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The directors founded MAD SHAPES, a London-based non-hierarchical collective of four artists working across film, performance, and visual art. They reject traditional production hierarchies. Creative choices emerge through consensus, not directorial decree. Each member brings distinct expertise, but no one holds final authority. They work guerrilla-style—producing projects on their own terms without waiting for institutional approval or funding.
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Sophie Klampferer is a London-based filmmaker and artist whose practice inhabits the liminal terrain where documentary is constructed and dismantled through fiction. She holds a BA in English Literature and Film from King’s College London and an MA in Performance: Screen from Central Saint Martins. Shaped by a clusterfuck of an identity—Austrian father, Slavic mother raised on Central Asian soil, and a childhood in the Middle East—she explores how we build and defend our own truths through the stories we tell and the people we collide with, through themes of fragmented truth, power and patterns of being.
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Penelope Corinaldesi is a director, researcher, and image-maker working between documentary, experimental cinema, and research-led practice. Born in Italy and raised in Brazil, she holds a BSc in Social Anthropology and an MSc in City Design from the London School of Economics and is currently undertaking an MA in Performance: Screen at Central Saint Martins. Her work explores how personal histories surface in urban and domestic environments, using ethnographic observation, autoethnography, and mixed documentary forms to examine memory, intergenerational trauma, and the politics of representation.
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P. Avantika Sood is a Malaysian and Indian artist/filmmaker with a BA International Relations degree from Durham Univesity, followed by an MA Performance Screen course from Central Saint Martins. Cultivating range, from academia to art, her Global South upbringing to her lifelong Global North education, she provides a distinctly eloquent understanding that rich stories dance in ‘inbetweens’. They are presented and received based on cultural context, disposition and/or privilege. This is explored through practising the art of interviewing, she is also an actress with the National Youth Theatre. As a freelance dance music writer and video journalist, she has worked with Dazed and prominent DJ/producers such as Barry Can’t Swim, Prospa, Yung Singh, Make A Dance and more.
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Tiana Te-Rong Hsu is a Cantonese-Canadian multidisplinary artist based in London, with roots in Vancouver and Hong Kong and an academic background in Fashion Styling and Production from London College of Fashion and MA Performance Screen from Central Saint Martins. She works fluidly across, fashion, film, and performance, collaborating with brands like Untitlab, Zara, NHS x Raygun, and Schutz x Amelia Gray, and been on platforms like featured on Nowness, DOC London, and the Tate Britian. Her practice is situated in investigating diasporic displacement, cultural reclamation, and autoethnographic inquiry, and transending a singular output of expression. Together, they created 'Featherbones', proving that work made through genuine collaborative process can hold together structurally and artistically without auteur control.
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MAD SHAPES continues challenging how creative labor is organized and credited.
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