Yael Read Bio Collapse
b.h. Yael is a Toronto-based filmmaker and installation artist. A book about her work, Family States, edited by Mike Hoolboom, was released in 2021. Cinema Politica streams some of her titles. Yael’s work has exhibited nationally and internationally and has shown in various settings, from festivals to galleries to community and activist groups, as well as at various educational venues, and has purchased by many universities. Yael’s films and installations have dealt with the intersections of identity and family and have focused on activist initiatives in Palestine/Israel, as well as apocalypse, geopolitical, and environmental urgencies. She is Professor of Integrated Media at OCAD University. In 2021 Yael was a Visiting Scholar at Massey College, UofT. www.bhyael.ca