Field-Of-Study: Film - Video

Mark Kendall is a filmmaker who lives and works in Philadelphia.  His short film, The Time Machine, was a National Finalist at the 2011 Student Academy Awards and winner of eleven additional festival awards.  The film went on to receive international recognition, and was presented at Anthology Film Archives (2011) and at the GRID Bienniale

Laura Parnes’ digital films and installations are informed by traditions and genres in both narrative film and video art, and seek to blur the lines between conventions of storytelling and experimentation. She has screened and exhibited her work widely in group shows and screenings in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Deste Foundation for

Ian Olds is a director of both narrative and documentary work. His directing credits include Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi (winner of top jury prizes at Tribeca and Madrid, acquired by HBO, released theatrically in New York and Los Angeles, and nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism), the Iraq war doc Occupation:

Jeff Malmberg is a documentary director and editor based in Los Angeles. He is currently working on Teatro (working title), the tale of a small farming town that confronts its community issues by turning them into a play. Filmed in Italy, the documentary weaves vérité footage of the town’s unique process with forty-six years of

Marie Losier is a gymnast,  filmmaker, and curator who moved twenty years ago from France to New York. She was a painter and worked in set design for Richard Foreman before landing her hands on a 16mm bolex camera.  She learned to use it when she met Mike Kuchar ten years ago and ended up

Maggie Hadleigh-West is an internationally recognized social justice activist, filmmaker, producer, and public speaker. Through her humor, wit, and experience, Hadleigh-West skillfully explores personal experience and transforms it into socio-political activism using film, short stories, workshops, trainings, and educational programs. Her work focuses primarily on issues of sexism, sexual harassment, sexual assault, racism, homophobia, trauma,

Coco Fusco is a New York–based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has performed, lectured, exhibited, and curated around the world since 1988. In additon to her Guggenheim Fellowship, she has received a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship, a 2012 USA Artists Fellowship, and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been

I am a documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on illuminating issues of race, space, and power.   I grew up in Harlem,  New York City, and for the first part of my life,  I traveled between that community and the upper east side of Manhattan where I went to school. My hour-long commute starkly illustrated the

Wura-Natasha Ogunji is a visual artist and performer.  Her works include videos in which she engages her body in explorations of movement and mark-making across water, land, and air.  Ogunji is a recipient of The Dallas Museum of Art’s Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant and is a selected Artist in Residence as part

John Jota Leaños is a media artist and social-art practitioner focusing on critical convergences of history, memory, social space, and decolonization. Leaños’ animation, installation, public art, and performance fuse traditional art practices and aesthetics with new technologies and contemporary interpretations. Currently an Assistant Professor of Social Documentation at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in

Stanya Kahn is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video, with a practice that includes performance, writing, sound design, drawing, and digital media. Kahn’s kinetic relationship to humor informs a hybrid media practice infused with pop vernacular, documentary tropes, improvisation, comedy, and experimental film/video praxis. The work inhabits spaces between fiction and document and stems

Jane Gillooly is a nonfiction and narrative film/video maker whose work is inspired and informed by a century of nonfiction filmmaking, silent and vintage cinema, and activism. Gillooly consistently surprises as she crosses new boundaries and confronts new subjects with her distinctive vision. The Suitcase of Love and Shame repurposes historical material for use in

For the past twenty years, Michael Galinsky has been making films with Suki Hawley.  After making two narrative features (Half-Cocked in 1994 and Radiation in 1999), they began work on the documentary Horns and Halos (2002), which they completed in partnership with David Beilinson.  Since then, they formed the collaborative production studio Rumur.  In 2011,

Charles Fairbanks is a wrestler, filmmaker, and Quaker. His recent work focuses on Lucha Libre in Mexico, where the artist fights as the One-Eyed Cat with a camera built into his mask. Fairbanks grew up in rural Nebraska and wrestled at Stanford, where he studied Art and the History of Science. In 2010 he received

Alice Elliott is an Academy Award–nominated director, a writer, producer, university-level teacher, advocate for the disabled, cinematographer, and a member of New Day Films, a forty-year-old educational film distribution cooperative. Her short documentary, The Collector of Bedford Street follows fifty-eight-year-old Larry Selman.  Every year, Larry raises thousands of dollars for charity while he lives at