CURRICULUM VITAE

A formidable talent based in NYC, Berlin and LA, Baldwin is known for her compelling, intricate narrative forms. As director, and frequent performer, she combines her penchant for dance and film to craft visceral stories and stylized dreamscapes. Chief among her tools are bold scores, rhythmic editing, and the viewer’s potential to embrace wonder.

FILMS

➤ TERRAIN
La Biennale di Venezia VR Expanded (World Premiere)
➤ THROUGH YOU
Sundance Film Festival (World Premiere), SF International Film Festival, World VR Forum, Nantucket Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival (award-winner), San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Watershed, Phi Centre, AFI Fest
➤ QUICK SLICE
New York Live Arts (Installation Premiere), Flux Factory
➤ SWALLOWED
Criterion Channel, SXSW (World Premiere), BAMcinemaFest, Montclair Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, Women of Cinefamily with Chris Kraus, Vimeo Staff Pick
(part of the omnibus feature COLLECTIVE:UNCONSCIOUS)
➤ SLEEPOVER LA
SXSW (World Premiere), Berlinale EFM, Cucalorus, Vimeo Staff Pick, Short of the Week
➤ BFF
Blue Stockings Bookstore, The Atlas Review, Ravelin (Online Premiere)
➤ IT’S A SOIREE
Miami Art Basel, Movement Research Fall Festival, artburst berlin
➤ A JUICE BOX AFTERNOON
Lincoln Center (World Premiere), Dance on Camera Tour, Filmmaker Magazine (Online Premiere)
➤ SEA MEADOW
SXSW (World Premiere), Miami Art Basel, V&A Museum, Aesthetica Short Film Festival (award-winner) Academy-Qualifying theatrical run
➤ MISTY COPELAND
Carnegie Hall, NYC
(documentary for Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards)
➤ SLEEPING WITH FRANK
Miami Short Film Festival, New Filmmakers, London Short Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival (award-winner)

COLLECTIONS

➤ The Criterion Channel (SWALLOWED paired with Cronenberg's THE BROOD)
➤ Netflix (SWALLOWED/ COLLECTIVE: UNCONSCIOUS)
➤ Amazon (SWALLOWED/ COLLECTIVE: UNCONSCIOUS)
➤ Jaunt VR App (THROUGH YOU)
➤ NOWNESS (THROUGH YOU short flattie version)
➤ NOWNESS (SLEEPOVER LA)
➤ Bureau of Creative Works (SWALLOWED/ COLLECTIVE: UNCONSCIOUS)
➤ Filmmaker Magazine (A JUICE BOX AFTERNOON)
➤ Fandor (Multiple films)

ACCOLADES

➤ Sundance Institute New Frontier / Jaunt VR Residency (THROUGH YOU)
➤ Academy Award-Qualifying theatrical run (SEA MEADOW)
➤ Independent Magazine’s 10 Filmmakers to Watch
➤ ShortsHD Top 10 Emerging Filmmakers to Watch
➤ Tribeca Film Festival (Juror for Storyscapes Competition)
➤ Tribeca Film Institute & Festival (Juror for Our City, Our Story Competition)
➤ World VR Forum (Juror)
➤ Glamour Magazine's Women in Hollywood Roundtable Discussion (Panelist)
➤ SXSW Grand Jury Award Narrative Short Nominee (SEA MEADOW)
➤ SXSW Gamechanger Award Nominee (SWALLOWED/ COLLECTIVE:UNCONSCIOUS)
➤ SXSW Grand Jury Award Narrative Feature Nominee (SWALLOWED/ COLLECTIVE:UNCONSCIOUS)
➤ Chris Kraus at Cinefamily in LA (SWALLOWED introduction)
➤ Meet the Artist at Film at Lincoln Center (Panelist)
➤ Short of the Week (SLEEPOVER LA)
➤ VR creator for Oculus & Kaleidoscope’s inaugural DevLab (Fellow)
➤ Nantucket Screenwriters Colony (Fellow)
➤ RBC’S Emerging Storytellers at IFP Film Week (GLASS feature film)
➤ Free the Work (Natasha Lyonne picks SLEEPOVER LA)
➤ Best Sensual VR Experience at Raindance (THROUGH YOU)
➤ Aesthetica Short Film Festival Top 10 Films by Female Filmmakers (SEA MEADOW)

