Caroline Rumley is an American filmmaker from the South who collages solo-shot film, found and archival footage, text, and sound to illuminate a personal or public experience. She makes experimental poetry films and poetic documentaries. Her work looks at power structures and control, and the resulting loss or lack, and moments of clarity. Her films have screened internationally at varied venues - from Melbourne’s Biennial of Video Art to Amsterdam’s IDFA to Berlin's Zebra Poetry Film Fest to Sundance.
“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
Upcoming
Shoes without Feet at REELPOETRY- curated thematic program of activist work entitled Changing the World one Poem at a Time
Stitch at Thomas Edison Film Festival
