LEILAH WEINRAUB Lives and works in New York and Los Angeles.
1979 Born in Los Angeles, CA 2011 Bard MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2002 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 SHAKEDOWN, Gavin Brown’s enterprise Harlem, New York, NY 2018 SHAKEDOWN, What Pipeline, Detroit, MI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Forthcoming, Moving Image Biennial, Center for Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland 2021 LEAN, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway 2021 LEAN, Performa, New York, NY 2019 RE:WORKING LABOR, School of the Art Institute Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL 2018 Putting Out, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY 2017 Whitney Biennial 2017, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS, and FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow 2018 Indie Memphis, Best Documentary Feature 2018 Outfest, Special Programming Committee Award 2018 Nominee Berlin International Film Festival, Best Documentary Film 2017 Whitney Biennial Participant 2015 CFDA Award 2015 LVMH Prize
SHAKEDOWN SELECT SCREENINGS & PREMIERES
2020 Pornhub.com/ART, First non-adult film release The Criterion Channel, Tell Me: Women’s Filmmakers, Women’s Stories DIS Director’s Commentary Locally Grown TV, Tyler Mitchell’s Night at the Cinema Boiler Room Covid Screening
2018 68th Berlin International Film Festival, Panorama Documentary Section, Berlin, Germany (February 17) World Premiere True/False Film Festival, Colombia, MS (March 1) US Premiere Outfest, Los Angeles, CA (March 19) MoMa PS1, Queens NY, (March 18) New York Premiere Bodies on Display, Atlanta, GA (May 25) Atlanta Premiere Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK (June 10) UK Premiere Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Part of New Black Queer Audiovisuals Symposium, Miami, FL (June 16) Miami Premiere Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK. (June 28) London Premiere Tate Modern, Presented in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève's Cinéma Dynamo, London, UK (June 29) Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, Seoul, Korea (July 20) Asian Premiere Durban International Film Festival, Durban, South Africa (July 26) African Premiere Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA,(July 22) Pinault Collection // Palazzo Grassi Spa, Venice, Italy (October 4) Brooklyn Academy of Music, Film 2018, Brooklyn, NY (October 12/13/14) Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (November 16)
2017 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY,(May 20/21), SHAKEDOWN: Whitney Cut
SHAKEDOWN FILM FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS
2020 Lesborama Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (March 4-7) Reel Affirmations, Washington, D.C.(May 10) Rockaway Film Festival, Queens, NY (October 21-25)
2019 Reelout Queer Film & Video Festival, Kingston, CA (January 31-Febuary 10) Boiler Room Festival (February 7) La Gaîté Lycrique, Paris, France (February 13-17) Sissy Screens (February 13) Maysles Cinema, New York, NY (February 16) Red Rattler Theatre, Marrikville, NSW, Australia (February 22) OutView: Athens International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Athens, Greece (March 1) Brisbane Queer Film Festival, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (March 7-17) NYC Feminist Film Week, New York, NY, USA (March 9) WNDX Festival of Moving Images, Winnipeg, Canada (March 14) Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia March 15-26) Paris Queer Week, Paris, France (March 15-23) CineQ Birmingham, Birmingham, UK (March 23) Sleeping Giant Fest, Jacksonville, FL (March 28-31) UC Santa Barbara Carsey-Wolf Center, Santa Barbara, CA (April 3) Porn Film Festival, Vienna, Austria (April 4) Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, Netherlands (April 13-19) Boiler Room (April 13) Baltimore Film Fatales, Baltimore, MD (May 1) La Fete du Slip, Lausanne, Switzerland (May 9-12) Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania (May 16-18) Idapalooza, Middle, TN (May 25) Deptford Cinema London, London, UK (June 3) LMNOP: Lesbian Movie Night Ongoing Project, Chicago, IL (June 28) Cycle LGBT – French Cinematheque, Paris, France (June 29) GRIP Concordia, Montreal, Québec, Canada (June 29) Black Space Productions, Durham, NC (August 1) COC Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands (August 2) Sidewalk Birmingham Film Festival, Birmingham, AL (August 24-25) Oakland LBGTQ Center, Oakland, CA (September 2) Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (September 10) Bertha DocHouse, London, UK (September 24) LAR with Cine Tonala, New York, NY(October 4-6) Boiler Room Festival (October 10) Queer Film Festival Munich, Munich, Germany (October 12) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria (December 1) Berlin Lesbian Non-Binary Filmfest, Berlin, Germany (December 7-8)
