Kerry Laitala

Biography

Through DIY practices such as hand-processing, optical printing, material manipulations, and sleight-of-hand techniques, Laitala references the history of early cinema and light shows while pushing the medium into new, critical, and highly sensory territory. Her work investigates shifting relationships with the natural world and the artifacts we introduce into it, and this program puts the existential crises of our present into conversation with the unlikely magic of motion picture technology.

Directed

1. Experiments in Terror (2003) — Director
2. Out of the Ether (2004) — Director
3. Chromatic Cocktail 180 Proof (2011) — Director
4. Muse of Cinema — Director
5. The Adventure Parade (2000) — Director
6. Terra Incognita — Director
7. Journey Into The Unknown (1998) — Director
8. Orbit (2006) — Director
9. Phantogram (2008) — Director
10. Hallowed (2002) — Director
11. Conquered (2000) — Director
12. Terra Firma (2005) — Director
13. Secure the Shadow... 'Ere the Substance Fade (1997) — Director
14. The City Luminous: Spectacle of Light (2015) — Director
15. The City Luminous: Electric Salome (2015) — Director
16. Figments in Film, Number One (2019) — Director
17. Chromatic Wheels (2015) — Director
18. Pin-up in 3D (2009) — Director
19. Awake, But Dreaming — Director
20. Retrospectroscope (1997) — Director
21. Fire Fly EYE (2020) — Director
22. Knee Jerk (2018) — Director
23. Chromatic Cocktail Extra Fizzy (2009) — Director
24. Coming Attractions (2004) — Director
25. The Cat Lands on All Fours (2026) — Director