James N. Kienitz Wilkins
b. 1983, Boston, MA
Lives and works in New York City
Assistant Professor of Screen Studies at Eugene Lang, The New School
Exhibitions
2024: The High Line Channel: Bedtime Stories (group show), NY, NY
2023: Tromsø International Film Festival: Counterimaginaries (group show), Tromsø, Norway
2022: Add Space (solo billboard exhibition), Tulsa, OK
2020: Fabra i Coats: Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona: Things Things Say (group show), Barcelona, Spain
2020: Canopy: Roundabout (group show), Malmö, Sweden
2020: Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD): Constructions of Truth (group show), Manila, Philippines
2019: Kunsthalle Winterthur: Double Feature (solo show), Winterthur, Switzerland
2019: Spike Island: This Action Lies (solo show), Bristol, UK
2018: Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève: Biennale of Moving Images (group show), Switzerland
2018: Gasworks: Hearsays (solo show), London, UK
2018: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart: Gemini (group show), Stuttgart, Germany
2017: Whitney Museum of American Art: Whitney Biennial (group show), New York, NY
2016: Fotomuseum Winterthur: SITUATIONS/Filter (group show), Winterthur, Switzerland
2016: The Luminary: Document V (group show with ACRE TV), St. Louis, MO
2015: ACRE TV: Direct Object/Direct Action (group show), Chicago, IL
2013: MoMA PS1: EXPO 1: NEW YORK (group show), Queens, NY
Screenings
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Articles, Interviews & Reviews (selected)
2024: Ryan Swen, ““Everything Becomes Fair Game”: James Kienitz Wilkins Discusses What Is Documentary,” Documentary Magazine
2024: Cosmo Bjorkenheim, “Public Hearing,” Screen Slate online
2024: Gabriel Abrantes, “Interview: James N. Kienitz Wilkins,” Metrograph Journal
2023: “The best video essays of 2023,” British Film Institute online
2023: Vadim Rizov, “The 29 Features Shot, In Whole or In Part, on 35mm in U.S. Release Year 2023,” Filmmaker Magazine
2023: Genevieve Yue, “Film, Still,” In Media Res Journal
2023: Robert Daniels, “Critic’s Pick: ‘Still Film’ Review: Hollywood on Trial,”The New York Times
2023: Giuseppe Di Salvatore, “JAMES N. KIENITZ WILKINS | STILL FILM,” Filmexplorer
2023: Geofrrey Macnab, “VdR Burning Lights Comp: Still Film by James N. Kienitz Wilkins," Business Doc Europe
2023: Sierra Pettengill, “Still Film,” Screen Slate online
2020: Chloe Lizotte, “The Quibi Anti-Phenomenon and the Narrative Underground,” Reverse Shot online
2019: “James N. Kienitz Wilkins by Mary Helena Clark,” BOMB Magazine 149
2019: Chris Fite-Wassilak, “The Age of the Monologue,” ArtReview Sept 19
2019: Glenn Kenny, “Critic’s Pick: ‘The Plagiarists’ Review: A Sharp Satire Built on Social Discomfort,” The New York Times
2019: Dan Sullivan, “You Can’t Own an Idea: The Films of James N. Kienitz Wilkins,” Cinema Scope 78
2019: Carson Lund, “Review: The Plagiarists Upends Indie Tropes, and Itself, in Form-Busting Fashion,” Slant
2019: Vadim Rizov, “‘You Run the Risk of Becoming a Brand’: Co-Writer/Co-Producer/DP/Editor James N. Kienitz Wilkins and Co-Producer Paul Dallas on Berlinale 2019 ‘Fake Indie’ The Plagiarists ,” Filmmaker Magazine
2018: Jaclyn Bruneau, “Artefact: Mediums ,” C Magazine 140
2018: Chris Fite-Wassilak, “James N. Kienitz Wilkins: Hearsays,” Camera Austria 144
2018: Rebecca Sykes, “Hearsays: Review,” Photomonitor
2018: Eliel Jones, “Critics’ Picks: London,” ARTFORUM online
2017: Jesse Cumming, “Civic Duty: Close-Up on James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ Public Hearing ,” MUBI Notebook
2017: Michael Sicinski, “E uno plura: Close-Up on James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ The Republic ,” MUBI Notebook
2017: Bradley Warren, “Common Carrier is a Demanding Experimental Pleasure,” The Playlist
2017: Nick Pinkerton, “American Landscape,” Frieze.com
2017: Paul Dallas, “Interventions: An Interview with James N. Kienitz Wilkins,” Brooklyn Magazine
2016: Dan Sullivan, “NYFF Interview: James N. Kienitz Wilkins,” Film Comment online
2016: Whitney Mallett, “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” Filmmaker Magazine
2016: Herb Shellenberger, “In Conversation,” The Brooklyn Rail
2015: Michael Guarneri, “James N. Kienitz Wilkins,” BOMB Daily
Grants, Awards, Fellowships, Residencies, Talks, etc.
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