Rebecca Baron
Filmmaker
Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Rebecca Baron is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker whose work has screened extensively, including in the New York, Rotterdam and the Vienna Film Festivals.   Her film okay bye-bye (1999) received awards at the San Francisco, Montreal and Ann Arbor Film Festivals, and was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. Her 1995 film The Idea of North received awards at the Athens, Leipzig, and Onion City Film Festivals, among others. Baron is Associate Dean of the School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts.

Baron will be screening How Little We Know of Our Neighbors (2005) - an experimental documentary about Britain's Mass Observation Movement. The film deals with the group's relationship to surveillance, public self-disclosure, and privacy, while offering views of the multiple roles cameras have played in public space since the 1880's, when the introduction of hand-held cameras brought photography out of the studio and into the streets.