Michelle Citron

Michelle Citron has made ten films and videos including "Parthenogenesis, What You Take for Granted...," and "Daughter Rite," a ground breaking experimental narrative about mothers and daughters, which Vincent Canby in the New York Times hailed as a "stunning achievement" while praising Citron as "a real filmmaker." Her films have been shown at museums and film festivals around the world including The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, The Kennedy Center and the American Film Institute and the New Directors, Berlin, London, and Edinburgh film festivals. Her films are distributed in seven countries and are in the permanent collections of over 200 universities and film schools including New York University, the Australian Film and Television School, USC, the Art Institute of Chicago, Brown University, and Yale University. Her films have been reviewed in a range of publications from Variety to Film Quarterly.

She has received numerous awards and grants including two National Endowment for the Arts Filmmaking Grants, a National Endowment for the Humanities Media Grant, and two Illinois Arts Council Fellowships, one for Filmmaking the other for Screenwriting. She was named the Van Zelst Research Professor in Communications, for 1991-92, at Northwestern University, School of Speech.

Her book, "Home Movies and Other Necessary Fictions" (University of Minnesota Press 1999) has won three awards: Special Commendation, Kraszna-Kraszna Moving Image Book Award 1999; Special Commendation, Society for Cinema Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Competition, 1999; and Outstanding Book, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, 2000.

She is currently creating interactive CD-ROM narratives: As American As Apple Pie (1999) and Cocktails & Appetizers (2001). Her personal website can be found at www.rtvf.northwestern.edu/faculty/citron.
(09/02)

Daughter Rite
A film by Michelle Citron, 1979, 53 min., Color
"Daughter Rite is a classic, the missing link between the 'direct Cinema' documentaries and the later hybrids that acknowledged truth couldn't always ...

What You Take for Granted
A film by Michelle Citron, 1983, 75 min., Color
The tentative friendship of Anna, a feisty truck driver and Diana, an upper middle-class doctor, provides the core for an unusual, intimate and moving...