Ruoyun Chen
Ruoyun Chen is an independent filmmaker and researcher in urban systems. She did her Master of Science and PhD at Cornell University, majoring in Transportation System Engineering and minoring in...
13 February, 2024
Ruoyun Chen is an independent filmmaker and researcher in urban systems. She did her Master of Science and PhD at Cornell University, majoring in Transportation System Engineering and minoring in...
In 2018, we partnered with IDFA DocLab to launch an R&D Program to expand the festival into a living lab for artistic experimentation, research, and development across disciplines. Currently in...
Ryat Yezbick’s practice is highly interdisciplinary and research-based. A former cultural anthropologist, they use qualitative research methods to investigate U.S. cultural relationships to witnessing, group identity and contemporary morals in the...
Simon Wood is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker based in Cape Town, South Africa. At the MIT Open Doc Lab, Wood developed two works with Meghna Singh. ‘The Founders’ Pillars’ is a...
Diana Maria Rico Muñoz is an artist, filmmaker and singer, born and raised in the savanna of Bogotá, Colombia. She spent 25 years working with Indigenous communities in Colombia, studying...
Meghna Singh is a visual artist and researcher with a PhD in visual anthropology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work examines colonial and capitalist legacies through...
Marjolaine Grappe is an independent documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist and a 2020 & 2021 SFFILM FilmHouse resident. Her work on the financing of North Korea's nuclear weapons All The Dictator’s...
A polymath artist and future thinker, Pierre-Christophe Gam’s work draws from Africa’s rich pre-colonial heritage to create physical and virtual spaces that foster learning, connection, and imagination. While at OpenDocLab, he'll...
Mrinalini Singha is an artist and creative technologist whose growing body of work addresses socio-political, cultural and environmental urgencies across mediums such as film, installation, tangible interfaces and XR. She wears...
Sahar Sajadieh is a computational performance artivist (artist + activist) and theorist. She is a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts with a Ph.D....