Paige Sarlin is an artist, scholar, and political activist. She holds a Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Film/Video/New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first feature-length documentary film, The Last Slide Projector, premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2007. "Illuminating Obsolescence: Eastman Kodak's Carousel Slide Projector and the Work of Ending," her corresponding essay, was recently published in The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence (2019). From 1999 to 2010, she was an active participant in the 16Beaver Group in New York City, a platform for the discussion of the intersection of art and politics. Her writings have been published in October, Re-Thinking Marxism, Discourse, Camera Obscura, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, and Framework: A Journal of Film and Culture. She is in the process of finishing her book-length manuscript entitled Interview Work: The Genealogy of a Documentary Form.
