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Bellagio Residency: July 2022 Project: "24-Decade History of Popular Music" Rob Epstein has been making groundbreaking, socially relevant films for over four decades. Epstein came to Bellagio in July 2022 to work …
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Bellagio Residency: April 2022 Project: "Cognitive Dissonance" Sebastian Currier is an award-winning composer whose music has been performed by acclaimed artists and orchestras at major venues worldwide. A former Columbia University professor, …
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Bellagio Residency: April 2022 Project: "Some Third Element" Isabella Hammad’s first novel, “The Parisian,” won a Palestine Book Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and …
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Bellagio Residency: April 2022 Project: "Waiting For An Angel" Akin Omotoso is a film director, writer, producer and actor whose award-winning directorial credits include “Man On Ground,” “Tell Me Sweet Something,” and …
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Bellagio Residency: April 2022 Project: "La Muerte No Tiene Dueño” Jorge Thielen Armand is a Venezuelan-Canadian filmmaker whose first feature film LA SOLEDAD premiered at the Venice Film Festival, followed by over …
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Bellagio Residency: February 2022 Project: "UKI, a Scifi Viral Alt-Reality cinema and UNBORN0x9" Shu Lea Cheang is a pioneer of net art whose work aims to re-envision genders, genres, and operating structures. …
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Bellagio Residency: July 2022 Project: "The First Water Is the Body" Natalie Diaz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Mojave American poet, language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator. Diaz came to Bellagio …
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Bellagio Residency: July 2022 Project: "4711---a chamber opera for Japanese and Western Instruments" Hiroya Miura is a composer working with Western and Japanese instruments, toys, and other noise-making objects. Miura came to …
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Bellagio Residency: March 2022 Project: "The Generation" An acclaimed writer, Hernan Diaz’s first novel, “In the Distance,” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. It did win the …
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Bellagio Residency: March 2022 Project: "Translating Bocaccio's 14th Century Decameron Second Day into Gikuyu" Wangui wa Goro is a widely acclaimed Kenyan translator and translation studies pioneer. She works in Gikuyu, French, …