Sight Unseen and the SNF Parkway are thrilled to offer a program of short non-fiction films spanning over twenty years by local maker and curator Joanna Raczynska, with examples of instrumental work by select artists. Presented and curated by Joanna Raczynska

Based in Baltimore, film programmer Joanna Raczynska organizes screenings and film artist presentations for the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (since 2009). She’s worked for a variety of non-profit organizations including Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; and the Baltimore Museum of Art, among others. She has served as a juror for many film festivals, including the Berwick International Film and Media Arts Festival; Ann Arbor Film Festival; Images Festival, Toronto; and the International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, and participated as a panelist for a variety of funding agencies including the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Rubys Artist Grants, the DC Commission on the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Program. Joanna earned her master’s degree with distinction in documentary by practice, Royal Holloway College, University of London (2001) and attended undergraduate classes in film at UMBC. Her short films have screened at various international sites, including the Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; Sheffield Doc/Fest and LUX, London, UK; and Hallwalls and Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY.

Sight Unseen is supported by a grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.