Laura Kraning
Directing
Laura Kraning's experimental documentaries explore secret worlds hidden beneath the surface of the everyday that traverse the border between the objective and the subjective, the real and the imaginary. Navigating landscape as a repository for memory, cultural mythology, and the technological sublime, her work has been described as a form of “esoteric archeology,” delving into an experience of the subconscious of a landscape.
Laura's work has screened widely at international film festivals and venues, such as the New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Visions du Réel, Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Rencontres Internationales, Antimatter Media Art, National Gallery of Art, and REDCAT Theater, among others. She is the recipient of the 2010 Princess Grace Foundation John H. Johnson Film Award, Golden Gate Award nomination at the 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival, and Jury Awards at both the 2010 and 2015 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Laura currently resides in Los Angeles, where she teaches in the Program in Film and Video at California Institute of the Arts.
Known for
Visitation
March 10, 2013
Santa Teresa & Other Stories
December 2, 2015
Devil's Gate
April 1, 2011
Meridian Plain
January 1, 2016
Fracture
May 5, 2020
de-composition
October 24, 2023
Suzan Pitt: Persistence of Vision
November 21, 2006
Vineland
October 4, 2009
Irradiant Field
January 1, 2016
Language of Memory
January 1, 2009
ESP
Landforms
October 21, 2024
Behind the camera15
- 2026Interwoven Intervals Director
- 2024Landforms Director
- 2023de-composition Director
- 2020Fracture Director
- 2018Las Breas Director
- 2016Meridian Plain Director
- 2016Irradiant Field Director
- 2015Santa Teresa & Other Stories Color Designer
- 2015PORT NOIR Editor, Cinematography, Director
- 2013Visitation Assistant Editor