2018 Wicked Queer: Boston LGBT Film Festival, Boston MA, USA (March 30) Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore MD, USA (May 6) QDoc Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival, Portland, OR (May 19) Seattle International Film Festival, Seattle, WA (May 18) Frameline42, Co-presented with the San Francisco Bay Area Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival, San Fransisco, CA (June 23/23) Ciclo Rosa, Selección Queer De La Berlinale, Bogotá, Colombia (June 30) Contrast Film Festival, Austin Film Society, Austin, TX (July 20) Utah Film Center, Salt Lake City, UT (July 21) Mal Seh’n Kino, Frankfurt, Germany (August 5) Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (August 13) Kaleidoscope, Little Rock, AK (August 11) Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, Honolulu, HI (August 19) Hamburg International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany (October 18) Long Beach Q Film Festival, Long Beach, CA (September 9) Outflix Memphis, Memphis, TN (September 13) Queer Lisboa: Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal (September 19) Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX (September 14) Reeling 2018, Chicago, IL (September 21) Some Prefer Cake Film Festival, Bologna, Italy (September 23) Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, Milwaukee, WI (September 27) POP Montreal International Music Festival, Montreal, Québec, Canada (September 28) Luststreifen Queer Film Festival, Basel, Switzerland (September 29) International Film Festival Pacific Meridian, Vladivostok, Russia (September 26) California State University Northridge, Los Angeles, CA (September 30) Queer Media Festival and Black Gold Arts Festival, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (November 2) MIX Copenhagen LesbianGayBiTransQueer+ Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark (October 31) Woodstock Film Festival, Woodstock, NY (October 12) Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM (October 18) NOW-INSTANT, Los Angeles, CA (October 18) FIAC, Paris, France(October 19), Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (October 19) Porn Film Festival, Berlin, Germany (October 24/26) Morelia International Film Festival, Morelia, Michoacán, México (October 20-28) Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (October 25) Indie Memphis, Memphis, TN (November 2-4) Associazione Culturale Situazione Xplosiva, Turin, Italy (November 4) Royal Cinema Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (November 7) Out Film Festival Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya (November 7-10) Beursschouwburg Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (November 10) Bellwether Film Series, Amherst Cinema, Amherst, MA (November 15) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL (November 16) FRINGE! Queer Film & Arts Fest, London, UK (November 17-18) Shotgun Cinema New Orleans, New Orleans, LA (November 30) Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center, Buffalo, NY (December 1) Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland (December 9) Documentary Film Center in Moscow, Moscow, Russia (December 9) Indie Memphis, Memphis, TN (December 11) Ragtag Cinema, Columbia, MO(December 14-20)
SELECT VIDEO INTERVIEWS
2018 Benedict, W. (January 4). MMK Talks. Museum MMK FÜR MODERNE KUNST. YouTube
Weinraub, L. (Aug 30). Shakedown Q & A. The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. YouTube
2019 Miller-Young, M. (June 16). Shakedown Director Leilah Weinraub. University of California Television (UCTV, University of California, La Jolla, CA. YouTube
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Drew, K., & Wortham, J. (Eds,). (2020). Mother of the House: Thomas J. Lax with art by Leilah Weinraub (pp.446-450). Random House Publishing Group.
