RECENT AWARDS:
2023 New York State Council for the Arts Support for Artists Grant
CURRENT & RECENT EXHIBTIONS:
Laura Kraning: The Front Yard Film Series
Burchfield Penney Art Center
Januray 12-March 31, 2024
”Reading Landscapes” with Nicole Chochrek
CEPA Gallery
Oct 6-Dec 8, 2023
Buffalo, NY
UPCOMING SCREENINGS:
National Gallery of Art
”Woven Histories” (Language of Memory)
Saturday May 4, 2024, 2:00pm
Washington, D.C.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Films In Competition Program 2 (de-composition)
Wed March 27, 2024, 9:30pm
Michigan Theater
Light Matter Film Festival at No Name Cinema
Program 2 (de-composition)
March 1, 2024, 7:30pm
No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM
Light Matter Film Festival at Film-Makers’ Coop
Program 2 (de-composition)
February 23, 2024, 7:00pm
Film-Makers’ Coop, NY, NY
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival 10th Anniversary Program
Program 1: ”Passages” (de-composition)
February 13, 2024
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Director’s Lounge: Contemporary Media and Art
”Dark Sun Rising” (Devil’s Gate)
November 30, 2023
Z-Bar, Berlin, Germany
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Macau Edition
”Palimpsest”
November 25, 2023
Ox Warehouse, Macau
Light Matter Experimental Film and Media Art Festival
Program 6: “Paradise”
November 4, 2023, 7:30 PM
Alfred, NY
Antimatter Media Art
”The Great Kind Mystery”
October 24, 2023
Victoria, BC
Transient Visions Film Festival
”Made by Hand”
Saturday, October 21, 2023, 7:30pm
Binghamton, NY
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival
Program 3: “Decomposition”
September 29, 2023
Boston, MA
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Shorts 8: “Veil of Uncertainty”
Harper Theater, Chicago
September 15 & 16, 2023
Braziers International Film Festival
”Documented Realities”
September 1, 2023
Oxfordshire, UK
Fisura, International Experimental Film & Video
June, 2023
Mexico City
Extremely Shorts Film Festival
Aurora Picture Show
May 19-20, 2023
Houston, TX
Material Universe #3 (curated by Kalpana Subramanian)
April 12, 2023 7:00pm
Evans School, Denver, CO
Athens International Film and Video Festival
”Encore” Shorts in Competition
April 10, 2023 5:00pm
Selections from the Light Matter Film Festival
July 12, 2022 9:00pm
Alfred, NY
Kodama Environmental Film Festival
April 14, 2022
La Casa del Arbol
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Deluge Contemporary Art
”rising” program of short films
December 5, 2021- Jan 9, 2022
Victoria, BC
Kodama Environmental Short Film Festival
Saturday Nov 13, 2021 5:00pm
The Dream Machine
Glasgow, Scotland
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
Competition: ”Between Motion and Stillness”
Saturday Nov 13, 2021 12:30pm
Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Light Matter Film Festival
Program 1: “Where were we?”
Friday Nov 12, 2021 5:30pm
Alfred, NY
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Shorts 1: “A Glimpse Through is Walking In”
Friday Nov 5, 2021 9:00pm
Athens International Film and Video Festival
”Surface - Shorts 21”
Friday Oct 22, 2021 1:00pm
Antimatter Media Art
”Ruins in Reverse”
Victoria, BC
Thursday Oct 21, 2021 6:00pm
Buffalo International Film Festival
BIFF Shorts: Experimental
Burchfield Penney Art Center
Sunday Oct 10, 2021 12:00pm
Mur Murs Film Series
REDCAT Theater
Los Angeles, CA
Saturday Oct 2, 2021 8:00pm
Bogota Experimental Film Festival
”Rhythms, Vibrations, Natural Movements”
August, 2021 - Online
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
”Shorts: Please Confirm Your Details”
Saturday May 1, 2021, 10:00AM BST
Ultracinema MX
”Reapropiación”
November 13, 2020
Spectral Film Festival
Program 2: Places, Everyone!
