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Ruth Sergels award-winning films have been screened at New Directors/New Films (Museum of Modern Art) and the Tribeca Film Festival. Created with the generous support of the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts, the films  have been broadcast on PBS and IFC. Recent video for live performance works include BOO! in the Czech Republic and DON'T WORRY at the Torino Contemporanea. Ruth has a masters degree from ITP where she created the interactive documentaries TURING MACHINE, ETHEL and MAGIC BOX. Her community projects include CHALK, an annual commemoration of the Triangle Factory Fire and VOICES OF 9.11, a people's video oral history archive which collected over 550 personal testimonies in New York, Shanksville, PA, Washington DC and the Pentagon. VOICES OF 9.11 was exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the New York Historical Society. Currently, Ruth is a resident researcher at ITP/NYU and an artist-in-residence at the HERE Arts Center. She is collaborating with dramaturge Peter von Salis to develop ALCHEMY OF LIGHT, a live performance melding 19th century illusionism with current interactive technologies to depict the life of the legendary Torrini.