KAREN BECKMAN is Assistant Professor of Art History on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Vanishing Women: Magic, Film, and Feminism. With Jean Y. Ma she has edited Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photograph. She is currently completing a book on cinematic car crashes entitled Crash: Nations, Bodies, Mediums.

WILLIAM BREEZE is a musician and a scholar of magical arts. He is the editor of numerous works including The Equinox, Volume III, Number 10, The Equinox of the Gods, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4, The General Principles of Astrology.

TOM GUNNING, Professor of Art History and Cinema & Media Studies at the University of Chicago, has concentrated on early cinema (from its origins to the WW I) as well as on the culture of modernity from which cinema arose (relating it to still photography, stage melodrama, magic lantern shows, as well as wider cultural concerns such as the tracking of criminals, the World Expositions, and Spiritualism). He is the author of D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film, The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity and co-author of An Invention of the Devil Religion and Early Cinema.

ROBERT KELLY has published over sixty books of poetry, fiction, and critical essays, including RED ACTIONS: Selected Poems 1960-1993, QUEEN OF TERRORS, and In Time. He teaches at Bard College.

RENATA JACKSON has taught film history, theory, and analysis at Penn State, Emerson College, The European Institute for International Communication, and New York University. She is currently on the Critical Studies faculty at the School of Filmmaking, North Carolina School of the Arts. She is the author of The Modernist Poetics and Experimental Film Practice of Maya Deren (1917-1961).

DAVID LEVI-STRAUSS is a poet and writer on photography, art, and poetry. He writes for Aperture, Artforum, The Nation, The Brooklyn Rail, and other journals. He was the founder and editor of Acts. He is the author of Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, and Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art & Politics.

RANI SINGH is Senior Research Associate in the Contemporary Programs and Research Department at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA. She was Harry Smith's assistant from 1987 until his death in 1991 when she created the Harry Smith Archives, an organization dedicated to the location, preservation and presentation of Smith's work. Currently she is completing a feature-length documentary entitled The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music.