Dorothy Wiley (b. 1935) is an experimental filmmaker and cinematographer associated with the influential Bay Area avant-garde film community that emerged in the 1960s. Working closely with filmmaker Gunvor Nelson, Wiley transformed experiences of domestic life, motherhood and relationships into formally inventive films that combined humor, social critique and experimentation. Their first collaboration, Schmeerguntz (1966), now regarded as a feminist classic, juxtaposes idealized images of women in advertising and popular culture with candid, sometimes grotesque scenes of pregnancy, childcare and domestic labor. Wiley and Nelson continued their collaboration with films including Fog Pumas (1967) and Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (1971), which offers an intimate portrait of five Northern California artists—William Allan, William Geis, Robert Hudson, Robert Nelson and Wiley’s husband, UC Davis professor William T. Wiley—shown working, teaching and living among family and friends. Together, Wiley’s films provide an unusually personal record of the artistic community surrounding Northern California’s experimental art and film movements.