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Isaac Brooks

  • Lecturer, Film, Video, Animation and New Genres
  • Arts Technician, Film, Video, Animation and New Genres

Education

  • MFA, Film Production, UW-Milwaukee
  • BFA, Media Production: Film, Emerson College

Biography

Isaac is a filmmaker, technician, and educator based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His personal work often explores the relationship between communication technology and physical landscape, in both rural and urban environments. He specializes in archival 16mm theatrical projection, in addition to workshopping methods in analog cinematography within his coursework and technical oversight at UW–Milwaukee.

His work has been screened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival, London Short Film Festival, Uppsala Short Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Under Berlin Film Festival, Tallahassee Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, and the Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground.

He received his MFA in Cinematic Arts from UW–Milwaukee in 2014. He has collaborated with the Brattle Film Foundation, Eureka! Video, the Brattleboro Words Project, and the Provincetown International Film Festival. His writing has been published in the journal Film and History.

Curriculum Vitae, CV (PDF)

Recent & Selected Works

Black and white view of industrial buildings on the bank of a large river
Black and white view of a street leading down to a river, power lines crisscross the road.
Black and white image of a woman standing over a drafting table surrounded by paper, shelves, and machinery
Black and white image of a gated off alley looking out to a building in the distance
Faceless figure in the center of the screen in front of a colorful background of what appears to be a store
Person in blue coveralls carrying a long plank through a bright, lush, green forest

Awards

Best Short Narrative - Chicago Underground Film Festival