Cindy Stillwell is a film artist based in Montana. Her film and art practice focus on working with analog filmmaking including hand processing super 8 and 16mm, working with mixed media to create handmade animations, and working with various techniques to create 2D paintings, drawings and photo based work on paper.
Her films have won awards and screened at numerous venues including Sundance Film Festival, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, Edinburgh Film Festival, Full Frame Film Festival, and as part of the Museum of Modern Art’s Documentary Fortnight. Some of her films include 600 Moons, Looking at Neon Signs, A Season on the Move, and High Plains Winter.
Working with members of the Einstein Collective at Montana State University, Stillwell created a short work Transmutations, a component of the installation Black (W)hole. This Art + Science experiment combined her film with the work of physicists, a sound artist, a painter, an animator with the aim of creating an immersive environment in which the viewer is invited to imagine and ponder his/her origin in the cosmos. The work has been mounted at venues such as the Pasadena Art Center, the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art, and the M.I.T. Cambridge Science Festival before being permanently installed at Chabot Science and Space Center in Oakland, CA.
At MacDowell in 2004, Stillwell completed the slide construction phase of a new photo series, "Movie Stills." During her 2006 residency, she continued work on Speed + Accuracy = Skill, a new documentary film about farriers working in Montana.
