Mindy Faber

Mindy Faber, founder of Open Youth Networks, is an award-winning independent video producer, curator and media educator. Her awards include Berlin Film Festival 1994 Grand Prize in Video, Best Experimental Video, Atlanta Film Festival, the prestigious Deutsch Kunst Prize and many others.

A recipient of a 1996 Rockefeller Intercultural Media Fellowship, Faber’s series of videos produced in collaboration with teenagers reaped numerous awards and were screened at hundreds of venues, including the National Conference on Multicultural Education, the Nashville Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival and the Taos Talking Pictures Festival.

Faber received her Masters of Fine Arts in Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has taught at Evanston Township High School, Chicago Filmmakers, University of Illinois-Chicago, SAIC, and as a visiting artist at dozens of high schools, universities and youth media organizations including New Trier, Video Machete and Carleton College.

As a high school media arts teacher at ETHS, Faber collaborated with Stephen Murphy, Art Dept Chair at New Trier High School, on Resolutions: A Digital Discussion. Considered to be a model project in using art and media to engage students in cultural exchange and political media, Resolutions has been presented at numerous conventions and forums. Faber has been invited to make presentations at several national and international conferences and festivals including the How to Read a Film Conference, Listen Up, Consoling Passions and the Berlin Film Festival.

As the former Director of Distribution at Video Machete and the Associate Director of the Video Data Bank at the Art Institute of Chicago, Faber has curated over a dozen video shows and exhibitions on youth, politics, gender, race and democracy. (12/07)

Delirium
A film by Mindy Faber, 1993, 23 min., Color
Taking her mother's mental illness as its point of departure, Mindy Faber's DELIRIUM exposes the historical relationship between women and madness wit...