Emily Drummer

Emily Drummer is a filmmaker who uses immersive research as a starting point to investigate the dynamic between technology and the natural world. She received her MFA in Film and Video Production from the University of Iowa and her BA from Hampshire College. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from MacDowell, the Flaherty Film Seminar, and the Princess Grace Foundation. Her short films Field Resistance (2020), Histories of Simulated Intimacy (2017), and Behind the Torchlight (2015) have been showcased by venues including Art of the Real at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, The Block Museum at Northwestern University, London Short Film Festival, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, among others. She edited Marianne (dir. Rebecca Ressler, 2022), a documentary about the Pulitzer Prize-nominated novelist Marianne Wiggins, which won the Special Youth Jury Award at Visions du Réel. Drummer recently co-authored the article "Whispers Heard at the Pictures: women’s work in early cinema" with Lise Sanders, which was published in the June 2022 issue of Early Popular Visual Culture. Essays about her work have been published in Millennium Film Journal and the Brooklyn Rail.