SALOME CHASNOFF :: Filmmaker + Installation Artist + Educator
salome.chasnoff@gmail.com | schasn@saic.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
1995 Ph.D. Performance Studies with certificate in Gender Studies, Northwestern University
1986 M.A. Theatre and Performance, Northwestern University
1985 B.S. Fine and Performing Arts, Northwestern University
EMPLOYMENT + SERVICE:
2022-present School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL; Senior Lecturer in Art Education
2019-present PO Box Collective, Chicago IL; Founding Member
2018-2022 School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL; BFA Program Director in Art Education
2014-present School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL; Faculty in Art Education
2015-2019 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier VT; Visiting Faculty + Artist-Teacher
2012-2018 Personal Hermitage Productions; President + Resident Filmmaker
1997-2012 Beyondmedia Education; Founder, Executive Director + Media Arts Educator
1998-2000 School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL; Faculty in Film + Video, Art Education,
1996-1999 Women’s International Information Project (WIIP); Founding Collective Member
1991-1995 Women in the Director’s Chair (WIDC); Board President + Program Committee Member
1989-1994 Northwestern University, Evanston/Chicago IL; Lecturer in Performance Studies + Gender Studies
ARTIST RESIDENCIES:
2019 Courtroom Artist Residency, Chicago IL
2018 Chicago-Guantanamo Blues Exchange, Guantanamo, Cuba; filmmaker
2015 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier VT; Artist-in-Residence
2013 Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI; Visiting Artist Residency
2012 Female Journalists Association of Liberia, Monrovia; Visiting Artist Residency
2012 Girls Making Media, Liberia; Visiting Artist Residency
2002 St. Mary’s College, Moraga CA; Brazil Travel Course in Documentary Filmmaking
1995 University of Regina, Saskatchewan; Visiting Artist Residency
1990 Associated Colleges of the Midwest Urban Studies Program; Theatre Workshop
AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS:
2021 Illinois Arts Council Agency Fellowship
2021 Individual Artists Program, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
2019 Illinois Arts Council Agency, Individual Artist Grant
2019 Illinois Arts Council Agency Finalist Award
2017 Individual Artists Program, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
2017 School of the Art Institute Faculty Enrichment Grant
2016 School of the Art Institute Faculty Enrichment Grant
2013 International Film Festival Jakarta, Award of Excellence
2012 Partnering for Stronger Communities Fellowship, U.S. State Dept Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs/IREX
2011 Purpose Prize Fellow
2011 Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Grant
2011 City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program Grant
2010 Women’s eNews Ida B. Wells Bravery in Journalism Award
2010 Women’s eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century Honoree
2010 DIY Film Festival Honorable Mention
2010 Link TV, 3rd Prize
2010 Humboldt Film Festival Pride Award
2010 Chicago Foundation for Women Impact Award
2009 San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, Best Documentary
2008 John McDermott Documentary Film Festival, 1st Place
2008 Central Illinois Feminist Film Festival, Best Documentary
2007 Alliance for Community Media Hometown Video Award, Best Documentary, Public Awareness, Professional
2007 Beloit International Film Festival, Best Documentary Midwest
2005 Superfest XXV Spirit Award + Achievement Award (Superfest Classic status)
2005 Crossroads Fund Ron Sable Award
2003 Independent Film and Video/Chicago, 1st Place
2002 Illinois Humanities Council Lawrence Towner Award
2001 Worldfest Houston Gold Award
Grants under Beyondmedia: National Endowment for the Arts, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Ms. Foundation for Women, McCormick Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, Illinois Humanities Council, Chicago Community Trust, Leo S. Guthman Fund, Woods Fund of Chicago, and others.
