MADDIE SHUBECK

is a video artist, filmmaker, and puppeteer based in Detroit, Michigan. She earned her BFA in Entertainment Arts from the College for Creative Studies in 2021, specializing in film and video.

Her interdisciplinary practice combines analog video, hand-crafted puppetry, experimental animation, and installation to explore themes of play, chaos, nostalgia, and transformation through a distinctively childlike lens. Shubeck focuses on abstracting and fragmenting both big and small ideas through animation, puppetry performance, and physical environments. Her work frequently incorporates surreal imagery and symbolic storytelling to evoke emotional reconstruction and internal metamorphosis.

In 2024, she received the Kresge Gilda Award in Film Directing for her contributions to Detroit’s creative landscape, and her work was featured in the most recent rendition of Ann Arbor Film Festival’s Off the Screen installation showcase.

She hopes to connect to the internal unworldly playfulness of the viewer, and show them a new lens of observation through dead media, video distortion, and chance.