Born in the Bronx, having received her advanced degrees from Hunter College, CUNY, Frances Barth has been working and showing her paintings in New York and internationally  since the 1960’s. For more information please see:    http://go.francesbarth.com/resume/

While an art student Frances also studied modern dance. She performed with Yvonne Rainer at Lincoln Center and the Billy Rose Theater in 1968-9, and with Joan Jonas in dance and video in 1970.

Video:  During the last 16 years she has created two animations, two documentaries, and three short narrative films. Her films have shown in the US, Canada, Europe and South America and have won awards. Frances’  new film Ginger Smith and Billy Gee is a green screened  experimental film with movement based on her graphic novel of the same name.  Cock Robin,  a 33 minute comedy has been traveling in the film festival circuit and has won awards in the USA and Europe.  Her previous film, Dreaming Tango premiered in New York through Anthology Film Archives in August 2020 and won Best Experimental Short at the Cannes Short Film Festival.   Frances has studied film history, cinematography, editing and producing indy film at SVA and Film and TV at NYU in a certificate program.

In 2017 she published her first graphic novel Ginger Smith and Billy Gee with settings derived from her paintings. This was expanded as a script for 7 actors with a performance at Silas Von Morisse gallery in 2018. Her first animation End of the Day, End of the Day has also been scripted and presented at Triangle Artists in 2019 with 2 actors and projection.

 Frances is a member of the Filmmaker’s Cooperative

 Frances IMDB site is https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3083479/