Wendy finished her Ph.D. film and dissertation at the University of Paris X, France, where she studied ethnographic film with Mr. Jean Rouch. Her 400-page thesis is filed at the Bibliotheque Nationale and her film, "Perry in his Garden", is co-distributed by the CNRS in Paris.

Initially, she fled to France to escape marriage and feed her passion for filmmaking at the Cinematheque Francaise. She became an expert at super-8 - 16mm film techniques and has some tips to share. While drinking lots of great coffee and wine, she found time to take photos in French cafés and streets. Later on, when she wasn't working, in school, at the movies, or meeting Frenchmen, she made hundreds of French collages inspired by the Surrealists.

Back in the United States, she taught video production as well as film production at New York State universities. She made several films and videos, her documentary work becoming more experimental, incorporating digital processing and computer graphics with video, winning awards at national festivals. After learning three different non-linear editing systems, she learned Adobe Photoshop in order to make digital collages as well as graphics for both her and her client's videos. She continues to teach both analogue and digital production, work on her projects, and freelance as an video editor and writer/producer at Cinemagic Productions. She also practices and teaches the Chinese healing art, Qigong, and has produced a new instructional DVD.

Currently Wendy is producing an experimental documentary on the way identity is negotiated across cultural and political boundaries. This piece, "Dwelling in Displacement", will be Part III of her trilogy on memory, identity, and home.

 

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