Nancy Buchanan
Directing
Nancy Buchanan is an artist whose work has been shown in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Centre Pompidou, the Getty Research Institute, and in four Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibitions. She was the subject of a solo screening of her videotapes at REDCAT in 2013. Buchanan is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist grants, a City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs (COLA) grant, and a Rockefeller Fellowship in New Media. From 1988-2012, she taught in the Film/School at CalArts; she worked with community activist Michael Zinzun on his cable access show Message to the Grassroots for ten years; as a member of Zinzun’s LA 435 Committee, she traveled to Namibia to produce a documentary about that country’s transition to independence from the Republic of South Africa. Buchanan lives and works in Los Angeles.
Known for
Behind the camera8
- 2010The Death of Socrates Director
- 2008Flight Director
- 1987Family Tyranny (Modeling and Molding) Director
- 1987Cultural Soup Director
- 1985Work of Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction Director
- 1984Tech Knowledge Director
- 1983Webs Director
- 1983California Stories Director