Dominic Yarabe is an award-winning nonfiction filmmaker. Her practice focuses on creating nonlinear, fractured films that refract rather than reflect; that visualize an unconscious way of seeing and experiencing; that traverse the complexities of the immigrant and black experience; and that find an intersection between digital art and social commentary.
Yarabe's work has screened at numerous festivals, including True/False Film Fest, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival where she won the Artistic Vision award, Athens International Film and Video Festival, Doc10 Film Festival, and others. She received her M.F.A. in documentary film and video from Stanford University and her M.A. in modern culture and media from Brown University where she researched black visual culture.
While at MacDowell, Yarabe developed her latest project, a feature-length hybrid docufiction film set in Côte d'Ivoire. Prior material from her work in Côte d'Ivoire has been invited to screen at several venues, including the Sundance and Telluride film festivals.
