Natasha is an artist and filmmaker, committed to using filmmaking as a tool for inquiry, collective organizing, and worldmaking, she has organized a number of screenings and workshops at DIY and artist-forward spaces.
Her early curiosities grew from the fields and landscapes of rural Iowa where she grew up in a blended family of working class factory workers and farmers. Her approach to filmmaking is somatic, one of deep listening, an invitation to look closer and to move slowly. By centering the first-person and process based approaches, the cameras becomes an extension and tool for her observation and inquires for world making and questions of belonging–finding refuge in the refusal of mastery.
She has programmed a range of events and screenings at DIY and artist-forward spaces, including Visible Records (Charlottesville, VA.), Cactus Club (Milwaukee, WI) and co-founded Cinéseries, a graduate-led effort hosted by The Wex (Columbus, OH). Her work has been screened in backyards and at various moving image festivals including Film Diary NYC, ImagesFestival, Dream Clinic, Athens International Film Festival, and Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, with the nomadic No Evil Eye Cinema. She was awarded the Mary L. Nohl Fellowship in 2019 in Milwaukee, WI. She left Wisconsin to pursue her MFA at Ohio State University where she received the Dean's Enrichment Fellowship and the Livable Futures Graduate Student Fellowship.
contact:
natashamwoods4@proton.me
PHOTO BY Amber Elison Photography
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