Lee Anne Schmitt
Directing
I am a writer and director of both film and performance events, working in film, writing, photography, and performance to create work that elevates the everyday elements of American life towards the level of cultural ritual. I have set out to explore the juncture between fiction and documentary that defines the ‘essay film’. All of my work begins with landscape, the experience of living in a particular place at a particular time, the phenomena of time and space, and the space between the ideology and the reality of the spaces we live within.
Known for
Behind the camera15
- 2026Adulthood Writer
- 2025Evidence Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor
- 2020Cry Love Director
- 2018The Farnsworth Scores Director
- 2017Purge This Land Producer, Director
- 2015Williams Lake Director
- 2015womannightfilm Director
- 2011Three Stories Director of Photography, Editor, Director
- 2011The Last Buffalo Hunt Director
- 2010Bowers Cave