ANDER MONSON

Nov. 15 2022

Hybrid Event

ANDER MONSON  is the author of seven published books of nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, including the 2022 memoir Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession from Graywolf Press. A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award and the New York Public Library Young Lions award, he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in General Nonfiction, the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers award in Nonfiction, the Graywolf Prize in Nonfiction, the Annie Dillard prize in Creative Nonfiction, and a John C Zacharis prize from Ploughshares. His story, “Reduce Your Likelihood of Murder,” won the World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, and his work has been anthologized in the Best American Essays. He’s received fellowships from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation and the Howard Foundation. He is the president of the Tucson Poetry Festival, the editor and publisher of the journal DIAGRAM and the New Michigan Press, and the founder of the website Essay Daily.

JENNY PLANTE

Nov. 01 2022

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JENNY PLANTE is a filmmaker and screenwriter who lives and works in New England. Her work has been screened several times with Grrl Haus Cinema and has been shown internationally in Finland, London, Berlin, Slovenia, NYC, Los Angeles, and Boston. Her work is often satirical, and deals with film history and pop culture. She recently won Best Experimental Film at the Screener Short Film Festival in London for her film Tippi At Squam Lake. She holds a BA in Filmmaking from Keene State College and an MFA in Filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

GOSSING-SIECKMANN

Oct. 25 2022

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The work German director duo GOSSING-SIECKMANN is shown internationally in exhibitions and film festivals (e.g. Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, Julia Stoschek Collection,International Film Festival Rotterdam,Image Forum Tokyo, Anthology Film Archives New York City). Their works are distributed by Light Cone Paris and IMAI Düsseldorf.

MARNIE ELLEN HERTZLER

Oct. 18 2022

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MARNIE ELLEN HERTZLER is a filmmaker living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Her films often explore a multi-media approach to film presentation and distribution and have utilized live performance and installation to accompany her work.

Her first feature film, CRESTONE, is a hybrid-documentary set in a dystopian future where the last people alive are a group of SoundCloud rappers. CRESTONE premiered at True/False in 2020, and went on to play at SXSW, CPH:DOX, and many national and international programs and film festivals. CRESTONE was released digitally and on BlueRay in February of 2021 by Utopia Distribution. The original score composed by Animal Collective was released digitally and on vinyl in April 2021 by Domino Records.

Her previous award winning short films (DIRT DAUGHTER, HI I NEED TO BE LOVED, and GROWING GIRL) have screened at renowned film festivals such as Locarno, and IFFRotterdam, and have been programmed on The Criterion Channel, and in MoMA NYC.

In 2018 Marnie was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is an IFP Narrative Lab Fellow, and a MacDowell Fellow. Influenced by her background in both psychology and fine arts, she created films that act as cinematic platforms for the exploration of interpersonal relationships, the technology that defines us, and the inevitable end of it all.

NAIMA RAMOS-CHAPMAN

Oct. 4 2022

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NAIMA RAMOS-CHAPMAN tells stories of transformation and understated bravery. Her stories stem from autobiographical events, incorporate magical realism, and seek to render psycho-spiritual realities we can not see —and juxtaposes that alongside the mundanities of everyday life. She’s into moral spastic laughter—they kind that moves you from tension into thinking a new way is possible.

She wrote, directed, acted and edited on the critically-acclaimed HBO series Random Acts of Flyness where she explored themes about sexual assault, machismo culture in the Afro-Carribbean, and the impact of intergenerational trauma on black women and their families.

Her first short film, And Nothing Happened, explored the psychological aftermath of sexualized violence and premiered at the 2016 Slamdance Film Festival. In 2017, the first draft of her screenplay Sad Songs In Languages I Don’t Understand was accepted for the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriting Intensive. It is currently in development. A VR 360 film she wrote and directed, about how mass incarceration and gentrification impact black women in collaboration with Aljazeera Contrast premiered at Sundance in 2020.

ERIK LEVINE

Sept. 27 2022

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ERIK LEVINE was born in Los Angeles, California in 1960. He has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, most recently at Ludwig Forum Aachen with a solo survey exhibition of his videos from the past 15 years. His work includes video, sculpture, and drawings, and is in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Des Moines Art Center, among several others. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pollock–Krasner Foundation awards, as well as being a resident at the Robert Rauschenberg Residency. In addition, he’s received two grants each from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as grants from Awards in the Visual Arts, Nancy Graves Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.

MARIA SERVELLÓN

Sept. 20 2022

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MARIA SERVELLÓN (she/her) is an award-winning filmmaker, multimedia artist, educator, and arts advocate from Boston, MA. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from UMass Boston, and her Master of Fine Arts in Film and Media Art from Emerson College. Her focus is film and digital media, including projection, installation, photography, and design. Maria’s work often explores identity formation and the synesthetic relationships between art, music, and dance.

