Courtney Stephens
Born
23 May 1981 (44)
Place of Birth
Redwood City, California, USA
Biography
Courtney Stephens (US) is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her non-fiction and experimental films address the contours of language, historical memory and women's lives. Her work has been exhibited at the Berlinale, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the National Gallery of Art, South by Southwest, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hong Kong, Camden, Mumbai, Luxembourg, Dhaka and San Francisco International Film Festivals. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Schola...
Courtney Stephens (US) is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her non-fiction and experimental films address the contours of language, historical memory and women's lives. Her work has been exhibited at the Berlinale, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the National Gallery of Art, South by Southwest, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hong Kong, Camden, Mumbai, Luxembourg, Dhaka and San Francisco International Film Festivals. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a California Humanities Grant, fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Pocantico and the Sloan Foundation and was one of Filmmaker Magazine's twenty-five "New Faces of Independent Film." A graduate of the American Film Institute, she co-founded the Los Angeles microcinema Veggie Cloud and has curated film programs for The Getty Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, UnionDocs and Flaherty NYC.
Filmography (16)
Girls Dance at the World’s Fair
2026
🎬 Director
Invention
2025
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2025
Fourteen variations on the intimate
2023
🎬 Director
Lesser Choices
2022
Topology of Sirens
2021
Terra Femme
2021
🎬 DirectorIris Season
2020
🎬 Director
CINEMA-19
2020
🎬 Director
Perfect Fifths
2020
The American Sector
2020
🎬 Director
Mixed Signals
2018
🎬 Director
Labial Quinet
2017
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Mating Games
2017
Ida Western Exile
2017
Scumrock
2002