JOEL SCHLEMOWITZ  has made over forty short experimental films, and numerous film installation pieces. He has received grants from the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts. His work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop, Berks Filmmakers, and at various festivals including the London Film Festival, the Sydney Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the Denver Film Festival, the New York Underground Film Festival, and elsewhere. His short film Reverie was broadcast on the Sundance Channel in the "Underground Shorts" series. Another short work, Moving Images - the Film-Makers' Cooperative relocates, received Honorable Mentions from the Thaw02 Film & Video Festival and NY Short Film Expo, and was awarded a silver plaque from the Chicago International Film Festival. He has received Best Short Documentary awards at the Chicago Underground Film Festival in 2004 and 2005. He teaches filmmaking at the New School, and is President of ACT-UAW, Local 7902, union of adjunct and part-time faculty at New School and NYU.


SHORT FILMS
Between 1989 and present, created over 40 short experimental films


INSTALLATION PIECES
Between 1995 and present, created over 80 film and video installation pieces


SCREENINGS
Between 1992 and present, screened work in over 130 group shows and film festivals

Between 1997 and present, screened 15 one person shows

In 1998 one person show of work in the Museum of Modern Art’s "Cineprobe" series

In 2000 short film Channeled Energies included in screening for "The American Century: Part 2" at Whitney Museum of American Art


INSTALLATION EXHIBITS
Between 1995 and present, film and video installations shown in over 30 group shows

One person shows of film installations at the Courthouse Gallery at Anthology Film Archives in 2001, 2002 and 2003


BROADCAST
Poem for the Past on WNYC, New York Public Television, 1993

Reverie on the Sundance Channel, 2002

Moving Images - the Film-Makers’ Cooperative relocates on Texas Public Television, 2003


GRANTS AND AWARDS
Received filmmaking grants in 1999 from the Jerome Foundation and New York State Council on the Arts

In 2002 Honorable Mentions awarded to Moving Images - the Film-Makers’ Cooperative relocates by Thaw02 Film and Video Festival and NY Short Film Expo

In 2002 Silver Plaque awarded to Moving Images - the Film-Makers’ Cooperative relocates by the Chicago International Film Festival

In 2004 Best Short Documentary awarded to Loudmouth Collective / Ugly Duckling Presse at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
In 2005 Best Short Documentary awarded to New School Union Diary at the Chicago Underground Film Festival


FACULTY POSITIONS
Visiting Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, NY; 2005

Instructor, Film Department, New School University; New York, NY; 1996 - present

Adjunct Instructor, School of Art, The Cooper Union; New York, NY; 1998 - 2002

Lecturer, Media Arts, University of the Arts; Philadelphia, PA; 1998 - 2000


EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 1989; emphasis in Film Production with minor in Fine Arts; received Non-Fiction Film Award, 1989