Elisabeth Subrin

Director Story

Elisabeth Subrin’s award-winning films and installations have been presented widely in North America, Europe, South America and Asia.  Known for her use of reenactment, beginning with her widely recognized 1997 film Shulie, solo presentations include The Museum of Modern Art, NY, Film Society of Lincoln Center,  The Vienna Viennale, ICA London, IDFA, The Bell at Brown University, National Gallery of Art, DC, The Jewish Museum, NY, and in a 2024 retrospective at The Champs Elysées Film Festival in Paris. Group exhibitions and festival premieres include Cannes, Viennale, New York Film Festival and The Whitney Biennial. Subrin’s 2022 film Maria Schneider, 1983 premiered at Cannes in Director’s Fortnight and received a 2023 César for Best Documentary Short. Her critically acclaimed feature narrative, A Woman, A Part, premiered in competition at the 2016 Rotterdam International Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2017. A Sundance, Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, Subrin is a professor of film and media art at Temple University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.