Christopher Wiersema

Christopher Wiersema is a Vermont-based award-winning media artist, educator, and arts administrator, working in experimental film, documentary practice, and community media.

Through poetic documentaries, experimental non-narrative film, and found footage collage, his work has focused on landscape, everyday life, labor, and personal and cultural memory. Originally from the Chicagoland area, Christopher's films and videos have been screened at ID/Identities (Istanbul, Turkey); Bring Your Own Beamer (Caracas, Venezuela); the New Newness and Signal to Noise (Chicago, Illinois); and the Portland Experimental Film Festival (Portland, Oregon); and featured on Vermont Public, Indiana Public Media, and Democracy Now! His experimental documentary film, “Rough Blazing Star,” was the 2024 winner of the Vermont Public Award for Best Documentary at the Made Here Film Festival in Burlington, Vermont, and is being distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. In 2020, Christopher started the Vermont Youth Documentary Lab and served as advisory board chair of the Green Mountain Film Festival in 2024 and 2025.

Christopher lives in central Vermont with his partner and their two sons, where he serves as executive director of Mad River Valley Television and a lecturer in media studies at Norwich University.

M.F.A. in Film, Vermont College of Fine Arts
B.A. in Film and Video, Columbia College Chicago

Rough Blazing Star: 2024 winner of the Vermont Public Award for Best Documentary at the Made Here Film Festival in Burlington, Vermont.

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