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Artists: On Moviegoing
A Conversation with Josephine Decker and Lisa Hanawalt
Moderated by Kiva Reardon
Saturday, April 11, 4:00pm
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You don’t have to be a cinephile to make movies and TV, but it certainly helps. At this year’s festival, we’re taking a temperature check with two of our favorite contemporary moving image artists, whose work is steeped in movie love, to find out more about their movie-watching habits, history, and preferences.
Josephine Decker (
@josephinejambox ) is a filmmaker and performer whose work delves into women’s interiority, bending the space between imagination and reality. Her feature film MADELINE’S MADELINE thrusts the audience into the ever-shifting first-person perspective of her main character, was hailed as a “mind-scrambling masterpiece” and was nominated for Best Picture at IFP’s Gotham Awards and for two Independent Spirit Awards. Said to be ushering in a “new grammar of narrative,” her other feature films have received many accolades: SHIRLEY (starring Elisabeth Moss) won Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking, THE SKY IS EVERYWHERE (A24/Apple) was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Her most recent feature CHASING SUMMER premiered at Sundance 2026 and was Variety’s favorite film of the festival.
Lisa Hanawalt (
@lisadraws ) is the creator of Tuca & Bertie, the production designer/producer of BoJack Horseman, and the production designer/producer of the upcoming Long Story Short. Those are all animated shows, for adults! She’s written & illustrated four books published by Drawn & Quarterly: My Dirty Dumb Eyes, 2013, Hot Dog Taste Test, 2016, Coyote Doggirl, 2018, and I Want You, 2020. She lives in Los Angeles.
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