Five from Lucy Kerr
Prior to her debut feature "Family Portrait," the Texas-born filmmaker and CalArts graduate Kerr made a number of shorts that each inhabit and expand a moment of performance or, sometimes quite literally, of physical suspension. Kerr explores transformation and risk in arenas ranging from a stuntwoman’s practice, a teenage sleepover ritual, and roller-coaster rides beheld in beatific close-up. Drawing upon her past training as a choreographer, she excavates spaces of contemplation that achieve a kind of escape velocity from the activity at hand.
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Lucy Kerr on "Family Portrait"
Directed by Metrograph | 2 mins | 2024
Filmmaker Lucy Kerr introduces her film "Family Portrait." -
Family Portrait
Directed by Lucy Kerr | 72 mins | 2023
Deploying masterful Steadicam and ominous sound design, Kerr’s enigmatic and disquieting feature debut takes place one summer day on an idyllic estate in Texas. A large family gathers to take a group picture, only for the matriarch to disappear and the rest ... -
Crashing Waves
Directed by Lucy Kerr | 19 mins | 2021
A stuntwoman’s recollection of plunging a car into the ocean is refracted into three segments that reflect upon image creation. -
Site of Passage
Directed by Lucy Kerr | 7 mins | 2022
Entering the realm of the teenage sleepover, Kerr stages the rituals and games of a group of teenage girls as unnerving choreographies of mystery and intention. -
Sensible Ecstasy
Directed by Lucy Kerr | 7 mins | 2018
Kerr’s three-channel installation turns rides on roller-coasters into something like lives of the saints, through Dreyer-esque close-ups on the emotive faces of passengers.