FILMS, VIDEOS, + TRANSMEDIA WORKS:
2022 Director/Camera, The Other Guantanamo, short documentary about the long tradition of
Changüí music in the eastern province of Cuba
2022 Director, Someone You Should Know, feature documentary about Jewish identity and culture, and
how it has changed over five generations
2020 Director/Producer, Code of the Freaks; disability in Hollywood cinema, feature doc dist Kino Lorber + Reservoir Docs
2020 Participating Artist, The Courtroom Artist Residency Report, Public Collectors, Half Letter Press
2018. Director/Editor/Installation Artist, Present Absence; 5-channel video installation with families of people killed by Chicago police
2018 Director, Peace of Mind; video for live performance with Northwestern University
2015 Photographer, Gone But Not Forgotten; memorial quilt for people killed by Chicago police
2015 Installation Artist/Filmmaker/Performer; We Are Here to Build the House, a poetics of labor + relationship
2014 Installation Artist/Filmmaker/Performer; From Here To There, a meditation on time
2013 Executive Producer/Actor, Crimes Against Humanity, narrative feature
2013 Producer/Director/Camera, Brink of Survival; feature documentary with Embangweni Hospital, Malawi
2012 Never the Same: Conversations About Art Transforming, http://never-the-same.org/interviews/salome-chasnoff
2012 Blogger, Liberia Diary: Life Is Beautiful, http://salchas.tumblr.com/
2012 Director/Camera, Tanaman Dul; Irish-Brazilian band music video series
2012 Director/Camera, Talking Peace; restorative justice for youth
2011 Writer/Director, Cruddy; short film based on cult novel by Lynda Barry
2011 Director, Your Social Life; short mixed doc on cyber-bullying with youth of Beyondmedia + Mikva Challenge
2011 Director/Camera, Unifying Voices for 30 Years with Chicago Jobs Council
2010 Adult Facilitator, ‘Nuf Said; a citywide youth media project by Chicago Youth Voices Network
2010 Director/Camera, 35 Years of Community Health Care; with Howard Brown Health Center
2009 Solo Artist, In Transit; photographic installation
2009 Director, Open the Door, Get ‘Em a Locker; short doc on training nurses with disabilities, with UIC + ASU
2009 Director/Performer, When Brad Met Sally; fictionalized autobiographical short
2008 Participating Artist, Democracy in America, Creative Time, NY
2008 Producer/Director, Storming the Gates: Struggle for Access to Higher Education in Illinois; short historical doc with IALHEA
2008 Director/Camera, HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!; short doc with Beyondmedia, Broadway Youth Center + About Face Youth Theater
2008-14 Director, Chain of Change: Youth Against Violence; a transmedia project - website, videos, workshops + events
2007 Director/Camera, What Will It Take? Ending Violence Against Women; with Chicago Foundation for Women
2007 Director/Camera, Seeds of Change: 25 Years of Community Organizing; with Crossroads Fund
2007 Director/Camera, Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape; with the Empowered Fe Fes of Access Living
2006 Director/Camera/Editor, Turning a Corner; feature documentary with Prostitution Alternatives Round Table
2005 Director/Camera, Can LGBTQ + Schools = Safe?;, an organizing tool for LGBTQ youth
2005 Solo Artist, Unfinished Business; multimedia installation
2004-15 Collaborator/Contributor, Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance; an online archive of women’s stories
2004 Director/Camera, Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories; with the Empowered Fe Fes of Access Living
2004 Writer, “Voices in Time” photo essay with text; Feminist Studies (30.2)
2003 Director/Camera/Editor, Everybody In Nobody Out; with Dr. Quentin Young and Studs Terkel
2003 Director/Camera/Editor, A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark; with Zaida Sanabia + Schurz High School GSA
2003-07 Director/Camera/Editor, Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo; traveling multimedia installation + short documentary
2002 Director/Camera/Editor, 30 Days of Art + Education on Women’s Incarceration; traveling multimedia installation + performance
with former prisoners, 5 venues in 30 days
2002 Director/Camera, The Story of Lil and Jack; oral history of a family
2002 Director/Camera, Our View from the Red Line; oral history of the North of Howard community with Family Matters Youth
2002 Director/Camera/Editor, Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya; with a women’s theatre collective in Chiapas, Mexico
2001 Director/Camera/Editor, Community Panels for Youth; with Northwestern’s Children and Family Justice Center
2001 Director/Camera/Editor, Kesher Diary; young women from across the former Soviet Union and the US gather in Moscow
2000 Director/Camera/Editor, Stone Soup: A Multi-Cultural Literacy Network of Schools; with three Chicago elementary schools
2000 Director/Camera/Editor, What We Leave Behind; with Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers + Grace House
1998-00 Director/Camera/Editor, A New Start: Resources for Women Former Prisoners; series of three videos
1997 Director/Camera/Editor, Sisters Speak Loud and Clear: Stop Violence Against Women!; featuring writer Pearl Cleage
1997-99 Installation Artist, Beijing and Beyond: Women Artists Respond; A.R.C. Gallery and U.S. tour
1996 Director/Camera/Co-editor, Beyond Beijing; documentary feature on the UN 4th World Conference on Women + NGO Forum
1994 Director/Co-editor, Home Birth/Partos en Casa with Chicago Community Midwives
1991 Director/Editor, Looking at Teen Motherhood: The Fantastic Moms Video with Family Focus
Note: works made with Beyondmedia are in the Media Burn Archive permanent collection.
SCREENINGS + EXHIBITIONS (selected, 2004 to present):
-2022-
World Theatrical Premiere, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Code of the Freaks
Midwest Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Link TV’s Link Voices, online; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, XXII Exhibition of Cinema Made by Women, Teatro Olimpia, Huesca, Spain; Code of the Freaks
-2021-
Special Screening, Disability Justice @ Columbia University, New York, NY; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, SBS Television Australia; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, BETV Belgium – Prime time on BE1; Code of the Freaks
Special Screenings, BETV Belgium – Prime time on Be Ciné; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, ReelAbilities Film Festival Denver; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Legacy Film Festival, San Francisco; Code of the Freaks
Invited Artist, “Voices Across Time: Sharing Women’s Experiences of Re-entry,” Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston IL; What We Leave Behind
Special Screening, Twitch Watch Party with host Dominick Evans; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, USC Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles CA; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Storming the Gates
Official Selection, ReelAbilities Film Festival Houston; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Southern Circuit Tour, Capitol Arts Center/SKyPAC, Bowling Green KY; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Southern Circuit Tour, Bardo Center/Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Southern Circuit Tour, South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center, Cutler Bay FL; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Southern Circuit Tour, Tropic Cinema, Key West FL; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Southern Circuit Tour, Bologna Performing Arts Center/Delta State University, Cleveland MS; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Southern Circuit Tour, High Point University, High Point NC; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus; Code of the Freaks
-2020-
Advance Screening, ReelAbilities Film Festival Boston; Code of the Freaks
Opening Night Feature (Premiere Screening), ReelAbilities Film Festival New York, multiple venues: New York University, Bronx Community College, St. John's University, Meyerson JCC Manhattan; Code of the Freaks
Opening Night Feature, ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, ReelAbilities Film Festival Los Angeles; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, ReelAbilities Film Festival Cleveland; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, ReelAbilities Film Festival Pittsburgh; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Still, Life Festival Vancouver; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, ReelAbilities Celebrates ADA; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, Disability and the Post-ADA World, UIC; Code of the Freaks
Invited Filmmaker, “Virtual Talks with Video Activists,” Media Burn, Chicago IL; Beyondmedia Archive
Official Selection, Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, Prague + Brno, Czech Republic; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, InTaKT Festival, Graz, Austria; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Emerson Bright Lights Film Series, Boston MA; Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, KIFF/Kerry International Film Festival, Ireland; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, Northwestern Women’s Center, Evanston IL; Beyond Beijing
Invited Filmmaker, PO Box Collective, Chicago IL; Beyond Beijing
Official Selection, ReelAbilities Film Festival New Jersey – Bridgewater; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, Fordham University, Bronx NY; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Code of the Freaks
Invited Artist, “Cover for Covers,” Chicago IL; Turning a Corner
Special Screening, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Code of the Freaks
-2019-
Featured installation, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago IL: Present Absence
Group Show, Uri-Eichen Gallery, Chicago IL: Present Absence
Solo Show, Roman Susan Gallery, Chicago IL: Present Absence
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, UIC Medical School Colloquium, Chicago IL; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education, UIC, Chicago IL; Storming the Gates
-2018-
Group Show, “Tricontinental ’66 and Other Acts of Liberation,” HotHouse, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago IL: OSPAAAL video
Group Show, “Do Not Resist? 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence,” For the People Artists Collective, Hairpin Arts Center, Chicago IL: Present Absence (Premiere)
Solo Show, ROMAN SUSAN, Chicago IL: “Do Not Resist? 100 Years of Chicago Police Violence”; Present Absence
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, Raleigh NC; Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, Duke University, Durham NC; Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, Ohio State University, Columbus OH;Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, Access Living Chicago, Chicago IL;Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, School of the Art Institute, Chicago IL;Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, Ragdale Foundation Residency, Lake Forest IL; Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, “Reimaging Femininity in Postwar Film and Multi-media Project,” UIC Institute for the Humanities Working Group, Chicago IL; Code of the Freaks
-2017-
Invited Filmmaker, Creating Justice Conference, Oakton Community College, Des Plaines IL: Code of the Freaks (work-in-progress)
Transmedia Collaboration, 24 Hour Social Studies Let’s Make America Critical Again; on-the-bus interviews to Trump inauguration
Invited Installation Artist, Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago IL; Present Absence
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, “You’re Beautiful, On the Inside: Disability and Other Fantasies of Film,” Ohio State University, Columbus OH; Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, “Re-thinking Quality of Life: Media Representations of Disability,” Northwestern Lurie Children’s Hospital Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Chicago; Code of the Freaks
-2016-
Group Show, Roosevelt University, Chicago IL: Gone But Not Forgotten: Present Absence
-2015-
Photo Exhibition, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Chicago IL: Gone But Not Forgotten
Invited Installation Artist, Sunday Gallery, Chicago IL: We Are Here to Build the House
Participating Print Artist, Spudnik Press Cooperative, Chicago IL: Push & Pull: Steamroller Spectacular
Special Screening, Vivian G. Harsh Society + Center for Black Studies at Woodson Regional Library, Chicago IL: Turning a Corner
-2014-
Group Show, Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago IL: From Here To There
Official Selection, Slamdance Film Festival, Park City UT: Crimes Against Humanity
Official Selection, Boston Underground Film Festival: Crimes Against Humanity
Official Selection, Chicago Underground Film Festival: Crimes Against Humanity
Official Selection, Atlanta Underground Film Festival: Crimes Against Humanity
Official Selection, Wisconsin Film Festival: Crimes Against Humanity
Official Selection, Florida Film Festival: Crimes Against Humanity
Official Selection, MOSTRA: Filmes Americanos, Sao Paulo Brazil: Your Social Life
Group Show, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston IL; The Left Front
-2013-
Group Show, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic: Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, International Film Festival for Environment, Health, and Culture, Jakarta, Indonesia: Brink of Survival
Official Selection, Cinema Mostra AIDS, Sao Paulo, Brazil: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!
Official Selection, Atlanta Underground Film Festival: Crimes Against Humanity
Official Selection, Abilityfest, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India: Beyond Disability
Special Screening, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, Los Angeles CA: Brink of Survival
Special Screening, DePaul University, Chicago IL; Storming the Gates
-2012-
Official Selection, Feminist Active Documentary Video Festa (FAV), Okinawa, Japan: Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape
Special Screening (Premiere), Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs/Film Office: Brink of Survival
Official Selection, Q! Film Festival, Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!
Official Selection, Provincetown International Film Festival, Provincetown MA: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!
Broadcast, CAN-TV: Your Social Life
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, “Accessing the Intersections,” University of Wisconsin-Madison McBurney Disability Resource Center, Madison WI; Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, Culture Conversations Series “Difficult Differences,” Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA; Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, “Decoding the Code of the Freaks: A film-in-progress,” Society for Disability Studies (SDS), Denver, CO; Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, Carl Sandburg Auditorium, Northern IL University, DeKalb IL; Storming the Gates
-2011-
Official Selection, Emotion Pictures International Festival Tour, Athens, Greece and touring: Beyond Disability
Official Selection, Merlinka International Queer Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!
Official Selection, Q! Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!
Invited Filmmaker, Lunafest, DePaul University, Chicago IL: selection of short works
Special Screening, Field Museum of Chicago with Common Sense Media, Yahoo & MTV: Your Social Life
Invited Filmmaker, Chicago International Film Festival Teachers’ Institute: selection of short works
Official Selection, DisTHIS! Film Series, touring: Beyond Disability
Special Screening, Governors State University, University Park IL: Storming the Gates
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, George Washington University, Washington DC; Code of the Freaks
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, UIC Urban Allied Health Academy, Chicago IL; Code of the Freaks
-2010-
Official Selection, Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco CA: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!
