Shari Roman is an American artist,

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and director.

Biography

Originally commissioned by John Pierson for his Independent Film Channel (USA) program
Split Screen
Roman's first short film
Lars from 1-10
about Danish Dogme film maker

Lars von Trier Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Beginning in the late-1960s as a child actor working on Danish television series ''Secret Summer'', von Trier's career has spanned more than five decad ...

won a slot at the

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 ...

in 1999 and went on to screen at Edinburgh, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, NYC's Museum of Modern Art, on television and in cinemas worldwide. She has directed a series of shorts, pop promos and additional docs on filmmakers, including British director

Mike Figgis Michael Figgis (born 28 February 1948) is an English film director, screenwriter, and composer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work on '' Leaving Las Vegas'' (1995). Figgis was the founding patron of the independent filmmakers' ...

and

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. Along with the four original Dogme films, "Celebration," "The Idiots," "Mifune" and "The King is Alive," two of her short films were selected for 2005's official Dogme' 95 DVD collection, celebrating the 10th anniversary of von Trier's filmmaking manifesto. She was named one of the "Top 25 New Faces In Independent Film" by

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. Her book on approaches to new cinema, ''Digital Babylon: Hollywood, Indiewood and Dogme '95'' was published in 2001 by Lone Eagle Publishing and reissued by HCD/

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in 2003 and 2007. Her essay on von Trier, ''The Man Who Would Be Dogme'', was published in the 2003 collection
Lars von Trier: Interviews
by the

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, as part of their Conversations with Filmmakers Series. Her fiction has appeared in Veneer Magazine, writings on cinema, music and art have been seen in numerous publications, including British Vogue, Mojo,

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, The Independent and Time Out London. For the cover of Filmmaker Magazine (USA) she wrote ''The Genius of the System'', a profile of multi-media artist

Matthew Barney Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...

under a

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(NEA) grant.

Miscellaneous

She 'sings' on Greg Weeks's 2008 solo album.

Death

On October 4, 2009,

reported that Shari Roman had died on September 9, 2009, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York after a brief illness.

References

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Sundance Film Festival/Lars from 1-10 - John PiersonGus Van Sant retrospective - Filmkrönikan TV interview, StockholmThe Valerie ProjectDogme '95The Cremaster Cycle - Matthew Barney The British Film Institute The Danish Film InstituteThe Swedish Film Institute
{{DEFAULTSORT:Roman, Shari Film directors from New York City Year of birth missing (living people) American women film directors 2009 deaths

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Miscellaneous

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