Past Resident

Rebecca Shapass

Rebecca Shapass is a filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and community organizer based in her native NYC. She works at the intersection of moving-image, installation, and performance to deconstruct traditional narratives surrounding femininity and womxnhood through the study of personal and collective memory. Rebecca has exhibited and screened with institutions and festivals including Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), Newark Arts Festival (Newark, NJ), Open Signal (Portland, OR), Puffin Cultural Forum (Teaneck, NJ), Artifact Film Festival (Canada), amongst others.

In 2018-19, Rebecca was a part of Smack Mellon’s Artist Studio Program where she was also a NY Community Trust Van Lier Fellow. Previously, she has been a resident at NURTUREart and Signal Culture. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where she studied Film & TV and Art History. Instagram

“Combining diaristic elements with found footage, critical texts, and the use of my body in performance in front of and behind the camera, I work toward the deconstruction of notions surrounding femininity. This interest in tackling greater social narratives surrounding womxn converges with a hands-on exploration of memory & time through moving-image and the employment of anachronistic technology to address the place of womxn within time’s flux through the themes of sexuality, identity, and the body.”