Movies: Kathryn Ramey

"Panic Bodies is a 70-minute, six-part exploration of the ways we experience the body's betrayals: disease, decline and death. The film is a panorama of emotionally charged recollections of strange relatives and estranged siblings, staged recreations...

This film explores a now-obscure American expansionist, William Walker, who through military force and coercion became president of Nicaragua in 1856. Walker was one of many expansionists who believed it was America's Manifest Destiny to conquer all ...

LIMEN - threshold. between two states of being. the boundary of perception....

An unfaithful remake of Man Ray’s 1926 “Emak Bakia” made without the use of a motion picture camera, ELONA EM EVAEL/LEAVE ME ALONE is a nonsensical response to brutality alongside a celebration of silver process. The film uses a variety unconventiona...

“When a heterosexual dude makes a film about his kids, that is very political. When a woman makes a film that engages with the act of being a parent, it’s often seen as less significant. That shows how political it is because even now, motherhood is ...

EL SIGNO VACÍO (the empty sign) is a feature length cinematic essay interrogating the 120-year US occupation of Puerto Rico and the filmmaker’s bizarre connection to it via her surname, RAMEY, to reveal how US democratic narratives effectively obscur...

A 15-minute experimental documentary juxtaposing two 'hers': the American WEST via the Oregon Trail and Elizabeth Crandall Perry, adventurer, midwife, mother of fourteen and the filmmaker's great great grandmother....