Cathy Cook

Cathy C. Cook (born June 10, 1955) is an American filmmaker. A 2001 Guggenheim Fellow, she has made several award-winning films, including The Match That Started My Fire, A Deed Without a Name (1993), and Beyond Voluntary Control (2000). She is an associate professor in visual arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Biography Cook was born on June 10, 1955, in Chicago. Her film A Deed Without a Name (1993) won the 1993 Black Maria Festival Juror's Award, as well as festival awards at the 19th Poetry Film/Video Festival and 5th Annual Poetry Video Festival. In 2009, she released Immortal Cupboard: In Search of Lorine Niedecker, an experimental documentary on the poet Lorine Niedecker; Post45 called it "a filmic labor of love that operates through a poetic logic of superimposition".

Cook was a 1991 Wisconsin Arts Board Fellow and 1998 New York State Council on the Arts Fellow. she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in filmmaking.

As of 2000, Cook lived in Brooklyn. Filmography June Brides (1987) Bust Up (1989) The Match That Started My Fire (1992) A Deed Without a Name (1993) Beyond Voluntary Control (2000)