Deborah Stratman Trailers
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Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems – and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked. Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and the very human struggles for power and control that are played out on the land. Most recently, they have questioned elemental historical narratives about faith, freedom, sonic subterfuge, expansionism and the paranormal. Stratman works in multiple mediums, including sculpture, photography, drawing and audio. She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Biennial, MoMA NY, the Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Witte de With, Walker Art Center, Yerba Buena Center, and has done site-specific projects with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Temporary Services, Mercer Union (Toronto), Blaffer Gallery (Houston), Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (Yukon) and Ballroom Gallery (Marfa). Stratman’s films have been featured at numerous international festivals including Sundance, the Viennale, Full Frame, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen and Rotterdam. She is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, a Creative Capital award, and she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Most Popular Deborah Stratman Trailers
Total trailers found: 31
01 December 2021
Some forms we can only know by their shadow. In homage to the spirits of space test dogs, or any being we use in the name of progress.
10 October 2014
Obscure signs portend a looming, indecipherable slump. An oracular decoding of the landscape.
08 October 2021
A video letter to Nancy Holt, made in homage to a shared interest in terminal lakes, framed views, monuments and time.
13 November 2001
A small portrait of the volatility of intimacy and of breaking free from abusive cycles: made in response to a year of collapsing relationships and violent accidents that left me broken, dislocated and stuck in my apartment.
16 April 2007
Both a letter to a cancer stricken, alchemist-filmmaker friend, and a quiet tribute to the vanishing art of celluloid, "The Magician's House" is full of ghosts.
11 June 2013
The idea of suspension is evoked on shifting registers – as levitation, cessation, preservation, and suspense – and located in sites whose identities slip as we track through a space within a space.
16 April 2007
A short inquisition of science by the paranormal. On-screen texts are lifted from Tarkovsky's film "Stalker" in which something more expansive and less explicable than logic or technology is offered as the conceptual pillar of the human spirit.
15 January 2009
A meditation on freedom and technological approaches to manifest destiny.
05 June 2013
Film time takes on book time. An homage to a Bette J. Davis' illustrated text, itself an homage to the small music makers of the insect world.
22 September 2010
In support of experiences that are essentially common, but to which language does not easily adhere, the video passes through places that are both themselves, and stand-ins for others.
17 February 2018
The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find gold in alluvial gravel is part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian north.
26 August 2010
A flicker film made with images taken in Malawi.
FF was in response to an assignment given by artists Melissa Dubbin and Aaron Davidson who created the soundtrack to which they invited artists to make a “Future Film”.
28 July 2004
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies.
12 October 2023
Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with evocative sound, texts, and teachings from artist Maya Deren.
22 January 2016
From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America.
24 June 2011
Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured disaster: catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times.
08 July 2023
Mother and child confront the other. Meanwhile, some ladies are thinking.
16 April 2012
A re-working of Humphrey Jennings' seminal 36-minute 1943 docudrama "The Silent Village," wherein Welsh coal miners from the village of Cwmgiedd collectively re-enact the Nazi invasion and annihilation of the resisting Czech mining village of Lidice.
18 May 2010
An homage to Chicago’s East 95th Street Bridge, Calumet Fisheries and to a couple of the city’s infamous cinematic brothers.
23 March 2010
Ray Lowden keeps seventy-two large birds of prey, five deer and some wallabies at his place in Northumberland, England.
11 October 2016
The Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests. Immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observants to human conditions.
24 January 2010
Relatively little export, cultural or otherwise, reaches the west from southeastern Africa. Spurred by curiosity about how knowledge of place spreads, Kuyenda N’kubvina looks at how thought and culture propagate in Malawi.
16 September 2004
Adil Hoxur, descended from a line of Dawaz tightrope artists, performs nightly with his troupe in China’s Taklamakan desert, among the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim people seeking religious and political autonomy.
18 January 2014
A single-shot portrait of the Foley process, revealing multiple layers of fabrication and imposition, which is dedicated to Walter Murch and "Ed Snowden.
01 January 1999
An experimental documentary about the street drag racing scene on Chicago’s Near West Side. This is a rambling, textured film about obsession.
10 November 2002
A night flight through hysteria and police surveillance in suburban America.
23 January 2023
Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks. A humid take on minerals, where sci-fi meets sci-fact.
26 January 2004
The frenzied detritus of trading floors, smart weaponry and the religious right are woven through the petrochemical landscapes of Southeast Texas.
01 January 1997
Images of the austere Icelandic landscape form the backdrop for readings from a series of letters written at the turn of the 20th century.
12 November 2005
Inspired by a chapter in Francois Rabelais' 1653 epic novel "Gargantua & Pantagruel" wherein Pantagruel finds that the explosions, cries and other sounds generated from a battle that had occurred the year before have been frozen into discernable shapes - and that the sounds could be released upon the breaking or melting of the frozen forms.
