Daniele Wilmouth is a North American artist, who creates hybrids of experimental, fiction and documentary cinema. She studied filmmaking and fine art at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) and Tyler School of Art (Rome, Italy). In 1990 she began a six-year residency in Osaka, Japan, where she studied Butoh dance, and co-founded Hairless Films, a multi-national independent filmmaking collective. Her films have won awards and screened widely in festivals, galleries and on television around the world - including at the Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany; the National Gallery of Armenia; Television Canal+(a), Argentina; Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany; Tampere Short Film Festival, Finland; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland; Anthology Film Archives, New York; and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan. A retrospective of her work toured Russia in 2004. She teaches filmmaking and performance at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago.