S Topiary Landberg is a media artist, writer, film curator, and educator. Her research and creative practice focuses on environmental, feminist, queer, and urban studies media practices. Her writing has been published in Feminist Media Histories, Camera Obscura, Film Quarterly, JCMS, Millennium Film Journal, and included in collection Reclaiming Popular Documentary (Indiana UP, 2021). She is the co-host and co-producer of the limited series documentary film podcast  Animal-Vegetable-Mineral. Her short film Lesbian Custody (2025) was presented at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and premiered at Frameline’s SF Int’l LGBTQ Film Festival.

Topiary’s multimedia performances and film installations have been presented in theaters, art galleries, and museums including at Southern Exposure, Threadwaxing Space, the Lab, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place, PS122, the Oakland Museum of California, and in many film festivals across the US and abroad including Image+Nation, the New York Video Festival, Chicago International Film Festival, MIX/NYC, MIX/Brazil, The New Fest, Paris Lesbian Film Festival, and Vancouver Underground Film Festival. In the ‘90s, Topiary toured with the infamous spoken word circle Sister Spit. She is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, and has an MFA in Film/Video from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and a theory/practice PhD in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She currently lectures at UC Santa Cruz and works in the film programming department of the Mill Valley Film Festival.