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Mr. Dial Has Something to Say, Birth/Mother by Naomi Kawase, Leila Khaled: Hijacker, Marocain by Elfi Mikesch, Contemporary Artist by Ximena Cuevas, Orlando, The God of Cookery, Room With A View, Basquiat, Brazil, At Close Range, White Nights, Cyclo, Sans Soleil, Nights of Cabiria, What Time Is It There, Fanny & Alexander, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Draft 9 by Dani Leventhal, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Spring Summer Fall Winter…and Spring, Princess Racoon, Papapapa, Sisters in Cinema by Yvonne Welbon, Allo Performance!, Saudade do futuro, Silent Light, The Edge of Heaven, Things We Lost in the Fire, Treeless Mountain, High Art, The Decalogue, La double vie de Veronique, Daughters of the Dust, Naked Spaces, Love Songs, Dhamma Brothers, The Mirror, Eve’s Bayou, Oma Rhee, Antonia’s Line, Munyurangabo, Raise the Red Lantern

Osvalde Lewat Hallade, Chantal Akerman, Harun Farocki, Deborah Stratman, Timoleon Wilkins, Ousmane Sembene, Jennet Thomas, Cheryl Dunye, Tarkovsky, Kieslowski, Dani Leventhal, Susan Youssef, Werner Herzog, Barbara Hammer, Kim Longinotto, So Yong Kim, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mira Nair, Jean-Marie Téno, Michael Hanecke, Wong Kar Wai, Shelly Silver, Wayland Yee, Agnés Varda, Sofia Coppola, Asia Argento, Alex Rivera, Claudia Llosa, Jane Campion, Lina Wertmüller, Claire Denis, Maya Deren, Lisa Cholodenko

I’ve been working in film and electronic arts for almost two decades as a programmer, organizer, curator, educator, filmmaker, and administrator. Most recently I’ve curated programs for the Chicago Film Archive, University of Puget Sound, Marymount College Manhattan, University of Maryland, Bangkok’s Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University and Syracuse University. I also works with curatorial partners and microcinema groups in such endeavors as Heartland Homos! and Discount Cinema in Chicago, Stateless Cinema in Washington, DC and Voilà! Cinema! in Los Angeles. My film work and curated programs have appeared at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco and the Museum of Image and Sound in São Paulo, Brazil, among numerous venues around the world. I served as the first Curator of Film and Media Arts at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC, and prior to that I was the curator of Conversations at the Edge, a weekly visiting artist series at the Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago as Director of Public Programming and faculty in the Department of Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. But my birth into my work came through the extraordinary media arts and activist organization and film festival Women in the Director’s Chair of Chicago (1980-2005).

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