nonfiction filmmaker I photographer
Past Screenings:
2021, Athens International Film Festival, What You Left Behind, Documentary Short
2021, Big Muddy Film Festival, What You Left Behind, Documentary Short
2021, Bridge Works 06 Allen Priebe Gallery, Oldest American Beech Tree in Milwaukee, Experimental Short
2020, Chicago Underground Film Festival, What You Left Behind, Documentary Short
2020, Milwaukee Film Festival, What You Left Behind, Documentary Short
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
Jayce Kolinski
Nonfiction Filmmaker
Jayce Kolinski is a Milwaukee-raised and based nonfiction filmmaker and photographer. Their work explores our connection to the spaces around our everyday life through diaristic documentaries. The films take on a hybrid form that wanders between personal, cultural, and environmental investigations and stories of landscapes and places. Rooted in personal experience, their films reflect on the hand of the maker and authority of documentary as it relates to truth. Most of their work explores topics relating to the natural world and our knowledge of it. These works are intertwined by a collage of analog and digital video formats that explore alternative processes to image-making. The final form for these images comes in short and feature-length films that are distributed primarily through live outdoor screenings that showcase the film in the setting it was created.
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. After college, they created an outdoor screening series about the history of conservation along the Milwaukee River. This outdoor screening series has collaborated with numerous nonprofit organizations to host events that highlight their first feature films that explore the rich history and biological diversity of the Milwaukee Greenway. Their films have been exhibited at venues and festivals such as the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, the Milwaukee Film Festival, and the Chicago Underground Film Festival.