Stephanie Spray

Stephanie Spray

Actor · Director · Writer

Biography

Stephanie Spray is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work explores the confluence of social aesthetics and art in everyday life. She has been working at the Sensory Ethnography Laboratory at Harvard University since 2006 and she received a Master’s degree in the study of world religions from Harvard Divinity School as well as a Bachelor of Arts from Smith College. In 1999 she began studying music, religion and languages in Nepal, where she has made several video works, including Kāle and Kāle (2007), Monsoon-Reflections (2008), Untitled (bed) (2009), As Long as There’s Breath (2010) and Untitled (2010). Her work has been screened internationally including at the Anthology Film Archives (2010) in New York and the Sehsüchte International Film Festival in Postdam.

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Representative Works

Somniloquies
Somniloquies
7.6
/ English
Manakamana
Manakamana
7.5
/ Nepalese
Monsoon-Reflections
Monsoon-Reflections
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/ English
Untitled
Untitled
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/ Nepalese
Kale and Kale
Kale and Kale
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/ English
As Long As There's Breath
As Long As There's Breath
No Rating Yet
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Somniloquies
2017Winner

Best Performance

Somniloquies

Manakamana
2013Winner

Best Director

Manakamana

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