Nicole Otero

History

Nicole Otero is a writer, director and editor. Her directorial debut, Slip, screened in the shorts program at the 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival. In 2016, Nicole shot and edited an experimental documentary on artist Noah Davis. Untitled: In Process was exhibited at the Frye Museum in Seattle and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Nicole was also 2nd Unit Director for the Emmy and Grammy nominated album film, Beyonce’s Lemonade, Kenzo’s Music is My Mistress, and Sampha’s album film, Process. She has also edited several works for major museum exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the New Museum in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and more.

Movies

The African Desperate
The African Desperate
Editor
It’s MFA grad Palace Bryant’s final 24 hours in art school, and she is not going to the graduation party! She needs to get back home to Chicago from Upstate New York, but that means surviving a hazy, hilarious, and hallucinatory odyssey, stumbling from academic critiques to backseat hookups.
When There Was Water
When There Was Water
Director
After a long separation, Ida’s encounter with her mother creates an unexpected sensation in her body. She begins resisting the forceful lens of her daily life, cutting off the outside world, as she tries to recreate the image of her mother in her mind and body.
Who Will Start Another Fire
Who Will Start Another Fire
Director
An omnibus film featuring nine works by emerging filmmakers of color, Who Will Start Another Fire is the inaugural project of Dedza Films, a distribution initiative focused on showcasing underrepresented communities and the next wave of international storytellers.
She Mad: Bitch Zone
She Mad: Bitch Zone
Editor
At a weeklong camp for teenage girls, a counselor leads the campers through a series of exercises that blend the language of female empowerment and body positivity with the kind of radical transparency that makes for good reality TV. The exercises culminate in a bizarre group confessional.
Slip
Slip
Editor
A woman arrives home at the end of a regular day, but as she begins to turn in for the night, she is overcome with a sense of restlessness. Unable to fit inside her own world, she needs out of her life. In an instant, she goes back out into the night. Her journey around a mostly vacant city, obscured by darkness, cascades in space and time, away from one feeling and in search of another.
Slip
Slip
Writer
A woman arrives home at the end of a regular day, but as she begins to turn in for the night, she is overcome with a sense of restlessness. Unable to fit inside her own world, she needs out of her life. In an instant, she goes back out into the night. Her journey around a mostly vacant city, obscured by darkness, cascades in space and time, away from one feeling and in search of another.
Slip
Slip
Director
A woman arrives home at the end of a regular day, but as she begins to turn in for the night, she is overcome with a sense of restlessness. Unable to fit inside her own world, she needs out of her life. In an instant, she goes back out into the night. Her journey around a mostly vacant city, obscured by darkness, cascades in space and time, away from one feeling and in search of another.