Artists: On Moviegoing
Josephine Decker + Lisa Hanawalt
Moderated by Kiva Reardon
Saturday, April 11, 4:00 p.m. @ Philosophical Research Society
You don't have to be a cinephile to make movies and TV, but it certainly helps. At this year's festival, we're taking a temperature check with two of our favorite contemporary moving image artists, whose work is steeped in movie love, to find out more about their movie-watching habits, history, and preferences.
Josephine Decker is a filmmaker and performer whose work delves into women's interiority, bending the space between imagination and reality. Her feature film Madeline's Madeline thrusts the audience into the ever-shifting first-person perspective of her main character, was hailed as a "mind-scrambling masterpiece" and was nominated for Best Picture at IFP's Gotham Awards and for two Independent Spirit Awards. Said to be ushering in a "new grammar of narrative," her other feature films have received many accolades: Shirley (starring Elisabeth Moss) won Sundance's U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Auteur Filmmaking, The Sky Is Everywhere (A24/Apple) was a New York Times Critic's Pick. Her most recent feature Chasing Summer premiered at Sundance 2026 and was Variety's favorite film of the festival.
Lisa Hanawalt is the creator of Tuca & Bertie, the production designer/producer of BoJack Horseman, and the production designer/producer of the upcoming Long Story Short. Those are all animated shows, for adults! She’s written & illustrated four books published by Drawn & Quarterly: My Dirty Dumb Eyes, 2013, Hot Dog Taste Test, 2016, Coyote Doggirl, 2018, and I Want You, 2020. She lives in Los Angeles.
Kiva Reardon is a producer, writer, and programmer working across fiction and non-fiction. Previously, she held the positions of: Vice President of Film at Barry Jenkins’s production company PASTEL; Associate Director of Film Programs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures; and Lead Programmer of Contemporary World Cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). She founded cléo journal, a publication dedicated to film and feminism, which ran from 2013 to 2019. Her writing has appeared in Filmmaker, Sight & Sound, MUBI Notebook, Cineaste, and many others. She has acted as an advisor at screenwriting labs and served on festival juries at Locarno, Jeonju, Palm Springs, Aspen, and more. She has spoken at film and art institutions around the world.