Project Space Residents

David Sherman and Rebecca Barten

October 27 – November 24, 2026

Artist’s Statement

Filmmakers Rebecca Barten and David Sherman’s creative collaboration of over thirty years began in 1994 with the founding of their first DIY cinema project, Total Mobile Home microCINEMA in San Francisco.  Since then, in addition to making personal films, their joint practice has continued to redefine cinematic exhibition with intimate, handmade screenings and rigorous thematic programming that transforms the space between artists and audience while, at the same time, expressing a deep commitment to the poetic, political, and spectral power of experimental media. Most recently, Barten/Sherman have been touring a feature length live cine-essay about their history, conceptual practice, archive and ethos: The Birth of Microcinema to venues throughout the country.

Bios

Rebecca Barten is an experimental filmmaker who makes poetic and conceptual works both in film and video. Engaging radical otherness, the reclaimed image and film editing as a metabolic system- her works have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival,  Experiments in Cinema, Other Cinema and Cosmic Rays.

David Sherman is an experimental filmmaker, whose work addresses cultural histories and media materiality. Sherman’s practice encompasses essayistic forms, media archives, collage, analog and electronic image manipulation. Sherman’s films have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, SFMOMA, the New York Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive and Other Cinema.

VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something.