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Terri Sarris is an award-winning media artist and educator whose production interests include experimental media, documentary, narrative fiction, and everything in between. She teaches classes in video art, documentary, and multi-camera television production. "buzzards steal your picnic," her 40-minute documentary profile of Frank Pahl, (a Detroit composer and creator of self-playing musical automatons whom Nate Cavalieri of the Detroit Metro Times described as "a one-man quirk force....with the passion of a melodically-obsessed Willy Wonka") was awarded "Best Michigan Film" at both the Detroit International Documentary Festival in 2007 and the Ann Arbor Film Festival in 2008. She is currently finishing a documentary portrait of the Michigan modernist textile designer Ruth Adler Schnee. Her media installations have been included in local galleries, including the Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, the Paint Creek Center for the Arts in Rochester, Michigan, and the Kibbell Gallery in Maryland. Sarris approaches media production with an interest in dance and movement and co-teaches a class in "Screendance" with Peter Sparling (Department of Dance). Her short dance film "lift" was awarded "best short experimental film" in the Imago Film Festival, 2006. Sarris is also involved in outreach initiatives centered on media literacy and production and was selected by the UM National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) as a faculty fellow for 2007-08 in connection with UM Alum Sultan Sharrief, a Community Practitioner at the Center. Sarris and Sharrief developed the "EFEX Project" (Encouraging the Filmmaking Experience), which began in Spring 2006 as a spring course in Community Filmaking and with the summer production of the feature film "Bilal's Stand,” written and directed by Sharrief. In 2008, EFEX also created the short film “Taffy, Cigarettes,” written and directed by UM Alum Marty Stano. Terri Sarris current film on Adler Schnee's life is highlighted in this article The Washington Times. |
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