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A tintype depicts a Black woman with her hands resting on her thighs. She has long locs that have been braided.

Photo by Geoffrey Berliner.

Artists

Danielle Eliska

She // Her // Hers

Neighborhood Bodega

Detroit, Michigan

“My work has a unique duality — my practice and approach is true cinema and interactive. It lives in movie theaters, as well as museums and galleries spaces: a trifecta. With each idea, my work evolves, becoming larger, fuller, richer beyond an emotional experience, but also leaning more into the physicality of it. It is always a privilege to draw audience to witness the vision in its intended form.”

Danielle Eliska is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, photographer, entrepreneur, and educator from Detroit.

Eliska received her MFA in Dramatic Writing in Film from New York University and has gained notable screenwriting, film, and photography recognition. A few award highlights: an inaugural grant recipient of the 2019 NY Women's Film, TV and Theatre Fund, City of New York Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA); 2022 Womxnhouse Detroit Resident; 2022 Sesame Street Workshop Writer’s Room Fellow; 2023 CultureSource + Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Flourish Fund grant recipient; 2023 Cranbrook Academy of Art Photography Department Artist-in-Residence; and currently a 2024 Seed and Bloom: Detroit Fellow.

Neighborhood Bodega is a for-hire multimedia production company that produces content with a focus on story development, scriptwriting, pre-production, production, and post-production services for live action, documentary, animation, gaming, commercial, and photography.

Donor -Seed and Bloom: Detroit is supported by the Gilbert Family Foundation and the Kresge Foundation.

This artist page was last updated on: 08.12.2024

Film
A film still of two characters, Isadore and Merkaba, in a flashback of love. They sit on a couch together in a teal room reading from their books.

SERIAL MONOGAMOUS (film still) by Danielle Eliska, 2023. Digital cinema, 16:9, 26 minutes.

A film still depicts an ancestral Eyo, shrouded in a white hat and veil, giving guidance and awakening to the past, present, and future representation of descendants/woman/women.

TAKE FLIGHT (film still) by Danielle Eliska. Digital cinema, 16:9, 6 minutes.