Christopher Harris

Christopher Harris' award-winning films have appeared widely at festivals, museums and cinematheques including solo screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the Locarno Film Festival, and Arsenal Berlin, a two-person screening with Su Friedrich at the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, and group screenings at the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. He was also a featured artist at the 2018 Flaherty Film Seminar. His honors include a 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Film/Video, 2022 Ground Glass Award from Prismatic Ground for outstanding contribution in the field of experimental media, a Creative Capital Award, the Los Angeles Filmforum Artist Project Grant, a Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award. His fellowships include the Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Arts Practice and Scholarship, Radcliffe, Chrysalis, and Alpert/MacDowell. Writing about his work and interviews with Harris have appeared in Art in America, Film Comment, BOMB Magazine, and Film Quarterly as well as numerous books and journals. Harris is based in Iowa where he is the F. Wendell Miller Associate Professor of Film and Video Production in the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of Iowa.

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