Irene Lusztig uses film and video to explore the production of historical memory, and the intersections and disjunctions among personal, collective, and national memories. Her work has won film festival awards and has been screened around the world, including at the MoMA in New York, at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, at IDFA in Amsterdam, and on television in the US, Europe, and in Taiwan. She has also been the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, Massachusetts Cultural Council, LEF Foundation, and the New York State Council for the Arts.