Cathy Lee Crane

Since 1994, Cathy LEE CRANE (1962, US) has crafted a body of work that mines the historical archive to produce lyrical films of speculative history. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 in recognition for her unique re-combinations of archival and staged material. Pasolini’s Last Words (2012) was supported by the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. It premiered at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema as a “gem of world cinema.” Six of her award-winning short films are distributed on 16mm by Canyon Cinema and Light Cone. Crane’s first feature-length narrative film, The Manhattan Front (2018), premiered at SFIndie Fest to rave reviews. Since 2017, her ongoing work on the US-Mexico border has produced numerous iterations of its cross-platform design, Crossing Columbus (2020), a feature-length documentary awarded Best Feature Documentary at the Syracuse International Film Festival and terrestrial sea (2022), a short film awarded a Jury Citation from the Festival de Cinema da Fronteira in Brazil.

Filmography

(selection) white city (1994), Pasolini’s Last Words (2012, doc), The Manhattan Front (2018), Crossing Columbus (2020, doc), terrestrial sea (2022, short), Drawing the Line (2022, installation)

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