Katrina Sorrentino
Arts, Activism, and Education
Nomadique
New York, NY, USA
Katrina is a producer and artist working in photo, video and performance. Her documentary film Crossing Over was picked up by Participant Media and Univision as part of their "Panoramica" series and won a GLAAD award for Outstanding Documentary in 2015. Her work has been featured in The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, People en Español, Art in America and ArtForum. She is a part of the Brooklyn-based collective Nomadique.
2015 - GLAAD award for "Outstanding Documentary" 2015, 2015 - Director's Scholarship , 2014 - Director's Scholarship
- Arts
- Editorial
- Events
- Interview
- Portrait
- Video capture
- Video editing
How to Make the Bed, 2016
Katrina Sorrentino
Oma, the matriarch, was dying, I was getting married, and Mom was somewhere in the middle — parent, housewife, daughter, mother, caretaker.
As the wedding approached, I regressed to an almost childlike state. I questioned everything: my upbringing, our family history, our faith, and I looked to my mother to guide me through it.
Through photography we escaped, she from the banality of suburban rituals and I from my debilitating anxiety. All the while we watched Oma fade.
Exercises in closeness, these works document performances, tantrums, and the signifiers of gender roles and domesticity with which we are shaped as women — parent, housewife, daughter, mother, caretaker.
They document the path of becoming by way of holding on and letting go.
