
Sarah Bliss
I'm a moving image maker, artist and curator whose films, installations, and performances plumb personal and social history, utilizing autoethnography to engage issues of power and relationality. I combine hand-processing with archival and shot material to create deep encounters with the sensate body, voice, memory, place and time. My work is often three-dimensional, immersive, and site-specific, and is screened, exhibited and published internationally. I'm a 2017 Flaherty Seminar Fellow, thanks to the LEF Foundation; an alum of the Independent Imaging Retreat (a.k.a. Film Farm); and have been recognized with fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and Scotland’s Alchemy Film Festival. Current projects include a public art commission for the Boston Convention Center’s 80-ft tall, 7-screen marquee (a collaboration with choreographer Cynthia McLaughlin); a feature-length personal doc, La Petite Mort, which explores the politics of desire in the context of aging, illness and death; and experiments in the creation of organic film tints/toners made from mushrooms, lichen, bark, nuts and more. I received a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and live in Western Massachusetts.