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Lydia Cornett

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Lydia Cornett

Lydia Cornett is a documentary filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. Her films focus on artistic performance, personal histories, and multilayered characters. In 2019, her film Narmin's Birthday was a recipient of the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre, and her film Yves & Variation premiered at BAMcinemaFest. She was the Valentine & Clark Emerging Artist Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film C…

Known For

Party LineParty Line · 2021
Party Line
2021
MovieDocumentary
At the early voting line in Ohio’s most populous county, civic duty is a public performance.
TessituraTessitura · 2025
Tessitura
2025
MovieDocumentary
Three trans opera singers refine their unique vocal talents and contemporize the history of gender-fluid performances in the art form.
FleshworkFleshwork · 2023
Fleshwork
2023
MovieDocumentary
At a butcher shop in Jeromesville, Ohio, four meat processors situate their labor within their own minds and bodies.
Yves & VariationYves & Variation · 2019
Yves & Variation
2019
MovieDocumentary
Every day, concierge Yves Deshommes practices his violin behind the front desk of a Manhattan office building. During the hours outside his shift, Yves’s life is revealed to be equal parts intrepid and inspiring.
To Use a MountainTo Use a Mountain · 2025
To Use a Mountain
2025
MovieDocumentary
Six rural American communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, a people’s history of resistance and stewardship emerges through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites.
Caro Comes OutCaro Comes Out · 2020
Caro Comes Out
2020
MovieDocumentary
Caro Comes Out is a queer torture experiment, but also a comedy, but also a short film about coming out to your entire Cuban family.
Bug FarmBug Farm · 2020
Bug Farm
2020
MovieDocumentary
Four women in Central Florida establish a unique bond while working with crickets, superworms and roaches on an insect farm in the rural town of LaBelle.

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