KATHRYN RAMEY
16 Cohasset Street, floor 3
Roslindale, MA 02131
(617)459-6362
www.rameyfilms.com
EDUCATION
2006 PhD, Anthropology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1999 MFA, Film, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1991 BA, Film and Gender Studies, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
2004-Present Full Professor, Department of Film and Media Arts, Emerson College, Boston, MA (tenured 2010, promoted to full, 2017)
AWARDS/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
2023 Brother Thomas Fund Fellow – https://www.tbf.org/what-we-do/special-funds/br-thomas-fund
2022 Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship – https //www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/kathryn-ramey/
2022 Atelier 105 Residency, Light Cone, Paris, France – https://lightcone.org/en/news-789-el-signo-vacio-de-kathryn-ramey
2021 Film Study Center Residency, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
2021 Points North / LEF Moving Image fellowship, Camden International Film Festival, Camden, ME
2020 The Corporation of Yaddo, Artists Residency
2020 LEF New England Moving Image Post-Production Grant
2020 Film Study Center / LEF Moving Image Fellowship, Harvard, Cambridge, MA – https //filmstudycenter.fas.harvard.edu/2020/05/20/kathryn-ramey-named-2020-21-fsc-lef-fellow/
2019 Creative Capital Awardee – https //creative-capital.org/artists/kathryn-ramey/
2018 LEF New England Moving Image Production Grant
2017 Puffin Foundation Artist’s Grant
2015 Massachusetts Cultural Council on the Arts Fellowship https //massculturalcouncil.org/gallery/20153096/
2015 LEF New England Moving Image Pre-Production Grant
2014 Faculty Advancement Fund Grant, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2014 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant
2013 Nominated for Brother Thomas Fellowship
2013 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist grant finalist
2013 CARAFE grant, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2012 CARAFE grant, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2011 Faculty Advancement Fund Grant, Emerson College, Boston MA
2009 LEF New England Moving Image Pre-Production Grant
2009 Faculty Advancement Fund Grant, Emerson College, Boston MA
2008 Huret Grant, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2007 LEF New England Moving Image Pre-Production Grant
2007 Faculty Advancement Fund Grant, Emerson College, Boston MA
2006 The Corporation of Yaddo, Artists Residency
2006 Faculty Advancement Fund Grant, Emerson College, Boston MA
2005 LEF New England Moving Image Pre-Production Grant
2004 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Media Artist Fellowship
2003 Flaherty 49th annual film seminar, Grant in aid recipient
2003 Temple University Dissertation Completion Fund, Philadelphia PA
2003 Social Science Research Concil Program on the Arts Dissertation Fellowship
2002 Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association Subsidy Grant
2000 Flaherty 47th annual film seminar, Grant in aid recipient
2000 Temple University Graduate Studies Travel Grant
1999 Temple University Fellowship, Philadelphia PA (four year fellowship)
1998 Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association Subsidy Grant
1998 MFA Completion Fund, Temple University Department of Film and Media Arts
1997 Motion Picture Association Scholarship
1997 MFA Completion Fund, Temple University Department of Film and Media Arts
1996 Russell Conwell Fellow, Temple University (three year fellowship)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 White Women are a Curse Against their Sex, Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA
2022 Cine-Culture at MassArt, Boston
2019 Kathryn Ramey in-person, NW film center, Portland OR
2019 Artist talk – handmade film, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
2019 Artist talk – Latin America and poetic cinema, The Evergreen State College
2019 Cameraless filmmaking workshop, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle WA
2019 Hand processing workshop, autobiography and film + graduate workshop, Syracuse University
2015 Cinehistoria & Revelado a mano de pelicula 16mm – invited screening and workshop at Beta Local, San Juan PR
2013 My Historic Imaginary A Walk through W at “Mining Imagination ethnographic approaches beyond knowledge production”, Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
2012 Sometimes a word is not just a word, sometimes it is an image in the symposium “Experimental Film and Anthropology” at the Musee de Quai Branly, Paris, France
2012 Artist’s Talk at Montserrat College of Art
2012 Archive Fever! An evening of films with Kathryn Ramey, University of Iowa
2012 An Evening with Kathryn Ramey, Arts Emerson film screening at the Bright Film theater, Boston, MA
2011 Archive Fever! 2.0- an Evening with Kathryn Ramey, International House, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Temple University Visiting Filmmaker Series currated by Elizabeth Subrin, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2011 MASSART film society, curated by Saul Levine, Boston, MA
2011 Media Mavericks, New York University
EXHIBITION RECORD (festivals and group shows)
EL SIGNO VACÍO (the empty sign), 2023, 75 minutes, DCP or 35mm print, col/sd
The Havana film festival aka Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano, Habana, CUBA
16mm Harkat Film festival, Mumbai, INDIA
SAYOR, 2022, 10 minutes, 16mm col/sound
Revolutions Per Minutes Film Festival, Boston, MA
Engauge Film Festival, Seattle, WA
Prisme #5, at MIRE, Nantes, France
Oaxaca Film Festival, Oaxaca, Mexico
