Amber Bay Bemak is a filmmaker, artist, and educator. Her work is based on experimental and documentary films, and draws from cinematic practice, pedagogy around ethics of representation, queer theory and lived experience, a deep commitment to a global perspective, and Buddhist philosophical frameworks and cultures.

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For the past two decades, Amber has been engaged in a multi-layered exploration of performance and film which uses the body as a sight for socio-political inquiry, engages with text, language, and translation to open up discourse around deeply embedded colonization narratives, and commits to linking the intimate and personal with larger institutional structures.

Amber’s work has been seen at venues, including the Brooklyn Museum, the Rubin Museum of Art, SculptureCenter, the Schwules Museum, and the Tamayo Museum. Festivals include Oberhausen, Ann Arbor, DocLisboa, Morelia, and the European Media Art Festival. She has taught film theory and practice in India, Nepal, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States.

Additionally, Amber worked as a producer, director, cinematographer, editor, and sound designer on over 30 films in collaboration with production companies, television stations, nonprofit organizations, and commissioned art projects. Her first feature-length documentary, 100 Ways to Cross the Border (2022), explores the work of artist Guillermo Goméz-Peña and his performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.