FILE 23764—39/23DBE Electric Shadows is an interdisciplinary, artist-run studio founded in 2025, bringing together filmmakers, performance-makers, designers, and artists from places including Syria, Mexico, Iran, and China. Rooted in non-Western perspectives and socially engaged practice, we seek system change, artistic research, and marginalized voices. We cultivate a living practice of thinking-through-making through film screenings, food-sharing circles, open studios, book launch, and collective zines. Our featured artists explore themes of memory, displacement, body politics, spirituality, and resistance through film, sound, performance, and books. We have showcased underground zines, hosted works by diverse filmmakers and collectives. Anchored in mindfulness, somatic care, and radical acceptance, we use art as a tool for seeing one another, healing, dialogue, and collective transformation.
Co-founders
Malaz Usta
Mei Liu
Mahsa Koochak
Emilio Santoyo
Current Members
Christianna Tsigkou
Eva Lou
Xiaotong Li
Tanine Dunais
Past Members
Razan Hassan Mipham Chhowing Aline Olmos Smaragda Nitsopoulou