Bio
Catherine Pancake is an award-winning filmmaker and sound artist. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally in a wide variety of venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, Royal Ontario Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Academy of Fine Arts Prague and Contemporary Museum Baltimore. Her awards include the Paul Robeson Independent Media Award, Jack Spadaro Documentary Award, Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and the Silver Chris. Her films have been broadcast in the U.S.A. and Great Britain and are distributed by Bullfrog Films and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. Sound art releases can be found on Ehse Records and Recorded Records in Baltimore. Pancake is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with expected degree completion in spring 2012.
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Statement
I use the language of cinema, video art, and sound art to create work strongly engaged with social and political inquiry.  My practice spans documentary, experimental narrative, and formal explorations of color, sound, and light as a means of articulating social resistance, challenging cognitive boundaries, and explicating nuanced, singular views of politically marginalized cultures.  My narrative work frequently explores aesthetic and poetic themes related to unconventional complex women and queer people as they negotiate contemporary social/political/personal milieus.  My sound art and abstract visual work combines digital and analog aesthetics to create post-psychedelic immersive experiences concerned less with transcendence and more with ecstatic embodiment.