artist Sabrina Gschwandtner
In her lecture Film, Fabric, and the Feminist Imagination, artist Sabrina Gschwandtner examines the intersections of film, textiles, and feminist histories in her moving-image practice. Drawing on early cinema and overlooked films by women, she recovers marginalized histories—from pioneering directors to de-accessioned textile documentaries—and reanimates them through sewing, hand-painting, and quilting film. By treating film as a tactile medium and a site of historical repair, Gschwandtner reconfigures the relationship between craft and cinema and recirculates the often-erased narratives of women’s labor, creativity, and reproductive life on screen.
Sabrina Gschwandtner is one of the artists in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s current show Remixed: Entwined Histories and New Forms.