FLESHWORK
Lydia Cornett | USA 2023 | 7 min. | English with English subtitles
MONDAY, 20.05. | 5 pm
De France, Saal 1 | TICKETS
PART OF THE SHORT FILM PROGRAMME ISA I
Austrian premiere
A behind-the-scenes look at a butcher’s counter in Jeromesville, Ohio. In a montage of black-and-white images and split screens, FLESHWORK fragments glimpses of working and meat processing processes into a loose chain of impressions that opens up a space for reflection on the relationship between people and animals processed into food.
Director: Lydia Cornett (she/her)
Cinematography: Lydia Cornett
Editing: Lydia Cornett
Sound: 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.
