Casey Carter

CASEY CARTER is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary designer whose work engages nonfiction storytelling in film, photography, data visualization, and cartography. Working through a mixture of portraiture, real and imagined spaces and landscapes, and evidentiary documents and media, his work centers on themes of governmentality, geography, and environmentalism. He is a 2021 NYSCA/NYFA Film/Video Artist Fellow, was a 2019 Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program Grantee, a recipient of the 2019 Points North Fellowship, and a 2017-2018 UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Fellow. His short documentary TWO PRISONS was published by Popula as the inaugural film of The Brick House Cooperative, a new transnational free press publication, and screened at festivals including Salem, Ashland Independent, SF Shorts, as well as with Hong Kong activist groups as part of the 2019 pro-democracy uprising. His short documentary RIGHTS OF NATURE was exhibited at the New Museum, and his photographs have been published and exhibited in the US, Ecuador, and China. He currently works as the research director and project coordinator for the What Is Missing? Foundation – a global multimedia memorial to the ongoing sixth mass extinction by Artist and Architect Maya Lin. He holds a B.S. in Physics and B.S. in Photography from Middle Tennessee State University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Michigan. He is the director, cinematographer, and editor for his first feature, TO USE A MOUNTAIN.