Garrett Bradley

Garrett Bradley is an American artist and Oscar-nominated filmmaker whose interdisciplinary practice spans narrative, documentary, and experimental forms to explore themes of race, class, familial intimacy, and the sociopolitical histories of the United States. Based in New Orleans, Louisiana, Bradley’s work engages the moving image as both a formal and conceptual space—merging archival research with strategies of reenactment, observation, and performance, and rooting the sociopolitical in personal and physical experience. Her collaborative approach to filmmaking takes multiple forms: deep dives into historical archives, extended dialogue with the communities and individuals she lives among, and an attentiveness to the minute textures of everyday life. Bradley’s films embrace modes of working and of representing history that blur the boundaries between traditional notions of narrative and documentary cinema, exploring the space between fact and fiction with rigor and lyrical intimacy. Her explorations of the social, economic, and racial politics of everyday life—its joys, pleasures, and pains— are rendered on screen with both formal precision and deep human tenderness.