Filmmaker Julie Murray began her art explorations in painting and mixed media, starting with Super-8 and gradually moving to filmmaking. She currently works in both film and video, exploring the perceptual frictions between the two mediums.
Her work is held in a number of collections including The Museum of Modern Art’s Film Archives, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the New York Public Library's Special Collections at Lincoln Center, NYC.
Her films regularly screen at festivals in the US and abroad. They have been included in The New York Film Festival, Images Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival and Rencontres Paris/Berlin, and have exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and the 2004 Whitney Biennial.
Murray has presented her films in retrospectives and special programs at Anthology Film Archives (New York City), Filmforum (Los Angeles), Pacific Film Archives (San Francisco), and more recently at REDCAT (LA), The Irish Film Institute/ AEMI (Dublin) and at Ambulante Festival (Mexico).
Murray's early super-8 films, created in San Francisco in the late 1980’s among the endless unfolding of limitless potential when everything was fuel for the imagination and the city held its artists close, were selected for a National Film Preservation Foundation Award in 2014.
Program
1. Anathema (1995) | 16mm | sound | 7 mins
2. Orchard (2003) | 16mm | sound | 8 mins
3. Line of Apsides (2014) | 16mm | silent | 12 mins
4. I Began to Wish (2003) | 16mm | silent | 5 mins
5. Gun Guy Shutup (2018) | HDV (35mm>16mm) | sound | 4.5 mins
6. Kowloon Shopping (2009) | (via quicktime) | sound | 5 mins
7. Frequency Objects (2014) | 35mm/video | sound | 5 mins
8. Astronomers Dream (2010) | 16mm/DV | silent | 5 mins
9. Untitled (time) (2018) | 35mm/Video | sound | 16.5 mins