Matt Costanza is an artist of life.  In addition to studying filmmaking and photographyat RIT, he also spends time as a writer, a philosopher, and as a martial artist.  Matt has always been inspired by the natural world and by the most basic form of expression, movement.  He has practiced martial arts since a child and has studied many different styles. He has dedicated himself to Shaolin Kung Fu, which he also now teaches.  His love for creative expression through movement has greatly influenced his experimental films, and his admiration for the structure and form of the body continues to inspire his art.  After completing his MFA in Film and Animation at RIT, Matt plans to teach filmmaking. He also hopes one day to open his own school of Kung Fu to assist others in the discovery and appreciation of creative expression.

Stephanie Maxwell is co-founder and co-director of the ImageMovementSound festivals. She teaches film, video and animation production and history courses in the School of Film and Animation at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She has taught, lectured and conducted workshops in many international venues, and she was recently an artist-in-residence at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. Her unusual and award-winning animated works have exhibited in many international film and television programs and festivals, including recent retrospectives in New Zealand, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, LUX in London, and the Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles in Paris. Her works are collected by museums as works of art.

PROJECT: All That Remains

Stephanie's Web Site:
www.rit.edu/~sampph
sampph@rit.edu

Jack Beck has taught at Denison University and the University of Iowa, where he received his Masters degrees in Communication Studies, and Film & Video Production. Jack has also worked as a cinematographer, videographer, screenwriter, story editor, radio DJ, sound engineer, boom operator, and sound recordist. Jack continues to create new digital works, often collaborations with Eastman School of Music composers through the ImageMovementSound festivals. In 2002, Jack traveled to Panama to shoot digital video of the courtship display of the Golden-Collared Manakin, and in 2005 he ventured north to the Hudson Bay to film polar bears.

jabpph@rit.edu