Tessa Siddle is a film, video, and media artist originally from San Francisco.

Tessa is currently an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

education

2005: BA Sarah Lawrence College: Concentration in Film/New Media Production and Art History

2000: California State Summer School of the Arts in Film and Video

1998-2001:  Film Workshop of San Francisco Art & Film For Teenagers

 

films, istallations, projects, & exhibitions

2008: Tony’s Tale: Better Living Through Personal Futures Planning – DV
            • Screened at 2008 Cal-TASH Summer Symposium, Santa Barbra, CA
2007:  Nestworks – DV
            • Screened at Secret Technology Show
            • Screened at Trannyfest 2007, San Francisco, CA.
            • Screened at Mission Underground Film Festival 2008,
              San Francisco, CA
2006:  Assistant Photographer for Criminal Casting Project by Lena Braun.
            • August 11th-17th Berlin, Germany.
2006: State Birds – DV
            • Installed at Salon De La Californie, Decoupage, San Francisco,
            January 2006.
            • Screened at Oper/Anti Film and New Media Festival, Yonkers, NY,
            May 2006.
2005: Five Symbol Boxes – Aluminum Foil, Cardboard, String Lights.
            • Installed at Cheap Art! Hayes Valley Market, December 2005.
2005: Forced – Super 8 film loop installation.
            • Installed as part of The Loudest Sound exhibition at Hayes Valley Market
            Space, San Francisco, Summer 2005.
2005: Cyborg Bodies – 3 channel surveillance camera and DV performance installation.
2005: Ghost Modern! – 16mm installation
• Installed as part of Salon of the Forgotten at the Decoupage Gallery, San Franciso.
2004: Weeping Bed – Wood, Leaves, and Audio Loop
2004: Four Panels – Installation with Wood, Plexiglas, Lipstick, Shave Foam, Foundation, and 4 DV Loops
2004: Animal Lover Society  - 16mm and Super-8 on DV
2004: Passing Through  - 2 Channel DV installation.
            • Installed at the 2004 SLC Noise Festival with music by Adam Khoal.
2003: Transitions - DV with Super-8
2002:  25 – SVHS
2002: Necromance – Super-8
2001: There Once Was a Girl Who Lived in a Box – Super-8
2001: Picnic – DV
2000: Secrets of Meditation – DV
2000: Untitled (Girl gets attacked by inner-demons in Zoro Mask) – Super-8
1999: What She Knows – DV
            • Winner Best Independent Student Video –
   34th Annual California Student Media and Multimedia Festival
1999: Escape – DV
1999: Uncle Mames – DV1999: Buddha’s Garden – DV

employment

2008: In-house Documentarian/Community Support Staff – Community Employment Services, San Francisco
• Position involved making a documentary about progressive methods of helping adults with developmental disabilities work through severe behavioral problems and providing community support to persons with developmental disabilities.
2007: Event Lighting Technician/Electrician – Got Light?, San Francisco
• Position involves setting up and taking down lights for events.
2007: Production Assistant – Bad Co. Films, San Francisco
• Position involves handling and moving equipment, cueing audio sources, and performing minor crowd control for commercial video productions.
2005-2007: Art and Filmmaking Mentor – San Francisco Art & Film Program
• Position involves assisting students with art and filmmaking projects, organizing weekly fieldtrips to galleries and museums, and creating databases for the operation of a non-profit organization dedicated to providing arts education for teenagers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2005: Research Assistant – Psychology Department at Sarah Lawrence College
• Involved coding interviews and finding articles for psychology professor Linwood Lewis.
2003: Office Assistant – Community Employment Services, San Francisco
• Position involved the reorganization of client files, photocopying, and the organization of a small library for a non-profit agency working with developmentally disabled adults.
2002-2003: Video Editing Tech - Analogue Video Tech, Sarah Lawrence College
2001-2004: Esther Rauchenbach Library, Sarah Lawrence College:
• Job involved shelving books and rearranging sections as the library collection expanded and continued its shift from Dewy Decimal to Library of Congress classifications.