and translations about these works. In 2022 they launched a small publishing imprint, Another Gaze Editions.

Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions, 2022) and Blood Of The Air (Northwestern University Press, 2020), and a 2020 winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her recent poems have appeared in The Nation; The Atlantic; and as part of the series The Best American Poetry, among others. Codjoe has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts; New York Foundation of the Arts through New York State Council; and Jerome Foundation.

anorak is a curatorial collective and an independent art space in Berlin run by Lukas Ludwig and Johanna Markert. Organized as a non-profit association for contemporary art, anorak is dedicated to creating spaces for sincere and mutual exchange, enabling artists to produce, present, and critically discuss their work. Since 2015, their experimental artistic program has been shaped by long-term collaborations with local and international artists and cultural institutions through the joint development of screenings, exhibitions, performances, dinners, workshops, and publications, with recent projects at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (2021); ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin (2020); and Kunstverein Braunschweig (2019). In 2018/19 they were fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude. In 2022 their curatorial investigation into the Cinema of Cockaigne was awarded a research stipend from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.

Antoinette Burton is a feminist historian of the British empire who seeks to write histories from below that center on struggles over power in the human and non-human world. Women, gender and sexuality have always been key to Burton's work, which strives for an intersectional perspective that understands race and class as crucial to both gendered power and dispossession. Her book Gender History: A Very Short Introduction is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Sharlene Bamboat & Alexis Kyle Mitchell work with national archives and historical narratives to rigorously, yet playfully disrupt systems and codes of power. Their works are formulated not by order and rule, but by an unbounded narrative imaginary that asks who we might be if the script were changed ever so slightly. Recent exhibitions include Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2021); Kunstverein München, Munich (2021); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2020); Mercer Union, Toronto (2019); and the Berlinale, Berlin (2018). Bamboat | Mitchell have held fellowships at The Darling Foundry, Montreal (2019); and MacDowell, New Hampshire (2018). In 2020 the duo were long-listed for the Sobey Art Award through the National Gallery of Canada. Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Kyle Mitchell also maintain individual practices in filmmaking and scholarship.

Donika Kelly is the author of The Renunciations (Graywolf Press, 2021), and Bestiary: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2016) for which she has received the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and a founding member of the collective Poets at the End of the World. Kelly is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.

Emilia Beatriz (elle/they) is an artist, access worker, and beekeeper-in-study. Informed by poetics and quantum entanglement, Emilia's forthcoming film barrunto reflects on grief & resistance in shifting landscapes of loss, translating bodily unrest, forecasts, or omens sensed via signals present in the environment; from military-occupied Scotland to the streets of Puerto Rico, from the bottom of the ocean to the planet Uranus. Emilia is co-founder of Collective Text, a collaborative working process committed to practicing disability justice and supporting accessibility in art and film through creative captioning, audio description, and interpretation.

Jeanne Penjan Lassus’ works draw on an interest in sensory perceptions and the porosity of spaces and beings, with acute attention to one’s own environment as a central work process. Through film, video installation, photography, and writing, she is interested in creating experiences from fragments that unfold in their own temporalities, reflecting on how our bodies sense, move and extend into space. She studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris and is based in Bangkok.

Ohan Breiding is a Swiss artist based in New York. They work in drawing, photography, and video installation, exploring the intersections of trans embodiment, ecological care, and collaborative processes. They have presented their work in galleries, museums and film festivals nationally and internationally with upcoming museum exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland and at Oceanside Museum of Art (as a part of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Initiative), both in collaboration with Shoghig Halajian, and at Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes and Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), Williamstown. They are the recipient of the 2022 Hellman Award, the 2021 TBA—Ocean Space Fellowship, the 2019 Swiss International Film Festival (SIFF) Award, the 2017 Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Award and the 2012 DAAD Award. Their practice has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, Artillery, BOMB, Hyperallergic and Whitewall, among others. Breiding is an Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department at Williams College and is represented by Ochi Gallery in Los Angeles.

Oliver Husain is an artist and filmmaker based in Toronto. His cross-disciplinary practice critically combines and cheekily confuses the conventions of video, film, visual art, performance, and dance to create visual paradigms that are playful, personal and astutely political. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Heni Onstad Artsenter, Oslo (2022); Silent Green Kulturquartiert, Berlin (2021); Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha (2021); Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2020); and Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbour (2020).

Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour, and Ryan Ferko have worked in collaboration since 2013. Their shared practice explores the interplay of multiple subjectivities as a strategy to address the power inherent in narrative structures. Foregrounding the idea of place as a central focus, their work seeks to decode their surroundings and trouble the production of images through speculative narration and dialectical imagery. Shifting between both gallery and cinema contexts, their recent projects have been presented at Berlinale (2022); Punto De Vista International Documentary Festival (2019), Viennale, Vienna (2018); Media City Film Festival, Windsor (2018); New York Film Festival (2018); Toronto International Film Festival (2018); among others.

Renisa Mawani is Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, located on the unceded territories of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) peoples. She works in the fields of critical theory and colonial legal history and has published on topics of law, colonialism, and legal geography. She is co-editor of Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for Our Times (Duke University Press, 2020) with Antoinette Burton; and the author of Across Oceans of Law (Duke University Press, 2018)—a 2020 finalist for the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association Theory and History Book Prize, and winner of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Prize for Outstanding Contribution to History. She is also co-editor of The Travels of Law: Indian Ocean Itineraries (American Society for Legal History, 2014) with Iza Hussin, and is the author of Colonial Proximities (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Rupali Morzaria is an ex-architect turned graphic designer who enjoys hand coding websites and sometimes making Instagram filters for her friends. Her work is playful and iterative, extending from a research-based approach to image-making that is always curious and often obsessive.

Sarah Keenan works at Birkbeck Law School, University of London, where she co-founded the Centre for Research on Race and Law. Her research and teaching are at the intersection of legal and political theory, geography and post-colonial studies, with a particular focus on property. Her monograph Subversive Property: Law and the Production of Spaces of Belonging was published in the Routledge Social Justice series in 2015. In 2017-2018 she held a Leverhulme Fellowship for her project Making Land Liquid: The Temporality of Title Registration.

Shahana Rajani is an artist based in Karachi. Her work and research traces the emerging visualities and infrastructures of development and militarisation in Pakistan using multidisciplinary methods and media. She is a co-founder of Karachi LaJamia, an experimental project seeking to politicize art education and explore new radical pedagogies and art practices. She is an Assistant Professor in the Liberal Arts Programme at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art from the University of Cambridge, and a Master of Arts in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia.

Shoghig Halajian is a scholar and curator based in New York. She is co-director of Human Resources LA, co-editor of the online journal Georgia (in collaboration with Anthony Carfello and Suzy Halajian), and previously was Assistant Director at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). She has curated exhibitions and programs at Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, Los Angeles; Redcat, Los Angeles; UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund), Oslo, among others. She has exhibited her video works (made in collaboration with Ohan Breiding) at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Sharjah Art Foundation; Haus N, Athens; Hallways Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo; and upcoming at Kunsthaus Zürich and Oceanside Museum (as a part of Getty’s Pacific Standard Time Initiative). Awards include the Andy Warhol Art Writers Grant and a TBA21—Ocean Space Fellowship. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History, Theory, and Criticism (with a Critical Gender Studies specialization) at the University of California, San Diego.

Sukaina Kubba is an Iraqi-born Toronto-based artist who explores narratives of cultural and material assimilation and appropriation. Kubba's work has been included in recent exhibitions at Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2022); Art Gallery of Ontario (2019); Glasgow International (2018); and Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017). Forthcoming residencies include International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York; and La Wayaka Current, Atacama Desert, Chilé. Kubba is a sessional lecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, and previously served as curator and lecturer at Glasgow School of Art (2013–2018).

Dr. Zoe Todd (Red River Métis) is a practice-led artist-researcher who studies the relationships between Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish futures in Canada. As a Métis anthropologist and researcher-artist, Dr. Todd combines dynamic social science and humanities research and research-creation approaches—including ethnography, archival research, oral testimony, and experimental artistic research practices—within a framework of Indigenous philosophy to elucidate new ways to study and support the complex relationships between Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish well-being in Canada today. They are a co-founder of the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures, which is a collaborative Indigenous-led initiative that is ‘restor(y)ing fish futures, together’ across three continents. They are also a co-founder of the Indigenous Environmental Knowledge Institute (IEKI) at Carleton University. In 2020 they were elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, and in 2018 were the Presidential Visiting Fellow at Yale University.

Sharlene Bamboat and Alexis Kyle Mitchell would like to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts through the Digital Now Innovation Initiative.

We are grateful to the generosity and candor of Sukaina Kubba in collaborating with us to realize Voice of Before Law.

Thank you for guiding us through the accessibility needs of this project from the beginning.

We would like to extend our gratitude to Yvonne Felix for assisting us through the accessibility components of the website. The intersection of her art and technology practice provided multiple entry points for us to think through aspects of our work.