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    Movies & Stuff

  • Still Film (72 min / 2023)
  • Best Year Ever (14 min / 2020)
  • The Plagiarists (76 min / 2019)
    • Distributed by KimStim (North America)
  • This Action Lies (32 min / 2018)
    • Exhibition version
  • The Dynamic Range (18 min / 2018)
    • About planetarium version | About VR version | Watch 360 version
  • Mediums (38 min / 2017)
  • The Republic (215 min / 2017)
    • Watch movie here | Read illustrated screenplay here
  • Common Carrier (78 min / 2017)
  • Indefinite Pitch (23 min / 2016)
  • Occupations (11 min / 2015)
  • “Andre” trilogy (61 min)
    • B-ROLL with Andre (19 min / 2015)
    • TESTER (30 min / 2015)
    • Special Features (12 min / 2014)
      • Watch movie here
  • Public Hearing (110 min / 2012)
    • Watch movie here

  • Stuff

  • Real Property (15 min / 2022)
  • Add Space billboards (2022)
  • Dart 14J16 Flush Fill Cup with 16RCL Lid (2020)
  • Gobo Study (2020)
  • Gobo Cave (2019)
  • 35mm film canisters lying on plinth (2019)
  • The Second Person (2018)
  • Public Hearing in Progress (2015)


    Screenings & Shows

  • Still Film world premiere @ MoMA: Documentary Fortnight NY, NY (Mar 6 & 7) - Screen Slate, CriterionCast
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins / Andrew Norman Wilson Program in Triple Canopy's "True to Life" series @ BAM, Brooklyn, NY (Feb 17)
  • Special Features in Tromsø Kunstforening: "Counterimaginaries" exhibition during Tromsø International Film Festival, Norway (Jan 20 - Mar 12)
  • The Plagiarists in "Beyond Interpretation" @ ICA, London (Jan 19)
    2022
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  • Public Hearing @ Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY (Oct 18)
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins in Artistic Differences: It Has To Feel Real @ Open City Documentary Festival, London (Sep 9)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ Cinema Parallels, Banja Luka, Bosnia (Jul 7-9)
  • Real Property in Open City Documentary Festival: Non-Fiction Journal, Issue 4: Peculiar Forms (Jun 2022)
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins exhibition: Add Space, Tulsa, OK (May 2 - 29)
  • Public Hearing @ Lumiere Cinema Theatre in conjunction with Chewing Fat exhibition at Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Feb 3)
  • Best Year Ever in This Radiant World: Recent and Retrospective Experimental Films @ Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, IL (Jan 28)
    2021
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  • The Plagiarists & Indefinite Pitch @ Outsiders – American Independent Cinema, Portugal (Dec 8)
  • Best Year Ever @ Linea d'Ombria Festival : LineaDoc, Salerno, Italy (Oct 23 - 30)
  • This Action Lies @ Museum of Moving Image, Astoria, Queens (Oct 22)
  • Best Year Ever @ Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium (Oct 21)
  • Best Year Ever @ Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Oct 2 - 10)
  • Sunset Kino: Films by James N. Kienitz Wilkins @ Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria (Jul 21)
  • The Plagiarists @ Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (Jun 10 - 17)
  • Best Year Ever @ Documenta Madrid, Spain (May 26 - Jun 6)
  • Best Year Ever @ CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark (Apr 25 - May 5)
  • Best Year Ever premieres in Expanding the Frame @ Walker Art Center: Virtual Cinema, online (Feb 16 - Mar 2) w/ conversation (Feb 12, 7p CST/8p EST)
    2020
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  • This Action Lies in “Things Things Say” group show @ Fabra i Coats: Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain (Oct 17 - Jan 17)
  • “Andre” trilogy in “Roundabout” group show @ Canopy, Malmö, Sweden (Oct 30 - Nov 9)
  • This Action Lies with Hollis Frampton's Surface Tension @ Walker Art Center: Virtual Cinema, online (Oct 13 - 26)
  • Special Features with Brian Springer's SPIN @ Rockaway Film Festival, online (Oct 23)
  • This Action Lies @ La Plata International Independent Film Festival - FestiFreak, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Oct 13 - 15)
