Independent Filmmaker Project Minnesota recently announced that Rini Keagy, who taught at Carleton for two years as a visiting professor of Cinema & Media Studies, has been selected to receive a 2017 McKnight Fellowship for Media Artists. The fellowship supports mid-career artists residing in Minnesota whose work is of exceptional artistic merit.
Rini Yun Keagy is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist based in the Twin Cities. Her moving image practice in video and 16mm film is multimodal and research-based. Drawn to philosophical questions, Rini investigates race and labor, disease, and sites of historical and psychological trauma. Her films are crossovers between cinema and art, fiction and documentary, narrative and non-narrative, abstraction and representation. Rini received her MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and has taught filmmaking at University of California Santa Cruz, University of the Arts, and Carleton College. Screenings and exhibitions of her work include: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Film Festival, Cellular Cinema, Flaten Art Museum, Minneapolis; REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles; Souvenirs from Earth International TV Project, Cologne; Light Industry, Brooklyn; Raum für Projektion, Bergen, Olso, Buenos Aires; Mind TV/Media Independence, Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Wits School of the Arts, Johannesburg; Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille; Berlinale Talent Campus Editing Studio, Berlin.