Nick Jordan Festival Curator
Nick Jordan is a multidisciplinary artist-filmmaker whose work explores the interconnections between social, cultural and natural ecologies. His work has been exhibited widely at international museums, galleries and film festivals, including Innsbruck International Biennale; Documenta Madrid; Videonale, Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Kassel Dokfest; CPH:DOX; British Textile Biennial. Jordan’s award winning films include Concrete Forms of Resistance, The Atom Station, Thought Broadcasting and the feature-length documentary Between Two Rivers. He has curated several group exhibitions and artist film screenings, and undertaken a number of international residencies and artist film commissions. Jordan has been an invited jury member for several international film festivals, and is based in Manchester, UK.
nickjordan.info
@nickjordanart
Naziha Karima Arebi Film Programmer
Naziha is a BAFTA nominated Libyan-British artist and filmmaker working at the intersection of art and activism – drawn to stories centering identity, class and collective power. Her films include Freedom Fields (TIFF, IDFA, BFI LFF, JCC, Blackstar), After A Revolution (IDFA, CPH:DOX, HotDocs), Untold Chaos (The Guardian, Sheffield Doc/Fest), Kings of the Desert (Aljazeera)
amongst others, and her writing, photography and installations have been published and exhibited globally. Adjacent to art and filmmaking, Naziha works as a programmer, mentor and cultural facilitator, alongside a love of growing, ecology and exploring sustainable solutions related to food sovereignty and land rights. She is currently developing a hybrid project alongside exploring immersive, expanded forms of cinema, sound and other screens.
Mariana Castiñeiras Film Programmer
Mariana Castiñeiras is a Uruguayan filmmaker. She is a graduate from the DocNomads master in Documentary Filmmaking, which took her to make films in Lisbon, Budapest, and Brussels. Her work explores contradictory human relationships, particularly in connection to nature. Her films have been shown internationally in Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, Helsinki International Film Festival, as well as Braziers, and in her home country, where her short Exoskeletons won Best Short Film Jury Prize at José Ignacio Film Festival. She is currently based in London, where she works for BBC.
Caroline Vitzthum Film Programmer & Braziers Park Education Lead
Caroline Vitzthum is an interdisciplinary artist working in performance, social practice, field research and film. Her works are created in close collaboration with environmental charities, scientists, and community groups to address climate change. Her particular interest in bryology (the study of mosses) and peatland conservation is explored in her long-time project titled ‘Speaking Sphagnum’, a project initiated during an artist residency at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Coming to peatland conservation from a background in bespoke tailoring, she is interested in the interlacing of multi-species relationships and the observation of ecological processes through a microscopic lens. Caroline is a graduate from the University of Oxford, where she completed her Master of Fine Art at The Ruskin School of Art and Exeter College.
Julia Makojnik Film Programmer
Julia Makojnik is a curator and educator. She has produced live projects for PROFORMA, was Assistant Curator at Holden Gallery and Associate Curator at Pavement Gallery. She is interested in non-human-centric systems, alternative approaches to understanding nature, technology and time, and resistance to quick forms of interpretation. Julia is also an artist working across art, textiles and garment design. She is based in Manchester and she works as a multidisciplinary technical demonstrator in art and design at the University of Salford, currently developing a fabric technology facility.
@juliamakojnik
Joseph Lang Film Programmer
Joseph Lang is an independent curator and artist who lives and works in Manchester. He is a former associate curator of Pavement Gallery and was a curatorial assistant at Holden Gallery. His practice is multidisciplinary, and explores documentation through black and white analogue photography. Joseph also co-coordinates a monthly reading group which focuses on the critical discussion of texts in art and cultural theory. He holds a BA in Fine Art from Leeds Arts University, and recently completed an MA in Contemporary Curating at Manchester School of Art.
@jjo.lang
Eleanor Capstick Film Programmer
Eleanor Capstick is an artist-geographer asking how infrastructures and bureaucracies, or their absences, shape our everyday lives. She looks for answers in puddles of sound, text and performance. Through histories of land ownership, neoliberal conservation policy, and broken dance choreography, her work follows the feeling of being on the back foot. As a member of Diwo Collective, Eleanor makes artistic interventions in Glasgow’s public spaces. She studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, and is currently writing a masters thesis on improvisation in Indonesian irrigation systems at the University of Glasgow.
Dave Griffiths Film Programmer
Dave Griffiths is an artist, researcher and educator. His practice explores our contemporary use of photographic images as lenses through which we commemorate and navigate our history. Griffiths has exhibited internationally in museums, archives, galleries and public spaces, with work commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella, FACT, Animate, NASA and Abandon Normal Devices. He has presented his practice at international conferences and workshops, and has taught at Manchester School of Art, Leeds Arts University, and Fine Art Academy of Xiamen University, China. A film programmer for Swedenborg Film Festival, Griffiths is the founder of Film Material collective, running discussion, exhibitions and residencies, including at Supernormal Festival. He is based in Manchester, UK.
Isaac Jordan
Festival Technician
Isaac Jordan is a Manchester-based artist. His painting practice draws inspiration from a diverse range of sources, including YouTube videos and stills from 1970s science-fiction films. The individual paintings are arranged in sequencial installations, resulting in a cinematic experience in which the finalised work is animated in the viewer’s imagination. Notable accolades include the Apollo Painting School (2024), Spike Island Graduate Fellowship (2020/21), the Haworth Trust New Graduate Award at Paradise Works (2022), and he was shortlisted for the BEEP Painting Prize (2020). Isaac has curated a number of exhibitions, collaborative projects and artist publications, and provided technical support to film screening events and installations.
