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Sarah Moyer is a Virginia-based artist and filmmaker whose work excavates the unsettling undercurrents of domesticity through graphic, durational video installations. Her practice confronts the visceral tension between the mundane and the monstrous, stretching everyday moments into extended sequences that oscillate between sublimity and dread. By amplifying the rhythms of domestic spaces—the creak of a floorboard, the hum of an appliance, the silence between words—Moyer constructs an immersive theater of anxiety, where time dilates and the familiar curdles into the grotesque.

Rooted in a deeply personal visual lexicon, her work draws from lived experiences of abuse, the catharsis of survival, and the disorienting limbo of rebuilding home. Through relentless soundscapes and repetitive, almost ritualistic imagery, Moyer forces viewers to endure the weight of duration, rendering the domestic sphere as both a site of trauma and a contested space for reinvention. The result is an unflinching meditation on confinement, memory, and the body’s fraught relationship to its surroundings.

Beyond her artistic practice, Moyer is an accomplished documentary filmmaker, focusing on arts, culture, and social movements. She recently directed and produced Becoming bell hooks, a critically acclaimed feature-length portrait of the revolutionary feminist thinker, broadcast nationally by NETA and hosted online by PBS. Whether in her experimental work or her advocacy driven films, Moyer’s oeuvre remains anchored in a commitment to exposing hidden narratives through resilience and the quiet revolutions of the everyday.