  • Common Carrier @ Screen Slate: Stream Slate live on Twitch (Aug 20)
  • Indefinite Pitch in We Are One: A Global Film Festival via New York Film Festival, online (Jun 4)
  • This Action Lies in “Constructions of Truth” group show @ MCAD, Manila (Feb 6 - Apr 12)
  • B-ROLL with Andre online @ Le Cinéma Club (Mar 27 - Apr 2)
  • The Plagiarists exclusive online premiere @ MUBI (Feb 13 - Mar 13)
  • This Action Lies as part of Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement @ La Casa Encendida, Madrid (Mar 1)
  • The Plagiarists @ TIFF Bell Lightbox: Wavelengths, Toronto (Jan 23)
    2019
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  • This Action Lies as part of Palazzo Grassi presents la Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement (Dec 12)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ New Orleans Museum of Art (Dec 7)
  • Special Features @ Spectacle Theater (Dec 2)
  • The Plagiarists with This Action Lies @ Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (Nov 28)
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins solo show: “Double Feature” @ Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland (Sep 22 - Nov 17)
  • This Action Lies @ Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) (Nov 16 & 17)
  • The Plagiarists @ American Film Festival, Poland (Nov 9 & 11)
  • Person in Focus: James N. Kienitz Wilkins @ Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Nov 5 - 10)
  • The Plagiarists @ Viennale (Oct 26 & 27)
  • This Action Lies @ Doclisboa (Oct 23 & 27)
  • The Plagiarists @ Milwaukee Film Festival (Oct 19 & 25)
  • This Action Lies @ New York Film Festival: Projections (Oct 6)
  • The Plagiarists @ Tacoma Film Festival (Oct 5) - WINNER: BEST NARRATIVE DIRECTOR & BEST NARRATIVE SCREENPLAY
  • This Action Lies @ Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Spain (Oct 3)
  • This Action Lies @ Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths (Sept 9) - Cinema Scope, MUBI, Filmmaker Magazine, Reverse Shot
  • The Dynamic Range @ Camden International Film Festival: Storyforms (Sept 12 - 15)
  • The Plagiarists @ La Plata International Independent Film Festival - FestiFreak, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Sep 8 & 13)
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins solo show: “This Action Lies” @ Spike Island, Bristol, UK (Jul 6 - Sep 8) - ArtReview, Photomonitor
  • The Plagiarists @ Laemmle Fine Arts co-presented by Acropolis Cinema, Los Angeles (Aug 30 - Sep 2, theatrical) - Los Angeles Times
  • “Andre” trilogy @ Spike Island, Bristol, UK (Aug 29)
  • The Plagiarists @ Oklahoma Museum of Art (Aug 15)
  • The Plagiarists special presentation @ BAM, Brooklyn (Aug 6)
  • The Plagiarists @ Time & Space Limited, Hudson, NY (Aug 3 & 4)
  • The Plagiarists @ Facets, Chicago (Jul 12 - 18, theatrical)
  • The Plagiarists @ Film at Lincoln Center, NYC (Jun 28 - Jul 11 [held over], theatrical) - New York Times, Film Comment, The Film Stage, Slant, Man Repeller, New York Post, Polygon, No Film School
  • The Plagiarists @ Ragtag Cinema, Columbia, MO (Jun 12)
  • The Plagiarists @ Chicago Underground Film Festival (Jun 8) - WINNER: WILLIAM GREAVES AWARD - Film Threat
  • Occupations, Mediums & Indefinite Pitch @ SPACE, Portland, ME (Jun 2) - MaineToday
  • Public Hearing @ SPACE, Portland, ME (Jun 2) - Boston Globe
  • “Andre” trilogy @ SPACE, Portland, ME (May 19)
  • Common Carrier @ SPACE, Portland, ME (May 7)
  • Common Carrier @ ICDOCS, Iowa City (Apr 19)
  • The Plagiarists @ Sarasota Film Festival (Apr 12 & 13) - WINNER: TERRY PORTER VISIONARY AWARD
  • The Dynamic Range (VR version) @ Courtisane Festival, Ghent, Belgium (Apr 6) - Critikat
  • The Plagiarists @ New Directors/New Films (Mar 28 & 29) - Screen Slate, CriterionCast, Slant, Vox
  • TESTER @ Flaherty NYC (Mar 26)
  • Common Carrier @ the Renaissance Society, Chicago (Mar 15)
  • The Dynamic Range planetarium version @ Cosmic Rays Festival, Chapel Hill, NC (Feb 28)
  • The Plagiarists (world premiere) @ Berlin International Film Festival: Forum (Feb 9 -17) - Indiewire, Hollywood Reporter, The Film Stage, Variety, Cinevue, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI, Criterion, Film Comment
