Barbara Sternberg

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1945-03-24 (79 years old)

Place of Birth Toronto, Canada

Barbara Sternberg

Biography

Toronto filmmaker Barbara Sternberg has been making films since the mid-seventies. Her films have been screened widely across Canada as well as internationally at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Workshop in New York, and the Ontario Cinematheque, Toronto. Her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. She has been a visiting artist at a number of Canadian universities and galleries including the University of Guelph, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Dunlop Art Gallery, as well as the Universite d'Avignon, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, Sternberg was made a Laureate of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Sternberg’s film work combines reflections on the medium itself with social issues and universal questions of how we experience reality, how we as humans are situated in the world. Films are themselves experiences, realities. Her films work at the intersection of film and life- questions of vision, perception, motion and temporality. Although her main practice is film, Sternberg has worked in other media including performance, installation and video. Sternberg has been active in a number of fronts in Toronto, teaching at York University, working for Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre, serving on Toronto and Ontario Arts Council juries and committees, helping to organize the International Experimental Film Congress (May 1989), and was a founding member of Pleasure Dome, artists' film and video exhibition group. She wrote a handbook and conducted workshops on Media Literacy for high school teachers. She recently organized the "Association for Film Art" (AFFA) to actively support and promote awareness and appreciation of film art. While living in the Maritimes, Sternberg co-founded Struts, an artist-run centre in Sackville, New Brunswick. Sternberg wrote a column, "On (experimental) Film" for several years for Cinema Canada, and has written essays on artists and on filmmakers. As well, she has written on the status of film art in galleries and museums—an issue on which she has conducted symposia and lobbied vigorously.

Known For

Director

2023
touch

as Director

2023
Sunprints 1, 2, 3

as Director

2021
2020
Once I Am

as Director

2019
2017
2016
2014
COLOUR THEORY

as Director

2014
Far From

as Director

2014
Love Me

as Director

2014
Time Being V-VI

as Director

2011
2010
Carl Brown

as Director

2010
vers(ing)

as Director

2008
After Nature

as Director

2008
2007
Once

as Director

2007
2005
Praise

as Director

2004
Surfacing

as Director

2004
So What?

as Director

2004
In the Garden

as Director

2003
Tabula Rasa

as Director

2002
Burning

as Director

1997
midst

as Director

1997
Awake

as Director

1997
C’est la vie

as Director

1996
What Do You Fear?

as Director

1994
beating

as Director

1991
1990
At Present

as Director

1985
A Trilogy

as Director

1982
Transitions

as Director

1979
Opus 40

as Director

Writer

1994
beating

as Writer

Actor

2002
Burning

as Director

Editor

Producer

2019