Deborah Stratman
Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems – and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked. Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and the very human struggles for power and control that are played out on the land. Most recently, they have questioned elemental historical narratives about faith, freedom, sonic subterfuge, expansionism and the paranormal. Stratman works in multiple mediums, including sculpture, photography, drawing and audio. She has exhibited internationally at venues including the Whitney Biennial, MoMA NY, the Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Witte de With, Walker Art Center, Yerba Buena Center, and has done site-specific projects with the Center for Land Use Interpretation, Temporary Services, Mercer Union (Toronto), Blaffer Gallery (Houston), Klondike Institute of Art & Culture (Yukon) and Ballroom Gallery (Marfa). Stratman’s films have been featured at numerous international festivals including Sundance, the Viennale, Full Frame, Ann Arbor, Oberhausen and Rotterdam. She is the recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim fellowships, a Creative Capital award, and she currently teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Movies (34)
Vever (For Barbara)
2023 · Producer, Sound, Director, Editor
Otherhood
2023 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer
Last Things
2023 · Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
Laika
2021 · Director
Deborah Stratman to Nancy Holt: For the Time Being
2021 · Director, Cinematography, Editor, Music
The Letters That Weren’t Also Are
2021 · Director
Optimism
2018 · Director, Sound Recordist, Camera Operator, Editor, Sound Designer, Writer, Director of Photography
Xenoi
2016 · Director
The Illinois Parables
2016 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Cinematography, Editor, Sound Designer
Second Sighted
2014 · Director, Editor
Hacked Circuit
2014 · Director, Writer, Sound Designer
Immortal, Suspended
2013 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer
Musical Insects
2013 · Director
Village, Silenced
2012 · Director
These Blazeing Starrs!
2011 · Director
The Name is not the Thing named
2010 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer
FF
2010 · Director
Shrimp Chicken Fish
2010 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer
Ray's Birds
2010 · Director, Producer, Editor, Sound Editor, Director of Photography, Writer
Kuyenda N'kubvina (Walking Is Dancing)
2010 · Director
O'er the Land
2009 · Director, Screenplay
It Will Die Out in the Mind
2007 · Director
The Magician's House
2007 · Director
How Among the Frozen Words She Found Some Odd Ones
2005 · Director
Kings of the Sky
2004 · Director, Sound Designer, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer, Sound Recordist
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2004 · Director of Photography
Energy Country
2004 · Director, Sound, Editor, Cinematography
In Order Not to Be Here
2002 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Sound Designer, Location Sound Recordist
Untied
2001 · Director
The BLVD
1999 · Director, Writer, Cinematography, Editor
From Hetty to Nancy
1997 · Director
On the Various Nature of Things
1996 · Director
Susurrati
· Director
Hello Ladies
· Director, Producer
TV shows (0)
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