https://kendramclaughlin.com Kendra McLaughlin Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:22:12 +0000 https://kendramclaughlin.com en https://kendramclaughlin.com/KENDRA-MCLAUGHLIN Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:22:12 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/KENDRA-MCLAUGHLIN KENDRA MCLAUGHLIN https://kendramclaughlin.com/about Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:49:16 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/about KENDRA MCLAUGHLIN (she/her) is a Canadian filmmaker, artist and scholar. Raised between Toronto and Bangkok, she is currently based in Paris where she teaches visual studies at Sciences Po. Her practice explores paradoxes of memory, preservation and care work, within institutions and in the everyday. The resulting non-fiction films excavate how imagistic thought functions in these realms, often hovering at the edge of the scientific and the fictional. She is currently advancing this work through a PhD in Film &amp; Visual Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University. Prior to this, she was in residence at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains and a participant in the School of Political Arts (SPEAP) founded by Bruno Latour. Her film/video work has shown internationally, including at the Jeu de Paume (France), Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada), Singapore International Film Festival (Singapore), Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Centre Pompidou (France), ICA London (UK), and more. Additionally, films she has worked on as a cinematographer or editor have screened at the Venice Film Festival (Italy), New York Film Festival (USA), BFI London (UK), Villa Medici Film Festival (Italy), amongst other venues. <img width="1417" height="1497" width_o="1417" height_o="1497" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/084e72b21fec1eb471a071ff0792dcdfe01278e219737c3fe1858f694eb2edc3/_Kendra_window_bw.jpg" data-mid="239620026" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/084e72b21fec1eb471a071ff0792dcdfe01278e219737c3fe1858f694eb2edc3/_Kendra_window_bw.jpg" /> Photo credit: Isabella Hin ︎ Contact︎ Vimeo SELECT NEWS 2026 La Cité internationale des arts (France)Institut Français Residency2026 The Bergman Estate on Fårö (Sweden)Residency 2025 Films from the Film Study Center, Harvard Film ArchiveWork-in-progress screening and conversation with Dennis Lim 2025 Cinematography for Fragments for Venus (dir. Alice Diop, France/Italy)World premiere at Venice Film Festival, US premiere at New York Film FestivalOnline at Mubi and Miu Miu Women’s Tales2025 Cinematic Involutions, Carpenter Center for the Visual ArtsConversation with artists Tulapop Saenjaroen and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee 2025 Jeu de Paume (France)Screening of La plage aux êtres and conversation with critic Jean-Michel Frodon,as part of Le cinéma de Verena Paravel et Lucien Castaing-Taylor: Une écoute du monde 2025 Labocine: “Micrographia” (June issue) La plage aux êtres, online screening 2025 Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard UniversityThe Plow and the Camera: Tools for navigating ‘The Planetary Garden’ (talk)in Collaborations Afield: Work Across Ecologies and Disciplines (conference) 2024 Dept. of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard UniversityImprint 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 2024 The 69th Flaherty Film Seminar: To CommuneParticipant. Thai Film Archive, Salaya 2024 The Film Study Center at HarvardFSC-Harvard Fellowship recipient 2024 The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival La plage aux êtres, Official Selection2024 CineToro Experimental Film Festival La plage aux êtres, Official Selection 2023 Beijing International Short Film FestivalLa plage aux êtres, International Competition 2023 17th Kurzfilmfestival Köln / Short Film Festival Cologne La plage aux êtres, Official SelectionProgram: New Aesthetics 2023 34th Singapore International Film Festival La plage aux êtres, Official SelectionProgram: Undercurrents 2023 Dept. of Art, Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University La plage aux êtres, Faculty &amp; Alumni Screening Seriesalongside films by Peter Galison and Nnenna Onuoha 2023 25th Festival EQUINOXIO (Colombia)La plage aux êtres, Official SelectionProgram: Retazos del recordar*Award for Best International Experimental Short Film2023 DIFFUSION by re:assemblage collective (Toronto) La plage aux êtres, Official SelectionProgram: Psychic Shapes, Lingering Marks 2023 Labocine: “Watching The Dark”&nbsp; (July issue)La plage aux êtres, online screening 2023 MIT MuseumGroup exhibition Counteractions 2023 Distillery Gallery (Boston)Group exhibition Counteractions 2023 New York University (USA)Screening ofAlcoves 2023 The Film Study Center at HarvardFSC-Harvard Fellowship recipient2023 Dept. of Film and Television, Istanbul Bilgi Univerity “At Land and Sea: Topographical Imagination and the Moving Image” ConferencePresentation of La plage aux êtres 2023 MIT Consortium for Studies in Gender, Culture, Women &amp; Sexuality “Liberating Spatiality and Temporality” ConferencePresentation 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” ConferencePresentation of La plage aux êtres2022 Labocine: “Science New Wave” (November issue)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 Competition2022 Videoformes International Digital Arts Festival La plage aux êtres, Video Competition2022 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 UnionDocsNebulae Filmmaking Seminar 2021 27th Sarajevo Film Festival Alcoves, Official selection2021 FIDMarseille Alcoves, FIDCampus2021 LaM Lille Musée Métropolde d’art moderneGroup 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 UKProduction Fellowship2019 Le Fresnoy - National Contemporary Arts StudioSelected artist2019 Rencontres internationales