Courtney Stephens
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Courtney Stephens (US) is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her non-fiction and experimental films address the contours of language, historical memory and women's lives. Her work has been exhibited at the Berlinale, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival, the National Gallery of Art, South by Southwest, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hong Kong, Camden, Mumbai, Luxembourg, Dhaka and San Francisco International Film Festivals. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a California Humanities Grant, fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, Pocantico and the Sloan Foundation and was one of Filmmaker Magazine's twenty-five "New Faces of Independent Film." A graduate of the American Film Institute, she co-founded the Los Angeles microcinema Veggie Cloud and has curated film programs for The Getty Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, UnionDocs and Flaherty NYC.
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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)
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Terra Femme (2021)
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The American Sector (2020)
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Invention (2025)
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Ida Western Exile (2017)
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Lesser Choices (2022)
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Labial Quinet (2017)
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Perfect Fifths (2020)
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Mixed Signals (2018)
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Fourteen variations on the intimate (2023)
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CINEMA-19 (2020)
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Iris Season (2020)
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Mating Games (2017)
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Girls Dance at the World’s Fair (2026)
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