  • This Action Lies @ International Film Festival Rotterdam (Jan 26 & 28) - Frieze, Film Comment
    2018
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  • This Action Lies in Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2018, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (Nov 8 - Feb 3) - Art-agenda, Frieze, Filmexplorer, Mousse Magazine
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins solo show: “Hearsays” @ Gasworks, London (Sep 20 - Dec 18) - ARTFORUM, Photomonitor, Camera Austria
  • Mediums w/ Kodak @ UnionDocs, Brooklyn (Dec 2) - C Magazine
  • This Action Lies & Mediums @ Tate Modern, London (Nov 14)
  • “Andre” trilogy @ Goldsmiths University, London (Nov 13)
  • Special Features in Gemini, Stuttgart, Germany (Nov 16 - Dec 8) - Read Gemini Journal
  • Mediums @ Curtocircuíto International Film Festival, Spain (Oct 3)
  • Public Hearing in Les Rencontres du Cinéma Documentaire - Périphérie, Pompidou Centre, Paris (Sep 24)
  • Common Carrier @ Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, Wisconsin (Aug 30)
  • The Dynamic Range in The Optics of Space, Finnish Cultural Institute in New York's MOBIUS Fellowship Program & PUBLICS @ Heureka Science Center, Vantaa, Finland (Aug 18 & 19)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Channel Silver Eye @ Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh (Jul 19)
  • Common Carrier @ Chicago Underground Film Festival (Jun 9)
  • “Andre” trilogy @ Downtown Independent co-presented by Acropolis Cinema & Los Angeles Filmforum (Apr 29)
  • Mediums @ Images Festival (Apr 13) - POV Magazine
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Punto de Vista (Mar 5 & 6)
  • Common Carrier @ UnionDocs (Feb 22)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Feb 9 - 20)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ transmediale: face value (Feb 1)
  • The Republic LIVE @ ACRE TV (Jan 1 - 31)
    2017
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  • Indefinite Pitch @ Kassel Dokfest (Nov 18)
  • Retrospective: James N. Kienitz Wilkins @ Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) & VISIONS (Nov 12 - 14) - Filmmaker Magazine
  • Common Carrier @ Indie Memphis Film Festival (Nov 4) - WINNER: DEPARTURES FEATURE AWARD - Filmmaker Magazine
  • B-ROLL with Andre with Chameleon Street (1989) @ BAM (Oct 20)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Curtocircuíto International Film Festival (Oct 4) - HONORABLE MENTION: CAMIRA JURY AWARD
  • Mediums installed @ Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (Sept 21 - 24)
  • Common Carrier @ Camden International Film Festival (Sept 16)
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins @ Doc's Kingdom (Sept 3 - 8)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland (Aug 25)
  • Public Hearing screens on MUBI (Jul 11 - Aug 10) - MUBI Notebook
  • The Republic premieres on MUBI (Jul 4 - Aug 3) - CriterionCast, MUBI Notebook, The Cinephiliacs
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ Transatlantyk Festival (Jul 15)
  • B-ROLL with Andre on Vdrome (Jun 23 - Jul 6)
  • Common Carrier @ BAMcinemaFest (Jun 20) - MUBI Notebook, Brooklyn Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Slant, Hyperallergic, The Playlist
  • Indefinite Pitch streams free @ warehouse (Jun 6 - 20)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ CUFF (Jun 3) - WINNER: JURY AWARD
  • Indefinite Pitch @ e-flux (May 17)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Locarno in Los Angeles (Apr 25)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Columbus International Film & Video Festival (Apr 19 - 23)
  • James N. Kienitz Wilkins in the Whitney Biennial film program (Apr 1 & 2) - Frieze, Brooklyn Magazine, The Paris Review
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Courtisane Festival (Mar 30)
  • “Andre” trilogy @ Plastik Festival of Artists' Moving Image, Dublin, Ireland (Mar 26)
  • Common Carrier world premiere in NEW:VISION Competition @ CPH:DOX (Mar 22 & 26) - Little White Lies
