Shari Frilot
2004 Fellow
Los Angeles, CA
H2O
A narrative about western society’s flawed assumption of the infinite abundance of fresh water, and its delusional consequences on life, love, mortality and politics.
Selected Works
Film
Strange & Charmed (2003)
Black Nations Queer Nations? Video Project (1996)
What is Alive? (1994)
A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality (1992)
Fly Boy (1988)
Installation
What Is A Line (1994)
A Cosmic Demonstration of Sexuality (1992)
FIRE! – Earth Form One (1992)
Accomplishments
Shari Frilot’s films have been featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, Cinevegas, the Tribeca Film Festival, Africa in the Picture in Amsterdam, Festival de Films Gays & Lesbiens de Paris, the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Festival, the International Black Cinema Festival in Berlin and the London Lesbian & Gay Film Festivalwork. Among other awards, she received the Best of Fest at the Inside/Out Lesbian & Gay Toronto Film Festival. Her work has been put in the Permanent Collections of Barnard College, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College and Bates College. Frilot has been a programmer for the Sundance Film Festival since 1998. Prior to that, she co-founded and programmed Mix Brasil and Mix Mexico, the first gay film festivals in Brazil and Mexico, respectively, and was director of Mix: The New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival and Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Education
1994 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1987 AB, Harvard-Radcliffe University, Cambridge, MA