Draft:Sarah Lasley
American experimental filmmaker (born 1982)
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Sarah Lasley (born 1982) is an American experimental filmmaker. Her no-budget films critique techno-utopianism with absurdist humor. She lives in Eureka, California where she is an Associate Professor at Cal Poly Humboldt..[1]
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Sarah Lasley | |
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| Born | 1982 (age 43–44) U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale School of Art (MFA, 2008) |
| Occupations | Filmmaker, educator |
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| Website | sarahlasley |
Early life and career
Sarah Lasley was born in Louisville, Kentucky to working class parents. She was valedictorian of DuPont Manual High School and attended the University of Louisville on the Kenady Lynne Hendershot full scholarship for the arts. In 2004, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture[2]. In 2008, she received her Masters of Fine Arts from Yale School of Art where she went on to teach as a Lecturer for many years [3]. While at Yale, she made her first film "EVE" starring Aja Naomi King, Austin Durant, Rachel Spencer Hewitt, and Brenna Palughi[4]. Her short film "How I Choose to Spend the Remainder of my Birthing Years"[5] won the grand prize at the Blue Star Contemporary exhibition "Projection/Projektion" in collaboration with the city of Darmstadt.[6] The award funded her short film "Welcome to the Enclave"[7], starring Brenna Palughi in both leading roles, which went on to screen at Oscar-qualifying festivals such as Slamdance Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Florida Film Festival, and Cucalorus Film Festival before distribution on NoBudge and the Slamdance Channel. The film received the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Award at the Chicago Critics Film Festival[8] and a Jury Prize at the Chicago Underground Film Festival[9]. During her time in Germany, she directed her short film "Climate Control"[10], which was made in collaboration with 30 of her students [11]. The film has screened internationally at 25 FPS Festival, London Short Film Festival, Slamdance, Ann Arbor, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, and Cucalorus. In 2026, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Film and Video. [12]
Critical reception
Lasley's work has been positively reviewed in numerous publications including Film Threat[13], RogerEbert.com[14], and the Washington Post.[15]
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