Neil Kendricks, Writer-Director-Cinematographer-Producer
Neil Kendricks is a filmmaker, artist, photographer, writer, educator and the Film Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD). Kendricks earned a Master’s degree in Television, Film and New Media from San Diego State University in 2006. His award-winning short films like 2002’s Loop have screened at numerous international film festivals including the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, the 2002 Havana Film Festival, and a special short-film screening at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s American Pavilion.
Kendricks’ photography has also been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art, the African-American Museum of Fine Arts, London’s Royal College of Art, and many other venues. His first solo photography exhibition, Bruised Eye Candy was shown at San Diego’s now-defunct Spacecraft gallery in February 2008. Kendricks also produced, production designed and storyboarded media theorist Jordan Crandall’s film, Heatseeking, which was shown at inSITE 2000 and exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s BitStream exhibition, the first digital-arts exhibition shown at a major American art museum.
Kendricks’ 2008 short, Beholder (co-directed with artist Jim Cavolt) screened at the 2009 San Diego Latino Film Festival and the Athens International Film & Video Festival. Kendricks is currently in production on the documentary-in-progressComics Are Everywhere! and he was among the curators of 2014’s inaugural Filmatic Festival. An early version of Kendricks’ new, experimental short film Memory Lines was originally commissioned as an outdoor video installation for the 2015 Filmatic Festival at the University of California, San Diego. In 2015, Kendricks collaborated with filmmaker and editor Carlos Pelayo on the experimental videoWounded Sky, which premiered as a video installation at San Diego’s Not an Exit gallery. Their collaboration was featured in San Diego CityBeat:
Suspension is a short film in Kendricks’ ongoing collaboration with Pelayo on a series of video-artworks titled Elemental Magic.