MARY LANCE
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Mary Lance is an award winning independent filmmaker. In 1980, in New York, she created New Deal Films, Inc. to produce independent documentaries including ARTISTS AT WORK: A FILM ON THE NEW DEAL ART PROJECTS (1981), DIEGO RIVERA: I PAINT WHAT I SEE (1989), and short films for the Public Art Fund, the Smithsonian, and other museums and arts organizations. She also worked extensively as an archival film researcher for film and television.
In 1992, she moved to New Mexico, where she produced and directed AGNES MARTIN: WITH MY BACK TO THE WORLD (2002) and BLUE ALCHEMY: STORIES OF INDIGO (2011), which have been distributed worldwide, and worked as a freelance field producer.
Her most recent works are LIBRARY STORIES: BOOKS ON THE BACKROADS (2023), a documentary about rural libraries, CROWVILLE (2019), a short film about crows living on the border between the natural and developed worlds, and DENIM STORIES (2018), a projected installation, which utilizes archival film shot in a 1920s American cotton mill
Mary Lance’s work has been shown at international venues including the Guggenheim Museum; Tate Modern; Sundance Channel; New York’s Film Forum; the Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou; the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal; Festival Artecinema, DokuArts Berlin; Festival dei Popoli, and many others.
She lives in New Mexico.
