Shari Roman

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Shari Roman is an American artist, author, screenwriter and director.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Books and Film

Originally commissioned by John Pierson for his Independent Film Channel (USA) program Split Screen, Roman's first short film Lars from 1-10 about Danish Dogme film maker Lars von Trier won a slot at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 and went on to screen at Edinburgh, London, Los Angeles and NYC's Museum of Modern Art. She has since directed a series of shorts, pop promos and additional docs on filmmakers, including British director Mike Figgis and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle. Filmmaker Magazine rated her in their "Top 25 New Faces In Independent Film" in 1999. Along with the four original Dogme films; "Celebration," "The Idiots," "Mifune" and "The King is Alive," two of her short films were selected for 2005's official Dogme' 95 DVD collection, celebrating the 10th anniversary of von Trier's filmmaking manifesto.

Her book on approaches to new cinema, Digital Babylon: Hollywood, Indiewood and Dogme '95 was published in 2001 by Lone Eagle Publishing, and reissued by HCD/The Hollywood Reporter in 2003 and 2007. Her essay on von Trier, The Man Who Would Be Dogme, was published in the 2003 collection, Lars von Trier: Interviews by the University Press of Mississippi, as part of their 'Conversations with Filmmakers' series. As of 2007 Roman is preparing a book with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, which discusses his approach and life as an image-maker. Writings on cinema and art have appeared in numerous publications, including British Vogue, The Guardian, The Independent and Time Out London. For the cover of Filmmaker Magazine (USA) she wrote The Genius of the System, a profile of multi-media artist Matthew Barney under an National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant, as well as 2007's prescient look into cross-over filmmaking; "Transart Film Express". The God Particle , a short story about love, memory, time and The Large Hadron Collider, was published in the second volume of Marriage Records' literary quarterly Veneer Magazine, 2008.

[edit] Photography & Curating

In November 2006, Roman premiered and curated her art exhibition My Cinefull Life at Stockholm's Allmänna Galleriet 925.The show featured a selection of text and photographic portraits culled from her interviews with filmmakers, incl. Darren Aronofsky, Steve Buscemi, Miranda July, Tommy Lee Jones, Neil Young, with images taken by Mike Figgis, Michael Muller and Tim Palen. Summer & Fall of 2007, her new photographic work appeared in Barcelona, Stockholm and Milan, as part of the touring exhibition Wanted, curated by Dazed & Confused Magazine. In Stockholm, Winter 2007/2008, in collaboration with Allmänna Galleriet 925, the Swedish Film Institute and the Stockholm International Film Festival she curated and produced a Gus Van Sant film, music and photographic retrospective, honoring the director and his Cannes awarding winning feature Paranoid Park.

[edit] Miscellaneous

She 'sings' on Greg Weeks's second solo album.

[edit] See also

Shari may also refer to:

In geography: Mount Shari, a quaternary stratovolcano Shari, Hokkaidō, Japan Shari District, Abashiri Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan Shari River, a 949-kilometer-long river of central Africa

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