Lee Anne Schmitt is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She is interested in political thought, personal experience and the land. Much of her work involves 16 mm filmmaking placed in landscape, objects and the traces of political systems left upon them. She has exhibited widely at venues that include MoMA, the Getty Museum and Centre Pompidou. She is currently working on a series of films using personal objects to explore trauma’s effects on narrative structures.
_California Company Town_ casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the industries that created them—onetime boom-towns now haunted by the twilight of the American promise.
_California Company Town_ casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns abandoned by the industries that created them—onetime boom-towns now haunted by the twilight of the American promise.