Kendra McLaughlin

Kendra McLaughlin is a Canadian filmmaker and researcher.

At Harvard, she is a PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies and a Masters student in Anthropology, with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. She has also been a fellow at the Film Study Center, the Safra Center for Ethics, and a tutor for Harvard College.

Her present research focuses on how ethics of care and the audio-visual interact within archeological preservation and nature conservation. Her practice in turn explores how paradoxes of memory, land, and care work are experienced in the everyday, leading to non-fiction films that often hover at the edge of the scientific and the fictional.

Kendra's film/video work has been shown internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, ICA London, Sarajevo Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival, among other festivals, exhibitions and conferences. Additionally, her work as a cinematographer has screened at the Venice Film Festival, New York Film Festival, BFI London, Villa Medici Film Festival, and more.
Before her doctoral studies, Kendra was a resident at Le Fresnoy, France’s national contemporary arts studio, and a participant in Bruno Latour's School of Political Arts at Sciences Po. She is a United World College alumna.