Sasha Wortzel is an award-winning filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist using video, installation,

sculpture, and sound to explore how past and present are inextricably linked through resonant spaces

and their hauntings. Raised in Southwest Florida and based in New York, Wortzel specifically attends to

sites and stories systematically erased or ignored from these regions’ histories. Wortzel is a recipient of a

2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film-Video. Her films have screened at venues world-wide including at

MoMA DocFortnight, CPH:DOX, True/False, Margaret Mead, San Francisco International, and Dokufest.

Her expanded cinematic work has been exhibited at the New Museum, The International Center for

Photography, The Kitchen, and the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery. Her debut feature

documentary RIVER OF GRASS (2025) won the Pare Lorentz Award from the International Documentary

Association, Hot Docs Joan VanDuzer Special Jury Prize - International Feature Documentary, and Mead

Audience Award, among others. Wortzel has received institutional support from Sundance, Ford

Foundation, Sandbox Films, Knight Foundation, Doc Society, Field of Vision, and Chicken & Egg

Pictures. Her short films include HOW TO CARRY WATER (2023), an IDA Awards nominee for best short

documentary and currently streaming on Criterion Channel; THIS IS AN ADDRESS (2020) distributed by

Field of Vision; and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARSHA! (2018; co-director Tourmaline) which won special

mention at Outfest and is in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum of Harlem. Her artwork is in

the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and Miami-Dade

County Art in Public Places. She has participated in residencies at MacDowell, Fine Arts Work Center,

ISCP, and Artists in Residence in the Everglades (AIRIE). Wortzel has been featured in The New York

Times, Artforum, and Art in America. She is Assistant professor of Film and Electronic Media at Bard

College.

Interdisciplinary writer/artist Cat Tyc reads tarot for guests on air and plays whatever she wants.

Cat Tyc is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks: An Architectural Seance (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative), and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). Her most recent writing has been published in Maggot Brain, The Recluse, FENCE, and The American Museum of Paramusicology. She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest, and the Synthesis Gallery in Berlin. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext and MTVu. Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert Gallery in 2022. She has been granted residencies and fellowships at Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar, and Mass MOCA and has received support from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. She lives in Hudson, NY.