FLESHWORK
Lydia Cornett | USA 2023 | 7 Min. | Englisch mit engl. Untertiteln
MONTAG, 20.05. | 17:00 Uhr
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
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Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Fleischtheke einer Metzgerei in Jeromesville, Ohio. FLESHWORK fragmentiert in der Montage aus Schwarzweiß-Bildern und Splitscreens Arbeitseindrücke und Prozesse der Fleischverarbeitung zu einer losen Kette an Impressionen, die Räume öffnet, um über das Verhältnis des Menschen zu den zu Lebensmitteln verarbeiteten Tieren zu reflektieren.
Regie: Lydia Cornett (she/her)
Kamera: Lydia Cornett
Schnitt: Lydia Cornett
Ton: Micah Garrido
SCREENINGS AND AWARDS
Slamdance Film Festival 2023
Ann Arbor Film Festival 2023 (Winner of the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker)
AFI Fest 2023
DOC NYC 2023
Florida Film Festival 2023
Revolutions Per Minute Festival 2023
The Blue Danube Film Festival 2023
The Barbican Centre’s „Eat the Screen“ Film Series 2023
The Video Consortium’s Rust Belt & Appalachia Documentary Festival 2023
Thomas Edison Film Festival 2023 (Director’s Choice Award)
Cinema Columbus 2023
BIOGRAPHY
Lydia Cornett is a Baltimore-born filmmaker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her films have screened at Sheffield DocFest, AFI Fest, Slamdance, BAMCinemaFest, Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs International Short Fest, Hamptons International Film Festival, DOC NYC and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, where she was awarded the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker in 2023. Her work has been distributed and featured by The New Yorker, POV Documentary (PBS), Nowness, Stereogum, Nylon Magazine, and Vimeo Staff Picks.
Lydia is a 2023 National Arts Club Artist Fellow, a 2023 BRICLab Artist-in-Residence, a 2021 Princess Grace Honorarium Winner, a 2018 Valentine & Clark Emerging Artist Fellow in the Jacob Burns Film Center’s Creative Culture program, and a 2017 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow. She has received support for her work from Chicken & Egg Pictures, Field of Vision, IF/Then Shorts, the NYC Women’s Fund at the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
Lydia received a BA in History from Princeton University and an MFA in Art from the Ohio State University, where she co-founded Cineseries, a graduate-student-led screening series at the Wexner Center for the Arts. She has taught filmmaking at The New School and is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective.
