Julie Talen

Julie Talen is a writer and experimental filmmaker best known for her work with multi-channel narrative. Her directorial debut, the digital feature, Pretend, premiered at the Lincoln Center’s New York Video Festival in 2003. The film uses an array of multiple frames and complex graphics to tell the story of a troubled family living in upstate New York. "The collage of images evokes the memories, fantasies and fears of the characters, bridging the distance between the objective reality of what the camera sees and the inner worlds that are ordinarily left to actors to convey,’’ wrote A.O. Scott of The New York Times, who also called Pretend a “harrowing, dazzling feature.” In Sixty Cameras Against the War (2004), Talen unearthed unexpected synchronicity among random digital videos taken in a massive but little-seen anti-war rally held in New York City on Feb 15, 2003, just days before the ...