Jayce Kolinski
Nonfiction Filmmaker
Jayce Kolinski is a Milwaukee-raised and based nonfiction filmmaker and photographer. Their work explores our connection to space by compiling and weaving the personal, cultural, and environmental significance of a place into a purposeful document. These documents are intertwined by a collage of analog video, 16mm film, analog photography, and digital video that take on the final form of single-channel films, installations, photographic sequences, and live performance presentations.
Their most current work, Daydreams from Yesterday, explores the iconic Milwaukee Greenway through an anthology of interviews and images illustrating the past visions of its’ founders while presenting the present voices working to conserve and restore this communal treasure. This film will be shown live at outdoor venues in and around the Milwaukee Park System in Fall 2020 and Spring of 2021.
They received a BFA in Film from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts in 2020 during which they founded Milwaukee Nonfiction. Since its founding, Milwaukee Nonfiction has hosted numerous screenings and workshops facilitated to empower local documentary makers. Their films have been exhibited at venues and festivals such as the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, the Milwaukee Film Festival, and the Walkers Point Center for the Arts. They were the recipient for the 2020 Grilled Cheese Grant, and the 2017 Lubar Scholars in Film Scholarship.
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Screenings:
2020, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, What You Left Behind, Documentary Short
2020, Var Galleries - Bridgeworks 06 Exhibition, Daydreams of Yesterday, Installation and Performance
2020, Freeland Film Festival, “Where the Shrubs Grow” Documentary Short
2020, Scene Seen showcase “Nothing Apolitical”, Life Indoors, Documentary Short
2020, Empyrean (solo exhibition), "What You Left Behind", Documentary Short and Performance
2020, SEFF Binghamton Student Experimental Film Festival, "What You Left Behind", Documentary
2020, SEFF Binghamton Student Experimental Film Festival, “Life Indoors” Documentary
2020, Grilled Cheese Grant Finalist Exhibition, What You Left Behind, Installation
2019, FVANG Halloween Student Showcase, “Where the Shrubs Grow” Documentary Short
2019, Almost Nonfiction Showcase, “City People” Experimental Documentary Short
2019, SEFF Binghamton Student Experimental Film Festival, “Sunrise to Sunset” Stop Motion Animation
2019, 76th Annual Student Film and Video Festival, “Sunrise to Sunset” Stop Motion Animation
2019, 76th Annual Student Film and Video Festival, “Clayboi Playboi” Narrative Short
2019, 76th Annual Student Film and Video Festival, “Threads” Narrative Short
2019, 10th Annual Zen Film Festival, “Where the Shrubs Grow” Documentary Short
2019, 10th Annual Zen Film Festival, “Energy Camp” Experimental Narrative
2019, 10th Annual Zen Film Festival, “The Faint Sound of Water” Observation Documentary Short
2019, 10th Annual Zen Film Festival, Clayboi Playboi Narrative Short
2019, Noisemaker Animation Exhibition, “Sunrise to Sunset” Stop Motion Animation Short
2018, 75th Annual Student Film and Video Festival, “City People” Experimental Documentary Short
2018, Community Frames at Walkers Point Center for the Arts, “Perpetual Thinking”, Performance
2017, Milwaukee Short Film Festival, “In the Magical Forest fo Wonder” Pseudo-Documentary
2017, SEFF Binghamton Student Experimental Film Festival, “In the Magical Forest of Wonder”
2017, SEFF Binghamton Student Experimental Film Festival, “Happy Saturday” Nonfiction Short
2017, 73rd Annual Student Film and Video Festival, “Suburbia” Experimental Narrative on 16mm Film
2017, 73rd Annual Student Film and Video Festival, “Happy Saturday” Nonfiction Short
Freelance Experience
Director I Camera Operator
Gear Kit:
- Sony FS7 + Sony A7S II
- Lens (28-70, 70-200, 15, 24, 50, 85)
Recent Clients:
- 371 Productions
- Special Olympics of Wisconsin
- Walkers Point Center for the Arts
- Johnson and Johnson Creative Co.
- Sikora Film Co.
- Badger Boys State