Film/TV - Editing - “A Sewing Machine on Stilts: Walter Murch on the Big Muscle Movement of the Moviola,”
(04/01/2022).
Katherine Bird.
Publications
, expected publication Spring 2023 Peer Reviewed/Refereed? Yes Bird, K. E. (2022) “Introduction: Once Upon a Screen Vol. 2.2”. [In]Transition: Journal Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, expected publication February 2023 NECSUS: Journal (in press),
Katherine E. Bird.
Bird, K. E. (2022) “Introduction: Once Upon a Screen Vol. 2.2”. [In]Transition: Journal Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, expected publication February 2023 (in press),
Katherine E. Bird.
Bird, K.E. (2022)“young (women) filmmakers,” BAFTSS Open Screens 5, no. 2 (2022). Practice Based Research (10 min) and Research Statement. https://doi.org/10.16995/OS.issue.867 Peer Reviewed/Refereed? Yes (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
Bird, K.E. (2022) “The Gunsmoke Assignment: Training Creative Continuity in College Editing Classrooms,” Film History 33, no.4 (Winter 2021): 29-54. (published Feb, 2022) .https://iupress.org/journals/filmhistory/ (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City by Debashree Mukherjee (review) JCMS: The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61 1, Fall 2021 (2021),
Katie E. Bird.
Sporting Sensations: Béla Balázs and the Bergfilm Camera Operator.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) Prev. Cinema Journal. 60 3/ Spring 2021 (2021),
Katie E. Bird.
Feeling and Thought as it Takes Form: Early Steadicam, Labor, and Technology (1974-1985) [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies 7 1 (2020),
Katie E. Bird.
The Editor’s Face on the Cutting Room Floor: Fredrick Y. Smith’s Precarious Promotion of the American Cinema Editors, 1942-1977” The Spectator (special issue: “System Beyond the Studios") 38, no. 2, (Fall 2018): 9-19. 2 (2018),
Katie E. Bird.
Presentations
“Sweating at the Moviola and Feeling at the KEM: Changes in the Physical Labor of US Film Editing 1960s-1970s,” (2023),
Katherine E. Bird.
“Editing Editors Editing Gunsmoke,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“Foreign Department Heads and Local Hired Hands: Mixed Lighting and Grip Crew #setlife on Social Media,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“What She Sees/What She Thinks” Putting Karen Pearlman’s Editor’s Effect into Practice: a Hands-on Editing Workshop. (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“‘Working Metaphors’: Production History through Creative Practice-Based Research,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“With a Camera in Hand: Reimagining a Theory of Women Operators Craft Practice,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“‘Any place with a camera in hand, I was alive’: Estelle Kirsch and the Documentation of Women’s Camera History,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“Reimagining a Theory of Women Operators Craft Practice,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“Scrubbing through the Timeline: Editing What I Feel to Myself,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
Proposed Paper: Foreign Department Heads and Local Hired Hands: Mixed Lighting and Grip Crew #setlife on Social Media (2021), Volume Paris, France,
Katie E. Bird.
Proposed Paper: “Any place with a camera in hand, I was alive”: Estelle Kirsch and the Documentation of Women’s Camera History (2021), Volume Boston, Massachusettes,
Katie E. Bird.
Proposed Presentation: “Scrubbing through the Timeline: Editing What I Feel to Myself" (2021), Volume Online, based in the EU,
Katie E. Bird.
Imagining a Feminist Cinematography through Organizational Politics: A History of Behind the Lens-an Association of Professional Camerawomen, 1984-1996 (2021), Volume Online - Hosted in UK,
Katie E. Bird.
Presentation of Video Essay and Discussion: "young (women) filmmaker(s)” (2021), Volume Online - hosted in Istanbul, Turkey ,
Katie E. Bird.
Desktop Documentary: "How Much Does a Camera Weigh (to a Woman)?" (2021), Volume Online,
Katie E. Bird.
Panel Respondent: "The Meanings of Movies Across Borders" (2021), Volume Online, UTEP,
Katie E. Bird.
