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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]

Life

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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

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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

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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.

References

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  1. ^ a b "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 Catalog, 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.
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