Trivia

Mother-in-law of Emily Ratajkowski.

Began her career in magazines working in trade journalism on London's Fleet Street, but quickly transitioned into London's underground magazine subculture working as an editor and a translator.

Cofounder of New York based art magazine Avalanche (1970 to 1976) with Willoughby Sharp.

Studied philosophy at The University of London. She has taught at Columbia University, NYU and the School of Visual Arts.

Her short stories have been published in Between C and D and Bomb magazine. From 1995-2005 her interviews and profiles of world filmmakers have appeared in Newsday, the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, the Village Voice, the New York Daily News, indiewire and Salon.com.

In 1994 she received an Edward Albee Writing Fellowship.

In Autumn 2005 her photographs and videos were shown as part of an Artists Against the War exhibit in Rome, Italy.

Mother of film producer Sebastian Bear-McClard.

Author of Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers, (Praeger: 2007).

Co-founded the independent art magazine Bomb in 1981.

Her films and videos have been exhibited at the Festival of the Other Avant-Garde, the São Paulo Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology Film Archives, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, "American Independents", Berlinale, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK and the Cinema Arts Centre, Huntington, Long Island.