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Alperin, Leslie "My artistic work is informed by contemporary art issues, feminism, and film theory. I am interested in crossing the boundaries between "experimental filmmaking" and narrative film and documentary genres." Alvin, Rebecca M. "Rebecca M. Alvin and Belly Girl Films, Inc. create and produce thought-provoking documentary, fiction, and experimental video work that explores the margins of society in order to better understand those of us occupying more moderate positions. In over a dozen years as an independent media artist, Alvin has explored sex work, Catholic nuns, the biological clock, and the sexuality of young women, among other topics, using film, video, and multimedia formats." Anna, Threes "All stories have been told; all images have been shown. In the remix they are made new again." Beloff, Zoe "Beloff wants to reanimate the great nineteenth century visual forms that have been discarded - the ghost show, the seance, the stereo-view, the diorama and the phantasmagoria - to create new cinematic languages and open up spaces where phantoms of history can cross over into our world" -- Irina Leimbacher
Biller, Anna "Writing, directing, producing, designing, choreographing,
editing, scoring and performing in her own films, Anna
Biller creates worlds dripping with style that pull their
viewers into a Technicolor dreamland that not only serve as a feast for
the eyes but as Anna has said about her film The Hypnotist, they can be
"mild and pleasant." Focusing on personal and feminist issues set
against old Hollywood, theatrical-burlesque, and mythical-allegorical
backdrops, this isn't your typical feminist fare..." DeCosto, Danica "I do children/family oriented stuff. My work is also in the fantasy genre, my films mostly deal with things like fairies and princesses." Fadiman, Dorothy "Dorothy Fadiman has been producing award-winning documentary media with an emphasis on social justice and human rights since 1976. The subjects chosen by her production group, CONCENTRIC MEDIA , range widely from nuclear arms control to innovative elementary schools to a trilogy about the legal and social history of abortion (now in six languages). Among Dorothy's film honors are an Academy Award nomination, an EMMY, and the Gold Medal from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting."
Finley, Jeanne C. "Jeanne C. Finley has worked on numerous experimental documentaries and multi-channel video installations, frequently in collaboration
with John Muse. The work uses documentary, narrative, experimental,
and installation forms in order to explore the relation between the
document and the documented, fiction and fact, empathy and irony. We
are moved to explore these relations by the powerful evocations of
visual imagery and by the frailty, strength, and elusiveness of
compassion." Friedling, Melissa Pearl "Since 1988, I have been making films and videos that combine found footage, live action, and animation. My work tackles biographical and autobiographical subject matter and seeks unsettle, in both method and matter, memory and nostalgia; innocence and vulgarity; sense and sentimentality; romance and sexuality; fiction and reality." Friedrich, Su Su Friedrich is a New York-based filmmaker who has made 13 films since 1978. Her films have screened widely and won many awards, including the Grand Prix at the Melbourne Film Festival and Best Documentary at Outfest in L.A. Friedrich has received fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, as well as numerous grants from the Jerome Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA and ITVS, and in 1995 she received the Alpert Award. Friedrich is the writer, cinematographer, director and editor of all her films, with the exception of Hide and Seek, which was co-written by Cathy Quinlan and shot by Jim Denault. Her work is screened and distributed widely throughout the US, Canada and Europe. She currently teaches video production at Princeton University. Gazzo, Monica "Monica Gazzo's work explores the relationship between personal narrative (autobiography / memory) and larger historical references (theory / history). My attempt is to create thought-provoking works that lead to new ways of thinking about art. My grammar combines new technologies with visual poetry, emotional states with collage, while recreating a space for the mind that speaks with intimacy of contemporary societal issues." "Her performances, films, video and photography have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe, including the Director's Guild and Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, Roxie Cinema, San Francisco, the Beaubourg, Paris and festivals in New York, Cleveland, Rome, Florence, Milan, Amsterdam and London." Hammer, Barbara "In spring of 1999 I was awarded an artist residency at The Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. I wanted to study the light of the Mediterranean and the locations and landscapes of well-known French painters who fled the dreary gray of Paris for the Mediterranean. These painters include Bonnard, Matisse, Seurat and others. I had a