Grace Mitchell
Directing
Biography
Grace Mitchell is a video artist and musician residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has received her BFA & MFA in Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UW-Milwaukee. Her video work has screened both nationally & abroad at festivals such as FRACTO Berlin, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, and Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival.
Known For

In a whimsical, themed hotel in Wisconsin, seven guests’ lives intersect through overlapping spaces, improvised movement, and intimate encounters. Letters exchanged between the filmmakers frame a meditation on desire, blurred identities, and collaborative intimacy, as strangers and selves merge in ephemeral, poetic choreography.
Heart Shaped

A film where an alley acts as a calendar, charting the progression of a year. Mixed into the linearity is a rolodex of the everyday in no particular order.
The Year

Making light of darkness, TOO MUCH FUN is an attitudinal account of familial tragedy surrounding suicide, incest & masculinity.
Too Much Fun

Daughter gets her first period on a roller coaster in Ohio & Mother has an affair. Shared secrecy bonds and entraps them.
Top Thrill

A parking lot by the airport where people sit in their cars, eat takeout, and watch the planes land. A parking lot outside a mega pet store. Inspired by Amy Hempel’s short story collection, Reasons to Live, and the work of poet Bernadette Mayer. An ensemble cast riffs on what we might discover about intimacy in parking lots.
Pet World
An internalized place defined by dreams, trespassing, and stormy weather.