KENDRA MCLAUGHLIN (she/her) is a Canadian filmmaker-scholar pursuing a Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University, where she is also a fellow at the Film Study Center. She was previously in
residence at Le Fresnoy, France’s national contemporary arts studio, and a
participant in Sciences Po’s School of Political Arts (SPEAP). She holds a M.A. in Human Rights and a B.A. in Visual & Environmental
Studies.
︎ Contact
︎ Vimeo
NEWS
2025 Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
“Collaborations Afield: Work Across Ecologies and Disciplines” Conference
The Plow and the Camera: Tools for navigating ‘The Planetary Garden’
2024 Dept. of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University
Imprint in Flux(us): AFVS Staff Exhibition
2024 Braga Science Film Fest (Portugal)
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
2024 26th Festival EQUINOXIO (Colombia)
International Jury Member, National Experimental Short Film Competition
Escuela de Cine y Televisión, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2024 The 69th Flaherty Film Seminar: To Commune
Programmed by May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross
Participant. Thai Film Archive, Salaya Thailand
2024 The Film Study Center at Harvard
FSC-Harvard Fellowship recipient
2024 The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
2024 CineToro Experimental Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
2023 Beijing International Short Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, International Competition
2023 17th Kurzfilmfestival Köln / Short Film Festival Cologne
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
Program: New Aesthetics
2023 34th Singapore International Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
Program: Undercurrents
2023 Dept. of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University
La plage aux êtres, Faculty & Alumni Screening Series
alongside films by Peter Galison and Nnenna Onuoha
2023 25th Festival EQUINOXIO (Colombia)
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
Program: Retazos del recordar
* Award for Best International Experimental Short Film
2023 DIFFUSION by re:assemblage collective (Toronto)
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
Program: Psychic Shapes, Lingering Marks
2023 Labocine: “Watching The Dark” (July)
La plage aux êtres, online screening
2023 MIT Museum
Group exhibition Counteractions
2023 Distillery Gallery (Boston)
Group exhibition Counteractions
2023 New York University (USA)
Screening ofAlcoves
2023 The Film Study Center at Harvard
FSC-Harvard Fellowship recipient
2023 Dept. of Film and Television, Istanbul Bilgi Univerity
“At Land and Sea: Topographical Imagination and the Moving Image” Conference
Presentation of La plage aux êtres
2023 MIT Consortium for Studies in Gender, Culture, Women & Sexuality
“Liberating Spatiality and Temporality” Conference
Presentation of La plage aux êtres
2023 London Short Film Festival at ICA London
La plage aux êtres, International Competition
2022 Dept. of the History of Science, Harvard University
“Science New Wave” Conference
Presentation of La plage aux êtres
2022 Labocine: “Science New Wave” (November)
La plage aux êtres, online screening
2022 Imagine Science Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Shorts competition
2022 Vancouver International Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Shorts Forum
2022 FEST New Directors New Films
La plage aux êtres, NEXXT Competition
2022 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival
La plage aux êtres, Video Competition
2022 Festival International des Films de Femmes
La plage aux êtres, International Competition
2021 Le Fresnoy - National Contemporary Arts Studio
La plage aux êtres in group exhibition ...par le rêve...
