Georden West

Georden WEST (1992, USA) is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. They studied visual media art at Emerson University’s graduate school and undertook an internship at SHOWstudio, where their experience led to Student Academy Award-winning short Patron Saint (2019). West was a 2021-22 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellow and a 2021 Academy Gold Women’s Fellowship Finalist. Playland (2023), selected for IFFR 2023, is West’s first feature and stemmed from research carried out at Boston’s LGBTQ archive, The History Project.