| Imelda Picherit was born in France in 1971 and grew up in Morocco. She returned to her native country and began her studies at the University of "Plastic Arts" in Paris and then moved onto furniture design at the Compagnons du Devoir du Tour de France. A few years later she left for California to study film and video. She received her BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now called CCA) in 1999.
After showing her films in many international film festivals, she received two awards for Best Experimental Short (New York Hunter College Student Film Festival, 1999 and New York International Film/Video Festival, 2001). Today she focuses mainly on her photography, drawings and light installations.
Her sources of inspiration are the urban and rural landscapes, people, fashion and cultural differences she comes across during her travels. |
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EXHIBITIONS
TRACKS photography
Club Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA 07/30/2005
Alliance Française, San Francisco, CA 06/2005
MAXsf, San Francisco, CA 04-05/2005
Club Mezzanine, San Francisco, CA 04/16/2005
Café Clem, Berkeley, CA 02-03/2005
SCREENINGS
DOVER ST 2 min / 16mm / color / silent / 1999
New York Int’l. Independent Film Festival, New York 09/2001 & L.A screening in 07/2001
Frameline San Francisco Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, CA 06/2001
Intermediate Arts Experimental Film Festival, Minneapolis, MN 05/2001
Reeling Chicago Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival, IL 11/2000
PILGFF Pittsburgh Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival, PA 10/2000
Ann Arbor University Film/Video Festival, MI 10/2000
ImageOut Rochester Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival, NY 10/2000
In Avant-Garde Cinema, NYU Cantor Film Center, NY 06/2000
Newfest New York Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival, NY 06/2000
InsideOut Toronto Lesbian & Gay Film/Video Festival, Canada 05/2000
MadCat Traveling Film Festival, US/Canada Tour 3-6/2000
Hunter College Film/Video Festival, New York, NY 12/1999
MadCat Women’s Film/Video Festival, San Francisco, CA 9/1999
Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley, CA 5/1999
EMERY 16mm/4min/color/black&white/sound/1999
New York Int’l. Independent Film Festival, NY 09/2001 and LA screening in 07/2001
Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley, CA 5/1999, 01/2000
Tous Courts Film Festival, Aix-en-Provence, France 12/1999
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA 10/1999
AWARDS
BEST SHORT EXPERIMENTAL
New York Int’l Independent Film Festival, NY. 09/2001
MAURICE KANBAR AWARD
for Best Experimental, New York, NY. 12/1999
EDUCATION
B.F.A. FILM/VIDEO California College Of Arts and Crafts (now CCA), Oakland, CA. 1999 |
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