The Great Thaw

Michaela Grill studied in Vienna, Glasgow, and London (Goldsmiths College). Since 1999, she has created a wide range of film and video works, installations, and live visual performances. Her work has been presented across five continents at major institutions including MoMA New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, La Casa Encendida in Barcelona, and the ICA in London, as well as numerous cinematheques. Her videos have been screened at over 200 international festivals. In 2010, she received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture.

Karl Lemieux is a filmmaker, whose work is inspired by the dialogue that occurs between film, music, and sound art. His films, installations, and performances have screened internationally in museums, galleries, music venues and film festivals including: the Montreal Contemporary Arts Museum, the MOMA - Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. He is known for is collaboration with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a Montreal music collective for which he does live 16mm film projections since 2010. He is also the co-founder with Daïchi Saïto of Double Négatif, a Montreal-based collective, dedicated to the production and dissemination of experimental films. His first feature film, Maudite Poutine (Shambles), premiered in the Orizzonti competition of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival organized by the Venice Biennale.