Taylor Dunne
Taylor Dunne is a filmmaker, educator and curator of moving image arts. She has an affinity for historic photographic processes, amateur film, the personal archive and the history of the cinematic apparatus. She uses these obsessions, and a wide range of media, to paint intimate poetic essays that examine the intersection of time, history and landscape. Her work strives to make visible underrepresented histories, and to inspire citizens to participate in shaping future trends in cultural representation. Her films have been exhibited at the New York Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Crossroads Film and Video Festival (San Francisco), FOL: Experimental Film Society (Istanbul) and EXDOC (Paris). She has curated film programs for the Black Cube Artist Program, the Southern Colorado Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema Film Festival (Albuquerque) and Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image. In 2016 she co-curated Mountain Time: Films from the Interior of North America, a program of artist-made films and toured with them at micro-cinemas across Europe. Currently, she is producing her first feature length project, an essay film and digital archive that interrogates landscapes of nuclear weapons testing, manufacturing and anti-nuclear activism in the American Southwest.
She earned a BA from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School (2007) and an MFA from the Department of Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado at Boulder (2014).
She enjoys teaching film as an interdisciplinary practice, and encourages her students to engage with their community through place-based fieldwork, experimental learning, local history, regional archives, and community exhibition. She has taught special topics courses that engage in expanded concepts of media making, the personal archive, alternative histories and the essay film. Outside the classroom she teaches specialized analog film workshops at artist collectives and alternative spaces throughout the nation and abroad.