BIO
Lisa Seidenberg has been working at the intersection of media, art and journalism for many years.
Her documentaries include: Pledge of Allegiance Blues (2004), Being Human (2002), Ester Street (2006), The Road Taken…The Merritt Parkway (2010), I Have Seen the Future (2011), Mongolia on the Edge of Time (1998); twice received the Individual Artist Award from the Connecticut Commission on Arts and Culture, NYSCA Artist Grant, CWOS Artist Commission, selected for Silvermine Art of the NorthEast (AONE) and CCAC Partners grant.
As a Director of Photography, broadcast clients included ABC News, BBC, Sky TV, MTV, WTN, REUTERS, PBS, WDR, and ABC Australia; international projects in Russia, China, Ukraine, Europe, Morocco. Other credits inc "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" with Robin Leach, reality TV shows such as "Trauma: Life in the E.R." and assignments in war zones in Lebanon, Syria, Haiti, Cambodia and Kurdistan.
In the 1980s, she filmed documentaries in Soviet Russia, including the concert tours of Billy Joel, Paul Simon, John Denver as well as crossing Siberia for Stolichnaya and PepsiCo.
As a student in the 1970s, she was immersed with video art and public access, working with video artists Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, Juan Downey, Bill Viola and on the legendary “MEDIA BURN”, by the collective Ant Farm.
Lisa Seidenberg is profiled in "Women Behind the Camera", dir A. Krasilovsky. womenbehindthecamera.com/filmmakers.html
Lisa Seidenberg has been working at the intersection of media, art and journalism for many years.
Her documentaries include: Pledge of Allegiance Blues (2004), Being Human (2002), Ester Street (2006), The Road Taken…The Merritt Parkway (2010), I Have Seen the Future (2011), Mongolia on the Edge of Time (1998); twice received the Individual Artist Award from the Connecticut Commission on Arts and Culture, NYSCA Artist Grant, CWOS Artist Commission, selected for Silvermine Art of the NorthEast (AONE) and CCAC Partners grant.
As a Director of Photography, broadcast clients included ABC News, BBC, Sky TV, MTV, WTN, REUTERS, PBS, WDR, and ABC Australia; international projects in Russia, China, Ukraine, Europe, Morocco. Other credits inc "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" with Robin Leach, reality TV shows such as "Trauma: Life in the E.R." and assignments in war zones in Lebanon, Syria, Haiti, Cambodia and Kurdistan.
In the 1980s, she filmed documentaries in Soviet Russia, including the concert tours of Billy Joel, Paul Simon, John Denver as well as crossing Siberia for Stolichnaya and PepsiCo.
As a student in the 1970s, she was immersed with video art and public access, working with video artists Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman, Juan Downey, Bill Viola and on the legendary “MEDIA BURN”, by the collective Ant Farm.
Lisa Seidenberg is profiled in "Women Behind the Camera", dir A. Krasilovsky. womenbehindthecamera.com/filmmakers.html
Exhibitions & Screenings
2023
Institute Library ", I Remember" video poem, New Haven, CT
City Lights Gallery "Can We Talk", Bridgeport, CT. Screening of 3 videos
2022
Belfast Book Festival, Belfast, N Ireland UK, screening of "America"
2020
Westport2020PPP - People Politics Planet, Juried show. "Self-portrait with Pink Hat"
Milford Arts Council - Story of Women, Juried Show "Grace Hartigan"
Rendez-Vous Images - RDVI - "DARK POOLS: Historic Swimming Pools of Berlin" Palais des Congres, Strasbourg, Fr
Carriage Barn Art Center, New Canaan, CT Annual Juried Show, "Grace Hartigan Walks on her roof"
2019
"DARK POOLS" selected for Photo Book of the Year 2019, Davis/ Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
Art Visuals and Poetry Film Festival, Vienna, Austria. METRO Kinokulturhaus
NY Art BOOK FAIR "Dark Pools" September
Experiments in Cinema screening "America" Albuquerque, NM
Reel Poetry HoustonTX - March, 2019 - screening "America" and "I Remember"
"Financial Consequences" Symposium, London School of Economics - screening "America"
https://theinstitute.info/?p=3502, February
Carriage Barn Art Center LIVE GIRL Exhibition "Josephine Baker" and "Renee Perl"
2018
7th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece "America" December
Juteback Poetry Film Festival, October 19, Fort Collins, CO, Screening: "America"
Zebra Film Festival, Munster , Germany, 27-30 September: "America"
Puffin Foundation, "Un-America" (Sept 29-Nov. 4) Teaneck, NJ, Exhibition - looped installation, "First They Came..."
