Filmmaker THEO LIPFERT was born Christmas Eve, 1962 in Beaver Creek, Ohio. He grew up on the North shore of Long Island, and attended Hampshire College where he studied fine art and philosophy. He moved to New York City in 1984 and earned an MFA in painting from Hunter College. He is also an alumnus of the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. His other film and video works include “Make Sure Our Address Shows Through Window”, a collaboration with German artist Harald Klemm, which is a 30 minute experimental video based on a poem by Federico Garcia Lorca, and the music of Hans Werner Henze. Lipfert and composer Stefan Hakenberg also created “Like Juicy Peaches”, a three movement work for four cellos and projected video, based on Hakenberg’s composition of the same name. Theo Lipfert has been a resident fellow at the Virginia Center for Creative Artists, The MacDowell Colony, and at the Banff Centre in Canada. Lipfert is currently in production on a feature length digital film tentatively titled “Dhat-Calm: daydreams of the under-employed” which will also feature a musical score by Stefan Hakenberg. He lives and works in Bozeman, Montana.