
Margaret Rorison
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Margaret Rorison
Biography
Margaret Rorison is filmmaker and curator from Baltimore, MD. Her current work focuses on alternative photographic processes, experimentation, and DIY methods of analog filmmaking.
Her moving image work has been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Miami PULSE Art Fair, Mono No Aware VI & VII, Microscope Gallery, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, and The Walker Art Center. Rorison won The 2018 Baker Artist Award for Film, she is a recipient of a 2016 Rubys Artist Project Grants, a recipient of The 2019 and 2016 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards and a 2015 Sondheim Semi-finalist. She is the co-founder and curator of the film series Sight Unseen which focuses on bringing contemporary image-based work to Baltimore. The series started as a roaming entity in 2012 and now has a permanent home at The SNF Parkway Theatre in Baltimore City.
She works as an audiovisual specialist at The National Gallery of Art and teaches filmmaking and photography at The Baltimore School for the Arts, The Maryland Institute College of Art and Anne Arundel Community College.
Crew
(2024)
Was It a Dream or a Memory
Director
(2024)
emergence
Director
(2021)
Baltimore
Director
(2019)
understory
Director
(2017)
Memory of August
Director
(2017)
Gedanken aus der Luft
Director
(2015)
One Document for Hope
Director
(2015)
The Road to Kalmar
Director
(2015)
Dark Logic
Director
(2014)
Funes el memorioso
Director
(2014)
vindmøller
Director
(2013)
The Waiting Sands
Director
(2013)
PULL/DRIFT
Director
(2013)
DER SPAZIERGANG
Director
(2012)
SCANSION
Director
(2012)
The Birds of Chernobyl
Director
(2012)
Gowanus Haze
Director