Sally Lawton Trailers
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Sally Lawton is a filmmaker and writer born in Detroit, Michigan. Her work combines documentary practice and experimental techniques. She received a BA in Digital Cinema from DePaul University (2013), and a MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2022). Her films have been exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries, including Media City Film Festival, Echo Park Film Center, Onion City Film Festival, among others. Her writing has been featured in Brink Literary Journal and her first publication On Second Thought was published by Diagram Press in 2022. She has curated programs for The Nightingale Cinema, Constellation, Cinema Borealis, and Mothlight Microcinema. She currently teaches at The University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
Most Popular Sally Lawton Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
09 May 2022
The Red Tide follows a life changing move to Florida. Exploring a new home located near famous earthworks by Robert Smithson, the enormous art collection-turned-museum of John Ringling, and beaches plagued by a toxic phenomenon called the ‘red tide’.
02 February 2025
A speculative fiction about Dadaism where Marcel Duchamp is recast as a female narrator. With texts from Rosalind Krauss, Claude Cajun, Kathy Acker and the autobiography of Man Ray, the philosophies, idiosyncrasies and aesthetics of this iconic art movement are revived in a stunning dual projection of 16mm black and white film.
25 February 2022
"Poetry is in opposition to the truth of the myth" Laura Riding Jackson, This film is inspired by Laura Riding Jackson’s idea that poetry is the only discourse that can transcend myth, but will also always come up against a limitation in language.
01 February 2017
An experimental documentary charting the relationship of five Ukrainians and one Ukrainian American to the 2014 revolution and preceding war.
01 January 2020
A meditation on how women traverse their own bodies, through pregnancy and the desire to be pregnant. In documenting corporeal passivity and gestures of desire, questions arise—at what stages do we recognize pregnancy and how do women’s bodies come to matter?
01 January 2017
A collage of signs, creditor voicemails, and travelogues. A attempt to vacation at work and work on vacation.
01 January 2015
A diary of Christmas in Yosemite National Park. Coastal secrets and transcendental filters fill the frame.
01 January 2023
What affects me most powerfully: mourning in layers – a kind of sclerosis. Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary Inspired by Roland Barthes’ Mourning Diary, the film attempts to measure grief and consciousness in the pandemic through images and monthly recorded notes.
01 September 2019
"This film is a collaborative installation project with Orleans + Winder (Detroit). It examines Nathaniel Dorsky’s writings on Self-Symbols in film as applied to the exhibition and personalization of clothing.
01 February 2018
A documentation of parades and protests during the first months of Donald Trumps presidential campaign.
01 January 2014
Glimpses of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (1495) are repainted through a VHS video mixing board.
17 April 2025
Exploring the coming together and separating out of my former self, myself as a mother, and my child during the postpartum period.
01 January 2018
The relationship between the decline of industry and the cycles of addiction are examined.
