Department of Cinema {College of Liberal & Creative Arts}

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Britta Sjogren

A photo of Britta Sjogren
Professor; M.F.A. Coordinator
Advising Area: 
MFA Coordinator
Office & Hours: 
FA 339; Tuesdays 10-12 and by appointment
Phone: 
(415) 338-1445
E-mail: 
britta@sfsu.edu
Professional URL: 
brittasjogren.com
Education: 
  • B.A., University of California, Berkeley
  • M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Bio: 

Professor Sjogren is an award-winning independent filmmaker. She is currently in pre-production on a new feature film, CLAIRE'S BONES (working title), a dark love story being produced by Dire Wolf. The story chronicles the fate of two strangers who dream of each other, but have never met, whose lives become fatally entwined through the rippling after-shocks of a young woman's murder. In the past year, Sjogren was named a Guggenheim Fellow for her filmmaking for the development of a documentary film examining the cultural legacy of slavery (and the spaces associated with it) entitled A CHAIN OF WINDOWS. Her book, INTO THE VORTEX: FEMALE VOICE AND PARADOX IN FILM was also published in 2006 by the University of Illinois Press.

Selected Publications & Filmography: 

Filmography

  1. "In This Short Life" (director, writer, actor), 2005
  2. "A Small Domain", short, (director, writer), 1996
  3. "Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions" (director, writer), 1992

Publication

  1. "Into the Vortex: Female Voice and Paradox in Film", University of Illinois Press, 2006
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