Discipline: Film/Video – feature

Kirsten Kearse

Discipline: Film/Video – feature
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2010

Kirsten Kearse revised her feature screenplay The String Along and experimented with stop-motion animation. She is the director of the short film trilogy Horsefingers, which has played at film festivals internationally.

Studios

Nef

Kirsten Kearse worked in the Nef studio.

Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…

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