Deborah Stratman
A Chicago-based artist and filmmaker, Deborah Stratman is one of the leading figures in the ongoing rejuvenation of the documentary by experimental filmmakers. Her work is often concerned with relationships between people, the land, and historical narratives, such as O’er the Land—which engages with key questions of American identity, interrogating the relationships between freedom, patriotism, and technologies across American history—and ...These Blazeing Starrs!, a film about comets, drawing a direct line from mystical conceptions of these heavenly bodies centuries ago to our contemporary scientific understandings, which may be just as magical.
Stratman's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Wexner Center for the Arts, Museum of the Moving Image NY, Los Angeles Film Forum, Gene Siskel Film Center, and more, while her films have screened at festivals like the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival. Stratman is currently an associate professor in the School of Art & Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
