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Lucy Kerr

Born June 3, 1990 · Houston, Texas, USA (age 36)

Lucy Kerr is a filmmaker, choreographer, and artist from Texas and based in New York. She was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine in 2022. Her debut feature film, Family Portrait, garnered her the Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director at Locarno Film festival, the Best Director Award from Black Canvas Film Festival, the Best Picture, Best Actress, and the Best Artis…

Known For

Weeping RocksWeeping Rocks · 2025
Weeping Rocks
2025
MovieDocumentary
Weeping Rocks follows Art, an entomologist nearing the end of his life, who has spent over five decades walking the same ten trails counting butterflies. His eccentric practice has uncovered patterns of environmental decline that went unnoticed for years. As time reshapes the landscape and species fade, Art’s journey becomes a meditation on mortality, change, and the beauty of what remains.
Sensible EcstasySensible Ecstasy · 2019
Sensible Ecstasy
2019
Movie
Just a bit over five minutes, this is also a single sequence slow motion shot of a woman's face while riding a roller-coaster. The soundtrack may suggest the sonic experience of a child in a mother's womb. The woman seems to be experiencing ecstasy or fear. Kerr dedicated this short to Renee Falconetti, the great star of Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc," whose closeups brought the character played by Anna Karina to tears in a wonderful scene in Godard's 1962 film "Vivre Sa Vie."
How to Live TogetherHow to Live Together · 2025
How to Live Together
2025
MovieComedy
Six roommates share a cramped four bedroom apartment. One moves out. Another moves in. In the process, the precarious balance of their routines is comically disrupted.
Crashing WavesCrashing Waves · 2021
Crashing Waves
2021
MovieDocumentary
While images produced for Hollywood appear slick and controlled, a stunt performer's testimony in Crashing Waves reveals otherwise, as they parse out all of the elements that go into a car crashing off a cliff and diving into the water for a TV show. Though the image produced and edited creates a split-second moment of violence for the viewer's pleasure, Crashing Waves uncovers the months of labor, training, and danger that the stunt involved, contingent on capitalist, patriarchal hierarchies in the film industry. The film meditates on the stakes of the real in the dominant culture's production of images and emphasizes the importance of the ethics of care.
Site of PassageSite of Passage · 2022
Site of Passage
2022
MovieDocumentary
A study on girlhood games and the interdependent, semiotic systems they create.
Family PortraitFamily Portrait · 2023
Family Portrait
5.32023
MovieDrama
A sprawling family's futile attempts at capturing a family photo take a dreamlike turn when the matriarch vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her.
My Little NothingMy Little Nothing · 2026
My Little Nothing
6.02026
Movie
Two voices, one written, the other synthesised, engage in a philosophical dialogue about the amorous abyss separating them: a nineteen-year-old girl has decided to marry the Devil.

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