Official Selection, Berlin Sex Workers Festival, Berlin, Germany: Turning a Corner
Official Selection, African American Film Festival, Seattle WA: Turning a Corner
Official Selection, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago IL: Hey, It’s Viral!
Official Selection, Humboldt Film Festival, Arcata CA: Hey, It’s Viral!
Invited Filmmakers, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago IL: Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, DIY Film Festival, Los Angeles CA: Turning a Corner
Official Selection, Urban Suburban Film Festival, Philadelphia PA: Hey, It’s Viral!
Broadcast, WYCC-TV: Storming the Gates
Official Selection, Vail Film Festival, Vail CO: Turning a Corner
Broadcast (online), Link TV: Three Things Involved
-2009-
Broadcast Premiere, WTTW Channel 11 (PBS): Turning a Corner
Official Selection, Brazil's 4th International Disability Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro and touring: Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape
Official Selection, Feminist Active Documentary Video Festa (FAV) Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan: Beyond Disability
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Chicago IL: Code of the Freaks
Official Selection, Urban Mediamakers Film Festival, Atlanta GA: Turning a Corner
Official Selection, M.A.L.I. Women’s Film & Performance Arts Festival, Austin TX: Doin’ It: Sex, Disability and Videotape
Special Work-in-Progress Screening, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria IL: Code of the Freaks
Special Screening, Association of University Centers on Disability: Beyond Disability
Official Selection, Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Austin TX: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!
Special Screening, National LGBTI Health Summit, Washington DC: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!
Best of the Fest Screening, Superfest Classics, San Francisco and Berkeley CA: Beyond Disability
Special Screenings, IALHEA, 10 Chicago area venues plus Peoria: Storming the Gates
Photo/Video Installation, Ven Sherrod Gallery, Chicago IL: In Transit
-2008-
Official Selection, Emotion Pictures International Documentary Festival, Athens, Greece; Beyond Disability
Official Selection, San Francisco Women Film Festival, UC Berkeley; Turning a Corner
Official Selection, Urban Visionaries Youth Film Festival, Paley Center for Media, NYC Association of University Centers on Disability
Official Selection, Washougal International Film Festival, Washougal WA; Turning a Corner
Official Selection, Tennessee Women’s Theatre Project, Nashville TN; Turning a Corner
Official Selection, Rivers Edge International Film Festival, Paducah KY; Turning a Corner + Doin’ It
-2007-
Official Selection, Black Docs, Urban Film Series, Washington DC; Turning a Corner
Special Screenings, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Turning a Corner + Doin’ It
Premiere Screening, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago IL; Doin’ It!
Official Selection, Women of Color Film Festival, Berkeley CA; Beyond Disability
Official Selection, Reel Women International Film Festival, Beverly Hills CA; Turning a Corner
Official Selection, US Social Forum, Atlanta GA;Beyond Disability
-2006-
Official Selection, San Diego Women's Film Festival; Turning a Corner
Official Selection, Altar Magazine’s Her Voice Her View Film Festival, New York NY; Turning a Corner
Official Selection, Underground Railroad Film Series, Seattle; Turning a Corner
Special Screening, American Sociological Association Convention, Montreal Canada; Beyond Disability
Official Selection, Perspektiva, Moscow, Russia; Beyond Disability
Premiere Screening, Northwestern Thorne Auditorium; Turning a Corner
-2005-
Official Selection, Black Harvest International Film and Video Festival, Siskel Film Center, Chicago IL; Turning a Corner
Official Selection, Chicago's International Deaf and Disability Film Festival, Chicago IL; Beyond Disability
Invited Filmmaker, Conversations on the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago IL; Beyond Disability
Official Selection, Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Official Selection, Mix Mexico Sexual Diversity Film and Video Festival, Mexico City, Mexico; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Official Selection, Women in the Director’s Chair International Film Festival, Chicago IL; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Official Selection, ImageOut: The Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film And Video Film Festival; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Official Selection, Spokane’s Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Solo Artist, Las Manos Gallery, Chicago IL; Unfinished Business
