Michaela Grill studied in Vienna, Glasgow, and London (Goldsmith College) and has been producing film and video works, installations, and live visuals since 1999. 

Performances and screenings of her work have spanned 5 continents, including institutions such as MOMA NY, National Gallery of Art in Washington, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museo Reina Sofía and La Casa Encendida in Madrid, ICA in London, and many cinematheques. Her videos have been screened at over 200 festivals worldwide.  

Her recent film made in collaboration with Quebecois auteur, Karl Lemieux, The Great Thaw, is ultimately an experiment in documentary filmmaking and a foray into scientific communication. Collaborating with scientific researchers, the filmmakers shift between relaying facts and creating an experience of those facts, allowing the spectator to feel the environmental changes and sense the physical transformations. The interplay of analogue and digital imagery (the media of choice of Lemieux and Grill respectively), combined with the intricately composed soundtrack and the oscillation between abstraction and figuration, opens a space for embodied understandings and the fluid movement of thought. Avoiding the didactic, the film nonetheless wills us to confront reality. 

Grill received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Ministry of Art & Culture in 2010 and is currently an Art-Science Fellow at the Woodwell Climate Research Centre, Collaborating to create new insights and inspire action. 

Karl Lemieux is a filmmaker, whose work is inspired by the dialogue that occurs between film, music and sound art. His films, installations, and performances have screened internationally in museums, galleries, music venues and film festivals including: the Montreal Contemporary Arts Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. He is known for his collaboration with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, a Montreal music collective for which he has done live 16mm film projections since 2010. He is also the co-founder of Double Négatif, a Montreal-based collective dedicated to the production and dissemination of experimental films. His first feature, Maudite Poutine (Shambles), premiered in the Orizzonti competition of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival organized by the Venice Biennale.