Single Stream

Paweł Wojtasik, born in Łódź, Poland, is a filmmaker and visual artist. After arriving in the U. S. as a refugee in 1972, he received an MFA from Yale University. His films and large-scale installations poetically explore overlooked environments and fragile ecosystems, from pig farms, sewage treatment plants, wrecking yards, autopsy rooms to cremation sites. His work has screened internationally, including at the Berlinale and the New York Film Festival.

Toby Lee is an artist, anthropologist, and Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, working across film, video, drawing, and text. Her work has been exhibited internationally at major film festivals and institutions. Her research interests include visual and media anthropology, cultural citizenship, expanded documentary, operative media, and the documentary unreal.

Ernst Karel is a sound artist working across experimental nonfiction, multichannel installation, performance, electroacoustic music, and postproduction sound for nonfiction vilm (video and/or film). His practice focuses on location recording and composing with unprocessed sound, often moving between abstraction and documentary. He has collaborated extensively with the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard and has presented work at major film and art institutions worldwide.