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Julia Meltzer (born 1968) is an American video artist and director. Some of her notable works include POV, The Light in Her Eyes, We don't like it as it is but we don't know what we want it to be, and EPIC.

Early life and education
Meltzer was born in Hollywood, California, in 1968. Meltzer received her B.A. from Brown University and she received her M.F.A from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Career
Julia Meltzer is the founder and director of a non-profit arts organization called Clockshop located in Los Angeles that focuses on creating projects and organizations for the public. Meltzer has received grants from Art Matters, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship Fund, and the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Damascus, Syria in 2005–06 and a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009-10. Meltzer has received a Fullbright fellowship to work in the West Bank in 2014. Meltzer has collaborated with David Thorne, a video artist, to create The Speculative Archive, a collection of recorded videos that are focused on the metamorphosis of cultural practices as displayed in documents, objects, and memories for Public Record, an online archive that works as a channel for organizations and the public. Julia Meltzer and David Thorne's collaborated works have been featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Julia Meltzer and her husband David Thorne produce media instillations such as videos, photographs, and installations. Their works from 1993-2003 have been focused on history, secrecy, and memory. After 2003, Julia Meltzer and David Thorne have focused on the ways different people envision the future and how it is claimed, realized, or even relinquished. Predominantly, their works focus on the relation to faith and global politics. Meltzer has taught at the University of California, Irvine and Hampshire College.

The Light in Her Eyes is a documentary that follows the life of a woman named Houda al-Habash. In this documentary, we see stereotypes surrounding muslims exposed as inaccurate or outright false. The documentary allows viewers to gain a better perspective on Syria's "Arab Spring" protests.

Featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Epic, a 7 minute film, is focused on a Syrian performer named Rami Farah. Farah delivers five expressive speeches on a variety of topics. He speaks in Arabic with English subtitles and balances the important issues such as war and political oppression with a softer side using allegory and poetic implication.

We don't like it as it is but we don't know what we want it to be is a video in Syria about the views of opposition members on the U.S. foreign policies in Syria and the neighboring regions. These members were interviewed on how essentially the U.S. affects their lives and their hopeful future. The ending of the video shows Meltzer and Thorne looking for a structure that represents the political condition of Syria. The artists found that the Marquez Basel al-Asad, a combination of a hotel and a mosque, was an accurate description of the political condition because there were many conflicting stories about its history.

Personal life
Meltzer resides in Los Angeles, California and is married to David Thorne.

In collaboration with David Thorne

 * FREE THE, DEMAND YOUR, WE WANT, ALL POWER TO THE, WE MUST, STOP THE, END ALL, DON’T, FUCK THE, THE PEOPLE WILL, YOU CAN’T, THOSE WHO, WOMEN ARE, IF YOU, RESISTANCE IS: some positions and slogans recollected from an archive of political posters (print, 2002)
 * It’s not my memory of it: three recollected documents (video, 2003)
 * We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass (video, 2005-06)
 * Not a matter of if but when: brief records of a time in which expectations were repeatedly raised and lowered and people grew exhausted from never knowing if the moment was at hand or still to come (video, 2006)
 * As though there were nothing else on the drawing board (print, 2006)
 * We don't like it as it is but we don't know what we want it to be (video, 2006)
 * Take into the air my quiet breath (video, 2007)
 * In Possession of a Picture (print, 2006-present)
 * epic(malhame) (video, 2008)

Solo projects

 * POV, The Light in Her Eyes 2012 1 episode of a TV series (producer, director, cinematographer 2012)

External Link
Julia Meltzer's website: http://www.meltzerthorne.com/

Category: 1968 births Category: Living people Category: video artists