November 9-16, 2020
Best of the Chicago Underground Film Festival
Shorts Program # 3 (“Devil’s Gate”)
July 30-Aug 28, 2020
Gimli Film Festival
Shorts 3: ”A Pale Blue Dot”
Manitoba, Canada
July 24, 2020
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
“Notes Towards an Infinite Film Program II: Signal, Skin, Pixel, Camera”
Curated by Laura McGough
June 22- July 25, 2020
Alternative Film Series, Colgate University
The Poetics of Light and Breath in Experimental Film
Curated by Kalpana Subramanian
April 21, 2020
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center
”Punctures: Threading Histories”
Buffalo, NY
Wednesday January 29, 2020 7:00pm
ZINEBI Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films
Bilbao, Spain
November 13, 2019, 1:15pm
Antimatter Media Art
Victoria, BC
October 23, 2019
Buffalo International Film Festival
Burchfield Penney Art Center
Buffalo, NY
October 13, 2019, 1:15pm
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image
Spool Contemporary Art Space
Johnson City, NY
September 30, 2019
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Black Box: “The Politics of Place”
June 22, 2019 & June 26, 2019
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth
”Portal to the Sky”
June 24, 2019
Dartmouth, NH
Aurora Picture Show
”Explore the Unknown”
June 13, 2019, 6:00pm
Houston, TX
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Shorts 4: ”The Treachery of Images”
June 8, 2019 2:00pm
Video Art Festival Turku
Kino Diana
Turku, Finland
May 25, 2019 4:00pm
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
”Brace For Impact”
April 18, 2019 8:15pm
Athens International Film and Video Festival
”The Grand Bizarre”
April 12, 2019 3:15pm
MoMA Doc Fortnight
”The Presence of Place”
New York, NY
February 23, 2019, 4:00pm
Images and Views of Alternative Cinema
”Visual Pleasure and the Female Gaze”
Nicosia, Cyprus
February 20, 2019
Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival
Lausanne, Switzerland
October 17-21, 2018
Swiss Film Archive
Nuit des musées
Lausanne, Switzerland
September 22nd, 2018
McAvoy Foundation for the Arts
"No Time" exhibition
San Francisco, California
September 21, 2018– January 19, 2019
Stranglosocpe International Festival of Experimental Film, Audio, Performance
Florianópolis, Brazil
September 20, 2018
An Ordinary Day Experimental Film Festival
Studio 44 Gallery
Stockholm, Sweden
August 17, 2018
CalArts Presenta
Mexico City
Saturday April 21, 2018
Fovéa Film Festival
Nice, France
Friday April 13, 2018
Edge of Frame Weekend
Close-Up Cinema, London
Sunday March 4, 2018
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
"Spectral Landscapes: Five Films by Laura Kraning"
Buffalo, NY
Thursday February 15, 2018 7:30pm
Les Inattendus
Lyon, France
Saturday February 10, 2018 10:00pm
American Medium
Folds of Existence: Riddles in the Hills
NYC, NY
Friday January 28 2018 8:00pm
First Person Cinema
CU Boulder
Monday December 4, 2017 7:00pm
Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (RISC)
Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Marseille, France
Tuesday November 28 , 2017 8:30pm
Antimatter Media Art
Meridian Plain
Thursday October 26, 2017 9:00pm
BFI LondonFilm Festival
Experimenta Shorts: Surface Tensions
Saturday October 15, 2017 3:45pm
25 FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival
Zagreb, Croatia
Saturday, September 30, 2017, 8:00pm
San Diego Underground Film Festival
August 24, 2017 8:45 (Irradiant Field)
August 27, 2017 6:40 (Meridian Plain)
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
Competition Program No. 1
July 21, 2017 12:30
Hamburg International Short Film Festival
International Competition: Remote Territories
Thu June 8, 2017 10:00
