Director
Vanessa Renwick
Chicago, Illinois, USA · 16 films
Vanessa Olivia Renwick is a non-binary artist of Scottish and German descent, born on the traditional and unceded territory of the Illiniwek in what is now known as Chicago, Illinois. They live and work as an uninvited guest on the traditional territory of the Chinookan peoples, now known as Portland, Oregon. Often focusing their lens on nature, freedom and the locales of their adopted home, the Pacific Northwest, Renwick uses avant-garde formal elements to explore radical politics and environmental issues. An artist who often self-distributes, their screening history reads as a map of independent cinema worldwide. They have screened work in hundreds of venues internationally, institutional and not, including The Museum of Modern Art, Light Industry, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Art Basel, Oberhausen, The Museum of Jurassic Technology, Centre Pompidou, Bread and Puppet Theater and True/False Film Festival, among many others.
Best known for
Filmography 16
Bells in Five
2022 · Director
The Girl on the Boat
2020 · Director
Cold Holy Water
2019 · Director
Kesh
2018 · Editor, Director
NEXT LEVEL FUCKED UP
2016 · Director, Editor
CRACK HOUSE
2015 · Editor, Director
The Film That Buys the Cinema
2014 · Director
Layover
2014 · Editor, Director
SF HITCH
2012 · Narrator (voice), Director
Portrait #2: Trojan
2006 · Director, Editor
Britton, South Dakota
2003 · Director, Editor
Nest of Tens
2000 · Cinematography
On Criterion Channel
The Yodeling Lesson
1998 · Director, Editor
Worse
1994 · Director, Editor
Crowdog
1984 · Narrator (voice), Editor
Toxic Shock
1983 · Director