Bara Jichova Tyson is a filmmaker and artist originally from the Czech Republic. Her recent short film The Hatch House was an official selection of AMDOCS in Palm Springs, The Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York, and won the best documentary at FAFF Venice, California. Currently she is working on her first feature documentary film Consuming Others, consisting of 100 hours of interviews, animation, and live action.
She is also editing and co-writing the feature documentary film Organ Player, directed by Narcissister. In 2013 she co-produced and edited Built On Narrow Land, a feature-length documentary directed by Malachi Connolly about Bauhaus architecture on Cape Cod. The film was an official selection of the Architecture and Design Film Festival in New York and Los Angeles, 2013 Provincetown International Film Festival, and 2015 Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival. In 2011 she worked as an art director on the film Now, Forager, directed by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin, which was part of the New Directors work at Lincoln Center in 2012, a nominee of the Gotham Independent Film Awards, and had a worldwide release in 2012. Bara often collaborates with other filmmakers and artists, including: Hal Hartley, Michael Almereyda, Karl Geary, Amy Jenkins, and Josephine Wiggs. Her collage work was exhibited at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York, Salon Ciel, BBLA Gallery and Pocket Utopia Gallery in New York. She lives and works in New York.
