The founder of Static Mass Emporium and one of its Editors in Chief is a composer and music producer with a philosophy degree. Static Mass is where he lives his passion for film and writing about it.

A fan of film classics, documentaries and World Cinema, Patrick prefers films with an impeccable way of storytelling that reflect on the human condition.

One of the Editors in Chief and our webmaster, Jonahh is a photographer and journalist who has been working in the media industry for over 15 years, mainly in television, design and art. As a boy, he made his first short film with an 8mm camera and the help of his father. His obsession with (moving) images and stories hasn’t faded since.

His passion for intricate stories and the ‘seven basic plots’ (ask him!) often times makes his friends and family put him in the doghouse for "predicting" too many twists and endings.

One of our editors, Frances likes words and pictures, regardless of media. She finds great comfort and escape in film, and is attracted to anything character-driven with a strong story. Through these stories, she will find meaning in the world. Three movies that Frances thinks are really good for this are You and Me and Everyone We Know (Miranda July), I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK (Chan-Wook Park), and How I Ended This Summer (Alexei Popogrebsky).

When Frances grows up, she would like to write words and make pictures and have cool people recognise her on the street and tell her that they really enjoy her work.

She can be found overreacting and over-caffeinated on Twitter, @penny_face, a childhood moniker from her grandmother owing to her gloriously round face.

One of our editors, Jamie is a 24 year old media studies graduate from Sheffield, who likes nothing better than watching films. If he was to star in a horror film he’d like to be the first one killed (think Drew Barrymore in Scream).

He has a keen interest in horror which started when he was a child. Due to his hyperactive behaviour his cousins made him watch films they thought would calm him down- They were wrong! It was watching Hellraiser and Killer Klowns from Outer Space that his passion for horror began. Over the years this developed into a passion for zombies, madmen, mutated animals and all things gore.

When he’s not working, in his dream world, worrying about zombie epidemics or watching films, he can be found on Twitter @JamieSuckley sharing his thoughts and bringing his dream world into reality.

Rohan is our lead US Correspondent. Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in the era of the Soviet Union army marching the streets of the capital, and graduating from High School in Atlanta, Georgia in 2003, Rohan fell in love with the environment of the cinema hall and moving images on the big screen, watching Bollywood, American and Iranian films.

As an aficionado of film noir, mysteries, drama and thrillers, he enjoys the films of Alfred Hitchcock, M.Night Shyamalan, Steven Spielberg, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan. Engrossed by the originality of his favourite filmmakers it opened a door for him to take on writing scripts as well. Have a look at his site Masters of Cinema.

The reverence of directors, actors, stories, art and cinema allows him to experience films with an open mind and leads him to believe strongly in the correspondence of films with the occurrences of the real world. Rohan says of films, “They can help to answer questions and clear up misconceptions of everyday life. Films also need and deserve intellectual consideration”.

Arpad is a Film Studies graduate and passionate photographer (he picked up the camera and started taking stills just as he began his studies of moving pictures). He admires directors that can tell a story first of all in images. More or less inevitably, Brian De Palma has become Aprad's favourite filmmaker.

Then there's Arpad’s interest in anime. He was just a boy when he saw Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on an old VHS and was hypnotised by the story of friendship, devotion and sacrifice. He still marvels at the uncompromising and courageous storytelling in Japanese anime, and wonders about the western audience with its ever growing appetite for “Japanemation”.

Barbara is currently a Motion Pictures and Television student at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, USA. What she enjoys most about filmmaking is film editing and her ultimate ambition is to become a film editor.

She draws inspiration from a number of people in the industry including directors Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese and significantly from her ultimate role model, film editor Walter Murch, who cut many award-winning films including The English Patient and The Godfather II. Even though Barbara is in her mid twenties she is appreciative of films produced in a number of eras such as the pre-war film era and often she feels she favors these to those made in today’s era.

Barbara wants to write to share her passion for film and to give the reader a better understanding of the “little details” in film that she says are actually “the big things” playing pivotal roles in making each production so unique and entertaining.

You can find her on Twitter @B_Diril.

Ben has had a keen love of moving images since his childhood but after leaving school he fell truly in love with films. His passion manifests itself in his consumption of movies (watching films from all around the globe and from any period of the medium’s history with equal gusto), the enjoyment he derives from reading, talking and writing about cinema and being behind the camera himself having completed his first co-directed short film in mid-2011.

His favourite films include things as diverse as The Third Man, In The Mood For Love, Badlands, 3 Iron, Casablanca, Ran and Grizzly Man to name but a few.

