Aderet Fishbane
makes experimental documentaries about inheritance and embodiment.
contact: aderetf2003 (at) gmail (dot) com
CV available upon request
< Shorts >
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< Photography >
Delusions March 2025, UHAUL Productions
3:47 July 2025, with Freepile Productions
Expect a Circus August 2025, with SPEC
< 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.
MY HOROSCOPE SAYS I SHOULD GO AHEAD WITH WHAT I'M DOING
Personal exploration of 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 >milwaukee illuminate film festival. Milwaukee. Sept 7 3:30pm @ Avalon Atmospheric Theater.Tag! Queer Shorts Festival. Portland. Apr 5 3pm @ Hollywood Theatre.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.Showcase South Hadley. Tower Theaters, South Hadley MA. 2025.
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 overwhelm.
2024. Digital. 0:30.
PROXY
An intimate, observational intervention into the filmmaker’s suburban Zionist hometown landscape.PROXY confronts the metaphor of "mowing the lawn" used by the Israeli army to describe regular bombing campaigns in Gaza. Portraying the American Zionist suburb, full of idyllic beauty and safe, happy children, the film probes the relationship between suburban life and nationalist violence.
15 min. Digital.
Supported by NBCUniversal's Original Voices Accelerator Fellowship.
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.
< Screenings >
Five College Film Festival. Mar 29 @ Amherst College.
Winner, Honorable Mention
Faculty Jury Award for Documentary
ONLY GOYIM HAVE GUNS
A self-conscious experiment from within American Jewish self-defense narratives, mobilized by the archive.
In production. Digital.
