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In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others.

Neither one is happy,” jokes Rony. “It’s not something I would recommend to other people.
Produced by Nia diNata.
Trailer in Indonesian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEp_J4eseQg&feature=related
Released for major theatrical exhibition in Indonesia, January 2008
Closing Film, Jakarta International Film Festival 16 December 2007
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival 4 May 2008
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Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia 14 August 2008
The US ASEAN Film and Photography Festival, Washington, DC 28 September 2008
Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Pusan International Film Festival, Pusan, Korea 9 October 2008
Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu, Hawaii 15 October 2008
The World Film Festival of Bangkok, Thailand November 2008
Film and Video Center, UC Irvine, Irvine, California 26 March 2009
Asian American Film Festival, Claremont Colleges,
Claremont, California 29 April 2009
Udine Far East Film Festival, Udine, Italy April-May 2009
Centre of South East Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, London, United Kingdom 12 June 2009
Taliesin Arts Centre Cinema, Swansea University, Wales,
United Kingdom, 11 September 2009
Black Movie Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland, 12 February 2010
UC San Diego, Sensory Communication Symposium, San Diego, California, 13 April 2010
Auckland Indonesian Festival, Auckland, New Zealand, 4 September 2010
Indonesian Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 October 2010
Cineffable, Festival International du Film Lesbien et Féministe, Paris, France, 2 November 2010
UC San Diego Feminist Infrastructures and Technocultures Assembly, 18 April 2013

Director: A BRIEF STUDY OF MOTION AND STILLNESS 2006
(Digital video, 5 minutes)
An experimental short featuring the collaboration of choreographer/dancer
Caitlyn Carradine and fashion/design by Carol Young
http://undesigned.com/Collection/index.html

Writer: GRACIE MAKES A MOVIE 2006
Narrative screenplay about a filmmaker who flees family problems by running away to her
grandmother’s village in Sumatra, Indonesia
Finalist, Asian Cinevision Screenplay Competition, New York Asian Film Festival July 2006

Producer, Director, Writer: TREASURE 2003
(Digital video, 2 minutes)
Experimental video about a woman who is trapped in the cellar of her mind
Past/Forward Fundraiser, Visual Communications, Los Angeles 25 October 2003
New York Asian American International Film Festival 17 July 2004
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival 30 April 2004
The San Francisco Asian American International Film Festival 16 March 2005

Producer: PERFECT GIRL 2003
(Digital video, 10 minutes)
San Diego Asian American International Film Festival, California October 2003
New York Asian American International Film Festival June 2003
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival May 2003
Chicago Asian American Film Festival March 2003

Producer, Co-Director, Writer: JAROCHO ELEGUA 2002
(16mm., 4 minutes)
Vanguard Records
Music Video for the band Quetzal

Co-Producer: FINDING FIRE UNDER MY GRANDMA’S FINGERNAILS 2001
(Digital video, 25 minutes)
What would you do if you couldn’t find your mother’s birthplace on a map?

RESISTING VISUAL BIOPOLITICS (Duke University Press, January 2022).

THE THIRD EYE: RACE, CINEMA, AND ETHNOGRAPHIC SPECTACLE (Duke University Press, 1996): Winner, Katherine S. Kovaks Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Film and Media Studies from the Society of Cinema Studies.

BOOK CHAPTERS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES

Pooja Rangan, “How Do We Look?: An Interview with Fatimah Tobing Rony.” FILM QUARTERLY 67, no.

Her first book,The Third Eye: Race, Cinema and Ethnographic Spectacle, won the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ award for outstanding scholarship. This documentary
is about the filmmaker’s search to understand through his grandmother’s life the secrets of
his Japanese-American past.
Award: UCLA Spotlight Award Winner 2000
Film Festivals and Screenings:
New York Asian American International Film Festival 28 August 2001
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA 13 June 2001
Silverlake Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA September 2001

Director, Producer, Writer, Editor: EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN 2000
(16mm., 26 minutes)
Distributed by Frameline
A drama about a young woman who must come to terms with her love for her best friend,
and her relationship with the man who raised her.
Shot mostly hand held, using real people and fictional characters who live in downtown Los Angeles,
in particular the gay Asian Pacific communities
of the city, this film was a collaboration with many Los Angeles-based actors, artists, and musicians.
Award, Directors Guild of America 2000 Student Film
First Prize, Narrative: University of Oregon Queer Film Festival, 2002
Special Jury Fiction Award: Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación, Santiago, Chile
Finalist, NextFrame International Film and Video Festival
2001 Kodak National Student Film Competition, 2nd place, Fort Lauderdale Film Festival
Film Festivals and Screenings:
Women in Film, Images Cinema 10 March 2006
Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Cine las Americas, Austin, Texas 13 April 2002
Women in the Director’s Chair 15 March 2002
Hawaii International Film Festival 5 November 2001
24th Mill Valley International Film Festival, Mill Valley, California 4-14 October 2001
San Diego Asian American International Film Festival, California 27-30 September 2001
NextFrame International Film Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 31 August 2001
New York Asian American International Film Festival 27 August 2001
The 25th San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival 20 June 2001
Annual Lehigh Valley Pride Film Festival, Pennsylvania 13 June 2001
2001 Houston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 29 May 2001
The Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival 21 May 2001
Emerging Filmmakers Showcase, Cannes Film Festival 14 May 2001
Cannes, France
Library of Congress Asian Pacific American Heritage Event 4 May 2001
The 43rd Rochester International Film Festival 3 May 2001
The NewFilmmakers Series, Anthology Film Archives, 25 April 2001
New York, New York
ReelWorld FilmFestival, Toronto, Canada 8-9 April 2001
Sixth Annual Directors Guild of America Student Film Awards, 14 November 2000
Los Angeles, California

Director, Producer, Writer, Editor: DEMON LOVER 1998
(16mm., 15 minutes)
Dramatic narrative set in the La Brea Tar Pits and the oil refineries of Los Angeles about a Native
Hawaiian woman torn between her Chinese lover and her mother.