Sat June 10, 2017 7:45
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
PULSE
Friday June 9, 2017, 7:00pm
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Shorts 3: The One With the Whale Carcass
Friday June 2, 2017, 6:30pm
VideoEx Film Festival
International Competition: Dark Places & Other Territories
Sat May 20, 2017 2:00pm
Thu May 25, 2017 2:00pm
Zurich, Switzerland
Kyiv International Short Film Festival
LA LA LAVANTGARDE
Sunday April 22, 2017
NOFEST
Saturday April 8, 8:30pm
Milan, Italy
Athens International Film and Video Festival
"The Wilderness"
Tuesday April 4, 3:00pm
Athens, Ohio
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival
"Mediating The Machine"
Thursday 2 March: 11.15am – 12.15pm
Friday 3 March: 11.00am – 12.00pm
Saturday 4 March: 2.20pm – 3.20pm
Sunday 5 March: 3.55pm – 5pm
Hawick, Scotland
MoMA Doc Fortnight
"The Presence of Place"
Friday February 17, 2017, 6:30pm
Sunday February 19, 2017, 2:00pm
Portland International Film Festival
"Return to Landscape"
Thursday Feb 16, 2017, 8:30pm
NW Film Center, Portland, OR
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Tiger Competition for Short Films 4
Saturday January 28, 2017, 8:00pm
Sunday January 29, 2017, 12:00pm
Cinema Project
"Passages" curated by David Dinnell
November 17, 2016, 7:30pm
Portland, OR
Antimatter Media Art
Friday, October 21, 2016, 7:00pm
Victoria, BC
REDCAT Theater
Laura Kraning: Spectral Landscapes
Monday September 26, 2016, 8:30pm
Los Angeles, CA
Aurora Picture Show
Shedding Light
Wednesday September 7, 2016, 7:30pm
Houston, TX
Iris Film Collective
Beneath the Myth: Recent Films from Los Angeles
Friday August 26, 2016, 7:00pm
Vancouver, BC
UNEXPOSED Microcinema
Gravitational Deflection of Light
Friday August 5 & August 26, 2016, 8:00pm
Durham, NC
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
Disambiguation
Friday July 22, 2016, 9:00pm
Directors Lounge Berlin - Urban Research
Landscapes and Harbors
Thursday June 30, 9:00pm
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Black Box Shorts 2: Earthly Matters
Tuesday June 20, 2016 9:05pm
Thurday June 22, 2016 9:05pm
Poetic Research Bureau
@SEA #8 "CURSES" (Devil's Gate)
Sunday June 5, 2016 1:30pm
951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA
http://www.poeticresearch.com
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Shorts 1: Two of Wands
Thursday June 2, 2016 6:30pm
Athens International Film and Video Festival
New Horizon
Monday April 4, 2016 3:00pm
Athens, Ohio
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Films in Competition 3
Thursday March 17, 2016 7:15pm
Ann Arbor, MI
Art Toronto: Verge Video
October 23-26, 2015
Strange Beauty Film Festival
Saturday October 24, 2015 8:00pm
Durham, North Carolina
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image
Saturday October 17, 2015 8:00pm
Spool Mfg., Johnson City, NY
Antimatter Film Festival
Saturday October 17, 2015 9:00pm
Deluge Contemporary Art
Victoria, BC
Festival du Nouveau Cinema
Programme Lab 2
Saturday October 10, 2015 3:00pm
Thursday October 15, 2015 7:15pm
Montreal, Canada
New York Film Festival
Projections Program #2
Friday, October 2, 4:15pm
Saturday, October 3, 2:00pm
Traverse City Film Festival
Shorts from the Ann Arbor Film Festival
Wednesday July 29, 2015, 9:00pm
Saturday Aug 1, 2015, 3:00pm
Traverse City, MI
Red Barn at UCSB
"Portal Atop a Bus Stop"
Monday July 13, 2015, 3:30pm
Santa Barbara, CA
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Shorts 6: "the great advantage of being alive"
Saturday May 16, 2015, 3:00pm
Logan Theater, Chicago
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Experimental Landscapes
Tuesday April 7, 2015, 9:15pm
Athens, Ohio
REDCAT Theater
