Full Name Julie E. Casper Name Julie Roth | Education Smith College | |
Occupation Artist, filmmaker, experimental video artist, writer | ||
Extended Interview with Julie Casper Roth | TvFILM [Clip]
Julie Casper Roth (born Julie E. Casper), is an American artist, documentary filmmaker, experimental video artist, and writer based in Upstate New York. She is an assistant professor of communications at SUNY Cobleskill.
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Career
Casper Roth's work has been presented at many venues, including the MadCat International Women's Film Festival (2007, Object Lessons, West Coast premier), the Athens International Film and Video Festival, Chicago Reeling Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival, Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival, and the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives, among many others.
In addition, Casper Roth's work has been screened in gallery settings including Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco and the SCOPE Art Fair held at Lincoln Center and in Basel, Switzerland. She is the recipient of several festival and grant awards, including winning 2nd Place in the experimental category in the 2008 Athens International Film and Video Festival. In 2011, she screened Housewives: Left Alone! at the video_dumbo video festival held in conjunction with the 2011 DUMBO Arts Festival. In 2008, she screened "A Matter of Fiction" at the video_dumbo video festival as part of the 2008 DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, NY.
In 2008, the Smith College alumnae magazine wrote that, "[Roth's] work has steadily gained national exposure since her graduation from Smith" in 2007. And the March 2008 issue of the Smith alum magazine contained a follow-up feature about Casper Roth entitled, "Alum Filmmaker Getting National Exposure." In 2007, The Chicago Traveler magazine mentioned Casper Roth's screening of "Tokens" as one of the highlights of the 2007 Chicago Reeling Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival.
As of 2015, Casper Roth was a producer/director at WMHT-PBS where she created documentary content and was the initial producer for AHA! A House of Arts, a weekly television arts program. Her documentary Out in Albany was the first documentary aired on public television to highlight the history and contemporary work of the Albany, NY Capital Region's LGBTQ community.
In addition to creating documentary and fictional narrative work, Casper Roth is an avid screenwriter. She is a two-time finalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
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Personal life
Julie Casper Roth graduated cum laude from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. While there she became a Mormon and acknowledged that “In hindsight, when people are in conflict with themselves they go in the opposite direction.” She resides in upstate New York. She came out as lesbian in 2005.