Extorting Labor and Preserving Grip History:vIATSE’s Propaganda and Promotion of Local 37" (2021), Volume Online,
Katie E. Bird.
Proposed and Accepted Paper: With a Camera in Hand: Reimagining a Theory of Women Operators Craft Practice (2021), Volume Chicago, IL,
Katie E. Bird.
(Accepted, Cancelled due to COVID) Imagining a Feminist Cinematography through Organizational Politics: A History of Behind the Lens-an Association of Professional Camerawomen, 1984-1996 (2020), Volume Dublin, Ireland,
Katherine E. Bird.
(Accepted, Conference Cancelled due to COVID-19) Whether They Want it Or Not’:Selling Photography Screen Credits to 1920s US Moviegoers (2020), Volume Maynooth University. Dublin, Ireland,,
Katie E. Bird.
(Accepted, Cancelled Due to Covid) Extorting Labor and Preserving Grip History:vIATSE’s Propaganda and Promotion of Local 37" (2020), Volume Denver,
Katie E. Bird.
“The DIY History of Behind the Lens: an Association of Professional Camerawomen,1984-1996” (2019), Volume Seattle, WA,
Katie E. Bird.
Grants
oral history project on women camera operators
archival research and manuscript completion
Behind-the-Lens: Groundbreaking Women Camera Operators, 1970-2000
Summer Career Enhancement Grant (competitive) - College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at El Paso (01/01/2022-12/31/2022)
Sight and Sound Magazine, Top Ten Video Essays of the Year - Sight and Sound Magazine (British Film Institute) (12/01/2020-12/31/2020)
Ph D in Film and Digital Media Production, University of Pittsburgh (2018)
MA in Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University (2010)
Artistic and Creative Performances and Exhibits
Start Date
2022-06-01
End Date
Type
Film/TV - Editing
Title
“Editing Editors Editing Gunsmoke”
Start Date
2022-04-01
End Date
Type
Film/TV - Editing
Title
“A Sewing Machine on Stilts: Walter Murch on the Big Muscle Movement of the Moviola,”
Publications
, expected publication Spring 2023 Peer Reviewed/Refereed? Yes Bird, K. E. (2022) “Introduction: Once Upon a Screen Vol. 2.2”. [In]Transition: Journal Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, expected publication February 2023 NECSUS: Journal (in press),
Katherine E. Bird.
Bird, K. E. (2022) “Introduction: Once Upon a Screen Vol. 2.2”. [In]Transition: Journal Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies, expected publication February 2023 (in press),
Katherine E. Bird.
Bird, K.E. (2022)“young (women) filmmakers,” BAFTSS Open Screens 5, no. 2 (2022). Practice Based Research (10 min) and Research Statement. https://doi.org/10.16995/OS.issue.867 Peer Reviewed/Refereed? Yes (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
Bird, K.E. (2022) “The Gunsmoke Assignment: Training Creative Continuity in College Editing Classrooms,” Film History 33, no.4 (Winter 2021): 29-54. (published Feb, 2022) .https://iupress.org/journals/filmhistory/ (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City by Debashree Mukherjee (review) JCMS: The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61 1, Fall 2021 (2021),
Katie E. Bird.
Presentations
“Sweating at the Moviola and Feeling at the KEM: Changes in the Physical Labor of US Film Editing 1960s-1970s,” (2023),
Katherine E. Bird.
“Editing Editors Editing Gunsmoke,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“Foreign Department Heads and Local Hired Hands: Mixed Lighting and Grip Crew #setlife on Social Media,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“What She Sees/What She Thinks” Putting Karen Pearlman’s Editor’s Effect into Practice: a Hands-on Editing Workshop. (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
“‘Working Metaphors’: Production History through Creative Practice-Based Research,” (2022),
Katherine E. Bird.
oral history project on women camera operators
archival research and manuscript completion
Behind-the-Lens: Groundbreaking Women Camera Operators, 1970-2000
