James N. Kienitz Wilkins
James N. KIENITZ WILKINS (1983, USA) is a filmmaker and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been screened at many international film festivals and venues, including New York, Toronto, Locarno, CPH:DOX and MoMA PS1. In 2017, he was included in the Whitney Biennial and a retrospective of his work was showcased at RIDM (Montreal). In 2018, he opened solo show at Gasworks Gallery (London), and was included in the Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva).
Filmography
(selection) Public Hearing (2012, doc), Special Features (2014, short), TESTER (2016, short doc), Occupations (2016, short doc), B-ROLL with Andre (2016, short), Indefinite Pitch (2016, short), Mediums (2017, short), The Republic (2017), Common Carrier (2017), This Action Lies (2018, short)
James N. Kienitz Wilkins at IFFR
B-ROLL with Andre
18'
USA
IFFR 2016
Indefinite Pitch
23'
USA
IFFR 2017
Kodak
In 2012, Kodak went bankrupt. Enter the mind’s eye of a blind former Kodak film technician, reconstructing the past in hallucinatory detail.
33'
USA
IFFR 2019
This Action Lies
This Action Lies is about the limits of observation; about staring very hard at something while listening to something else.
32'
USA
IFFR 2019