Rebecca Meyers

Educational Background

• M.F.A, M.A., The University of Iowa

Current Projects and Research Interests

Teaching interests include editing, sound design, film aesthetics and independent film exhibition. Her films have shown at the New York, London, Toronto and Oberhausen Film Festivals; NYC’s Anthology Film Archives, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona and the State Contemporary Art Center in Moscow, among other venues.

Recent Screenings/Publications

Recent screenings of Rebecca's films include the inclusion of come wishes be horses (2017) in the program Holding Binoculars, Pointing a Camera: A Cinema of Birdwatching at the Block Museum of Art (Chicago); and the selection of blue mantle (2016) for the Oceanic Imaginaries conference in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; blue mantle is the subject of Erika Balsam's book An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea (Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2018) and played at associated screenings in New Zealand, London and Taipei. Rebecca worked as an editor for filmmaker Robert Gardner and Associate Director for his organization Studio7Arts (2009-2013). She co-edited Looking with Robert Gardner: Essays on His Films and Career (SUNY 2016) and served as a Board Member of Canyon Cinema from 2013-2022.