South Sound Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, WA
Experiments in Cinema v. 18.4, Albuquerque, NM
Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
LIMEN, 2019, 12 minutes, 16mm bw/sound
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
Prisme #2 at MIRE, Nantes, France
LAD, Rennes France
Alternative Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
Yonifest, Echopark film center, Los Angelos, CA
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA
Artifact Film Festival, Calgary, Canada
Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, IA
Experiments in Cinema, Santa Fe, NM,
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee WI
Bogota Experimental Film Festival/CineAutopsia, Bogota Columbia
Latinoamericano Cine Del Nuevo International Festival, Havana Cuba
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria Canada
Fracto Film Festival, Berlin Germany
FLEX film festival, Tampa, FL
ENOLA EM EVAEL/LEAVE ME ALONE, 2016, 7mins, dual 16mm with stereo sound
Mono No Aware, Brooklyn NY
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival Festival, Jihlava, CZ
Festival Tout Cort, Aix-en-Provence, France
Alchemy Film Festival (invited installation), Hawick, GB-SCT
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens OH
Experiments In Cinema 12.03, Albuqurque, NM
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Haverill Experimental Film Festival (winner)
Northhampton Film Festival
Analogica Film Festival, Spain
WEST What I know about Her, 2012, 20 minutes, 16mm, col/sd – distributed in Europe by Collectif Jeune Cinema, Paris France
CJC screening at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain
Analogica Film Festival, Italy
Black Maria Film Festival, (traveling film festival, headquartered in NJ) Jury citation
TIE (The International Experimental Film Exposition), Institute for Contemporary Arts, Boston MA,
Haverhill Experimental film festival, Haverhill, MA grand champion
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
Psychogeographies program, OTHER CINEMA, San Francisco, CA
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, selected for touring program
100$ film festival, Calgary CANADA, best 16mm film
Festival of Cinema Experimental and Different, Paris, France, jury prize
BIDEODROMO, Bilbao, Spain
Flying A (WEST # 1), 2010, 3 ¾ minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent
Premiere 2011 Experimental Media Program, Washington DC Project for the Arts
Finalist 2011 Kraft Media Prize
Finalist 2011 WPA Experimental Media Prize
Northhampton Film Festival, Northhampton, MA
TIE – The International Experimental Cinema Exposition, ICA, Boston, MA
Forward Festival, Washington DC
Yanqui WALKER and the Optical Revolution, 2009, 33 minutes, 16mm col/sd – distributed by Third World Newsreel
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY
GIOVEDI’ SPERIMENTALE, Usanze e Rituali pt. 2, a cura di Piero Pala, Cinema Filmstudio
Experimental Film and Anthropology, Musee de Quai Branly, Paris France
PONTECORVO’s POLITICAL POETRY at 7 Dudley Cinema, Los Angeles, CA
Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival, Montreal Canada7 Dudley Cinema, in
Meso-American Memory, OTHERcinema, San Francisco, CA
Greenpoint Film Festival, Brooklyn NY
EYE-AM another experiment by Women, Anthology Film Archives, NYC,
DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver CANADA,
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Sebastopol, CA
New Filmmakers Series, Anthology Film Archives NYC,
KLEX, Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival, Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia
L’Alternativa Film festival, Barcelona, SPAIN
AntiMatter Film Festival, Victoria BC, CANADA
Onion City Film festival, Chicago, IL
Chicago Underground Film festival, Chicago, IL
TriBeCa International Film festival, NY, NY
Athens International Film + Video Festival, Best Short Doc, Athens, OH,
Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2010
Black Maria Film + Video Festival, Jury’s Choice Selection (1st Prize)
Loring-Greenough Film, Jamaica Plain, MA
The Passenger, 2006, 17 mins, 16mm col/sd
Loring-Greenough Film, Jamaica Plain, MA
25 fps Experimental Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
Magnolia Independent Film Festival, Starkville, MS
San Diego Women’s Film Festival, San Diego, CA
Madcat Women’s International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
Athens International Film Festival, Athens OH
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL
Balagan Screening Series, “Local Filmmakers”, Coolidge Theater, Brookline, MA
Fall, 2006, 5 mins, 35mm, col/sd, distributed in the collection Kid on Hip, Camera in Hand
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE), Telluride, CO
Experiments in Cinema V3.0, Albuquerque, NM
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 20th Anniversary film festival, Washington, DC
Feminism(s) Symposium, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL
Balagan Screening Series, “Local Filmmakers”, Coolidge Theater, Brookline, MA,
Iowa City Documentary Film Festival, Iowa City, IA
Athens Film festival, Athens OH
Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto Canada
ENDLESS PRESENT BIOGRAPHY OF AN UNKNOWN FILMMAKER, A film by Cornealius Thistle, 2002,
30 mins, 16mm, col/sd.
Broadcast DUTV, Philadelphia
Iowa City Documentary film festival, Iowa City, IA
Portland International Film festival, Techniques of the Observer,Portland, OR
Boston International Film festival, Boston, MA
Onion City Film festival, Chicago, IL
Ann Arbor International Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI Honorable Mention.
