Scemama, Marion

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Scemama is a French photographer and filmmaker. She and Wojnarowicz met in 1984 when she was she on assignment to shoot him for the magazine ICI New York, and they became close friends (although they had frequent falling outs). They collaborated on multiple works in a variety of formats, often combined her photography with Wojnarowicz's imagery. When Rosa von Praunheim asked Wojnarowicz to be in his film Silence=Death, Wojnarowicz worked with Scemama to film new material and repurpose footage from his earlier work A Fire in My Belly. They were also frequently the subjects of one another's camera. Scemama went on several trips throughout the country with Wojnarowicz, and spent significant time in the studio assisting him with production, particularly in 1989.

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Interview by Marvin Taylor and Glenn Wharton, 2015
Contributor, David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in a Social Landscape, 2015
Interviewed for Carr, Fire in the Belly, 2012
"Marion Scemama," David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side, 2006, pp. 122-141
Wojnarowicz Papers, Fales Library, Series II, Box 3, Folder 25; Series IX, Box 78, Slide box 14; Series X, Subseries A, 092.0007, 092.0009,

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