The Illuminated Space: A Personal Theory & Contemplative Practice of Media Art | The 3rd Thing Press 2020 | Winner of the 2020 Nautilus Book Award’s Gold Medal for Creativity & Innovation.
Author Broadside at The 3rd Thing Press
Notes to Self (and for whomever this may concern) On Slowing Down | Video | Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, v23n3 | Spring 2025
Like the Air | Video | Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts, v23n3 | Spring 2025
"Telltale Signs" | Curatorial Essay, Episode 10 | Good Symptom : A Serial Anthology of Time-based Disturbances | The 3rd Thing Press 2024
“Evocative Disturbances | Curatorial Video Essay, 9 mins, Episode 2 | Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances | The 3rd Thing Press 2023-24
M Freeman - Project Lead & Curator with Rana San & Chelsea Werner-Jatzke | Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Distrubances | The 3rd Thing Press 2023-24
"And so we begin." ~ A note & marginalia from curators - M Freeman, Rana San & Chelsea Werner-Jatzke | Curatorial Essay, Episode 1 | Good Symptom: A Serial Anthology of Time-Based Disturbances | The 3rd Thing Press 2023-24
“Cinema Divina and Autotheory: An Interview with Marilyn Freeman” | Interview | Special Issue Autotheory in Contemporary Visual Arts Practice | November 2022
“The Video Auteur,” by Marilyn Freeman, essay in print only at, The Fourth Genre, Fall 2012
“Marilyn Freeman On the Form of the Video Essay,” featured essay curated by Writing in Public founder and editor James Polchin, Writing in Public, February 2012
Curatorial essay for TriQuarterly’s inaugural video essay suite, TriQuarterly Issue 141 January 2012
Baptism, video essay, Blackbird, Spring 2010
Reverence, video essay, Ninth Letter, April 2009
Featured artist interview by Ninth Letter editor Joseph Squier on contemplative video essays, Ninth Letter, April 2009
Meeting Magdalene, short fiction collection, Naiad Press, 1997
“Stepping Into Black Power,” feature story, Rolling Stone, March 1988
“Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves,” feature story, Rolling Stone, March 1988
