Leslie A. Gladsjø
Leslie Asako Gladsjø was born in California in 1963 and earned her degree
at Harvard University in Visual and Environmental Studies in 1984. She has
worked in film and television for over a decade in the U.S., Europe, and
Asia. She has independently produced and directed a number of
documentaries including PRANKS (1988), STIGMATA: THE TRANSFIGURED BODY
(1992), and a series of collaborations with the controversial machine
performance group Survival Research Laboratories. In 1994 she co-produced
and co-directed TRUTH UNDER SIEGE, an award-winning feature-length
documentary about media manipulation and propaganda inside the warring
countries of the former Yugoslavia which was broadcast in over 20
countries. Her films have been shown at many American and international
festivals. In 1995 she co-produced and co-directed (with Richard Curson
Smith) PANDMONIUM, an hour-long documentary on the co-evolution of humans
and machines for the BBC2 arts series TX. She was recently awarded a grant
from the European Documentary Fund to develop a documentary on women in
the Russian Far East.
