Daniel Gerson is a visually impaired artist from Winnipeg. When he learned that his blindness was not a figment of his imagination, he quit his job to devote himself to art and expects to learn nothing. Who needs a card anyway? His last completed film, WELCOME, in 2008, won a special mention from the jury at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. He spent the next eight years taking street photography, but when he got the damn news that he was going blind, he put his camera down to make movies again. He is obsessed with memory, repetition, and the Garden of Eden.

Trevor Mowchun is an assistant professor of film and production studies at the University of Florida. He works as both a film researcher and a filmmaker, exploring the philosophical dimensions of cinema theoretically and creatively. His first experimental feature drama World to Come (2015) is a poetic investigation into the suppressed unconscious of a religious community ravaged by tragedy. He is currently preparing his second feature film, From a Great Height: the film follows a historian who goes in search of his ancestral past and uses techniques that seek to visualize the fantasies, omissions, and emotional intensities of memory. As a film specialist, Trevor has published numerous essays on film philosophy.