lovely studio and was busy and happy filming interior set-ups that echoed the paintings of Bonnard and Matisse when Kosovo broke out." "War seemed so close to me, just a few countries away. The light that was so clear and beautiful became absurd and remote when I thought about the massacres, the homeless refugees. I wasn't able to go directly to Kosovo to help so I decided to research the lives of the painters whose work I was echoing. I found that while Matisse's wife and daughter joined the Resistance during the Nazi occupation of Provence in the last two years of WWII, Matisse continued to paint flowers and nudes in a villa not far from Nice. Two grandchildren of Henri Matisse recount stories of the painter and the heroic resistance of members of the Matisse family who were captured and tortured." "In Cassis I turned from my abstract studies of light and perception to the people who lived through WWII. I found two women Resistance fighters who risked their lives to save Jews, foreigners, and political outcasts from deportation to Nazi concentration camps. I interviewed these women and one man with a digital video camera so as to be able to directly capture their picture and voice. The oldest, Marie-Ange Allibert Rodriguez who had been awarded the Medal of Honor from Israel ten years before, was due to finally be recognized with a French Legion of Honor Medal. One month after my interview with Marie Ange she was hospitalized and unable to attend the ceremony and receive the medal in person. Shortly afterwards, she died." "Lisa Fittko, a political exile from Germany fled to Paris and then Cassis during WWII. She led the important historian Walter Benjamin, over the Pyrénées into Spain where he hoped to gain a transit visa to Portugal, and, eventually, the United States. Benjamin, unable to obtain the visa, committed suicide the day after he arrived at the border town in Spain." "Although many films have been made of the holocaust, and a few on the French Resistance movement, no one has challenged the subject and form of art making during this calamitous period." - Synopsis of Resisting Paradise, a documentary by Barbara Hammer July, Miranda "Miranda July is an artist and writer. She currently lives in LA where she makes performances, movies, recordings and combinations of these things." Klonaris, Maria and Thomadaki, Katerina
Krumins, Daina Lake, Ellen "Ellen Lake is a Bay Area film and video artist currently working on a series of experimental short documentaries on collecting." Leder, Evie "Evie Leder¹s provocative short films and videos have screened around the world at every gay and lesbian festival you can shake a stick at, as well as: Tampere XXIX International Short Film Festival in Finland, South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, and the New York Expo of Short Film and Video in New York. Leder is a recipient of the 1995 Princess Grace Award and her film Strait won a Jury Award at the NY Expo of Short Film & Video. Leder lives in San Francisco since 1997." Lee, Michelle "San Francisco based Michelle Lee brings a lifelong love of dance, theater and independent filmmaking to her duties as director of her short film, Pirouette, blending her deep technical knowledge of ballet with a unique storytelling perspective." Ledwidge, Michela "Michela is a film-maker exploring the gaps between film and interactive media and new relationships to the audience. Her "re-mixable films" are based on original material, as well as recycled visuals and copyright violations from film, TV and the Internet." Lim, Desiree "I would like to see more lesbian films out there, and I am determined to make that happen myself. Right now, I am developing several feature length and short scripts for production, and working towards directing my first English feature in Canada - a place where I now call home." Metcalfe, Rohesia Hamilton "Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe makes films that explore the elusive goal of becoming the woman you imagined you would." Nadda, Ruba "I always describe my films -especially my short films- as vignettes out of people's lives, you see 5 minutes and then you're out -no beginning, middle or end, just snippets out of of a lifetime." Rose, Kathy "Kathy Rose received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Performance Art in 2003 with which she is creating a video called "Queen of the Fluids". Rose's work has evolved from her performances combining live dance with film/animation in the l980-90's, to her current surreal performance video spectacles and installations with influence from symbolist art and the Japanese Noh theater." Thomadaki, Katerina and Klonaris, Maria Wills, Sheri "Sheri Wills is an experimental filmmaker and computer artist. Her work has screened around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Regus London Film Festival and the International Film Festival in Rotterdam. She has written art criticism for magazines such as the New Art Examiner, and recently curated a program of films called Synesthesia: The Musical Form in Contemporary Avant-Garde Film."
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