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Experimental Curator

Price: $320.00
Secondary Title: : The Sally Dixon Story
Filmmaker Name: Brigid Maher
Film Length: 56 min
Film Year: 2022
Duration: 46-75 min
Decade: 2020s
Closed-captioned: Closed captioned
Region: North America
Subject: Arts
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ABOUT

Experimental Curator: The Sally Dixon Story is a documentary that delves into the life of experimental film curator Sally Dixon. Her story began in the 1960's when she received a small hand-held movie camera from her father-in-law and started making films, that she later called "Film Poems." Sally is known as a trailblazer in the "film as art" movement and created the film program at The Carnegie Museum of Art in 1970. She founded the program with the purpose of "promoting a greater understanding and appreciation of film as an art form and the filmmaker as an artist." It was one of the first museum-based film programs in the country.

This one hour biographic documentary reflects Sally’s life as a woman in a man’s art world. The film beautifully weaves in archival footage of Sally as her love of film first emerged as she captured her first images on Super 8 as well as archival footage of her collaborations with artists in Pittsburgh, and finally St. Paul. The documentary threads in contemporary footage of Sally, her family and her friends as they reflect on her enormous impact.

“She understood it very early and she promoted it, bringing attention to different poetic, non-narrative forms of cinema.”
– Jonas Mekas

Selected Screenings & Awards
Honorable Mention, Experimental Forum, USA 2023
Winner for Best Female Filmmaker, Lindsey Film Festival, USA 2023
Winner for Best Feature Documentary Film, BostonDoc, USA, 2022
World Festival Premiere, Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2022
Athens International Film Festival, USA 2022
Hot Springs International Women’s Film Festival, USA 2022
Berlin International Art Film Festival, Germany, 2022
Cinefem 10, Uruguay, 2022
Stockholm City Film Festival, Sweden, 2022
The Women’s Festival, USA 2022
University Film and Video Association Conference, USA, 2022
Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Film Festival, USA 2022
Toronto International Women Film Festival, Canada, 2021

CREDITS & INFO

Experimental Curator: The Sally Dixon Story

Film by
Brigid Maher

Produced by
Brigid Maher
Alexander Dixon
Emmy Vadnais
Erik Vadnais
Laura Madalinski

Edited by
Laura Madalinski

Cinematographer
Brigid Maher

Sound Mixer
Erik Vadnais

Sound Design
Nirana Singh

Additional Editing
Rebekah Wingert-Jabi

Story Consultants
Alex Perrault
Nikki Jones

Advisors
Benjamin Ogrodnik
Lindsay Mattock
Michelle Citron

Additional Cinematography
Zan Gillies
Aaron Tucker
Eman Alghamdi
Shannon Shikles

Assistant Editing
Zahra Ahmed
Chelsea Bentley
Elizabeth Gomez
Yusuf Ziyadzade
Alazhar Zewoldi

Additional Sound
Nagham Osman
Marie Alice McMillan
Courtland Sutton

Music Composition
Erik Vadnais

Additional Composition by
Paul Oehlers
Dunia Best
Aram Sinnereich

Assistant Archival Producers
Thomas Neufeld
Katie Rodda
Vincent “Vinny” Terlizzi

Assistant Producer
Zahra Ahmed

Production Assistants
Chelsea Bentley
Emily Crawford
Caroline Chadbourne
Marie Alice McMillan
Liz Gomez
Nagham Osman

Product Details

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Format: DSL - Digital Site License; License: Institutional - 1 Year$125.00
Format: DSL - Digital Site License; License: Institutional - 3 Years$275.00
Format: DSL - Digital Site License; License: Institutional - 5 Years$450.00
Format: DVD; License: Institutional$320.00
Format: DVD; License: K-12$90.00
Format: DVD; License: Public Library$160.00
Format: DVD; License: Home Use$34.95
Format: DSL - Digital Site License; License: Institutional - Life of File$600.00
Format: DSL + DVD - Package; License: Institutional - Life of File$675.00


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