Emily Drummer

Emily Drummer is a filmmaker whose process-driven work is rooted in immersive fieldwork and historical research. Reimagining cinematic conventions, she crafts meditative worlds that are equally thought, felt, and sensed. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from MacDowell, New York State Council on the Arts, the LEF Foundation, the Princess Grace Foundation, and the Flaherty Film Seminar. Her short films Field Resistance (2020), Histories of Simulated Intimacy (2017), and Behind the Torchlight (2015) have been showcased by venues including Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Block Museum at Northwestern University, London Short Film Festival, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, among others. She edited Marianne (dir. Rebecca Ressler, 2022), a documentary about the Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist Marianne Wiggins, which won the Special Youth Jury Award at Visions du Réel. Drummer co-authored the article "Whispers Heard at the Pictures: women’s work in early cinema" with Lise Sanders, which was published in the 2021 volume of Early Popular Visual Culture. Essays about her work have recently been published in Millennium Film Journal and the Brooklyn Rail. She received her MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa and her BA from Hampshire College.