Koyo Yamashita

One of the curators in Image Forum

taught me about Off-Limits category in Annecy, which features something much more experimental

Max Hatler's latest video was nominated this yr I guess

Things taught by him at the bar near the Osaka hotel of on-site EU-JP Animation Residency

Musicians

John Zone - musician?

The Velvet Underground

Lou Reed

Saul Steinberg - Romanian-born American artist

Experimental filmmakers

Barbara Hammer

Queer Films...? if I remember correcly