"Bonney Powell, a cameraman and editor for Fox Movietone News, made MANHATTAN MEDLEY and companion films BROADWAY BY DAY and MEET ME DOWN at Coney Island more or less on a hobby basis. Powell was sent by Fox to film Japan’s war in China and was killed in action." - David Shepard

Known internationally for his short animations that follow the smoke of Genet's UN CHANT D'AMOUR, through endless poetic circles and spirals of desire. Mead's corpus signifies the resilience and seduction of queer culture as it navigates the gaps in mainstream culture.

In 2013, he launched his first UK solo show, an installation titled Draw the Line, at PayneShurvell Gallery in London. His most recent films, summer 1975 and =, won awards this year at Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Black Mariah Festival. Also in 2017, Pleasure Dome presented Wrik Mead: Local Hero, a retrospective of his 30 years of making time based works.

In 2005, Wrik received his MA Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. He currently lives in Toronto and teaches in the Digital Painting & Expanded Animation specialization at OCAD University.

Born May 29, 1951 in Montpellier
Resides in Sète until 1975
1970-1976 studies of philosophy and cinema at the University Paul Valéry of Montpellier
1979-2010 directs the audiovisual department of the Museum of Modern Art of the city of Paris, under the direction of Suzanne Pagé

Her work has been presented at various festivals such as Festival of Berlin (1980), MNAM, Paris (1989), Berkeley (1990), MoMA, New York (1995), Feminale, Cologne (1992/1994/1996), Osnabrück (1996), IMPACT (1996), Oberhausen (1998), Scratch (1998/2001/2003), Riga (2002), Pesaro (2003), Los Angeles Film Forum (2004), Festival des cinémas differents, Paris (2005), La Enana Marrón, Madrid (2005), Rencontre des labos de Bruxelles (2005), 10 ans de l'Abominable (2006), Taiwan Women in the Arts (2007), Les Inattendus, Lyon (2007), Belgrade Alternative Film Festival (2008), Les Écrans Documentaires (2008).

Neil McGuire in California, USA. He was a director and producer, known for ORIENTAL PHANTASY (1933), MOONLAND (1926) and THERE'S A GIRL IN MY HEART (1949). He died in 1972 in Santa Maria, California.