Debra Kahn Tolchinsky

Debra Kahn Tolchinsky is a media artist and academic with interests in video installation and documentary filmmaking. She is currently an associate professor of Radio-TV-Film at Northwestern University and the director of Northwestern University School of Communication's MFA in Documentary Media. Her films, videos, and installations have been exhibited internationally at such venues as Croxhapox Gallery in Ghent, the Horse Hospital in London, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and The Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, IL.

She has also worked as an assistant film editor on such Hollywood features as Searching for Bobby Fischer and The Doctor. She was an artist-in-residence at the Portland Art Museum's Northwest Film Center, at Oxbow Art Colony in Michigan, and at the Vermont Studio Center in Vermont. The Hollywood Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild nominated Dolly and Lucky, two of her video loops, for Golden Reel Awards, and she was a 2006 New Media Fellowship nominee, as part of the Rockefeller/Ford Foundation's Program in New Media. In 2009, she co-curated The Horror Show at Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs in New York City which was chosen as a Village Voice "Voice Choice for Art" and featured on their blog and which was accompanied by a 32-page catalog. In 2011, she directed and produced the feature documentary Fast Talk, which investigates the accelerated speed of argumentation in college debate. Fast Talk, available on iTunes and Amazon instant, was named best documentary at the LA Femme International Film Festival, best documentary feature at the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, was the subject of a symposium at the Supreme Court Institute and has been discussed in such publications as the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, the National Law Journal, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Onion A.V. Club. Recently, she co-curated with David E. Tolchinsky The Presence of Absence sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Council at Hairpin Arts Center in Chicago, chosen by Chicago Magazine as one of the "16 best art gallery shows to see now in Chicago" and described in The Huffington Post as "The space is gorgeous, the art solid, challenging, yet accessible. This is a wonderfully odd, powerful, thoughtful show". Most recently, she was ranked number 7 with David E. Tolchinsky on New City's Film 50 2017: Chicago’s Screen Gems. She is a graduate of USC School of Cinematic Arts (AB) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA).

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