Micaela O'Herlihy is a

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best known for her short experimental film ''A Thunderperfect Mind'' which premiered at the 2004

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with 423,234 combined in-person and online viewership in 2023. The festival has acted ...

. Micaela paints and draws on paper, cloth and film. She works in sound, paint, paper, trash, 16 and 8 mm film, burlap, DV and cardboard. She ventured into film when she realized she was constantly trying to make her paintings move. Her sole collaborator is her son Thurman Fionn. In 1999 she received a BFA in painting from

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...

and in 2003 an MFA in film from

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UW–Milwaukee, UWM, or Milwaukee) is a Public university, public Urban university, urban research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It is the largest university in the Milwaukee metropo ...

. Her recent day jobs have included adjunct professor,

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for people with severe

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s, farm laborer,

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technician, and paranormal videographer. Her grandfather is

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-nominated actor

Dan O'Herlihy Daniel Peter O'Herlihy (1 May 1919 – 17 February 2005) was an Irish actor. His best-known roles included his Oscar-nominated portrayal of the title character in Luis Buñuel's ''Robinson Crusoe'' (1954), Brigadier General Warren A. Black in ...

(of ''

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'' and ''

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''), and her siblings are Colin O'Herlihy and Eilis O'Herlihy.

Andrew Martinez Luis Andrew Martinez (November 15, 1972 – May 18, 2006) was an activist who was known at the University of California, Berkeley as the Naked Guy. Early attention Martinez was a high school football player when he attended Monta Vista High ...

(aka The Naked Guy) was O'Herlihy's first boyfriend.Public invited to honor `Naked Guy'
/ref> She now lives near Viroqua, Wisconsin, and is teaching an unstill life class at the Youth Initiative High School.

Recent film screenings

*Periwinkle Cinema San Francisco 2011 *Grand Arts Missouri 2007 *Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Nationwide 2004 *Sundance Film Festival Utah 2004 *Consolidated Works Seattle 2003 *Women in the Directors Chair Chicago 2003 *Echo Park Film Center Los Angeles 2002

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