Ivone Margulies is Professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema (2018), Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman's Hyperrealist Everyday (1996), and is the editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema (2003).

Jeremi Szaniawski is Assistant Professor of comparative literature and film studies in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is the co-editor of Directory of World Cinema: Belgium (2014) and The Global Auteur: The Politics of Authorship in 21st Century Cinema (2016) and the author of The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox (2014).