Amy Reid

Amy Reid is a filmmaker whose work examines the intersections between gender, national identity, and labor. Exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid's work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form through feature length films, video installations, and texts. These multi-year projects, often working closely with a group -- long haul female truckers, quilters, e-commerce sellers -- premise upon collaboration, performance, and experimentation in the celluloid and digital form. She has screened her films at such venues as the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Mimesis Film Festival, Union Docs, Los Angeles Filmforum and Workers Unite Film Festival. She completed her first feature film, Long Haulers, in 2020 and is currently completing her second feature, Grandmother's Garden, a 16mm and video essay film looking at women, quilting, and 19th and 20th century US history.

Reid received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2009 and her MFA in 2017 from the University of California, San Diego. Reid is an alumnus of The Whitney Independent Study Program. Currently she is a PhD Candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz finishing her dissertation Feminist Relationality in the Americas: Women's Practices in Filmmaking & Quilting. She co-runs an ongoing feminist film screening series at the micro-cinema Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland, CA.