Salome Chasnoff
Introduction (2-3 lines)
Salome Chasnoff is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and installation artist inspired by the enlightening, humanizing and healing capacities of storytelling. For over three decades, she has created films with a wide range of underrepresented communities including people with disabilities, older sex workers, rural hospital workers, women in prison, and victims of police violence. Her work screens internationally in festivals, universities, and on television.
Salome Chasnoff (salomechasnoff.com) is a Chicago-based documentary filmmaker and installation artist inspired by the enlightening, humanizing and healing capacities of storytelling. For more than three decades, she has maintained a collaborative social practice and exhibition career embracing and interrogating the indivisibility of making art and making relationship. Her work features intimate, accessible voices in crafted images that showcase narrative agency. Her installations aspire to create spaces for community healing.
Chasnoff has created films with a wide range of underrepresented communities including people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ youth, older sex workers, rural hospital workers, women in prison, and victims of police violence. Her work screens internationally in festivals, universities, and on television. Awards include the Purpose Prize Fellowship, Ida B. Wells Bravery in Journalism and 21 Leaders for the 21st Century. She was the founding director of the pioneering media activism organization, Beyondmedia Education, is a founding member of PO Box Collective and a Senior Lecturer in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
