Meet the Jury: Sandra Gibson

Sandra Gibson (1968, US) is a director and producer, lives and works in New York, but trained as a painte in Paris. She took a course in film and video at the Rhode Island School of Design. She made her debut as experimental film maker with the film Lure (1998), followed by Edgeways (1999) and Soundings (2001). Gibson's carreer is extensive and encompasses various styles, techniques and genres. Film material is treated as a tactile object in an important part of her work, and she applies diverse direct-to-film techniques. She makes installations with her partner Luis Decoder and she does performances in which the film projector, the celluloid en and the individual character of the cinema play an important role. Her work is exhibited throughout the world in influential museums and galleries such as the Whitney Museum. of American Art, P.S. 1 and MoMA but often outside the US too. Her work also forms part of the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum and EMAF Osnabrück among other things, and is in countless private collections.

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