Bani Khoshnoudi is a filmmaker and visual artist born in Tehran and raised in Texas.

Her approach to film comes from a background in photography and architecture, and often deals with themes related to displacement and the modern subject; cities and their transformations, ruins... Her shorts, documentaries and features (Transit, A People In The Shadows, Ziba, The Silent Majority Speaks) have travelled widely through festivals.

In 2008, Bani was studio artist at the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP in New York. Her work has been shown in galleries in Tehran, New York, Paris, Cairo, Mexico City, and Rotterdam. In 2022, she is winner of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Film/Video.

She is currently working on two essay films and developing two fiction films, in Mexico and France.

Born in 1978, Christine Abdelnour lives in France but is of Lebanese origin. After discovering improvised music in 1997 she began a process of self-taught study and sound experimentation using the alto saxophone.

She has developed a unique personal language, producing sounds that are close to those of electroacoustic music but on a purely acoustic instrument. She approaches sound as a malleable material, rich in concrete textures which combines breath, silence and countless acoustic distortions. She has developed extended techniques and complex patterns of sound production, exploring the microtonal aspects of the saxophone and its high-pitched tones. She employs subtle tonguing techniques, unpitched breaths, spittle-flecked growls, biting, slicing notes and breathy echoing sounds from the bell of her horn. Far from any narrative effects, her music addresses the relation between listening and concepts of perception, time and space.

Solo Artist and involved in international tours with: Andy Moor, Magda Mayas, Pascal Battus, Andrea Neumann, Bonnie Jones, Raymond Strid, Sven-Ake Johansson, Chris Corsano, Mazen Kerbaj and many others. She has released more than ten cds and has collaborated with visual art, dance, literature, poetry, as well as projects with noise, electronics, rock or free jazz.