2021 DocLisboa x UnionDocs
Nebulae Filmmaking Seminar
2021 27th Sarajevo Film Festival
Alcoves, Official selection
2021 FIDMarseille
Alcoves, FIDCampus
2021 LaM Lille Musée Métropolde d’art moderne
Group exhibition Idéale Art Brut
Invitation within Laure Prouvost‘s Deep See Blue Surrounding You
2020 Ashkal Alwan
7th edition of aashra, We shall not hold them accountable, we shall take revenge
2020 Le Fresnoy - National Contemporary Arts Studio
Alcoves in exhibition Les sentinelles
2020 One World Media UK
Fellowship
2019 Le Fresnoy - National Contemporary Arts Studio
Selected artist
2019 Rencontres internationales Le jardin de l’Europe, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Artist residency
2018 Centre Pompidou
Mésures compensatoires in exhibition Hors Pistes: La nation et ses fictions
2018 Centre Culturel International de Cerisy
Planetary Frictions Seminar
2018 Galerie VU’ Paris
Sciences Po Political Photography Prize Exhibition
Jury Special Mention
2017 Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers
Public restitution of Mésures compensatoires
2017 Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers
School of Political Arts (SPEAP) Residency
︎ Contact
︎ Vimeo
NEWS
2025 Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University
“Collaborations Afield: Work Across Ecologies and Disciplines” Conference
The Plow and the Camera: Tools for navigating ‘The Planetary Garden’
2024 Dept. of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University
Imprint in Flux(us): AFVS Staff Exhibition
2024 Braga Science Film Fest (Portugal)
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
2024 26th Festival EQUINOXIO (Colombia)
International Jury Member, National Experimental Short Film Competition
Escuela de Cine y Televisión, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2024 The 69th Flaherty Film Seminar: To Commune
Programmed by May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross
Participant. Thai Film Archive, Salaya Thailand
2024 The Film Study Center at Harvard
FSC-Harvard Fellowship recipient
2024 The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
2024 CineToro Experimental Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
2023 Beijing International Short Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, International Competition
2023 17th Kurzfilmfestival Köln / Short Film Festival Cologne
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
Program: New Aesthetics
2023 34th Singapore International Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
Program: Undercurrents
2023 Dept. of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University
La plage aux êtres, Faculty & Alumni Screening Series
alongside films by Peter Galison and Nnenna Onuoha
2023 25th Festival EQUINOXIO (Colombia)
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
Program: Retazos del recordar
* Award for Best International Experimental Short Film
2023 DIFFUSION by re:assemblage collective (Toronto)
La plage aux êtres, Official Selection
Program: Psychic Shapes, Lingering Marks
2023 Labocine: “Watching The Dark” (July)
La plage aux êtres, online screening
2023 MIT Museum
Group exhibition Counteractions
2023 Distillery Gallery (Boston)
Group exhibition Counteractions
2023 New York University (USA)
Screening ofAlcoves
2023 The Film Study Center at Harvard
FSC-Harvard Fellowship recipient
2023 Dept. of Film and Television, Istanbul Bilgi Univerity
“At Land and Sea: Topographical Imagination and the Moving Image” Conference
Presentation of La plage aux êtres
2023 MIT Consortium for Studies in Gender, Culture, Women & Sexuality
“Liberating Spatiality and Temporality” Conference
Presentation of La plage aux êtres
2023 London Short Film Festival at ICA London
La plage aux êtres, International Competition
2022 Dept. of the History of Science, Harvard University
“Science New Wave” Conference
Presentation of La plage aux êtres
2022 Labocine: “Science New Wave” (November)
La plage aux êtres, online screening
2022 Imagine Science Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Shorts competition
2022 Vancouver International Film Festival
La plage aux êtres, Shorts Forum
2022 FEST New Directors New Films
La plage aux êtres, NEXXT Competition
2022 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival
La plage aux êtres, Video Competition
2022 Festival International des Films de Femmes
La plage aux êtres, International Competition
2021 Le Fresnoy - National Contemporary Arts Studio
La plage aux êtres in group exhibition ...par le rêve...
2021 DocLisboa x UnionDocs
Nebulae Filmmaking Seminar
2021 27th Sarajevo Film Festival
Alcoves, Official selection
2021 FIDMarseille
Alcoves, FIDCampus
2021 LaM Lille Musée Métropolde d’art moderne
Group exhibition Idéale Art Brut
Invitation within Laure Prouvost‘s Deep See Blue Surrounding You
2020 Ashkal Alwan
7th edition of aashra, We shall not hold them accountable, we shall take revenge
2020 Le Fresnoy - National Contemporary Arts Studio
Alcoves in exhibition Les sentinelles
2020 One World Media UK
Fellowship
2019 Le Fresnoy - National Contemporary Arts Studio
Selected artist
2019 Rencontres internationales Le jardin de l’Europe, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Artist residency
2018 Centre Pompidou
Mésures compensatoires in exhibition Hors Pistes: La nation et ses fictions
2018 Centre Culturel International de Cerisy
Planetary Frictions Seminar
2018 Galerie VU’ Paris
Sciences Po Political Photography Prize Exhibition
Jury Special Mention
2017 Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers
Public restitution of Mésures compensatoires
2017 Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers
School of Political Arts (SPEAP) Residency