Dry, J.(March 3). ‘Shakedown’ Is the Lesbian Strip Club Doc Good Enough That It’ll Be on Both Pornhub and Criterion. IndieWire
Donnelly, M.(March 3). Pornhub to Release First Ever Non-Adult Film, About Black Lesbien Strip Club Culture (EXCLUSIVE.) Variety
Wham, J.(March 9). News to Me: Max von Sydow, Leilah Weinraub, and Kelly Reichardt. Film Comment
Collins, A.K. (March 16). Shakedown is a Must-See Documentary Now Streaming on Pornhub Vanity Fair,
Song, S. (March 17).‘Shakedown’ Remembers the Early-Aughts Angels. Paper Magazine
Ryzik, M. (April 3). How Do You Make a Film for a Museum and Pornhub, Ask Leilah Weinraub? The New York Times
Kennedy, L. (June 4). Shakedown: Film Review. Variety Lang, C. (September 3). 24 Essential Works of Black Cinema Recommended by Black Directors. TIME
Ried, T. (September 8). Pleasure Principles With Leilah Weinraub. Ssense
Costa, da C.(December) “Cassie Da Costa on the Best Films of 2020” Artforum
2019
Hugues, A. (November 21). How Hood By Air Changed Fashion in the 2010s” Complex
2018
Barber-Plentie, G. (2018). Black Women At Berlinale: Gender And Sexuality. Goethe Institut
Barber-Plentie, G. (2018). Interview; Shakedown’s Leilah Weinraub On Creating A Documentary, ‘Paris Is Burning’, And Utopic Moments. Goethe Institut
Lazic, E. (February 22). Leilah Weinraub on exalting hedonism in Shakedown. Seventh Row
Campbell, K. (February 23). Shakedown - Berlinale 2018 Review. One Room With A View
Yarbrough, D. (March 2). True/False film review: SHAKEDOWN. Vox Magazine
Saito, S. (March 4). True/False ’18 Review: ‘Shakedown’ Strips Down to the Soul of Community. The Moveable Fest,
Kasmanm, D. (March 9). Adventures in Nonfiction Filmmaking at True/False 2018. Mubi
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Black, H. (June 28.) Shakedown: LA Confidential. Dazed
Barber-Plentie, G. (June 28). I Wanted To Make A Film That Makes You Feel Like You’re In The Middle Of The Storm”: An Interview With ‘Shakedown’ Director Leilah Weinraub. Another Gaze
Weston,K; Nicholson, B; Brown,S; Shackleton, C; Turner,M. (July 31). Film highlights of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 Sight & Sound
Hunter-Young, N. (August 9). Look What’s Possible. Canadianart
Bittencourt, E. (October 12). Shakedown Documents the Overt Sexuality of lesbian Strip Clubs, and The Shifts Our Gaze. Hyperallergic,
Ongley, H. (October 15). leilah weinraub spent 10 years documentuing a black lesbian strip club. i-D
Connolly, H.(October 22). Hood By Air’s Former CEO Made Your Favorite new Cult Nightclub Film. Garage
Mallett, W. (October 23). The Best Lesbien Award Show Extravaganza in New York City, Period. Vulture
Editor.(December 6), The 20 Best Films of 2018 Dazed
Johnson, R.(December 11). Both/And: The Brilliance of Multi-Hyphenate Leilah Weinraub. Culture Magazine
Editor.(December 18). Best of 2018: Our Top 20 Nyc Art Shows. Hyperallergic
2017 Yeung, H.(April 7). A Look Back at 10 of Hood By Air’s Most Provocative Designs. Hypebeast
Eckardt, S.(May 23). Hood by Air’s Leilah Weinraub on the Debut of Her Film About a Black Lesbian Strip Club at the Whitney Biennial. W Magazine Sarget, A. (August 28). The Making of Hood By Air CEO Leilah Weinraub’s ‘Shakedown’. The Standard
2016 Batemen, K. (September 9). The Most Outrageous Hood by Air Fashion Moments. Allure
Glazek, C.(September) Hood By Air’s Radically Aggressive Streetwear. The New Yorker
2015 Larocca, A. (February 12). The ambiguously gendered, pan-sexual, in-your-face rolling party of Hood by Air. The Cut
Petrarca. E. (September 9). Hood by Air’s 5 Most Memorable Moments. W Magazine
Horyn, C.(September 14). Hood By Air’s World Is A Shock From The Future. The Cut
2014 Weiner, J. (Sept 12). Hood by Air’s Collective Fashions. New York Times
2013 Hawgood, A. (April 10). Hood by Air Has a Fashion Moment. The New York Times
2011 Weinraub, L. (Summer) “Top Ten: Leilah Weinraub,” Artforum International.