Crystal Z Campbell
Known for
Directing
Born
January 1, 1980 (age 46)
Birthplace
United States
Biography
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...
Best known work
Go-Rilla Means War
2017
Revolver
2022FLIGHT
On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth
2012
A Dark Love Story For Clowns
2009
Witness
2010
Futures for Failures
2011
Viewfinder
2020
A MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSE
2021
Currency
2019Filmography
TBA
FLIGHTDirector
2022
RevolverDirector
2021
A MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSEDirector, Editor, Sound, Cinematography
2020
ViewfinderDirector, Writer, Editor, Cinematography
2019
CurrencyDirector
2017
Go-Rilla Means Waras Narrator, Editor, Writer, Director
2012
2011
Futures for FailuresDirector
2010
WitnessDirector
2009
A Dark Love Story For ClownsDirector, Editor, Sound, Writer, Producer, Cinematography