Daniel Bernardi (Rutgers University Press, 1996).

"The Fence at the Fair," EMERGENCES 5 (1995).

Interview with filmmaker Kayo Hatta, THE INDEPENDENT (March 1994).

"Victor Masayesva, Jr. and the Politics of Imagining Indians," FILM QUARTERLY (Winter 1994).

"Image Sovereignty," AFTERIMAGE (February 1994).

"'We Must First See Ourselves': Documentary Subversions in Contemporary African-American Women's Photography," catalogue essay for PERSONAL NARRATIVES: WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS OF COLOR, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (September 1993).

"Those Who Squat, Those Who Sit: The Iconography of Race in the Films of Félix-Louis Regnault," CAMERA OBSCURA 28 (January 1992).

"Troubleshooters" (essay on ethnographic cinema), ARTFORUM (September l99l).

Review of Bernardo Bertolucci's film, The Last Emperor, FILM QUARTERLY (Winter l989).

FILMS

Producer, Director, Writer: ANANDA [French title: LA JAVANAISE] (80 minutes, 2D Animation, France/Indonesia)
In Development with Special Touch Studios, Producer Sébastien Onomo
Official Selection, Cartoon Movie for Animation Feature Projects, Concept Pitch, Bordeaux, France (March 4-6, 2025)
Official Selection, MIFA (Marché international du film d'animation) Pitch, 2021 Annecy International Festival of Animation (June 15-18, 2021)
In 1894, in Paris, France, a trafficked 13-year-old girl from Java escapes her life as a maid and model for the painter Paul Gauguin.

University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship

Award, Best Short Animation, Jakarta International Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia, November 2-6, 2022;
Award, Best Animation, Oslo Film Festival, Oslo, Norway, March 19, 2022;
Award, Honorable Mention, Best Animated Film, Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, North Dakota, March 19, 2022;
Award, Best Animated Short, Annual Aarhus Film Festival, Aarhus, Denmark, March 13, 2022;
Award, Best Short Animation, Melbourne Short Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia, March 6, 2022;
Award, Special Mention Jury Prize, Festival International du Cinéma d'Auteur de Rabat, Rabat, Morocco, February 23, 2022
Award, Best Film Award, Edinburgh Short Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 21, 2022;
Award, Best Animated Film Award, Rome International Cinema Festival;
Award, 2021 Best Social Justice Film, Hollywood Women's International Film Festival;
Award, 2021 Best Animated Short, LA Femme International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA;
Award, 2021 Award Meilleur Film International (Best International Film), Devenir Réalisateur Paris Film Festival, Paris, France (International Competition);
Award, 2021 Award Meilleur Musique de Film (Best Film Music), Devenir Réalisateur Paris Film Festival, Paris, France (International Competition);
Award, 2021 Chinelo Award, Best Short Film, Pixelatl, International Film Festival of Animation, Cuernavaca, Mexico;
Award, Audience Award, 2021 Woods Hole International Film Festival, Woods Hole, MA;
Award, Animorpha Award for Best Short Film, 2021 Anifilm International Festival of Animated Film, 26 June 2021, Liberec, Czech Republic;
2021 MIFA (Marché international du film d'animation) Pitch, Annecy International Festival of Animation;
Women in Animation Mentorship Circle;
Les femmes s'animent Mentorship Award;
Katherine S.

Kovaks Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Film and Media Studies from the Society of Cinema Studies for THE THIRD EYE: RACE, CINEMA, AND ETHNOGRAPHIC SPECTACLE;
Film Independent Producers Lab;
Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship; Finalist, Screenplay Competition, New York Asian American Film Festival, 2006; First Prize, Narrative: University of Oregon Queer Film Festival, 2002; Special Jury Fiction Award: Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación, Santiago, Chile 2001; The Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Asian Pacific American Student Film, 2000;
Kodak Emerging Filmmakers Award, Cannes Film Festival 2000; Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Asian Pacific American Student Film, 1998;
Kodak Emerging Filmmakers Award, Cannes Film Festival 1998;
Honorable Mention, 1995 Chicago Asian American Film Festival;
Frances Blanshard Fellowship Fund Prize for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in the History of Art, Yale University;
Fulbright Fellowship to Indonesia;
Arthur B.

Graves Prize for Best Essay in Art, Williams College;
Karl E. Weston Prize for Distinction in Art, Williams College

BOOKS

HOW DO WE LOOK? “Love and Cannibalism” is her fourth film project in six years.

Bruce H. Sklarew, Bonnie S. Kaufman, Ellen Handler Spitz, Diane Borden (Wayne State University Press, 1998).

"Nanook of the North: The Politics of Taxidermy and Romantic Ethnography," THE BIRTH OF WHITENESS: RACE AND THE EMERGENCE OF UNITED STATES FILM, ed. She has been developing the project for two years, and has now put finishing touches on the script, finalized the budget, scouted locations and begun selecting cast and crew, all of whom are Indonesian.

Rony, who has a doctorate in art history from Yale University and a master’s in directing and production from UCLA, has managed to bridge the worlds of film and academia.

You do both because you have to.” She had to postpone work on “Love and Cannibalism” to serve as department chair in 2005-06.

“Love and Cannibalism” will be shot in Java and Sumatra in summer 2007, with completion scheduled for early 2008.