Aderet Fishbane is a filmmaker & poet making experimental documentaries about inheritance and embodiment.
< Shorts >
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< Photography >
< 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.
< CV* >
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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⬇Professional 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
Co-founder, Five College Film Collective & Screening Series. 2025-Present.
Editor-in-Chief, Mount Holyoke Review. 2024-Present.
Screener, Camden International Film Festival. 2025-Present.
Volunteer, Five College Film Festival. 2025-Present.
Volunteer, Rooftop Films. 2024.
Audio Editor, 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.
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.
PROXY - in post production
When the filmmaker returns to their insular Jewish hometown, filming offers a way to mediate their new foreignness in the spaces they grew up in.
Coming soon. Digital.
< Screenings >
Work-in-progress screening. Millenium Film Workshop. Brooklyn NY. Mar 22 2025.Work-in-progress screening. Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley MA. Apr 8 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.
< Screenings >
Five College Film Festival. Mar 29 @ Amherst College.
Isolation/Internalization shorts program
Winner, Honorable Mention
Faculty Jury Award for Documentary