Micaela O'Herlihy
Micaela O'Herlihy is a multimedia artist best known for her short experimental film A Thunderperfect Mind which premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Micaela paints and draws on paper, cloth and film. She works in sound, paint, paper, trash, 16 and 8 mm film, burlap, DV and cardboard. She ventured into film when she realized she was constantly trying to make her paintings move. Her sole collaborator is her son Thurman Fionn.
In 1999 she received a BFA in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute and in 2003 an MFA in film from UW-Milwaukee. Her recent day jobs have included adjunct professor, translator for people with severe speech impediments, farm laborer, urology technician, and paranormal videographer.
Her grandfather is Academy Award-nominated actor Dan O'Herlihy (of RoboCop and Twin Peaks), and her siblings are Colin O'Herlihy and Eilis O'Herlihy. Andrew Martinez (aka The Naked Guy) was O'Herlihy's first boyfriend.[1]
She now lives near Viroqua, Wisconsin, and is teaching an unstill life class at the Youth Initiative High School.
Recent film screenings
- Periwinkle Cinema San Francisco 2011
- Grand Arts Missouri 2007
- Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour Nationwide 2004
- Sundance Film Festival Utah 2004
- Consolidated Works Seattle 2003
- Women in the Directors Chair Chicago 2003
- Echo Park Film Center Los Angeles 2002