Cindy Kleine is a filmmaker, photographer and installation artist. Her work melds boundaries between these forms.
She attended Wesleyan University and earned a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University and an MFA from Bard College. She taught filmmaking for many years at Boston College, SMFA, Harvard University, The Art Institute of Boston, and The New School in NYC.
As a student at SMFA and MIT, she was inspired and influenced by her teachers and mentors Ricky Leacock, John GIanvito, Robert Frank, and Stan Brackhage, and by the wealth and breadth of cinema she ws exposed to during that time.
She has won fellowships from The Royal Academy of Art in London and from SMFA, three MacDowell Colony residencies, and awards from the American Film Institute and many film festivals. Her two feature length films, PHYLLIS AND HAROLD and ANDRE GREGORY: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER were theatrically released and are avaialble to stream worldwide. A new film is currently in the works. Her photographic work is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA.
Kleine lives and works in New York City and Truro, Massachusetts.