Clement Goldberg is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and extinction. Their feature film project Let Me Let You Go was a Page International Screenwriting Award quarter-finalist and a Stowe Narrative Lab participant before receiving a 2022 Creative Capital Award. Let Me Let You Go is currently in Development with Electric Skin and Executive Producers Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard and Lilly Wachowski. Clement’s debut novel New Mistakes is forthcoming from DOPAMINE Press / Semiotext(e) September 2024.
Their work has been presented at REDCAT Theatre, The BROAD Museum, VORTEX Rep, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Anthology Film Archives; CounterPulse, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SOMArts, Luggage Store Gallery, Artists Television Access, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline, Outfest, MIX NYC, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative experimental feature Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling. Goldberg was awarded a San Francisco Arts Commission IAC grant in visual arts in 2017 and their project Our Future Ends was awarded a Creative Work Fund visual arts grant in collaborative partnership with CounterPulse in 2016. Clement received an MFA in Art Practice and a Graduate Certificate in New Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
Clement was an ARC Fellow in Spring 2016 – they were chosen in the Graduate Fellow category.