Explore Sound, Music, and Video with Artist Alison O'Daniel

Explore the connections between music, sound, and film during the Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival at SAAM. Featuring a live virtual conversation with artist Alison O’Daniel. Wednesday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. ET.

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Spotlight on Alison O'Daniel

Virtual Film Screening with Artist Alison O’Daniel
Wednesday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. ET

Join artist and filmmaker Alison O’Daniel for a virtual screening and conversation about her film practice that is also an experimental deep dive into sound, music, and communication systems from a Deaf/Hard of Hearing perspective. Saisha Grayson, time-based media curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum will join O'Daniel in a live discussion sparked by excerpts from O’Daniel’s feature, The Tuba Thieves (2023), which premiered in January at Sundance Film Festival.

Participants will receive a link via email with special access to view her feature film Night Sky (2011) through March 14, 2023.

The fifth annual Women Filmmakers Festival at SAAM is presented exclusively online in March in honor of Women’s History Month and serves as prelude to Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies, an upcoming exhibition that highlights how film and video artists incorporate musical strategies, themes, and references into their work.

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Image Credits:
Alison O’Daniel, still from The Tuba Thieves, video, color, sound, 91 mins, 2023; Photo by Derek Howard

Alison O'Daniel; Photo by Betsy Seder

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