Director Profile

Kym McDaniel is an experimental filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working across fields of moving image, choreography, and critical disability studies. Her films have recently shown at Images, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance, Antimatter, Superfest Disability Film Festival, and within curated exhibitions at Beaconsfield Gallery, the Whitney Humanities Center, Rochester Art Center, and the London Bow Arts Gallery, among others. She has an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an Advanced Certificate in Disabilities Studies from the City University of New York. She teaches experimental film and choreography as an Assistant Professor within the Department of Dance and Department of Art at The Ohio State University.