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Portland International Film Festival (Feb 21)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Rotterdam International Film Festival (Jan 27 & 28) - IDA
    2016
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  • Special Features & B-ROLL with Andre @ November Film Festival (Nov 17 & 19)
  • “Andre” trilogy in BLACKOUT/FLASHBACK w/Tony Cokes @ Magic Lantern Cinema (Nov 17)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) (Nov 12 & 13)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Nov 9)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Artists' Moving Image Northern Ireland (AMNI) (Nov 3)
  • “Andre” trilogy @ Nightingale Cinema (Oct 23)
  • “Andre” trilogy & Occupations @ Microlights (Oct 20)
  • Indefinite Pitch on MUBI x Projections (Oct 18 - Nov 18) - select regions
  • Indefinite Pitch @ FICValdivia (Oct 10 - 16)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ Festival International du Film de La Roche-Sur-Yon (Oct 10 - 16)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Vancouver International Film Festival (Oct 8 & 13)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ New York Film Festival: Projections (Oct 8 & 9) - KAZUKO TRUST AWARD - New York Times, Film Comment, ARTFORUM, Brooklyn Magazine
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ Curtocircuíto International Film Festival (Oct 3) - WINNER: BEST EXPLORA SHORT FILM
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ 25 FPS Festival (Sept 29 - Oct 2)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Camden International Film Festival (Sept 18)
  • B-ROLL with Andre in SITUATIONS @ Fotomuseum Winterthur (Sept 17 - Nov 27)
  • Indefinite Pitch @ Toronto International Film Festival: Wavelengths) (Sept 12) - ARTFORUM, Brooklyn Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, MUBI
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ Pančevo Film Festival (Sept 7 - 11)
  • Indefinite Pitch world premiere @ Locarno International Film Festival (Aug)
  • Special Features & B-ROLL with Andre @ Jerwood Space, Jerwood Staging Series (Jul 9)
  • Occupations @ NARS Foundation, Fake It 'Til You Make It group show (Jun 21)
  • Public Hearing @ Screen and Audiovisual Research Unit, Goldsmiths University: Place is the Space (Jun 7)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ Chicago Underground Film Festival (Jun 4)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ N3 Television Space, University of Witten: Opacity (May)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ IndieLisboa (Apr 22, 27)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ European Media Art Festival (EMAF) (Apr 22)
  • B-ROLL with Andre @ LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International: Art Award (Mar 29 - Apr 3) - WINNER: LICHTER ART AWARD
  • Public Hearing in Progress via ACRE TV in Document V @ The Luminary Arts (Mar 25 - May 20)
  • Special Features & ERASERHEAD on 35mm @ WORM (Mar 23)
  • Four movies by James N. Kienitz Wilkins @ Migrating Forms, BAMcinématek (Mar 10) - ARTFORUM, Art in America, Film Comment, Brooklyn Rail
  • B-ROLL with Andre word premiere in Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films @ International Film Festival Rotterdam
    2015
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  • Special Features @ Kassel Dokfest (Nov 13)
  • Special Features in Method Acting and Documentary @ UnionDocs (Oct 18)
  • Special Features @ 25 FPS Festival - WINNER: GRAND PRIX (Spet 26)
  • Special Features @ Message to Man IFF (Sept 29 - Oct 1)
  • Special Features @ 53rd New York Film Festival - New York Shorts (Sept 27, 28)
  • Special Features @ Media City Film Festival (Aug 1)
  • Special Features @ Edinburgh IFF (Jun 22, 26)
  • Special Features @ Chicago Underground Film Festival (May 14) - WINNER: INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE AWARD
  • Special Features @ 53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival (Mar) - WINNER: FOUNDER'S SPIRIT AWARD & selected for 2015-16 Tour Program
  • Public Hearing in Progress on ACRE TV: Direct Object/Direct Action (Feb 1 - Mar 31)
  • Public Hearing @ A4 ZERO SPACE, Slovakia (Jan 7)
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