Sarah Hanssen’s film and video works have shown at festivals, museums and screenings throughout North America, Asia and Europe. She received her Masters of Fine Art in film and video at the Massachuse
As the Battle of Mogadishu, commonly referred to as Black Hawk Down, escalated
around him, U.S. Army Ranger, Jeff Struecker reconciled with death. Surrounded
by brutal violence and death, that moment of
Marta Cunningham’s new documentary Valentine Road, which premiered at Sundance
in January, takes on a 2008 school shooting in the small town of Oxnard,
California. The victim, Lawrence “Larry” King, is an
Life of Pi, Ang Lee’s new film based on the 2001 fantasy adventure novel by Yann
Martel, tackles the uncinematic tale of a teenage boy surviving at sea with a
Bengal tiger.
Combining live action, animation, interviews and formal narration, Terence
Nance’s feature film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty
[http://oversimplification.mvmt.com/] is a creative patchwork that delves deep
into the emotional life
The documentary Battle for Brooklyn, co-directed by Suki Hawley and Michael
Galinsky, follows community activist Daniel Goldstein as he fights to preserve
his community in the face of the massive Atlantic Yards development