Aderet Fishbane is a filmmaker & poet making experimental documentaries about inheritance and embodiment.

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< Selected Poems >

"Epic of gilgamesh" & "A lot of people are dead & we just can't figure out what killed them" , BRUISER Sept 2023."Courting, courted" , pom pom press Aug 2023."Swan goose", BULLSHIT 2nd Anthology July 2023 (print only)."Girl world" , In the Mood Feb 2023."How I would talk if I worked on American Horror Story” & “Great tits” & “You’reHolyYou’reHolyYou’reHoly” , Hot Pink Jan 2023.

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Aderet Fishbane
Northampton, MA
aderetf2003 (at) gmail (dot) com⬇Education
BA in Film/Media & Religion
Mount Holyoke College⬇Awards
2024 Sarah Williston Scholar
2024 Glascock Poet Contestant
2024 NBCU Original Voices Fellow⬇Working Experience
Arts & Technology Teaching Assistant, Mount Holyoke College. 2023-Present.
Marketing & Distribution Coord., KimiKat Productions. 2023-2024.
Media Consultant, Mount Holyoke College. 2022-2023.
Ads Intern, BOMB Magazine. 2021-2022.⬇Related Volunteer Work
Editor-in-Chief, Mount Holyoke Review. 2024-Present.
Volunteer, Rooftop Films. 2024-Present.
Audio Editor, “The Summit” News Podcast, Mount Holyoke News. 2024-Present.
Student Director & Juror, Mount Holyoke College Student Film Festival. 2024.
Poetry Editor, Mount Holyoke Review. 2023-2024.
Web Editor, Mount Holyoke Review. 2022-2023.

My Horoscope Says I Should Go Ahead With What I'm Doing

Personal doc exploring trans nonbinary self creation in community. Trying to understand the intimacy and intensity of change in the body and in bodies of friends.

2024. Digital. 05:18.

< Screenings >Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest. London.
Sept 22 3:30pm @ Rich MixExposures Montréal Trans Film Festival. Montréal.
Sept 22 3pm @ Éspace TransmissionFresno Reel Pride LGBTQ+ Film Festival. Fresno. Sept 22 4pm @ Arts Annex and Doris Gallery

< Recognition >Honorable Mention. MIX FEST 2024. New York City.

Pull On This

Self portrait.

2024. Digital. 02:39.

< Screenings >

Mount Holyoke College Student Film Festival. 2024.

Rapid Visibility

Brief experimental exploration of trans nonbinary visibility, presentation and pleasure.

2024. Digital. 01:30.

Ritual Copy

An overproduction of ritual practice, where meaning gets lost in its own signification.

2024. Digital. 01:30.

< Screenings >

Mount Holyoke College Student Film Festival. 2024.

Angels Are Pretty Dead

A quick performance of rational, political and religious overwhelm, building frenetic panic via maximalist chaos.

2024. Digital. 0:30.

I'm From Here - in post production

When the filmmaker returns from college to their insular Jewish hometown in the summer of 2024, with new understandings of both the strict Zionism they were raised with and their gender, filming offers a way to mediate their newfound foreignness in the spaces they grew up in.

Expected completion Spring 2025.

Boy Am I Attached

Portrait of transmasc friendship as a project of co-creation. Best friends Myles and Ezra consider what they’ve given each other.

2024. Digital. 03:30.

With A Lot Of Sorrow

When images of violence dominate the daily media young Americans consume, looking becomes an act of both power and grief. With A Lot Of Sorrow explores the transmission of pain via the internet.

2024. Digital. 08:45.