Artist Elisabeth Subrin Speaks at Bennington College about Documenting History

November 10, 2005

Award-winning filmmaker, writer, and video artist Elisabeth Subrin will speak at Bennington College as part of the Visual Arts Lecture Series on Tuesday, November 15, 2005 at 7:30 pm in Tishman Lecture Hall. Subrin's films often trace the intersections of history and subjectivity within female biographies.

Subrin's work has been presented extensively in the United States and abroad. One of her films, The Fancy, premiered at the New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center and subsequently was awarded the 2001 VIPER International Award for Film/Video and Second Prize at the 2001 Black Maria Film and Video Festival. Subrin received the 1998 Los Angeles Film and Critics Association Award for Best Independent/Experimental Film/Video and Best Experimental Film at the 2000 New England Film and Video Festival for Shullie, a half hour documentary about a 22-year-old emerging artist.

Her work has also been shown at the New York Film Festival, The Whitney Biennial, American Film Institute, Rotterdam International Film Festival, and The Guggenheim Museum, among others.

Subrin received a BFA in Filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art in 1990 and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1995. She is the 2004-2005 Rockefeller Foundation Fellow and teaches in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.