Transforming Spaces: New Films From L.A. Filmmakers
March 30, 2015, 8:30pm
Los Angeles, CA
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Films in Competition 6
Saturday March 28, 2015, 1:00pm
Ann Arbor, MI
Encuentros del Otros Cine (EDOC) International Documentary Film Festival
Espacios en Ruptura
May 25 & 28, 2014
Quito, Ecuador
Cinéma du Réel International Documentary Film Festival
Night Has Many Eyes
Centre Pompidou, March 22, 2014
Le Nouveau Latina, March 28, 2014
La Gaîté Lyrique
MOVING_IMAGE #12 - L FOR LIGHT
Wednesday November 6, 2013, 7:30pm
La Gaîté Lyrique Paris, France
Los Angeles Filmforum
Constructions of Los Angeles
Sunday July 14, 2013, 7:30pm
Egyptian Theater, Los Angeles
Sight Unseen
Out There, Over Time
Friday, June 28, 2013, 9:00pm
Current Space, Baltimore, MD
MIA at Armory Center for the Arts
Same Ocean
Friday, February 22, 2013, 8:00pm
Pasadena, CA
Flex Fest
DEVIL'S GATE
Sunday, February 17, 2013, 9:00pm
Gainesville, FL
Berlin International Director's Lounge
Urban Research II: Personal Histories and the City's Future
Monday, February 11, 2013, 7:00pm
Berlin, Germany
Angus-Hughes Gallery
"Urban Observations-Los Angeles"
Friday, January 11, 2013, 7:00pm
London
Pleasure Dome
"Ready for Extinction 21.12.2012" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Friday, December 21, 2012, 7:00pm
Toronto, Canada
Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires
"Transient Control" (VINELAND)
Thursday, November 29, 2012, 7:00pm
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Other Cinema
"Desert Rats" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Saturday, November 17, 2012, 8:30pm
San Francisco, California
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
"ÉSOTÉRIQUE" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Thursday, October 11, 2012, 3:30pm
Monday, October 15, 2012, 7:00pm
Montréal, Canada
Gallery 400
"In Which Appear" (VINELAND)
Wednesday September 26, 2012, 7:00pm
University of Illinois, Chicago
Uplink Factory
+ America 2012 (VINELAND)
"a transition, a new phase” curated by Tomonari Nishikawa
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Tokyo, Japan
Rencontres Internationales (Berlin)
"Proliferation" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Thursday July 5, 2012, 3:00pm
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
Sheffield Fringe Festival
"Urban Observations-Los Angeles" curated by Adam Hyman
Friday, June 15, 2012, 3:00pm
The Void Cinema
San Francisco International Film Festival
Made in USA (DEVIL'S GATE)
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 6:45 pm
Tuesday, May 1, 2012, 3:30 pm
San Francisco Film Society Cinema
Big Muddy Film Festival
Experimental #2 (DEVIL'S GATE)
Saturday, February 25, 5:00pm
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
"Virgin Springs" curated by Mark McElhatten
Saturday, February 4, 2:00pm
Maysles Cinema
"The Experiment: Season Two Finale – Laura Kraning and Fern Silva"
Saturday, December 10, 7:30PM
343 Malcolm X Boulevard, NYC
Rencontres Internationales (Paris)
"Proliferation" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Thursday, November 24, 2:00PM
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
DEVIL'S GATE
Saturday, October 15, 2011 9:00pm (Malco 2)
Monday, October 17, 2011 9:15 pm (Malco 1)
Antimatter Film Festival
DEVIL'S GATE
Sunday, October 16, 2011 9:00pm
Victoria BC, Canada
Open Space Arts Centre
New York Film Festival: Views From the Avant-Garde
"Virgin Springs" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Sunday, October 9, 2011 1:00pm
Monday, October 10, 2011 5:00pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater
Rencontres Internationales (Berlin)
"Dark Light" (VINELAND)
Wednesday June 29, 2011 10:00pm
