Kathryn Ramey

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Panic Bodies Trailer

Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work operates at the intersection of experimental film processes and ethnographic research. Her award winning and strongly personal films are characterized by manipulation of the celluloid including hand-processing, optical printing and various direct animation techniques. Her scholarly interest is focused on the social history of the avant-garde film community, the anthropology of visual communication and the intersection between avant-garde and ethnographic film and art practices. Her films have screened at festivals and other venues including the Toronto Film Festival, the TriBeCa film festival, 25fps Experimental Film Festival, Jihlava Documentary Film Festival, Alchemy Film Festival, Cinepoesia/Bogota Experimental Film Festival and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.

Most Popular Kathryn Ramey Trailers

Total trailers found: 8

Panic Bodies Trailer (1998)

10 October 1998

"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death.

ENOLAEMEVAEL/LEAVEMEALONE Trailer (2016)

01 March 2016

An unfaithful remake of Man Ray’s 1926 “Emak Bakia” made without the use of a motion picture camera, ELONA EM EVAEL/LEAVE ME ALONE is a nonsensical response to brutality alongside a celebration of silver process.

Fall U.S. Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

“When a heterosexual dude makes a film about his kids, that is very political. When a woman makes a film that engages with the act of being a parent, it’s often seen as less significant.

Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

This film explores a now-obscure American expansionist, William Walker, who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856.

LIMEN Trailer (2019)

18 April 2019

LIMEN - threshold. between two states of being. the boundary of perception.

El Signo Vacío Trailer (2023)

05 December 2023

EL SIGNO VACÍO (the empty sign) is a feature length cinematic essay interrogating the 120-year US occupation of Puerto Rico and the filmmaker’s bizarre connection to it via her surname, RAMEY, to reveal how US democratic narratives effectively obscure her capitalist/military domination of the islands.

BETTER LIGHTING Trailer (2026)

19 April 2026

An agitprop made from two 30-second GE adverts from the 1970's repurposed to rebuke the role white women voters in the US have chosen to uphold white supremacy and the patriarchy instead of supporting the interests of women and anyone who loves them.

WEST: What I Know About Her Trailer (2012)

01 January 2012

A 15-minute experimental documentary juxtaposing two 'hers': the American WEST via the Oregon Trail and Elizabeth Crandall Perry, adventurer, midwife, mother of fourteen and the filmmaker's great great grandmother.