Maïa Cybelle Carpenter is an experimental filmmaker and curator living in San Francisco.
I position my work against the narrative expectations of moving-image media...
Mar 13, 2012 - Guest speaker curatorial studies class SF State University Cine 506.
Sept 21, 2011 - "The Shape of the Gaze" screens in the Film Farm program at the Film Labs meeting at 25fps: International Experimental Film Festival in Zagreb, Croatia.
April 8, 2011 - Artist talk in Kirthi Nath's Film Exhibition class at SF State University.
Nous
Filmed over a 9-year period, a close look at how we build...

29 Minutes, 16mm, B&W
Sound
Canada/France/USA 2011

Lasso
My meditation on the romance of the Wild West...

6 Minutes, Video, Color
Sound
Canada/USA 2005

Working Portraits
A document in the form of a portrait. Six women filmmakers...

8 Minutes, 16mm, B&W
Silent
Canada/USA 2005
Sans Titre
This hand-processed and painted film records the space of light...

6-8 Minutes, 16mm, B&W
Silent
USA 2002
The Shape of the Gaze
Repositioning the subject and discourse of gender ambiguity...

7 Minutes, 16mm, Color
Silent
USA 2000
Clamp
The subject ignores the viewers' participation in her pleasure...

10 Minutes, Video, B&W
Sound
USA 2000
Site Visit
This film evokes a series of fantasy maps and the imaginary...

10 Minutes, 16mm, Color
Sound
USA 1999
Maïa Cybelle Carpenter's works are distributed by The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Collectif Jeune Cinéma and Canyon Cinema
She is the President of the Board of Directors of Canyon Cinema and on the Advisory Board of LunaFest
You can contact Maïa Cybelle at: info@mccarpenter.net