Jeanne C. Finley

Jeanne C. Finley is an artist /filmmaker who works with photography, video and media installation. Her work ranges from experimental to documentary forms. Finley's videotapes have been broadcast in the United States, Europe, Canadia and Japan and her media work has been exhibited in festivals and museums throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the 1993 and 1995 Whitney Biennial, the George Pompidou Center, the Amsterdam Documentary Festival and the San Francisco Film Festival. She has been the recipient of several grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Cal Arts/Alpert Award, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships and the Phelan Award in Video.
Finleys video credits include: Common Mistakes, 1986; At the
Museum: A Pilgrimage of Vanquished Objects, 1989; Involuntary Conversion, 1991; A.R.M. Around Moscow, 1993; and O Night Without Objects, a trilogy, 1998. These tapes have won awards at nternational festivals and during 1990 Finley received a Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia where she directed programs for Radio/TV Belgrade. In 1994 she was an Artist-in-Residence in Istanbul, Turkey through a grant from the Lila Wallace Readers Digest Foundation.
Jeanne is a Professor of Media Studies at the California College of
Arts and Crafts and currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Conversations Across the Bosphorous
A film by Jeanne C. Finley
in collaboration with Mine Y. Ternar, Gokcen Hava Art, and Pelin Esmer, 1995, 42 min., Color
CONVERSATIONS ACROSS THE BOSPHOROUS intertwines the stories of two Muslim women from Istanbul - Gokcen, from an orthodox Islamic family who takes off ...