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Courtney Stephens (US) is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her non-fiction and experimental films address the contours of language, historical memory and women's lives. Her work has been exhibited at the Berlinale, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the National Gallery of Art, South by Southwest, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hong Kong, Camden, Mumbai, Luxembourg, Dhaka and San Francisco International Film Festivals. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a California Humanities Grant, fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Pocantico and the Sloan Foundation and was one of Filmmaker Magazine's twenty-five "New Faces of Independent Film." A graduate of the American Film Institute, she co-founded the Los Angeles microcinema Veggie Cloud and has curated film programs for The Getty Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, UnionDocs and Flaherty NYC.
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2026
Girls Dance at the World’s Fair
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2026
And If the Body
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2025
Invention
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2025
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
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2023
Fourteen variations on the intimate
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2022
Lesser Choices
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2021
Topology of Sirens
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2021
Terra Femme
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2020
Iris Season
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2020
CINEMA-19
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2020
Perfect Fifths
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2020
The American Sector
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2018
Mixed Signals
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2017
Labial Quinet
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2017
Mating Games
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2017
Ida Western Exile
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2010
Equestrian Sexual Response
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2002
Scumrock
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