Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Personal information

Known for
Directing
Known credits
8
Gender
Female
Also known as
Gwendolyn Foster-Dixon

Biography

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster makes highly personal poetic abstract films in 8mm and 16mm, and also from found 35mm film and HD video. She works in handpainted filmmaking and direct cinema as well as other techniques. Foster's award-winning films and videos have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, Black Maria Film Festival, Rencontres, as well as other notable galleries, festivals and museums around the world and are held in the UCLA Film Archive. Author of "Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader" and director of "The Women Who Made the Movies," Foster is Willa Cather Professor Emerita in Film Studies, Women's Studies and LGBT+ Studies.

Popular

Women Who Made the Movies
Movie
1990

Women Who Made the Movies

Movie · 1990

Mass for Shut-ins
Movie
2020

Mass for Shut-ins

Movie · 2020

Film for Storm de Hirsch
Movie
2021

Film for Storm de Hirsch

Movie · 2021

Dreaming in Aspect Ratio
Movie
2021

Dreaming in Aspect Ratio

Movie · 2021

Kitchen Sink Film
Movie
2020

Kitchen Sink Film

Movie · 2020