 |
This biography of a living person relies on a single source. You can help by adding reliable sources to this article. Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately. (December 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
|
Iris Cahn is a full professor and for almost twenty years, chaired the Film Conservatory at SUNY Purchase CollegeinPurchase, New York.
Cahn earned her M.A. from New York University and her B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase College. She edits feature films and documentaries, including Powaqqatsi (directed by Godfrey Reggio, music composed by Philip Glass), Worst Possible illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz (also receiving writing credit), Fragments of Kubelka, Lessons From an American Primary (which she also produced), Devo: Are We Not Men?, was supervising editor on Ornette: Made in America (directed by Shirley Clarke), and directed short films which have screened at the New York Film Festival and on network television. She was nominated for two Emmy Awards for specials and a series.[1] Her work has appeared at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals, in addition to Berlin, Lincoln Center and the Robert Flaherty Film Festival.
  | This biography of an American academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
