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  • MM Serra

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    serram@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    MM Serra

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    MM Serra is an experimental filmmaker, curator, author, and the Executive Director of Film-Makers' Cooperative, the world's oldest and largest archive of independent media. In Fall 2010, Serra co-curated, Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant Garde Film Festival, a seven program, three day event at the Pacific Design Center with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2007 - 2008, Serra was the curator of a six-part experimental film series titled “Cinema of the Unusual” at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.  In 2007, Serra curated and traveled with the show “New York Experimental” in Warsaw and Paznan, Poland. In December 2008, the Office of Contemporary Art in Oslo, Norway, invited MM Serra to lecture at and curate a two hour program titled “Art (core): Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body”.  Her film work was included in the program of “New York Experimental,” a four part historical overview of experimental film from 1946-2007.  Her film, Chop Off,premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight Series in 2009.  Her chapter on the work of Carolee Schneemann, titled “Eye/Body: The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann”, was published in Anthology of Experimental Filmmakers by Duke University Press in 2007, 2008.


    Current Courses

    Avant Garde & the Moving Image
    NFLM 3246, Fall 2024

    Future Courses

    Non-Camera Filmmaking
    NFLM 3520, Spring 2025

    Non-Camera Filmmaking
    NFLM 0352, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Non-Camera Filmmaking
    NFLM 3520, Spring 2024

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