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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.
Lee Anne Schmitt is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer, known for her faculty role at CalArts and her scholarly approach to experimental documentary.
She is recognized for essay films such as California Company Town, Purge This Land, and Evidence, which examine the relationship between landscape and political history.
Her work combines photography, writing, and performance to create essay films that analyze the space between American reality and ideological constructs.