Elizabeth’s passion for cinema and writing began as a young child in her grandmother’s VHS room. Hundreds of film titles towered over her. She would sit for hours arranging each tape by genre and alphabetical order, eventually pulling a few off the shelves to watch on repeat. This was her first exposure to a cinema archive, and it wouldn’t be her last.
Since those early years, Elizabeth has gone on to find new pursuits in exploring cinema. She began making movies with friends and eventually committed to studying film at a graduate level. While at the University of Utah she learned how to shoot on analog film, collaborate with other filmmakers both in front of and behind the camera, and write critically about the medium. No genre or style were left untouched.
Her intensive studies exposed her to a multitude of approaches to making movies and the manifold theoretical and philosophical concepts that shape the substance of films. Through this she has come to produce an original portfolio of films that span narrative, documentary, artist’s moving image, and hybrid genres. She has had the pleasure of conspiring with other international and national artists on their film projects, providing both cinematography and editing services.
In 2023, she was invited to be Basement Films’ Artist-in-Residence. It is here she began work on documenting Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Basement Films—a microcinema and collective of artists who run a 16mm film archive. Basement Films works extensively with the New Mexico population to encourage community-based education. Workshops are held to teach hand-made cinema classes and encourage exploration of over 7,000 16mm films within their archive. Basement Films hosts a yearly audio-visual show and the iconic Experiments in Cinema film festival which proudly showcases the work of global moving image artists.
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