Dennis Cooper

Complex yet ruthlessly clear, Dennis Cooper’s (b. 1953, US) prose emotional and erotic lives of troubled teenagers. His characteristic ability to combine cruelty with tenderness, sadism with anxiety, has made him one of his generation’s essential voices. In addition to his film collaborations with Zac Farley, he is known for novels such as The George Miles Cycle (1989 -2000), The Sluts (2008) and The Marbled Swarm (2014). Since moving from Los Angeles to Paris in 2005, he has written nine theatre pieces for Gisèle Vienne and composed a series of innovative GIF novels.

Zac Farley

Zac Farley’s (b. 1988 US/FR) films and videos embrace confusion as a kind of truth and thus strive to visualise the most ineffable emotions. Through careful editing and framing, they weave analogies between bodies, landscapes and abstractions. In addition to the feature films he made together with Dennis Cooper, including Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015), Permanent Green Light (2018) and Room Temperature (forthcoming), he is currently collaborating with Gisèle Vienne on two projects: Klara Kraus, a forthcoming three-episode television series for ARTE, and  Last Spring, an opera with music by Hildur Guðnadóttir and visuals by Dominique Gonzalez Foerster.