Sofia Theodore Pierce

She/Her

Sofia Theodore-Pierce is an experimental filmmaker whose idiosyncratic narratives explore the spaces we inhabit, psychically and physically. Her non-fiction films seek to render the cyclical, digressive, often vulnerable nature of human conversation, either explicitly––audibly or visibly––or implicitly––through structural choices.

Her films balance choreographed engagement with collected ephemera and unrehearsed home movie aesthetics. Epistolary archives, familial microhistories, and inventive kinship structures are central concerns in her work. Her recent shorts mine her maternal history to address emotional inheritance, making kin, and the value of imperfect portraiture. The films utilize and skew metaphor as a visual and poetic tool, revealing the play and pitfalls inherent within any attempt to tell a story truthfully.

Sofia holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her work has been exhibited at festivals and venues such as Antimatter Media Art, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, ICDOCS, and FRACTO Berlin. She currently teaches film production at UWM.