Establishing and Reinforcing
a Community of Emerging Artists in NYC
SARAH BALLARD
Digital and sound, 16mm 3 minutes 13 seconds
Digital and sound, 16mm 3 minutes 13 seconds
Digital and sound, 16mm 3 minutes 13 seconds
Digital and sound, 16mm 3 minutes 13 seconds
ARTIST STATEMENT:
to be with you (grotto) fuses 16mm hand-processed film and digital artifacts in an attempt to adapt a love song written and performed by my mother in the 1980s.
Sarah Ballard is a filmmaker and educator whose work concerns hauntological subjects––afterimages of colonialism, ghosts of the working class, and political residues of hysteria. Her work has screened at festivals such as CROSSROADS, Antimatter [Media Art], San Diego Underground Film Festival, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, and Montreal Independent Film Festival. She is a recipient of the 2023 Princess Grace Award in Film and is teaching and completing her MFA in Cinematic Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres.