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Jim Finn (b. 1968, St. Louis)
lives in Chicago and makes videos about small animals, love and
communism. His house is a kind of MGM lot for experimental animal
videos. His work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film
Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Cinematexas, and
the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His work has also appeared
on the PBS and in Harper's magazine. He is one of the organizers
of the experimental Video Mundi festival at the Chicago Cultural
Center and is currently working on a series of needlepoint
portraits of South American communists.

Arthur Jones (b. 1974, Plainview Texas)
is an animator and illustrator who studied at the Rhode Island
School of Design. His animated shorts are fast-paced, meticulously
detailed, creepy and cute. They have shown in the Chicago Underground
Film Festival, Worm Film Series (Rotterdam), Chicago International
Children's Film Festival, LA Shorts, and Gavin Brown Passerby
Gallery in New York. His design work includes promotional paint-by-number
kits for the public radio program This American Life, advertising
for Thrill Jockey Records, and art direction for Dirty
Found magazine. His online sketchbook, www.gorillasuit.com,
receives thousands of hits a week and has been viewed by nerds
the world over.
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