Bio

A. Rosalie Chandler is a multidisciplinary artist working in film, writing, and archival practice. She received her BFA in film/digital video from The University of the Arts in 2005. Upon graduating she received the W.W. Smith Prize which allowed her to travel through Europe shooting her favorite medium: Super 8 film. Her short films have screened at the US Super 8 + DV Film Festival (New Jersey Film Festival), the Festival of Independents (Philadelphia Film Festival), and the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, where The Soul of Mount Moriah received a Director’s Choice award.

She regularly presents moving-image work through live and community-based platforms, including the Twitch stream Fort90TV and the monthly Drone Lab + Open Projector night at Delight Factory. Chandler has performed in storytelling programs such as RISK! and No, You Tell It!, and has participated in numerous Moth StorySlams.

Her writing has appeared in Stereo World, the magazine of the National Stereoscopic Association, where she received the 2018 Lou Smaus Award for Best Article on Modern Stereoscopy. She is currently at work on a memoir, a Choose Your Own Adventure book, and an ongoing series of experimental films that treat lived experience as primary source material.

Based in Brooklyn, New York, she has served on the boards of the Greater Astoria Historical Society and the Blind Travel Foundation.