Naomi Uman is an American and Mexican experimental filmmaker and a visual artist. Uman received an MFA in Filmmaking from CalArts in 1998. Uman's work is often "marked by her signature handmade aesthetic, often shooting, hand-processing and editing her films with the most rudimentary of practices." She was once private chef to

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, and

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. Her award-winning films have screened widely at major international festivals as well as the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the

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in Mexico City.

Filmography

* ''Love of 3 Oranges'' (1993) * ''Grass'' (1997) * ''Leche'' (1998) * ''Removed'' (1999) * ''Private Movie'' (2000) * ''Developing Memory'' (2002) * ''Hand Eye Coordination'' (2002) * ''Clay'' (2008) * ''Coda'' (2008) * ''Kalendar'' (2008) * ''On This Day'' (2008) * ''Unnamed Film'' (2008)

Awards

Uman was awarded the

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

for Film, US & Canada in

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. In 2008 she was awarded a Media Arts Fellowship by Tribeca Film Institute.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Uman, Naomi Living people American women film directors Jewish American artists Jewish feminists California Institute of the Arts alumni Film directors from New York City 20th-century American artists 20th-century American women artists 21st-century American artists 21st-century American women artists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American Jews