Barbara Sternberg

Biography

Toronto filmmaker Barbara Sternberg has been making films since the mid-seventies. Her films have been screened widely across Canada as well as internationally at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, The Museum of Modern Art and Millennium Workshop in New York, and the Ontario Cinematheque, Toronto. Her work is in the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of Canada. She has been a visiting artist at a number of Canadian universities and galleries including the University of Guelph, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Dunlop Art Gallery, as well as the Universite d'Avignon, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2011, Sternberg was made a Laureate of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Sternberg’s film work combines reflections on the medium itself with social issues and universal questions of how we experience reality, how we as humans are situated in the world. Films are themselves experiences, realities. Her films work at the intersection of film and life- questions of vision, perception, motion and temporality. Although her main practice is film, Sternberg has worked in other media including performa…

Directed

1. Like a Dream that Vanishes (1999) — Director
2. Transitions (1982) — Director
3. Through and Through (1991) — Director
4. A Trilogy (1985) — Director
5. beating (1994) — Director
6. At Present (1990) — Director
7. C’est la vie (1997) — Director
8. Tending Towards the Horizontal (1988) — Director
9. Time Being V-VI (2014) — Director
10. Once I Am (2020) — Director
11. The Human Condition (2016) — Director
12. Carl Brown (2010) — Director
13. vers(ing) (2010) — Director
14. touch (2023) — Director
15. Sunprints 1, 2, 3 (2023) — Director
16. Burning (2002) — Director
17. Opus 40 (1979) — Director
18. Surfacing (2004) — Director
19. Once (2007) — Director
20. Time Being I – IV (2007) — Director
21. midst (1997) — Director
22. Praise (2005) — Director
23. COLOUR THEORY (2014) — Director
24. Awake (1997) — Director
25. Far From (2014) — Director
26. Love Me (2014) — Director
27. What Do You Fear? (1996) — Director
28. The Earth in the Sea (2017) — Director
29. After Nature (2008) — Director
30. Beginning and Ending (2008) — Director
31. In the Nature of Things (2011) — Director
32. So What? (2004) — Director
33. In the Garden (2004) — Director
34. Tabula Rasa (2003) — Director
35. Untitled #1 (sun vision) (2019) — Director
36. Anything is Everything (2021) — Director
37. Elemental Vision or a film for the rest of my life (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Antigone (1990)
2. Burning (2002) — Director