self-portrait @ Willard North, San Francisco, California ©2003 by Marjorie Sturm
PERSONAL DATA:
EDUCATION:
B.A. in Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1990.
M.F.A. in Film Production/Theory, San Francisco State University, 2002.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Purple Maze Productions - freelance videography, ongoing since 1995.
Film Production - assisted teaching 16mm film production class at SFSU, 2000.
Film History - assisted teaching lecture at SFSU, 2001.
Psychiatric social worker - assisted the mentally-ill, homeless in San Francisco, ongoing since 1996.
FILM AND VIDEO:
Smoke the Pipe Dream, 40 min., digital video narrative, 2003
The Slidell Story,30 min. digital video documentary, 2003
Voice or No Voice,10min., digital video experimental erotica, 2003
Honey and Eggs (the end of fantasy),20 min., digital video diary, 2002
Treehouse,17 min., 16mm color narrative, 2001
The Relief,4 min., super 8 film, 2001
The Thread,7 min., video and Super 8 experimental, 1998
My Espresso with Joan,40 min, video, narrative, 1997
OTHER:
M.F.A. film selection committee at San Francisco State University, 2002.
No More Loans, published poem in Processed World magazine, 2001.
Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal, intensive Buddhist studies, 1998.
Bureau of Jewish Education art grant recipient, 1995.
Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi, Israel, study of photography and watercolors, 1994.
Yeshiva Neve Yerushalyim/Israelite Insitute, Jerusalem, study of Kaballah, 1994.
LANGUAGES:
Spanish, Hebrew
BIO:
Marjorie Sturm was born in Manhattan and raised in Rockland County. She
studied psychology and art at the University of Michigan and then moved
out to San Francisco in 1991. She has lived for extended periods in Mexico,
Nepal/India, and Israel studying poetry, film, music, and religion. She
has worked with the mentally-ill homeless in the Tenderloin off and on
for the last seven years. In August 2002, she received her MFA in filmmaking
and completed the award winning (Grand Festival Award for short feature at BV&FF2003) Smoke
the Pipe Dream,Honey and Eggs, and Treehouse. Her
recent projects include an experimental erotica film Voice, or No Voice for the PornOrchestra
in San Francisco, a documentary on comtemporary shamanism, and a documentary on
the cult-writer JT Leroy. She wrote lyrics on The Abstractions Ars Vivende CD and contributed flute and vocals on Ernesto Diaz-Infante's (a key figure in the American underground music scene) Next door to the Jefferson Airplane CD on Imvated Records.
She is also in the process of writing her first feature-length script
and releasing a DVD compiliation of her work on Pax Recordings.
Pax Recordings, P.O.
Box 591138, San Francisco, CA 941159-1138 USA
Questions? Comments? Send e-mail to marjoriesturm@paxrecordings.com
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