J. P. Sniadecki (born 1979) is an American filmmaker.
J. P. Sniadecki (born 1979) is an American filmmaker.
Sniadecki was born in 1979 in Michigan. [1] He became interested in China through reading Chinese philosophy and first traveled there in 1999. [2] He attended Grand Valley State University for his undergraduate studies, completing his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and communications in 2002. [3]
He began his graduate studies at Harvard University in 2005, where he studied under Lucien Castaing-Taylor and joined the Sensory Ethnography Lab when it was started in 2006. [4] His short film Songhua, shot along the Songhua River a year after the Jilin chemical plant explosions, documents the relationship between local residents and the river. [5] His 2008 film Demolition documents migrant laborers working at a demolition site in Chengdu. [6]
Sniadecki co-directed Foreign Parts (2010) with Véréna Paravel, whose 2008 film 7 Queens informed their work. It chronicles an auto junkyard in Willets Point, Queens. [7] His 2012 film People's Park, consisting of one long tracking shot, captures different types of activities at People's Park in Chengdu. [8]
Sniadecki co-directed El mar la mar (2017) with Joshua Bonnetta. The film looks at the physical traces of human activity in the Sonoran Desert near the Mexico–United States border. [9] [10] Sniadecki was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017. [11] His 2020 film A Shape of Things to Come, co-directed with Lisa Malloy, follows a man named Sundog who appears in El mar la mar. It includes thermographic footage from Jason De León of the Undocumented Migration Project. [12]
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The Battle of Harlaw was a Scottish clan battle fought on 24 July 1411 just north of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire. It was one of a series of battles fought during the Middle Ages between the barons of northeast Scotland and those from the west coast.
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