Lee Anne Schmitt

Directing·Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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I am a writer and director of both film and performance events, working in film, writing, photography, and performance to create work that elevates the everyday elements of American life towards the level of cultural ritual. I have set out to explore the juncture between fiction and documentary that defines the ‘essay film’. All of my work begins with landscape, the experience of living in a particular place at a particular time, the phenomena of time and space, and the space between the ideology and the reality of the spaces we live within.

Film	Credit
Adulthood2026 · Writer	Writer
Evidence2025 · Director, Screenplay	Director, Screenplay
CCry Love2020 · Director	Director
The Farnsworth Scores2018 · Director	Director
Purge This Land2017 · Producer, Director	Producer, Director
WWilliams Lake2015 · Director	Director
wwomannightfilm2015 · Director	Director
TThree Stories2011 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
The Last Buffalo Hunt2011 · Director	Director
BBowers Cave2010 · Director	Director
TThe Wash2009 · Director of Photography, Director	Director of Photography, Director
California Company Town2008 · Director	Director
Awake and Sing2003 · Director	Director
Nightingale2002 · Director	Director
Las Vegas2000 · Director	Director