Patrick Offenheiser’s work seeks to reconstruct narratives of aftermath by weaving fragmented experiences together from microhistory to macrohistory.

Using a research based writing practice, immersive soundscape, vocal performance and remixing archival imagery with poetic moving image to excavate stories still resonating, beneath haunted landscapes and within the archives. They endeavor to connect intimate histories of the people who are alive within them through their relationship to their land and particular social ecologies.

In exploring these prismatic views of lived experience they seek to explore the intersections of personal narratives with the contradictions of national historic memory that often erase them.

Patrick holds a BA in Film & Electronic Arts and History from Bard College. He went on to join Al Quds Bard College Fellowship teaching film production in the West Bank, Palestine in 2012. While living in New York City they worked as crew member producing documentary work for non-profit organizations and television. They are currently completing their MFA in Film, Video, New Media, Animation and Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.