http://www.puffinculturalforum.org/past-events-archive/event/688-exhibition-opening-unamerica.html
Figueira de Foz Film Art 2018, Portugal, (Aug27-Sept 1) screening: "I Remember"
"Wish You Were Here" Curated Exhibition, Institute Library, New Haven (June-Sept) "Letter from Mom"
Film & Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles, (April), screening: "Strangers"
Newlyn International Film Festival, Newlyn, UK, (April) screening: "America"
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Silence-Breakers Exhibition, screening"Childhood" (March)
Europa Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain. "Letter From Mom" (February)
6th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece. Premiere: "Strangers" (January)
2023
Institute Library ", I Remember" video poem, New Haven, CT
City Lights Gallery "Can We Talk", Bridgeport, CT. Screening of 3 videos
2022
Belfast Book Festival, Belfast, N Ireland UK, screening of "America"
2020
Westport2020PPP - People Politics Planet, Juried show. "Self-portrait with Pink Hat"
Milford Arts Council - Story of Women, Juried Show "Grace Hartigan"
Rendez-Vous Images - RDVI - "DARK POOLS: Historic Swimming Pools of Berlin" Palais des Congres, Strasbourg, Fr
Carriage Barn Art Center, New Canaan, CT Annual Juried Show, "Grace Hartigan Walks on her roof"
2019
"DARK POOLS" selected for Photo Book of the Year 2019, Davis/ Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
Art Visuals and Poetry Film Festival, Vienna, Austria. METRO Kinokulturhaus
NY Art BOOK FAIR "Dark Pools" September
Experiments in Cinema screening "America" Albuquerque, NM
Reel Poetry HoustonTX - March, 2019 - screening "America" and "I Remember"
"Financial Consequences" Symposium, London School of Economics - screening "America"
https://theinstitute.info/?p=3502, February
Carriage Barn Art Center LIVE GIRL Exhibition "Josephine Baker" and "Renee Perl"
2018
7th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece "America" December
Juteback Poetry Film Festival, October 19, Fort Collins, CO, Screening: "America"
Zebra Film Festival, Munster , Germany, 27-30 September: "America"
Puffin Foundation, "Un-America" (Sept 29-Nov. 4) Teaneck, NJ, Exhibition - looped installation, "First They Came..."
http://www.puffinculturalforum.org/past-events-archive/event/688-exhibition-opening-unamerica.html
Figueira de Foz Film Art 2018, Portugal, (Aug27-Sept 1) screening: "I Remember"
"Wish You Were Here" Curated Exhibition, Institute Library, New Haven (June-Sept) "Letter from Mom"
Film & Video Poetry Symposium, Los Angeles, (April), screening: "Strangers"
Newlyn International Film Festival, Newlyn, UK, (April) screening: "America"
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Silence-Breakers Exhibition, screening"Childhood" (March)
Europa Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain. "Letter From Mom" (February)
6th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece. Premiere: "Strangers" (January)
2017
O'Bheal Video Poetry Festival, Cork, Ireland. Premiere: "I Remember"
Nasty Woman Film Festival, New Haven Premiere: "First They Came"
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM USA. Premiere; "Letter From Mom"
ATTICUS REVIEW, Online Literary magazine. "You Live"
atticusreview.org/you-live/
O'Bheal Video Poetry Festival, Cork, Ireland. Premiere: "I Remember"
Nasty Woman Film Festival, New Haven Premiere: "First They Came"
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM USA. Premiere; "Letter From Mom"
ATTICUS REVIEW, Online Literary magazine. "You Live"
atticusreview.org/you-live/
2016
Group Global 3000, Berlin, Germany. Curated Art Show. "Slippery Slope"
5th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece. "Short Poems"
Moscow Video Art Festival. Moscow, RU. "FLIGHT"
A.I.R. Gallery Brooklyn, Brooklyn , NY. Curated Art Show. "HEResies"
ArtVideoKoeln Refugee Collection, Cologne, Germany. "FLIGHT".
2015
"70th Anniversary Memorial Remembrance of Atomic Bomb", New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven, CT
"Cold War Film Clips"
Video Danube, Grien, Austria. "Mermaid Re-Mix"
VideoHolica Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria. International premiere: "Mermaid Re-Mix"
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM "STAR SPANGLED".
2014
CWOS ArtSpace Armory Show "Transported/Illuminated" - Commissioned Installation - "Eberswalder Strasse"
TAKT Kunstraum Berlin Germany. Artist Residency
2013
"Home" Exhibition, Westport Art Center, CT Juried Show; "Rust Desert"
EXP-Portland Film Festival, Portland, OR USA Screening; "Rust Desert"
Art of the NorthEast, Silvermine Art Guild, New Canaan, CT USA "Heresies"
"Judaica Now", City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT Curated exhibition. "Ester Street"
2012
LAMP: Light Artists Making Art, New Haven. Commissioned Video Projection: "New Haven Home Movie"
"Make Art Not War" City Lights Gallery Bridgeport, CT Curated Show "Drone Installation II"
"Video Art Show" Shefhauldt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, "Drone Installation I"
Curator of exhibition -"The Cold War in Our Backyard" Westport Historical Society, Westport, CT
"City Canvasses", Outdoor Large-scale video projection, Bridgeport, Ct - Commission from CT Commission for Culture & Tourism: "Turbulence", dance video
2011
63rd International Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale). Berlin, Germany. World Premiere: "Slippery Slope"
London Documentary Film Festival, London, UK. "Slippery Slope"
2010
Athens Jewish Film Festival, Athens, GA USA premiere (documentary): "Ester Street"
Coney Island Film Festival, NYC USA Premiere (documentary) "I Have Seen the Future"
Connecticut Film Festival, "I Have Seen the Future"
Avon Theatre, Stamford, CT USA Premiere (documentary): "The Road taken...The Merritt Parkway"
2005-8
"Women Make Art" short film commissioned from Women's Caucus for Art CT
"Pledge of Allegiance Blues" Feature documentary. Sundance Film Festival, Memphis International Film Festival,
Anthology Film Archives, London Documentary, Boston Underground, Atheist Film festival, Sacramento Film and Music Festival
2002, Coolidge Corner Theater, Cambridge , MA
"BEING HUMAN" - Frameline Film & Video Festival, San Francisco, USA, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, Boston Underground Film Festival
Group Global 3000, Berlin, Germany. Curated Art Show. "Slippery Slope"
5th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece. "Short Poems"
Moscow Video Art Festival. Moscow, RU. "FLIGHT"
A.I.R. Gallery Brooklyn, Brooklyn , NY. Curated Art Show. "HEResies"
ArtVideoKoeln Refugee Collection, Cologne, Germany. "FLIGHT".
2015
"70th Anniversary Memorial Remembrance of Atomic Bomb", New Haven Free Public Library, New Haven, CT
"Cold War Film Clips"
Video Danube, Grien, Austria. "Mermaid Re-Mix"
VideoHolica Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria. International premiere: "Mermaid Re-Mix"
Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, NM "STAR SPANGLED".
2014
CWOS ArtSpace Armory Show "Transported/Illuminated" - Commissioned Installation - "Eberswalder Strasse"
TAKT Kunstraum Berlin Germany. Artist Residency
2013
"Home" Exhibition, Westport Art Center, CT Juried Show; "Rust Desert"
EXP-Portland Film Festival, Portland, OR USA Screening; "Rust Desert"
Art of the NorthEast, Silvermine Art Guild, New Canaan, CT USA "Heresies"
"Judaica Now", City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, CT Curated exhibition. "Ester Street"
2012
LAMP: Light Artists Making Art, New Haven. Commissioned Video Projection: "New Haven Home Movie"
"Make Art Not War" City Lights Gallery Bridgeport, CT Curated Show "Drone Installation II"
"Video Art Show" Shefhauldt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, "Drone Installation I"
Curator of exhibition -"The Cold War in Our Backyard" Westport Historical Society, Westport, CT
"City Canvasses", Outdoor Large-scale video projection, Bridgeport, Ct - Commission from CT Commission for Culture & Tourism: "Turbulence", dance video
2011
63rd International Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale). Berlin, Germany. World Premiere: "Slippery Slope"
London Documentary Film Festival, London, UK. "Slippery Slope"
2010
Athens Jewish Film Festival, Athens, GA USA premiere (documentary): "Ester Street"
Coney Island Film Festival, NYC USA Premiere (documentary) "I Have Seen the Future"
Connecticut Film Festival, "I Have Seen the Future"
Avon Theatre, Stamford, CT USA Premiere (documentary): "The Road taken...The Merritt Parkway"
2005-8
"Women Make Art" short film commissioned from Women's Caucus for Art CT
"Pledge of Allegiance Blues" Feature documentary. Sundance Film Festival, Memphis International Film Festival,
Anthology Film Archives, London Documentary, Boston Underground, Atheist Film festival, Sacramento Film and Music Festival
2002, Coolidge Corner Theater, Cambridge , MA
"BEING HUMAN" - Frameline Film & Video Festival, San Francisco, USA, Anthology Film Archives, NYC, Boston Underground Film Festival