“Born in a trunk” in San Francisco, California, Kate Chumley has been a prop-maker, set designer, costume designer, writer, theater director, art director, student of anthropology and classical cello and, she is proud to say, a community organizer. In 2003 she began her MA studies at the New School in New York.

As a filmmaker and video artist she is currently at work on a feature-length documentary, The Trap/Le Piege. She directed the 2008 documentary In House, funded in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Her 2007 three-channel video installation Sundown was the first of a trio of video art pieces she plans exploring ecological bad-conscience or “the inner landscape of climate change.”

She has directed, shot and/or edited more than a dozen other videos for, about and in collaboration with individual artists and arts institutions in New York. With each project she aims to invent a visual language that activates cells in the right hemisphere of the brain, which recent discoveries suggest to be responsible for pre-conscious understanding, perception of nuance and insight.