Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe made 16mm experimental films and videos from 1982–2006. Her work is personal, experimental and dogma-resistant— exploring the discrepancies between the polarized narratives of our soundbyte-saturated world and the realities of private lives as lived.
Her films and video works have been shown internationally in festivals (Locarno VideoArt Festival, Dallas Video Festival, Experimenta, Tampere Film Festival, femme totale festival and others); in solo and group shows at art-film/video art exhibition spaces (including Anthology Film Archives, Millennium Film Workshop and Art In General in New York); and on television (Channel 13 and WNYC in New York, and WTN-Lifestyle Television in Canada).
She has received grants from the New Zealand Arts Council, the Australian Film Commission, New York State Council on the Arts, Niagara Council for the Arts and the Experimental Television Center, and she has been awarded creative residencies at The Experimental Television Center, MacDowell, Harvestworks, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Awards include First Prize (narrative) at New Arts Project Festival; Director’s Choice at Black Maria Festival; and Prize for Experimental at Baltimore Film Festival.
Rohesia has been New York-based since 1984. In 2001, she established the website design company hamiltro website design, where she is currently owner, creative director, and designer.