The Society of the Spectacle

Roxy Farhat (b. 1984 Tehran, Iran) is a visual artist artist and award winning director based inStockholm, Sweden. Her artistic practice spans over a wide set ofmediums, including video,performance, installation, documentary film, music video and more. Between politics and the aesthetics of the commercial sphere, Farhat’s work questions and examines establishedroles and expectations; Why do we live life in the weirdest way? Humor, absurdity, collaboration and the re-rendering of capitalist imagery are important elements of herpractice. Roxy holds a BFA from Konstfack in Stockholm and a New Genres MFA from UCLA.

Göran Hugo Olsson is a film director and producer. Born 1965 in Lund, Sweden. Göran Hugo Olsson was educated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and is one of Sweden’s leading filmmakers internationally. His first cinema release Fuck You, Fuck You Very Much (1998) is a Swedish classic. He was editor and co-founder of the short documentary television program Ikon (SVT). The feature documentary The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) became a huge hit in festivals, theatres and TV broadcasts worldwide, garnering numerous awards. It was followed by Concerning Violence (2014), narrated by Ms LaurynHill, which premiered at Sundance and the Berlinale to critical acclaim, and went on to be sold in 27 countries. He co directed Fonko (2016) and then That Summer (2017) which both were screened at festivals and television worldwide. He is one of the funders of the production company Story.