Sarah Bliss

Sarah Bliss is a filmmaker, artist and educator whose hand-processed films and expanded works engage personal and social history to facilitate deep encounter with the sensate, desiring body. Her work is screened and exhibited internationally at museums, galleries, microcinemas and festivals including the Edinburgh International Film Festival; Antimatter; ARKIPEL Jakarta; Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei; Fracto Film Encounter Berlin; Montreal Underground Film Festival; and Anthology Film Archives. She has been recognized with fellowships from the Flaherty Seminar, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Scotland’s Alchemy Film Festival, and is an Independent Imaging Retreat alum. Current projects include a personal doc tracing her family history of desire; and production of film tints/toners made from mushrooms, lichen, bark and nuts. She received a Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School.