Crystal Z Campbell

Crystal Z CAMPBELL (1980, United States) is an experimental filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist and writer of Black, Filipinx and Chinese descent. In their sonically driven films, Campbell centres on the underloved and finds complexity in public secrets – fragments of information known by many but undertold or unspoken. Campbell was the 2021 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts and was a featured filmmaker of the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar programmed by Almudena Escobar López and Sky Hopinka. Campbell’s artworks and moving image projects probe historical amnesia and reimagine archival fragments. Campbell’s work engages with the history of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, medical ethics and Henrietta Lacks’s ‘immortal’ cell line; gentrification via a 35mm film relic salvaged from a demolished Black activist theatre in Brooklyn, The Slave Theater; embodiment, migration and unsolicited monuments in a Swedish coastal village; and environmental racism, water and what remains sacred. Campbell’s work has been exhibited and screened internationally. Campbell is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Art and Media Study at the University of Buffalo in New York.

Filmography

A Dark Love Story for Clowns (2009), WITNESS (2010), Futures For Failures (2011), On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth (2013), A Meditation on Nature in the Absence of an Eclipse (2017), Go-Rilla Means War (2017), CURRENCY (2019), VIEWFINDER (2020), Flight (2021), REVOLVER (2022)

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