Lydia Cornett

Lydia Cornett

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Lydia Cornett is a documentary filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. Her films focus on artistic performance, personal histories, and multilayered characters. In 2019, her film Narmin's Birthday was a recipient of the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre, and her film Yves & Variation premiered at BAMcinemaFest. She was the Valentine & Clark Emerging Artist Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center and a CoLab Fellow at UnionDocs. She has worked under filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi (Meru); Brett Story (The Hottest August); and Ken Burns (East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story). As a freelance video producer, she has created content for The New Yorker, Slate Magazine, The Washington Post, Atlas Obscura, and Penguin Random House. Lydia studied History and Film/Video at Princeton University and is a classically trained violinist & composer.

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Lydia Cornett

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Fleshwork
Fleshwork
Director
At a butcher shop in Jeromesville, Ohio, four meat processors situate their labor within their own minds and bodies.
Party Line
Party Line
Director
At the early voting line in Ohio’s most populous county, civic duty is a public performance.
Bug Farm
Bug Farm
Editor
Four women in Central Florida establish a unique bond while working with crickets, superworms and roaches on an insect farm in the rural town of LaBelle.
Bug Farm
Bug Farm
Director
Four women in Central Florida establish a unique bond while working with crickets, superworms and roaches on an insect farm in the rural town of LaBelle.
Caro Comes Out
Caro Comes Out
Sound
Caro Comes Out is a queer torture experiment, but also a comedy, but also a short film about coming out to your entire Cuban family.
Yves & Variation
Yves & Variation
Sound
Every day, concierge Yves Deshommes practices his violin behind the front desk of a Manhattan office building. During the hours outside his shift, Yves’s life is revealed to be equal parts intrepid and inspiring.
Yves & Variation
Yves & Variation
Producer
Every day, concierge Yves Deshommes practices his violin behind the front desk of a Manhattan office building. During the hours outside his shift, Yves’s life is revealed to be equal parts intrepid and inspiring.
Yves & Variation
Yves & Variation
Editor
Every day, concierge Yves Deshommes practices his violin behind the front desk of a Manhattan office building. During the hours outside his shift, Yves’s life is revealed to be equal parts intrepid and inspiring.
Yves & Variation
Yves & Variation
Director
Every day, concierge Yves Deshommes practices his violin behind the front desk of a Manhattan office building. During the hours outside his shift, Yves’s life is revealed to be equal parts intrepid and inspiring.