Manhattan, New York was where I was born. After 6 months of activity, I boarded my first plane to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with my parents and sister. My primary and secondary schools were not far from Ipanema.

My university years were spent in Paris, suffering as a Psychology student (Institut de Psychologie). To make life less boring, I ended up watching an excessive amount of films of all kinds near the Sorbonne, where I occasionally attended classes. After Psychology, I graduated in Film Studies at the Sorbonne - Paris 3, at the Institut d’Art et Archeologie (classes by Eric Rohmer) and at the Cinemathèque Française (classes by Henri Langlois).

In the mid-1970s, I traveled around Europe with a friend, Rosine Grange, in a run-down Renault van full of films made by women, organizing women’s film festivals and distributing them. Our distribution company was called Cine-Femmes International. My debut as an experimental filmmaker was in 1980. It was a film and slide installation in collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Carolyn Carlson and the filmmaker Martine Rousset. Many films followed, mostly shot in super-8 and later blown up to 16mm. Today I make videos, but I still use super-8 whenever possible. Sound was and still is a vital part of my work.

Installations consisting of multiple projections on different surfaces have been a new adventure. They are always site-specific, ephemeral, immersive works in dark spaces. I have presented them in Israel (Tel Aviv and Jerusalem), Portugal (Lisbon) and Austria (Graz) together with my collaborator Ruth Gadish.

At the same time, my film-related activities expanded to include curatorial programs for venues such as the Jerusalem Cinematheque. Intersections, an avant-garde film and video program, was started to introduce audiences to cutting-edge works at the Jerusalem Film Festival each year. Other venues I have programmed include the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and the Parque Lage School of Visual Arts in Rio de Janeiro. I curated a series of six programs featuring experimental films by women from 1940 to 2021 for Light Cone in Paris.

“Home” is where I feel at home—and that can be in a hotel or on a plane or on my way to an unknown destination with a camera, iPhone, and recorder in my bag.