Biography
BIOGRAPHY
Kara Hearn makes quiet and absurd work about the way tragedies reside in the head; the way heroisms play out in the mind’s eye, the inside place where stories get conjured, dreamed, remembered. Dithering between melodrama and deadpan, her videos degrade mainstream cinema by being too sincere, too simple, telling too many stories with very little stuff. Hearn’s work has been screened and exhibited nationally and internationally at such venues as DiverseWorks, White Columns, The Luckman Gallery, Pacific Film Archive, New Langton Arts, Southern Exposure, the Walker Art Center, Dallas Video Festival, Women in the Directors Chair International Film and Video Festival, and the Festival Tous Courts International Festival of Cinema. She received an MFA from the University of California at Berkeley in 2007, was a Core Fellow at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 2007-09, and completed a residency at Recess Activities Inc. in New York City in 2010. She recently finished shooting a large-scale video project, Unnamed Broadway Musical: The Musical! at EFA Project Space.
