New York based filmmaker and artist Alexandra Lerman is the founder of SMAC, a video series about contemporary culture carried by leading online culture publications.
She graduated from Cooper Union School of Art in New York City.
Before producing SMAC, she worked on 3 feature length documentaries as an associate producer: The Ballad of Greenwich Village – a documentary by Karen Kramer about the revolutionary history of the famous New York neighborhood, Déjà Vu Vietnam – a film by Thi Thanh Nga exploring the parallels of the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq and Russia! The Drama of Art in 12 Episodes – a TV film by Nina Zaretskaya about the retrospective of Russian art at the Guggenheim Museum.
Alexandra’s work has been shown in New York at the Chelsea Art Museum, Artists Space, Janos Gat Gallery and Anthology Film Archives and at Hermitage Museum in St-Petersburg, Russia. Alexandra’s latest project is a documentary about architecture of Central Asia produced with Kyong Park. It will be shown at his exhibition New Silk Roads at Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León in July 2009 curated by Octavio Zaya.