Mireille Heidbreder

Mireille Heidbreder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences & Studies at Ithaca College's Roy H. Park School of Communications. She works as an experimental filmmaker and sound designer, blending digital, analog, and archival film with original sound pieces to explore poetic audiovisual relationships in spaces and the temporality of film.

• Influenced by philosophers Gaston Bachelard and Michel Foucault
• Her works have screened internationally at Richmond International Film Festival, Denver Underground Film Festival, BAFTA-honored Cardiff International Film Festival, and others
• Created audiovisual installations for G Biennale and DEMINA Laboratorio de Artes

Currently developing an experimental documentary inspired by Hito Steyerl and Walter Benjamin's theories. She has collaborated on sound design for diverse film formats from feature documentaries to experimental shorts.

• MFA in Photography + Film from Virginia Commonwealth University
• BA in Film & Media Studies from Johns Hopkins University

Mireille has previously taught at Virginia Commonwealth University and University of Richmond. Her creative practice combines technical expertise in post-production with philosophical inquiry into media's materiality.