Sarah Ballard is a filmmaker and educator based in Milwaukee, WI. Her films understand mental illness as existing beyond the individual and explore how the body's uncontrollable impulses can act as both a site of vulnerability and an instrument of resistance. Sarah's work has been programmed nationally and internationally at venues and festivals such as Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Institute for Contemporary Arts London, Museum of the Moving Image New York, Images Festival, Crossroads, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, and Athens International Film and Video Festival, among others.