Group Show, 5-venue Chicago touring; Voices in Time: Lives in Limbo
-2004-
Broadcast, DCTV, New York; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Official Selection, San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Official Selection, NewFest: The New York LGBT Film Festival; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Official Selection, San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
Official Selection, Vancouver Queer Film and Video Festival; A Fish Almost Eaten by a Shark
PUBLICATIONS + INTERVIEWS:
2022 The General Audience Talks Back: Code of the Freaks and the Evolution of Hollywood Shaming Documentaries by Slava Greenberg, Film Quarterly
2022 Film review by Michael Glover Smith, Cine-File
2022 Film review by Cinema Made by Women
2022 Film review by Jeffrey Preston, RDS Journal
2021 San Francisco’s Legacy Film Festival On Aging Moves Online by Lois Alter Mark, Forbes
2021 Film festival all about aging features ‘Code of the Freaks’ by John Seal, Berkeleyside
2021 Le documentaire du jour: Code of the Freaks by Hélène Delforge, Moustique France
2021 Film Culture: The code of the different by Luis Alberto Jiminez, M24h Spain
2021 “No vull que ens aplaudeixin pensant «Ai, pobrets, quina pena»” by Laura Serra, ARA Spain
2021 Code of the Freaks highlights Hollywood’s ableism by Colleen Morrissey, Chicago Reader
2021 ReelAbilities raises questions of access, stark truths by John Wenzel, The Denver Post
2021 Documentary explores how Hollywood portrays disability, The Western North Carolina Guide
2021 Interview with Bill Arceneaux for Movies DM
2021 Front Row at the Movies: 'Code of the Freaks' examines disabilities by Shirrel Rhoades, Key News
2020 ‘Freaks’ Is the Granddaddy of Disabled Horror, for Better and Worse by Kristen Lopez, IndieWire
2020 Code of the Freaks Review—A Long Way to Go by Annabelle Harsch, Picture this Post
2020 Code of the Freaks, Honesty on the Sly
2020 Code of the Freaks reveals the not-so-secret code to disability representation in mainstream cinema by Lily Coltoff, Respect Ability
2020 ReelAbilities Film Festival 2020 - Louis Proyect, The Unrepentant Marxist, Newstex
2020 Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, 25 Prospect Street Among Highlights at the 12th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival by Matt Fagerholm, rogerebert.com
2020 ReelAbilities 20: Code of the Freaks, J.B. Spins
2020 The Courtroom Artist Residency Report, Public Collectors (#13-16), Half Letter Press
2017 Present Absence review, Pelican Bomb (May 2, 2017)
2014 “La interculturalidad es una acción,” AULA Intercultural
2014 The Left Front contributing artist, Block Museum of Art
2012 Never the Same: Conversations About Art Transforming Politics & Community
2012 Liberia Diary: Life Is Beautiful, blogger
2011 The New Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective; contributed stills
2010 "Media Literacy Curriculum," in Something Is Wrong: Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence, co-edited by M. Kaba, J. Mathew,
and N. Haines; Project Nia, Chicago IL
2010 A Midwife’s Guide by Mary Sommers; contributed stills for pamphlet and mobile application
2008-09 Proximity Magazine, Issue #003 (Winter)
2006-11 Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance, co-editor/contributor
2005-09 CPS and general use curricula to accompany videos: HIV: Hey, It’s Viral!, Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories, Can LGBT +
School = Safe?
2008 Next Wave Cultures: Feminism, Subcultures, Activism, ed. Anita Harris, Routledge UP; contributed stills
2008 Democracy in America: The National Campaign, Creative Time, New York; contributor
2006 Girls in Trouble With the Law, by Laurie Schaffner, Rutgers UP; contributed stills
2004 “Voices in Time” photo essay with text; Feminist Studies (30.2)
2004 “Working between University and Community,” in Public Acts: Disruptive Readings on Making Curriculum Public by Erica
Meiners; Routledge Palmer NY
2003 Becoming Cleopatra, by Francesca Royster, Palgrave Macmillan; contributed photos
1997 Beyond Beijing: The International Women's Movement Handbook, Beyondmedia; co-editor/stills
1995 "Performing Teen Motherhood on Video: Autoethnography as Counter-Discourse," in Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of
