Marjorie Sturm was raised in New York, studied psychology and art at
the University of Michigan, and moved out to San Francisco in the
early nineties. She received her MFA in filmmaking from San Francisco
State and completed the award winning Smoke the Pipe Dream, Honey and Eggs, and
Treehouse. She has lived for extended periods in Mexico, India, and
Israel studying poetry, film, music, and religion. Sturm has worked with the mentally-ill homeless in the Tenderloin since 1995. She is presently working on a documentary about the fictitious "JT Leroy," the international literary, entertainment, and celebrity hoax.
Marjorie Sturm
- The Films Of Marjorie Sturm vol.1 - PR90266DVD
In the present collection of her short films (six films - Smoke the Pipe Dream, Voice or No Voice, Honey and Eggs (the end of fantasy), Treehouse, The Relief - from the six years between 1998-2004), Bay Area filmmaker Marjorie Sturm
explores different aspects of the tension between Nature and Culture in contemporary American society.
video clips.
press:
Meow Power,
kitty magik,
Altar Magazine
She has also collaborated
as a lyricicist and flutist with the composer Ernesto Diaz-Infante, and
more recently Sturm has created the visual component for the duo project
The Neshama Alma Band.
mp3s:
November Mantra I
& II
Through Pax Recordings,
Sturm edited and co-produced a compilation CD of twenty-six artists titled "Voices in the Wilderness: Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of G.W.'s America."
 | VOICES IN THE WILDERNESS: Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of G.W.'s America
STOP THE WAR! Created out of the anxiety & disillusionment of Bush's reelection on November 3, 2004. This CD of 26 artists transcends music genres & ideologies with the common purpose of dissent towards the Bush regime. END THE WAR IN IRAQ! "Perfect reminder that we must not forget this madness" Tom Sekowski, Gaz-Eta
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