Artist Statement
I am an experimental filmmaker inspired by the goals and methods of political modernism, feminist filmmaking of the 1970s, and the cinematic avant-garde. Still entranced by the purportedly obsolete medium of small-gauge film and “amateur,” analog filmmaking technology, I revise, expand, and (sometimes) undermine the meaning of already-existing structures, stories and images. Simultaneously dense and austere, my films explore the possibility of representing female subjectivity in a medium whose formal conventions have been defined by heterosexual male desire; problems of knowing; and the dilemma, melancholy, and exhilarating devastation of being on the margins.
Bio
A. Moon is an experimental film and video maker whose work has screened in 13 countries on three continents. She has been the recipient of awards from the Princess Grace Foundation and numerous film festivals. In recent years, she has also been a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, a fellow with the Center for Asian American Media, a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award winner (2010, 2013, 2019), a Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant awardee (2022), a Baltimore City Mayor’s Office “Creative Baltimore” grantee (2022), a Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Rubys grantee for media (2015, 2018), and a Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist (2011, 2013, 2018).