Deborah Stratman
Artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman makes work that investigates issues of power, control, and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. She regards sound as the ultimate multi-tool and time to be supernatural. Recent projects have addressed freedom, surveillance, public speech, sinkholes, levitation, orthoptera, raptors, comets, evolution, extinction, exodus, sisterhood and faith. She has exhibited at venues including MoMA NY, Centre Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Witte de With, Tabakalera, Austrian Film Museum, Whitney Biennial and festivals including Sundance, Berlinale, CPH/DOX, Viennale, Locarno, Yamagata, and Rotterdam. Stratman lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.
Filmography
Last Things (2023), Laika (2021), Vever (for Barbara) (2019), Optimism (2018), Siege (2017, 4-channel), Xenoi (2016), The Illinois Parables (2016), Second Sighted (2014), Hacked Circuit (2014), Immortal, Suspended (2013); Musical Insects (2013), The Name is not the Thing named (2012), Village, silenced (2012), These Blazeing Starrs! (2011), Ray’s Birds (2010), Shrimp Chicken Fish (2010), FF (2010), Kuyenda N’Kubvina (2010), O’er the Land (2009), The Magician’s House (2007), It Will Die Out in the Mind (2006), How Among the Frozen Words (2005), Kings of the Sky (2004), Energy Country (2003), In Order Not to Be Here (2002), Untied (2001), The BLVD (1999), From Hetty to Nancy (1997), On the Various Nature of Things (1995), Waking (1994), Palimpsest (1993), the train from la to la (1992), Possibilities, Dilemmas (1992); A Letter (1992), Upon a Time (1991), My Alchemy (1990)
