About

Known credits:
24
Birthday:
1980-01-01
Place of birth:
United States
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Crystal Z Campbell

Overview

Crystal Z Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist, experimental filmmaker, and writer of African American, Filipino, and Chinese descents. Campbell finds complexity in public secrets— fragments of information known by many but untold or unspoken. Recent works revisit questions of immortality and medical ethics with Henrietta Lacks' “immortal” cell line, ponder the role of a political monument and displacement in a Swedish coastal landscape, and salvage a 35mm film from a demolished Black activist theater in Brooklyn as a relic of gentrification. Sonic, material, and archival traces of the witness informs their work in film, performance, installation, sound, painting, and writing.

Honors and awards include the Pollock-Krasner Award; MAP Fund; MacDowell; MAAA, Skowhegan; Rijksakademie; Whitney ISP; Franklin Furnace; Tulsa Artist Fellowship; Black Spatial Relics, and Flaherty Film Seminar, amongst others. Selec exhibitions include the Drawing Center (US), Nest (NL), ICA-Philadelphia (US), REDCAT (US), Artissima (IT), Studio Museum of Harlem (US), Project Row Houses (US), and SculptureCenter (US), and SFMOMA (US). Campbell’s writing has been featured in World Literature Today, Monday Journal, GARAGE, and Hyperallergic.

Campbell is a Harvard Radcliffe Film Study Center & David and Roberta Logie Fellow (2020-2021) living and working in Oklahoma. Campbell is founder of the virtual programming platform archiveacts.com.

Known for

Acting
2017 Go-Rilla Means War Actor Narrator N/A
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Directing
2022 Revolver Directing Director N/A
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2021 A MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSE Directing Director N/A
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2020 Viewfinder Directing Director N/A
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2019 Currency Directing Director N/A
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2017 Go-Rilla Means War Directing Director N/A
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2012 On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth Directing Director N/A
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2011 Futures for Failures Directing Director N/A
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2010 Witness Directing Director N/A
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2009 A Dark Love Story For Clowns Directing Director N/A
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FLIGHT Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2020 Viewfinder Writing Writer N/A
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2017 Go-Rilla Means War Writing Writer N/A
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2009 A Dark Love Story For Clowns Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2009 A Dark Love Story For Clowns Production Producer N/A
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Sound
2021 A MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSE Sound Sound N/A
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2009 A Dark Love Story For Clowns Sound Sound N/A
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Crew
2021 A MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSE Crew Cinematography N/A
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2020 Viewfinder Crew Cinematography N/A
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2009 A Dark Love Story For Clowns Crew Cinematography N/A
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Editing
2021 A MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSE Editing Editor N/A
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2020 Viewfinder Editing Editor N/A
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2017 Go-Rilla Means War Editing Editor N/A
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2009 A Dark Love Story For Clowns Editing Editor N/A
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