Amber Bemak is based in Dallas, TX after three years spent living in Mexico after seven years living between India and Nepal. She is a filmmaker, artist, and educator whose creative practice is based in experimental and documentary film. Bemak often works cinematically and performatively with her own body to represent different symbolic cultural codes and structures of power.
While living between India and Nepal, she produced and co-directed a feature-length documentary on the spread of Tibetan Buddhism to the United States, collaborated on on a five channel video installation commissioned by dOCUMENTA(13), and created a series of five short films detailing women’s empowerment initiatives around radical communal healthcare, sustainable farming practices, and land rights for landless communities, among other projects.
In Mexico City, she co-directed and was the editor for Tell me When you Die, an award-winning experimental queer video-performance trilogy made in collaboration with Bogota-based performance artist Nadia Granados. In 2022 she completed her first feature film, the performance documentary 100 Ways to Cross the Border, which has screened widely and internationally.
Her work has been seen at venues including the National Gallery of Art, the Rubin Museum of Art, SculptureCenter, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Tamayo Museum. Festivals include Oberhausen, BAM cinemafest, BFI London, Ann Arbor, DocLisboa, and Morelia. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.
Contact information:
amberbemak@gmail.com