MM Serra
DIRECTOR
MM Serra
YEAR
2022
COUNTRY
United States
RUNTIME
8
minutes
LANGUAGE
English
PRODUCER
MM Serra
CAST
Larry Fessenden (Camera) MM Serra (Flashlight)
The interior space in Jack Smith’s Apartment is made of brick-and-mortar, not flesh, but its curved structural lines—inspired by Islamic architecture—are no less erotically savored. Shot in 1989, soon after Smith’s death from AIDS-related complications, the short was conceived by Serra as “a document for New York's art history,” a necessary gesture of preservation for a soon-to-be-whitewashed realm.
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MM Serra is an experimental filmmaker, curator and was the Executive Director of Film-Makers' Cooperative until March 2023. Serra has created over 32 short documentary films that have screened at festivals including Sundance, The New York Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival and at the Louvre, Paris. She was awarded the Emily Harvey Foundation Venice Residency in 2023. On May 27, at Millennium Film Workshop she had a retrospective of her films curated by Erica Schreiner. March 16, 2024 the Society of Cinema and Media Studies hosted a panel discussion on MM Serra's films and her years as Executive Director of the FMC. In 2024, she was awarded a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Arts grant to create a film on community gardens.
