Directing

Sasha Waters Freyer

Place of birth

Brooklyn, NY

Known for

Directing

Credits

18 titles

Sasha Waters Freyer, also known as Sasha Waters, is a moving image artist trained in photography and 16mm cinema and professor at VCU School of the Arts.

Known for

Behind the camera

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable poster
6.3

Freyer Artist. Iconoclast. Man of his time. All Things are Photographable is a revealing documentary portrait of the life and work of acclaimed photographer Garry Winogrand – the epic storyteller in pictures of America across three turbulent decades.

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable

2018

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable poster
6.3

Freyer Artist. Iconoclast. Man of his time. All Things are Photographable is a revealing documentary portrait of the life and work of acclaimed photographer Garry Winogrand – the epic storyteller in pictures of America across three turbulent decades.

Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable

2018

Ghost Protists poster
NR

A protist is an organism like the algae that inspired Anna Atkins to create the first book of cyanotypes in 1843. Here, they are transformed into a protest against the colonial violence that enabled their creation.

Ghost Protists

2024

Whipped poster
7.0

Noted documentary filmmakers Iana Porter and Sasha Waters direct this understated and decidedly un-exploitative look at the world of sadomasochism both as therapy and as business. The film focuses on three New York dominatrices who willingly, lovingly, flog, smack, and abuse their clients: young perky Carrie, glitzy 30-something Sonja Blaze, and Teutonic matron Eva. All argue that they are providing society with an important, if quasi-sexual, service. Their clients ardently agree.

Whipped

1998

Respiration poster
NR

An experimental, feminist collage of river naiads and backyard deities; nothing noticed is lonely. From inspiration to expiration, breathing is the only work to be enacted now.

Respiration

2018

You Can See the Sun in Late December poster
NR

Beautiful emptiness, anguish and calm. Absence rendered visible and traces of presence in winter light.

You Can See the Sun in Late December

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fragile

2022

This Existence Is Material poster
NR

A counter-archive of the past in which public images and private lives, the Old World and the New, collide. The film reflects on how boundaries between genders and generations are shaped by vision and language, by technology and warfare.

This Existence Is Material

2003

Our Summer Made Her Light Escape poster
7.0

A wordless portrait of interiority, maternal ambivalence and the passage of time.

Our Summer Made Her Light Escape

2013

An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925 poster
NR

A lyrical essay film that captures the spirit of excess and adventure embodied by The Great Gatsby (published in 1925) in fragments from home movies of a wealthy American family on a Grand Tour of Europe and North Africa.

An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925

2012

Her Heart Is Washed in Water and Then Weighed poster
6.0

A meditation on motherhood and mortality that takes its title from a procedure in the autopsying of a human corpse. Subtle juxtapositions evoke parallels between static monuments and living families to suggest what is lost to time and age. When you die, everything you know, including this, disappears.

Her Heart Is Washed in Water and Then Weighed

2006

No artwork available
NR

A meditative exploration of the violent struggle for independence in southeast Asia and butterfly metamorphosis. Framed by excerpts from Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips,” A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965 reminds us that comfort is a privilege and denial of the suffering of others is not an option. Scored by a 1965 performance of Bartok’s “Solo for Violin 3.”

A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965

2014

No artwork available
NR

A meditative exploration of the violent struggle for independence in southeast Asia and butterfly metamorphosis. Framed by excerpts from Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips,” A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965 reminds us that comfort is a privilege and denial of the suffering of others is not an option. Scored by a 1965 performance of Bartok’s “Solo for Violin 3.”

A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965

2014

No artwork available
NR

A meditative exploration of the violent struggle for independence in southeast Asia and butterfly metamorphosis. Framed by excerpts from Sylvia Plath’s poem “Tulips,” A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965 reminds us that comfort is a privilege and denial of the suffering of others is not an option. Scored by a 1965 performance of Bartok’s “Solo for Violin 3.”

A Partial History of the Natural World, 1965

2014

No artwork available
NR

The story of renowned New York writer Phillip Lopate's ambitious 1979 staging on Broadway of 'Uncle Vanya' with public school 5th graders, including the filmmaker.

Chekhov for Children

2010

A As In Alpha Gain poster
NR

Re-works an old alphabet film to explore one girl's acquisition of language in the age of digital reproduction and manipulation. With elephants and giraffes.

A As In Alpha Gain

2006

The Waiting Time poster
NR

THE WAITING TIME is an experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception and the long waiting time of gestation. It is a study of a year in the filmmaker's body at age thirty-five, becoming a mother for the first time. As a thinking woman's sex education film, THE WAITING TIME is a feminist attempt to address and articulate the question of maternal subjectivity, the experience of motherhood for the mother herself.

The Waiting Time

2005

Ashes of Roses poster
NR

This movie is about loving things that are embarrassing and people who are inappropriate. It’s an essay film reflection on popular trash, football parties, older men, adolescent desire and the outrageous yet mundane humiliations of being a teenage girl in the 1980s. With sound design by Kevin T. Allen and performance cameos by filmmakers Roger Beebe and Jason Livingston.

Ashes of Roses

2023