PERFORMANCE &
CHOREOGRAPHY

➤ EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY
dancer in the World Tour with David Byrne and Brian Eno
choreographed by Annie B. Parson, Robbinschild, and Noémie
➤ The Metropolitan Opera Ballet
dancer in LES TROYENS, LE SACRE DE PRINTEMPS, and MOSES UND ARON
choreographed by Doug Varone
➤ PARTHENON
actor in short film directed by Frank Mosley, co-starring Tallie Medel
➤ SUTPHIN BOULEVARD
choreographer and dancer for music video for Blood Orange / Devonte Hynes
➤ Trisha Brown Dance Company
dancer in SPANISH DANCE
➤ ELECTRIC FEEL
dancer in music video for MGMT
choreographed by Celia Rowlson-Hall
➤ Mansur Gavriel
choreographer for Spring/Summer 2017 Collection at Cedar Lake produced by Jena Brook
➤ Performa 09
choreographer for opening event at Times Square NYC in collaboration with Arto Lindsay
➤ Faye Driscoll
dancer in COLD BLOODED OLD TIME, LEZ SIDE STORY, WOW MOM, WOW, and EYES EYES EYES
➤ Netta Yerushalmy
dancer in ROOMS WITHOUT A VIEW
➤ David Neumann
dancer in FEED FORWARD
➤ Noemie Lafrance
lead dancer in AGORA I at McCarren Pool, commercial for DAFFY'S

INTERVIEWS

➤ The New York Times (Profile featuring THROUGH YOU)
➤ The Criterion Channel (Video interview and retrospective for SWALLOWED)
➤ Sundance Blog (Profile on my creative process and VR)
➤ Vice's Creator's Project (Profile on film, dance, art and life)
➤ Glamour Magazine (My true story living with a stalker)
➤ Dance Magazine (Interview on choreography in VR)
➤ Interview Magazine (Interview alongside Rose Troche & Saschka Unseld on VR)
➤ Vice’s Creator’s Project (Profile piece on on THROUGH YOU)
➤ Filmmaker Magazine (Interview on concepts of THROUGH YOU)
➤ Filmmaker Magazine (Interview on editing THROUGH YOU)
➤ Ravelin Magazine (Interview on the making of SWALLOWED)
➤ She Does Podcast (Podcast about all the worlds I've lived in)
➤ Berlin Art Link (Interview featuring THROUGH YOU)
➤ Voices of VR (Podcast with Kent Bye about THROUGH YOU)
➤ Hers Magazine (Interview on life and art by Piera Van de Wiel)

PRESS

“Movement and gesture take possession [in THROUGH YOU] of the viewer in a way that, for me at least, has never been replicated.”
➤ The New York Times
“The genre needs directors who are willing to look beneath the surface and to dream, as Lily Baldwin does in her adroit, wry short, A JUICE BOX AFTERNOON.”
➤ The New York Times
“An extraordinary and scary short film by Lily Baldwin, whose work has a visceral power similar to [David] Cronenberg’s [THE BROOD], but with an anxious female perspective.”
➤ The New York Times
"In this hypnotic film [SLEEPOVER LA] dance is used as a diaphanous storytelling tool, in which the dreamy narrative is at the service of the choreography; movement wafts through."
➤ TimeOut
“In her films, Baldwin uses body movement and choreography to push the narrative.”
➤ Vice
“Editing, cinematography and music merge with dance to create a fully realized universe, filled with equal doses of longing, unease and wonder. Like Lynch, she understands that all of these tools are necessary to portray our complex inner lives."
➤ Short of the Week
“An incredible central performance [in PARTHENON] by Lily Baldwin. This short is in two halves – the first is reminiscent of Madeline’s Madeline and makes for uncomfortable viewing, it is difficult to watch. The second half is amazing and focuses on the connection between an artist and model in a life-drawing class.”
➤ Jump Cut Online
“The centerpiece involves ritualistic dancing that inverts the meaning of the choreography...Baldwin uses long, intensely subjective takes, gradually dramatizing a body’s potential internal invasion as a collection of writhing figures that might mock the vulnerability the mother experiences as feeling newly secondary to her child [in SWALLOWED].”
➤Slant Magazine
“Other standouts demonstrated the power of minimal dialogue: the Fellini-chic SEA MEADOW by Lily Baldwin.”
➤ Flux Magazine
"Filmmaker Lily Baldwin breathes life into the thriller genre by using dance and pop mashups to investigate themes of identity, mortality, and memory."
➤ Miami New Times

REPRESENTATION

➤ Lief (Commercial inquiries in the UK, France, and Netherlands)
➤ Betti Berlin (Commercial inquiries in other European territories )
➤ Labor Party (Managed by Ali Brown and Candice Dragonas of PRETTYBIRD)

COLLABORATORS & FRIENDS

➤ Kanu (Production company in Germany)
➤ Free the Work (Profiled director)
➤ Guild of Future Architects (Member)

EDUCATION

➤ University of Michigan (Summa Cum Laude, BFA in Dance, Minor in Art History)

SOCIAL

➤ Instagram
➤ Vimeo
➤ YouTube
➤ Twitter
➤ Soundcloud
➤ IMDB