Stephanie Barber is an American artist working in a variety of media. Most widely recognized as an

experimental filmmaker Experimental film or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms or alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working. Many experimental films, parti ...

video artist Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting. ...

and

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whose films include the 2013 feature DAREDEVILS, ''catalog'', ''dogs'', ''total power:dead dead dead'', ''shipfilm'' "dwarfs the sea" "the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor", "flower, the boy, the librarian", "BUST CHANCE", "the visit and the play" among others.

Life

Born in Riverhead, New York, Ms. Barber currently resides in

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. She is the granddaughter of American jazz tubist Bill Barber. She is currently a Resident Artist in the multidisciplinary MFA program the Mt. Royal School of Interdisciplinary Art at

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in Baltimore, MD.

Work

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wrote "Though extremely varied, the films of Stephanie Barber engage universal themes—time, death, memory, forgetting, frustration." and CinemaScope Magazine wrote "Perhaps the only rule of Stephanie Barber’s otherwise unruly art is that words not be taken for granted." Her film and video work is most notable for her use of language and the deconstructive elements of her strangely narrative and poetic soundtracks and the tensions these create when coupled with her mysterious images (often constructed from found films or still images). Ms. Barber has had solo exhibitions of her film work at

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, The

San Francisco Cinematheque San Francisco Cinematheque is a San Francisco-based film society for artist-made cinema. It was created in 1961 by a group of filmmakers, including Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand. This screening program grew into Canyon Cinema before being split ...

Anthology Film Archives Anthology Film Archives is an international center for the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema.Canyon Cinema Canyon Cinema is an American nonprofit organization for distributing independent, avant-garde, and artist-made films. After starting in the 1960s as an exhibition program, it grew to include a nationwide newsletter and a distribution cooperative. ...

and videos are distributed by

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. Her lecture
FOR A LAWN POEM
' is published by

Publishing Genius Publishing Genius is an independent publisher located in Atlanta, Georgia, originally based in Baltimore, Maryland. The press, run by Adam Robinson, has published novels, short stories and poetry since 2006, including work by Stephanie Barber, Rac ...

and her

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''poems by s.barber'' is available through Bronze Skull Press, which is run by the poet Roberto Harrison. Her book
these here separated to see how they standing alone or the soundtrack to six films by stephanie barber
' was published by

Press in 2008 and reprinted in 2010. In 2013, Publishing Genius published her ''Night Moves'', a book edited from comments on the

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video for

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's Night Moves. She has acted in David Robbins' ''The Ice Cream Social'', Zero TVs ''Milwaukee Show'', the feature film ''

Hamlet A.D.D. ''Hamlet A.D.D.'' is a 2014 American independent film and web series directed by Bobby Ciraldo and Andrew Swant and produced by Special Entertainment. It re-imagines William Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' as a bizarre and comical tour through the ages ...

'', and Jennifer Montgomery's ''Threads of Belonging''. She was also a member of the influential Milwaukee music/performance group XKS.

References

External links

Artist's websitePoetry Foundation on Stephanie Barber
*http://www.thefastertimes.com/writersonwriting/2011/07/13/almost-everyone-is-ready-stephanie-barber/ *http://artforum.com/film/id=26047 *http://www.afterall.org/online/submerged-narratives/ *http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/a-constant-froth-of-expectation-stephanie-barber-interview/ *http://www.independent-magazine.org/node/57/print *http://kenbaumann.com/lamination/sbarber.html *http://paperbagazine.com/IssueNo4/Barber_someanimals.html *http://www.utne.com/blogs/blog.aspx?blogid=38&tag=lawn%20poetry *http://issuu.com/publishinggenius/docs/barber *http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/baltimore/eye-to-eye/Content?oid=1459234 {{DEFAULTSORT:Barber, Stephanie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women experimental filmmakers American experimental filmmakers American video artists American multimedia artists Filmmakers from Milwaukee American women poets Poets from New York (state) 21st-century American women