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Rea Tajiri

  • School of Theater, Film and Media Arts

    • Film and Media Arts

      • Associate Professor

Biography

Elisabeth Subrin is a filmmaker, artist and writer, producing both narrative films and works in video, photography, and installation. She teaches courses in screenwriting, directing, moving image art, and feminist film studies. Subrin is a 2020 Fulbright Research Scholar in France at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts de Paris-Cergy. Prior to teaching at Temple, she taught at Harvard University, Amherst College, Cooper Union, Bennington College and the Yale University School of Art MFA Program and was Distinguished Visiting Graduate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University.  She received an MFA in video from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA in filmmaking from Massachusetts College of Art, where she recently received the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award. Her award-winning work has been exhibited extensively in museums, galleries and film festivals throughout the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial, the Guggenheim Museum, the Vienna Viennale, the Walker Art Museum, The New York Film Festival and international film festivals globally. She has presented her work in solo exhibitions including at The Jewish Museum, New York, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, VOLTA New York, Film Society of Lincoln Center and in a mid-career retrospective at Sue Scott Gallery in New York. Her award-winning feature narrative, A Woman, A Part, starring Maggie Siff, was theatrically released in 2017 and acquired by Netflix and Showtime. Subrin is currently conducting research for a film and book project about the late French actress Maria Schneider.

Productions

Recent Work:

  • Professor Subrin’s two-channel projection Sweet Ruin is currently on view at the Hessel Museum of Art (through December 31, 2012) at Bard College.
  • Professor Subrin’s video installation Lost Tribes and Promised Lands is on view at the Haggarty Museum of Art in Milwaukee (through December 22, 2012).
  • In 2012 August, Professor Subrin’s film Shulie was cited as one of “Greatest Films Ever” in the just released British Film Institute Sight and Sound poll of international film critics.The film was also cited in a New York Times article on August 30th, 2012, about the recent death of Shulamith Firestone, a prominent feminist writer.