SARAH J CHRISTMAN is a New York City based filmmaker whose films explore the intersections between people, technology and the natural world from a feminist and queer perspective.
Her work has screened widely, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, MASS MoCA, AFI and the Los Angeles Film Forum. She received the New Visions Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival for her debut film Dear Bill Gates and Jury Awards from the Ann Arbor Film Festival for Gowanus Canal and As Above, So Below. Her feature film Swarm Season (2019) screened at festivals including CPH:DOX, Sheffield DocFest, Lincoln Center's Art of the Real and RIDM. It was nominated for Best Debut Feature by Cinema Eye Honors, and is distributed by Grasshopper Film and MUBI.
Christman received her MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University and her BA in Art History and Visual Art from Oberlin College. She is a Professor of Film at Brooklyn College / CUNY.
Selected Press
SWARM SEASON, Martin Gruber, VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW
BEGRUDGING OPTIMISM AND MUCH GLOOM, Matt Turner, FRIEZE
MIGRATIONS IN SPACE, Alex McDonald, RESURGENCE & ECOLOGIST MAGAZINE
ART OF THE REAL 2019, David Perrin, MUBI NOTEBOOK
SARAH CHRISTMAN, Sarah Thornton, FEMEXFILMARCHIVE: Interviews with Feminist Experimental Filmmakers
TRACKING CHANGES, James Hansen, FILMMAKER MAGAZINE
STARS IN THE DUSTBIN: SARAH CHRISTMAN’S AS ABOVE, SO BELOW, Rachael Rakes, WUXIA JOURNAL
DOTS & HOOPS, Leo Goldsmith, THE BROOKLYN RAIL