Lee Anne Schmitt Trailers
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I am a writer and director of both film and performance events, working in film, writing, photography, and performance to create work that elevates the everyday elements of American life towards the level of cultural ritual. I have set out to explore the juncture between fiction and documentary that defines the ‘essay film’. All of my work begins with landscape, the experience of living in a particular place at a particular time, the phenomena of time and space, and the space between the ideology and the reality of the spaces we live within.
Most Popular Lee Anne Schmitt Trailers
Total trailers found: 16
08 February 2026
Made over 15 years, Adulthood is a feature composed of six short films, each chapter following a couple as they grow older without necessarily growing up.
19 February 2009
Me Broni Ba is a lyrical portrait of hair salons in Kumasi, Ghana. The tangled legacy of European colonialism in Africa is evoked through images of women practicing hair braiding on discarded white baby dolls from the West.
01 January 2015
A meditation. The menace of night and the memory of trauma.
A film about violence and the trace it leaves.
01 January 2010
In 1885 two boys in Southern California discover a cave of Chumash Indian artefacts in the San Martin Mountains on land that is now part of the Chiquita Canyon landfill, located in the small town of Castaic.
01 January 2002
Nightingale is a film that uses a love affair to examine the way we recreate our own histories; continuously fictionalising our past and forever altering the events within them.
09 February 2009
"The Wash is a portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California, where Lee and I used to live.
01 January 2003
Can Los Angeles of the 30’s be effectively placed alongside modern 21st century Los Angeles? As a true experiment, Awake and Sing mixes periods and genres taking pleasure not in easy solutions, but in the search for a form or way of telling that has to be tried out, discovered.
22 March 2011
The connection between these three short films is initially indicated by their sound and music: In all three films, Lee Anne Schmitt does without direct sound and dialogue, letting the music of Jeff Parker accompany the images.
01 January 2000
Las Vegas is a short video that uses the limitations of video imagery to explore the end of a love affair.
01 January 2015
A portrait of a day a woman spends with her young son while watching an abandoned hotel on the verge of demolition.
24 March 2017
The modern history of racism and slavery in America, retold in a gifted film about a radical white activist's attempted revolution and death sentence in 1859.
16 February 2025
Taking her dad’s job at the Olin Corporation as its starting point, Lee Anne Schmitt interweaves meditative reflections on her biography and her own body with a history of the rise and widespread influence of conservative think tanks in the United States.
22 September 2008
Lee Anne Schmitt explores California's landscape and past to document the history of one-time boom towns built and abandoned by the industries that necessitated their creation.
09 January 2018
The Farnsworth Scores is a cinematic and sonic meditation on Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House located in Plano, IL, created by artist and musician Rob Mazurek and filmmaker Lee Anne Schmitt.
30 January 2011
For five years, Schmitt and Lynch followed the buffalo hunt in the American West. Their fascinating portrait of a disappearing world contrasts unspoiled landscapes with commercial influences on the American myth.
27 November 2020
Made at the start of the pandemic, Lee Anne Schmitt’s short contrasts the tranquillity of nature with a sense of underlying dread at the state of the world.
