Alexis Krasilovsky

Alexis Krasilovsky, an award-winning filmmaker of the global documentaries Let Them Eat Cake and Women Behind the Camera, was born in Alaska, survived sexual assault at gunpoint, and has traveled to twenty countries. Her first film, made while an undergraduate at Yale and recently restored by a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation, was End of the Art World, featuring Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Her forthcoming novel, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Woman, (City Point Press; distributed by Simon & Schuster: https://bit.ly/4sG9Zvc) fictionalizes the making of this documentary as well as other films and videos.

Krasilovsky is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her pandemic poetry film, The Parking Lot of Dreams, adapts poems from her book, Watermelon Linguistics: New and Selected Poems, which also includes poems from the soundtracks of her other experimental films. Krasilovsky is also the author of Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling and Women Behind the Camera, and co-author of Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World.

She is a Professor Emerita of Film Production, Screenwriting, and Media Theory & Criticism, California State University Northridge, and has also given writing workshops/lectures at Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China (via Zoom), and the International Academy of Film & Media in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She lives in Los Angeles, where she dyes her hair purple and blue.

Retrospectives of Alexis Krasilovsky's film and video work have been held at the Whitney Museum In New York, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, and the Gdansk DocFilm Festival, where she received a lifetime achievement award.


http://www.alexiskrasilovsky.com

Photo Credit: Amos White


The following DVDs are available in a limited edition signed by the filmmaker:

End of the Art World: $75 Home Use / $275 Institutional Use

Blood: $50 Home Use / $275 Instutional Use

Mr. Boogie Woogie: $75 Home Use / $200 Institutional Use

Beale Street: $50 Home Use / $245 Institutional Use

Exile: $245 Institutional use

Epicenter U.: $65 Home Use / $245 Institutional Use

Some Women Writers Kill Themselves: Selected Videopoems and Poems by Alexis Krasilovsky: $75 Home Use / $275 Institutional Use

Photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Beale Street courtesy of Ernest Withers.