Mariah Garnett

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Mariah Garnett (b. 1980) is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker born in Portland, Maine and raised in the Hudson Valley, New York. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in American Civilization from Brown University in 2003 and a Master of Fine Arts in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts in 2011. Museum exhibitions include Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at the New Museum (2016), Other & Father at The Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC), in Belfast (2016), and Made in LA at the Hammer Museum (2014). Her film Full Burn is in the Hammer Museum's permanent collection. She has been awarded grants from the California Community Foundation (2014), The Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2015), and Artadia (2016). Her film Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin won Best LGBT Film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2012.

"Mariah Garnett mixes documentary, narrative and experimental film making practices to make work that accesses existing people and communities beyond her immediate experience." She "examines how film locates and systematizes definitions of identity. Garnett does this through a deeply personal lens, sometimes explicitly weaving her own subjectivity as a queer filmmaker into the fabric of the narrative as a performer/actor."

Mariah Garnett is represented by ltd Los Angeles.

Films

• Other & Father (2016) "Other & Father is a new experimental documentary exploring Garnett’s relationship with her estranged father who originally hails from Northern Ireland. Using a variety of media, the work deals with representation, the construction of memory and family lore, and the parallels in the ways cities – particularly those affected by conflict - shape their own histories, mythologies and identities. In this piece Garnett explores, unravels, and reinterprets personal and political histories carved out in Belfast in the early 1970s, superimposing her own queer experience onto a city which to her is both familiar and strange."
• Full Burn (2014) "riveting 20-minute video about former Navy SEALs and other servicemen talking about their new lives as Hollywood stuntmen — an occupation that requires them to set themselves on fire and jump off buildings. In a straightforward documentary style displayed on a pair of parallel screens, Garnett shows men discussing the challenging nature of their work in the military and in the movies."
• Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin (2012) "is equal parts self-portrait and biopic. Featuring audio from a recorded interview with Peter Berlin, the film attempts to approximate Garnett’s relationship to the history of the 1970s gay sex icon. As Garnett inhabits the filmmaker’s signature manner of style and dress, she presents a film that galvanizes the kind of gender misidentification that is a consistent point of interest throughout her practice.
• Picaresques (2011) about "the seventeenth century Basque nun who lived as a man and a soldier in colonial Latin America."

Collaboration

• Mexercize (2013) by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Mariah Garnett, and Roberto Sifuentes, "The work’s title is inspired by a term that crooked LA cops during the Rampart Scandal would use when harassing Mexicans. Presented in the style of a traditional workout video, Gómez-Peña performs exercises like a mock-crossing of the border or Chihuahua curling. In another exercise, he dons boxing gloves — one with the Mexican flag, the other with the US — only to have them turn against him, unable to resolve his identity crisis."

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