To read more of Ben's work go to his film site ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE, and you can follow him on Twitter @BRNicholson.

Christina is a 21-year-old film lover with very particular tastes, which range from Fantasy and ‘some’ Science Fiction to Martial Arts but do not extend to anything to do with “space.” A devotee of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter on an epic scale – but still able to appreciate the classics in the form of anything James Dean related.

Christina happens to be a closet feminist with an appreciation for most marvel movies, and believes Adrian Brody’s nose should be admired and have a starring role one day. An acquired taste to many, but eventually loved by the masses.

Diandra is the moderator at the Nightmare On Elm Street Companion.

In her own words:

"I am an aspiring actress, producer, manager, publicist, and/or talent agent. Currently I work as an assistant to actor Mark Patton, best known as 'Jesse Walsh' from A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. 'Yes' is my favorite word and am not wavered by climbing the ladder. A hard worker and a firm believer in achieving the impossible, I have accomplished a lot through determination and loving what I do. Passion is the key to the universe!"

Dominic is an English graduate, promiscuous dilettante and epistemological liability. He likes the sentimentalisation of loathsomeness, fetishized Teutonic Romanticism, the labour theory of value and Manchester United’s transcendent Bulgarian striker, Dimitar Berbatov. He abominates Certainty, curses The Wealth of Nations, and detests only mayonnaise more than asinine bathetic turns.

His favourite kinds of film are laborious, unyielding, laboriously unyielding, anything you’ve never heard of, and pornographic. At twenty-three, his achievements include A Spectroscopic Study of the Notion of Perineum in Jane Austen’s Later-Early Period, for which he won a MOBO award, and this sentence.

Geoff is the financial supporter of two arts-based degrees, one on Iconoclastic Disorders and the other about Narrative Curriculum design. He’s a writer and sometimes (when he can afford to) a filmmaker. His current project is a film about human trafficking called ‘My Name Is Sorrow’.

He is inspired by Directors such as Kieslowski, Tarkovsky, Bresson, Malick and Wenders. He is dis (insert any ‘dis’ words you know) by the control of spirituality through Institutions and also the control of freedom and democracy through, yes you guessed it, Institutions!

Although of an age renowned for its tiredness, Geoff comes alive during the creative process and loves the playfulness of words and images. You can find him on Twitter @ArtsMentoringCo.

Jack is an English Literature student in his early Twenties (The Golden Age!) at the University of Leeds. He insists on saying that he's originally from Slough, Berkshire which is the setting of Ricky Gervais' comedy series The Office - and not a day goes by that he's not reminded of that fact... Irrespective of being mocked for it, Jack still is, and will most likely remain, a big Gervais fan.

And he sure knows how to spend his time. Having subscribed to a well known DVD delivery service for the past three years, Jack spends half of his days watching DVDs - and the other half on catch-up websites watching TV programmes.

I’m Jonathan, I’m 9 years old and I’m in 5th grade. I like watching The Simpsons, Naruto Uzumaki, Horrid Henry and Harry Potter. I like going to screenings, watching movies and reviewing them. I like reading action books, comics and playing games like Mario Kart, Plants vs. Zombies and Monopoly, the board game.

When I grow up I want to be a mad scientist, my uncle says I’m ¾ of the way there already. Or a gameocologist, someone who makes and plays games and rates them too. For now I’m happy just watching and reviewing movies and being a kid.

Lauren is a final year student on a Creative Media course with the aim of starting university later this year. She enjoys spending her time either writing, analyzing, watching films or pouring pints for the locals at work.

An avid cult fan, she also enjoys films that depict social realism and are not afraid to be bold and brutal. On the other hand, she also likes the odd ones too; Hal Ashby's Harold and Maude is one of her favourite films. People she admires include director Shane Meadows and Hollywood icons James Stewart and Orson Welles who was 26 when he made Citizen Kane. “I have 5 more years to prepare a film that's as good as his...”

Lito is an actor, composer, producer and music supervisor (read our interview on Scream - The Inside Story here).

In his own words:

"I'm a SAG actor and reforming musician who lives in the "hub" of the entertainment industry; Los Angeles. It's a tough gig trying to get a foot into the door of the business...but, there's nothing I love more in life than the creative process of acting and performing. Whether it's paying homage to already existing characters, doing impressions, or creating a character on my own...acting is something that fulfills me in a way that nothing else ever has. So, even though it seems that every day brings new rejections and that I hear the word "no" now more than I ever have before...I carry on with my quest in hopes of attaining my goal; to become a steadily working actor."

