Artist Statement/ Biography

Traci’s art practice hinges on research, collaboration, and political engagement. Her experimental essay films privilege the soundscape, enmeshing it with images to induce unfamiliar and emotional sensory experiences only possible in cinema. Though they diverge in subject matter, each of her films poses questions about systemic issues by way of portraiture.

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Traci Hercher is a Brooklyn-based experimental filmmaker. She graduated with her MFA in Film and Video Production in 2019 from the University of Iowa. Her 16mm essay films have screened internationally at festivals and venues including The DocYard, Walker Art Center, San Diego Underground Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Process Festival, Revolutions per Minute Festival, AcreTV.org, Artists’ Television Access, the Nightingale, and the Poetics and Politics Documentary Research Symposium at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2018 she received the Nonfiction Shorts Prize at Northampton Film Festival in Massachusetts. In 2019, she participated in artist residencies at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and MASS MoCA, and she will be a MacDowell Colony Fellow in 2021.