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Julie Wyman

Assistant Professor, Technocultural Studies
M.F.A., University of California, San Diego

Email: jfwyman@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (530) 752-5064
Office: 318 Art Building

Julie Wyman is an award-winning filmmaker whose experimental documentaries investigate gender and the body, seeking to complicate our notions of power, physicality, and gender categories. Her first feature, A Boy Named Sue (2000, 57:30), aired on Showtime and Logo television after having screened at festivals on five continents. Her 2004 experimental short, Buoyant, screened at the MoMA's Premiere's series in 2005. Currently she is following the ambitions of Superheavyweight Olympic weightlifter Cheryl Haworth to be the strongest woman in the world.

Wyman is also part of the artists collective BLW, a group that uses methods such as the respeaking of archival video recordings and public meetings to explore the role of speech and bodily presence in our sense of political agency.