Stephanie Spray Trailers
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Stephanie Spray is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work explores the confluence of social aesthetics and art in everyday life. She has been working at the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard University since 2006 and she received a Master’s degree in the study of world religions from Harvard Divinity School as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College. In 1999 she began studying music, religion and languages in Nepal, where she has made several video works, including Kāle and Kāle (2007), Monsoon-Reflections (2008), Untitled (bed) (2009), As Long as There’s Breath (2010) and Untitled (2010). Her work has been screened internationally including at the Anthology Film Archives (2010) in New York and the Sehsüchte International Film Festival in Postdam.
Most Popular Stephanie Spray Trailers
Total trailers found: 6
28 September 2013
A documentary about a group of pilgrims who travel to Nepal to worship at the legendary Manakamana temple.
31 December 2009
An intimate video work depicting a Nepali family’s struggles for cohesion, despite everyday travails and the absence of a beloved son.
01 January 2008
A deeply felt reflection on labor, gender, and fleeting pleasures in rural Nepal, filmmaker Stephanie Spray's short but powerful documentary on two strong-willed female field hands captures the monotonous and arduous nature of their work during Monsoon season.
12 February 2017
Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.
22 March 2007
In exploring the lives of two wandering Nepali musicians, an uncle and nephew who share the same name and are featured in filmmaker Stephanie Spray's and Pacho Velez's acclaimed documentary Manakamana, Kāle and Kāle (pronounced kah-lay) exposes the rootless occupation of the Gaine caste and communicates both its joys and pitfalls - domestic, economic and spiritual - in their daily lives.
21 March 2010
A revealing one-shot portrait of two Nepali newlyweds in a moment of rest and playful interaction, Stephanie Spray's Untitled challenges our perception of two themes at the very core of ethnographic filmmaking: human relationships and the ways in which they can be experienced by the viewer.