PIFVA presents @ the Free Library, Philadelphia, PA
Razed by Wolves, 1998, 8 mins, 16mm, col/sd. Distributed by Filmmaker’s Co-op, NY Ladyfest, Philadelphia, PA 2002.
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, programmed by Joel Schlemowitz, NY, NY
Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Millenium Filmmakers Co-op, NY NY
Mix festival, Mexico City, Mexico Programma Locura (Madness),
Catacomb Microcinema, Winnepeg Canada,
Ladyfest, Olympia WA
NEW VISIONS, Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
MIX Experimental film festival, NY, NY international tour.
Low-Fi video, Belgrade, Serbia. Hard Boiled Desert presented in collaboration with Blackchair Productions, Seattle, WA
TIE Telluride Experimental Cinema Exposition, Telluride, CO
LA Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA. Best of 1999 Ann Arbor Film Festival presented by Lynne Sachs
Athens International Film festival, Athens OH, Best Experimental Film.
Ann Arbor International Film festival, Ann Arbor MI
Black Maria Film Festival, Edison, NJ Honorable Mention.
Philadelphia International Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Cosmos letters from home, 1997, 13 mins, video, col/sd.
Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2001.
Ladyfest, Olympia WA,
The Unstable Personal Representations of History programmed by Amie Seigel, LA Film forum, Los Angeles, CA
New Visions, Prince Music Theatre, Philadelphia, PA
Through the Lens Series, WYBE, Philadelphia PA, Broadcast nationally.
Independent Images Series, WHYY, Philadelphia PA Broadcast nationally.
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, OH,
Story of Sarah, 1993 & 1996, 6 mins, Super- 8 blown up to16mm, col/sd. Distributed by Filmmaker’s Co-op, NY NY
Olympia International Film Festival, Olympia WA,
911 Media Arts Center, Seattle WA
Temple University, Philadelphia PA
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NY
One Plus One 1993, 3 mins, 16mm, col/sd. Distributed by Canadian Filmmakers Co-op, Toronto Canada. Made in collaboration with Jason Boughton and Mike Hoolboom. (partial screening list)
Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Canada
Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Experimental Media Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia
PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
2024 “Anti-Colonial Cinema Praxis” In Palgrave Handbook of Experimental Cinema, edited by Kim Knowles and Jonathan Walley, Palgrave Macmillan,
2017 “ethno-cine-poet: The films of Robert Gardner” In Films of Robert Gardner, Charles Warren and Rebecca Meyers, SUNY Press.
2015 Experimental Filmmaking Break the Machine, Burlington, MA Focal Press.
2015 “♇ (the empty sign)” In EthnoScripts 17 (1) 123-137.
2015 “Time and the Axe Review of Anna Grimshaw’s Mr. Coperthwaite” in Cultural Anthropology Journal 30.4 November (invited).
2014 “Do no harm the ethnographic animations of Robert Ascher” in Experimental Film and Anthropology edited by Arnd Schneider and Caterina Pasqualino, Bloomsbury Publishing, Oxford England.
2013 “A word is not always just a word, sometimes it is an image Musings about and part of a screenplay for Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION” in Anthropology and Art Practice edited by Arnd Schneider and Christopher Wright, Bloomsbury Publishing, Oxford England
2011 “Productive Dissonance and Sensuous Image-Making Visual anthropology and experimental film”, In Made to be Seen A History of Visual Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, Jay Ruby and Marcus Banks, eds.
2010 “Economics of the film avant-garde networks and strategies in the circulation of films, ideas, and people”, In JumpCut 52, Sumer 2010
2007 “Eye/Body The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann”, In Women’s Experimental Cinema Critical Frameworks, Duke University Press, Robin Blaetz, ed
2003 “Thaw 03”, The Independent Film and Video Monthly, September.
2003 “Between Art, Industry and Academia The Fragile Balancing Act of the Film Avant-Garde”,
Visual Anthropology Review, Fall.
1999 Review of Catherine Russell’s Experimental Ethnography in Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 15 number 1, spring/summer.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017 Faith Arazi, Review: Thoughts on “Experimental Filmmaking: Break the Machine” and Community in OTHERCINE, Issue 32, Spring 2017.
2017 Troiani, Igea & Alison Kahn, Film as Architectural Theory, in Architecture and Culture, Volume 4, Issue 3: This thing called theory. P. 485-498
2016 Network Nine News, Experimental Film Making . Break the Machine by Kathryn Ramey, a review by the Editor, Nov. 5th 2016.
2015 The Script Lab, Book Review (and other ramblings): Experimental Filmmaking – Break the Machine, November 19, 2015.
2011 Penny Lane, Psychogeographies: Four films about place and time by Penny Lane, published online as part of the Flahery NYC film series.
2011 Mary Iannone, 90-Second Cinema Features Yanqui WALKER and the OPTICAL REVOLUTION, mediarights.org, August 2011
2010 Chairmain Henriques, Northwestern University, Library, Evanston IL Review, Educational Media Reviews Online, 9.20.2