Autobiography, co-edited by S. Smith and J. Watson; U of Minn Press
1995 Narrating Birthing: Technologies of "Self"-Replication and "Reality"-Construction, diss., Northwestern U.
PRESENTATIONS (selected):
2022 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, Topics in Documentary Media, UIC
2021 Panelist, Beyond the Single Screen, Doc Chicago
2021 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, Legacy Film Festival, San Francisco
2021 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, ReelAbilities Film Festival Denver
2021 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, ReelAbilities Film Festival Columbus
2021 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, Southern Circuit (multiple events)
2021 Panelist, “Voices Across Time,” Block Museum, Northwestern University Evanston IL
2021 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, Jewish Film Festival Chicago
2020 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, Film Pittsburgh
2020 Featured Guest, Beyond Beijing, Northwestern University
2020 Featured Guest, Media Burn Archive, Virtual Talks with Video Activists
2020 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, ReelAbilities Film Festival Cleveland
2020 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, ReelAbilities Film Festival Toronto
2020 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, ReelAbilities Film Festival New York
2020 Featured Guest, Code of the Freaks, ReelAbilities Film Festivals Boston
2019 Featured Guest, Live at the Heartland Radio, PO Box Collective
2017 Guest Artist, “Media Resistance to Police Violence with Podcasting,” Creating Justice Conference, Oakton CC, Des Plaines IL
2017 Featured Guest, Live at the Heartland Radio
2016 Guest Artist, Present Absence installation, Roosevelt University, Chicago
2016 Organizer, Gone But Not Forgotten restorative justice quilting circles, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago; Logan Center at the University of Chicago; Access Living; Trinity United Church of Christ
2016 Presenter, “Your Social Life: Using Smart Phones to Combat Cyberbullying,” NAEA, Chicago IL
2015 Guest Speaker, “Changing Values in Social Practice Art,” University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
2015 Panelist, “Collective Creativity,” Feminist Art Project/College Art Association, Museum of Arts and Design NY
2013 Panelist, “Youth Media: Mapping a Global Movement,” Digital Media and Learning Conference, Chicago IL
2012 Featured Guest, WBEZ (NPR affiliate) “Worldview”
2012 Featured Guest, Press Union of Liberia, Monrovia
2012 Featured Guest, “Art and Social Practice: Collaborating in Rural Malawi,” University of Brasilia, Brazil
2012 Panelist, “Transforming Scholarship & Advocacy: Women & Prisons,” 8th Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, UIUC Champaign-Urbana
2012 Panelist, Knowledge XFR, Kellogg/Gravity Tank, Chicago
2011 Panelist, “Why Youth Media Matters,” Columbia College, Chicago
2011 Panelist, Digital Media and Learning Conference, Long Beach CA
2010 Panelist, Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, Chicago
2010 Presenter, Hollywood Images of Disability, Jane Addams Hull House Museum, Chicago
2009 Featured Guest, “Community Media and You,” CAN-TV
2009 Panelist, Museum of Contemporary Art Educators’ Salon, Chicago
2008 Panelist, Democracy in America: The National Campaign, Experimental Station; Creative Time, New York
2008 Panelist, “Can We Even Talk About ‘Social Media’?”, McCormick Tribune Center, Northwestern University
2008 Panelist, Making Your Media Matter, Center for Media & Social Impact, American Univ, Washington D.C.
2007 Panelist, “Local Reporting and Human Rights Abuses in Chicago,” University of Chicago
2007 Presenter, “Using Media in the Classroom to Teach about Race and Gender,” Chicago Int’l Film Festival
2006 Panelist, “Beyond Production: Distribution and Activism,” Contested Spaces: the global impact of community arts and media, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, U of Chicago,
2005 Guest Artist, “Voices on the Edge,” Gene Siskel Film Center, Art Institute of Chicago
2002 Panelist, “Media and Technology Interventions: Women and Girls Activism,” NWSA, Las Vegas
2000 Featured Guest, WBEZ (NPR affiliate) “848”
1999 Featured Guest Artist, "The Role of Media in Women's Struggle for Peace," The Peace Museum, Chicago
1996 United Nations Film Forum “One Year After Beijing” by special invitation, UN Headquarters, New York City