David
Sherman is a filmmaker and media artist, whose appropriation
and collage based, experimental films and videos have been exhibited extensively
at film festivals, museums and alternative venues throughout the world.
His 2002 experimental documentary To Re-edit the World premiered
at the 45th San Francisco International Film Festival; other screenings
include the Dallas Video Festival, and The World Wide Video Festival in
Amsterdam. His Tuning the Sleeping Machine has been widely exhibited;
being included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, The 34th New York Film Festival
and screening at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.
He is one half of the artist collaboration known as Total Mobile Home. Recognized
as founding the world’s first microcinema in San Francisco in 1993,
Total Mobile Home has continued a practice of producing expanded-cinema
performance and installations art. In 2004 they were artists in residence
at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California where they
produced film based sculptural, sound and projected works.
David Sherman resides in Bisbee, Arizona, where he is currently working on an experimental documentary about Del Webb, Wilhelm Reich and the urbanization of the Sonoran Desert.