The films of Deborah Stratman
Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based filmmaker who has been active since the 1990s. A multidisciplinary artist, she has directed nearly forty works that question social codes using unconventional cinematic devices. She reflects transversally on history, mythology, science, technology, and security and surveillance mechanisms.
Between documentary essay and experimental cinema, Stratman's films present dense research and function through free association. The result is poetic and free-flowing works that are not without a systematic political relationship to reality.
Deborah Stratman's work has been presented internationally at prestigious venues such as the Whitney Biennial, MOMA, and the Centre Georges-Pompidou. Her films have also been widely screened at most major international festivals. She is currently an associate professor at the School of Art & Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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The Illinois Parables
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_The Illinois Parables_ is an impressionistic portrait of the state of Illinois, sometimes described as a miniature version of the United States, tracing its decidedly eclectic history from the 7th to the 20th century in 11 parables.
Last Things
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Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks and various future others. The geo-biosphere is introduced as a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures.
In Order Not to Be Here
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An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness… an emptiness born of our co...
The Illinois Parables
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_The Illinois Parables_ is an impressionistic portrait of the state of Illinois, sometimes described as a miniature version of the United States, tracing its decidedly eclectic history from the 7th to the 20th century in 11 parables.
Last Things
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Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks and various future others. The geo-biosphere is introduced as a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures.
In Order Not to Be Here
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An uncompromising look at the ways privacy, safety, convenience and surveillance determine our environment. Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white-collar communities, dissecting the fear behind contemporary suburban design. By examining evacuated suburban and corporate landscapes, the film reveals a peculiarly 21st century hollowness… an emptiness born of our co...
