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Lucy Kerr

United States

Biography

Lucy Kerr (b. Houston, Texas 1990) is a filmmaker, artist, choreographer, educator, and curator. Her work explores performance, whether it be performances of family, gender, class, labor, and identity or performance in cinema or the every day. In 2022, she was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine. Kerr received a dual MFA in Film/Video and Art from California Institute of the Arts on the Lillian Disney Scholarship. Her feature film in progress, Family Portrait, garnered her the feature film grant from Austin Film Society and the AirFrance Prize from FIDLab. Family Portrait will also be taking her to US in Progress at the American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Her short film, Crashing Waves, is in the permanent collection of Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in Marseille, France. Kerr’s projects have been presented by FIDMarseille, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Reykjavik International Film Festival, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, REDCAT, Anthology Film Archives, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, The MAK Center Los Angeles, and others.

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