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Crystal Z Campbell

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Crystal Z Campbell

Born January 1, 1980 · United States (age 46)

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 d…

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CurrencyCurrency · 2019
Currency
2019
Movie
CURRENCY (2019) is a sound film of refusal––a woman wears bygone forms of currency on the tips of her hair while preserving the greatest currency for herself.
WitnessWitness · 2010
Witness
2010
Movie
A sonic meditation on the camera as a witness and the so-called ‘landscape of violence.’ 8mm
Go-Rilla Means WarGo-Rilla Means War · 2017
Go-Rilla Means War
2017
MovieDocumentary
Go-Rilla Means War derives from a decayed 35mm film discovered in the abandoned Slave Theatre, once the center of Black culture and civil rights organizing in Brooklyn. Featuring Black men in various states of martial arts training, the film's faded and discolored frames are a metonym for the media demonization of Black bodies in the context of the gentrification of Bedford-Stuyvesant.
A Dark Love Story For ClownsA Dark Love Story For Clowns · 2009
A Dark Love Story For Clowns
2009
MovieDrama
A Dark Love Story For Clowns is a hybrid of an African ritual, an autobiographical anecdote, and a modern riff of a post-abolitionist short story by William Faulkner.
A MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSEA MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSE · 2021
A MEDITATION ON NATURE IN THE ABSENCE OF AN ECLIPSE
2021
Movie
Running like water, an eclipse streams glimpses of irreversible consequence.
On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the EarthOn the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth · 2012
On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth
2012
Movie
On the Way to the Moon, We Discovered the Earth is a historical remix of the New York Times newspaper printed during the New York City Blackout in 1977. The 1977 Blackout is unofficially credited with the formal birth of hip-hop, a movement that was already well underway but advanced with equipment looted during the riots.
ViewfinderViewfinder · 2020
Viewfinder
2020
Movie
Filmed entirely in Swedish spa town, VIEWFINDER takes cues from political gestures, and decisive movements to explore belonging, allyship, and monuments.
Futures for FailuresFutures for Failures · 2011
Futures for Failures
2011
Movie
An exhalation of social and architectural failures under the guise of possible futures.

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