M.M. Serra is a multifaceted artist, renowned for her work as an experimental filmmaker, curator, author, and Executive Director of the Film-Makers' Cooperative, the world's oldest and largest archive of independent media.
Serra has showcased her films at numerous prestigious institutions, including a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives in June 2012, titled "Art(Core): Avant-Garde and the Cinematic Body." In April 2012, she was invited to the International School of Cinema and Television (EICTV) in Cuba to present and discuss her film "Bitch-Beauty" as part of the "Cinema as Death" program.
Her film "Bitch-Beauty" premiered at the New York Film Festival in October 2011, as part of the "Views of the Avant-Garde" screening series. Additionally, her film "Chop Off" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and the Museum of Modern Art's Documentary Fortnight Series in 2009.
Serra has also curated several notable film festivals and series, including "Counter Culture, Counter Cinema: An Avant Garde Film Festival" at the Pacific Design Center in 2010, and "Cinema of the Unusual" at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in 2007-2008. She has also curated and traveled with the show "New York Experimental" in Warsaw and Poznan, Poland, and was invited by the Office of Contemporary Art in Oslo, Norway to lecture and curate a two-hour program titled "Art (core): Avant Garde and the Cinematic Body."
In addition to her work in film, Serra has also written extensively on the subject. Her chapter on the work of Carolee Schneemann, titled "Eye/Body: The Cinematic Paintings of Carolee Schneemann," was published in "Anthology of Experimental Filmmakers" by Duke University Press in 2007, with a second printing in 2008.
Serra is also a dedicated educator, teaching in the Media Studies program at the New School for Social Research on topics such as horror films, sex and gender, and Avant-Garde and the Moving Image.