Never Sleep Again - The Elm Street Legacy

Louis is a cinema artist, film scholar, author, and singer with a BFA in Film from Long Island University/CW Post. Although he fell in love with movies and television as a young boy, the true epiphany happened during his first viewing of David Lynch’s Eraserhead, which opened his mind up to the true possibilities of the filmic art.

He tends to gravitate towards drama, horror, gay, cult, and avant-garde films, and also has an interest in films from France, Germany, and Russia.

His favorite filmmakers include Kenneth Anger, Gregg Araki, Dario Argento, Clive Barker, Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, David DeCoteau, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Werner Herzog, Derek Jarman, Kenneth Johnson, Harmony Korine, Bruce LaBruce, David Lynch, Paul Morrissey, George A. Romero, Andrei Tarkovsky, John Waters and Nick Zedd.

In 2007, he wrote the “Cinema of Artistic Purity Manifesto,” which called for a pure artistic approach to cinema, with a blatant disregard for commercial and economic rewards.

Mark Patton (on Twitter @_MarkPatton) is a native of Kansas City, Missouri and is best know as Jesse Walsh in A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge and Joe Qualley in Robert Altman's Broadway and film production of Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean with Cher, Kathy Bates, Karen Black and Sandy Dennis.

Mark left show business until he was discovered living in Mexico by the team that produced Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. In the feature length documentary Mark spoke at length about the homosexual subtext of A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2 and generally kicked some ass in regards to people being a little more honest in their memories. The segment is regard by many fans as one of the highlights in the documentary.

Mark has become active on the convention circuit; he participates in The Scream Queens panel and is having a fantastic time. He began filming the lead in a new film in November 2011 and is currently shooting a documentary called There is NO Jesse with filming is taking place around the world.

Martyn Conterio is based as a freelance film critic in London (on Twitter @Martyn_Conterio). He contributes regularly to Little White Lies, Film International, Flux, Scream, Starburst, Scene360.com and runs Cinemart blog.

He ranks Bruno Dumont, Julie Taymor, F.W. Murnau, Claire Denis and William Friedkin among his favourite filmmakers and holds a special passion for spaghetti westerns and horror movies.

Phil is a 27-year-old classically trained musician from Sheffield with qualifications in Popular Music, Classical Music and a BA (Hons) in Creative Music Technology and Sound Recording. He likes nothing better than locking himself in the studio and composing music of all genres.

Phil became interested in composing after learning how to play the Cello and Clarinet at a young age, and has never looked back since. His favourite composer is Danny Elfman, whose unconventional harmonies and rhythms in scores such as Edward Scissorhands still manage to bring a tear or two to his eye.

You can find him on Twitter @PhilBlanckley.

Rohit K Dasgupta (on Twitter @rhitsvu) is a PhD Student at University of the Arts London where his current research focuses on Digital Culture and Queer Men in India. He has published articles on Queer Cultures, South Asia, Nationalism and Indian Cinema in various journals and edited anthologies.

He is currently working as an Editorial and Research Assistant with Moti K Gokulsing, Retired Reader and Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of East London on two publications- A Handbook of Indian Cinema (Contracted by Routledge, Forthcoming 2013) and From Aan to Lagaan and Beyond: A Guide to the Study of Indian Cinema (Trentham, 2012). He has also made two short films on queer, youth and identitarian issues in India- Crimson (2009) and Azure (2010).

Having successfully dropped out of Art College after 3 gruelling months back in the 90’s; Toby used this experience to its best advantage - by becoming an Online Content & Communications Manager in London.

Toby is still very much involved in the arts, and exercises his artistic demons by reviewing most of the good, bad and downright ugly that passes through London’s galleries and movie theatres.

Although a film enthusiast by heart, Toby also cites himself as being an ‘expert’ on the delta blues and is proudly credited as the musical force behind ill-fated schoolboy band The Pilgrims of Grace — “we were too good, too soon”. You can find Toby on Twitter @2by.

Tyson has spent most of his life living in Australia which is where he received both a healthy tan and a degree in Communications and Media from Griffith University, Brisbane. Upon graduating Tyson relocated to Edinburgh where he now spends most of his free time trying to keep warm which is a feat that fortunately does not get in the way of watching films.

There are however two things that Tyson loves more than film. One is reading short biographies about himself that are written in the third person and published online. The other is publicly shaming a Hollywood Blockbuster in the company of people who want nothing more than to enjoy it for the mind numbing entertainment that it is. Sound pretentious? Well so is having a thing for reading short biographies about himself that are written in the third person and published online.