Mitch McCabe is an educator and filmmaker whose film work spans narrative, nonfiction, and the areas in between. Their short films Playing the Part, September 5:10pm, Highway 403, Mile 39, and To Whom It May Concern have screened at Sundance, New Directors/New Films, New York Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand and Visions du Réel, among others. Their experimental narrative feature This Corrosion premiered at Norwegian Film Festival and Anthology Film Archive. Their feature HBO documentary Youth Knows No Pain screened at IDFA, Lincoln Center, and AFI Silverdocs. A fellow of MacDowell and Flaherty Seminar, McCabe’s work has been supported by Yaddo, MASS MoCA, LEF Foundation, Princess Grace Foundation, Djerassi Foundation, VCCA, Jerome Foundation, SPACE Gallery, iPark Foundation, and NYSCA. They have worked extensively as a cinematographer for series on A&E, Discovery, OWN, and TNT. They are currently an assistant professor at SUNY-Purchase College. Mitch received their B.A. in visual and environmental studies from Harvard College and their M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Mitch McCabe
Fellow Works Supported by MacDowell
23 MILE (Documentary)
Studios
Putnam
Mitch McCabe worked in the Putnam studio.
Originally known simply as Graphics Studio, this building was converted to its current use between 1972 and 1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation. Before this transformation, the building served as both a powerhouse and pump house for the property. Well water was drawn from a large cistern and…