Portrait of Sasha Wortzel in black and white. A white woman with wavy brown hair in a fur trimmed coat and looks at the camera with their hands clasped.
Sasha Wortzel
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Sasha Wortzel (she/they) uses video, sculpture, installation, and sound to explore how this country’s past and present are inextricably linked through resonant spaces and their hauntings. Wortzel’s films have screened at the MOMA DocFortnight, True/False, BAMcinemaFest, Wexner Center for the Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Berlinale, among others. Wortzel’s film This Is An Address (2020) is distributed by Field of Vision. Happy Birthday Marsha! (2018; co-director Tourmaline) won special mention at Outfest and is distributed by Frameline.

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