Artist Deborah Stratman makes work about power, experience, history and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society are intertwined. She regards sound as the ultimate multi-tool and linearity to be a trap. Her projects and 40+ films have been exhibited and awarded widely, at festivals including Sundance, Viennale, Berlinale, CPH:DOX, TIFF, Cinéma du Réel, Locarno, Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Yamagata, Jeonju and venues including MoMA NY, Centre Pompidou, Hammer Museum, Witte de With, Austrian Film Museum, Yerba Buena Center, MCA Chicago, Whitney Biennial, Mercer Union and Jeu de Paume. She lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.