DAVID FINKELSTEIN received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. He recently presented his first feature film on a tour which included Bilbao, Portland, San Francisco, Asheville, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Harrisburg, London, Porto, and Austin. He was an Invited Artist at the Traverse Vidéo Festival in Toulouse, France in 2013. His video work has been featured in one man shows at Artist Television Access (San Francisco), CRS (New York), Robert Beck Memorial Cinema (New York), Echo Park Film Center and LA Filmforum (Los Angeles), Medicine Show (New York), MSU Moorhead, and with Ross Wilbanks at Light Factory and Pura Vida in North Carolina. His work has been screened in the Brainwash Film Festival, Traverse Video (France), Leeds International Festival (UK), Cinesonika (Canada), Experiments in Cinema, Les Instants Vidéo, Les Inattendus, Denver Underground Festival, Brick Theater, 1078 Gallery, Arthouse Festival, Outer Film Fest, Free Form Film Festival, Ybor Festival, Rubric Video, WRO (Poland) Festival, New Vision Cinema, Athens (Ohio) Film Fest, Dahlonega Film Festival, VideoBardo, Exground, Valleyfest, Big MiniDV Festival, Park City Film Music Festival, the Puget Sound Cinema Society, the Downstream Film Festival, the Silver Lake Festival, EXP2, New Filmmakers, Bearded Child Festival, X-Fest, SinCiné, and Gemini CollisionWorks. Altogether, his video works have won sixteen awards at 6 different Festivals, including the Grand Festival Award from the Berkeley Video and Film Festival for "Born in Mid-Flight" and "Best of Festival: Experimental" from the Brooklyn Arts Council Film Festival for "Earth and Moon in Love." He has been commissioned three times to create videos for the Outmusic Awards, and these videos were subsequently shown on the PrideVision cable network and the PBS series "Under the Pink Carpet." His work has been funded by The Fund for Creative Communities, The Field, Movement Research, Meet the Composer, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BACA, and other sources.
Honorable Mention
Spontaneous Artifacts
US Super 8 & DV Film Festival
New Brunswick, NJ
2023
Best International Film
Soap is an Illusion (Dirt: Part One)
CineToro
Torre Valle de Cuaca
2022
Honorable Mention
A Collection of Eccentricities
United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival
New Brunswick, New Jersey
2020
Grand Festival Award: Best 3D Animation
Spiral Garage
Berkeley Video & Film Festival
Berkeley, California
2020
In The Spirit of Careful Design Award
Spiral Garage
Magikal Charm
New York
2020
Grand Festival Cine Poem Experimental Award
Miraculous Aqueduct
Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Berkeley, California
2019
Audience Favorite Award
Recording Device
Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Berkeley, California
2018
Honoroble Mention
Privy
Port Orchard Film Festival
Port Orchard, Washington
2018
Best of Festival: Experimental
The Linen Closet
Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Berkeley, CA
2017
Best Experimental Feature Film
Suggestive Gestures
Berkeley Video Film Festival
Berkeley, CA
2015
Grand Festival Award: Special Jury Mention
Invincible City
Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Berkeley, California
2014
Best of Festival: Experimental
The Two Fauns
Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Berkeley, CA
2012
Silver Medal for Excellence
The Two Fauns
Park City Film Music Festival
Park City, Utah
2011
Silver Medal of Excellence
Display Devices
Park City Film Music Festival
Park City, Utah
2009
Best of Festival: Experimental
Earth and Moon in Love
Berkeley Video & Film Festival
Berkeley, California
2005
Best Experimental Short
Earth and Moon in Love
Brooklyn Arts Council Film Festival
Brooklyn, New York
2005
Silver Medal of Excellence
Earth and Moon in Love
Park City Film Music Fesival
Park City, Utah
2005
Best of Festival: Experimental
Earth and Moon in Love
Putnam County Film and Video Festival
Putnam Valley, New York
2004
Grand Festival Award
Born in Midflight
Berkeley Video and Film Festival
Berkeley, CA
2004
College
Sarah Lawrence College
19801982
Birth Date
November 1, 1960
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