Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (born 1987) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Hunt-Ehrlich's work often explores the Black women's experience, Afro-Surrealism, and Pan-Africanism. She is an assistant professor in the Media Studies department at the City University of New York, Queens College.[1][2][3]

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Born1987 (age 35–36)
Alma materTemple University (MFA, 2015)
Websitemadeleinehuntehrlich.com

Education and career

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich was born in 1987. Hunt-Ehrlich's has a degree in film and photography from Hampshire College in Massachusetts, and has an MFA in film and media arts from Temple University in Philadelphia.[4]

In 2022, the film Conspiracy, a co-production with contemporary artist Simone Leigh, was premiered at the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams as part of Leigh's solo project at the United States Pavilion.[5]

Several of Hunt-Ehrlich's research projects comment and revisit the history of the United Order of Tents, a congregation of Black women advocating for underserved communities around the country.[6][7]

Hunt-Ehrlich has presented screenings in major venues, festivals, and institutions worldwide such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum, New York; Tribeca Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival, Doclisboa, in Portugal, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.[8][9]

Critical reception

Hunt-Ehrlich's cinematic productions have been featured in film festivals around the United States and abroad. In 2020, Hunt-Ehrlich was selected as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine.[10]

"Whether or not the broader cinematic landscape is ready to change, Hunt-Ehrlich is honing her own distinctive approach to the dramatization of Black stories, one that values opacity and abstraction over linear narrative."[10]

Exhibitions

In 2023, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, presents the film installation Too Bright to See (Part I), produced by Sophie Luo and Mike S. Ryan. Hunt-Ehrlich's cinematic essay on the life of Martinique writer and feminist activist Suzanne Roussi-Césaire, whose legacy has impacted 20th-century artists such as the Cuban painter Wifredo Lam, and the French writer André Breton. The piece was produced in 16mm film. The exhibition and scholarship project were made possible through the support from Pérez Art Museum Miami’s Caribbean Cultural Institute Caribbean Cultural Institute, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA), and the Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts, at Ohio State University.[1][11][9]

Filmography
  • 2019 Spit on the Broom[12]
  • 2019 A Quality of Light[13]
  • 2020 Footnote to the West[13]
  • 2020 Outfox the Grave[13]
  • 2023 Too Bright to See (Part I)[11]
  • Feature film in production: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (working title)[14]

Awards and recognition

Hunt-Ehrlich is the recipient of several awards such as a 2022 Creative Capital Award in Experimental Film, Narrative Film,[15] a 2022 Caribbean Cultural Institute Fellowship,[16] 2020 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, a 2019 Rema Hort Mann Award, a 2019 UNDO/Ford Foundation Fellowship, a 2015 TFI Future Filmmaker Award, and a Princess Grace Award 2014 Graduate Film Scholarship.[17][18]

In 2020, she was a finalist for the Biennale College Cinema, from the Venice Film Festival. Hunt-Ehrlich's has also received support from San Francisco Film Society’s Rainin Grant for the screenwriting phase of the feature film The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire.[14][15]

References
  1. "Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich: Too Bright to See • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  2. "Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich: Speculative Archives | Siskel Film Center". www.siskelfilmcenter.org. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  3. Price, Yasmina (2022-04-28). "Lambasting Reality". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  4. "About 5". After Sherman. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  5. "handtoflame — Three Fold". threefoldpress.org. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  6. "United Order of Tents". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  7. "Reflections on Black Sisterhood and the United Order of Tents - Journal #105". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  8. "Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Lecture and Conversation". School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  9. "Art Talk: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich in Conversation with Dr. Anny-Dominique Curtius • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  10. Rizov, Vadim (2020-10-19). "Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | Filmmaker Magazine". Filmmaker Magazine | Publication with a focus on independent film, offering articles, links, and resources. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  11. Baumgardner, Julie (2023-05-23). "Why Do Women Artists Disappear from History?". Frieze. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  12. "Still images from Spit on the Broom - Journal #105". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  13. "Madeleine Hunt - Ehrlich: Speculative Archives | Siskel Film Center". www.siskelfilmcenter.org. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  14. "The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  15. "Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich". Creative Capital. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  16. "Current and Former Fellows – Caribbean Cultural Institute". Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  17. "Tribeca Film Institute". www.tfiny.org. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
  18. "Award Winners". grants.pgfusa.org. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
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