Maria’s work has been exhibited and screened in Massachusetts, New York, California, Oregon, the UK, and Mexico. One of her most lauded works to date is the magic-realist short film, Hyphen (2018). In recent years, she has been named one of 2018’s “Latinos 30 Under 30” by El Mundo Boston; a 2019 New England Film Star Award finalist; a 2020 Amplify Latinx “Latina Leader” and a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Young Leader honoree. She has been awarded grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Mayor’s Office Of Arts & Culture, Boston Arts & Business Council, Boston Public Schools, Boston Dance Theater, Danza Orgánica, and MASS MoCA.

MICHELLE TRUJILLO

Apr. 19 2022

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MICHELLE TRUJILLO was born in Miami to Colombian and Costa Rican Parents and grew up in South Florida. She received her BA in Multimedia Studies from Florida Atlantic University and her MFA in Film from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is currently working and living in Milwaukee, WI where she is an Associate Lecturer for the program of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The focus of her practice is to question and explore representations of Latinx culture, gender and identity creation. Her work stems from an intersectional feminist perspective but does not always offer solutions to the problems it engages with. Instead, she is concerned with upsetting power structures and notions of normality through disorientation. She works in Spanish, English and Spanglish as a mirroring of her lived experience. She also works in various mediums such as eco and hand-processed 16mm film, digital video, 35mm still film and cyanotypes.

Her films have been exhibited in festivals, galleries and conferences nationally and internationally such as Alchemy Film Festival, Wisconsin Film Festival, Mimesis Documentary Festival and the Augusta Savage Gallery.

JESSICA BESHIR

Apr. 12 2022

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JESSICA BESHIR. Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker, Jessica Beshir received her B.A in film studies and literature at UCLA. She recently directed the short He Who Dances on Wood and is currently producing her first feature film set in Harar. Jessica is based in Brooklyn, NY.

ALAIN GOMIS

Apr. 5 2022

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ALAIN GOMIS is a Franco-Bissau Guinean-Senegalese director. He was born in 1972 in France, where he grew up. His first two short films, Tourbillons followed by Petite lumière, were selected and received awards at several international festivals. In 2001, his first feature-length film, L’Afrance, won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Then came Andalucia in 2007 starring Samir Guesmi, then Tey starring Saul Williams, which was selected for competition at Berlin and won the Golden Stallion at Fespaco in 2013. A partner at Granit Films along with Newton Aduaka (Nigerian director, Ezra) and Valérie Osouf (French director), Alain Gomis also works with producer Oumar Sall (Cinékap) on a training program for young filmmakers and technicians in Senegal (Up Court-métra- ges). Félicité is his 4th feature-length film.

KERRY TRIBE

Mar. 22 2022

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KERRY TRIBE is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work has been the subject of solo presentations at SFMOMA, San Francisco; The High Line, New York; Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge; The Power Plant, Toronto; Modern Art Oxford and Camden Arts Centre, London. Tribe was the recipient of the Presidential Residency at Stanford University, the Herb Alpert Award, the USA Artists Award, and she was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Tribe’s work is in the public collections of MoMA, the Whitney, the Hammer Museum, LACMA, SMAK Ghent and the Generali Foundation, among other institutions. She has served as visiting faculty at Stanford University, UCLA, CalArts, Harvard University, and regularly teaches at ArtCenter in Pasadena. Tribe received her MFA from UCLA, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, and received a BA from Brown University.

SIMON LIU

Mar. 15 2022

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SIMON LIU is a film artist who seeks to build a lyrical catalogue of the rapidly evolving psychogeography of his place of origin in Hong Kong through alternative documentary forms, abstract diary films, multi-channel video installations and 16mm projection performances. Liu’s work has been presented at film festivals and museums globally including the Berlinale Forum Expanded, Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths, International Film Festival Rotterdam: Tiger Short Competition, New York Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, New Directors/New Films with MoMA & Film at Lincoln Center, BFI London Film Festival, The Shed, M+ Museum, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Portland Institute of ContemporaryArt, Museum of Contemporary Art LA, Cinéma du Réel, Punto de Vista, Viennale, “Dreamlands: Expanded”, and an upcoming solo-program at the Museum of Modern Art as part of their Modern Mondays series. The M+ Museum and MoMA recently included Liu’s Quadruple 16mm Projection Highview, along with other recent works, for their Permanent Collections. Liu is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, a teacher at the Cooper Union School of Art, and a member of Negativeland; an artist-run film lab in Brooklyn. Liu is currently editing his first feature film, Staffordshire Hoard.

CAROLINE MONNET

Mar. 1 2022

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CAROLINE MONNET (Anishinaabe/French) is a multidisciplinary artist from Outaouais, Quebec. She studied Sociology and Communication at the University of Ottawa (Canada) and the University of Granada (Spain) before pursuing a career in visual arts and film.

Her work has been programmed internationally at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Whitney Biennial (NYC), Toronto Biennale of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (Montréal), Arsenal Contemporary (NYC), Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff), and the National Art Gallery (Ottawa); as well as film festivals such as TIFF, Sundance, Aesthetica (UK), Palm Springs and Cannes. In 2016, she was selected for the Cinéfondation residency in Paris. Her work is included in numerous collections including the Quebec Museum of Fine Arts, the National Art Gallery of Canada, RBC Royal Bank, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Montréal. Current exhibitions include the Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, and a solo show at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Monnet is recipient of the 2021 Hopper Prize, 2020 Pierre-Ayot award, the 2020 Sobey Art Award, the REVEAL Indigenous Art Awards, as well as grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and from Conseil des arts de Montréal. She is based in Montreal and represented by Blouin Division Gallery.

ROBERT GREENE

Feb. 22 2022

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ROBERT GREENE’s latest film PROCESSION premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival before it premiered on Netflix. PROCESSION is nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary and was shortlisted for an Academy Award. His previous critically acclaimed film BISBEE ’17 (2018) premiered at Sundance, aired on PBS’s P.O.V. and was nominated for Best Documentary at the Gotham Awards. His films include the Sundance award winning KATE PLAYS CHRISTINE (2016), the Gotham Awards nominated ACTRESS (2014) and the Gotham Awards nominated KATI WITH AN I (2010). Robert was an inaugural Sundance Art of Nonfiction fellow in 2015 and has been nominated four times for Best Director at the Cinema Eye Honors.

The Independent named Robert one of their 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2014 and he received the 2014 Vanguard Artist Award from the San Francisco DocFest. His first documentary, OWNING THE WEATHER (2009), was screened at the COP15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Robert has edited over a dozen features, including HER SMELL (2018), GOLDEN EXITS (2017), QUEEN OF EARTH (2015) and LISTEN UP PHILIP (2014) by Alex Ross Perry, Nick Berardini’s KILLING THEM SAFELY (2015), Amanda Rose Wilder’s award winning APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT (2014), Charles Poekel’s Spirit Awards-nominated CHRISTMAS, AGAIN (2015) and Douglas Tirola’s HEY BARTENDER (2013).

He has served as a Sundance Edit Lab Advisor and was on the U.S. Documentary Jury for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Robert co-created the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the University of Missouri and serves as its Filmmaker-in-Chief. Robert writes about documentary for outlets such as Sight & Sound and Hyperallergic and he co-programs the Based on a True Story Conference, which runs annually in conjunction with True/False.

JULIE MURRAY

Feb. 15 2022

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JULIE MURRAY is an Irish born artist, film and video maker living in the US. Drawing on her background in the Fine Arts, filmmaker Julie Murray makes short experimental works in digital and film media which are poetical in nature, engaging the textural imprints and limits of the form as an essential element of pictorial content.

Her film and digital works have been exhibited at numerous national and international venues including the New York Film Festival, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the London Film Festival and the Flaherty Film Seminar.

Her work was featured in the 2004 edition of the Whitney Biennial and her films are part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her films are also contained in a number of University library collections in the US and are archived at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive in Los Angeles. Murray has presented her work at venues including REDCAT (Los Angeles), Anthology Film Archives (NY), Media City Film Festival (ON), Pacific Film Archives (CA), Los Angeles Filmforum, the San Francisco Cinematheque, Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto and at the Irish Film Institute, Dublin. Murray’s early super-8 films were selected for a National Film Preservation Foundation Award in 2014. She teaches at CalArts.

FEDERICO VEIROJ

Feb. 8 2022

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FEDERICO VEIROJ (Montevideo, 1976) graduated in Social Communication Science. He has been producing, writing and directing films since 1996. He was programmer of Uruguay International Film Festival, organized by Cinemateca Uruguaya. He has collaborated with Cinemateca Uruguaya since 2001 and worked for 5 years at Filmoteca Española in Madrid.

BEATRIZ SANTIAGO MUÑOZ

Feb. 1 2022

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BEATRIZ SANTIAGO MUÑOZ is an artist whose expanded moving image work is entangled with Boalian theater, expanded cinema, and feminist practices. She tends to work with non-actors and incorporates improvisation into her process. Her recent work is on the sensorial unconscious of anti-colonial movements, with everyday poetic thought and feminist experiments with language and narrative. Recent solo exhibitions include: Oriana in PIVO, Sao Paulo, the 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, the Momenta Biennale in Montreal, and Gosila in Der Tank, Basel. Her work is part of public and private collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, Kadist and Guggenheim, among others. She has received a Creative Capital grant, a USA Fellowship, a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, and the 2021 Artes Mundi Prize, shared among all 7 nominees.