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Saturday June 4, 2011 1:00pm (DEVIL'S GATE)
Gene Siskel Film Center
Rencontres Internationales (Madrid)
"Dark Light" (VINELAND)
Thursday May 26, 2011 6:00pm
Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid
Crossroads at San Francisco Cinematheque
"Program 8: Playback" (VINELAND)
Sunday May 15, 2011 2:30pm
Victoria Theater
Union Docs
"Near and Dear" (VINELAND)
Saturday May 7, 2011 7:30pm
Brooklyn, NY
Athens International Film and Video Festival
"Experimental Landscapes" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Tuesday April 26, 2011 4:30pm
Athena Cinema
Visions du Réel International Film Festival
Tuesday April 12, 2011 2:00pm (DEVIL'S GATE)
Salle Communale
Nyon, Switzerland
Wednesday April 13, 2011 10:00pm
Capitole 2 Fellini
Nyon, Switzerland
Wisconsin Film Festival
"The Secret Sharer" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Friday April 1, 2011 6:15pm
UW Cinematheque
Madison, Wisconsin
"The Future Past" (VINELAND)
Thursday March 31, 2011 6:00pm
UW Cinematheque
Madison, Wisconsin
49th Ann Arbor Film Festival
"A Vessel Redreamt" (DEVIL'S GATE)
Saturday March 26, 2011 9:30pm
Michigan Theater (Main Theater)
CinemaSpace, Segal Centre
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (VINELAND)
February 26, 2011, 7:30pm
Montréal, Canada
Beirut Art Center
"EXPECTING THE IMAGES, Part 1: Fragments" (VINELAND)
Wednesday February 16, 8pm
Beirut, Lebanon
Los Angeles Filmforum
"New Urban Observations" (VINELAND)
Sunday, February 13, 2011, 7:30pm
Los Angeles, CA
Millenium Film Workshop
"Migration/Dislocations," celebration of Millennium Film Journal No. 53 (VINELAND)
Saturday, February 12, 2011, 8:00pm
New York, NY
Union Theater
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (VINELAND)
February 2, 2011
Milwaukee, WI
Space Gallery
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (VINELAND)
January 26, 2011
Portland, ME
NW Film Center
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (VINELAND)
December 29-30, 2010
Portland, OR
Rencontres Internationales (Paris)
"Dark Light" (VINELAND)
Friday, December 3, 2:00PM
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
The Ann Arbor Film Festival Experimental Export edition (VINELAND)
Saturday, November 13th, 8:00PM
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (VINELAND)
October 2-5, 2010
Grand Rapids, MI
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (VINELAND)
October 13, 2010, 7:00pm
Antimatter Film Festival
"Losing Ground" (VINELAND)
Sunday October 10, 2010, 9:00pm
Victoria BC, Canada
Open Space Arts Centre
Gallery 400
"The Transformation Show" (curated by Ben Russell) (VINELAND)
Tuesday October 5, 2010, 7:00pm
University of Illinois, Chicago
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (VINELAND)
October 2-5, 2010
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (VINELAND)
September 24, 2010, 7:00pm
Edinburgh International Film Festival
"Time Travel" (VINELAND)
Saturday, June 26, 2010, 4:00pm
Filmhouse 3
Chicago Underground Film Festival
"Night Watching" (VINELAND)
Sunday, June 27, 2010, 1:15pm
Gene Siskel Film Center
Athens International Film and Video Festival
"Landscapes Lost and Found" (VINELAND)
Tuesday, April 27, 2010, 7:45pm
Athena Cinema
48th Ann Arbor Film Festival
"Everybody Knows This Is Now Here" (VINELAND)
Sunday March 28, 2010, 3:00pm
Michigan Theater (Main Theater)
La Casa Encendida
"Los Ángeles Confidencial" (curated by Thom Andersen) (VINELAND)
February 24, 2009, 8:00pm
Ronda Valencia, 2 28012 Madrid
47th New York Film Festival: Views From the Avant-Garde
Program 7 (VINELAND)
Sunday October 4, 2009, 12:30pm
Film Society of Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater