Naomi Uman
Naomi Uman is an American and Mexican experimental filmmaker and a visual artist. Uman received an MFA in Filmmaking from CalArts in 1998. Uman's work is often "marked by her signature handmade aesthetic, often shooting, hand-processing and editing her films with the most rudimentary of practices." She was once private chef to Gloria Vanderbilt, Malcolm Forbes, and Calvin Klein.
Naomi Uman
- Name
- Naomi Uman
- Birthplace
- New York City, United States
- Education
- California Institute of the Arts, 1998
- Movement
- Feminism
- Known for
- Video art, Film director, Visual artist
- Born
- 1962 · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- artist · filmmaker · film producer · director
- Fields
- video art
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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Naomi Uman is an American and Mexican experimental filmmaker and a visual artist. Uman received an MFA in Filmmaking from CalArts in 1998. Uman's work is often "marked by her signature handmade aesthetic, often shooting, hand-processing and editing her films with the most rudimentary of practices." She was once private chef to Gloria Vanderbilt, Malcolm Forbes, and Calvin Klein.
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Naomi Uman (born 1962) is an American artist, director and film producer, among other activities. The artist was born in New York City.
Naomi Uman studied at California Institute of the Arts. The artist is active in video art. Naomi Uman is associated with feminism. The artist received Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Her award-winning films have screened widely at major international festivals as well as the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City.
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• Name — Naomi Uman • Birthplace — New York City, United States • Education — California Institute of the Arts, 1998 • Movement — Feminism • Known for — Video art, Film director, Visual artist • Notable Works — Leche, Removed, Unnamed Film, Videodiary 2-1-2006 To The Present
Filmography
Filmography
• Love of 3 Oranges (1993) • Grass (1997) • Leche (1998) • Removed (1999) • Private Movie (2000) • Developing Memory (2002) • Hand Eye Coordination (2002) • Clay (2008) • Coda (2008) • Kalendar (2008) • On This Day (2008) • Unnamed Film (2008)
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Uman was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for Film, US & Canada in 2002. In 2008 she was awarded a Media Arts Fellowship by Tribeca Film Institute.
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- 1.Naomi Uman - Winter 2016 Artist in Residence Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto. lift.ca.
- 2.Creative Capital - Investing in Artists who Shape the Future. creative-capital.org.
- 3.Naomi Uman. Peripheral Produce. 25 March 2012.
- 4.Naomi Uman. Experimental Cinema.
- 5.Canyon Cinema. Naomi Uman.
- 6.John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Naomi Uman. www.gf.org.
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