Deborah Stratman makes work about power, control and belief, exploring how places, ideas, and society intertwine.  She regards sound as the ultimate multi-tool and linearity to be a trap.   Her forty+ films and multiple artworks have been exhibited and awarded internationally and have addressed freedom, surveillance, public speech, levitation, musical insects, raptors, comets, street drag racing, tightrope walking, evolution, extinction, exodus, sisterhood and faith.  She lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.