Deborah Stratman

She credits Barbara Loden's Wanda,[2] Jon Jost, Robert Nelson, Hollis Frampton, Jean Rouch, Straub-Huillet and Agnès Varda as key influences.

Her films, rather than telling stories, pose a series of problems – and through their at times ambiguous nature, allow for a complicated reading of the questions being asked.

The installation "draws on urban crowd control strategies that were used by the Central Intelligence Agency's Audio Harassment Division during the Vietnam War.

While for "FEAR (Decade)" (2004–2014) Stratman set up a toll-free phone number where she invited the public to share what they were most afraid of.

[4] Stratman has screen credits for her camera work on Thom Andersen's films Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003) and Get Out of the Car (2010).