About

Robin Starbuck is a New York based experimental filmmaker and animator. Her work in experimental video, installation art, and painting has been exhibited in Museums, Cultural Centers, Galleries, and festivals in the United States, Europe and South America. She has received multiple awards and grants and numerous fellowships for artist residencies both nationally and internationally. Starbuck’s studio orientation is in inter-media installation and animation. She has recently completed several films including “How We See Water”, a film shot in Chiapas, Mexico and “Going to the Horses”, a feature length documentary on Charlie Real Bird of the Crow/Apsaalooke nation in Montana. Her current projects include the production of an animated short from an Apsaalooke traditional story and the experimental ethnographic film “Present At Sunrise” based in Crow Agency, Montana. Robin continues to produce film projections for theater. She has recently completed projections for Director and Sarah Lawrence Professor, Ernest Abuba, for the Korean play “You for Me and Me for You” written by Mia Chung.

Robin is a tenured Professor of Sarah Lawrence College in New York where she teaches courses in experimental film and animated media and she Chairs the department of Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts. She holds her MFA with a focus in multimedia installation and performance art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a post-graduate certificate in Film/Video Editing and Post-production from the Tisch School of the Arts, at NYU in New York City. Robin Starbuck is a native New Yorker and an adopted daughter of the Crow/Apsaalooke tribe in Montana.

Robin is a full time Professor in the Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts Department of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. She teaches courses in experimental documentary, alternative film/video, narrative 2D animation, and experimental animation. Robin serves on the Sarah Lawrence College Diversity Committee, she manages the Spencer Barnett Experimental Film Forum. She is a member of the college Media Cluster, and she serves on ad-hoc committees for Technology in the Arts.

Founded in 1926, Sarah Lawrence is a coeducational liberal arts college with a distinctive academic philosophy emphasizing the individual student. The academic structure of the college combines small seminar classes with individual, biweekly student-faculty conferences—plus studios, labs, performances, and internships. Undergraduates have nearly 50 disciplines from which to select courses. Students receive written evaluations; grades are recorded for transcript purposes only. The student body consists of women and men who share an enthusiasm for intellectual rigor, academic risk taking, creativity in all disciplines, and original and in Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts program of Sarah Lawrence

The Filmmaking & Moving Image Arts program is a unique, rigorous, and comprehensive undergraduate filmmaking and screenwriting program offering a flexible and dynamic conservatory-like curriculum. Mirroring a graduate-level experience, and with exceptional access to equipment, facilities and resources, the program allows students to find their passion in filmmaking, screenwriting, and animation from a myriad of entry points—through writing, drawing, working with actors, documentary storytelling, experimental film, media and installation, cinematography, editing, narrative fiction, web series creation, and game writing.

Intimate in character, the program is a competitive choice, in league with NYU, Columbia and other film schools, with the advantage of being integrated within a liberal arts education. This ever-growing community of filmmakers includes an annual Film Festival, a bi-annual film intensive, and a student Networking Conference. Screenings and discussions with visiting filmmakers are scheduled throughout the year.

For more information on Sarah Lawrence College Film: https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/undergraduate/arts/filmmaking-and-moving-image-arts/

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