Angelos Koutsourakis is an Associate Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds. He is the author of Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema (2018), Politics as Form in Lars von Trier (2013) and the co-editor of The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos (2015) and Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020).

Mark Steven is a graduate student at the University of New South Wales. His major research project is titled "Red Modernism: Poetry, Communism, and the Anglo-American Avant-Garde." He has published on literature, film, and philosophy, including the co-edited Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road.