Cheryl Dunye

Overview

Cheryl Dunye emerged as part of the 1990's "queer new wave" of young film and video makers who dealt with gay and lesbian themes with a new directness and vitality. Dunye's work is defined by her distinctive narrative voice, a low-tech aesthetic, and an ironic blurring of fiction and "real life." Often set within a personal or domestic context, her stories foreground issues of race, sexuality and identity.