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Kelly Kirshtner is an artist, sound designer, writer, and educator. Her work favors a speculative and process-driven approach to storytelling through sound, moving image, and intermedia practices, with a special fascination for phenomena at the verge of unraveling. Kirshtner has exhibited and performed at film festivals, performance spaces, and in other topographies, including among her recent works the durational walking poem “In the Shoulder Season” (March-April 2020) and a series of live soundscape performances (“Falling, in Terms of Silent,” 2015-2020). She has authored essays on recording and performance in early cinema; radio and film sound; the horror genre; sonic ecologies, and other topics.
Kirshtner is currently an Associate Professor of Film/Video/Animation/New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (US), where she teaches courses in film production and cinema studies.
View a selection of past and ongoing projects in the GALLERY.
Yes please, contact me: kellykirshtner@gmail.com