Karen Pearlman

Karen Pearlman writes, directs and edits screen productions and she writes about screen culture and creative processes. Karen is a director of the multi-award winning Physical TV Company, through which she has developed, produced, directed or edited numerous highly acclaimed short films, online and mobile productions and the ATOM Award winning short feature "Thursday's Fictions". Her recent film, the half hour documentary "...the dancer from the dance" was a finalist for an Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance on Screen, and also a finalist for an ATOM Award for Best Arts Documentary. Karen is a lecturer in Screen Production at Macquarie University, and she held the post of Head of Screen Studies at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) for 6 years. She is a four-time finalist for best editing in the Australian Screen Editors Guild awards and the author of "Cutting Rhythms, Intuitive Film Editing" (Focal Press, 2016). Karen previously edited "Performing the Unnameable: An Anthology of Australian Performance Texts" (Currency Press/RealTime) and has published academic essays and articles in the "International Journal of Screendance", "Participations Journal of Audience Research", "The Journal of Performance Studies" and other anthologies and journals. Before taking up filmmaking, editing and film studies, Karen had an extraordinary career as a professional dancer - performing on the Opera House stages of the world and directing two dance companies. She holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), two Masters degrees, and a BFA in Dance from New York City (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts.