Deborah Stratman makes films and artworks that question power, control, and belief, considering how places, ideas, and society are interconnected. Stratman has exhibited internationally at venues including MoMA (NY), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hammer Museum (LA), Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), MCA (Chicago), Whitney Biennial (NY), ECRÃ Festival, Flaherty Seminar, and Sundance, Berlinale, ECRÃ, Viennale, CPH:DOX, True/False, Locarno, and Rotterdam. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches at the University of Illinois.