Biography
Artist and filmmaker Deborah Startman makes work that investigates power, control, and belief in consideration with how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. Her recent projects have addressed freedom, surveillance, sinkholes, comets, exodus, and faith. She lives in Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois.
Sundance Film Festival
Camerawoman
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Last Things |
| 2018 |
Optimism |
| 2016 |
The Illinois Parables |
Xenoi |
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| 2013 |
Immortal, Suspended |
Musical Insects |
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| 2010 |
Ray's Birds |
| 2009 |
O'er the Land |
| 2004 |
Kings of the Sky |
| 2003 |
Los Angeles Plays Itself |
| 1997 |
From Hetty to Nancy |
Director
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Last Things |
| 2021 |
Laika |
| 2018 |
Optimism |
Vever |
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| 2016 |
The Illinois Parables |
Xenoi |
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| 2014 |
Hacked Circuit |
Second Sighted |
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| 2013 |
Immortal, Suspended |
Musical Insects |
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| 2012 |
The Name Is Not the Thing Named |
Village, Silenced |
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| 2011 |
These Blazeing Starrs! |
| 2010 |
Kuyenda N'kubvina |
Ray's Birds |
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| 2009 |
O'er the Land |
| 2007 |
It Will Die Out in the Mind |
The Magician's House |
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| 2004 |
Kings of the Sky |
| 2003 |
Energy Country |
| 2002 |
In Order Not to Be Here |
| 2001 |
Untied |
| 1999 |
The BLVD |
| 1997 |
From Hetty to Nancy |
| 1995 |
On the Various Nature of Things |
Editor
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Last Things |
| 2018 |
Optimism |
Vever |
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| 2016 |
The Illinois Parables |
Xenoi |
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| 2013 |
Immortal, Suspended |
Musical Insects |
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| 2010 |
Ray's Birds |
| 2009 |
O'er the Land |
| 2004 |
Kings of the Sky |
| 1997 |
From Hetty to Nancy |
Screenwriter
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Last Things |
| 2018 |
Optimism |
| 2016 |
The Illinois Parables |
Xenoi |
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| 2014 |
Second Sighted |
| 2013 |
Immortal, Suspended |
| 2010 |
Ray's Birds |
| 2009 |
O'er the Land |
| 2004 |
Kings of the Sky |
| 2002 |
In Order Not to Be Here |
| 1997 |
From Hetty to Nancy |
Sound designer
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2018 |
Optimism |
| 2013 |
Immortal, Suspended |
Musical Insects |
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| 2010 |
Ray's Birds |
| 2009 |
O'er the Land |
| 2004 |
Kings of the Sky |
| 1997 |
From Hetty to Nancy |
Producer
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2023 |
Last Things |
| 2018 |
Vever |
| 2016 |
The Illinois Parables |
Production designer
| Documentaries | |
|---|---|
| 2018 |
Optimism |