Cinema & Comparative Literature

Sasha Waters Freyer

Office: W233 AJB
Phone: (319) 335-2922
sasha-waters@uiowa.edu

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Sasha Waters is a documentary & experimental film and video maker who teaches courses in 16mm and video production, writing, producing and editing for nonfiction. Her new short  film, "Her Heart is Washed in Water & then Weighed," explores monuments, mortality & motherhood and features the Coliseum in Rome, Italy, her back yard in Iowa City, and a hilarious story about roast chicken.  "Her Heart is Washed in Water & then Weighed" is a follow-up to her experimental short "The Waiting Time," a meditation on desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation, which had its premiere at the 2005 Ann Arbor Film Festival and was included on the Festival Tour.  Her activist video "Razing Appalachia," a portrait of a grassroots fight against the expansion of a mountaintop strip mine in West Virginia, aired on the PBS series "Independent Lens" in 2003.  Waters' creative work addresses a range of themes and subjects, from environmental justice to feminism in the sex industry to flying poets, and she is interested in exploring those people and places that exist on the margins of American culture. For more info please visit http:// www.room135.com