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MFA 2024
Website: emilygreenberg.net
I'm currently working on a speculative documentary (tentatively titled On Exactitude in Science, Cont'd) about the rise of digital mapmaking that continues Jorge Luis Borges's short story about the quest for a perfect 1:1 map.
Stills from This Is Not a Drill (2019)
In the spring of 2019, I visited the National Museum of the United States Air Force on the Wright-Patterson AFB in Fairborn, Ohio, where an active shooter training drill was mistaken for a real active shooter alarm.
Stills from Nowhere, Now Here (2020)
Using as a starting point Rebecca Solnit’s observations about the egalitarian communities that often form post-disaster, my essay film considers the “disaster utopia” in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, ongoing police brutality protests, and a small Ohio town named Utopia.
Public Privacy Hotline (2013-2019) informs listeners about how surveillance impacts their daily lives, reclaiming the telephone as a site of communication and information. Mimicking the very surveillance technologies it critiques, the phone uses a motion sensor to “ring” at passersby and begins “dialing” as soon as the receiver is lifted.
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