Talena Sanders

"I am an artist and filmmaker who creates experimental documentary films that reflect the wild complexity and strange poetry of lived experience. Expanding and challenging mainstream documentary conventions is at the center of my work. I like gaps and mystery and opening up more questions than giving easy answers. Sometimes my work is about my own experiences, sometimes it’s about artists and people I admire—trailblazing women and queer people. My work is collage-like, weaving together materials from many different sources and angles. I record on 16mm most often, in part for the way that material destabilizes a viewer’s sense of time, blurring the line between found footage and what is contemporary. I am proud to be a film educator, serving as Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Sonoma State University." -T.S.

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  Eastern State

  Director

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  Rehearsal

  Director

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  Reasonable Watchfulness

  Director

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  Liahona

  Director

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  Prospector

  Director

• The Coronation

  Director

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  Tokens and Penalties

  2012

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  REACH

  Director

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  Between My Flesh and the World's Fingers

  Director

• 2021The CoronationDirector
• 2019Eastern StateDirector
• 2019RehearsalDirector
• 2018Between My Flesh and the World's FingersDirector
• 2018Reasonable WatchfulnessDirector
• 2015ProspectorDirector
• 2013LiahonaDirector
• 2012Tokens and Penalties
• 2009REACHDirector