Stephanie Barber

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Stephanie Barber is an American artist who has created a poetic, conceptual and philosophical body of work in a variety of media. Many of her videos are concerned with the content, musicality and experiential qualities of language. [1] Most widely recognized as an experimental filmmaker, video artist and writer, her films include the 2013 feature DAREDEVILS, catalog, dogs, total power:dead dead dead, shipfilm "dwarfs the sea" "the inversion, transcription, evening track and attractor", "flower, the boy, the librarian", "BUST CHANCE", "the visit and the play" among others. [2]

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Life

Born in Riverhead, New York, she currently resides in Philadelphia. She is the granddaughter of American jazz tubist Bill Barber and was herself a member of the influential Milwaukee music/performance group XKS. She is currently Department Head, Associate Professor, Film & Digital Cinema at Moore College [3] and Resident Artist in the multidisciplinary MFA program the Mt. Royal School of Interdisciplinary Art at MICA in Baltimore, MD.

Films

ArtForum wrote "Though extremely varied, the films of Stephanie Barber engage universal themes—time, death, memory, forgetting, frustration." [4] and CinemaScope Magazine wrote "Perhaps the only rule of Stephanie Barber’s otherwise unruly art is that words not be taken for granted." [5]

She has had solo exhibitions of her film work at The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, The San Francisco Cinematheque, Anthology Film Archives, Light Industry [6] and other museums, galleries and universities. Many of her 16mm films are distributed by Canyon Cinema [7] and her videos are distributed by Video Data Bank [1]

She has acted in David Robbins' The Ice Cream Social, Zero TVs Milwaukee Show, the feature film Hamlet A.D.D. , and Jennifer Montgomery's Threads of Belonging.

Writing

FOR A LAWN POEM Publishing Genius Apr 8, 2008 [8]

these here separated to see how they standing alone or the soundtrack to six films by stephanie barber Publishing Genius 2008 (reprinted 2010)

Night Moves Publishing Genius 2013 is a book edited from comments on the YouTube video for Bob Seger's Night Moves.

Barber writes a haiku everyday and posts it on Facebook [9] . In 2019 Ctrl+P published a collection of the first 365 haiku in "Status Update: Vol 1".

Her 2021 full length play Trial in the Woods was published by Plays Inverse [10] now an imprint of 53rd State Press.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Available Titles by Stephanie Barber". Video Data Bank. Retrieved 2004-08-08.
  2. "Stephanie Barber". Mount Royal School of Art. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  3. "Stephanie Barber, Moore College, Film and Digital Cinema" . Retrieved 2004-08-08.
  4. "James Glisson on Stephanie Barber". artforum.com. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  5. "The Conversation: Stephanie Barber's DAREDEVILS - Cinema Scope". Cinema Scope. Retrieved 2015-12-08.
  6. "Nine Films by Stephanie Barber Tuesday, July 16, 2024". Light Industry. Retrieved 2004-08-08.
  7. "Stephanie Barber Catlog, Another Horizon, oh my homeland, razor's edge, the forest is offended, the parent trap, 3 peonies..." Canyon Cinema. Retrieved 2004-08-08.
  8. "Poetry for Bare Feet". UTNE Reader. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 2004-08-08.
  9. Barber, Stephanie. "Stephanie M Barber Facebook Page". Facebook. Retrieved 2004-08-08.
  10. "Trial in the Woods Stephanie Barber". Plays Inverse. Retrieved 2004-08-08.