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AWARD WINNING FILMMAKER EXPANDS TO ART GALLERIES

Leah Meyerhoff is a Student Academy Award nominated filmmaker whose short films have screened in over 100 film festivals and won a dozen international awards. She has now expanded her repertoire to include art galleries as well.

Packaged Goods is a video installation portraying the extremes a woman will go to in the attempt to preserve her own beauty.

Packaged Goods has been displayed in such varied environments as a public elevator and the beauty section of a department store, as well as more conventional gallery spaces.

In addition, Packaged Goods continues to screen at festivals worldwide, including Micro Cine Fest, Movieside, and the Athens International Film Festival.

Packaged Goods recently received its television debut on Chicago’s CAN TV.

Leah Meyerhoff is a Brown University graduate and an MFA candidate at New York University. She is currently working on her first feature film.

Packaged Goods
digital video, looping
directed by Leah Meyerhoff
www.leahmeyerhoff.com/packaged

Blending activism and cultural dissent, the work in Death to the Fascist Insect lays bare the link between the personal and political spheres...An installation of three unsynchronized television screens playing a video of Leah Meyerhoff applying makeup and wrapping her head in plastic creates a vague parallel between body politics and world politics.
Christina Vassallo
New York Arts Magazine

The politics are less specific in...a video of Leah Meyerhoff packaging herself in plastic wrap.
Holland Cotter
New York Times

Leah Meyerhoff's triptichy video, "Packaged Good," seems to offer one proposal for dealing with the fascist world of the show's title, and it's as painful as it is fascinating to witness. Great installation.
James Wagner
jameswagner.com

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