Biography
Sasha Waters Freyer is a filmmaker and Chair of the Department of Photography & Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Complete Filmography
Ghost Protists
2024
Director
A protist is an organism like the algae that inspired Anna Atkins to create the first book of cyanotypes in 1843. Here, they are transformed into a pr...
Ashes of Roses
2023
Director
This movie is about loving things that are embarrassing and people who are inappropriate. It’s an essay film reflection on popular trash, football par...
Fragile
2022
Director
Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable
2018
Director, Editor, Producer
Freyer Artist. Iconoclast. Man of his time. All Things are Photographable is a revealing documentary portrait of the life and work of acclaimed photog...
Respiration
2018
Director
An experimental, feminist collage of river naiads and backyard deities; nothing noticed is lonely. From inspiration to expiration, breathing is the on...
A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965
2014
Producer, Writer, Director
A meditative exploration of the violent struggle for independence in southeast Asia and butterfly metamorphosis. Framed by excerpts from Sylvia Plath’...
Our Summer Made Her Light Escape
2013
Director
A wordless portrait of interiority, maternal ambivalence and the passage of time.
An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925
2012
Director
A lyrical essay film that captures the spirit of excess and adventure embodied by The Great Gatsby (published in 1925) in fragments from home movies o...
You Can See the Sun in Late December
2010
Director
Beautiful emptiness, anguish and calm. Absence rendered visible and traces of presence in winter light.
Chekhov for Children
2010
Director
Documentary - Chekhov for Children tells the story of renowned New York writer Phillip Lopate's ambitious 1979 staging on Broadway of 'Uncle Vanya' wi...
A As In Alpha Gain
2006
Director
Re-works an old alphabet film to explore one girl's acquisition of language in the age of digital reproduction and manipulation. With elephants and gi...
Her Heart Is Washed in Water and Then Weighed
2006
Director
A meditation on motherhood and mortality that takes its title from a procedure in the autopsying of a human corpse. Subtle juxtapositions evoke parall...
The Waiting Time
2005
Director
THE WAITING TIME is an experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation. It is a study of a year in t...
This Existence Is Material
2003
Director
A counter-archive of the past in which public images and private lives, the Old World and the New, collide. The film reflects on how boundaries betwee...
Whipped
1998
Director
Noted documentary filmmakers Iana Porter and Sasha Waters direct this understated and decidedly un-exploitative look at the world of sadomasochism bot...