Caroline Rumley is a Southern filmmaker who collages solo-shot film, found and archival footage, text, and sound to tell mostly uncomfortable stories. Her films have screened internationally at varied venues - from the Sydney Film Festival to Amsterdam’s IDFA to Berlin's Zebra Poetry Film Fest to Sundance. Caroline holds an MFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in Film, Video, and Digital Imaging from Georgia State University.
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Absolut received the Best Film Award - thematic program - at REELpoetry 2024 in Houston
“I was instantly gripped and fascinated... Caroline Rumley makes it clear in various of her statements as artist and researcher that she is interested in the potentiality of short form or ‘thin-sliced’ audiovisual pieces – works of short duration that do something quickly, that pack a punch, that allow a sudden experience of illumination.”
— Adrian Martin writing in InTransition