Didrik Söderström

Co-Founder
Storyteller
Didrik is a cross-disciplinary storyteller from Rochester, NY

In storytelling Didrik found a medium that married music, live performance, and a longing for sparseness in the midst of technological cacophony. His work focuses on emotional nakedness and human connection; He uses a loop station and microphone to layer vocals and organic sound to create atmospheres and song to tell a story.

Matt Frost

Co-Founder
Writer, Filmmaker
Matt Frost is a writer, director, writer, and editor currently residing in Chicago. He was educated at New York University, where he studied film and television production at Tisch School of the Arts with a focus on screenwriting and video editing. He now works as a freelance cinematographer and editor, doing short-form videos, live-streaming events, and documentary work with a focus on low-impact and high-mobility setups. He has also worked as a sound designer, prop master, assistant director, and writer for various theaters. 

As a documentary filmmaker, he utilizes guerrilla filmmaking techniques to create non-intrusive experiences for the subjects while still producing a clean and polished final product. In his fiction, he seeks to create modern-day mythologies that resonate on a primal and emotional level.

Kjersti Jorgenson

Illustrator
Kjersti Jorgenson is a Queens based artist. Her work stems from a fascination with classical horror and straddles the gap between sparse whimsy and gothic sensitivities.

Pete Lake

Animator
Pete Lake is a visual artist from Rochester. His work is known for it's infectious humor and singular voice. 

Henrik Soderstrom

Painter
My work explores and is created in moments of transition, states of almost-but-not-yet.  I am drawn to materials that are suspended in passage, from a cabinet shop to the city dump, or from a shed to a burn pile.  Similarly, I orchestrate my workday so that transitions between painting, writing, building, reading, praying, cooking, and gardening are frequent, so that I am passing through as often as possible.  It is while consistently shifting gears that I can find the deepest quiet, an interstitial space that is extremely generative.

The images that I create reflect these states of transition, hovering between abstraction and representation.  I am interested in Barry Schwabsky's articulations of the latent state of the image and the latent state of abstraction.  The highly porous boundary between image and abstraction is, in my studio practice, a visual bi-product of systematic transition.