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Film and Digital Media Department
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Film
Amy Reid is a filmmaker and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the Film and Digital Media Department. Reid's theory/practice dissertation,"Feminist Relationality in the Americas: Women's Practices in Filmmaking & Quilting," considers the aesthetic and political practices of feminist filmmakers from the long 1970s in relation to her own filmmaking and work as a film programmer. The histories Reid is examining in the realms of filmmaking, screening cultures, and distribution from the 70s inform her current film "Grandmother's Garden," an experimental feature 16mm film about women, quilting, and US history, along with an ongoing collaborative film program series, Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA.
Feminist Filmmaking
Experimental Film
Hand Processed and Analog Filmmaking
Documentary Film
American Association for University Women American Dissertation Fellowship
Selected Screenings (Long Haulers)
The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
The Roxie, San Francisco, CA
Center for Labor, University of California, Berkeley
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY
Swarthmore College, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Swarthmore, PA
Los Angeles Filmforum
Reel Work Labor Film Festival
Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA
No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM
Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM
Cine Fe, Denver, CO
Counterpath, Denver, CO
Workers Unite Film Festival
Prelinger Library, San Francisco, CA
Cryptofiction
Grandmothers Garden: Material Histories of Quilts” at The American Quilt Study Group Seminar, Portland, ME
Panel Participant in “Feminist Film Curation: Activating Pasts, Envisioning Futures” at Visible Evidence, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
“Serious Business Company and a New Feminist Film Aesthetic” at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies
“Serious Business: 1970s Feminist Film Distribution; A Site for Archival Knowledge ” at The Association for Moving Image Archivists Conference
“Freude and Serious Business: 1970s Feminist Distribution in the Bay Area” at Doing Women’s Film and TV History, The University of Sussex, UK
“Grandmother’s Garden Research Methodologies” at Thinking Gender Conference, The University of California, Los Angeles
The Woman's Film and Collective Filmmaking Practices” at Global Women’s Film Heritage, The Centre for Communication, Cultural, & Media Studies at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Grandmother’s Garden: Quilt Study Days Participant, Berkeley Museum of Fine Arts and Pacific Film Archive
(forthcoming) Small Gauge World Views: The Films of JoAnn Elam in The Moving Image Journal, Vol. 26, Issue 2.
The Woman’s Film: Formations of Feminist Filmmaking within New Left Cinema, Book Chapter in Global Women’s Film Movements: From Legacies to Heritage, Editor Stefanie Van De Peer, London: Archive Books.
“Grandmother’s Garden”, Refract Journal, Fall, Vol. 4, 116-122.
Ethics and Documentary / 194H (Summer)
Kresge: Learning in Community / Core I
Intro to Film / 20A (Summer)
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