Cathy Cook
Cathy Cook | |
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| Born | June 10, 1955 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Education | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (BFA and MFA) |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2001) |
Cathy C. Cook (born June 10, 1955) is an American filmmaker. A 2001 Guggenheim Fellow, she has made several award-winning films, including The Match That Started My Fire (1992), A Deed Without a Name (1993), and Beyond Voluntary Control (2000). She is an associate professor in visual arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.[1]
Biography
[edit]Cook was born on June 10, 1955, in Chicago.[2] She attended the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she obtained her BFA in 1984 and MFA in 1988.[2] She worked simultaneously as an instructor at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater (1984-1985) and UW Milwaukee (1985-1991).[2] Following her graduate studies, she later moved to the New York City area, where she at the media industry as an art director,[1] as well as assistant professor of film at Hunter College from 1993 to 1995.[2] She later moved to University of Maryland, Baltimore County, becoming associate professor there.[1]
Cook has produced well over a dozen short films,[3] some of which won awards.[2] One of them, The Match That Started My Fire, won a best work award at the 1992 Ann Arbor Film Festival; Christopher Potter of The Ann Arbor News criticized the choice, saying: "artistically, was this randy reminiscence worthy of best-in-show? Hardly."[4] Her film A Deed Without a Name (1993) won the 1993 Black Maria Festival Juror's Award, as well as festival awards at the 19th Poetry Film/Video Festival and 5th Annual Poetry Video Festival.[2] She returned to the AAFF for their 2001 edition, winning the Best Editing Award for her 2000 film Beyond Voluntary Control, inspired by her mother's battle with Parkinson's disease.[2][3] In 2009, she released Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker, an experimental documentary on the poet Lorine Niedecker; Post45 called it "a filmic labor of love that operates through a poetic logic of superimposition".[5]
Cook was a 1991 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellow and 1998 New York State Council on the Arts Fellow.[2] In 2001,[6] she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in filmmaking.[2]
As of 2000, Cook lived in Brooklyn.[3]
Filmography
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Cathy Cook". University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Archived from the original on June 29, 2025. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Reports of the President and the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 2002. p. 57-58.
- 1 2 3 4 Kenner, Michele (March 24, 2000). "Filmmaker Cook explores involuntary movement in people". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. p. 9E. ProQuest 261041337.
- ↑ Potter, Christopher (March 24, 1992). "Film festival judges closer to the mark". The Ann Arbor News. p. 14.
- ↑ Dimick, Sarah; Menke, Brandon (February 29, 2024). "Locating Lorine Niedecker: Found Among Friends". Post45. Archived from the original on June 19, 2025. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
- ↑ "Cathy C. Cook". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on October 4, 2025. Retrieved August 24, 2025.
- 1955 births
- Living people
- American experimental filmmakers
- American women experimental filmmakers
- American documentary filmmakers
- 20th-century American artists
- 20th-century American women artists
- 21st-century American artists
- 21st-century American women artists
- Filmmakers from Illinois
- Artists from Chicago
- Filmmakers from New York City
- Artists from Brooklyn
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Whitewater faculty
- University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee faculty
- Hunter College faculty
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty