Dorothy Wiley is a director and a cinematographer. Her filmography includes films such as Before Need Redressed (1994), Zane Forbidden (1972), Five Artists: BillBobBillBillBob (1971), and Fog Pumas (1967), among others.

Dorothy Wiley made films with Gunvor Nelson who is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in the classic American avant-garde film. Their debut Schmeerguntz (1966) is a humorous and grotesque feminist classic in which the everyday life of a mother of small children is contrasted with the ideal image of the American woman.