poster for the film I Love Women Who Shame the Family

I Love Women Who Shame the Family is a short experimental documentary. The Baltimore filmmaker attempts to discover some of her ancestral towns in Italy and Poland with stories told by her family and heal some of the secrets. Conversations with her two aunts and oldest cousin assist in the storytelling. She also learns that her family has a deeper connection to Baltimore than she realized. The film discusses topics about identity, gender dynamics, and human rights. It is shot on analog film and partially processed with a poppy flower developer; the flower is indigenous to both Italy and Poland.

 

I Love Women Who Shame the Family will have its World Premiere at the New/Next Film Festival in Baltimore, Maryland at the Charles Theater.

Friday, October 2nd from 4:30-6:17 PM
Saturday, October 3rd from from 5:05 PM-6:52 PM

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Leah Clare Michaels is a Baltimore native, artist, activist, historian, writer, and surfer. She has produced documentary films, multi-media installations, and performance art works rooted in historical research, social justice, and cultural exchange.

She received a B.A. in History with a focus in Classics from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2012 and a M.F.A. in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2019. 

Michaels has taught and presented in the United States, Europe, and Asia including an international tour of her feature documentary Rock, Rage & Self-Defense: An Oral History of Seattle’s Home Alive, which she co-directed and produced with friend and colleague Rozz Therrien. Her written work has appeared in BmoreArt, UMBC Magazine, and the Debutante Journal based in Edinburgh, Scotland. As an adjunct professor, she teaches film and cinema studies at Towson University and Anne Arundel Community College.

She received a Fulbright grant to Poland for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Mediums: Video/Film, Animation, Photography, Printmaking, Performance, Installation, Writing, and Fabrication.
 
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Contact: leahcmichaels@gmail.com