Le jardin de l’Europe, Bosnia-HerzegovinaArtist residency 2018 Centre Pompidou Mésures compensatoires in exhibition Hors Pistes: La nation et ses fictions 2018 Centre Culturel International de CerisyPlanetary Frictions Seminar2018 Galerie VU’ Paris Sciences Po Political Photography Prize ExhibitionJury Special Mention 2017 Théâtre Nanterre-AmandiersPublic restitution of Mésures compensatoires 2017 Théâtre Nanterre-AmandiersSchool of Political Arts (SPEAP) Residency https://kendramclaughlin.com/Where-Things-Were-1 Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:05:26 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/Where-Things-Were-1 Where Things Were 90min, color, Canada/Thailand [in pre-production]A palimpsest of three individuals’ memories of a shared past in Bangkok,&nbsp;Where Things Were&nbsp;explores how class relations shape intimacy and estrangement within a Canadian family’s domestic life abroad.Supported by The Film Study Center at Harvard University. https://kendramclaughlin.com/Tierra-liquida Sun, 21 Jan 2024 04:31:00 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/Tierra-liquida Tierra líquida (Liquid Earth)30min, DCP with 5.1 surround sound, color, 2026, Canada/Peru [in post-production] A public boat transports people, commodities and dreams between communities on the edge of the Tamshiyacu-Tahuayo conservation area in the Peruvian Amazon. Supported by the Film Study Center at Harvard University. https://kendramclaughlin.com/Lo-que-las-olas-no-rompen Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:00:45 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/Lo-que-las-olas-no-rompen Lo que las olas no rompen (What the waves don’t break)12min30, 16mm (mono) or DCP (5.1), color, 2026, Canada/Peru Little souls mythologize a coastline where life cycles through death and back again.Produced through the Film Study Center and Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University. https://kendramclaughlin.com/La-plage-aux-etres Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:49:14 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/La-plage-aux-etres La plage aux êtres (The Beach of Beings) 20min, DCP with 5.1 surround sound, B&amp;W and color, 2022, France/Canada As her team digitises the traces of an unidentified creature, a palaeontologist mourns a loved one. A meditation on preservation, daughter of discovery and mother of loss. Distribution: Le Fresnoy - Studio national https://kendramclaughlin.com/Alcoves-1 Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:49:14 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/Alcoves-1 Alcoves37min, DCP with 5.1 surround sound, color, 2021, France/UK/Canada In Herzegovina, an ecologist, a gardener and a farmer respond to a French landscaping text that presents the planet as a single, entangled garden. Their gestures and voices, the plow and the camera, sow a reflectio on how to perceive this landscape and position oneself within it. Distribution: Le Fresnoy - Studio national https://kendramclaughlin.com/Imprint Sun, 10 Oct 2021 21:04:54 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/Imprint Imprint (Empreinte)6min, Single-channel video installation, B&amp;W, stereo, 2021, France/Canada “In Imprint, our gaze discovers what we will never see with the naked eye: the interior of a bone inflicted with cancer. Immersed in a mysterious black and white landscape, generated from high-precision scans carried out by a Bordeaux paleontology laboratory, Imprint questions the power of pathology to challenge our self-perception; as well as the preservative power of the digital image, which is used to digitize what inevitably deteriorates when the image itself is not guaranteed to survive time - underscoring the shared fragility of organic and digital material.”&nbsp; - Marie-Amélie Senot, curatorCommissioned by the LaM Lille Métropole Musée d’art modern, d’art contemporain et d’art brut. https://kendramclaughlin.com/Mesures-compensatoires Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:42:24 +0000 Kendra McLaughlin https://kendramclaughlin.com/Mesures-compensatoires Mesures compensatoire (Compensatory Measures)15min, Single-channel video installation, mono, color, 2018,&nbsp;France In January 2017, a few months after the refugee and migrant camp known as the Calais Jungle was cleared for the first time, the mayor of Calais issued a municipal ordinance forbidding access to or occupation of the Lande natural reserve where the camp is situated, by any means not “compatible with the conservation of its natural resources”. This bye-law presented itself as protecting a damaged landscape whose restoration was a renewed political priority. The question of environmental protection thus found itself entangled with the politics of migration. The video Mesures compensatoires is the result of an on-the-ground investigation over several months in the area.Co-created with Hélène Delean, Dimitri Robert-Rimsky and Florie Auclerc. &nbsp;Commissioned for the Centre Pompidou, Hors Pistes Festival 2018 La nation et ses fiction.&nbsp;Produced at the School of Political Arts, Sciences Po. <img width="1001" height="563" width_o="1001" height_o="563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19392cfc937e59fdee7b3c84a6ee0163421246da13f351b2d36751713eee4e58/mesures-compensatoires-2-1024x768.jpeg" data-mid="213522146" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19392cfc937e59fdee7b3c84a6ee0163421246da13f351b2d36751713eee4e58/mesures-compensatoires-2-1024x768.jpeg" /> <img width="1404" height="790" width_o="1404" height_o="790" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/30ee95e173d049eeb3ee62e6fc2695a3e8c60efb965d8c930064fe82530b110e/mesurescompensatoires_considerant.jpeg" data-mid="213522147" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/30ee95e173d049eeb3ee62e6fc2695a3e8c60efb965d8c930064fe82530b110e/mesurescompensatoires_considerant.jpeg" />