Barbara Sternberg

Directing·Mar 24, 1945·Toronto, Canada

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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.

Film	Credit
Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life2025 · Director	Director
touch2023 · Director	Director
Sunprints 1, 2, 32023 · Director	Director
Anything is Everything2021 · Director	Director
Once I Am2020 · Director	Director
Untitled #1 (sun vision)2019 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
The Earth in the Sea2017 · Director	Director
The Human Condition2016 · Director	Director
COLOUR THEORY2014 · Director	Director
Far From2014 · Director	Director
Love Me2014 · Director	Director
Time Being V-VI2014 · Director	Director
In the Nature of Things2011 · Director	Director
Carl Brown2010 · Director	Director
vers(ing)2010 · Director	Director
After Nature2008 · Director	Director
Beginning and Ending2008 · Director	Director
Once2007 · Director	Director
Time Being I – IV2007 · Director	Director
Praise2005 · Director	Director
Surfacing2004 · Director	Director
So What?2004 · Director	Director
In the Garden2004 · Director	Director
Tabula Rasa2003 · Director	Director
Burning2002 · Director	Director
Like a Dream that Vanishes1999 · Director	Director
C’est la vie1997 · Director	Director
midst1997 · Director	Director
Awake1997 · Director	Director
What Do You Fear?1996 · Director	Director
beating1994 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Through and Through1991 · Director	Director
Antigone1990 · Actor	Actor
At Present1990 · Director	Director
Tending Towards the Horizontal1988 · Director	Director
A Trilogy1985 · Director	Director
Transitions1982 · Director	Director
Opus 401979 · Director	Director