Date of Publication: 2008-09-01

Cathy Crane is a filmmaker whose cinematic adaptations of European letters have been screened internationally, are included in the permanent collection at Forum des Images in Paris, and have been broadcast on European television. She has received numerous awards including, most recently, Best Narrative film from the 2006 Juried Screening at University Film and Video Association for her full-length film Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil that was also selected to tour as part of the 2008 Southern Circuit. She has worked professionally as a cinematographer on numerous projects including Lynn Hershman-Neeson’s 1999 documentary on Guillermo Gomez-Pena, I Thought I was Seeing Convicts by Harun Farocki (2000) (for which she also conducted archival research), Night Light, an installation by Mary Ellen Strom and Ann Carlson (2002), and Pullman Porters, a Joanna Haigood/Zaccho Dance Theatre Project (2002). Crane received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and her M.F.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University. She is currently Assistant Professor of Cinema at Ithaca College.

Nicholas Muellner is a photo-based artist, writer and curator who lives and works in Ithaca, NY. His work across a range of disciplines and practices considers the poetics of representation as a conduit between political understanding and personal experience. Recent projects include the exhibition and artist’s book Moscow Plastic Arts (Arcadia University Art Gallery, 2005) The Photograph Commands Indifference (A-Jump Books, 2008), and Now Is The Winter, an exhibition of politically and psychologically linked works by U.S. and Russian artists that opened at Proekt Fabrika in Moscow in May 2007. Muellner received a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University and an MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at the Park School of Communications, Ithaca College.