Direct Action

Guillaume Cailleau (France, 1978) is a Berlin-based artist, filmmaker

and film producer whose interest lies in exploring new forms to

address political and social issues. His films have been screened at film

festivals (Berlin, NY, Rotterdam, Edinburgh) and his work has been

exhibited in art institutions such as the Bangkok Art & Culture

Centre, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Haus der Kulturen der

Welt and the Centre Pompidou. In 2014, he won the Silver Bear

Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for his short

film Laborat. He produces films with his company CASKFILMS.

Direct Action is his first feature-length film.

Ben Russell (USA, 1976) is a Marseille-based artist, filmmaker

and curator whose work lies at the intersection of ethnography and

psychedelia. Russell was an exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017)

and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the

Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern

Art Chicago, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale, among others.

He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), a FIPRESCI

International Critics Prize (IFFR 2010, Gijón 2017), and premiered

his second and third feature films at the Locarno Film Festival (2013,

2017). DIRECT ACTION is his 5th feature-length film.