About

Known credits:
42
Birthday:
1945-03-24
Place of birth:
Toronto, Canada
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Barbara Sternberg

Overview

Toronto filmmaker Barbara Sternberg has been making films since the mid-seventies. Her films have been screened widely across Canada as well as internationally at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Workshop in New York, and the Ontario Cinematheque, Toronto. Her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. She has been a visiting artist at a number of Canadian universities and galleries including the University of Guelph, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Dunlop Art Gallery, as well as the Universite d'Avignon, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, Sternberg was made a Laureate of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.

Sternberg’s film work combines reflections on the medium itself with social issues and universal questions of how we experience reality, how we as humans are situated in the world. Films are themselves experiences, realities. Her films work at the intersection of film and life- questions of vision, perception, motion and temporality. Although her main practice is film, Sternberg has worked in other media including performance, installation and video.

Sternberg has been active in a number of fronts in Toronto, teaching at York University, working for Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre, serving on Toronto and Ontario Arts Council juries and committees, helping to organize the International Experimental Film Congress (May 1989), and was a founding member of Pleasure Dome, artists' film and video exhibition group. She wrote a handbook and conducted workshops on Media Literacy for high school teachers. She recently organized the "Association for Film Art" (AFFA) to actively support and promote awareness and appreciation of film art. While living in the Maritimes, Sternberg co-founded Struts, an artist-run centre in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Sternberg wrote a column, "On (experimental) Film" for several years for Cinema Canada, and has written essays on artists and on filmmakers. As well, she has written on the status of film art in galleries and museums—an issue on which she has conducted symposia and lobbied vigorously.

Known for

Acting
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1990 Antigone Actor N/A
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Directing
2023 Sunprints 1, 2, 3 Directing Director N/A
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2023 touch Directing Director N/A
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2021 Anything is Everything Directing Director N/A
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2020 Once I Am Directing Director N/A
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2019 Untitled #1 (sun vision) Directing Director N/A
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2017 The Earth in the Sea Directing Director N/A
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2016 The Human Condition Directing Director N/A
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2014 Love Me Directing Director N/A
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2014 Time Being V-VI Directing Director 59
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2014 COLOUR THEORY Directing Director N/A
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2014 Far From Directing Director N/A
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2011 In the Nature of Things Directing Director N/A
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2010 Carl Brown Directing Director N/A
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2010 vers(ing) Directing Director N/A
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2008 Beginning and Ending Directing Director N/A
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2008 After Nature Directing Director N/A
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2007 Once Directing Director N/A
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2007 Time Being I – IV Directing Director N/A
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2005 Praise Directing Director N/A
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2004 So What? Directing Director N/A
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2004 In the Garden Directing Director N/A
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2004 Surfacing Directing Director N/A
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2003 Tabula Rasa Directing Director N/A
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2002 Burning Directing Director N/A
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1999 Like a Dream that Vanishes Directing Director 58
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1997 C’est la vie Directing Director 59
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1997 midst Directing Director N/A
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1997 Awake Directing Director N/A
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1996 What Do You Fear? Directing Director N/A
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1994 beating Directing Director 61
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1991 Through and Through Directing Director N/A
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1990 At Present Directing Director N/A
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1988 Tending Towards the Horizontal Directing Director 61
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1985 A Trilogy Directing Director N/A
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1982 Transitions Directing Director N/A
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1979 Opus 40 Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2019 Untitled #1 (sun vision) Writing Writer N/A
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1994 beating Writing Writer 61
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Production
2019 Untitled #1 (sun vision) Production Producer N/A
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Editing
1999 Like a Dream that Vanishes Editing Editor 58
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