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domedina@ucsd.edu
Biography:
Dolissa Medina is an experimental filmmaker, writer and curator whose work has screened internationally at film festivals, universities, conferences and museums. Festival highlights include Rotterdam, Oberhausen (Germany), and the San Francisco Int'l Film Festival. Her work has also exhibited at Palacio Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Exit Art Gallery in New York, San Francisco’s Galeria de la Raza, and the Oakland Museum of California. Medina has received grants from the San Francisco Arts Commission, the LEF Foundation, the Pacific Pioneer Fund, and the Film Arts Foundation. She has guest lectured at several universities, including UC-Davis, University of San Francisco, and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Medina studied journalism and history at San Francisco State. Previously based in the Bay Area, she is originally from South Texas.
Research Interests:
Urbanism, Architecture and Cartography; San Francisco History; Mythology and Folklore; Alchemy and Jungian Psychology
Primary Published or Creative Work:
Cartography of Ashes (2006, 45 min.); 19: Victoria, Texas” (2006, 4 min.); A Lineage of Kind Men (2004, 3.5 min.); Fight or Flight (2002, 1 min.); Grounds (2000, 11 min.)
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