Caroline Rumley is a Southern filmmaker who collages solo-shot film, found and archival footage, text, and sound to tell sometimes uncomfortable stories. Her films have screened internationally at varied venues - from Canada’s Antimatter Media Art to Amsterdam’s IDFA to Berlin's Zebra Poetry Film Fest to Sundance. Caroline holds an MFA in Theatrical Design from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in Film, Video, and Digital Imaging from Georgia State University.
What was the significance of that "birthday party," that photo, that tête-à-tête in the hostel bathroom? Two Americans look back at their time spent behind the Iron Curtain in 80s East Germany.
“I was instantly gripped and fascinated... Caroline Rumley makes it clear in various of her statements as artist and researcher that she is interested in the potentiality of short form or ‘thin-sliced’ audiovisual pieces – works of short duration that do something quickly, that pack a punch, that allow a sudden experience of illumination.”
— Adrian Martin writing in InTransition
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Stills from the new film, The Other Side, a short film about curiosity and erasure…
The Whole Speaks, Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn